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devohoneybee at 04:03pm on 13/10/2006
devohoneybee at 04:03pm on 13/10/2006there is no order to this list of ramblings. peruse at will.
Dexter. New show on showtime. ODD!!! I like it. Michael C. Hall, from Six Feet Under, gives it just the right touch of sympathetic monstrosity. (He helps cops find serial killers. Then he kills the ones they can't get enough evidence on to convict.)
My job, it is improving. We have a new director, yay! She is blissfully, normally competent at her job. We (my co-worker and I who comprise the mental health component of the V.A. program for homeless women we work in) can actually focus on helping the women -- doing therapy, groups, creating clinical materials, consulting to the Salvation Army staff -- rather than having to fight off the crazies of the last director we had. The work itself is difficult enough. These are women who have been using drugs or alcohol, who were raped or abused in their families or by the men in their lives, who were sexually harrassed or worse in the military, who lived in their cars, on the streets. Who have children, prayers, dreams. Who write amazing things in my writing class, given a chance. It's an amazing opportunity, and a sacred challenge. They kick my butt if I get it wrong. They break my heart, when I get it right.
My poetry. I have lots of it. Years of it. I want it published, but it's a vague, hand-wavy kind of wish. I need time, a clear, focused time, to print them out (hundreds of them), group them, figure out what should go out individually to poetry journals and contests, and what to group as a collection for a book. I have no idea how to proceed, except that I am supposed to research journals and contests. I've been daunted by this task for ages. To begin the process of clearing my head about this, here are some thoughts on groupings.
The Passion Road -- a collection of poems written about love and surrender. God as lover, Lover as god. Prayers, love poems, and poems of transformation.
Into the West -- a set of poems about my father, and his dying process.
Memories of Smoke -- 9/11 poems. Meditations on mortality. Poems about death, and release.
Miscellaneous poems -- poems on poetry, on nature, on the creative process, on New York in moonlight.
I think that's it. Of course, it doesn't cover my fannish poems -- but they're right where they need to be. (see link at bottom right of this page *s*).
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions re: poetry publishing, I'd love to hear it.
Dexter. New show on showtime. ODD!!! I like it. Michael C. Hall, from Six Feet Under, gives it just the right touch of sympathetic monstrosity. (He helps cops find serial killers. Then he kills the ones they can't get enough evidence on to convict.)
My job, it is improving. We have a new director, yay! She is blissfully, normally competent at her job. We (my co-worker and I who comprise the mental health component of the V.A. program for homeless women we work in) can actually focus on helping the women -- doing therapy, groups, creating clinical materials, consulting to the Salvation Army staff -- rather than having to fight off the crazies of the last director we had. The work itself is difficult enough. These are women who have been using drugs or alcohol, who were raped or abused in their families or by the men in their lives, who were sexually harrassed or worse in the military, who lived in their cars, on the streets. Who have children, prayers, dreams. Who write amazing things in my writing class, given a chance. It's an amazing opportunity, and a sacred challenge. They kick my butt if I get it wrong. They break my heart, when I get it right.
My poetry. I have lots of it. Years of it. I want it published, but it's a vague, hand-wavy kind of wish. I need time, a clear, focused time, to print them out (hundreds of them), group them, figure out what should go out individually to poetry journals and contests, and what to group as a collection for a book. I have no idea how to proceed, except that I am supposed to research journals and contests. I've been daunted by this task for ages. To begin the process of clearing my head about this, here are some thoughts on groupings.
The Passion Road -- a collection of poems written about love and surrender. God as lover, Lover as god. Prayers, love poems, and poems of transformation.
Into the West -- a set of poems about my father, and his dying process.
Memories of Smoke -- 9/11 poems. Meditations on mortality. Poems about death, and release.
Miscellaneous poems -- poems on poetry, on nature, on the creative process, on New York in moonlight.
I think that's it. Of course, it doesn't cover my fannish poems -- but they're right where they need to be. (see link at bottom right of this page *s*).
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions re: poetry publishing, I'd love to hear it.
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