Sarah Lippmann, Rebecca Fishow, Sandra Simonds, Lisa Borders, Anne Starr, John Compton, Millicent Borges Accardi, Jennifer Bannan, Susan Rich with Jennifer Markell and Erin Murphy (Birdbrains Anthology), Wayne-Daniel Berard
Eileen Pollack, George S. Peterson, Ellen Kombiyil, M.K. Jackson, Chad Parenteau, Kerry Beth Neville, Lawrence Kessenich, Linda Carney-Goodrich, Amy Alvarez, Kurt Baumeister
Doug Crandell, Mathew Olzmann, William Orem, Martin Ott, M.P. Carver, Phil Temples, Mag Gabbert, Robert Fleming, Danielle Legros George, Michael Keith, Mark Wish
Marianne Leone, Tiffany Davenport, Jennifer Friedman Lang, Ray Guidrox, Gary Grossman, Elizabeth McKim, Carla Panciera, Dr. Dannagal G. Young, Ellis Elliot, Enzo Silon Surin, Josh Barkan, Laura Zigman, Tom Laughlin
Suzanne Frischkorn, Kim Addonizio, Thomas McNeely, Jenna Le, Sarah Bridgins, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Lise Hanes, Dr. Paula Perez, Michael Mark, Maya Williams, Hannah Sward, Caitlin Avery, Carla Swartz, Stacy TenHouton, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Morgan Baker
Jonathan Papernick, A.K. Small, Aaron Tillman, David Rockland, Kimberly Ann Priest, Sain Griffiths, Harris Gardner, Lisa Taylor, Michael Keith, Jim Shepard, Zach VandeZande, Rusty Barnes, Daniel Nester. Kurk Lovelace (reading from Annemarie O'Connell's book), and Nina Shope
Sara Lippmann, Robin McLean, Gregory Orr, Rich Murphy, Diane Suess, Ron Tanner, Aleathea Drehmer, Christina Adams, Sharon Applegate Greenwald, Lucas Scheelk,
Joseph Milosch, Barbara Legere, Ellene Glenn Moore, Vincent Cellucci and Chris Shipman
Maybe the issue with the printing mistake can become collector's items. Historically, these things become potentially valuable, even when unintended.
Does anyone remember Billy Ripken's baseball card? Billy had a card that became one of the most valuable cards of all time. Why? When posing for his annual baseball card, he grabbed a bat he had marked with a marker on the knob so that he wouldn't use it in a game. He did this for all his batting practice bats. What he wrote on this one was "Fuck Face" which no one at Fleer noticed until it was too late. Then pulled production and photoshopped the Ripken card, but the ones making it out into the world became valuable collectors' items.
As for the poem itself, I was joking with someone about being a stalker and was challenged to write a funny poem about it. (Then they stopped talking to me. I swear.) It is part of my orb series and part of my next book These New Orbs.
Christal interviewed me about of the emotions behind the opening excerpt which was reprinted in the interview, but the real emotional turmoil was the writing of one of the main characters, and the events around him which mirrored a very difficult year in my life. Many of the things which happened to Lucky, also were things I also struggled with, in the year before I started writing the Shadows of the Seen.
As they say, for more information on that, read all about it!
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