FiW 2007, here I come

Well, alive and well...still a bit sluggish (interesting image conjured by that word...I refuse to check and see if I am leaving a slime trail).

Was editing down my side of my collaboration with Dan McTaggart last night and found a few pieces I did not like...so I threw myself into cleaning the whole section up. EJ is probably right...I need to get a social life. Maybe I'll meet someone nice at the reading tomorrow.

I have accepted an invitation to be a preliminary judge for the poetry chapbook contest for the Frontiers in Writing conference, in Amarillo, Texas, June 8-9, 2007. The convention and contest are sponsored by the Panhandle Professional Writers, the longest running writers' association in America. It is an honor to be invited and an honor to accept and I hope to be of some value.

I have also decided to attend the conference, so if you have been dying for a chance to get some face time with me (and who hasn't?) be in Amarillo that weekend. Maybe they'll give me something to do...otherwise, I'll just have to spend the weekend working on some new poetry inspirations with some limber, literate poetry groupies in the hot tub. What would be a good name for a totem-muse from the Texas Panhandle? Sagebrush? Armadillo? Coyote? Third wife? Now that I think of it, there was this one graduate student in Victorian literature from Texas who had worked as a dancer...(off on a reverie)

For further information on the conference: FiW 2007 holds the info.

Funny, hm? I have been the host and or guest of honor or featured speaker at a half dozen writers' conferences in Mississippi, California and now Texas (a state I have never even lived in)...but in West Virginia...still nothing. Makes one feel positively unloved.