Went to the Floating Bridge Press reading this evening, featuring this year’s winner Annette Spaulding Convy, a good friend and terrific poet, as well as some entertaining finalists. I was sick (caught bronchitis somehow during a heatwave – how does that happen? and PS sometimes when you feel really woozy and hot during a heatwave, it’s because you have a fever, not because it’s 90 and you have no air conditioning because Seattle’s buildings are apparently built for nothing but mellow 70’s summer temps. Anyway…) so I couldn’t socialize as cogently as usual afterwards, but I still loved seeing Annette read – she writes the kind of funny, clever, heartbreaking work I wish I wrote.
A teeny listing (but I’ll take it!) in the July 1st weekend edition of the Seattle Times: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=localbooks02&date=20060630&query=books
Also, I finally got the anthology Mary Alexandra Agner edited called Rhymes for Adults in the mail – a little chapbook of formal poetry from the likes of fellow bloggee Steve Schroeder and also AE Stallings and Annie Finch. The poem I contributed was a fun challenge for me, since I don’t often write in form, but the subject – a Japanese fairy tale – seemed more willing to bend into a form that most.
And a copy of Poets & Writers with the little ad for my book and the two other new books from Steel Toe Books. It was pretty exciting. Remember, this is the last day to send in for the Steel Toe Books June Open Submissions so get going with those manuscript!