The reading window is about to close. If you take a look at the photo, you can see how short the pencils are now but how very very SHARP.
One is really too short to write with. I’m going to need a new packet.
For those of you who have sent poems for feedback and haven’t had them returned yet, I have about 55 envelopes stacked in waiting. I don’t read them in the order they arrived. New ones are arriving faster than I can clear them.
I tackle about six envelopes a day and each one takes about an hour. Today nine new envelopes arrived.
Most popular painter is still Hopper. Most popular Greek character Icarus. Most popular word ‘heft’. Most popular window: shut!
Hurray for hardly any villanelles or sestinas. People more likely to send poems with lots of short numbered stanzas. Why do we do this again? (Don’t answer that. I blame Wallace Stevens but since that gentleman died in 1955, the practice is hardly innovative.)
Yes, am getting tired, but plugging on.
If you are planning to send work, and haven’t done so yet, please regard Saturday 26th as the very last day for posting. No last minute high jinks. There is always July, and that will be here sooner than you think.
How did it start being 2019 already? I have no idea!
How on earth do you manage to blog AND do all those crits? Don’t answer this! You’re too busy.