archives for Friday 25 July 2008
best. rejection letter. ever.
Friday 25 July 2008 | someone left a cookie
I want to write Ms. Editorial Assistant back and wail, But where else do I send this darn thing?! I can’t imagine. I could only ever see it as their book, with my (flawed) inner eyes, but they’re spoken for until 2011. There are 101 of these freaky grief poems; half-Propertius, half-Trilogy, half-Peter Dale Scott [...]
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friday refrains · inevitably, kay ryan
Friday 25 July 2008 | I like a cookie
She and a friend had left California on a 4,000-mile cross-country bicycle trip, which would give her time to think about whether to devote herself to poetry as a vocation. She had been writing for more than 10 years, ever since her father’s death when she was 19. Yet in the preceding few months, as [...]
