Not too long ago, I wrote about my intentions for this year’s iteration of National Poetry Writing Month. As I have promised, so do I deliver; based on such results of polling as I received, I will be writing a series of limericks centering on the theme of regret. (Alas that none thought to sponsor my endeavors–although I would still dearly welcome patronage!) It should prove an interesting challenge; limericks typically run to the humorous and ribald (as I’ve commented elsewhere, such as here, here, and here), although I have had some experience attempting (with less success than I might have preferred, with an example beginning here) to apply them to other notions. I welcome the chance to stretch myself again, and I hope to find better success this time than last.

Some other comments about the endeavor need making. For one, I do still intend to press ahead with my regular projects. Hanlon will only go through the end of April, so far as I know, so it matters to me that I keep it going here, as well. The Robin Hobb rereading is not quite at the stopping-place I had thought was coming, so I will continue it until the end of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy before taking a short break from it (unless I get caught out even more than I seem to be already and it does, in fact, take me through the end of April to get to that point). I’ve also got a couple of conference talks that will need addressing; I know, more or less, what I want to say in each, but I do need to prepare the more formal notes for them. Going off on tangents is…not helpful in presentations, although it does very well in discussions afterward. And there is the matter of my day-job to address, as well, especially in the next couple of weeks as things grow particularly intense in it; it will be taxing, indeed.

As before, I mean to have a poem post each calendar day. Also as before, I think I will make multiple posts on the days when I have “normal” content coming out. That is, I will still have my commentaries and rereadings and the like come out Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; I will supplement those days with poetry posts, and I will have the poems post at a set time each day. Maybe in the morning will be good, so as to spur me on a little bit more vigorously…or possibly to give me something else to regret; I am already amply supplied with source material, but more about which to write is not a bad thing to have.

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