tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40115342024-03-06T23:08:56.418-08:00LoveSettlementBeing a compendium of and about Glenn IngersollGlenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comBlogger2225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-31532264848979856142024-03-06T16:35:00.000-08:002024-03-06T16:35:48.624-08:00five poems in #Ranger<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">Five poems appear in <a href="https://www.rangermagazine.net/">#Ranger</a>, <a href="https://www.rangermagazine.net/issue4">issue 4, spring 2024</a>:</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.rangermagazine.net/ingersoll_issue4">“exact the veil flagrantly”</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.rangermagazine.net/ingersoll_issue4">“the well-curled tip”</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.rangermagazine.net/ingersoll_issue4">“room for advisement”</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.rangermagazine.net/ingersoll_issue4">“a while ago in the dj booth”</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.rangermagazine.net/ingersoll_issue4">“another well recently intercepted”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#Ranger’s motto: “Art that’s not vanilla”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A print issue will be available this summer print-on-demand from Lulu.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-67551244201108070682024-03-04T16:35:00.000-08:002024-03-06T16:38:11.626-08:00two poems in Berkeley Poetry Review<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Berkeley Poetry Review</i>, issue #52: When the World Moves On, contains two of my poems:</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“A Window”</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“A Wind Is Blowing”</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhghyxKCzBdOvyEgiYzUp6eZWRHtV5DH2JrmeseeeVI1E0na_arloollwHtTWPrrfeqOxi3BmT2brI7q4e0w6PJeo1Yor_fkfzHOoJGcDO-Z9nym1y9M0G3xpCXgwM8y2_RRdI8I8JeeogrtBVvipA5DO8SNhtYSfXB-olzuhDtggSRwJCP08Nr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhghyxKCzBdOvyEgiYzUp6eZWRHtV5DH2JrmeseeeVI1E0na_arloollwHtTWPrrfeqOxi3BmT2brI7q4e0w6PJeo1Yor_fkfzHOoJGcDO-Z9nym1y9M0G3xpCXgwM8y2_RRdI8I8JeeogrtBVvipA5DO8SNhtYSfXB-olzuhDtggSRwJCP08Nr" width="180" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWWS-As60nd2VrCCqpii-lH2R73QlmXYslfMNaLSPT_1QYZw0E30-zm4ua-of9uv-nPIRZeCcCcTD-b4AsEFzUyg1FosFQ2wS1wcUo7YBC49YAijk5Lthdq3jpsQ6I-yNSCY0IIwcfHSlx8MbfmpTWUKBF61rdHE53TeucwT0lJfrg60ANv0fA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWWS-As60nd2VrCCqpii-lH2R73QlmXYslfMNaLSPT_1QYZw0E30-zm4ua-of9uv-nPIRZeCcCcTD-b4AsEFzUyg1FosFQ2wS1wcUo7YBC49YAijk5Lthdq3jpsQ6I-yNSCY0IIwcfHSlx8MbfmpTWUKBF61rdHE53TeucwT0lJfrg60ANv0fA" width="180" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgphpSBFZAA0eIVgY5Lzu-qfMbLaaeDqzm9ADz1AMytREO4CkrMdbaQa_77Q_vkS89EJSJowd9UV7icMcI7uBS6Ihw53cQlhAS9sTnJvvUg9K8cFuGQMwwb3W0k41DkgSaC4yRT9kupYaC7onLb1qbODSdVFx7blV7qgOeYMGZwiJWV5Slxfyey" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgphpSBFZAA0eIVgY5Lzu-qfMbLaaeDqzm9ADz1AMytREO4CkrMdbaQa_77Q_vkS89EJSJowd9UV7icMcI7uBS6Ihw53cQlhAS9sTnJvvUg9K8cFuGQMwwb3W0k41DkgSaC4yRT9kupYaC7onLb1qbODSdVFx7blV7qgOeYMGZwiJWV5Slxfyey" width="180" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Of the theme the editors write: “‘When the World Moves On’” speaks to evolution and memory in a changing world.”</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">This is the first time I’ve had a poem in BPR since I was on staff back in the early 90s. BPR can change greatly from year to year. It’s a student-run publication, thus whether enough students show up will determine whether there is a BPR in a year. Some years, nothing. In this academic year the staff seems to be promising two issues. They are <a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/submission-guidelines/">currently open for submissions</a>. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">If you would like to read issue #52 online — or want to download the whole thing — you can do so at <a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/past-issues/when-the-world-moves-on/">this link</a>. </span></p></div>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-83226069203181963072024-02-01T21:42:00.000-08:002024-02-01T21:42:40.652-08:00Choosy<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">That magazine published those poems because the editors liked them. The editors got other poems that I know I would have liked — and perhaps would have liked better than anything I saw in their magazine — and the editors chose against them.</span></span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-65365680585254676032024-01-23T13:45:00.000-08:002024-01-23T13:45:33.524-08:00one-line haiku in five fleas<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A one-line haiku appears in the <a href=" https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/01/afternoon-of-january-22-2024.html">January 22</a> issue of <a href="https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/">five fleas</a>.</span></span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-32453869954551582072024-01-08T08:37:00.000-08:002024-01-08T08:37:49.051-08:00“What Has a Secret Life” in Parliament <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First publication of 2024:</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.parliamentlit.com/glenn-ingersoll">“What Has a Secret Life” </a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in <a href="https://www.parliamentlit.com/">The Parliament Literary Journal</a>, <a href="https://www.parliamentlit.com/copy-of-current-issue">Winter 2024: Secrets </a></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-38415724509042206722024-01-07T11:41:00.000-08:002024-01-07T11:42:14.676-08:002023 in publications<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Mollyhouse<br />Evening Street Review<br />Otoliths<br />Pure Slush<br />Dark Winter<br />Cream Scene Carnival<br />The Quarter(ly)<br />Exacting Clam</span></div>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Autobiography of a Book</i>, a 220-page volume from AC Books, became available as a pre-order. Physical copies are expected in February. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I found a publisher for a full-length poetry manuscript, but then things seemed to go off track. It may yet be possible to bring it back on track. We’ll see. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I had a featured reading with Lyrics & Dirges here in Berkeley. I hit a handful of open mics. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The list of publications is shorter than the average of the last few years. Did I send out fewer poems? That might be so. I spent quite a bit of energy rerouting rejected work. Looking at the list, the only poems accepted this year that hadn’t been previously rejected was the batch at Otoliths. It was Mark Young’s final issue so I sent him poems I’d just revised. It was a group that wouldn’t work for most, I thought. Too weird, maybe. There is another set from the same project; no bite so far. