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It's great to hear when a poem is well-received by readers. Especially when it is a poem that was very difficult to get "just right" in my own eyes as a reader.

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When I look back, I did get a surprising amount of writing done in the 48 hours I was in Leesburg for my solo writing getaway this past weekend:

* 3 poem drafts
* revisions on 2 other drafts
* a smattering of notes for my next manuscript

Plus I finished proofreading a manuscript for a client and read practically the entire collection of essays by Stephen Dunn, Walking Light.

In addition, I did a little shopping for myself, had a makeup artist use my face as her canvas, hung out in antique stores,

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Baggu Grosgrain Guest GIVEAWAY!!!!

I can always use another carry-all. This looks good for the upcoming trips to the community pool.

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I am pleased to report that today's panel on "New Media" for the AIW Fiction Writers Seminar went very well. No one threw anything and most folks seemed very interested in what our panel had to say on the opportunities presented by new ways of thinking about getting literature out into the world and promoting it.

Reb made some great points about the importance of getting literature out into the world and not getting too hung up on who publishes it, as long as the publisher presents a good quality

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Here's what I have to say on greatness.

This week, I am not feeling too great. Sinus problems and ineffective emasculated cold medicines thanks to dopeheads.

I don't think even a great poem would make me feel as great as a cure for the common cold. That would be great. Poems don't cure colds. I totally wish they did. I have a never-ending supply right here in my house.

But I'm gonna read some poems right now and hope one might at least distract me from the twinge in my left eye and the ferret that

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Rubicon Press - chapbooks and broadsides
Authors published include Arlene Ang, Hugh Fox, and Claire Sharpe.
Accepting submissions until March 2009.

Tupelo Press - books and chapbooks
Authors with chapbooks include Barbara Tran and Joy Katz.
February 28 deadline for Snowbound Chapbook Contest.

Center for Book Arts - books and chapbooks
Authors with chapbooks include Robert Ostrom and Jesse Lee Kercheval.
December 1 deadline for Poetry Chapbook Competition.

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Meant to act as a single poem, Robert Lowell's Notebook is a series of blank verse sonnets that are by turns humorous, intellectual, lyric and clever. Sometimes all at the same time.

I was less fond of his poems addressing named individuals and found myself particularly drawn to his more lyric poems, where I thought the imagery was much stronger and the voice less pedantic.

from DAWN:

...
In this ever more enlightened room,
I wake beside the early rising sun,
sex indelible on the flowering air--

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The Conservatory Overcoat GIVEAWAY!!!!

Another fab giveaway I would love to win. I really wish I could make such cool clothes for myself!

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As many of you know, in addition to writing poetry, I've got several projects on the burners including blogs, web sites and electronic newsletters. And thanks to all this juicy experience in "new media," I've been invited to participate in a panel on... you guessed it... "New Media and Publishing Creative Writing" at the American Independent Writers Fiction Writing Seminar on February 28, 2009, at George Mason University. Here's some of the salacious details:

1:30-2:45 p.m. New Media

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I have an interview over at the 32 Poems blog! Check it out...

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