I’m Launching My Book During National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. This year, more than any other year, I could not be more pleased to see the coming of this new month. It’s been a while since I participated in National Poetry Month. In years past, I was a member of an online poetry group, and every year we had a poem-a-day challenge for the month of April, which was always a lot of fun. I can’t say that I ever got 30 poems written, but it did help to inspire my creativity and light a little fire under the hind parts of my Muse. I am especially excited to greet this month because my first volume of poetry is coming out. I recently completed my first poetry collection called, I Am Heaven. I could not be more thrilled to hold my first book in my hands. I even shot a quick video of the experience and I managed to do it without crying on camera! A few of the poems in that book were written during the 30 poems in 30 days challenges that I have participated in over the years.

My book is launching, and thanks to the ‘Rona (COVID-19), I will not be able to do any live events. I will be doing a “virtual launch” and I will schedule a live party after the lockdown has been lifted. Last week, I participated in an online writing group where we did timed writing sprints together. I’m thinking about hosting a few Instagram Live poetry writing and reading sprints, given the fact that we’re all stuck at home. Stay tuned. I’ll be posting updates on Instagram about the virtual writing sprints.

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Resources for National Poetry Writing Month:

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