Binnacle Award

As an Honoree in The 2009 Binnacle Contest

They sent this sweet little presentation box, and inside a citation, a set of all the winning entiries on cards (top right) and copies of my own poem on separate cards (btm right).

It's gorgeous!

April at EDP

Read Robin Herrnfeld today and an interview with her tomorrow at EDP. Also on our ToC for April is an interview with that laureate of Limericks - lock up your daughters, Errol Nimbly - and congratulations to our editor for this month, Kathleen Cassen Mickelson on her first solo edition :) Check it all out. http://www.everydaypoets.com/

I loved John Stocks' poem so I answered the challenge

and wrote about it here http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue377/ch376resp_rocket.html

EDP

Duotrope have this listed about us :
This market ranks among the 25 Most Approachable Poetry Markets
This market ranks among the Most Personable Poetry Markets

Very nice :)

BwS 1st Quarterly Review

I'm delighted to have had my work chosen again for the QR at Bewildering Stories. This time I'm in the Short Poetry section, the Flash Fiction section where they chose only 5/23 pieces of the published pieces and there's a link to my essay about 'Flight of Starlings'.

Cogratulations to John Stocks and Nick Allen too.

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/anthologies/366-376/366-376_antho1.html

Spring in the garden

crocuses snowdrops

give back colour they borrowed

from last year's sunlight

Spring at last

At around 5:30 today, the tide turns, the season tips, we welcome the Equinox. And I for one, depite this damned cold I have, am determined to be irritatingly optimistic so

HAPPY EQUINOX EVERYONE