Category Archives: calls for submissions
Published!
The new issue of the light ekphrastic is up, and happens to be the issue in which my work is featured! Come read the poem I submitted, as well as the poem I wrote, inspired by a painting, and see the painting inspired by my work! This is a really beautiful project, and I’m thrilled …
Writing Goals: Jumpstart Edition
One technique that works for me in goal-setting is making sure I have some concrete tasks to check off as I make progress, in addition to larger conceptual themes. In keeping with my writing jumpstart program, here are my specific writing goals for 2012: prioritize regular writing time join and regularly participate in and attend …
Jumpstarting My Writing
As important as writing is to me, and as central as it is to my identity and conception of myself, when something has to drop from my daily juggling act, too often, it’s writing. So for 2012, I’m determined to jumpstart my trajectory as a writer and poet. This is a broader goal, not a …
Acceptance
Since it seems like a time for jubilation and acceptances in the blogosphere, I’m thrilled to be able to make my own “Woohoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!” post. Not only did I gain acceptance to my first-choice NEH workshop, but I also had one of my menu poems accepted! I have to say, that in the cruelest month, these …
Menupoems: Done!
Yes, you read that right: I completed my self-imposed menupoem challenge, because I really did mean it this time! So how did I do it? Well, one poem was drawn from the depths of my notebooks, that existed in several drafts there but had never really come together. I tinkered with it some, threw out …
Letter-Writing Challenge
I’ve told you before that my favorite punctuation mark is the lovely interrobang, and I believe I’ve done some good work in spreading my love throughout the world, proclaiming it to the Internet, select students, and my classmates at the revolutionary grammar workshop I went to last summer. But now a chance has arisen to …
Menu Poems
For the past few years, during National Poetry Month in April, a food-focused journal called Alimentum has sent menu poems to participating restaurants in New York City and elsewhere. These poems are sometimes also about restaurants, and you can see all the poems from the past few years at that link. I have a real …
Self-Imposed Deadlines
One of the lessons I have learned about myself is that I need deadlines– my tendency to procrastinate combined with my propensity to say “YES!” to way too many projects and impulses sometimes adds up to many half-finished projects, all with lots of potential, but too many withering on the vine. Over the years, I’ve …
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