working poet

You know what’s awesome? When you actually are doing the work you believe you’re supposed to be doing, and things happen as a result of it. I’ve been putting my poet hat on for at least a couple of hours every day and what a difference it makes! So, this post is a bit premature in that there are no links to give you yet, but here are the working poet things I’m doing:

1. Next week, I’ll be judging a poetry contest for freshmen at UIC.
2. I just did an author interview for the Collagist. I’m not sure when it’ll go live, but I’m really excited about it. It was tough to answer their questions because the poem they published was pretty confessional, and I didn’t know how much to say about the biography behind it. It would have been more fun to talk about a poem with a weird back story or inspiration, but that’s okay. I think I handled it well…and soon you’ll be able to decide for yourself.
3. I am going to be teaching an online workshop in August. I’ll probably post the link tomorrow. It’s going to be awesome!
4. I’m going to be reading at the Green Mill (super-famous home of slam poetry in Chicago) in my poetry whore get-up. And doing my first AWP off-site reading (also as my poetry whore alter-ego Factory Girl).

So I’m writing, and submitting, and getting my name out into the world in various ways. Next up, I need to apply to a couple of conferences for the summer and I need to start lining up some readings.

Now if I could just land one of the part-time jobs I’ve applied for and figure out my budget, everything would be peachy.

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~ by Sara on January 23, 2012.