November 29, such an unfashionable day
Another 3 to midnight shift of changing adult diapers and spoon-feeding my residents at the dinner table.
Tomorrow being November 30, a much more fashionable day and the deadline for many an award, I find myself getting two more manuscripts ready to be sent off into the void in hope of winning some kick-ass poetry prize and becoming a mid-Michigan rock star of one sort or another. Imagine, getting a job where one could actually teach poetry. Ah, dreaming is free.
… mid-west of the mind … ooo … ooo … ooo
As I print out my forms for the Copper Canyon Press/ Hayden Carruth Award and the BOA Editions, Ltd./ A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize I cannot but recall Orson Welles' cameo as Lew Lord the Movie Producer in The Muppet Movie, telling his secretary: "Miss Tracy, prepare the standard 'Rich and Famous' contract for Kermit the Frog and Company." Is there a Lew Lord of the Poetry World?
So yes, my the Fates, Erato, Bragi, Apollo, Clio, Euterpe, Polyhymnia and Thalia! All of you, please bless these manuscripts today … or at least make sure they get to the right addresses.