little lit biz things

Bits of literary goodness came my way this week: first, a letter letting me know that my chapbook was a finalist in the (get this) 2002 Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Competition, which is evidentally moving along at last. The chapbook in question is a rather old draft of Bridge of Birds, that I'm no longer thrilled with, but it's still good news. And second, an out-of-the-blue note from a publisher looking for submissions for a line of chapbooks, postcards, and broadsheets. They seem to be a swell publisher, too, so I will consider it. Postcard poem nominations, anyone?

I haven't submitted anything to a literary magazine in a long time, my personal life having been, well, full. But I'm thinking about doing so now, so I the literary impulse must be returning. "Thaw" is publishable, and so is "Sign Langauge," I think. I'll have to look through my notebooks and see what I'm forgetting.