Bernadette K. Geyer's Blog

I would love some feedback from folks on the following possibilities...

1. We Who Were Anxious
2. The Hair of the Dead
3. His Father's Power Over the Bees
4. Boxes Stacked Like Hive Cells
5. Sometimes an Artifact Escapes
6. Descended from Fish
7. Your Own Way of Returning
8. Indistinct as Your Hands
9. The Water of His Being
10. Thinking About Dead Men and Stability
11. Those Half-Dreamed Fictions

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I have a love/hate relationship with summer.

On the one hand, I love it for tomatoes, the swimming pool, eating everything cold right out of the refrigerator, longer days, and margaritas on the deck. On the other hand, I hate it for bugs, humidity, unpredictable weather patterns and, most of all, the endless yardwork!

Although days are longer, I spend a lot more time outside, which translates to less indoor time to focus on writing. In the past, I have given myself "time off for good behavior" ove

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Thanks to Collin Kelley for blogging about this new chapbook press, Fortunate Daughter Press. The press was founded by Cecilia Woloch and has recently published its first title, An Urgent Request, by Sarah Luczaj.

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Marseilles Dress SHABBY APPLE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Dresses for women who don't want to have to put a tank top or cami underneath everything they wear.

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No photos yet of the weedy herb garden. Nor of the tomato that was planted on Sunday (thank the rain). But here are some shots taken during drier times:







The backyard azaleas

Dogwood and azalea














And, below, the "knockout roses" next to the deck:

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I've "won" three vacation packages within the past 2 months. Lucky? You decide:

I never registered to win any vacation packages. Yet all three callers insisted that I had. What I and my husband had filled out -- in two separate states -- were those little forms next to cars displayed at a shopping mall (in Nevada) and at our own Viva Vienna town festival (Virginia). We filled out forms under signs that read "Win This Car!"

Funny... in each instance, we were notified that we had filled out forms to

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In researching parasitic plants for a poem I'm working on, I ran across a whole page of information on the mistletoe, which I did not realize was a type of stem parasite. 

The berries of the mistletoe attract birds, which then transfer them to new hosts either when they clean their beaks against another tree or shrub, or thru their feces.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe, or http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plnov99.htm for more juicy details about the species.

With this in mind, I am rethink

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One of my favorite web sites, NewPages, has begun compiling a list of poets and writers who have blogs.

http://www.newpages.com/blogs/writers-blogs.htm#G

If you don't know NewPages, you better acquaint yourself with them. I'm addicted to their reviews of litmags, books, and online journals. And their blog is extremely useful as well, posting calls for submissions, info about new publications, and a wealth of lit news.

Check 'em out!

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One last quote that struck me as I read the rest of Poets on Poetry, a collection of essays edited by Howard Nemerov:

William Jay Smith: I have always believed in Jean Cocteau's dictum that the artist should find out what he can do and then do something else. The poet should always be venturing, trying out new things. One doesn't want experimentation for its own sake, the sense of the freakish doctor surrounded by retorts in the laboratory, but one does want the poet who is willing time after tim

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It's been a while since I reported on some chapbook news but just this week I received word of three poet-friends with chapbooks forthcoming:

* Moira Egan's Bar Napkin Sonnets has won The Ledge 2008 Chapbook Competition and will be published later this year. And she has more good news to report here.

* Cliff Bernier's chapbook, Earth Suites, has been accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press, which will announce its publication date soon.

* Cheryl Snell reports that her chapbook, Prisoner's

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