Current location:	dining room table
Entry tags:	poetry

[Subject line from Sandra Simonds's Red Wand, which a friend introduced me to yesterday.]

How is it May already? And yet, of course it is May already. Yesterday was apparently clear-the-decks day for a number of literary editors -- by midnight, I'd been notified that three pieces will appear in unFold's Garden Show and received rejections from three markets. (I also hit "send" on a submission a few hours before the reading window closed, go me!)

My book is still on Amazon UK's Top 100 list for Asian American poetry, and it's received a number of thoughtful (and, thankfully, positive!) reviews from readers I haven't (yet) met. In reverse order of appearance:

Christine Klocek-Lim
David Allan Barker
Renee Emerson
Heather Kamins
Kristine Ong Muslim

My own purchases included:

* Kristine Ong Muslim, We Bury the Landscape
* John Brehm, Help is on the Way (I'm almost done with this one; it's largely set in NYC and Japan; its major themes include the messiness of life as a aging, non-superstar poet, and the untimely death of his nephew in spite of Brehm's donation of part of his liver...)
* Lisa Dordal, Commemoration (pre-order)
* Dick Barnes, A Word Like Fire

As part of the big, beautiful and bountiful Couplets tour, I was involved with (or featured in) the following:

April 30: videos of me reading some poems at the Nashville Public Library

April 20: ysabetwordsmith on Revision in Science Fiction Poetry (hosted at this here blog)

April 16: first and final draft of "Proportions," at Heather Kamins's blog

April 13: haiga: a powder brush, at Joanne Merriam's blog

April 10: poems by Christina Nguyen (guest post at this here blog)

April 4: Couplets Blog Tour: Carol Berg Hosts Peg Duthie (at Ophelia Unraveling)

April 1: Kristine Ong Muslim on Arlene Ang's "Living Without Water" (guest post at this here blog)

Also:

7x20 tweeted a piece on April 6

Rose Lemberg mentions that The Moment of Change has already received a very positive review. (The anthology will be released later this month.)

And now I'm going to head offline for the rest of the week. Wishing you all sustenance and sweetness (if desired, in the measures you desire):