Little Things

“Well I’m on my way/I don’t know where I’m going/I’m on my way/I’m takin’ my time but I don’t know where.”

Wow! I’m just ecstatic. My very first Pushcart Prize nomination came in from everyone’s favorite spot to find up-and-coming Asian poets. Also a nomination from them for the Best of the Web award. The nominated poem, “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches,” is definitely my best, and I’m so glad that’s the one that got the nomination. Hell! I’m just fucking excited by this, excited by getting some assurance that I’m moving in the right direction. This, plus the chapbook…. There’s still a long way to go; I need a book and to win a prize. But who knows. And at least I’m making some headway. Damn! How cool.:-)

Hi, guys. Here’s issue 12 of Cha put together by the lovely Tammy and her intended, Jeff (who is cool enough, by the by, to have the initials “J.Z.”). I am in it. But please don’t just read me. Cha, you see is Hong Kong’s first English-language online magazine, and as a result, it attracts the attention of many awesome poets and fiction writers (as well as press from all over). Yessir, I’m quite proud of this one. In fact, despite Tammy’s gushing, I’m quite sure I’m not the best in the lot. So read ‘em all and tell me how terribly awful mine were comparatively. Or don’t. Well, just say something, you know. Otherwise I won’t know if you read them at all.:-)