While a heat wave hits the rest of the US, Seattle’s been cold and rainy for a week – I actually went out and snapped these two pictures from my garden in the rain!Īlong with the rain, I’ve caught some nasty upper respiratory virus thing – sore throat, aches, stuffiness – which has left me totally wiped out. Summer Rain, Summer Virus, Summer Downtime

Well, she’s going to be impossible to live with, now that she’s “poetry-famous.” I did tell her “poetry-famous” is not the same as “Instagram-famous” or “real-famous.” But cats don’t always get those kinds of nuances. Remember how I posted last time about having poems in the new issue of Prairie Schooner? And I posted a picture of kitten Sylvia holding the issue? Well, guess who was the cover girl of the latest Prairie Schooner e-newsletter? Now someone’s poetry-famous! Jackson for this new review of PR for Poets at the Handy Uncapped Pen, which is a blog with great resources for disabled and neurologically divergent writers. A New Review of PR for Poets at the Handy Uncapped Pen It’s a great new grouping of poems, including poems by friends of mine like Jason McCall, Sally Rosen Kindred and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

Thank you to Tinderbox Poetry Journal, its new issue has two new poems from me, the apocalyptic When It All Falls Apart and Almost April, the story of how I was almost named April and instead was named after Joan of Arc or Jeanne d’Arc.

Tinderbox poetry journal