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 17.4px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I got a friendly rejection from Poetry Magazine: “We won’t be publishing anything from this submission, but we really enjoyed reading and discussing it among the editorial team, especially ‘The Heart Again.’ We’d love to read more of your work and hope you will submit again soon.” At the bottom of the message they emphasized it: “P.S. We really enjoyed you work!”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">After decades of sending Poetry poems — everybody who’s written a poem wants to see it in Poetry — this was the first time I received encouragement. The rejection came in October, 2023, the poems having been uploaded to Poetry’s submission manager in September of 2022. That’s a wait of thirteen months, right? </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I had a fresh batch of poems, so I sent those right away. Here is what came back: “We won’t be publishing anything from your submission, but we wish you the best of luck in publishing it elsewhere and appreciate you sending it our way.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">That is standard language, generalized, not cruel, but not really encouragement. No “enjoyed” — not once, let alone twice. The sort thing they’ve sent me from the beginning. Yet I only had to wait two months. That’s a record in recent history for me. Usually it’s a year or more. So maybe Poetry has different tiers? The when-we-get-around-to-it tier for all the unknown poets (my tier up to now), then a look-sooner-shows-promise tier? Or maybe they finally staffed up with enough first readers that rejection wait times have been pared down by 80%? Or … </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Anyway, it would be nice to have a poem in Poetry. The encouraging rejection may be as close as I get. As you’ve seen, I’m right back to the unencouraging. I sent again. We’ll see if I am back to a 13-month wait as well. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Interesting that the poem singled out for praise — “The Heart Again” — was brand fresh in September 2022. I was so pleased by it I sent it immediately to Poetry. By the time Poetry rejected it, “The Heart Again” had been rejected by 27 other faster-deciding zines. It has since been rejected four more times. That’s true of all the other poems in that 5-poem batch. Back in my 20s I would not have been able to endure 30 rejections of one batch. It would have been too bruising — and too expensive! I would have given up on good poems because I couldn’t afford the postage and because I couldn’t handle the dislike. Here in my 50s what’s changed? The basic expenses are different — having a computer, which I couldn’t afford in my early writing years, having an internet connection, paying reading/entry fees. I rarely pay fees, though. I can’t quite justify them. The average reading fee these days is $3 — and these venues typically do not provide any compensation, not even a contributor’s copy (not that that’s a thing with online publication). “The Heart Again,” the poem Poetry almost wanted, would have cost me $90 in fees by now. I can afford more rejections these days, but $90?</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">There are likely better publication-seeking strategies than my rather random style, I admit that. But I’m a rather random person, and I’m not going to turn into somebody else. Besides, it’s hard enough justifying the whole thing. There’s no money in it. There’s very little compensation of any kind, including making a name for oneself. I continue to send out my poems to honor my poems. They are good poems. They deserve to be little stars in the universe of poems. </span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-57896605529295049322023-12-22T15:36:00.000-08:002023-12-22T20:50:29.985-08:00Autobiography of a Book as told to Glenn Ingersoll<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbeoqeY4y80-bUut5M0m77ZP7A9g8SsckqGtCRC73yPtDxTZd9arMYcJcvsU5FqCbO8Rr6o3uhmaf65pbX00fgHwNkMFahGgvwcN-7RWk4bxhM7dMo3qpF-vlyT-IzV42_flMU84HCYzykKrFZQpBZcyQANjeHdapS93mrcsYJYFogynzp0Qqv" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2222" data-original-width="1500" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbeoqeY4y80-bUut5M0m77ZP7A9g8SsckqGtCRC73yPtDxTZd9arMYcJcvsU5FqCbO8Rr6o3uhmaf65pbX00fgHwNkMFahGgvwcN-7RWk4bxhM7dMo3qpF-vlyT-IzV42_flMU84HCYzykKrFZQpBZcyQANjeHdapS93mrcsYJYFogynzp0Qqv=w265-h392" width="265" /></span></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Autobiography of a Book</i> is now ready <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781939901262/autobiography-of-a-book.aspx">for pre-order at Small Press Distribution</a>. Copies will be shipping in early 2024.</b></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Autobiography of a Book</i> is the life story of a book. The book must will itself into existence. And by “will” I mean talk. The book must talk until it comes to its end. With every word Book edges closer to its dream, its dream of being what it claims to be, a real, honest-to-goodness book. </span></p>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Can a novel that anthropomorphizes language be a page-turner? Glenn Ingersoll’s <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> says, “Yes!” And this reader agrees.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>— Eric Darton, author of <i>Free City</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Book came to me as a voice and demanded I type as it spoke. I usually scoff at people who claim their writing is dictated by the muse, so I find it funny to be saying something like that myself. But Book is a character, in both senses of the word, and I was ready to listen and to work. Whatever it said, I was happy to go along. </span></p>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Book</i> is imbued with the longings of a body, the vulnerable reality of a Frankenstein’s Monster or a Velveteen rabbit, the pangs of creator and created, and all the fragile, vigorous, shambolic longings of humanity. </b></span><b>To read Ingersoll’s wildly inventive prose debut is to be transformed.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">— Maw Shein Win, <i>Storage Unit for the Spirit House</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Book and I both wondered during the process if a respectable book length would actually be achieved. At roughly 44,000 words, 220 pages, I think it did. Is that short for a novel these days? Not that “novel” is necessarily the right word. I struggle with how to characterize Book. There's nothing fictional in it. Everything Book says happened because Book is all language and anything Book says is undeniably Book, even if impossible. Does Book have human arms and legs? Yes, when Book finds it convenient to imagine so; when imagination is defeated, Book borrows the reader’s hand, the reader’s heart. