Thank you dear readers old and new for sticking with me into the new year. I am grateful for you! 2012 will bring some new things to this blog: new author interviews, more talk about books, and hopefully some more pictures. I haven’t posted many original photos in the past, but everyone likes to look. […]
I have been writing for several years now about my predicament of being both queer and rural. On one hand, I love living where I do. There is not a thirty mile commute to work in gridlock traffic. I rarely have to wait in line for more than ten minutes to buy anything. And there […]
I am starting to realize as I write edits on poems for my chapbook, that I will judged by readers on poems that I wrote a long while ago. This publishing business takes so long that our “current” work being seen by readers can be several years old. It is humbling for sure. It is […]
On Sunday, I received and email from the folks at Winged City Chapbooks (an imprint of New Sins Press) that they had selected my manuscript “The Geography of Removal” as their annual contest winner. Thrilled could be used to describe my reaction. Perhaps squeeing might be a better aural approximation. I had submitted “Geography” at the […]