The powers that be at our generous meeting place have put a nix on our previously arrived at schedule. In short, we're back to our normal meeting time, next week (12/10) in the back corner 7 p.m. This means that the following meeting will fall on Christmas Eve, and we all voted not to meet prior to the day Santa arrives, so it's December 10th and then onto January 2010. Don't fret though as we have a special project cooking up to knock the curse off the post-Holiday blues.
That being said, for next meeting, write a poem about walking akin to the last issue of Poetry magazine. It doesn't have to be anything special: just you walking and seeing. Be one with the peripatetics. Kick off your sandals, gaze, philosophize, and repeat.
We're a wee writing group meeting the second and fourth Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Wiregrass Barnes and Noble (on the second floor). We're looking for new members in the area interested in writing, reading, and discussing short verse, prose poetry, short-short fiction, nano-fiction, flash fiction (@300-500 words), etc.
Whether you're a beginning writer or a nine-time award-winning novelist (it could happen), stop by and try your hand at these under-appreciated and abbreviated forms. Novel chapters, epic poems, or any other writing of length--while all worthy pursuits--are not our thing.
We've selected two texts to help provide inspiration: "Great American Prose Poems," edited by David Lehman and "Sailing Alone Around the Room" by Billy Collins.
Drop by. No big whoop.