So as I mentioned, the submissions game has changed somewhat since the last time I was submitting regularly. I submitted one piece to a large-circulation national magazine via their online submissions system and got it back Friday, a scant twelve days later–which is really just long enough to let me feel that someone actually read [...]
Archive for February, 2011
21 Feb
A view from the bridge
Three-day weekend! Yeah. So far it’s been ordinary weekend stuff. Some work around the house; semi-festive meals; an unexpected sleepover for the Snork Maiden that led to an unexpected night out for Stubb and me. Today, more ordinary weekend stuff: LAUNDRY, grocery shopping… I’ve promised myself a couple of hours to write. And we’d long [...]
15 Feb
Daily records
Today I taught three classes, ate lunch at my desk while supervising a student making up a test, graded a batch of quizzes–and in between these things, mailed off a submission to one magazine and the whole manuscript to a publisher, sent another magazine submission by e-mail, and composed a cover letter to an editor of another [...]
14 Feb
Three lives
I did teach some Gertrude Stein this week, though not Three Lives–some of the poems. The last time I taught “Picasso,” the students were so weirded out by it that I had us read it aloud and then made them each write a poem in the style of “Picasso,” choosing as a subject an artist [...]
