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2009 Spring Queens MFA faculty readings
Someone asked me the other day about my writing life this spring/early summer, and I summed it up by saying that I’ve been spending more time hearing the written word by attending literary events than actually with the written word (although, I did push through a few drafts last month that are turning out to be good [...]
Continue reading...There goes my bank account
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Spring has sprung in North Carolina, which means that this bear is finally coming out of her den on warmer nights and socializing with others in public settings. It also means that there are actually things to do, and people therefore are planning more things to do on top of those things to [...]
Continue reading...Queens MFA Faculty Readings Start Again
Friday, January 9, 2009
I plan on a low-key weekend mostly cleaning, cooking, and killing Christmas in my apartment. But, I’ll interrupt my usual schedule on Sunday and attend the first of the three January readings by Queens University of Charlotte MFA in Creative Writing faculty. I love these events, and try to make it to all of them [...]
Continue reading...Poetry came over and said my place is a wreck.
Friday, November 7, 2008
It feels stale in my apartment. The Obama signs in the windows are getting redundant and the Halloween bowl of candy is nearly empty. The kitten was released from her post-surgery bathroom confinement last week, but I still haven’t moved all my toiletries back in. I’ve been getting dressed in limbo, a hairbrush here, a [...]
Continue reading...O B A M A !
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
North Carolina may still be undecided, but we have our next president. I’m still giddy and inarticulate, but allow me to point you to an excellent post that reads like poetry by Neiman fellow and my former Charlotte Observer colleague Tommy Tomlinson. Some highlights from him: “Obama means a dream deferred is not always a dream [...]
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- You know I’ll bust the doors down if I have to
- Eau de Toilet
- Weather Patterns
- (to be published)
- Antony and The Johnsons in Atlanta, a live review
- Enlightened
- S.O.B.
- Things that have happened & I forgot to blog about
- Queens MFA Faculty Readings Start Again
Asides 
My poem “Body Surf” was accepted for online publication by the editors over at Keyhole Magazine, a newish print and online journal out of Nashville, TN. You can read my poem online here, and check out the rest of Keyhole’s goodies here.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
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