Jan's comments
(member since Jul 02, 2009)
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Yes, two lovely poems, Nina!
Oh, of course I meant Nina. I was thinking "Nina" when I wrote "Pam."
Congratulations, Ruth! Pam, I loved your poem "Liner Notes" on p. 45 at http://www.poetsandartists.com/. It makes me want to listen to the radio until I fall asleep the way I did as a girl.
Congratulations on the acceptance by The Minnow, Christina. So sorry about the kidney ailment, and hope the prognosis is a favorable one. Thanks, Ruth, Christina and Nina.
Got a rejection from Sage Trail Poetry Magazine, but SoMa Literary Review is going to feature an excerpt from my fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) in their September issue.
Whoo-hoo! Congrats, Nina!
PS -- when your chapbook comes out, would you like to do a trade for a copy of my poetry chapbook, The Underwater Hospital?
Congratulations, Pamela, that's fantastic!
So sorry to hear you've been ill, Christina. Wishing you a speedy and complete recovery.
Yes, Pam, I'd probably try her again, too.
Whoo-hoo, Nina! Can't wait for the link.
Congrats, Ruth! That's great news.
Christina,I sympathize with your frustration about having your line breaks ignored. I once won a contest for which part of the prize was having my poem published by a local newspaper. When the newspaper printed it, it was printed as prose. The coordinator of the contest, a fine poet, went ballistic on the newspaper editor. Journalists sometimes just don't get it about line breaks, possibly because they have to fit a lot into a small space.
Warmly,
Jan
Hi, Christina, and welcome to the group. Thanks for the kind words about "Allendale." I really enjoyed your poems in The Buffalo News, too, regardless of screwed-up line breaks; "Lot's Wife" was my favorite.
Whoops! Of course I meant Pamela and NINA. That was weird.
Thanks, Pamela and Jan. Pamela, I really enjoyed that Stephen Vincent Benet poem on your blog. Do you have a chapbook or full-length book out?
Thanks, Ruth, for reading! Praise from you means a lot to me. Criticism always welcome, too.
The Hostovsky poems were a lot of fun, Ruth.
Pamela, I enjoyed your poems, too, although my favorite was the one about the bamboo. I did like the comparison to garnets in the other one, as Ruth did. I found the different colors of type very distracting in the first one -- I realize you probably had no control over that.Congratulations, Ruth!
I have a poem about my neighborhood in the current issue of Sage Trail Poetry Magazine at http://www.sagetrail.org/Latest_Issues/j...
Thanks, Pamela!
