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30 Poems in 30 Days: A Review
The best, the worst, the okay, and what I learned from doing it
Starting on March 6th, my thirtieth birthday, I wrote a poem every day for thirty days. Thirty poems to celebrate turning thirty. I needed a way to mark the occasion.
I’m not going to sugarcoat it; doing this was hard! Some days I had nothing to write a poem about, and floundered. Some days I had better things to do. I’ll admit to occasionally writing two poems and scheduling the second ahead of time so I could have a “day off.”
Still, I did it, and I can say I did it: I wrote 30 poems in 30 days.
Some of the poems are even quite good, I think. You can read them all here:
But what makes a good poem? By what metrics am I judging myself and my experience? Did I learn anything?
How did people react?
The best response on Medium, by far, was for “The Ravyne,” a pastiche of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” in memory of…
