Had a lovely day across the Sound with my island-and-peninsula poetry workshop, and since I hadn’t seen my island-and-peninsula poet friends since before Christmas, it was great to catch up. I brought one of my new weird prose poems about animé (um, sort of an obsessive series of poems on Miyazaki’s work…) I’m having a lot of fun writing about this subject. Anyway, I even got to see the sun briefly (a rarity here) and got to split some appetizers with the lovely and talented Kelli afterwards. Ooh, and my friend Annette lent me some old episodes of MST3K. Gamera is really neat! He is full of turtle meat! Good times.
I haven’t been sending out much work lately. I’m kind of letting the poems roll back in slowly. I did get a nice acceptance letter from the kind editor of the beautifully-produced Evansville Review (especially nice because they are publishing my book’s title poem! Yay!) along with a couple of rejections and the myriad tax info (w2s, 1099s, etc…ah the fun of freelancing at tax time…)
And I turned in the final, final proof of the book manuscript today too – a thousand nitpicky little things, like spaces around em-dashes and missing punctuation, that kind of thing.
Now to turn to the very scary NEA application…and return to my essay for school…which is still nine pages of incoherent thought…must read more of Jung on persona and archetype, analyze Gluck’s Meadowlands, and talk about why persona poems allow women to more freely express their shadow selves. Or something like that.
(For Deb Ager: I couldn’t get my blogger comments to let me post for some reason, so let me say it here: Happy New Year to you too! And you are welcome for scones anytime!)