I haven’t updated lately because, frankly, I’ve had quite the string of rejections and it has been getting me down.  I had a period of about six months where it seemed like I got two acceptances out of every three submission responses, and I think it made me a little cocky.  The six or seven [...]

Quite honestly, I’m overwhelmed by the thought of writing about AWP.  There was just so much to it.  Where does one even begin?
This was my first AWP, and I could not believe how many people there were.  And events.  And parties.  It is utterly impossible to do it all, so I did what I could.  [...]

Check out the new poster for National Poetry Month:
A wee bit creepy, non?  Reminds me of a horror movie poster.  But it sure does get one’s attention, does it not?  The more I look at it, the more I love it.  The Prufrock reference, of course, but also the outrageousness of it, the strangeness.  It [...]

I’ve just had a review of Sally Van Doren’s Sex At Noon Taxes published over at Gently Read Literature.  Go!  Read! Read them all!

It’s been so long since I’ve posted, I think the best option is to do bullet points for all the topics I might have posted about in the past couple of months.  (In other words: commence lazy blogging.)

Elizabeth Alexander!  I thought she rocked the house.  Sure, she wasn’t perfect.  The poem perhaps wasn’t perfect.  Her [...]