Three of my poems are up at The Dead Mule of Southern Literature in their Summer Sabbatical Issue. Do read my “Southern Legitimacy Statement” and click through to the poems.
Thanks, Helen.
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The new issue of Press 1 has been released. My poems Memento Mori and Tattoo are included in this issue.
Thanks to Arlene Ang and the editors!
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I am nocturnal.
I worked all night and much of the morning on Orphans of Dark and Rain and Eating the Heart First manuscripts–tuning, cutting, and tweaking whatever needed tweaks. I took a break to cook breakfast for my husband before he left for work. Yes, he has to work today–Mother’s Day, a Sunday…but maybe only half a day. (I cooked scrambled eggs with andouille sausage and colby cheese.)
The past hour has been spent researching small presses. Poets & Writers has a great database. If anyone has any suggestions I am all eyes. I will be in this research phase for a time.
It’s break time now for me. I want too much right now and what I want I can’t have immediately. I must go through the process of researching, submitting, and waiting. I need a break to meditate a bit on the next steps, and to accept that I can do this. Sorry if I am oblique. I’m really talking to myself, aren’t I?
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My father was an avid fisherman and owned a boat business for many years. I remember him putting two baited hooks on his fishing line at once to increase his chances at catching fish. So, I am working on two poetry manuscripts.
He’s no longer with us but is always inspiring me.
I went back to my unpublished poetry manuscript Garbage Woman for another look and while working on it I thought the section title “Orphans of Dark and Rain” should be its own chapbook. (I have a poem and this blog is titled Orphans of Dark and Rain too.) So I removed the poems from GW and started pulling together poems that fit the respective titles’ “ambiance.”
Oh yes, I renamed the remnants of GW. The new title is Eating the Heart First which is actually a title I wanted to use years ago as a first chapbook or book, and is a poem of mine which can be read here:
Eating the Heart First
http://www.eclectica.org/v12n1/martin.html
I don’t think I failed at publishing GW. I’m glad I put together a manuscript and sent it to contests. I loved the process, the excitement of working on a “book” and I am grateful that it got me through a tough time when my father died. But I’m eager to hold a book or books in my hands and chapbooks are the way for me to go, I believe. I will have a better chance with two chapbook-length manuscripts.
So far I have 38 poems I am working with for Eating the Heart First 16 of which have been published and 25 poems (6 of which have been published, but many are currently under submission) for Orphans of Dark and Rain.
This feels right to me and I can’t wait to go deeper into the process.
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I am working on two manuscripts. I went back to Garbage Woman to reshape it and add new material, and while working on it I thought the section title Orphans Of Dark and Rain could be its own chapbook. Many of my newest writings fit thematically. So I think I will end up with two chapbooks.
This feels right to me and I can’t wait to go deeper into the process. And I am tending toward renaming Garbage Woman, “Eating the Heart First“
Off to bed to rest for a full agenda tomorrow.
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I am taking me in a whole new, freeing direction metaphorically speaking.
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I received a great compliment from my 13 year old daughter today when she said in reference to herself: “Well my mom’s a poet.” And then she rattled off a few titles of my poems that she particularly likes. I was made immensely happy—maybe for life.
I have poems coming up in “Press 1″ in May. I’m so thrilled that “Memento Mori” and “Tattoo” have a home; and Press 1 is an impressive mag. Great thanks to editor Arlene Ang and her co-editors!
Press 1
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/
I participated a bit in the “30 Poems/Drafts in 30 Days” National Poetry Writing Month Challenge. I missed several days but I am not upset about it. I stayed on task for the most part and I wrought a few poems out of the drafts. A handful will be sent tomorrow to a literary magazine, maybe just after midnight–since their reading period is exclusively the months of May and October. I’ll let the world know how that goes if it goes in my favor. If not I probably won’t make a peep.
I can’t believe it’s almost the weekend. I am hoping this weekend to tackle most of the Must-Dos. Then I can breathe awhile…I wish you good breathing too.
Don’t you love to breathe?
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I have a poem up at Clean Sheets Erotica Magazine: “What is Required in the Forever.” Link is to the right of this page under Clare’s Publications–
Please note the site contains adult content.
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http://lanawiggins.wordpress.com/
The link above directs you to my good friend and wonderful poet Lana Maht Wiggins’ blog.
Lana and I read at Casa Azul last week and are considering some future collaborations poetry-wise! Please check her page out and comment. Tell others who you think might be interested. More info can be found at her page. She is an astonishingly gifted poet, a great woman and friend.
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I will be reading poems to college students at University of Louisiana at Lafayette in a creative writing class. I’m ready. And later, perhaps, $2 fish (tilapia) tacos.
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