II just checked this blog and see that I haven’t posted anything in almost 6 months. I hope you all don’t think I’m ghosting you!
What have I been up to?
What have any of us been up to in this crazy, joyous, painful and obviously important transitional year? [I recall the Dylan line from Desolation Row: when you asked how I was doing, was that some kind of joke?]
Well, I actually have some news (or is it: I have some actual news). I’ve got a book coming out. The Poetry Box will be publishing my series of coronavirus poems, titled World Gone Zoom: Notes from the American Epicenter, in Spring 2021. The poems comprise a diary-in-verse of the NYC lockdown in the pandemic’s first wave.
I am happy to be working with The Poetry Box people. They put out my first published work, “David Lerner: One for the Holidaze,” in their themed journal The Poeming Pigeon. [The piece is centered around some partying on Thanksgiving 1967. You can find it in the archives of this blog, if you’re curious as to the details.]
I went to Portland Oregon to read that piece, got to meet the publishers in person (remember that?) and spend an evening with their community. A fun time with a great bunch of folks.
I’ve continued with poetry. Here are a few of my more recent short pieces.
Hope you like them.
