Second Best of the Net Nomination

Northville Review has nominated my humorous flash, "The Death of the Book," for the 2009 Best of the Net anthology.

Best of the Net

Coop Renner, the great editor of elimae, has nominated my poem "Sal's Place," which appeared in the February 2009 issue of his journal, for the Best of the Net volume published annually by Sundress Press.

Lovesick

My poetry book Lovesick has been published! Can't believe it! Instructor at Pepperdine U has even assigned it.Unreal. See it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Lovesick-Howie-Good/dp/0978904168/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252190216&sr=8-1

I'm delirious.

My Heart Draws a Rough Map

Blue Hour Press will bring this out in October.

Update

So Flutter Press published a mini-chap of mine, Visiting the Dead; Right Hand Pointing moved up the publication date of Still Life With Firearms to Sept. 15; and Bedouin Books delayed the publication of Ghosts of Breath till what sounds like early 2010. No word yet on when (if ever) Anomalies (FootHills Publishing) or My Heart Draws a Rough Map (Blue Hour Press) will appear. Lovesick is supposedly at the printer.

Patience isn't a virtue; it's a necessity.

Three by Three

Three short poems on hand. Don't know where to send them. They evolved weirdly -- showing up in one longer poem that I couldn't make work. I dismantled it and from the pieces grew these three. But of what quality and to what purpose? Writing is always something to do, but it isn't always something worth doing -- not if the results are trivial or inept.

Burnt-Out Case

I'm wiped. . . Too many balls in the air -- or not enough air to sustain them. . . Finished the chap for Right Hand Pointing, which we agreed to title Still Life with Firearms, after one of the later poems. . . Dale has developed wittily surreal art to accompany the text. . . It's practically ready to go now, but he's holding, per announced sked, till November. . . I'm cool with that. . . Plenty of work to do between now and then. . . But first I got to let the well refill.