Wednesday 24 March 2021

Elias Baez : part four

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?

I made a Patreon in October (www.patreon.com/baezus) that I’ve since sent over sixty pages of new poetry. At a minimum of five poems a week, the volume is really high, but that keeps me productive and focused no matter how the daily variables of a week might interrupt my writing. At this point, I guess it’s like how people who work out go to the gym every week? Accountability forces me to make it happen, and Patreon is great for that. I don’t submit to publications as much of late. I like sending poems to my friends, for now.

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