Bruce Whealton: On Being a Poet and Other Existential Ideas

Well, I meant to write something about the event that we had at the Looking Glass, 601 West Main Street in Carrboro. It has taken me till now to really write something about the event… no reason, it just happened like this.
Anyway, I am interested in seeing more events in the Chapel Hill area where a person can go for poetry and such. That’s how it started out and now I’m glad that music is becoming a part of these events. So, I started a Meetup called “Chapel Hill Poetry Events,” which can be found here. Again, things change, and that’s why Music is not in the topic area for this meetup.

This past Saturday we had 50% music and 50% poetry. Janet Bratter and John Fallon provided the music. Bruce Whealton, myself, and Cal Nordt read poetry. I think that we both have a poetry style that aims to be brief and concise. In that vein, Both Cal and I shared a number of haiku. Haiku being traditionally 17 syllables, on three lines. Personally, I’ve learned that haiku do not need to have exactly 17 syllables or be on exactly 3 lines. I don’t suppose the book is shut on defining what a Haiku is and is not. For Word Salad’s publication “Haiku Ramblings, we do publish a definition and our understanding of what Haiku is, in terms of what we want to publish. That information is here. Please read the other articles under Submission Guidelines to get a better idea.

So, we will have more events coming up. I scheduled a Poetry Workshop Meetup for the 14th of March at the Looking Glass. Details are here.

You can find my poetry by me at: http://brucewhealton.us

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