Well, it's been a little while again, despite the resolution to post here more frequently. (Maybe I should just stop making resolutions -- err, I mean post more often ;)
But I've been keeping busy with a bunch of stuff, some of it writing-related. I'm finishing up the final revision draft of my chapbook and hope to send it out at the end of the week.
And then I'll probably take a hiatus from poetry for at least a few weeks, maybe a month, so I don't get that awful feeling of, oh, if only this new one could have gone in there; it's oh-so-much better than the others -- a feeling that often turns out not to be true, fortunately. No poem seems quite as perfect as it did the first moment after it was written. A workshop instructor once gave the wise advice that there should be a cooling-off period, at least a counting-to-10 period before sending a composition that still has that "new poem smell" off to a journal (imagery mine). Its imperfections will become apparent enough within 24 hours.
And I answered some editorial questions on behalf of Melusine for the "Six Questions For" blog, if you want to check it out here.
Well, until next month, I guess... enjoy the rest of your summer. It is too dang hot lately, but then winter is too dang cold. That's the way here in the Mid-Atlantic, anyway. At least there is September coming, and eventually another May...
