Yet more lit biz in lieu of writing

I haven't written anything new in three weeks and have the inner life of a stale donut.

However, some lit biz stuff, let's see. I got a couple of small grants which will keep the bills paid until May or so. Hurray! They are to work on my next collection, which just now I'm pitching as centered around "Too Strong to Stop, Too Sweet to Lose," though it's early days and that might change.

I got rejected by PRISM (as I predicted) and by Event (with a kind and perceptive note; the Abu Ghraib poem came close there). I have a poem in the current New Quarterly and the spring Slow Trains, which should be out this week. I haven't submitted much recently but I have a free bunch of poems now that I should put into bunches.

Tomorrow is my big-time, official, local book launch for Seal up the Thunder. It's at 2:00 at the Waterloo Public Library. I'm launching in Toronto on Tuesday, at the Art Bar, after 8:00. And I'm reading next Friday, April 1st, at the Action Read for the Love of Words festival at the Boat House in Guelph. I'm appearing alongside Dennis Bock,�Dave Hudson,�George Murray, and Sorouja Mol. The event starts at 7:30; tickets are $12 in support of literacy.

Though it's over shadowed by the official, full-length collection, Kitchen is ready to go. Copies are available for $5 Canadian or US, to Canada and the US respectively. If you live farther away than yet still want a copy of the book, let me know.