My log for the month of : February Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 10 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: o Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 3 Books: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz Secret Shame: I take Kashi coupons off Kashi cereal boxes in Walmart so I can buy other Kashi stuff.
Category: poetry
The New Math of Poetry
Oh shiznit! Dead white men no longer have the monopoly on poetry publishing! Does that mean a sista can get published now? Perhaps not. Well, unless she can get-it, get-it with one of her old MFA professors... Check out this article from Sunday's edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education about who and what is [...]
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Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!
Timely fodder for this month--stuff about love... Plus today is my mom and dad's 43rd wedding anniversary. (Imagine that)! Anyway, it seemed as good a time as any to share a soundtrack of some of my favorite love songs. It's hardly an exhaustive list, but these are definitely among my all time favs. What are [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : January Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: o Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 3 Books: Joe Turner's Come and Gone - August Wilson Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Secret Shame: My keep in touch skills--actually lack thereof. Umm, my bad?
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Why yes! darlene is a poet (or, Duh-h-h-h)
I have a relationship with publishing like I generally have with men. Fairly selective and therefore mostly nonexistent. Hehehe. Yeah, so like I’m always on the market but I don’t necessarily go around advertising it because, hell, what’s to advertise? Like those old fighting words don’t talk about it, be about it I am always [...]
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Official Notice
I do not intend to tiptoe through Life only to arrive safely at Death.
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Monthly Meter (with Year End Tally)
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : December Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 3 Secret Shame: an addiction to marshmallows Books: 0 Year End Totals: Submissions: 30 = 2.5/month Acceptances: 4 = .33/month Rejections: 26 = 1.17/month Books Completed: 14.5 = 1.2/month Secret Shame: This confirms it: my year sucked [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : November Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 8 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 as in: zero, nada, none, zilch Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 5 Secret Shame: 2009 has been the worst year of my life EVER; including but not limited to every single one of the adolescent ones of poorly fitting bras, questioning, and [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : October Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: Not being able to shake it off. Books: Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell * Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The People's Temple, and Jonestown - David Chidester *still reading it
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Looking at the Pictures
I stopped writing a few years ago. Dealing with the stuff I wrote about was hard enough to manage in my daily life; rehashing it in words was putting salt in the open wound. So I stopped. No journals, no poems, not a line of metaphors, nouns turned to verbs, nothing. I hoped that not [...]
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