AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

For 30 years I've written poetry, which I started publishing about 25 years ago. Always the poetry, just poetry. In Cape Town, my best friend and I ran the school newspaper ... well ... there was another editor involved, but WE did all the work. I was an art editor in another school journal when I returned to the U.S.

The point is, until I started publishing The Poetry Victims in 2004, I never published (even attempted to publish) anything but poetry and photographs. In The Poetry Victims, I add commentary of my own to the rest of the issue which is in email format, for instance, compared to the blog ring versions.

http://submissionguidelines.blogspot.com/

This year, I'm doing away with the email version entirely. I'll use the blogs for commentary and content, the whole jig.

Suddenly, this year I am also publishing articles, stories and blog entries (like this one) in various magazines. I am busier than when I was busy! What excitement, yet somehow I am undone by the whole thing.

Good God, more deadlines!

What am I thinking?

I want it all!