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s quite a magic trick to read something totally original that also echoes something inside.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">— Shannon Wheeler, <i>New Yorker</i> cartoonist, creator of <i>Too Much Coffee Man</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also unlike a novel (perhaps like a life?), Book does not have a plot. Book has ideas, actions. Book has thoughts and more thoughts and tries to work them out. Book’s parts often read as essays. Perhaps that’s the way Book would be most properly classified — as a collection of personal essays, the personal essays of someone whose person is no more (somehow more?) than those essays.</span></p>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"Those who fear the novel is dead or dying can rest easy. Between the pages of this revelatory revenant—the art form revivified with heart, humor, and layered perception—is a bildungsroman of a book, literally. Think Italo Calvino. Think David Markson. Now remember Glenn Ingersoll." </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">— George Salis, author of <i>Sea Above, Sun Below</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because the essays usually read as separate propositions I submitted them in small batches to literary magazines and ezines, in hopes editors would like them, and think them sufficient in themselves. Sixteen did. One editor even nominated for the Pushcart anthology. </span></p>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">So a book walks into a bar with an identity crisis<i>…, </i>and fractals through one hot, exercised imagination. It’s like Gertrude Stein’s hair setting itself on fire in a crowded theater. What fun! Long a fanatic for Ingersoll’s poetry so no surprise this epic is a stunner. Absurdly original and far out, this baby steams along toward its very sublime amen with muscle, pathos and love.</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">— Michael Martin, award winning poem-filmmaker and author of <i>Extended Remark: Poems from a Moravian Parking Lot</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please follow these links to journals that include <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> excerpts, most of them online:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2020/03/six-chapters-from-autobiography-of-book.html"><br /></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2020/03/six-chapters-from-autobiography-of-book.html">Inverse Journal</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"> </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>It does no disservice to Glenn Ingersoll to call him the author of the exhilarating <i>Autobiography of a Book</i>, but doing so might be taken as an offense to the Book, which is, as we discover, self-authored, as is the case with so many great works of literature. “Life begins with an utterance. A word. Another word to grow on. A third to give the first two meaning. One more and we begin to have context. We are now in the midst of it. This is living.” Thus the Book begins. Already both its charmingly quirky personality and its erudite intellectual acumen are in play. The Book does not censor its flow of </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1e1f;"><b>anxieties nor disguise its capacity to be amused at its failings even while remaining committed to its existence; it is imaginative enough to be willing to venture into (and experience) dark and even dangerous scenarios, and (of course) to linger in and fret over its intimate relationship with words and their organization into sentences. Book, after all, has no other existence. Having an existence, meanwhile, means it has context; it inheres in a world—its world—of experiences. It is thus that it accrues personality: </b></span><b>“[R]egardless of whatever creation, work of art, or deed has come about, someone has lived. Are we someone? Are you someone? Try to be someone!” So writes Julia Kristeva in the preface to her biographical <i>Hannah Arendt</i>, but it’s something that the Book too might say. Listen well.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">— Lyn Hejinian, author of <i>My Life</i> and <i>The Cold of Poetry</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Why does the smell of books captivate us so much—that particular combination of paper, ink, glue? Because it’s the scent of imagination and possibility, when, as this book tells us, “I am so new. I am just starting… I am such a promising young thing… Anything could happen.” Including the book in your hands addressing you directly—yes, you, the person reading this blurb! “Dear reader, I need you. When it comes down to it, I want to live. When I am read, I live.” The best part? As you read life into this book, it returns the favor. First it’s your child, then your lover, then you’re switching places, then—but I can’t, I won’t give away the wondrous secrets inside. You’ll never look at a book the same again.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">— Hardy Griffin, founding editor of <i>Novel Slices</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[thank you to the editors for the Pushcart nomination]</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Book </i>is quite a character and a likable one. I now even think of <i>Book </i>as a friend.</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>—</i> Alan Bern, author of <i>Waterwalking in Berkeley</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href=" https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2020/09/autobiography-of-book-chapters-at.html"><span style="font-size: large;">The Collidescope</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">You are now reading a blurb endorsing the gloriously inspired <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> — as told to Glenn Ingersoll. This book wants to know you as intimately as only a book can. This book wants to live in your library with your collected books. Maybe in your biography section. Consider this non-fiction, as it is the true testimony of the book you now hold. It may not speak for every other book, but it offers an incredible journey deep into the pages of itself unlike anything you’ve read before.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> —James Cagney, author of <i>MARTIAN: The Saint of Loneliness</i>, winner of the 2021 James Laughlin Award from Academy of American Poets</span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href=" https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2020/12/autobiography-of-book-in-door-is-jar-17.html"><span style="font-size: large;">A Door Is A Jar</span></a></p>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">At the core of its winding soliloquies, witty, surprising, in which it muses, complains, splits, burns, gods, the book asserts that you, its 'dear reader', give it life and that it in turn wants nothing more than to pulse its life back to you.