I missed my last Friday Notebook post because I was absorbed in preparing for Friday night’s reading at HearthFire Books. It went well, I think. And I had the opportunity to announce a strange and wonderful streak of good luck. In the space of three weeks bridging 2011 and 2012, I had three new collections of poems accepted for publication. One is The Earth-Boat, picked up by Folded Word for release probably late this year. The second is Thread of the Real, accepted by Conundrum Press for publication sometime in the next 12 months.Read More