Some Good News

Two of my poems will be appearing in The Houston Literary Review in the future.  I had a really great experience working with them. So this week thus far 1 rejection, 1 acceptance and 1 submit (just finished that today). Not a bad way for the week to get going.
Trying to get a good amount of [...]

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Recovering from the Weekend

When I vlogged on Friday, I was puzzled by the stranger than usual faces that came up as my screen shots for YouTube.  After I noticed how odd the right side of my face look I found myself in the bathroom realizing I couldn’t really smile right. Now some of you might be freaking out [...]

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Vlogging about Olympics and Poetry

Short little Vlog for this week. Have company overnight for tomorrow and a job interview at a bookstore tomorrow afternoon.  Also want to try and see if we can get the bathroom painted. Gonna post the vlog and then below that before and after pics of my somewhat remodeled bathroom.
Have a great weekend everyone!

And the [...]

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Waiting on Rejection

Ok. I have 31 sets of poems out to lit mags and contests! 31!  I don’t even have the count in front of me of where my chapbooks are.
Where are my rejection slips?
Strange thing is I have all responses back from May but not April or anything forward (well a few but not the bulk [...]

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As the Thesis Turns

My thesis is still in a state of flux with a good two months to go before the first draft is turned in.
For a while there it thought it was pretty much shaped, only needing revision.
But oh it was wrong. It lost two poems today, one retired, one destined for the Misc basket.
And new poems [...]

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