All this rain! Dark and chilly outside, and I'm in slow motion. Almost no motion. So much to grade this week, and all by Friday, as I promised. It's doable, but not fun. Sixty something papers/projects to process. Yikes. Wish me luck, keep me in your thoughts, send me prescription pain pills.
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I got my letter for the Brittingham Prize, regarding my manuscript. A "strong semi-finalist" again, which is good news, though it's about the tenth time this manuscript has placed, finalist or semi-, in a contest, so it's hard to muster excitement. I feel really bad about that. I should be more grateful, and in truth I am, but it's hard not to feel a little impatient. I shouldn't, though; I realize that. Something to work on.
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Continuing to work on the memoir, bit by bit. I'll post more when I have it. Thanks to everyone that enjoys it.
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Which journals annoy you the most? Why? Tell me, please.
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
4 comments:
Any journal annoys me if they don't take sim. subs.
The journals that annoy me don't take sim subs *and* take over six months to respond!
Hey, congrats on the strong status of your book--in your case it really is just a matter of time.
I've submitted there a couple times and recall some kind of annoyance.
Paul, Carolyn Forche once told me that one of her best friends made the final cut for ten years before she won. I think she was trying to prepare me for a wait:)
Close is wonderful but I am sure frustrating, the time will come. T
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