April 14 2024 update
update 14 Apr 2024
by Carl Bettis
I'm a songwriter!
I'm a songwriter, sort of. Musician and friend Rick Mareske long ago turned my poem "Atnas Sulac" into a song, and now it's on his newly released CD, A Stroll in the Park. (Since the song has a Nightmare Before Christmas vibe, I feel compelled to tell you that both poem and song predate that movie by some years.)
NaPoWriMo 2024
Once again, I'm writing a poem a day for National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). Some days I dash something off hastily to make my quota, other days I work more deliberately. I'm not sure which method results in better poetry. Some of the poems are by my heteronyms. The works so far:
| Date | Title | By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 01 | Not All Fools | Carl Bettis | |
| Apr 02 | A Ghost to His Widow | Carl Bettis | |
| Apr 03 | (untitled) | Sturgis Giteau | Sturgis calls this poem a haiku. It has 3 lines. |
| Apr 04 | Against Embalming | Roynald MacRoss | |
| Apr 05 | Tanka journal 2024-04-05 | Carl Bettis | |
| Apr 06 | starlink | sylvester hobson | |
| Apr 07 | Eclipse Trip, Part 1 | Carl Bettis | |
| Apr 08 | Dream journal 2024-04-08 | Carl Bettis | |
| Apr 09 | Tanka journal 2024-04-08 | Carl Bettis | |
| Apr 10 | natural history | sylvester hobson | |
| Apr 11 | Snail’s Pace Apocalypse | Mort Duffy | |
| Apr 12 | Cloud-gazing | Carl Bettis | |
| Apr 13 | Almanac & Book of Facts | Basil Cartryte | A prose poem |
| Apr 14 | Settling | Carl Bettis |
tiny frights
I'm hard at work assembling the Walpurgis 2024 issue of the tiny frights horror zine, scheduled to come out April 30th. Check out the zine, or the tiny frights podcast, or sign up for the podcast and/or ezine mailing lists!
