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I went through all the poetry submissions and have the responses ready. Phew. We have some good ones in the batch. Very exciting!
And I find myself agreeing with another editor blogger that I wish some of you could be an editor for a day (or 7) to see what it’s like.
How to Drive an Editor […]
With the little bambino (bambina?) on the way and the calculated 300K price tag for raising a child to the age of 18, I take it as a personal challenge to figure out ways to pay less — or better yet nothing — for the various odds and ends one needs for a baby.
We joined […]
Police spent about two hours Tuesday morning corralling a herd of buffalo that somehow got loose and wandered around an upscale residential community in suburban Baltimore, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners. Read the rest
Can you get a poem out of this?
I was cleaning out old email — deleted 44 messages at least! — and found this list of magazine response times that I’d sent myself. I have no idea where I found this information. Maybe Jeff Bahr’s web site?
Numbers are in days, I believe. Gosh, I should hope so.
Threepenny Review 15.0
Nation 23.0
Southern Review 28.6
Agni 32.4
Michigan […]
Pete Fairchild reads on April 27 at the Library of Congress. I love this city and all its poetry readings!! If I’m not dead tired, I plan to go. Anyone else?
He’s a board member of 32 Poems, so that’s why I’m sharing his reading info here.
I keep remembering a sentence from Reb Livingston’s blog […]
Yesterday was a blah day in terms of weather. It was 45 degrees, and I find that completely unacceptable!
The blah weather was one of many reasons I was happy to meet friends for lunch at Mandalay in Silver Spring and another friend for tea at her new apartment in DC. Her apartment’s claim to […]
While working a seminar, I got my first belly feel by an elderly man I’ve never met. He patted my stomach and said “you take good care of her now.” I was stunned. I had no idea the belly feels would start this early. So I patted him back and told him to take care […]
Just when I’m feeling tired of mailing out 32s while carrying around a big ol’ pregnant body, I get a comment like this on my blog!
“I just got the new issue, and you guys knocked another one out of the park.”
Jennifer Drake Thornton
2. Do one proactive thing per day.
How many poets (maybe you yourself?) have you heard say “I don’t have enough time to write?” Have they ever thought about what enough *is* anyway? I find I can write in two-hour spurts, and I don’t really need the eight hours I used to crave and think I […]