one year of poems

A post shared by N. (@natalie_raymond) on Feb 20, 2018 at 11:23am PST

I started the poem a day project one year ago with the vague idea that it might be kind of fun to write 100 poems in 100 days. Now it’s been 365 poems & an entire year.

I never really had an end game in mind for this project. It was always just sort of a thing I did for practice. Creativity is, after all, a muscle. I haven’t really decided or even much thought about where it would go, so in that vein I think I’ll keep going for now. Maybe two years of poems has a nice ring to it?

Thank you for reading along.

two poems for america, october 2017

(day 224)

(day 225)

more more more

Poem A Day: Day 160 | Lost Angeles from Natalie Raymond on Vimeo.

the poem a day project continues to rattle on into infinity. much the same way the days bleed together as I work work work. 

eventually will everything look like a smudged drawing? no distinctions in sight?

today's poem

Poem A Day: Day 156 - Monument to Nothing from Natalie Raymond on Vimeo.

thinking about who we are, who we believe ourselves to be, & who we've become.

 

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Poem A Day: Day 127 - Care from Natalie Raymond on Vimeo.

from my poem a day project: yesterday's poem, day 127.

thinking about what being able to get the healthcare you need means/feels like. & why it's hard to dig out our healthcare traumas to try to beg other people not to strip us of that access, limited as it already is. seeing all these people on twitter talking about how they or their children would be dead without the ACA is so upsetting to me. we shouldn't have to relive our traumas for public consumption to be deemed worthy of a basic human right. & it's made even worse by the fact that the people who would take what small steps toward healthcare we have away from us don't care about our suffering.

new looks

A little bit of a new look for natalieraymond.com as I transition from being in front of the camera to being behind it. Moving toward directing, screenwriting, & producing is a direction I never would have seen coming even just 5 years ago, but my recent soul searching has lead me to start making the switch. Look for more projects coming from me in the next several months.

Also very pleased to announce that my book, missoula., was deemed a semi-finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky book prize. This was the first time I have sent the manuscript out as a whole, & I'm quite pleased with the result. Read my poem a day project to get your daily dose of poetry & look for more publishing news in the near-ish future.

I will be making a real effort to blog more this summer! Watch out!

-N