</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">— Richard Silberg, author of <i>Nine Horses</i> and Associate Editor of <i>Poetry Flash</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href=" https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2021/09/two-chapters-of-book-in-gas.html"><span style="font-size: large;">GAS: Poetry, Art & Music</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"I love promising. I love imagining. I am ready to offer myself." So says the eponymous book of this book. In an age of high-falutin’ memoir and auto-fiction, Glenn Ingersoll's ingenious <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> pleases with its freshness and naivete, its openness to the world that it comes into. It is a book about being and speaking and wonder. It is a book about the making of a book. How do books exist for us — and we for them? How do we exist for ourselves? <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> teaches as it entertains, provokes and — quite literally — entrances.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">—Katy Lederer, author of <i>Pokerface: a girlhood among gamblers </i>and<i> The Heaven-Sent Leaf</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href=" https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2021/09/autobiography-of-book-in-mercurius.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Mercurius</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href=" https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2021/10/chapter-from-autobiography-of-book-in.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Unlikely Stories</span></a></p>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1644, in <i>Areopagitica</i>, the Puritan poet, John Milton announced that “books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them.” In 2022, the American poet, Glenn Ingersoll has taken Milton’s notion––not to mention the later notion of “the death of the author”––one step further. What if a book awakened and began to speak, to write itself? <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> is an I-based production, but this “I” is not a human author: this “I” is an object, a thing made of paper and words, <i>written </i>words. If a human life begins with a breath, a book’s life “begins with an utterance. A word.” But the book is not “finished”: like a human, it must develop, it must explore infinite possibilities. “I am so new. I am just starting.” Ingersoll’s brilliant concept results in a book about almost everything, including pages “left intentionally blank.” It is, as the book itself tells us, “more idea than construct, more spirit than body.” It is also one of the most delightful and original reads of any season. Who needs an author when one has a book?</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">—Jack Foley, author of <i>Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line</i> and <i>Eyes: Selected Poems</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The curated reading series <a href=" https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2019/09/quiet-lightning-on-angel-island-sept-15.html">Quiet Lightning</a> also included an excerpt that was previously published in Hawai’i Pacific Review.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href=" https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2021/03/autobiography-of-book-at-freshink.html">fresh.ink</a> has reprinted the chapters that originally appeared at Hawai’i Pacific Review.</span></p>
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<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 17.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">A fascinating journey! But take courage, whoever opens this book. What begins as a bizarre and charming conceit -- letting the book write itself -- morphs into a true-pitch recording of the subtext running underneath, well, everything. It’s uncanny. Even running underneath everything I do. Bringing into view all manner of creativity, any creativity, any motion, any act, and then calls into question their value, without ever stating that’s what it’s doing. Are these demons of my own device? Are they truly running underneath everything? Can you continue without dealing with the questions? I did write “courage,” and that is what I meant.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 17.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
—Clive Matson, author of <i>Mainline to the Heart </i>and<i> Let the Crazy Child Write! finding your creative writing voice</i></span></b></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Book and I thank the editors of these journals for giving Book life. Editors provide readers an opportunity to read something new, and even when editors choose against a particular poem, story or essay, an editor has to read it to make that choice. Every editor is a reader. When Book is read that is when Book really lives. That is the true life of <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> — a reader making it part of theirs.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[See a <a href="http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2020/06/autobiography-of-book.html ]">June 2020 post</a> for an earlier version of this introduction to <i>Autobiography of a Book</i>.]</span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-77071059794600002232023-12-20T15:20:00.000-08:002023-12-20T15:20:45.340-08:00Autobiography of a Book pre-orders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9-TBbqr9eef_9Tp5hY_TK-l3OP4Q7b-etp047XiOfnNNlbHONzYFWxM5jNYjUxhi2kizDBgM50nc5QPPMixAyvs2ARkg2xNrirewbevQ1AG8oFFbKfvXJEQGTyRbM1_heYrRqzRjeLvTkbbqCO1owsbkU6E9KzIMFOp6gY4EWwBFSF9YqY051" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2222" data-original-width="1500" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9-TBbqr9eef_9Tp5hY_TK-l3OP4Q7b-etp047XiOfnNNlbHONzYFWxM5jNYjUxhi2kizDBgM50nc5QPPMixAyvs2ARkg2xNrirewbevQ1AG8oFFbKfvXJEQGTyRbM1_heYrRqzRjeLvTkbbqCO1owsbkU6E9KzIMFOp6gY4EWwBFSF9YqY051=w242-h358" width="242" /></span></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can now preorder <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781939901262/autobiography-of-a-book.aspx"><i>Autobiography of a Book</i> from Small Press Distribution</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Though the “publication date” at the SPD page says 10/31/23, my publisher tells me the book will probably ship in February. (The AC Books website doesn’t yet have a page for it.) </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I encourage you to visit SPD and click on the “peek inside” button. I had input on design, but the white print on black paper was publisher Holly Crawford’s idea. The white print continues through the first half of the book, while the black of the pages gradually lightens to a dark gray. At the midpoint the print switches from white to black, the paper continuing its shift to white. With book in hand you can animate the transformation, the shade shift as fast or as slow as the reader drags a thumb along the outer edges of the pages. