Author: laurie | Date: June 26, 2008 | Please Comment!

I was worried that when I finished my MFA, I would no longer have anyone to critique my work, and I imagined myself falling into a dark, cobwebby hole of unpublishable poems that I didn’t know how to fix.  Since then, some of my fellow student poets and I have made a pact to stick [...]

Author: laurie | Date: June 24, 2008 | Please Comment!

It seems that my little hiatus is over.  I woke up this morning raring to go, and the minute I got back from dropping my daughter at camp, I launched myself into preparing submissions.  I’ve been getting a lot of contest notifications, so I ended up preparing three contest submissions: one for single poems, one [...]

Author: laurie | Date: June 19, 2008 | Please Comment!

Apologies for the dearth of posting here.  The semester ended and Stuff happened in my life and I had to take a few weeks to deal and also recover from all the hard work, assignments, and the thesis.  I admit I spent a lot of time sitting around playing word games on my computer, too.  [...]