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I’ve always wondered: what’s the impetus for submitting poems to indiviudal poem contests at lit mags? Since my poor grad school days, I’ve had it sort of burned into my psyche not to submit to these, but to submit to the magazine on its own (and without a fee). I also had a caveat to [...]
Things Claire has said lately:
“Monkeys that wear dresses are beautiful. Like rainbows.”
“When I grow up, I want to be a dinosaur artist.”
“When we get sick, all our bones slide down our bodies and out our feet.” Mom: “Then how do we get better?” Claire: “our bones go back in our feed and slide up our [...]
A poem a day is over, and I have to say, I’m ready to take a little break. Little. I really want to go back and look again at the days of the week epistolaries, and fine-tune a lot of these poems from this month. I feel like they do go with the poems from [...]
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