Kickstarter Update #8: Hello, Absurd America.
I’m hitting the road from New York to New Orleans to work as an unpaid reporter (i.e. intern) at The Times-Picayune.
I’ll be straight with y’all: [First, about the fact that I somehow started saying “y’all” after 24 years in New York.] Graduate School has really slowed the progress of this book.
Hard reporting and poetry. I think they have a place together. I think there’s a lot of room for poetry in journalism and journalism in poetry — the best of both contain both. But I didn’t find that this year. I was too busy trucking along with work and school, the focus on surviving. [I was also hospitalized, but I won’t get into that. I’m fine now. And happy to be where I’m at, grateful to be where I’m going.]
The good news: Most of the poems for HAW are already written, as are half of your (awesomely) prompted poems. But I wanted some new stuff. Not less urban, just different. And with the semester over, and three months down south ahead, I think some different stuff is in the cards.
Thank you for supporting my book, and being patient. I’ve been meaning to update to tell you that HAW is far from dead in the water. It’s a dream that you provided the potential for me to accomplish. Now I just gotta get to the accomplishing.
I’ll be doing some readings in New Orleans, the first on June 25th at Antenna Gallery (3161 Burgundy Street, New Orleans, LA 70117). If you’re down South, please stop by, or shoot me an email and we’ll talk over coffee. (hannahmiet@gmail.com). And if you won’t be down South, you should still shoot me an email. I’d love to chat about book covers, dinosaurs, your poetry, breakfast, highways, click send.
I plan on blogging a bit more down there, and streamlined all my work (portfolio, blog, homepage) into one place: http://hannahmiet.com. So if you want to follow the blog, add http://hannahmiet.com/blog to your feed.
All book updates, reading and random musings will stay right here. Thanks for being with me and making this happen.
Love, Hannah
