Quickies

Check it out - Hobble Creek Review is all new and shiny. Good work, Justin!

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What is going on with AWP? If you did get a pass, make sure you visit me and Mary and Jay and Jay at the Barn Owl Review table, and all of us at the NEOMFA reception on Saturday night.

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I just finished reading Nickel and Dimed, which didn't tell me much I didn't already know, but brought back some unpleasant memories. Ehrenreich did her little experiment durning the same year that I did mine (ha! I wish it was an experiment, but unlike our author, I did not have stock options and a savings account waiting for me in "real" life.) One thing I forgot until I started reading--the constant, and I mean constant, job hunting. You never want to accept that this job is the best you can get, so you keep looking. I started at least four jobs in two months. Fun!

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Had coffee with Jennifer and Jay yesterday. It was good to talk poetry, theses, life in general. Funny how much I miss my classmates during breaks.

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Doing better with the reading list this week. I also finished Boomer Girls, an anthology of women poets born between 1946 and 1964, which is apparently kind of hard to get your hands on (I got it from a UA used book sale). Lots of familiar names in that one: Kim Addonizio, Cathy Song, Jan Beatty, Rita Dove... and a lot of good poems (I only rolled my eyes a couple times). So, where's the next generation's anthology (let's say 1965 to 1980 or so)? I'm imagining a list of poets I'd solicit if it were my project, but who would you include?