Tuesday, September 7, 2010

500


What lovely news for a 500th post: this morning I received a phone call, letting me know my chapbook manuscript, The Recent History of Middle Sand Lake, won the Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Award (which comes with a cash prize!). My brain is, of course, abuzz, with this news, with my lack of sleep, with my first day of teaching, with five months of incubating the baby, with the I'm getting a chapbook published celebration in my head. This afternoon, I turn in a first draft of my full-length manuscript. I feel as if I'm on a trajectory I only imagined when I was younger, as if I'm doing all those things to make myself A Poet, and I've stepped out of myself, a little trembly and enthralled.

6 comments:

Jess said...

Congratulations on being published! Wonderful news! Also, happy 500.

Chrissy said...

Congratulations! That's wonderful news!

margosita said...

Yay yay yay yay!

Anonymous said...

Many congrats, Molly!

KR

Anonymous said...

Yipee! Nice photo. :)
Chris K.

Meryl DePasquale said...

I love the name of this press... my sense is that it must deserve your chapbook! So excited for you!!!