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September 11, 2021

"the underside of some unborn thing"

This was exactly how I felt the first time I attended the Napa Valley Writers' Conference:

And it was wonderful to have a week out of my life with no responsibility other than to read poetry and write it.
(Alison Turner)

Alison Turner is a lawyer-poet (poet-lawyer?) like me.  It seems we both chose to spend our vacation time in the middle of a busy law practice to attend writing conferences. The title of this post is excerpted from her poem sequence, "The Covid Notebooks."

Posted at 10:57 AM in monopoetics |

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