Saturday, February 04, 2006

This from Carnegie Mellon: "The Man Suit was in our final seven. I regret to inform you that we will be unable to publish your collection this year. Your manuscript is a publishable one. Only a lack of funds and adequate staffing prevented us from publishing it."

Ouch. Ouch. This is starting to get ridonkulous (sigh).
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6 comments:

Adam Clay said...

Shezam.

Closer, closer. Soon.


CELEBRATE regardless.

1:59 PM
Charles said...

That's awesome, though! Way to go. It is only a matter of time (which sucks) and congratulations nevertheless.

3:40 PM
Denny Schmickle said...

Sometimes... I wear a suit just because.

9:18 PM
Anthony Robinson said...

Y'know, Zach--

There are plenty of (good) poets out there who would be grateful to have your success.

Your book will get published eventually, I have no doubt about that.

But I do have a question--why is it so important? It seems like every time I visit your blog you're lamenting about another contest you didn't win. I know--everyone who submits does this from time to time, but it seems like a main theme of "The Lovely Arc."

Anyway--this is not meant to be antagonistic, but Man! you've got it pretty good--a lot better than a lot of us.

Tony

8:43 PM
Zachary Schomburg said...

T,

I do understand that the arc has become a tad poetry contest lamentation centered--and I do worry about that some--but I am trying to create a blog that is a reflection of myself (though more po-centered--more like half poetry half non-poetry). Barely missing poetry contests is where I am at right now. And I am upset with it. To not talk about that would be equally blog-sinful. I'm keeping it real. I can't concern myself with the other poets that would love to be super close, that's not what the arc's about. Admittedly, I'm too obsessed with my manuscrip's publication (and I too know it will soon come) but I don't feel as if I can completely commit to the next one until this one has a bow on it. That skewed logic is a fault of mine, but that's me: what the arc's all about.

Ok. Now I am going to go post about going to the planetarium.

6:25 AM
kate said...

zach = keeping real.
keep it up.

7:23 AM

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