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Photo: Slig77  DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : September Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: Hold Yuh - Gyptian; reading celebrity gossip on the internet Books: Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple - Deborah Layton  

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Photo: Slig77  DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : August Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 6 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: Stuff I think. Books: Bread Givers - Anzia Yezierska Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat One in a Million - Kimberla Lawson Roby  

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Photo: Slig77  DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : July Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: "Ego" (the remix) by Beyonce f/Kanye West Books: still reading Tar Baby by Toni Morrison  

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Photo: Slig77  DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : June Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 5 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: this dang sugar addiction Books: I've been pretty illiterate this month...  

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Photo: Slig77  DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : May Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: my buddha belly Books: The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini  

Diode Poem Gets Reviewed

Well you know poetry rarely gets reviewed really, more like analyzed. Today I made this discovery: a review/analsyis of the poem I recently had published on this blog. Hmmm.  Cool methinks.  What say you?

My Latest Publication: Diode

Y'all know this doesn't happen often: Me.  In print! Check it out here: http://www.diodepoetry.com/v2n3/content/scott_da.html

Of Full Moons and 5ks

http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Full moon and my body’s behaving accordingly: Lethargy and insomnia at the same time (imagine that), the dubious and nagging  insinuation of migraine, an incorrigible appetite and that mad scientist creative urge that will not be satiated until I have a bedroom floor full of doo-dads and what-nots and some reconstructed summer shirts. Full [...]

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Photo: Slig77  DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : April Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 4 Secret Shame: "Single Ladies" by Beyonce Books: Shifting Through Neutral - Bridgett M. Davis  

Eulogy

  “If anyone from the country club/asks if you write poems, say/your name is Lizzie Borden. /Show him your axe...” Tess Gallagher“Instructions to the Double” (1976) I’m writing my own obituary. It was an exercise I was supposed to do for a writing workshop I took some years ago.The scary thought is that I had [...]