I’ve just learned that Main Street Rag is going to publish my full-length poetry book, Hold Still, later this year. I’m surprised and delighted that it’s been picked up so quickly. I’ll pass along its release date and other details when I know them.
Read one of my new poems, “Not That Kind of Girl,” in the debut issue of the Dressing Room Poetry Journal.
My poem “The Dressmaker’s Widower” was a finalist for the 2012 William Stafford Award for Poetry and will be published in Rosebud. I have a villanelle and sonnet in the current issue of Mezzo Cammin and a poem in LILIPOH: The Spirit in Life. My poem “Platitudes” was a finalist for the 2012 Dogwood Poetry Award and was published in Dogwood. I have new work appearing soon in South Florida’s Tigertail 10th anniversary anthology Sun-Struck Matches as well as the anthologies The Art of Survival and The Cancer Poetry Project 2.
But wait … there’s more. Read my story about a group of strong, funny women in Orlando magazine at Grown Ass Woman Brigade.
I will read my poems at the Woman’s Club of Winter Park on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 2 p.m. A question-and-answer session will follow. The club is at 419 S. Interlachen Ave. across from Rollins College.
I was pleased to learn that writer Meg Johnson was “swept away” by my book Beauty Lessons when asked about her favorite books in an interview. I’m not speaking to an empty room! Meg is a poetry editor of Rubbertop Review and editor of the upcoming Dressing Room Poetry Journal. She is a poet, dancer and blogger.
