Well those who read my notes/blogs know that I’ve been struggling a bit this week with being an editor. While I love working on “Shape of a Box” and I’m very proud of it, I found that working on chapbooks (even outside of the craziness from yesterday) was very stressful and was taking away from [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Pulled the Plug
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
More on Being an Editor
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chapbooks, folded word, Poetry, publishing, shape of a box, Small Press on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Guess being an editor is at the forefront of my mind right now and I wanted to come to my personal blog and just relax for a bit and maybe even vent but really I can’t. There are things that happen on the side of being an editor and publisher that just pain me [...]
I will stop working at 6 today! I will!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chapbooks, folded word press, Poetry, publishing on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, working past my normal stopping time yesterday proved to be a really bad idea. I ended up having trouble getting to sleep because I was over stimulated with planning the chapbook I’m publishing over at Folded Word and also thinking of the design for my storefront..well and tons of other things, all this [...]
Whew…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chapbooks, house cleaning, Poetry, publishing, tired tired tired on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Only going to make a short quick post cause I’m past my “work” stopping time and I’m exhausted!
Did the dusting and ditty kitty hairing of stuff, caught up on blogs/networking stuff and after spending a lot of time with some chapbooks I have one that I’m going to publish! Now the production process, but I [...]
Being an Editor
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chapbooks, editing, folded word press, Poetry, publsihng, shape of a box on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It is kind of a strange thing being on the other side of the desk especially now that I’m also publishing chapbooks and not just my literary magazine. It has really reinforced to me how subjective and hard the business of publishing can be and just how much work it takes. I hope I can [...]
Chapbook Series Announced
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chapbooks, fiction, folded word press, graphic novels, non-fiction, Poetry, publishin, shape of a box, youtube on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over at Folded Word Press I am launching a chapbook series. This was a huge goal for me when I launched Folded Word so I’m very happy I can start taking submissions. Check it out!
My MFA Reading
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged graduation, jessie carty, low-residency, mfa, Poetry, poetry reading, Queens Univeristy of Charlotte on January 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After a lot of aggravation, that does not need to be recapped here, I was finally able to upload the video of my reading that was a portion of my graduation from the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte.
I had a terrific two years and if you see me twitching in May because I’m [...]


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