OK, first of all, remember to vote! I did a mail-in vote, which doesn’t feel quite as satisfying as punching holes or whatever.

Back to the working world…
Just interviewed for – and I think accepted – a part-time job working with Expedia. It will be nice to have a steady paycheck again. I’ve been freelancing since I started school, but nothing steady, nothing that guarantees money in the bank. So this will be a good change, I think. Orientation on Friday! This is good, because not only is Christmas coming, but my student loans will start being due in January after graduation…and there’s this book publishing enterprise I want to start…

A call for poems…Though I have abdicated my role as editor of Silk Road recently, my good friend Lisa Galloway is still plugging away there, and is in desperate need of good poems of place! She’s requested that you send your poems to her at lisagalloway at gmail dot com. It’s a beautiful journal, so what are you waiting for?

I have been pleasantly surprised recently by reading material in new issues of the Writer’s Chronicle (put out by AWP) and American Poetry Review. In APR, a fascinating essay on the friendship of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, which had a wonderful gossipy tone that sounded genuine and invested, not creepy. In The Writer’s Chronicle, a long interview with multiple poet/editors, including the editors at Sarabande, Tupelo, Rain Taxi, and others. Other articles of interest in there too, like one on creative research.

Got to see some poet friends this weekend in the middle of a flood, a windstorm, and heavy rain. You know those times when good things happen to people you care about – a lot of them, all at once? That’s going on with me now. I think I must be good luck! Apocolyptic weather today again. Read and loved Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz – especially the prose poems telling of a young boy’s discovery of wings.

(Updated: As a reward for those of you who voted, or a punishment to those of you who did not, depending on your feelings about kittens:
Trick…or Treat?)