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Happy 2012! I haven’t checked in here for a while. Sorry about that. I’ve been pretty busy lately.

• I wrote seven new poems in the past two months, which (for me anyway) is a lot more than usual. So I’m forgiving myself for only having made five submissions in the same time period.
• I had one acceptance: Juked will ( Read more... )

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The “Two Submissions / One Poem Per Rejection” scheme continues apace-still behind, but manageably so.

Following a rejection from Copper Nickel, I submitted to JUKED and Fifth Wednesday, and finished a piece called “Veninum Lupinum.” I was then rejected by Ninth Letter, and just this morning drafted “The ( Read more... )

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Got a rejection from Copper Nickel a few days ago; turned around and sent in submissions to JUKED and Fifth Wednesday, and then finished a complete draft of a poem I’d been stuck on for four and a half years. So far, so good.

Of course, now I just got a rejection from Ninth Letter, so I suppose it’s back to the ( Read more... )

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Much to the dismay of her accountant, a friend of mine is starting up her own print journal. Constellations will print poetry and fiction, and is intended to have a loose focus on writers with a connection to the Boston and Cambridge area, but she’s taking work from anyone and everyone. I’ve been told that ( Read more... )

Right, I should mention-one of the things that’s been keeping me busy is a new web site. Multiple sage sources say that it’s a good idea to have a writing web site for editors and the like to check out, somewhere to post publication info and writing samples, etc. Well, last week I was in the process of renewing and updating domain names when I ( Read more... )

[crossposted from jack-miller.orgI’ve been thinking a lot about rejection lately. The literary kind. Well, other kinds too, really, but right now I’m talking about what happens 97% of the time after I send a bundle of poems off to some journal somewhere: a few days, weeks, months, or (yes) even years later, I get a terse form email or a small, ( Read more... )

Busy busy busy again. Will it never end? Only with a really long dirt nap, so I suppose I should be grateful ( Read more... )

I haven’t been able to write anything for a really long time ( Read more... )

Two Sunday nights in a row! Last week I got an acceptance from Vestal Review, and just now I got one from Liebamour-as usual, for my least-favourite (and oldest) poem in the batch I submitted, but I’ll take what I can get ( Read more... )

Catching up...

Friday: more snow. In Arlington we got about six inches, which meant an hour of shoveling, and it just kept coming down through the whole rush hour. The commute was actually pretty good, though: 20 minutes to get to work (about my usual-the snow slowed me down but there was no traffic, so it was a wash) and another five to shovel ( Read more... )