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“When does life begin?” Book asks.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Book’s life begins with a reader. Readers bring Book to life. And Book is grateful for the life each reader gives it. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chapters from Autobiography of a Book were published in a variety of places. If you would roam through the excerpts, get a taste of what the whole will be like, I have rounded up links in a blog post:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2020/06/autobiography-of-book.html">click here</a></span></p></blockquote>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-1951877089893060652023-12-18T07:30:00.000-08:002023-12-18T07:30:00.134-08:00“I stand with the blind” in Exacting Clam<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313;">My poem “A Window (I stand with the blind)” appears in the <a href=" https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-11-winter-2023/">Winter 2023 no.11 issue</a> of <i>Exacting Clam</i>.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313;"> <br /></span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.exactingclam.com/"><i>Exacting Clam</i></a> is a print magazine. And they sent me a free contributor’s copy. How old school! </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">“A Window (I stand with the blind)” is a <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/villanelle">villanelle</a>. I’ll tease you with the first stanza:</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; text-indent: -18px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I stand with the blind before the window.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; text-indent: -18px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">At the edge of the frame the sunlight pries. </span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; text-indent: -18px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">When somebody sees us, how do we know?</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; min-height: 14px; text-indent: -18px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">At some point next year I suppose I will post the whole poem, but for now I will let <i>Exacting Clam</i> have the exclusive — they bought me off with a handsome copy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLAf_iSNuSmRL4s1eVRIF9B5TqyU9_2phWqxd_KWsjyxZ0VuHq0dNESC2AVzsOcFzmDgZVEq5rCwB2BDTRAJEKBkOy-zZD1uBPSj-y-pV8LN6iJOL1JV22XiQ0rD-iMqtPee3bo1B7ndmspCWn76BGdrjUiZSK_sEdOc0xhN3EXXeOZYzbsLC7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLAf_iSNuSmRL4s1eVRIF9B5TqyU9_2phWqxd_KWsjyxZ0VuHq0dNESC2AVzsOcFzmDgZVEq5rCwB2BDTRAJEKBkOy-zZD1uBPSj-y-pV8LN6iJOL1JV22XiQ0rD-iMqtPee3bo1B7ndmspCWn76BGdrjUiZSK_sEdOc0xhN3EXXeOZYzbsLC7=w373-h498" width="373" /></span></a></div><p></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-18916930950610351942023-12-17T12:09:00.000-08:002023-12-17T12:09:56.541-08:00three more poems in Cream Scene Carnival<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">I like <i>Cream Scene Carnival</i>. It’s colorful, quirky, and fun, not <span style="caret-color: rgb(19, 19, 19);">afraid</span> of the risky or queer, a bit hard to navigate, especially if you are looking for something specific, but the browsing is good.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They published <a href="http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-window-i-have-no-eyes-appears-in.html">“A Window (eyes)”</a> in August. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Two came out in September:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<a href="https://creamscenecarnival.com/2023/09/06/we-sipped-midnight-from-a-greasy-spoon/">We sipped midnight from a greasy spoon”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creamscenecarnival.com/2023/09/30/hard-sleep/">“Hard Sleep”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then one more in November:</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creamscenecarnival.com/2023/11/18/party/"><br /></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creamscenecarnival.com/2023/11/18/party/">“Party”</a></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's always interesting seeing what art they pair the poems with.</span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-13584956991848845172023-12-16T08:10:00.000-08:002023-12-16T08:10:03.476-08:00“I Really Don’t Care Do U?” appears in The Quarter(ly), v.5: Burn This Fucker Down<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: Helvetica;">My poem </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">“I Really Don’t Care Do U?” appears in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://quarterpress.com/shop-qp/p/pdf-the-quarterly-vol-v-burn-this-fucker-down">The Quarter(ly), v.5: Burn This Fucker Down</a>. The issue is available as a download.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A screenshot of the poem as it appears in the issue:</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjvIBRdhsCa98bYFm6u91yJ-kdsCRlc3CNMIVo2KK0X6rWONs3xaw7iDnujUxB3EzmCKshH3zU2seqPER5zXct5RA7v5KeslLhvuAgKIEdwPLHkeqxVtY_0W1CWM_7x1x1IXY-g1MX3kfUd6oUsKDOkfYccS48RpGX4rxxM1vfb_Zf6bNulFYY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjvIBRdhsCa98bYFm6u91yJ-kdsCRlc3CNMIVo2KK0X6rWONs3xaw7iDnujUxB3EzmCKshH3zU2seqPER5zXct5RA7v5KeslLhvuAgKIEdwPLHkeqxVtY_0W1CWM_7x1x1IXY-g1MX3kfUd6oUsKDOkfYccS48RpGX4rxxM1vfb_Zf6bNulFYY=w487-h650" width="487" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-63681578945456242892023-09-05T11:26:00.000-07:002023-09-05T11:26:20.087-07:00“Love’s settlements”<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“O Need, beloved Adversary to Love’s settlements …”</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">— Robert Duncan, from the poem “Preface to the Suite”</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Early on <a href="https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2002/12/ive-had-website-for-my-poetry-for.html">I described the source of the name</a> of this blog:</span></p>
