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In case you find this heartening

Received: one form rejection (on a solicited submission--and pretty speedy too)

Sent: another solicited submission

Onward!

Missed

...the PSA reading last night. Just too much to do. My sister & her boyfriend are coming next week, so everything important has to be accomplished before they arrive.

Also, if you have recently seen a play in NYC you'd recommend, holler. She's a puppeteer/actress & he's a playwright--and there's so much to choose from. Found some good candidates, but personal recs are always super. Thinking about the new Richard Foreman at the Ontological, but we will probably do a couple.

Dream

I think I read somewhere that "one" cannot read or write in dreams. This is horseshit.

Anyway, this morning I woke up from a dream in which I was revising a poem. I mentioned this to hubby.

"Do you remember the revision?"

"Yes, but the poem doesn't exist."

"Well, what was it?"

"The last line was changing from whatever it was to 'I'm going to see the Wizard.'"

I think I write better poems when I am awake.

Fickle Me Elmo

Ok, so much for the blizzard. That was useless. But somewhat pretty at times.

You know what I could really use? Some May. How 'bout some June? Gimme some sunshine there, pops.

Northeastern winters are hard on us transplants from nearer the equator.

In other news: book is in, again. Shorter, but better I think. Overflowing with gratitude for all the help. I guess there may be a final shift or two yet, but it's going to the designer any day now. As they say in those stupid approximation-of-English business meetings, our "learnings" i.e. our "takeaway": no two readers are alike. When the author is both the most generous forgiving and most critical reader of his book, he is sorely confused.

My life's soundtrack

Lots of steel guitar, for sure.

PSA Festival of New American Poets

Wednesday, March 2nd & Thursday, March 3rd 7:30 p.m.

THE PSA FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN POETS
Two evenings of ten poets each

Eric Baus, Mark Bibbins, Sherwin Bitsui, Oni Buchanan, Dan Chiasson, Joshua Corey, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Miranda Field, Cathy Park Hong, Ilya Kaminsky, Adrian Matejka, Chelsey Minnis, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Srikanth Reddy, Spencer Reece, Dorothea Tanning, and the new PSA Chapbook Fellows: K.E. Allen, Andrea Baker, Justin Goldberg, and Joshua Poteat.

$10 for both nights / $7 PSA Members and Students. $7 for one night / $5 PSA Members and Students.

Co-sponsored by JetBlue Airways and the New School Graduate Writing Program.

Tishman Auditorium
The New School
66 West 12th Street
NYC

(Dear Josh, which night are you reading?) UPDATE: Josh is tomorrow. In fact, he posted a nice little breakdown: if you can only make one night or the other, take a peek.

Also, LIT 10 will contain a special PSA feature with poems from each of these folks, so if you miss the festival, you can get a taste of it when the mag comes out in May.