Several good things happened today.
1. Hummingbirds at my feeder, after three months of having it up there!
2. An acceptance from Ninth Letter, which I’m very excited about, because I love them.
3. Two of my previously-published (in print mags) haibun poems are going to appear on this cool new haibun site:
http://www.haibuntoday.com/
Don’t know when yet, but this site is unique in that it showcases all different kinds of haibun, and has critical reviews and essays on the form as well.
4. The cutest set of words in the German language? “Eisbar Babys” and “Eisbar mama”
Isn’t “eisbar” (sounds like “ice-bear”) a much better name for this little animal than polar bear?
http://www.nuernberg.de/internet/eisbaer/videos.html
A very busy week with lots of social and work stuff going on, feeling overwhelmed, and still a little sick (darn these temps – ten degrees below normal for us – and all the accursed rain!) but these four things, along with a welcome visit from a poet friend, cheered me up immensely.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
