Accepting Change

As readers who have found themselves here for upwards of 18-24 months have clearly noticed, the frequency I publish new content on this blog has reduced tremendously. When I started this site, I was slinging books at the Harvard Coop part-time and dedicating the rest of my life to figuring out how to write and how to enter the world of writing. Now, what is roughly I guess nearing 2 years later, I find myself approaching the halfway point of my MFA, working as head editor of The Offending Adam, working as assistant editor of Witness, and beginning to seek publication for my own work. When I began this blog, I was not even sure how to get a gig publishing a book review. This site became the home for my first attempts reviewing books, and those reviews and this site were integral in guiding me to where I currently am.

Now, when I do try to carve out time to write something for the site, I have trouble determining what to write about. I am not as connected to the poetry-blog world as I once was, and when I do find the time to return to that world, I find that many of the sites I once frequented have shifted gears or ceased publishing altogether. Perhaps Harriet was right when the blog editors sensed a shifting in the online-poetry-landscape and changed format from blog-style to link-roll-style. Perhaps this all has something to do with the continued rise in both popularity and quality of online journals and collectively-written sites.

For whatever convergence of reasons, and as 2010 begins to approach its end, I am compelled to finally admit that this blog has reached a natural ending point. Not as an end to my online presence, but rather as a point where I need to radically re-imagine what that online presence is. That new presence has not been designed, but the next couple of months should see a new creation that not only replaces this current site, but also revitalizes it as well.

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