It's a Mad World, After All

Negative Capability Press in Mobile is sponsoring a poetry book contest with a substantial prize. I thought, why not get together all my crazy poems, such as "Blam! Pterodactyl Time!" and "The Dance of the Ceiling Beams," enter them, and see what happens. So I went through the volumes on the computer, and found there are nearly a hundred of them, just about the right size of a book for the contest. All but ten of the manuscript poems must be unpublished, and I picked a few from Oak Mountain Echoes and The Lightness of the Dark, that sound a bit crazy, to include. If I write any more for this project, they'll probably be based on the crazy dreams.

The title will probably be It's a Mad World, After All. But it may not.

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Every day, I try to have a dish of fresh vegetables. Yesterday it was a large cucumber/tomato salad with ranch dressing, along with my chicken and dumplings. One day I had three veggie skewers--squash, onion, tomato, bell pepper. I think I have enough to make those today.

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Another project I'm thinking of is throwing a contest, either verse or short-short stories, sponsored by Rowan Wood Press, with a small entry fee which would convert to prize(s).