. . . which has really made my day. I love About.com‘s seasonal anthologies. I have my poem “Strange violet behind trees” in their Autumn anthology.
I’m delighted to announce that my first chapbook, The book of small treasures, will be published this December by Seven Kitchens Press. The editor, Ron Mohring, was kind enough to rescue my manuscript from the recycle pile. Here’s a link to the announcement:
I’ve got a poem up today at 3 Quarks Daily, one of the best blogs on the net. I’m thrilled and honored, especially since it’s one of the poems that won the Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize.
Please check out the latest issue of Holly Rose Review. I’m happy to have my poem “Endearment” included (with audio) next to the gorgeous art of Seven Beckham.
As the editor, Theresa Edwards says:
“The theme is PASSION with worldwide contributors. Poetry by Arlene Ang, Donavon Davidson, Lane Falcon, Peter Joseph Glovizcki, Kathryn Good-Schiff, Seth Jani, Pamela Johnson Parker, Christine Klocek-Lim, Daphne Lazarus, Jee Leong Koh, Donnelle McGee, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Colleen Mills, Erika Moya, Rhonda Palmer, Siimon Petkovich, Jayne Pupek, Edwin Rivera, Kathrin Schaeppi, & Martha Silano. Tattoos by Seven Beckham, Chris Belville, Cengiz Eyvazov, Luba Goldina, Shotsie Gorman, Maxime Lanouette, Soul Expressions, & Shane Tan. Original art by Tiffany Carpenter, Bob Dilworth, and Thomas Woodruff.
The poems are reminiscent, sensual, and bold. The art unleashes anger, fear, love, and determination. And expressions are limitless throughout as emotion screams, swells, and flourishes on each page.”
And did I mention they have a store? You can buy a mug! Or a t-shirt!
OCHO is live and fantastic and I’m delighted to have a poem in this issue. Go look see: OCHO #24 Twitter Issue. My poem, “Dark clouds of the Carina Nebula,” is on page 14. Collin Kelley did a fantastic job as guest editor and kudos goes to Didi Menendez (the person behind the MiPOesias curtain), as always, for her generous presence that made it possible. I’m told that copies will soon be available on Amazon, which is very cool. Yeah, I’ll be buying.
The best part about this issue? The poets are all identified by their Twitter names. Mine: @chrissiemkl. Here are the rest of the contributors: Ivy Alvarez, Patty Paine, Anne Haines, Matthew Hittinger, Pris Campbell, Nancy Devine, JS van Buskirk, Kate Evans, Alex Dimitrov, Rachel Barenblat, Saeed Jones, Stacie Boschma, Ray Succre, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Cheryl Snell, Andrew Demcak, Karen Head, Pamela Johnson Parker, Rosemary Nissen-Wade, Will Kenyon, Sherry Chandler, AnnMarie Eldon, Christine Swint, Deb Scott, Scott Edward Anderson, Samuel Peralta, Emily A. Benton, Shann Palmer, Montgomery Maxton, Christopher Hennessy, Jackie Sheeler, Peggy Eldridge-Love, Tammy Knot, Luisa A. Igloria, Robert Lee Brewer, C. Cleo Creech and Cole Krawitz.
Another amazing thing? Didi just tweeted that the person who did the cover art is 12 years old. Wow. I’m a helluva lot older than that and I still rely on stick figures.
I am delighted to have my poem, Crescent moon with earthshine in the debut issue of Touch: The Journal of Healing.
Please stop by and read the rest of the wonderful stuff there, including work by Dennis Greene, Ed Bennett, Esther Greenleaf Mürer, Laura Levesque, Maria Basile, Bebe Cook, Yvette Wiley, Larina Warnock, Colin Ward, Stephen Bunch, Mary Susan Clemons, Donal Mahoney, Alarie Tennille, Sherry O’Keefe, Toni L. Wilkes, Murray Alfredson, Christian Ward, and Arti Subramanian.
So hey, I’ve recently been informed that I’m the winner of the 2009 Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize (formerly the Grolier Prize). I entered six of my astronomy poems from last year’s NaPoWriMo and I’m still a bit shocked over the whole thing.
The editor of the Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize Annual informed me that my poems were a “unanimous choice,” which is, apparently, unusual. Everything about this has been a surprise to me. Needless to say, I was thrilled. And I get money, which is astonishing for poetry. I’m trying to work out how much I made per poem, but any sort of math that involves numbers larger than two confounds me. Which is why I became a writer in the first place, of course. 😉
PS- several friends were kind enough to do the math for me and one informed me that I earned a repeater number per poem. Which is cool. This is why I have friends. I would never be able to tip properly if I didn’t.
Christine Klocek-Lim 