I need constant intellectual stimulation. I get it mainly from the implied dialogue among bloggers. Reading becomes less solipsistic because I can publish my responses as I go along. The Buffalo poetics list once served that function for me, but became too cluttered and contentious. I've been writing this blog for 7 months, and have no plans to stop any time soon.

Where I hesitate most is posting poems on the blog, since I myself often skip over others' poems on their blogs. I can't always switch that easily between a quick, web-surfing attention span and a slow, poem-reading attention span. To read poetry I need to be out of this windowless office.