Montaigne Medal Finalist!

Just had a little good news this morning, after a week of on-and-off flu and accompanying blues…that my second book, She Returns to the Floating World, is an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist! If it wins, this means the book will get coverage in the US Review of Books, which would be pretty great for a little poetry book like mine, so cross your fingers for me!
I’m not even sure who nominated me, but whomever it was, thanks a big bunch!

In other news, I wrote a new poem yesterday. I’ve been feeling a bit blue with the illness stuff and maybe a bit of burnout and missing AWP and doing all those grant applications where you feel your chances are one in a billion…sometimes the poetry world can get us a little down. So every piece of good news should be celebrated! A new poem! A little award finalist news!

Going to see a house this afternoon that might be the one, though it’s a little pricey. In lovely Kirkland, a community I like a lot, woods in the backyard…but it’s a re-done 1950’s house so we have to see the inspection before we decide anything…Cross your fingers for me house-wise too!

Thanks again, blog readers, for your encouragement and support. It means a lot. I think this little community of folks is like my almost-family.