Poem up at Rattle’s blog and we’re washing away…
My poem, “I Forgot to Tell You the Most Important Part…” is up today at Rattle’s blog. Please go check it out and comment on it or otherwise make a fuss.
In other news, there has been so much rain here I think we seriously need to sharpen our ark-making skills. Last night, the rain on the roads was making our little car sedan squeal and complain. Belts got wet and tires spun. The rain pelted our windows so enthusiastically it woke me up at four in the morning. The train from here to Portland was closed for mudslides.
I am done with my Christmas shopping, we have seen the Christmas boats, and I only have a few cards left to send out. Now, if I could only get a similar jumpstart on my writing and writing-related tasks…
The miracle of good wishes, sunshine, and very heavy-duty antibiotics mean that I am feeling much better today and not downing the last of my inhaler every ten minutes. Hope that improvement continues, as husband G is going out of town and my mother is coming in for a visit tomorrow! Reminder: do not ignore bronchitis symptoms. Especially if it is something that requires antibiotics!
Good news today – Redactions literary journal decided to nominate my poem, “Why I Write About Japanese Mythology” for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks guys!
In good news not pertaining to myself, my poet friend Natasha was the featured poet today at Rattle:
http://rattle.com/blog/2009/11/it-is-fair-to-say-by-natasha-kochicheril-moni/
My poem “Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding” is featured today on Rattle’s blog.
In other news, I have a chest cold. Cough cough.
Update: think good thoughts for my friends in Seattle. After ten days of snow and ice, now flooding: see this and this.
Sorry I haven’t posted – I got hit with one of those May (!?!) bugs, sore throat and head cold and the whole shebang, been walking around like a zombie all week. But now I’m off to the Skagit River Poetry Festival, packing my vitamin C and elderberry and teas and antibiotics. Hopefully the sunshine and poetry will work their crazy magic and make me all better!
So, besides a poem in the 2008 Rhino (“The Note the Fox-Wife Leaves Him,”) I realized from the contributor copy that arrived today I’m also in the latest Rattle, (“Advice Before My Wedding”) along with a bunch of good poems and interviews from Marvin Bell and Bob Hicok. Good times. A Rhino review (and perhaps some news from the fest) when I get back.
For today, a road trip to La Connor to see some poetry and catch back up with friends.
Hmm, after a string of rejections over the past few months (always heartening) I finally got two acceptances in the mail on one day!
5 AM took a poem I really like, and one of my poems was a semifinalist for the Rattle poetry prize, so they’re going to publish that one.
And, on my trail walk, I saw two baby bunnies! A banner day all around. Except for the physical therapy and blood test appointments. Not as fun. But, you’ve got to take a little bad with the good.
I’m starting to get ready for my two-week trip to U of Akron, SUNY Fredonia, and Hall/Gailey family-homestead Cincinnati. What to pack? My mom said “well, it’s 70 today, and tomorrow supposed to be around 41 degrees.” Layers?
Update:
Questions: Looking for a new journal to send to. Ideally, it would be a place friendly to persona poems, prose poems, the quirky, the funny, sonnets with X-men references, etc…Please post your suggestions to the comments field.
More rejections: in order to balance out the universe, a rejection of a query from Copper Canyon (though these are lovely poems, we’re full right now, etc…but it was handwritten – that was nice!) and a rejection from BOA with a nice note. Then two e-mail rejections. Total number of acceptances yesterday and today: 2. Total number of rejections: 4.
Oh, the velocity of poems!
