excelsior!

Hey all,

Over the past few weeks, I've had news of three acceptances and have been quietly, privately, tickled.

Since I'm not especially good at either private or quiet, I thought I'd share the good tidings.

First off, two fallbackian poems, warming the engine and off leash, appeared in PRISM International, now under Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award HM / ARC Poem of the Year winner Bren Simmer's watch.

One of the nicer things about appearing in PRISM, besides it being resume fodder, is the exquisite company I get to keep: Barry Dempster, Maureen Hynes, and Tracy Hamon.

Secondly, a poem entitled To make a charm against love, composed in the narrow Charlotte Bronte room at Hawthornden Castle in June 2005 will be appearing in the Manitoba Writers' Guild silver anniversary anthology.


With my acceptance came notification of the anthology's title and its anticipated publication date (A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing, and September 2007 respectively).

Though I know this only from behind-the-scenes whisperings, apparently a few other members of my new poetry-only writing group will have also work in the anthology

(i.e. yay, both for the fact that the as-yet-unnamed group exists and for the individual members and their individual acceptances...).

Finally, a long(ish) poem from Guidelines, my manuscript-in-the-making of travel poetry, will be appearing in a special supplement to the spring issue of Prairie Fire magazine.

The supplement, entitled Home Place, "will feature new poems by established and emerging poets who live in Winnipeg. The purpose is to draw attention to Winnipeg's fine poets and also to celebrate Manitoba's new poetry prize."

The poem, entitled Wallow, is about a (waterbuffalo) bullfight I attended in Indonesia in 1999.

Though this was the last of the acceptances, the issue will be on the newsstands in April and will be launched during Manitoba Book Week.

It's amazing how long you can coast on tickled...