These past two weeks have been filled with one rejection after another.
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You Shall Serve: Ray Gonzalez.
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Got a rejection letter from the MacDowell Colony.
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I will be hosting a reading this Thursday for Matthew Shindell. Please come if you're in the area. Copies of In Another Castle, Matthew's first book, will be available for purchase.
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I bought something from the Home Shopping Network last week. And no, I won't reveal what I bought. I'm so embarassed!
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Got a rejection letter from the NEA.
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Review: Spring by Oni Buchanan.
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Don't you hate pity parties?
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
8 comments:
Ahh, the taste of rejection in November.
'Twill swing the other way soon, I hope.
Meanwhile, you have your HSN prezzie as consolation.
Wondering who got an NEA this year...
J O E
You'll get an NEA in two years. Just watch!
I got an NEA rejection too. Let's cry on each other's shoulders. I'm wearing a nice cashmere sweater today.
Hi,
I love pity parties! What else is there to do in life but to feel bad for ourselves that we're dumb, mortal creatures, who have to constantly be self-aggrandizing to avoid suicidal impulses?
Invite me to your next one. I'll be there. holding a cheap bottle of red wine (preferably Shiraz) that I won't share with anyone but myself.
Steve Fellner
Eduardo: Send to LUNA! We won't reject you. Every poem is a LUNA poem.
Steve: Decaf.
--R.
I got one of those NEA letters too. I do know who one winner is, but I won't spill those beans. Also I read that it took Denise Duhamel something like 12 years to finally get an NEA....
I hope Eduardo's blog buddies are also mindful that prizes, residencies, etc. (the privileges of the still-too white Poetry World) are merely gasps in the big breath of calling oneself a working poet.
Enough co-dependency. Sit. Write. Breathe.
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