The Blue Hour

Summertime and the livin' ain't easy. No classes, but I have several writing projects running simultaneously. There's the scholarly book for McFarland, Ethics and Entertainment, which is near completion -- finally, after two years. And, of course, there's Lovesick. But I have three (maybe four) chapbooks in process as well. The Blue House Press has accepted the prose poem series Heartless as an e-book, but wants a few edits, which I've agreed to, perhaps stupidly, because I haven't seen yet what specific edits they want. FootHills Publishing has taken Anomalies -- approximately 25 new poems. Bedouin Books is still supposed to bring out Ghosts of Breath -- it looks like in the fall. And Right Hand Pointing has invited me to do another e-chap, which I've begun writing poems for (I need at least 10). I'm also going to be poetry editor of issue #29 of RHP, but that's another story.

Lovesick

Read galleys for "Lovesick." The book will come in at about 150 pages. It's not everything I ever published, but it's a lot of what I've published over the last three years. Btw, I just discovered while surfing the Web late at night that the title poem was named one of the 50 best poems on the Web -- whether for the past year or forever, who knows. But pretty cool either way.

Found Poem

Found poetry is surprisingly popular, with sites and issues specifically devoted to it. I had one published today here:

http://www.foundpoetry.org/blog/2009/05/a-return-to-normal/

Found poetry can be good to get you going when you're stuck creatively. It's writing, but with someone else's words.

Anomalies 2

As things now stand, it'll be an e-chap, published next summer. Meanwhile, I'm working on a series of prose poems. Up to 12 so far. Under the working title, PIECES OF MY HEART. Some have just been accepted by Catalonian Review.

Anomalies

The fabulous Dale Wisely at Right Hand Pointing has accepted my latest chap, Anomalies, for publication. It's unclear at this point whether it'll be an e-chap -- Dale previously published my e-chap Police and Questions -- or a print job. Stay tuned.

The Litter Box

I had two poems published today in The Litter Box, which is here: http://www.litterboxmagazine.com/2fictiongood.html

The Legendary published two of my poems today, including one created from students' comments on a class blog. The poems are here:

http://www.downdirtyword.com/poetrypage.html