Hometown Poetry

Perhaps the easiest poems we can write are mostly about the city, state, country in which we live.  Something noteworthy, something that is au current; something that catches your eye, bids your mind to enter, your heart to write.  A walk on your street,and a squirrel pellets you with an acorn and thus begins a showdown--squirrel vs. poet, a concert that left you with a particular flavour in music and colour , a particular, (im)practical political issue.that won't let your innards go.. .Weather--there's tons of it on your doorstep. 

Find out what ezines, what magazines are dominant in your city, send in your poems.  Go to poetry readings.  Read a poem or two.
We all start somewhere, may as well be from our own *home* fires.

In Cleveland, d.a.levy, (a poet who committed suicide much too young) wrote "I have a city to cover in lines."  I've had several poems published  here.  http://www.deepcleveland.com/poemotheweek.html

Good luck, be a voice.

~Anna Ruiz/Kailashana




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