Acknowledgements

These poems, some in different versions, have appeared or are forthcoming in the following journals:

Appalachian Journal: “The Fortune Telling Book of Dreams”
Cloudbank: “Three Months”
Colorado Review: “Thrush”
Copper Nickel: “The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics” and “Antler”
Hayden’s Ferry Review: “What the Blood Does”
South Carolina Review: “Joint”
storySouth: “My Grandmother Speaks of Beauty”
Two Review: “On Rereading Leaves of Grass”

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This is the third page of my manuscript, which I sent out to another contest just today. My acknowledgement list is looking pretty good, if I do say so myself! I got my latest acceptance, from Hayden's Ferry Review, yesterday. It's a nice feeling. I wanted to note, though, that I decided to count up the number of rejections on the "No Thanks" column on the spreadsheet I use to keep track of my submitted poems: 23. Twenty-three journals have rejected my poems, some of them multiple times. These journals range from really prestigous (like Poetry, which kindly sends its "no thanks" email in about 3 days) to journals I really thought would accept my work (I'm looking at you, Stylus). The whole process is such a waiting game, so the occasional news that a poem has been accepted somewhere is a boost, and a nice surprise.

Happy Valentine's Day!

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We are doing much better this year than we were this time last year, and I am very thankful for a healthy little Valentine this year.



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Amelia, you are a precious Valentine, and I am a lucky Mama.

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can be fun to play in!