Thank Yous and All Apologies

Hi folks,

I'd like to thank everyone who has visited the site and read the interviews with Charlene Luck and Darrel Holnes, and, of course, a big thanks to those two inspiring writers. For everyone who's dealt with my sporadic updates as of late, an especially big ups to you - I'm not making more frequent postings a New Years resolution, but I will do my best in the next year to post something each month, poetry-related or not.

As 2013 draws to a close, my thoughts are occupied with reminiscence and that nagging "I wish I'd done more" B.S., but I can't help but think of the future. It's been a big year for the blog, and this next year is pregnant with epic possibilities and I'm excited and a little frightened of what may come. If you enjoyed the interviews, I am lining up a few more authors for interviews for a spring feature, and I am kicking around the idea of creating a sister site dedicated exclusively to the business side of writing sometime this summer. I'll keep everyone posted if that latter idea comes to fruition.

In the meantime, please enjoy a re-write of "Nomadic Tongue", a poem posted here back in September. I hope the holiday season was kind to all of you, and I hope you are all still inspired and warmed by writing as I am.

Humbled,

Alexander Lloyd Johnson

Interviews are LIVE

Hi folks!


To the right, under the "Pages" list, you'll notice two new pages featuring interviews with the Fiction Editor at the literary journal 94 Creations Charlene Luck, and poet, playwright and musician Darrel Alejandro Holnes. What these folks have to say about writing is the truth, their truth. The sho' 'nuff.

It is also my hope to send out poems to journals and contests in the near future (this wedding isn't going to pay for itself), but as I take down poems from the blog, I will be replacing them with new ones, and maybe even a guest poem here and there.

Much thanks and love goes out to Darrel and Charlene. Thank you for your patience with me and for your amazing answers to my otherwise dull questions. Interviews with Samiya Bashir and Stephanie Douglass to come later this month.

Your department store security guard and part-time webmaster,

Alexander L. Johnson

Interviews

Hi folks,

Sorry for the delay with the new content I promised, and I appreciate your patience. I'm waiting to hear back from a couple of authors on the second round of questions, but I should have the interviews up by the end of the month. Thank you to everyone who's supported this venture, and big ups to the authors who've dedicated their time and effort to make this project happen.

Hurried,
A.L.J.

New Content Coming Soon!

Hi folks!

So, here's the reason behind all the posting delays. I am in the process of locking up a group of writers willing to do interviews with me that will be posted on the blog! I won't give away any surprises, but these folks are some of the most impressive authors and poets I have had the fortune to encounter. If all goes well, the first of the interviews will be up by the 20th of October. That being said, there will be sporadic poems being posted throughout the next few weeks. I apologize for the delays. I promise these interviews will make up for it.

Thank you all for visiting the site and sharing the URL with your friends. I normally don't work for free, but for you guys it's a labor of love, so I don't mind. Ever.

More to come!

No poems today

Hi folks,

There wasn't a poem posted on Friday or today because I was celebrating my fiancee's 28th birthday over the weekend, and we had too much fun. After going to a wall-to-wall trampoline facility and drinking too much Fireball whiskey, I'm currently too hungover to edit poems and I'm rehabbing my lower back with some yoga stretches and bananas. Once I can sit at the computer for more than a couple minutes without a back spasm, I'll post some new poems. Hope y'all have a happy Monday.

-A.L.J.

Thank You

I would just like to say thank you to everyone who's visited the site since I revamped it in February. I'm so happy that my little corner of the world has been entertaining enough thus far, and I hope to bring some new content to the site once the blog reaches 1000+ hits.

This week I'll be posting the poem that launched a thesis back in the winter of 2009. It's a long poem, so I'm breaking it up into three posts and they will all share the same heading. I hope you enjoy "Charlie's Blues (In E Major)".

Yours, but never owned,

A.L.J.

News Post

The site has reached its 500+ hits! Thank you to everyone that's visited! I've been working on poems sporadically, but I haven't had the time and dedication to finalize them. When I have a polished poem for you folks, I will post it, but I'm only one man. Maybe I should hire an intern to edit my poems...

Anyway, I'll see how badly my Thursday-Friday work schedule kicks my ass - if I am not totally burnt out by then, you all should see a poem on Friday.

Thanks again to everyone!


Your underground sound,

A.L.J.