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  • A Weekend of Creative Events I have several events this weekend that are going to keep me busy busy busy. First this Saturday Truong Tran, a wonderful poet whom I worked with during my first summer in my MFA program,…

  • MTC's Irvine Proposal & IWL Workshop I just e-mailed Gillian over at Marin Theatre Company with a few notes I had on her grant proposal, she's submitting it to the Irvine Foundation today. I've been so busy the p…

  • Three Submissions, One Deadline The 31st is the deadline for three submissions and I need to mail all three of on Monday so that means today and tomorrow I must, must, trim my manuscript to 40 pages and put together m…

  • So Much to Do... ...so little time. Well I heard back from Cue and they declined. Geez. That was fast. So now I definitely need to figure out where to send poetry and send out at least one March submission. I need to…

  • Getting the Ball Rolling I spoke with my friend Emily yesterday. She's wants to return to the west coast, either Oregon or Berkeley (she's currently in Scotland). I need to get the prose poetry journal project moving.…

  • Updates Galore So I finally heard from Indiana Review. I could tell by the feather-light s.a.s.e. that it was a decline. Like many large journals, they sent a slip of paper with a note informing me my work had not bee…

  • Farewell to Poet Barbara Guest Barbara Guest 1920 - 2006 and the words themselves wept trembling trembling…

  • Help! I’m A Writer And I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life! Micheal McClure once told an audience of eager writers at USF: Poets, you better find a day job. I knew this when I started my MFA, I was getting this…

  • Literary Tangent Currently Reading Pure Descent by Elizabeth Robinson In an attempt to prepare for Naropa, to get my mind on poetry and poetic prose, I grabbed this book from my library and headed ou…

  • Naropa Countdown: 9 Days and Counting

    This July I head off to Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, to participate in week 2 of the Summer Writing Program. Each week has a central theme which ties all the workshops. My workshop “What is this thing called…

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