Magazine In, Submissions Out

Bits of publishing news: Dalhousie Review came today; an unusual journal, with a mix of academic criticism, and the usual fare of short stories and poetry and reviews. I like them because I like their taste in poetry, though I did skip the essay on Attack of the Clones as a critique of American foreign policy.

Dalhousie took "Not a Tragedy" -- a poem that's a favourite of mine, even though other people don't like it much. Perhaps I'm sentimental about it because it's about my grandmother. Though it's not a sentimental poem.

Got a few submissions ready to go, too -- the origin of language stuff is heading off to The Capilano Review. "Not a Tragedy" is off to an anthology on grandmothers (who request "no cookie-baking poems" -- sounds promising) and some of Vivian's poems from Ghost Maps to an anthology on women in WWII.

If today I can write nothing but drivel, at least I can send out submissions.