Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer

I’m not sure I’ve ever had a week in which three of my poems have been published!

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See the typewriter in this picture?

It’s the subject of a new poem, “My Mother’s Olivetti,” that’s now up on Writing the Words as part of a National Poetry Month celebration.

(Fun fact: I wrote the poem in response to a themed call from another venue. From which it was rejected.)

And yes, that’s me in the photo, getting an early start on the life of a practicing writer.

But wait–there’s more! (more…)

Sunday Sentence

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Until it can be said that the lit-mag community can cover a living wage for its editors and writers, then we must admit the exploitative and exclusionary natures of our economy.

Source: Megan M. Garr, “Hold the Damn Door Open: Idealism Is No Currency,” in Literary Publishing in the Twenty-first Century (edited by Travis Kurowski, Wayne Miller, and Kevin Prufer)