Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
October 31st. All Hallow’s Eve. Halloween. Sawhain. Whatever you want to call it; it feels like a passing–a closure–to me. When I was working, I liked closure. Closure was getting a file off my desk, a claimant off the phone, a chance to get in the car and go home. But with [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
When I was an undergrad, I took an Intermediate Fiction Workshop during one of my last semesters in school. I was able to skip the Beginners class because I had already had the Beginners Poetry and Intermediate Poetry Workshops. Or, I think it was–I was fairly well liked in the Education Dept and they [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Fall is usually my favorite season. When I was a girl, it was mainly because I was enjoying the first months of school and looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even as an adult I enjoy Thanksgiving, alot and Christmas–some what. Christmas is for kids, so when I am around kids it is fun, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
When I was driving back from the mall (sipping my celebratory large diet coke) I started thinking about my poem that will be published; I wondered how long it took.
“The Summer She Left” Originally written in October, 1998 (or the earliest printed version) but that was not the original title. This was about 6 months [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I received some good news today :). One of my poems will be appearing in the inaugural issue of The Red Clay Review that is scheduled for Spring of 2008. It is an older poem that I really re-worked before and after I workshopped it back in March. I was very happy to update my [...]
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