the year in poetry in review

This is all about me, so if you don't want to read that sort of thing, skip to the next post.

I am really thinking only about the poetry that I wrote and published during the year. I started making my list of published poems thinking that it was going to be pretty short this time. Then I started thinking it would be almost all stuff from Brushfires. then I realized I had forgotten a couple, and that I have a few more coming out in "the hungry dead," which is supposed to be available right now. So actually I published a huge number of poems this year, even though most of them are no longer than five lines. More than half of them are in Brushfires, which is the culmination of four years of work. Lately, I have been writing mostly scifaiku and flash fiction, and hardly any of the kind of poetry I was writing a few years ago. The end result of all this is that I have a sneaking feeling that I have gone from writing stuff I had gotten pretty good at to things I don't do nearly as well. I honestly don't know if that is good or bad. Well, enough about me.