In April of 2010 (National Poetry Month), we took part in the
annual "Poem-a-Day" Challenge, writing during breaks at work,
during lunch hours, on long subway rides, in parks in the rain or
sun, in front of the 11pm news (or the 4am news), while avoiding
conversations in the Laundromat, instead of doing our taxes (or
because we'd just done our taxes), and so on. April soon became May
became another summer and then fall and winter and finally on into
another April. In 2011, we agreed to select roughly 25 poems each
and put them into this book-length collection. Out of literally
hundreds of poems, we have distilled this collection down to these
few (many?) pages. The only rules: the poem must have been written
between the two Aprils (2010 and 2011) and no editing allowed
(except obvious typos). The idea is not so much to show that we are
great poets (there are already enough people out there claiming
that) but instead to simply show friends, family and fellow writers
something we did over this past year. Themes in these poems are
broad in range and yet, often repeat over the course of a month or
months: Mexico, the ocean, rivers, loss, grief, love, sex, food,
traffic, bridges, food, rain, injustice, food, sleep, nightmares,
sex, food, Mexico, the ocean - you get the idea. Like lovers or
meals or rivers, some poems are better than others. Some are only a
few lines, some cover pages. What is important here is not that
this is "great art" but instead that we set out to write a poem
every day. And we did. We have. We still do. As we move into our
second year of poem-a-day, certain themes repeat, new ones are
introduced, but again, what is important is that we do this, every
day (or nearly so) and we will keep doing this until we run out of
things to say about Mexico, food, sex, the ocean, the world, loss,
injustice, sex, chocolate, and so on. We hope you will enjoy our
words as much as we have enjoyed writing them and sharing them with
each other.
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