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<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I title the notebooks in which I write poems. One I titled "Love", the subsequent I titled "Settlement"; when time came to set up the site I already had these two nice titles, and, heck, don't they go great together?</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I came across Robert Duncan’s line recently it caught my attention, of course. Duncan does seem to be using my preferred definition for “settlement” — that is, a dwelling-place — rather than the less friendly sense of resolving a dispute, usually through unsatisfying compromise, a divorce settlement, say; settling for the best you can get, rather than holding out for the win. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am considering starting a Substack newsletter and titling it using the same method I used when setting up LoveSettlement. My latest poetry notebooks are called “Heart” and “Demons”. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">source: </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Practising Angels: a contemporary anthology of San Francisco Bay Area poetry</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">edited by Michael Mayo</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1986. Seismograph Publications, San Francisco</span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-42097683307456270942023-08-23T16:55:00.002-07:002023-08-23T16:57:34.362-07:00“A Window (I have no eyes)” appears in Cream Scene Carnival<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://creamscenecarnival.com/">Cream Scene Carnival: An Arts & Culture Magazine</a> – Punk Rock & Irreverent since 2009 has just posted its Summer 2023 issue, Wild West.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The issue includes my poem</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creamscenecarnival.com/2023/08/21/the-window/">“A Window (I have no eyes)”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back in college in a poetry workshop class (early 90s) I wrote a series of poems using various ideas about windows. I revisited the collection fairly recently and did new versions of a few of the poems. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Eyes are the windows of the soul, goes the old saw. I’ve played with that idea a few times. In “A Window (I have no eyes)” I was intrigued by the letter shapes (e looks like an eye, doesn’t it?, thus the word “eye” looks a bit like a face, an e (or eye) on either side of the y (which can be seen as nose-like, or like an elephant’s trunk?). I liked that eye and I and aye sound alike, that eyes and yes are such lookalikes, that the eye, our instrument for looking, cannot see itself. How much of that you’ll get from the poem, I can’t say. Much depends on whether you want to treat it as something with depth rather than something to glance at and move on. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poem was paired with a photo-scene & video by Andrea Letford. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The photo next to my bio is a photo I took.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the editors shared this to Instagram they also included audio of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds playing “Black Betty.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-40170164734010383622023-08-19T14:37:00.001-07:002023-08-19T14:37:29.257-07:00rejecto-zines<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2021 I started sending out the poems “To Try to Fall” and “I used to think you were beautiful.” By the time the nice editors at <a href="http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2023/08/two-poems-in-dark-winter.html">Dark Winter</a> decided to take them up, 50 other venues had already declined the opportunity. In case you are curious:</span></span></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thrush, Cimarron Review, Agni, The New Yorker</span></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Arcturus, Magma, As It Ought to Be, Comstock Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nashville Review, Chestnut Review, Glass Mountain, Gordon Square Review, Limp Wrist/Glitter Bomb Award, Black Fox Literary Review, Baltimore Review, Columbia Journal, New Welsh Review, Suburbia Journal, Dillydoun Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Scapegoat Review, Foglifter, Route 7 Review, Lavender Bones</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2023</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #161a1e; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mollyhouse, Southland Alibi, 805, Broadkill Review, Pidgeonholes, The Maine Review, Emerson Review, Roi Faineant, Bluestem, The Ignatian, New Orleans Review, Gigantic Sequins, Showcase, Miracle Monocle, Red Coyote, After Happy Hour Review, Jake, A-Minor, Labyrinth Anthologies, Lumina, Lunch Ticket, Rock Paper Poem, Meetinghouse, Trace Fossils, Slippery Elm</span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-75842223695319944702023-08-16T20:30:00.004-07:002023-08-16T20:30:40.319-07:00Two poems in Dark Winter <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In <a href="https://www.darkwinterlit.com/">Dark Winter</a> two poems have posted</span></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.darkwinterlit.com/post/to-try-to-fall-i-used-to-think-you-were-beautiful-by-glenn-ingersoll">“To Try to Fall”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.darkwinterlit.com/post/to-try-to-fall-i-used-to-think-you-were-beautiful-by-glenn-ingersoll">“I used to think you were beautiful”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-56264449246982406032023-08-10T14:07:00.000-07:002023-08-10T14:07:11.390-07:00“Building a House” in Lifespan v.8: Achievement from Pure Slush Books<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://pureslush.com/store/anthologies-themed/achievement-lifespan-vol-8/">Achievement</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> is vol. 8 in the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">Lifespan</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> series of anthologies from <a href="https://pureslush.com/">Pure Slush Books</a> in Australia. Included in <i>Achievement</i> is my poem</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Building a House”</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Established in 2010, <i>Pure Slush</i> currently publishes print anthologies of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry,” declares the About page. The press uses print-on-demand service Lulu.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They do not send out complementary contributor’s copies, so I purchased one on my own. At present the physical book costs $16; the ebook $7 (US dollars).</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-28708114300521903712023-08-08T20:23:00.003-07:002023-08-08T20:23:52.995-07:00five poems in Otoliths<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">Mark Young has decided to hang up the editor hat. He announced </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">Otoliths</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> #70 would be the final issue. I’ve had work in past issues of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/">Otoliths</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">, including chapters from </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">Autobiography of a Book</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">. There’s a romance to finality — and being one of the last. So I sent along a batch of poems. Maybe I’d get in the ultimate issue. Indeed. Mark took all five of the poems I sent:</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/06/glenn-ingersoll.html ">“a fan handle flashing”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/06/glenn-ingersoll.html ">“a nobody in whose happening this city”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/06/glenn-ingersoll.html ">“multiple fragile instruments”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/06/glenn-ingersoll.html ">“catamount in a lily”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/06/glenn-ingersoll.html ">“a blind item”</a></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/07/issue-seventy-contents.html">#70 is a big issue.