What I’ve Been up To…

What I have been up to, you ask, since I last posted.

1. I missed a really cool reading in San Francisco called “Flight of Poets” where I had a wine matched to my poetry and everything. The broken-down car, still non-working cell phone and a new nasty flu were all contributors to this sad missing of a great reading, along with being broke because of said broken-down car. (But this week is basically the Carnivale of poetry down in San Francisco, with events almost every night. It’s a great time to visit the Bay area, the time of LitQuake, if you can ever plan a trip like that for fun – it’s an every year occurrence.)

2. During fever-induced hallucinations (first a respiratory flu, then a stomach flu – pleasant, no?) dreaming of getting a job that pays me more than 10K a year. Any job. And also, not being too sick to work said job. Then being able to pay off not only things like broken cars but also student loans, described in my last post.

3. Got published in the really beautiful new speculative magazine Phantom Drift. They included a little check for my poem (from the Robot Scientist Daughter series) too (thanks guys!) It is really like an old-fashioned literary magazine, with heavy, glossy covers and artwork, lovely printing. Check it out if you’re into “fabulism.” I’m in “Issue 2.”

4. Speaking of fun poetry, check out my review, just posted at The Rumpus, of Juliana Gray’s book Roleplay.  Zombie poems, odes to Nancy Drew, the kind of poetry that is right up my alley.