Poetry News
It’s been ages since I logged onto this blog and it looks like I’m not the only one! But, today I have good news I wanted to share. My poetry manuscript Geographies of LIght just won the Del Sol Press poetry prize. Which means it’s finally coming out as a book. This manuscript has been a refugee for so long it’s hard to think of it as being housed. But I’m glad! Because it took so long to find a home, it grew quite large, and is now 100 pages long. I am ready to let it go and start the next manuscript.
I hope 2008 has been good for everyone. It hasn’t been the easiest year on my side of the globe, but as I age I’m finally beginning to learn to be grateful for the minutes as they tick by, one by one. It’s where we live,after all, in that infinitesimal space between clock ticks, between the in breath and the outbreath, the moment of now. I try to remind myself of this, day by day, as the sun rises and sets, my children grow taller and I grow older. Growing older is not as bad as I used to make it out to be, my bad back and bum knees notwithstanding: it means I’m still around to witness and partake of life. I’ll take that any day!
I wish all of you out there sunny days, starry nights, and endtables groaning with poetry books.
Lisa