Thursday, June 19, 2014

For your health...

Black Box Poetry Prize:
http://www.rescuepress.co/submissions/

WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS SOONER???  Something to light a fire under my ass.  With the deadline coming in hot at the end of June, a manuscript submission would probably kill me.  Perhaps next year, though, I will have to ask around about these sorts of contests.  A person should probably not get themselves into these situations without knowing jack about the publishing house.

But Joe just told me that chapbooks, unlike manuscripts, usually run 20-40 pages which could be manageable in the next two months or so, and could be good to focus on for grad applications, my health, etc.  But what is a chapbook!? haha.  Just another thingy to look up for reference.  Chapter book?  Chapstick book?  Or is "chap" in reference to your buddy like "jolly good, ol' chap"?  Gotta be that one.

Today, I slept all day in Amsterdam.  To the point where my friend jostled me awake and asked if I was okay.  She also called me "honey" and looked at me with a face which meant she was really concerned.  After the London debacle, though, I didn't care, I slept and slept and slept and ate those European strawberries that taste like gold and then slept some more, because why the hell not, really.  Today was already a successful day because of finding the Romanticism books at Amsterdam University.  Duncan Wu just follows me wherever I am and I'm like, alright already I get the picture, but I'll relent and dig in, lean in, as everyone is saying nowadays, probably in reference to some dumb TED talk.  But lean in, I will, may as well with this time, sink my teeth in, take a bite, chew the fat, gnaw it down, gnash it up, to the bone, suck each finger, have a nap.

Anyway, whatever, I'm gonna try to write some poetry.

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