Miscellany

45º ~ thick fog persists even this far into the morning, gray gray gray gray gray all around

Today I offer a bit of this and that.

Many thanks to Adam Tavel and Eric Anderson, poetry editors at Conte for including my poem “Prophecy” in the latest issue (7.2).  It’s a wonderful, compact issue full of both humor and foreboding.  A quick note on the poem must include a hat tip to Luke Johnson.  I drafted this poem based on a word bank collected from Luke’s book After the Ark, which I responded to here. 

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Another set of thanks to the editors of Crab Creek Review and Weave.  Both journals recently sent me happy emails to kick-start 2012 in the right frame of mind.  I’m thrilled to have finally made it into these journals after several rejections in the past few years.  Revise & try, try again, is my ever-faithful motto.

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Huge thanks to you all, dear readers, for voting on the title for manuscript #2.  I realized that What Blooms in the Marrow is probably more apt for a title to my sickly speaker poems, although it does come from a line in “It Matters, the Kind of Wound,” which is in mss #2.  The poem opens with an image of “minor cuts” and how that blood “renews itself– / tiny blooms in the marrow.”  There are two or three poems in mss #2 that point to the poems in the sickly speaker series but don’t fit with the series as they feature completely different voices/speakers. 

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I’ve been thinking about tinkering with mss. #2 and adding the best of the fairy tale poems to it, since they are grounded in the Midwest and the sickly speaker is not.  Big project.  Gathering strength.

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February is going to be a BIG MONTH for poetry in central Arkansas.