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Kitsune Books - She Returns to the Floating World

So, since my new publisher just tweeted about it, I guess I can make the news official:

Kitsune Books, a wonderful publisher down in Florida of all kinds of speculative lit, has decided to accept my Japanese-folk-tale-and-anime-themed manuscript, She Returns to the Floating World, for publication (tentative publication date - late 2011!)

I am so excited to be working with them and to have a new book on the horizon! Second book second book second book!!! Thanks to everyone who has read it for me...

secrets!

I got some good news this morning, which I can't tell you anything about until it's official. Huge tease, I know, sorry. Yay for waking up to good things in the e-mail box...

Summer Manuscript Class - Sign Up Now!

Are you trying to put together a first collection of poems, or is your book manuscript languishing in a drawer? Do you need some feedback? Are you ready to spend some time and energy getting it into shape for the fall submission deadlines?

Then sign up for my poetry manuscript summer class, eight weeks for $250, where I'll give you my feedback on your poetry book manuscript, plus you'll get feedback from your classmates (and I have some great poets signed up already.) We'll have weekly session...

Splinter Generation and Becoming the Villainess

Jessie Carty writes about needing a hero on Splinter Generation, and says nice things about Becoming the Villainess there. Thanks Jessie Carty! And Splinter Generation!

Seattle and Portland: Poetry Wonderlands

Getting ready to make the 12+ hour drive home to Northern California, I'm lugging way more books. There are new chapbooks by Dorianne Laux, "Dark Charms," and Joe Millar, "Bestiary," from the Pacific University MFA reunion last night, where I got to see Kwame Dawes, Jack Driscoll, and Pam Houston read. Yes, Kwame Dawes is as good a reader as you might think. It was wonderful to see all my former advisors - the whole faculty there are still as warm and sweet as ever - and the shiny faces of a...

Notes from the Northwest

Two spots still available for my manuscript summer camp session, so if you're interested in getting some feedback on your manuscript this summer before you send out to the contests this fall, or are just putting it together for the first time and need some guidance, this is a great opportunity to let me know! I'll be doing full manuscript critiques, and the other members of the class will be sharing their own work and their feedback as well. I'm hoping to have a place where we can talk about ...

Who's Your City: Deciding Where to Live - Poet's Edition

I've been reading this interesting book called Who's Your City, by the guy who wrote that "Rise of the Creative Class" book back in the nineties. Who's Your City has a kind of anti-"the world is flat" thesis. It makes the argument that where you live is one of the most important decisions you can make, that it affects your life in myriad ways, and that most people don't give where they live enough thought. It offers some ideas and information like: B types like small towns, A types like big c...

What is the Role of Intelligence in Poetry?

A few days ago, I got a letter from a publisher, a publisher I respect and like, one of those contest letters about all the manuscripts they received this year, what they thought of them, yadda yadda.

I had a hard time getting past a line or two in the middle of the two page letter about intelligence in poetry. "As for intelligence-of course we assume that a poet is intelligent. And she should be. If not, no hope for anything beyong intelligence. But the person we really want to be...

Summer Online Manuscript Workshop Special

Hey guys! I've been doing online one-on-one poetry consulting (along with my National MFA program teaching) for some years now, but I want to try something new this summer, more fun, more interactive. Kind of like summer camp for your languishing poetry book manuscript!

This is something I've been wanting to try out for some time. I'd like to set up an online poetry manuscript workshop, using e-mail and a private blog, for about five poets. I'd do my usual manuscript consulting, exercises, and...

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Empathy, Poetry, Summer Plans

Hey everyone! Since we went on our big weekend last week (San Fran - Fourteen Hills reading/launch party, the de Young art museum's Impressionism show, many galleries, a teensy bit of shopping, and the Ferry Building Market) we're just relaxing this weekend - well, I'm mostly grading the chapbooks and papers of my class and two thesis papers and aesthetic statements, but besides that, relaxing. California's been shaking and storming this spring - we barely got a sunny day last week - but this...