Big Poetry Giveaway Winner, Redheaded Stepchildren, Upcoming Feature with Roland Kelts

Happy May Day, readers!

The winner of the Great Poetry Giveaway of this blog (chosen by random number generator) is Matthew Thorburn! Congrats, Matthew! I’ll be sending two books – my Becoming the Villainess and Anna Rabinowitz’s Present Tense – your way as soon as you send me your snail mail address!

I would be remiss if I did not direct your attention to a magazine I’ve always loved the concept of, Redheaded Stepchild Magazine, which only publishes work that has been turned down by other magazines. My poem, “A True Princess Bruises,” appears in their Spring Issue, along with wonderful work by writers like Dorothy Barresi and Alex Grant!

I also wanted to announce that I’ll be posting an interview feature with Roland Kelts, the author of Japanamerica and editor of new lit mag Monkey Business, in the next couple of days, so keep your eyes on this space!

Had as wonderful a weekend as possible for my birthday – tiptoed (mostly unassisted on my own two feet a miracle in itself if you’d been in physical therapy with me even two weeks ago) through some tulips, and in a record-dreary April, actually had sunshine all three days I was up in Skagit Valley! La Conner’s Tulip Festival is really something if you’ve never been up this way. Here are a couple of pics – one is the view from our cabin on the water, another of tulips: