Read two of my poems — “Cleaner” and “Longer,” from the series “By Degrees”– in the latest issue of Painted Bride Quarterly!
This issue just went online at the end of Sept. 2009 — but that doesn’t mean these poems are new. Painted Bride Quarterly accepted the poems back in August 2008; I submitted the poems to PBQ in January 2008. By the time the print version of this PBQ comes off the press in April 2010, my poems will have turned 3.
For a blogger, this kind of turnaround’s extra tortuous.
When I saw this article pop up in my RSS feed, the first question I had was, how long it took for PBQ to get back to you. They’re a bit notorious for being slow. AND they’re one of those pubs that doesn’t accept simultaneous submissions.
Comment by Don Hosek — October 22, 2009 @ 10:08 am
i’m a sucker for poems, little did you know?
I appreciate your views on things in your poems, parts of them resonate with me, and the others I get a different meaning of each time I read them. It surprises me, as it’s so different from the Siel I know, from smiley, altruistic, and positive, to reflective of both the lightness and darker sides of life’s quandries.
My fave is “Longer.”
Comment by Tiffany — October 27, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
Thanks Tiffany — No, I did not know you are a sucker for poems :) Do you write poetry yourself?
Comment by Siel — November 2, 2009 @ 6:46 pm