It's embarrassing to do two self-promoting posts in a single day, but on the other hand, let's get it over with.
Vinyl Poetry Issue 3 is up and running. It includes some beautiful work by Ocean Vuong, Anna Journey, Jehanne Dubrow and many more (including four poems by me.)
One thing that attracted me to Vinyl Poetry is its interesting submissions policy. Most of the poems it publishes are solicited, but if you want to submit anyway, you send them links to your work online at other journals, and if they are interested, they will contact you to see new work.
Wave Books is a book publisher that used to have a similar policy, in which you sent them your latest book and they kept it on their bookshelves for a year. They'd contact you if they wanted to see new work. Recently it seems that they are closed to submissions, but I thought it was an interesting way to go (and they say to stay tuned for updated information concerning submissions.)
Wave Books also has an interesting section on their website devoted to erasures, which is a recent interest of mine (see an earlier post on February 13). You can make an erasure online using texts they've prepared, and you can also access a list of erasure poetry books.
Anyway, back to Vinyl, I sent them links to my online poems after a poet whose work I love appeared in their second issue, and they did contact me. So give it a try.
Check it out if you are so inclined.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Insomniac in Japan
For people living in Japan, I'd like to offer another way to buy my recent book The Insomniac's Weather Report. It is still available at Amazon Japan for 1365 yen, but you can also buy it directly from me for 1300 yen (which includes shipping).
If you are interested in buying from me, I'd be happy to sign and/or inscribe the book, if requested.
Here's what to do if you are interested:
1) Click on "View my complete profile" on the right side of this page.
2) In my profile, under my picture, it says Contact. Click on "email" to send me an email.
3) In your email, including the following information:
Your name, email address, and physical address
Whether you want your copy signed
Whether you want your copy inscribed (as in, To So-and-so, and a personal message or not)
4) I will email you back with my postal account information.
5) Email me once you have made a deposit to my postal account, and I will put the book in the mail to you.
This offer is ONLY AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE LIVING IN JAPAN, for now.
Obviously it is simpler to order for Amazon Japan, but I just wanted to offer another option.
Thanks.
If you are interested in buying from me, I'd be happy to sign and/or inscribe the book, if requested.
Here's what to do if you are interested:
1) Click on "View my complete profile" on the right side of this page.
2) In my profile, under my picture, it says Contact. Click on "email" to send me an email.
3) In your email, including the following information:
Your name, email address, and physical address
Whether you want your copy signed
Whether you want your copy inscribed (as in, To So-and-so, and a personal message or not)
4) I will email you back with my postal account information.
5) Email me once you have made a deposit to my postal account, and I will put the book in the mail to you.
This offer is ONLY AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE LIVING IN JAPAN, for now.
Obviously it is simpler to order for Amazon Japan, but I just wanted to offer another option.
Thanks.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
A New Way to Cook the Books
UPDATE ON MAY 20th
Scroll down to see my original post about the 32 Poems blog Recipes for Poets project below. Today I am updating my blog to include my recipe. I had intended to post a crockpot recipe, but in the warmer weather we have been enjoying recently, I don't feel like using a crockpot. So instead I am posting a delicious, health and quick fish recipe below. Enjoy!
Foil-baked Mackerel
Serves 4
4 mackerel fillets (use Atlantic or Chub mackerel to avoid high mercury levels; do NOT use King, Spanish or Gulf mackerel for the same reason)
black pepper
vegetables of your choice: thinly sliced onions, thinly sliced green peppers, shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, cherry tomatoes halved, broccoli florets, etc.
2 tablespoons olive oil
lemon juice or ponzu sauce
1. Prepare four squares of aluminum foil, about 8 or 10 inches per side. Place one fish fillet in the center of each square of foil, skin-side down if there is skin. Sprinkle fish with pepper to taste. Drizzle each fillet with 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil.
2. Arrange vegetables of choice on top of the fish. (I let my kids select their own vegetables for their personal packets.)
3. Fold the ends of the foil up until you have a closed package with the folds on the top.
4. Place the foil packages (folds up) in a fry pan (do not grease or oil the pan). For 12 - 15 minutes, heat the fish packages over medium heat, or until done.
5. Be careful when moving the packets to serving plates since they will be hot. Each person can receive a packet on his or her plate and enjoy opening it up (carefully, they are hot!) and eating it.
6. Serve with lemon or lime juice, or ponzu sauce, which is a Japanese citrus sauce that you can get at many Asian markets. You can also mix soy sauce with lemon or lime juice to simulate ponzu sauce.
This is a quick recipe with vegetables included. Mackerel is a mild fish which almost everyone can enjoy. I usually serve this dish with rice and a salad. Clean up is quick because usually there is no leakage from the aluminum foil packets into the fry pan, so a quick wipe of the pan is all that is needed. Enjoy!
And check out the other recipes offered by other poets on the 32 Poems blog.
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ORIGINAL POST from MAY 4th
I actually complain about cooking quite a bit (ask my family) but when I really consider it, I don't hate it as much as I claim to. I just hate the amount of time I spend doing it every single day, hours when I could be writing. Or reading. Or playing with my kids. Or doing work for a client to bring in some cash.
