Community

I’ve probably talked about this in some manner or another, but I’m gonna have at it again. I’ve never been very good at making myself part of a community – I’m a loner by default. But after spending my year in London in a writing program that encouraged creating a community with your fellow writers, and fellow writers that actually followed through on this, I find myself feeling very cut off here in Northern Arizona. I don’t have friends here – aside from my co-worker. She’s an awesome friend and we get along great, but when it comes to me needing a poetry community, it’s not happening with her. Poetry just isn’t get thing – though she did read my poems that got published in Bedford Square 5, even if she didn’t try to discuss them. I appreciated even that much.