Blogger's Block

There is blogger's block, a time (like now) when there is just nothing to say, but as soon as you start writing, you start thinking about many things. Many things; what Obama means to poetry, for instance. His love for poetry has send waves in to poetry community, with listservs and discussion groups dwelling on the subject since a journalist took a photo of Obama holding a Derek Walcott poetry collection. Then when we discovered that there would be a poet at the inauguration, we felt (we, who talk about poetry and write it too) were elated. This is the happy moment for poetry, we said. Most of us wrote their inaugural poems and shared them with forum participants, but we were all waiting for the Elizabeth Alexander moment.

There... I tried to blog.