A Poet in the Pandemic

Luckily I'm mostly an online poet. Social distancing is not required on social media.

All the usual poetry groups and communities are still operating. Currently I'm mostly at Poets and Storytellers United, for the very good reason that I'm officially its Coordinator these days – albeit with a wonderful, smooth-running, no-fuss team who don't need a lot of coordinating. I occasionally look at what's happening at dVerse; and I'm thrilled that the archived imaginary garden with real toads is reactivating temporarily, with daily prompts for the 'poetry month' of April.

Then there are the facebook groups. I belong to several, specifically  haiku and tanka.

Above all there are my own poetry blogs where I share the latest work – which you'll find under the tab My Poetry Blogs at the top of the page. 


And what about the 'real-life' writing workshops
?

I'm planning to start conducting them via Zoom, which I'm told is easy – after we get past Easter and the school holidays.