Poetry Calling
I feel like returing to poetry. By this I don't mean I am planning to leave fiction, but that I must concentrate on writing and reading poetry. I doubt though that I ever left poetry. I host poetry events at the Sacramento Poetry Center every second Monday, and I attend poetry events at other venues. I am always in the company of poets, and I read poetry every so often. But still, I feel like returning to poetry. Perhaps I mean this in the sense of turning on my poetic voice, so that I can resume writing poetry. That's what it must be, because in the last year or so, I have been focusing my writing on short fiction (Well, I tend not to mention that I am working on long ficton, an novel here, another there, but like Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, or Dambudzo Marechera, in reverse order, I sometimes have no patience for very long, sustained stories, thus my longest novel manuscript (which I began in 1999) has too many stories struggling to become long stories each in its ...