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April 01, 2006
Good news and bad news.
Bad news first, sort of: University of Louisville doesn't want me for the Axton Fellowship. C'est la vie. I am not terribly upset about it. It's a cushy gig, to be sure, two-year appointment with extremely minimal teaching responsiblities and a halfway decent salary, but it's hard to get too bent out of shape about a fellowship that I desired, mainly, because UofL is so close to my house. Proximity is a good thing, but who knows if it's enough? I'm not sure I would have been happy for two years there, so it's a good thing they found someone who will be. And hooray for another poet moving to Louisville! It's wonderful that this position can attract hardcore talent to our little city.
Good news: The proof of my chapbook (chapbook and other terms defined, cover art here) arrived in the mail today! I need to do some copyediting, especially around the forced-for-page-width line breaks, but it's stapled together and everything, a real honest-to-gawd prototype. I think I will tweak the cover art every-so-slightly to darken the lightest gray that I use, as it's barely showing up, but otherwise the little guy looks fantastic. I'm excited to have an actual piece to pimp around town and beyond that it's not even funny. Next step: the launch party for The One-Hit Wonders. Any ideas?
Posted by eek at April 1, 2006 03:31 PM