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Believing the Fairy Tale – Jobs After the MFA

There have been a LOT of articles around lately about the difficulty of acquiring work after your MFA. As if those students needed more to panic about, what with student loan debt, record high unemployment rates, shrinking tenure job pools, etc. Here is a link to just one of them from the Chronicle of Higher […]

Serum Sickness, Good News and Bad News, When to Close the Screen

So, the last few days have been a bit of a daze, as I had a reaction – specifically, a kind of reaction called “serum sickness,” to the Xolair shot, which sounds wonderfully poetic, but you know, comes with things like a high fever, prickly rashes on your face that make you look like you […]

Are you Burned Out? Or Just Tired?

Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between mental, emotional, and physical states, and I’ve found this to be particularly true of poets. If we let ourselves go too long without sleep, or we (ahem) have been suffering from some kind of upper respiratory crap for a month or so, or we’ve just been pushing […]

Elgin Award Winners and Book Soundtracks

Hey, a little good news that I had to post – Unexplained Fevers won second place in this year’s Elgin Awards for full-length poetry books! Here’s a list of all the Elgin Award Winners: http://sfpoetry.com/el/14elgin.html Thanks to all the Sci-Fi Poetry Association members who voted! (And for those of you who didn’t know, yes, there is […]

The Poet Does an Art Walk – Some Poetry and Visual Art Collaboration News

All poetry book marketing talk and no fun make this blog too dull, right? So, onto a post on art for poets! First of all, speaking of poet and artist collaborations: If you live in Redmond, be sure to come by this Friday afternoon between 5:30 and 7 PM for the VALA Voices in the Corridor […]

A Writer’s Ambition – What Kind Do You Have?

A Writer’s Ambition – What Kind Do You Have? This is a fair question to ask yourself, and me, after two straight posts about book promotion and sales. Why even write about book sales and promotion? Why is that a worthwhile thing for an artist to think about? What kind of ambition do you have […]

The Magic Formula for Poetry Book Sales

The Magic Formula for Poetry Book Sales So, after the somewhat discouraging information in the last blog post, let’s talk about something slightly more positive – the magic formula for poetry book sales! And a quick apology – it turns out the “contact” and book purchase forms on my web site have not been working […]

What’s Expected of a Poet? About Poetry Book Promotion, what kind of sales numbers to expect, and how much promo is enough?

On Facebook today, Rattle editor and poet Tim Green posted the following: “In five years, Red Hen Press has sold 105 copies of my book. This doesn’t include my own copies that I’ve sold at readings, around 200, but still—105 copies, despite the fact that it’s a fairly good book, and that I have a […]

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Rumpus Reviews, an interview, and a perfume anthology

Sorry to have been absent – lots of boring wrestling of my crazy autoimmune problems this last couple of weeks, plus, another of my former homes in California (this time, the Napa apartment-rental one) struck by a natural disaster, this time earthquake.  For the record, that’s: all the places I lived in California have now […]

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Elgin Award Voting, Poetry on Buses, and Summer Virus Attack With Reading Suggestions

So, I had a little good news today, which was my poem “Whispers of Home: Redmond” will be featured with the 4Culture Poetry on Buses 2014-2015 project web site, which is pretty cool. Somehow I’ve become a civic poet! I also want to thank Diane Severson for her kind words featuring my little book, Unexplained Fevers, […]

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