http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog Poets from Nevada City, Cyprus and the South Pole converse Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:06:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=117 Hi folks, It's been two years since I last logged on to read this blog, and Boot Camped. It seems noone has posted for quite a while. Am I missing something? Glad to be back, Joan http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=116 It's 2008 in Cyprus. Two hours and 23 minutes into 2008, to be exact. I suppose that for those of you in the US, if you happen to be reading this, you still have a few hours to go before you crack that champagne or whatever you do for new ... http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=114 This is just after a reading I did there on Tuesday, standing with Professor Sally Harvey. Good audience of students and faculty. Batting practice outside with aluminum bats that sounded to me like rigging hitting a mast (also aluminum, I guess). It was a nice day. http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=113 Well, after five rehearsals and several weeks of practicing, I got up on stage Wednesday night (Valentine's Day), and moaned. I moaned in 18 different ways. Luckily, our director, Sheila O'Connor, had the bright idea of including all the other cast-members in the moaning, so probably no one in the ... http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=107 A little late- but sent with good juju... After 13 glorious months of darkness, no fresh fruit, two minute showers two times a week, and mild memory loss I finally left the South Pole on November 10th. Then I hid out in Christchurch, New Zealand trying valiantly not to get run ... http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=105 I just found out that I"m a finalist in the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, out of California State University, Fresno. Ok, so I didn't win. And I dearly would have liked to (especially as I would love to be published by Anhinga Press.) But, unlike Molly, I have not ... http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=103 http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=104 Congratulations, Molly, on winning that prize!!! Kudos to you! Sorry I've been lost in cyberspace for so long. I haven't had much to report: one illness after another has felled either me or members of my family for months on end, and although I've been trying really hard to find something ... http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=102 I just won the Dogwood Prize from the University of Fairfield in CT. I'm thrilled, needless to say, and delighted that the judge was Marilyn Nelson, someone I've admired from afar for a long time (not least because she teaches now and then at West Point). They gave the poem ... http://velocity7.com/poetrybootcampblog/?p=101