28 October 2005

denied

well, it appears my mailbox situation has been rectified. AND, just in time for me to receive a rejection from Cellar Roots out of Eastern Michigan University. i had appeared in three previous issues of Cellar Roots, all themed issues, but wasn't able to make this one. ah well.
it's good though that our bills and letter and even a check we were owed from the electric company were returned to sender, but a rejection gets through. fabulous!

26 October 2005

chapbook o' the quarter

the last installment of Bottle of Smoke's Chapbook of the Quarter Club arrived in my mailbox this afternoon. this issue's author is none other than the venerable David Barker. David is a master of the short, witty poem. No one ever said so much using so few words.
the Chapbook of the Quarter Club is a great little thing that Bill at BOSPress started earlier this year. it is a a subscription service only, meaning he will not sell these books outside of the club. to join is just $20 and you'll receive four handsome, letterpressed chapbooks. i'm proud to say my chapbook Liquid Jesus was the club's inaugural chapbook back in the beginning of this year.
i look forward to these little chapbooks and i know you will, too. join the Club. c'mon. all the cool kids are doing it!

25 October 2005

trespass

i got an email the other day letting me know that two of my poems, Midnight Trains and the emptiness of a moonless night, have been accepted to appear in the autumn issue (issue #2) of trespass magazine. trespass is a new literary journal with much promise, so i'm excited about this. check out their website and submit some of your own stuff.

i heard this morning that Rosa Parks died last night, at the age of 92. it's weird to think that such a little, old lady could've sparked such a momentous and historic time. i was thinking, too, that most of the people who took up the civil rights movement are now dead. i hope this is a piece of history we aren't doomed to repeat. though, i wouldn't be too damn sure with people like this in the world. eugenics is wrong on so many levels, but if i were to be in charge of implementing it, the parents of these girls certainly would be on the top of the list. as would similar people.
and, just to show i'm not some kind of fascist, #1 to be sterilized would be yours truly.
but, seriously, 50 years later and there's not much different. only we're more jaded and less compassionate and more insular.