Why this Blog exists...

Once a sworn (and very vocal) loather of poetry, I now find myself a self appointed advocate of the form. As a recent graduate with my B.F.A. in Creative Writing, I almost changed my major when I found out I was enrolled in a poetry workshop. I complained the whole time. I somehow enrolled in another class, ended up as poetry editor for the campus literary magazine, and made a habit of posting poems to Facebook every day (and lots of other evidence that I indeed do not hate poetry)… So I had stop myself when I said for the hundredth time, “I appreciate poetry and the people who read a write it, but it’s not for me. I hate poetry…” because I realized it wasn’t true. And it wasn’t that poetry had changed but the way I was reading it had. It wasn’t about analyzing poems anymore like frogs on a dissecting table. Once I could see the poem, not just as something to be prodded at until I found the heart, but read and enjoyed… I actually started to enjoy it, too. So the point of this blog is not to shove poetry down your throat (though I may joke about that sometimes). And it's certainly not to say there isn't a time and place for pulling apart a poem for closer inspection. The point is to present some poems in a different light and maybe you too will (one a poem at a time) change the way you feel and a make just a little time for poetry in your day.