Over the last months there have been a few fun poetry developments. For example, my daughter was walking through downtown Urbana with her boyfriend and his father and they stumbled upon my poem near the parking garage. She seemed pretty proud. I don’t know yet, but this may be the pinnacle of my success! Time will tell.
In all seriousness, I did take part in a great reading about Illinois Rivers hosted by our Poet Laureate emeritus, Will Reger, at the Channing Murray Foundation a few weeks ago. We had such a great turnout! The readers included the wonderfully talented Janelle Davenport-Pleasure who is our current Poet Laureate here in Urbana. She’s amazing! You can read more about her here.
Also, the Glass Room Poets got some love from our local magazine, Smile Politely. You can read the article here.
And finally, I was long-listed for Palette Poetry’s 2022 Chapbook competition for my manuscript Twenty-One Farewells. One day it’s going to get published! I just hope I live to see it.