My sister keeps sending me pictures from Nashville of the cicadas emerging and I’m so jealous!

Here's a lovely list to start your May submissions...I'll add Mississippi Review LEON Literary Review and TheMaineReview

After being exposed to an illness, who understands the reference, “I feel like I need a Silkwood shower?”

Now these are my kind of poems!

I tried to find a favorite line, there are just too many. 🧡

It’s that time of year where we try to “decipher wildflowers from weeds, deciding - if it blooms it stays.” Happy Earth Day! Thanks again to Wild Roof Journal for publishing this poem.

Well I didn’t win the chapbook contest I wanted, but my daughter gifted me another redheaded grandchild! They are not my bio children so I consider this a small miracle. Her 7 yr old cried when she saw her and said, “mommy did you make her?” Yes she did, women are amazing.

What symbolism is in a daytime visit from a pair of barn owls? 😳

What would make a submission that was “received” nearly a year ago, completely disappear?

I just received an acceptance from a journal I was published in once before. (which makes them my favorite now 😂)
Do you resubmit to journals that you’ve already appeared or do you strive to break new ground?

I love a poetry collection that brings back memories of your own childhood, shows the commonality between us. There’s so much to love in these poems Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

What journals like feminist themed art?

My writing cycle seems to be painful experience, nature poem, painful experience, nature poem...

How are you viewing your eclipse?

Why do all these forms feel like math!? How are some of you doing a form a day? Very impressive! My brain broke after the golden shovel.

Can you do a golden shovel with a song lyric or should it always be a line of poetry?

Ashamed to say I learned a new word today, “caesura.”
I always talk about the pause but didn’t know the name for it. Beautiful discussion on the New Yorker podcast with Ada Limon.

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Nothing like a Monday morning acceptance to chase away the mulligrubs. 🙂

I love this! I’m going to give this daily calendar a try for NaPoMo. I may need to lock myself in the guest room so no one can ask me, “what’s for dinner?”

Sharing this for the weekend crowd :)