</a> There are names I know — Eileen R. Tabios, Dale Jensen, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Bennett, Sheila E. Murphy, Alan Catlin, Jim McCrary — and many more I don’t. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mark also packages each issue into <a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/l_m_young">print on demand volumes</a>, grouping text-based work and visual arts into separate volumes to keep any one collection from being prohibitively expensive (or gigantic). </span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-90938779806340578522023-06-17T22:00:00.004-07:002023-06-18T16:19:17.437-07:00Three poems in Evening Street Review<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">Three poems appear in <i>Evening Street Review</i>, Spring 2023, no. 37. You can read the issue online. My poems appear on pages 267-269.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://eveningstreetpress.com/product/evening-street-review-number-37-spring-2023/">“Father”</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://eveningstreetpress.com/product/evening-street-review-number-37-spring-2023/">“Using your thumbnail, sever the stem of a honeysuckle”</a></span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-9402258219745553312023-05-19T20:40:00.000-07:002023-05-19T20:40:14.741-07:00How did I get to be used?<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">I google my name. And bing it. I run my name in Goodreads and Amazon. I check in on the state of my online presence. I confirm that I have an online presence. Not a big one. But this Glenn Ingersoll’s footprint compares favorably with the other Glenn Ingersolls, the Canadian musician, the lawyer, the right wing pontificator.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently I thought to run my name at Abe Books, an aggregator site for sellers of used and antiquarian books. I was just bored? I didn’t expect anything to show up. In order for there to be used copies of anything I have written there have to be enough copies circulating that the few people who have one of my books have to decide it’s worth the trouble to try to sell it. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Thousand</i>, my 100,000 word prose poem epic, was put out by Mel C. Thompson Publishing (a friend in a small apartment in Lafayette), on a print on demand basis. If anyone has a copy it’s because they either bought it from or were given it by me or Mel. There aren’t errant boxes shipped here or there that could be emptied onto a remainder table. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At Abe Books I find there is a dealer in the UK selling copies of <i>Thousand</i>. Currently they have for sale the whole 10-volume set (vols. sold individually), and they have 20 copies of the set. When I showed Kent he said, “Maybe they don’t really have any copies; they’re just ready to buy it new from Amazon & resell to anyone who wants to buy it from them.” The bookseller does list <i>Thousand</i> as “new,” so Kent could be right. You can get Thousand from Bookshop.org, which also isn’t Amazon, so maybe it’s the same sort of thing. The UK dealer is putting <i>Thousand</i> up on a site for used books, but so what? It doesn’t have to be a used book just because the site is explicitly for used books. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As of this writing I also find one copy of vol. 1 for sale (“used”) by a bookseller in Montgomery, Illinois. I rather like the idea that there might be a secondary market for copies of <i>Thousand</i>. It implies that there is/was a primary market. </span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-19349255876707062482023-02-25T18:26:00.000-08:002023-02-25T18:26:04.815-08:00“I am riding a bus into the hills” in Mollyhouse<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">My poem “I am riding a bus into the hills” appears in issue#5 of <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1351622">Mollyhouse</a>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-25758574261512989552023-02-14T10:57:00.003-08:002023-02-14T10:57:45.190-08:00“The City in the Cup” in Columbia Poetry Review<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I just discovered that the 1998 issue of </span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Columbia Poetry Review</i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> that includes my poem “The City in the Cup” has been scanned and posted online.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here’s <a href="https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=cpr&fbclid=IwAR2N1PcdsZZxv9QUg7RSe3eTn0W_40SvZKxGWypXqxrTTK6h3OsckClZmw4">a link</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you’re curious what else got published that year, here’s <a href="https://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2015/12/published-poems-1998.html">a link to my LuvSet post</a>.</span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-29761221764418117042023-02-02T11:35:00.003-08:002023-02-02T11:35:34.338-08:00a few words inserted in the boilerplate rejection<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Most literary magazines want to consider a batch of poems all sent together. Recently I sent poems to <i>Grub Street</i>, a lit mag that wanted five poems but they wanted each uploaded individually to their submission manager, each poem thus being considered apart from the others. One of the poems was rejected within the week, another shortly after, the third after a month. Two more lingered long enough for me to get hopeful. I got the rejections this morning, two months after I uploaded them for consideration. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Rejections are friendlier these days than they used to be, on the whole, telling the poet the editors read zillions of poems, not to be discouraged, blah blah blah. I read the boilerplate rejections even though they always say the same things. One of this morning's rejections included a phrase not included in the other: "we found your style to be fun and engaging." The poem was overtly joky, so it was a rare instance of an editorial response that wasn't boilerplate.