Rejection Slips
I found a stash of rejections slips from my first attempt at being a poet in the mid-80s to early 90s. I’d like to share the ones from @NimrodJournal, @BPJTweets, and The Threepenny Review instead of actually writing tonight. I kind of miss those days. The wait times were longer and simultaneous submissions weren’t the […]
Rita Dove: A moment when things open up from the inside
Conversations with Rita Dove by Earl G. Ingersoll
And not talk about it
“Anyway, I have it borne in on me that my business is to write and not talk about it.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
Steep
Presses vs. Journals
Is it just me, or is waiting to hear from presses about a chapbook submission completely different than waiting to hear from journals about a submission of a packet of individual poems?
Plath 1956
One of the joys of slowly working my way through Plath’s The Collected Poems is finding unfamiliar (at least to me) gems like this.
Stone Age Tech
I’m not saying I’m old or anything, but I recently came across the package of stuff my first ISP set me when I signed up for internet access. This was included (four floppies)…
There’s more to life than books…
I needed to invest in more space for books and stuff. The cat apparently has plans of his own.