Teeny Tiny Press by Amanda Laughtland

Since November of 2012, I've been working on a little project called With Five Questions, a blog where I post five-question interviews with writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and more. I occasionally do other sorts of posts, too, but the majority of the posts are interviews. I conduct the interviews over email, and it's always fun to see the responses people come up with to the questions I've written for them. The other day, I posted one of my very favorite interviews, with Laura-Marie Taylor , a poet in Sacramento who has been making zines for many years. I hope you'll check it out. If you're at all interested in zines, I think you'll appreciate Laura-Marie's; they are thoughtfully written and carefully made. If you're a poet looking for places to publish your work, I happened upon a listing the other day for The Poetry Market Ezine , which is a free email newsletter with lists of magazine publishers who are accepting submissions of poetry. I remember re...

I've just uploaded the information about the next online poetry class I'm offering. It starts on June 21 and runs through July 21. I've compiled a new set of four assignments, so if you're currently taking my April class, you'd be doing all different assignments if you were to enroll in the summer class. I chose assignments for the class that have potential for reflecting a summery theme, but of course I welcome content on all sorts of topics. I just thought some writers might enjoy the idea of writing about summertime. As ever, I hope you'll help me in spreading the word about the class, and please do let me know if you have any questions. Many, many thanks!

In my world, it's always a poetry month, but I do appreciate that people place more emphasis on poetry during April, "the cruelest month" and National Poetry Month. My online poetry workshop has started, and I'm enjoying it very much--it's a great group of students! I need to get organized around another workshop; I'm thinking of starting a new one in June. I wish I could say I've been writing a lot of poetry myself, but lately it's just a line here and there, no completed poems. Really I've been busy with teaching my indie class along with my three classes at the college. Plus I've been trying to walk more. Has your April gotten off to a good start?