Deb Ager of 32 Poems is addressing just this issue in her Recipes for Poets project. Here's an explanation of her plan straight from her website:
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Time management is one of the most important (yet seldom discussed) aspects of being a poet or any kind of artist. Are your eyes glazing over because I wrote “time management”? Stick with with me a for a moment, please.
Since most poets have other work that takes their attention away from art, it’s important to have time management skills. One of the many ways I save time is by cooking healthy meals that do not take long to prepare.
For that reason, I invite you to join me in posting your favorite 20-minute (or so) recipe on May 20, 2011. Post your recipe to your blog or website. I will share all of the links in a big post here on the 32 Poems blog.
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For the exact details of how to participate, go to Deb Ager's post Recipes for Poets here.
I am planning on sharing a recipe myself on the 20th of this month. So look for that. It's going to be a crockpot recipe, since that's the best method I have of saving time while still offering my family a hot meal.
If you've got a healthy recipe that takes 20 minutes or less, and you'd love to share, click the link above to join in the bonanza.
Scroll down to see my original post about the 32 Poems blog Recipes for Poets project below. Today I am updating my blog to include my recipe. I had intended to post a crockpot recipe, but in the warmer weather we have been enjoying recently, I don't feel like using a crockpot. So instead I am posting a delicious, health and quick fish recipe below. Enjoy!
Foil-baked Mackerel
Serves 4
4 mackerel fillets (use Atlantic or Chub mackerel to avoid high mercury levels; do NOT use King, Spanish or Gulf mackerel for the same reason)
black pepper
vegetables of your choice: thinly sliced onions, thinly sliced green peppers, shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, cherry tomatoes halved, broccoli florets, etc.
2 tablespoons olive oil
lemon juice or ponzu sauce
1. Prepare four squares of aluminum foil, about 8 or 10 inches per side. Place one fish fillet in the center of each square of foil, skin-side down if there is skin. Sprinkle fish with pepper to taste. Drizzle each fillet with 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil.
2. Arrange vegetables of choice on top of the fish. (I let my kids select their own vegetables for their personal packets.)
3. Fold the ends of the foil up until you have a closed package with the folds on the top.
4. Place the foil packages (folds up) in a fry pan (do not grease or oil the pan). For 12 - 15 minutes, heat the fish packages over medium heat, or until done.
5. Be careful when moving the packets to serving plates since they will be hot. Each person can receive a packet on his or her plate and enjoy opening it up (carefully, they are hot!) and eating it.
6. Serve with lemon or lime juice, or ponzu sauce, which is a Japanese citrus sauce that you can get at many Asian markets. You can also mix soy sauce with lemon or lime juice to simulate ponzu sauce.
This is a quick recipe with vegetables included. Mackerel is a mild fish which almost everyone can enjoy. I usually serve this dish with rice and a salad. Clean up is quick because usually there is no leakage from the aluminum foil packets into the fry pan, so a quick wipe of the pan is all that is needed. Enjoy!
And check out the other recipes offered by other poets on the 32 Poems blog.
***************
ORIGINAL POST from MAY 4th
I actually complain about cooking quite a bit (ask my family) but when I really consider it, I don't hate it as much as I claim to. I just hate the amount of time I spend doing it every single day, hours when I could be writing. Or reading. Or playing with my kids. Or doing work for a client to bring in some cash.
Deb Ager of 32 Poems is addressing just this issue in her Recipes for Poets project. Here's an explanation of her plan straight from her website:
*******
Time management is one of the most important (yet seldom discussed) aspects of being a poet or any kind of artist. Are your eyes glazing over because I wrote “time management”? Stick with with me a for a moment, please.
Since most poets have other work that takes their attention away from art, it’s important to have time management skills. One of the many ways I save time is by cooking healthy meals that do not take long to prepare.
For that reason, I invite you to join me in posting your favorite 20-minute (or so) recipe on May 20, 2011. Post your recipe to your blog or website. I will share all of the links in a big post here on the 32 Poems blog.
*******
For the exact details of how to participate, go to Deb Ager's post Recipes for Poets here.
I am planning on sharing a recipe myself on the 20th of this month. So look for that. It's going to be a crockpot recipe, since that's the best method I have of saving time while still offering my family a hot meal.
If you've got a healthy recipe that takes 20 minutes or less, and you'd love to share, click the link above to join in the bonanza.
Poetry Reincarnations
Thanks to my friend Mary from Florida who introduced me to Poetry Reincarnations on YouTube: recorded readings by writers no longer among us along with their pictures, animated to seem as though they are reading their own works. Look to the right for a list of many choices of readings. I have chosen Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" to link here, because my father used to recite it to me as a bedtime story.
Partly fascinating, partly creepy. Enjoy!
Partly fascinating, partly creepy. Enjoy!
Monday, May 2, 2011
100 Years of Poetry
Did you know that Poetry Magazine has put its entire archive online? Now you can access every issue from 1912 through March 2011. That's 100 years of poetry! They even have a search bar. So drop in and enjoy an American mainstay.
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