We all know the addage: win some, lose some... Well, it has certainly described this week for me.
Received news yesterday that a poem of mine will be published in next month's edition of Aphelion! I'm very excited as it is one of my favorite online journals. What's more, I really don't consider myself a poet.
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy reading poetry. T. S. Eliot and Harold Bloom's "true Whitmanians" (Wallace Stevens, D.H. Lawrence, and Hart Crane) are some of my favorites. I also like W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, John Ashberry, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda and Mark Strand, as well as Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, John Berryman (especially The Dream Songs) and some of Sylvia Plath's work. So yeah, one might say that I'm kind of a big fan of poetry. However, that being said, I very seldom sit down to write a poem; but anyway... I am truly honored to have this one published and extremely thankful for the recognition.
In the "lose some" category, I learned this morning that a short story I submitted to a different 'zine will not be published in next month's issue. This rejection stings a little, as it was a paying venue, and the money while nominal, would have been -- in my eyes at least -- validation that I'm not too shabby at this whole writing thing. Oh well, what's that other cliche? Better luck next time, right?
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