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1 February 2005: For lack of anything else to write in this, my final entry for Year One of po-X-cetera, I'm listing my cultural accomplishments for my 64th year, which will end tomorrow morning at around five A.M. I do this every year in my diary. As I mentioned in another entry (no doubt using different words), I feel like I've been given a shelf to fill during my life, so I'm very conscious of how many items I'm able to put on it. In fact, that and just about only that is how I rate the worth of my years.
Okay, according to my diary, my first cultural accomplishments of the year were two letter designs I made for mIEKAL aND'S alphabet project.
Next, a set of six collaborations with Scott Helmes, Kathy Ernst and John M. Bennett early in the year.
Final drafts of two old plays, Arborations and Rabbit Stew.
Twelve new mathemaku in The Gallery (which is part of this blog) plus probably my major accomplishment of the year, the "Doing Long Division on Poetry" series of more than a dozen frames plus four or five other new mathemaku plus various experiments and a pure illumage or two.
Nine new (non-mathematical) visual poems.
Six new Poem poems and six or seven other solitextual poems, including two haiku.
Only five of my bi-monthly columns for Small Press Review, because I forgot to send one until too late. Two reviews for American Book Review. Two or three columns for Lost & Found Times.
Quite a productive year in poetry, for me. Something like 60 poems of various kinds. I'm usually good for less than ten poems in a year.
Hey, should I list all the new words I've coined this year? I should probably also list all the previous neologies of mine I've tossed, maybe a greater accomplishment. I do like my "poexty," for "effective poetry," but this is the first time I've used it since I coined it, at which time I said I was going to use it as often as I could even though I didn't expect anyone else to.
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