Monday, February 12, 2007

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Bought This Clumsy Living, Bob Hicok's new book this weekend. I liked his thank you to those who looked over the manuscript: "you fools." I'm going to steal that.

Good book, of course. Bob makes it look easy.

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C. Dale recently posted about not bothering to send in poems for a Pushcart nomination. I understand that, to an extent. I just got two nominations in the mail, the nominations from previous winners, and though I've been coming up empty for six years now, I'll keep sending in.

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Listening to Late Registration by Kanye West. Before that? Regina Spektor.

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New poem this weekend. The first on the mac. Didn't feel any different.

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Valentine's Day.

3 comments:

C. Dale said...

Paul,

If you want to send in three poems for me, that would be great. My not sending is purely a time issue. I am swamped beyond belief and don't have the time to go find the journals, photocopy poems, mail it off, etc. It just came at a really bad time.

Congrats on the nomination. You should enter. You are a better poet than me and have a better chance.

Paul said...

I didn't mean to call you out or anything, C. Dale; I hope it didn't seem like that. If so, I'm sorry. I just meant that I understood: I did the same thing last year -- I just couldn't get it together.

C. Dale said...

No Paul, I didn't take it that way. I am just clarifying here. I have been questioned about that statement of mine several times on and offline. I wanted to make clear why I am not entering. I cannot get it together in time.