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span></span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-59541951778453706332023-01-17T15:40:00.003-08:002023-02-05T21:35:25.483-08:00new year’s resolutions 2023<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/2022/01/new-years-resolutions.html">In last year’s new year’s resolution post</a> here at LoveSettlement I mostly talked about writing. That’s what I tend to think about when I think about resolutions because most of the other things in my life aren’t things to make resolutions about. I don’t make resolutions about better diet or more exercise because I eat good food as best I can and I do as much exercise as my body will allow. If I were to make a resolution it might be to get to the gym again. I am still nervous about being around people expelling a lot of breath, droplets in air being the main transmission factor for covid. The rigamarole of going to a special building downtown and changing my clothes in order to make myself tired and sore is also relatively hard to motivate myself into. I like walks around the neighborhood, even straight up the hill, and I’ve added pull-ups to that routine by stopping by a park playground and finding a bar to hang from. I have a regular yoga practice. So not going to the gym doesn’t mean I’m not exercising.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I don’t set writing goals either. I write, or I don’t. I work on projects or whatever comes. What I need resolve to get done is the marketing. I need to push myself to send work out. In 2022 I was surprised to learn that a poet friend with two books and various accolades has not been sending her poems out to magazines. So I proposed we form a mutual support group for submissions goals. We’ve been doing this for six months or so, each month setting a goal for number of places to send to. Then we check in to see how it went. We don’t set high goals, but for my friend going from none to four was a big step. I tend to set my goals low then exceed them, but when I was answering only to myself I was setting my goals high and straining to reach them, which was discouraging. Having a friend congratulate me on meeting my sub goal has been a real boost. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So long as your work is going around you place stuff. Mostly the response from editors is rejection, of course. Having rejection be the primary aspect of the process is a resolve weakener, so adding a friend’s encouraging voice — and in turn encouraging her — de-poisons the atmosphere. If my friend is amenable, I would continue this through 2023. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another poet friend talked me into setting up a Twitter account: @lovesettlement … I did that at the beginning of October, then I read articles on how best to use Twitter. And I did all that just before Elon Musk bought it and started destroying it. I tweet links to old blog posts — and the stats for the blog posts always show 8 - 10 fresh visitors. Whether that means anyone new has stopped by to read is ambiguous. A number isn’t a reader. It may be some sort of software feeler, a bot. I don’t know. Should I bother anymore? Should I hook up with Mastodon? Some other Twitter-like site? Unresolved!</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am working with publisher AC Books to bring forth <i>Autobiography of a Book</i>. This year? Hope so! Supporting <i>Book</i> will be a task — seeking reviews, scheduling readings, figuring out what else one can do. Getting into that stuff will require resolve, but is it really any different from pushing oneself to do other things that need to be done but which one doesn’t readily want to do, like paying bills or renewing the passport? So would this count as a New Year’s Resolution? </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then there’s assembling manuscripts. I have a lot of work in notebooks and in computer files that can be organized. I have a chapbook manuscript out to a publisher. I sent my book-length poetry manuscript out to another publisher late last year. So: assembling manuscripts, researching publishers, sending those out. Resolved! Ugh. I mean, Whee!</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am glad the world continues to open up. I am adding live, in-person poetry events to my calendar. I’ll get myself to open mics again. Being around people at poetry readings is something like socializing and socializing is necessary, if hard for me. The main way I’ve gotten <i>Thousand</i> out into the world is by trading it for other people’s books or zines. So I remind myself to bring copies along to literary and small press occasions. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is always something to do. I remember my mom saying something like that. True enough. People to see, things to do.</span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-10553294426965629162023-01-01T14:36:00.003-08:002023-01-01T14:36:54.719-08:002022 in publications<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">A quick list of the places that included something of my work in 2022:</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Arteidiolia</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">inksac</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spillwords</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">haiku kontinuum</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">brass bell</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sparks of Calliope</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Crowstep Journal</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">BlazeVOX</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glimpse</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Forum</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cerasus</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sparkle & Blink / Quiet Lightning</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bullshit Lit</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry Super Highway</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Over the Transom</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Otoliths</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trash Panda</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Special Mention in their poetry category from the 2022 Pushcart Prize Anthology for the poem “Personal Testimony,” which was nominated by Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart, editors of <i>Spillway</i> when the poem appeared there. “Personal Testimony” was also later included in Quiet Lightning’s <i>Sparkle & Blink</i>. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am working with AC Books to bring forth <i>Autobiography of a Book</i> as a real book. An announcement with full details coming soon. </span></p>Glenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-91887808507709881692022-12-26T11:38:00.002-08:002022-12-26T11:38:27.120-08:00Three poems at Thieving Magpie<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Helvetica;">Three poems have posted at Thieving Magpie:</span></span></p>
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