AWP & ALR
WARNING: MAY CAUSE SUGAR SHOCK IN DIABETICS AND CYNICS
Paul Guest and I wanted to go to AWP this year, but neither of us could make it. Nonetheless, our poems should be there. We both have work in the Spring 2006 issue of the Texas-based American Literary Review, and the editors said they planned to take copies along to the conference. I joked to Paul that I hoped our poems were having fun and not drinking too much. If you're in Austin and happen to see my poems, say hello for me.
I know I should play it cool and pretend this is old hat, but I'm not cool and this is my first publication. I checked my mailbox twice today thinking maybe, just maybe, my contributor's copy might have arrived—but no dice. :-( Will I ever stop being the nerdy little girl for whom writers loomed ten times larger than astronauts? Not too soon, I hope.
