Joan Houlihan has won The Green Rose Prize for her manuscript Cincture. Which is cool. Many sincere congratulations to Joan. New Issues is a great press and they'll do a fine job with her book.
But, damn it all, my manuscript was in that pile with hers. Over the last two years, its pulled in several finalist spots in great competitions: the Brittingham; the Beatrice Hawley; the Levis Prize; and so on and so forth. Very gratifying each time.
But, but, but....
Nothing to do but keep at it.
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Some good news: Passages North took two poems today, "Hunger" and "The Numbers Are Not In."
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And more: baseball is back. Despite its current tarnish, I can't help but be encouraged. I watched a bit of a Yankees spring training game today while writing, revising, working on my manuscript.
I'm beginning to feel like an actual poet again.
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.
7 comments:
Paul:
Best of luck with your manuscript.
I, too, am looking forward to baseball season restarting. It means SPRING! And, hoepfully, the Mariners won't suck this year. LOL
--Peter
Oops. Sorry. What I meant to say is I sympathize with your disappointment. But hang in there with Elba and Johnny Ques
It is Joan. Oops. I think their website did actually say Jean, but it's correct now. I'll fix it.
And thanks to you both, Peter and Shanna.
Oh god... how have I missed the fact that you're a baseball fan?! I come from a long line of them. I'm one myself. In recovery. Maybe we can check out the local fare together some time this summer?
Annette (very giddy now)
For keeping in check with our athletic department, meaning reporting athletes' absences, tardies, grades (which is more of a hassle than it may sound), athletics gave me two baseball season passes (worth a whopping $104 each), which was neat-o.
Melissa
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