My Year in Writing: 2022
November 28, 2022
Now is the time, between my birthday and the end of the year, when I take stock of my year in writing. It’s been a pretty productive year, considering it also included a move from Brooklyn to the Berkshires:
Published Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations (Shanti Arts)
Book launch for Wine-Dark Sea online with Kathryn Miles (Feb)
Appearance on Portuguese American Radio Hour with Diniz Borges (March)
World Poetry Day/Cagarro Colloquium reading (March)
Book launch with Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (March)
Book signing at Terrain.org booth at #AWP22 in Philadelphia (March)
Wine-Dark Sea gets “Taylored” by @taylorswift_as_books on Instagram! (March)
Lecture at University of the Azores: Mesa-redonda Poesia, Tradução e Memória (April)
Azores launch for Wine-dark Sea and Azorean Suite/Suite Açoriana at Letras Levadas in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, with Leonor Sampaio Silva (April)
Açores Hoje television interview with Juliana Lopes on RTP Açores (April)
Terrain.org Reading Series with Joe Wilkins and Betsy Aoki (April)
“Phase Change” and “Under the Linden’s Spell” reprinted in TS Poetry’s Every Day Poems (online/email)
“Midnight Sun” and “Shapeshifting” reprinted in Earth Song: a nature poems experience (anthology), edited by Sara Barkat and published by TS Poetry Press
Named Ryan Observatory’s first Poet Laureate
Mentored 2 students in Creative Nonfiction for Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program (June/July) [UPDATE: one of the students I mentored got accepted into the University of Pennsylvania, early decision! So proud of her!]
Translated Pedro da Silveira’s A ilha e o mundo, his first book of poems (1952)
Excerpts from Corsair of the Islands, my translation of Vitorino Nemésio’s Corsário das Ilhas, published in Barzakh Magazine (online) (August)
Panelist/presenter at Colóquio: Pedro da Silveira – faces de um poliedo cultural, University of the Açores: On Translating Pedro da Silveira’s A Ilha (September)
Lançamento da obra Habitar: um ecopoema, Margarida Vale de Gato’s translation of Dwelling: an ecopoem, published by Poética Edições, with Nuno Júdice, Luís Filipe Sarmento, and Margarida Vale de Gato, at FLAD in Lisbon (September)
Guest lecturer in Creative Writing at University of the Azores (Leonor Sampaio Silva, professora)
Panelist/presenter at 36th Colóquio da Lusofonia, Centro Natália Correia, Fajã de Biaxo, São Miguel, Azores: reading from Azorean Suite/Suite Açoriana with Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto (October)
#YeahYouWrite Catskill Reading at Fahrenheit 451 House, Catskill, NY w/Stephanie Barber, Laurie Stone, and Sara Lippmann (October)
Guest Writer at UConn Stamford creative writing class (Mary Newell, professor) (October)
Poet & Astronomer in Conversation (with Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer of the Franklin Institute) at Ryan Observatory at Muddy Run, PA (November)
“Wine-Dark Sea” (poem) published in American Studies Over_Seas (November)
20th Anniversary of residency at Millay Arts and writing of Dwelling: an ecopoem (November) [UPDATE: Got asked to join the Board of Millay Arts in December.]
Selections from Habitar: um ecopoema published in Gávea-Brown (US) and Grotta (Azores)
Book reviews in Gávea-Brown and Pessoa Plural [Postponed until 2023.](December)
My essay, “Açorianidade and the Radiance of Sensibility,” accepted by Barzakh Magazine for publication in Winter 2023 issue. (December)
What a year! I am exceedingly grateful to everyone who has supported my writing over the past year. As Walter Lowenfels wrote, “One reader is a miracle; two, a mass movement.”
Like I said last year, I feel like I’ve been blessed by a mass miracle this year!
Scott Edward Anderson
Scott Edward Anderson's Poetry Blog 
November 29, 2022 at 1:38 pm
Hello Scott, A Happy (belated) birthday. Yes, you’ve had yourself a very productive year — much well-deserved positive activity surrounding the publishing of Wine-Dark Sea. I’ve so enjoyed my repeated reading of this book and continue to be taken by your new directions, especially in the realm of translation and the connection to your Azorean roots. When I first read the book I was amazed that it was a “new and selected”. This made me re-read much of what I have in my SEA archives. And doing this revealed that the time was right for this retrospective addition to the new work. I hadn’t put everything together quite like that before and did it in my best attempt at chronological order. It was a treat to do this “survey” and to, once again, experience the early strength and be newly awed by your continued poetic growth. The accolades you’ve received with the publication of WDS are well-deserved and I’m honored to own it. While I was going through my SEA archives I got to thinking that it might be time for you to consider where the actual (wine dark) SEA archives might end up. I don’t know if this is something on your agenda. I’ve gathered my holdings and prepared a listing for your edification. It is probably mostly stuff you also have stashed away somewhere. There is one item where I think I am the exclusive owner. It is the “Burroughs Adding Machine Tape Roll Pome to jack langerak.” Remember that? What an awesome early project. I’ve recently re-read this and found some great moments there. It’s a jazzy, playful riffing where one thing leads to another and signs of the times float by. As a “tape roll” poem it is still in pretty good physical shape (I’ve had to change the rubber band holding things together a couple of times by now). Congratulations on everything Scott. I find it, in my own way, fulfilling to have been there from the beginning, to have been able to witness the growth over the years and to have been rewarded by the continued awe your work and all that you bring to it inspires. My best for a robust continuation of all you have going on. Jack
November 29, 2022 at 2:18 pm
Jack, You don’t know what this means to me, my friend. Yes, you were there at the beginning, encouraging me all the way. I always remark–as recently as my conversation with Derek Pitts at the Ryan Observatory–that you and David Taddeo were beacons to me, cheering me on, turning me on to poets and writers in a sort of algorithm that predates Amazon’s by several decades! I owe a great debt to you both, but especially you, and am honored that you have kept up the “archives.” (BTW, I have the only other copy of the “tape roll” pome, which I recently came across as well. I’m glad to know you still have yours!) Thank you again, Jack. Um grande abraço, Scott
November 29, 2022 at 2:24 pm
Jack, One more thing (I’m not sure pasting this from Facebook will work here, but here goes): https://www.facebook.com/greenskeptic/posts/pfbid02ZHFCNacQH7xBpmoPjPtNadUqWPFJB7T994YFoUSLApToJD1t2ehwZFVCPqKzMWKnl
November 29, 2022 at 2:28 pm
Yes, it worked. I got a good look at the pix and text accompanying. Very nice. Thanks for the mention. JL