Reflections on National Poetry Writing Month 2009

Dorla Moorehouse at Dorla’s Poetry and Prose posted eight reflections regarding her experience with NaPoWriMo this year. She swiped the idea from someone else and now I am swiping it from her!

1. Number of poems written in April.
30.

2. Number of poems you’ll keep and revise.
12. It surprises me that there are so many.

3. List the titles of your top 3 NaPoWriMo poems.
Her Show and Tell, Eighty-five Cents, I Took It With Me

4. List your 3 least favorite NaPoWriMo poems.
untitled from day 11, White Heron, My Nightcap

5. Favorite line from one of your NaPoWriMo poems.
And so I continue to wave my colorful freak flag.

6. Notice any patterns?
I was more experimental in the middle of the month.

7. What surprised you most about writing a poem a day?
How easy it was to accomplish. Even if I waited until the end of the day, just writing a quick line or two gave me a feeling of creative accomplishment. It was the cherry on my day. I was afraid that the month would prove to be an unpleasant ordeal, but I enjoyed it. I’m not necessarily proud of  every thing that I posted, but I did enjoy the process.

8. Now that you have momentum, what’s next?
Chapbooks. Weekly submissions to literary journals. Honing.