Once a year, I start posting here again. Spring came early this year. Whether that's because of global warming or that I'm busy with readings, events and hoping to prepare for AWP next month... is anyone's guess.

But here we are in the month of lovers and American Black History, wondering how best to inject the literary in the literary blog.

Suggestion to self. Perhaps, stop writing as journal entries. Maybe essays. Pick a subject rather than ramble.

Virginia Woolf on journaling:
"It loosens the ligaments" (of the mind).

"I note however that this diary writing does not count as writing ...and am much struck by the rapid haphazard gallop at which it swings along, sometimes indeed jerking almost intolerably over the cobbles. Still if it were not written rather faster than the fastest type-writing, if I stopped and took thought, it would never be written at all; and the advantage of the method is that it sweeps up accidentally several stray matters which I should exclude if I hesitated, but which are the diamonds of the dustheap."

Fingers crossed that there be diamonds in this dust.