Month: September 2008
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The rain it raineth every day.
The end of the 80’s, beginning of the 90’s. MTV still played music videos, and the first Gulf War was still in the future. I arrived at college and threw away my curling iron and hairspray. Just a glance through my high school yearbook would reveal how BIG an action that was. When I was […]
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Pleasures of the Quotidian.
After what has been a time of submission silence, and week of personal strangeness, this evening I received a clutch of emails from journals, and not an actual rejection among them. One acknowledged receiving my submission (sent 44 days ago), and assured me I’d hear from them again with 4-8 weeks. One apologized for the […]
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Lea Banks, All of Me: The Launch!
Tonight was the official launch of my dear friend Lea’s debut chapbook, All of Me, published by Shelburne Falls’ own Booksmyth Press, a.k.a. that one-woman phenom, Maureen Moore. (And isn’t that cover art, Daphne, by Lilliana Pereira, just amazing?) We were early, so Vincent & Lance ended up departing for the short walk home before […]
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What I’m reading:
After the long spate of fiction I zipped through this summer, I’ve been unable to get back into novels again. One of the last I read, Pocketful of Names, by Joe Coomer (which has the absolute worst cover, seriously, what was Graywolf thinking?), I loved so much. I deeply identified with Hannah, the curmudgeonly young […]
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Jonatha Brooke — “West Point”.
Because the nights are cold, because this song feels like autumn to me, because I just figured out how to do this tonight, and… because I love Jonatha Brooke.
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A Preponderance of Grief.
Not only did I get the two reviews I’d committed to writing written (one on Carol Frost, the other on Ellen Bryant Voigt), but I got them done early, a minor miracle. So they were published early. Reading them in printed form, I discovered something I hadn’t noticed in the absorption of writing — both […]
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Wandering Middle-of-the-Night Thoughts.
A week gone, textbook rush is half-way through… * It was about 3 a.m.. I was sitting up in bed against a mound of pillows, in the dark, unable to sleep due to a bout of heartburn (thank you, pregnancy!), and bad dreams (ditto!). Driving home from the store last night, I heard a Geico […]
Marie Gauthier 