Friday, January 26, 2007
Bidtits
I'm up when I don't really want to be due to drinking-induced early rising and a surplus of work. (It's none of it as bad as it sounds.) So anyway, here are some nuggets of information.
- The drinking commenced because Robert Mezey gave a reading at Colorado College last night, and Dave Mason invited me out with them afterward. Then Aaron and I briefly hit another bar where a very drunk man told us about how he and his fiance (who he claimed had posed for Playboy) were trying to set up a threesome. His fiance and another woman did engage in a lengthy liplock.
- I came home to find (a new record) four rejections in one day. Ow, ow, ow. I did think of a way to revise one of the poems returned, so that's something. And one of the rejections was a "____ came close" note from POOL, which is encouraging. And I'm nearly done with another poem draft.
- Going to be going out to dinner again tonight with an old friend from high school. Much easier going tonight, though. The Red Robin Blue Ribbon Burger and a frosty chonklit milkshake, mmmmmmm.
- There's a (mainly negative) review of William Logan's new book of criticism up right now on the Verse blog. I did like this line of Logan's (also positively noted by Brian Henry): "A poet’s talents exist in productive tension for only a decade or so. Before, the language is all main force, the subjects mistaken, the voice immature; after, the poet often hardens into manner." I think I'm in before.
- I'm planning on posting some things soon: another installment of the Best of Online, another Top 13 list (of the e-zines I most want to place work in), that draft I mentioned above, maybe even a little roundup of other bloggers' goings-on, which I've neglected interacting with much.
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Sorry about the rejections, but it sounds like one may have led to something positive.
Looking forward to the future posts.
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Looking forward to the future posts.
Tell whomever you are eating dinner with hello for me, but offer no other explanation as to how I knew you'd see them.
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