I walk on concrete, I walk on sand

[sovay]

1. My poem "Graffiti" is now online at Stone Telling. I love the illustration—it's a recent photograph, but it looks like a frame from Cocteau.

Of the other poems, right now I think I'm most struck by Sofia Samatar's "The Sand Diviner," Koel Mukherjee's "Sita Reflects," and Erik Amundsen's "The Lend," but I would also draw attention to time_shark's poetry review of Not One of Us #45, since that never happens. This magazine just keeps getting better. I'm sure eventually they'll plateau. The wolf will eat the sun.

2. Two announcements, upcoming.

On October 30th, I will be performing the first three of Fauré's Cinq mélodies de Venise (1891) as part of Music to Cure MS. This is the same venue where last year I sang the "Embroidery Aria" from Peter Grimes. If you're in the Arlington-or-plausible area, it will be worth your while to check it out.

On November 9th, I will be reading at the Norwich Free Academy as part of the library exhibit Emma Lazarus: Voice of Liberty, Voice of Conscience. It's an evening of Jewish poets; I'll post more information when I have it, but right now I'm just sorry I won't be close enough to attend their related film festival. There may be a, what do the kids call it, secret project involved.

3. Happy birthday, rose_lemberg! L'shanah tovah, everyone else!

I have now been a published poet for a full ten years.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

L'shanah tovah.

Norwich, you say...

[sovay]

Norwich, you say...

Are you local?

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Ironically, it is the most difficult place in Connecticut to reach from Middletown; you have to go north or south a long way or backroads to cross the river, but, most difficult in Connecticut is not, by any means difficult.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That said, I really do hope to be up in your neck of the woods sometime in October... I'm not sure where September went, nor am I really sure it ever arrived...

[sovay]

but, most difficult in Connecticut is not, by any means difficult.

In which case I will tentatively hope to see you there, if not before.

That said, I really do hope to be up in your neck of the woods sometime in October...

That would be pretty awesome.

I'm not sure where September went, nor am I really sure it ever arrived...

Emrys only knows.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your ten-year anniversary. Your poems are a marvel and delight.

[sovay]

Congratulations on your ten-year anniversary. Your poems are a marvel and delight.

Thank you!

secret project

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Is that what the kids call it!

I always wondered.

Re: secret project

[sovay]

Is that what the kids call it!

Well, some of them, anyway.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ten glorious years! Here's to the next sixty.

Nine

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Ten glorious years! Here's to the next sixty.

Thank you. I'd like that.

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, indeed, on that anniversary. ;-)

[sovay]

Congratulations, indeed, on that anniversary.

And fiction for a month before that. You and lesser_celery can share the blame.

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

I'll be delighted to hang for that one. ;-p

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Yay for the anniversary! Congratulations!
And I'm thrilled to be even a tiny part of that.

As for the zine, it depends entirely on you guys - as long as you keep sending us even better stuff when we think it can't possibly get better, we'll get to showcase it! So consider the guantlet thrown :D

[sovay]

Yay for the anniversary! Congratulations!

Thank you! Time does this to people.

er...

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

the gauntlet, too.

Re: er...

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

But not the gantlet.

Re: er...

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I lack the arm strength for that.

[sovay]

But not the gantlet.

Someone could get hurt that way.

[sovay]

the gauntlet, too.

Heh. Accepted.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your decade! I look forward to the next.

[sovay]

Congratulations on your decade! I look forward to the next.

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

Happy ten-year anniversary!!

I wish I could go to that Jewish poetry evening...

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Happy ten-year anniversary!!

Thank you!

I wish I could go to that Jewish poetry evening...

If you find yourself in New England in November . . .

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

I haven't squeed here yet. SQUEE! Ten years! Here's to many many more!

[sovay]

Ten years! Here's to many many more!

Thank you!

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Yay for 10 years!
I grew up a little south of Norwich. Alas, I don't know the town well enough to provide any recommendations for restaurants, etc.

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Yay for 10 years!

Thank you!

Alas, I don't know the town well enough to provide any recommendations for restaurants, etc.

Is all right. I have more than a month to figure it out.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

L'shanah tovah!

I'm glad to hear of the concert and the reading. Wish I were close enough to attend.

I have now been a published poet for a full ten years.

That's wonderful. Congratulations!

[sovay]

Wish I were close enough to attend.

I'm getting the impression nobody is close to Norwich . . .

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm getting the impression nobody is close to Norwich . . .

I feel silly admitting this, but I'd somehow assumed there must be a Norwich, Massachusetts. Since it appears it's Norwich, Connecticut in question, I'll see what I can do, although I have to confess I've a bad feeling there might be something I'm already committed to on that day.

Thank you!

You're welcome!