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 [...]

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 [...]

Sucker Punch

Today I got a really cool book in the mail. It’s called We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion and it’s full of pictures and excerpts from blogs around the globe.  Very coffee table chic, full color glossy pages. But I didn’t order it.  (Books have been one of the casualties of my waxing [...]

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 [...]

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  

Monthly Meter

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  

Monthly Meter

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...  

Monthly Meter

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