Project Report: Poetry

I started writing poetry in fourth grade. It was, of course, terrible.

I've kept at it, though, and I've gotten a lot better over time. Unfortunately, I've done a poor job of collecting and maintaining my work through the years. T-- gave me a notebook packed with my poems that she had saved, years ago, and at three different times I've pulled together collections of my stuff, but there are big gaps in the fossil record, as it were.

Anyway, I recently spent some time crawling through all the stuff I have, trying to put together a strong archive of my poetry. I talked about the process some in my journal, but the end result is a collection of individual files built on a standard Word template and tagged with some useful metadata.

My goal is to write a quick Python script to upload those files to Google Docs for a more reliable archive, so I won't have to go through the collection and verification process ever again. First I need to collect the poems I don't have in digital form from a handful of sources (most of which are my old scribblebooks), and do my best to get accurate dates on the poems I have.

I don't really have any ambitions to get my poetry professionally published, so I'll probably put together a website to showcase it once I have everything cleaned up and in place.

Status: In development