Yesterday I got my Fall/Winter 2008 copy of Nimrod in the mail, all glossy-covered, thick, smelling of paper and ink.  You know what I’m talking about.  Glorious.  It was even more glorious because it was the awards issue, where I expected to see my poem “Upon Cutting My Thumb While Reading Ariel,” which was a [...]

Last night I attended the last of four Red Hen Press readings in New York, and it was outstanding.  (I went to the first reading as well–Friday night at KGB Bar–which was also wonderful.)  Being relatively new in town, I hadn’t yet been to the venue, The Cornelia Street Cafe, but it was charming.  I [...]

Thanks to my friend and fellow poet Linda Dove for sending me this link:
National Endowment For the Arts Funds Construction of $1.3 Billion Poem
My favorite bit:  “If the planners can secure an additional $6.2 million in funding, they may affix a long dash to the end of line three, though Gioia said that is a [...]

We have returned from vacation, all three children are back in school, and today was my first day alone in my house with peace and quiet for writing and po-biz.  I worked for awhile on a flash fiction piece I’m writing for an anthology.  I read most of a collection called Sisters by Nickole Brown [...]