Monday, February 18, 2008
Presidents Day Miscellany
I'm working kind of a laid-back half-day today. Here's some catchup on stuff that I didn't cover previously but maybe should have:
- I did end up driving to Columbia to see Simone Muench and Jason Bredle (as well as three Mizzou PhD students) read. It was a very enjoyable time despite the fact that I drove almost 2 1/2 hours, watched the reading, chatted for about five minutes, and then had to turn right around and drive about 1:45 to get home by midnight. Yes, rush hour added 45 minutes to the drive.
- I've had a poem picked up by Valparaiso Poetry Review. Happily, it was not a previously accepted poem.
- While we're on that topic, my magical ability to make journals vanish seems to have returned with Backwards City Review, which accepted the poem that Southeast Review then double-accepted. BCR's website is gone, and they haven't updated their blog in over two months. I have an e-mail in to them right now, so we shall see.
- Heading out to the River Styx reading series tonight, at which will be National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Troy Jollimore, a nice guy and excellent poet/reader, and a fiction writer I'm unfamiliar with, Gladys Swan, whom I shall refer to as Gladys "Stop Looking at Me" Swan because I am in some ways a perpetual 14-year-old. And I don't even like Adam Sandler much.
- Poetry writing looking up. Drafts no doubt to follow.
- Happy Birthday Week, Shawn!
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Oh, Steve, your Adam Sandler reference took me right back to ninth grade. Billy Madison is an excellent movie, I don't care what anyone says. : )
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