fellowship/publication submissions: 7 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 1 books: __________________ Secret Shame: I'm a bully. (To myself). If I said the stuff I say to myself to other people, nobody would like me and I'd probably being fighting everyday. Mantra of the Moment: Pay attention. & I will and I can. I can and [...]
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Monthly Meter: April
fellowship/publication submissions: 0 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: __________________ Secret Shame: My fingernails which have resisted Nailtique, multivitamins, and nightly hypnosis. I'm really considering biting them again so I'll have an excuse for their appearance. And my Napowrimo stats. Mantra of the Moment: ...but I can write a mean sentence you faster runner, better [...]
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Monthly Meter: April
fellowship/publication submissions: 0 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: __________________ Secret Shame: My fingernails which have resisted Nailtique, multivitamins, and nightly hypnosis. I'm really considering biting them again so I'll have an excuse for their appearance. Mantra of the Moment: ...but I can write a mean sentence you faster runner, better dancer, mathematician with abs [...]
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Monthly Meter for December
fellowship/publication submissions: 4 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 2 books: I'm a writer--I don't read. Apparently. Secret Shame: See above. Mantra of the Moment: Don't wait for opportunity, make opportunity.
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Monthly Meter: November
fellowship/publication submissions: 3 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 5 (+1 we don't like the rest of this s*?@ but we think we're kinda feeling this one piece. Let us check it out a li'l longer. Yeah, it's a new kind of rejection for me too--or is it an acceptance? I'm going with acceptance, like a [...]
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Monthly Meter: October
fellowship/publication submissions: 0 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 2 books: 0 Secret Shame: 1. This month's meter. 2. My truck is still dingy and the tires need air. Mantra of the Moment: All things are in perfect order.
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Monthly Meter: September
fellowship/publication submissions: 9 fellowship/publication acceptances: 1 fellowship/publication rejections: 4 books: The Art of the Poetic Line - James Longenbach The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz Secret Shame: Diana's Bananas--they look a little lewd (or maybe that's just my Freudian foolishness) but they taste so good! And my dingy truck--when did I become one of [...]
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Monthly Meter: August
fellowship/publication submissions: 8 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson *Coming Home - Stacy Hawkins Adams Jonestown: A Vexation - Carmen Gillepsie The Onliest One Alive - Catherine (Hyacinth) Thrash as told to Marian K. Towne *Kindred - Octavia Butler Secret Shame: 1. Popcorn for [...]
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Monthly Meter: July
fellowship/publication submissions: 0 Momentum is a terrible thing to waste. fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 "Sometimes this happens. It means nothing. So pull the shadows around you like a puff and get back to work. More opportunities scramble forth, trailing their long elegant heels of hot air with alice blue eyes, crinkled as if at the most [...]
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Monthly Meter: June
fellowship/publication submissions: 4 fellowship/publication acceptances: 1 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 (2 said "We are interested in seeing more of your work" which validates me in ways I shouldn't need nor admit.) books: Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway (our new poet laureate) Secret Shame: Acne scars on my cheeks. Yes, I am that vain. Mantra of the Moment: [...]
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