Hello, Poets!
This week we will finish our discussion of Kerouac’s Book of Haikus by focusing on the ways Kerouac talks about loneliness. The last pages of this book are filled with images of solitude and isolation. Many of the poems are melancholy and others feel angry.
But before we get to all that, I want to give you a publication update for this section of the newsletter. I’m taking April off from the Asynchronous Poetry Book Club. It will pick back up in May. The rest of Weirdo Poetery will continue unabated, with additional paywalled and free content. Instead of APBC posts, I will conduct my first workshop of the year in April!
Next week, I will send out the calendar for the rest of the year which will include all of the books we will be reading and the dates for three workshops. There will be workshops in April, August, and December. Those are also months where there will be no Asynchronous Poetry Book Club posts.
I will send everyone more details on April 1st!
You can find the other three weeks of Kerouac posts here.
The rest of this post is for paying subscribers. Below the paywall, you will find a haiku comic inspired by a Kerouac haiku and my thoughts on Kerouac’s poems and the theme of loneliness.
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