One of my poems has been selected for publication in Cram Volume 9: Poetry In The First, better known as Cram 9. Selected for publication was my poem titled ‘Submission’. I was preparing a letter with questions I had about submitting poetry to a journal. Some of the guidelines for publication seemed unclear to me. Here is an example…and I wonder how you would react to knowing that a journal gives notice that they do not respond to entries unless they plan to publish your poetry. I wanted to be clear with other venues I submit to because some do not accept simultaneous submissions. Anyway, instead of sending off my letter to clarify the submission policy, I wrote a poem, and submitted it elsewhere, to Cram 9!

Advance copies of Cram 9 will be given away, FREE, to people attending The Printers’ Ball at Columbia College, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The official release party and reading will be on Sat. Aug 14, 7 PM at Cafe Ballou, 939 N. Western Ave. Chicago. I’ll be attending a Perseid Meteor Shower Party in rural VT that eve and will not be able to participate in the reading…darn!

Be sure to check out either of these literary events.

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So you may ask, what’s taking so long to rebuild this blog? Well, with a little help from my son, I got my blog up and running again. And then I was so happy with the new features of WordPress, that I just went on and on changing this and that…until I got spammed with the ‘Silence is Golden’ blog configuration spam. Short story is that my blog went blank and the shortest path without a reliable backup, was to rebuild …and that is still in progress. Many old posts and new ones are yet to be ported over….again

What’s the take home message here. Friends should not let friends run old blog sites. It’s much better to upgrade now and then.

Says my kid after experiencing yet another bike accident.

But he’s ok. He got connected with a VR hand replacement, and is learning how to use it.

Well, maybe he’ll be better after this cast comes off

took a Miksang contemplative class at the Shambhala Center in Burlington VT and now can ’see’ things a bit more perceptively. Miksang photography sometimes feels like poetry which is difficult to describe as an activity, but fun and heart opening to do.