This post is a thank you to my friend, Adrienne. She's a poet. After I finished my MFA, I decided not to go into academia. Being a poet and not teaching at a university means I'm on my own. I work hard to keep current on poetry news and new poets, and develop and nurture a poet community. I'm lucky to have poet friends. I turn to friends, like Adrienne, not only for recommendations on new poets and new poetry sites, but for community. She and my other poet friend, Verity, are always there to share poems and ideas with. You should see our Facebook conversations (no, you really shouldn't). We love poetry. We love to talk about poetry. We love to have someone to talk about poetry with. If you're feeling alone in the poetry world, reach out! Post a note with your favorite poem. Ask your friends if they'd like to talk about poetry with you. And please, use the powers of the Internet for good. Check out some of the sites I'm continuously linking to. Today, with a big kudos to Adrienne, I'm linking to a site I just discovered. It's way cool.
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