Another year gone, and we have arrived back at poetry-lovers’ favorite month. That’s right; April is upon us and so is National/Global Poetry Writing Month (or NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo for short). It’s mind-blowing to me that this is my seventh year participating in this challenge, since 2016. It has always been a great opportunity to stretch my creativity and catch up on my backlog of films to review, which is bigger than ever with my slow output of late.

Obviously, a lot has happened in the world over the last year, but that’s especially true in my own life, where I finally finished with college and secured stable employment. Now that I don’t have those worries, I would expect to have more time for writing, but other activities and obligations have just filled that time gap (including a bigger project I have in the works).

Nothing is certain, but I’m hoping that I can keep up with the one-poem-a-day pace that makes April such lyrical fun, even if it might mean shorter film reviews. I plan to follow the daily prompts at the NaPoWriMo website, and I encourage anyone interested out there to do the same. Here’s looking forward to a great month of poetry!