I no longer post poetry on this blog, and since this blog was intended purely for poetry, it has been silent since I made the decision to keep my poetry offline.
I made the decision as I began to submit poetry to literary journals, etc, for potential publication and I realized that publishing poems - even their drafts, even on an informal, quasiprivate poetry blog - counted as 'first publication' for copyright purposes, in the eyes of many of these journals.
There were probably other reasons I made that decision, too.
At any point, this is a notification that this blog is in essence closed; although I hope there's no one who does this, anyone who's been hovering about F5-ing for updates, hover no more.
In fact, guys, future people who stumble across this because perhaps I'm following their blog, or, whatever? please don't read this. It's embarrassing.
If you choose to: bad poetry & emotional trauma, ahead. Ick.
I've tried to mark poems that aren't mine as such and if I've failed in any past post or posts I do apologize, copy infringement, bad bad, etc.
Fin.
