**Update: I think both my contact form and book order form work again now. Try sending me a message for fun!

Thanks to this blog, I found out my webbish6 contact form is totally broken. Urgh! I hate it when my web site breaks (especially some of the creakier old code.) The code that my web site provider requires for a form mail has changed (without notice – thanks guys!) Plus I think my hotmail account is blocking my form mail. So I have to recode it to make it work, then redirect to my newish gmail account instead. I find gmail’s mail threads extremely hard to follow, so I’ve resisted gmail for a long time, but hotmail has given me a lot of headaches this year.

So, if you have used my contact form in the recent past, and not received a response, it’s not because I hate you – it’s because I never received your mail. I’m very, very sorry. I’ll try to get my contact form code back up and running soon.

In other news, I was browsing around at Open Books (best poetry bookstore ever, in Seattle) today and someone came in looking for my book. The minute she said “Becoming the Villainess” I was all “brrrt?” What are the odds? Hi-larious. So glad I stopped in! Plus I picked up that new women-in-poetry mentoring book. And another copy of Daisy Fried’s My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (to replace the one that disappeared from my book shelves after I lent it out.) I love love love that title. In the book, the title poem is (which I think is a persona poem) is about the speaker’s brother getting arrested for some kind of righteous protesting. It would have been more fun if he had been knocking over a liquor store or something. Also, that’s what young men in the neighborhood I grew up in were more likely to be arrested for. I mean, it’s still a good poem, but, you know…

Coming soon: a review of the new Rhino 2008, since I just got my contributor copy in the mail.