Curious Mind

October is almost over and I've not posted. So here goes.......

Joyce Shenk is back in town and has restarted a five week writing class. The first one was last Saturday. There were 11 students. Joyce is an excellent teacher, and has years of practical experience writing for newspapers. I pay attention.

Having won a poetry contest I now set my sights on winning a chapbook contest. There are many, many such contests. I have created a draft and Carol Mahler is critiquing it now. While this is happening I've started an other chapbook.

Chapbooks are an old idea going back to early paper and printing. These were small books, of the cheapest materials, that could be easily purchased and passed around. The current idea of chapbooks is a small paper bound volumn of poems. One poem per page. Usually between 18 and 36 poems.