New Poems Up

My poems “Trampoline” and “Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusettes” are up at Shot Glass Journal.

Wow. And happy. And wow.

So one day, you feel like giving up. You wonder why the hell you keep writing. Then you read something like this, and you feel a little better, and you remember to be kind to yourself and to just keep going. You start to have days when you think something is going right, you’re not sure what but the words are …better, somehow. You think, yes. Yes, I think I can do this. I need time, and teachers, but I can do this.

Then you open your email and discover you’ve been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

And you know you still have a long way to go, you still need time, you still need teachers, you’re quite sure you’re not going to make the final cut and actually get a Pushcart Prize, but it’s a thing you’ve needed, another push along the road, something to take out of your pocket and look at when the rejection letters get you down.

You think, yes. Yes, I think I can do this.

New poem

My poem “Mother and Son at Hockey Practice” is up at Literary Mama, my favorite place for the literature of motherhood. Enjoy, and check out all the great writing while you’re there.

New Poem

My cento “Long Ago My Father Died” (you can find a description of the cento form here) is in the inaugural issue of Found Poetry Review. You can read it here, and check out the rest of issue 1 while you’re there.

New Poem Up

I’ve got a new poem up at Blast Furnace. Unfortunately, there’s not a link that will take you directly to my poem. This link will take you to the issue I’m in, then you have to scroll down about half-way to find my poem “The Expat Offers Some Packing Advice.” Enjoy!

Poems!

It’s been a long depressing run of rejection letters lately, so I’m pretty happy to be able to say I have two poems up at Shot Glass Journal. “Reading the Book of Psalms Behind Closed Doors” is oldish and I’m happy that it found a home and “Meanwhile, at Departures, We Bow to a Twenty-First Century God” is one of the new poems I’ve been writing since Wellfleet, so I’m very glad to have a positive response to this new direction.

I know it’s about the writing, but a professional pat on the back now and then is very, very encouraging. I really needed this.

Blog Carnival

My “Röstigraben” post is part of the first >Language>Place blog carnival which is full of stories and impressions about travel and language and fitting in and sticking out and all the things that flash through your mind when you peek behind a different cultural curtain. Check it out – the contributors will take you all around the world.

And a poem, at last

It was a long dry spell, but I’ve got a new poem up at Literary Mama: “Scenes From the Pediatric ER.”

Happy dance

Oh my god, I actually got in!

I’ll put together some coherent thoughts on this when I’m feeling more coherent.

I can check that off the 2009 goals list

Remember when I commented on the utter gorgeousness of this journal? Guess who’s got a poem in it?