Plath

I just got an acceptance email from Court Green to publish my poem, "With Love From Betty Grable" for their Issue 5 Dossier on Sylvia Plath. For more information on their Issue 5 dossier, go here.

WITS About Me

I got a call from Houston's WITS (Writers In The Schools) program today asking for an interview for this Thursday at 11AM. I'm so excited! WITS is an awesome non-profit community program that places writers in a year-long classroom position to teach writing and the arts to young kids. Learn more here.

Wish me luck!

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I also found out today that the ever-amazing Brigit Pegeen Kelly will be my workshop leader @ Bread Loaf! Exciting!

Quick

I haven't written anything new, lately, which kind of bums me out. It's easy to brush off with "I've been busy," but when I think back over the past few weeks, I haven't been that busy. I've had friends come in and out of town. I'm planning trips in my head: Paris next summer, New York & Bread Loaf (VT) next month. The in-laws are stopping by tomorrow (after Jeff & I meet up with my parents @ the local farmer's market & then to lunch), my husband's sister had surgery recently and Jeff & I took over dinner. I've been summer cleaning, planning, MySpacing, Facebooking, PLR work, doing a ridiculous amount of nothing in particular. Every time I try to set time ahead to write, I end up calling a friend, doing laundry, answering email, picking up and putting down a book. Summer blahs? Maybe.

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Have you seen this amazing poetry site? It's improv poetry meets the digital age. The site features a "playback" function that lets you watch the poems unfold as they were written and revised. There's a recent article in Poets & Writers about the site, where you can see poets such as Paul Muldoon, Matthew Zapruder, Carol Muske-Dukes, Kevin Young, Major Jackson, Robert Pinsky, Jeffrey McDaniel, Julianna Baggott, and more compose/revise poems on random subjects such as Kurt Cobain, art, and decapitation. I highly recommend it.

Once, Twice, Three Times a Daily

Congratulations to our three contributors for their recent appearance on Verse Daily:

Kim Addonizio, "Poem for the New Year"
Paul Guest, "Seduction with Entropy"
Betsy Wheeler, "Non-Sonnet For Sleeping Birds"

All poems are from the Spring 2007 issue of Pebble Lake Review.

France!

I've been rather MIA because. . .Jeff & I are planning our big summer ('08) trip to France! I'm so excited & have been brushing up on my French. We're going in early July for two weeks & will spend one of the weeks in Paris. We're staying in this apartment:

The apartment is adjacent to the Lourve and is right down the street from the Seine & within easy walking distance of the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Latin Quarter, the Orsay Museum and Pompidou Centre.

After Paris, we're headed down to Burgundy for a week, which is in central France (i.e. the wine country). We'll be staying here (all to ourselves!):

We will be near a river where you can rent bicycles, canoes, and those cool 2-person paddle-boats. There are many abbeys, cathedrals, and chateaux nearby, and one local abbey even dates back to right around 800! Needless to say, we're very excited and can't wait for next summer to come fast enough!

As for now, I'm off to New York on Aug. 11 to visit some friends and then to Bread Loaf (VT) on August 15-26. I've never been to New York before (!) or Paris for that matter, so I'm thrilled.

Any sites I must see (besides the obvious)?

Hicok

My friend (& the assistant editor of Pebble Lake Review) Matt Siegel is on the Poetry Daily prose feature of the week, "Is a Pepper Steak a Steak Made of Pepper?: An Interview with Bob Hicok." Go read it.