When I started Poetry Boot Camp four years ago, I didn’t realize what a community it would become for me, as well as for participants. When people began to join us from out-of-the-way places like Nicosia, Cyprus and Dede, Guam I was thrilled, and looked them up in my atlas, trying to imagine their landscapes and figure out the time difference between us. Now we have a Boot Camper who is writing her poems at the South Pole! This seems a fitting time to provide a forum so we can hear more about where people are and what they’re doing, and I’m going to start things off with this blog (dreadful word!) from three of us: Lynette Harper at the South Pole, Lisa Suhair Majaj from Nicosia, Cyprus, and me in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada. I’d love to have you check in and post your comments!
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February 6, 2007
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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 yet reached the point of becoming jaded by being a finalist! 
I’ve been a finalist in poetry contests for individual poems before, but this is the first time my book manuscript has garnered any sort of attention. So, you know what, I’m celebrating!
At least for this morning. Then I need to head over to the post office and send the manuscript out again.
Lisa
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Jaded!!??!! Never say it. There is just that moment when you’ve been a bridesmaid so many times you start thinking you’re defective and will never marry. (This is not a metaphor I’m using accidentally.)
It is a total blast to be a finalist, especially for a book, especially when your book hasn’t gotten any response yet - it puts an end to that dreadful period when you can’t figure out if everyone hates it or not.
One of my other favorite things is that I’ve gotten quite a few notes from administrators and interns to say that they really like my ms., even when it hasn’t won, and that makes me feel as though I’m doing my job - writing things that are meaningful to ordinary people.
Tell us more about Anhinga Press - why do you like them so much? I don’t know anything about them.
xo Molly
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