Welcome, Welcome!

Here's first time contributor A. R. Dugan with the first of many pieces from poet and artist artist Judson Evans. Let's kick off the last Wednesday of National Poetry Month at Oddball Magazine.

Tonight: Tuesday 4 Poetry

Say goodby to National Poetry  Month in style. Hosted by Ken and Nadine Delano.

Poetry Break

Bear with us as we take the smallest of breaks from National Poetry Month. Here is a short fiction piece by Chuck Taylor coupled returning artist Cesar Valtierra. Welcome to Tuesday at Oddball Magazine.

Pumped Up for The Week

We have a lot of great work closing out National Poetry Month by new authors and new artists. You can keep coming back here for updates or get a Wordpress account and follow Oddball Magaizne directly. Your choice. A win either way.

Next Week: Tuesday 4 Poetry

Good way to close out National Poetry Month. Hosted by Ken and Nadine Delano.

Starting Up

We start off today with a poet debuting on our site. Welcome Rajnish Mishra and welcome back artist Ira Joel Haber as we try to make the poetry shine a little more this month at Oddball Magazine.

Celebrate National Poetry Month in Halifax

Information (and its many colors) courtesy of Jack Scully.

Bonus Poetry!

Many of our Oddball visual artists are talented wordsmiths. We are featuring some of them for National Poetry Month. First up is Jennifer Matthews, up now at Oddball Magazine.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

I've posted this before, but for National Poetry Month it could stand to be repeated. Poets are artists too.

A Moment of Pause Before the Poetic Storm

I look at this journal from time to time.

It's a collection of poetry put together with the help of some people I knew at college. I graduated before them, so I never got to see them move on to cooler things.

I don't even own this book. My girlfriend went to my school and graduated a year after me. She knew many of the people involved, so naturally she kept a copy. I had no idea this even existed until she showed it to me. 

I was amazed. If I learned about this tome back in the day, I would have been even more envious of these poets than I already was.

I thought of  those writers as true rebels. They were younger than me. Most of the writers who weren't in my class seemed cooler, more confident and truer poets than I could have ever hoped to be at the time.

As far as I know, none of them are writing and publishing anything today.

I look at this collection--something I could have never pictured doing on my own even five years ago--and wonder what it was that kept me going while they stopped.

Once in a while, I wonder what constitutes "staying power" as a poet. Especially in myself when I think of others who showed far more talent than I ever did those twenty-plus years ago.

Maybe the key to being a great writer is knowing when to stop.

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I start my 30/30 for April tomorrow.

NaPoWriMo 2018 is Coming, And I'll Be Part of It

Above image above courtesy of Maureen Thorson.

 

National Poetry Month is coming, which National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) is coming up again. I plan to do another thirty poems in thirty days starting Sunday April first. I've been doing this on and off (mostly on) since 2005, and I'm excited about the event this year.

You can follow the NaPoWriMo site to keep up with a plethora of participants. As for me, you can follow this link to my blog, which will feature every one of my poems as they go up. I'll try not to fall behind this year.