New Year?

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Already? Again? Has this year flown by for you the way it has for me? Is this simply a function of age?

Some things don’t change: the painful idealism of young adulthood, the speed with which paychecks disappear, the idea that at some point everything will get done, the ease and frequency with which I contract viral illnesses…

In good news, Sam has a book coming out very soon! We’re making plans to be at AWP, and the Eastern Shore Writers’ Bay to Ocean conference, and we’re hoping to put together a reading tour. (Do you have or know of a venue looking for readers? Here we are!)

Our publishing history has been remarkably egalitarian in terms of taking turns. Years ago I was jealous that his book Suburban Myths had a spine. (Touch was a spineless chapbook. Thankfully questions for water has a healthy spine of its own.) This time Dark Bird will appear in both hard and paper back! Hard back with a dust jacket! Talk about arriving… We can’t wait to have them in our hands!

Massive congratulations to Sam, and thanks to Galileo Press for making it happen! Follow his updates at DarkBirdPoetry.com

And Happy New Year!

Published by Virginia Crawford

Virginia Crawford is a long-time teaching artist with the Maryland State Arts Council. She has co-edited two anthologies: Poetry Baltimore, poems about a city and Voices Fly, An Anthology of Exercises and Poems from the Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Residence Program from CityLit Press. She earned degrees in Creative Writing from Emerson College, Boston, and The University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Her book Touch appeared in 2013 from Finishing Line Press. She writes and lives in Baltimore with her family.

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  1. HUGE congrats, Ginny, both to you and Sam!! How wonderful that you two have become accomplished writers. I’ll try to “follow” both of you more. I switch back and forth between emails, and often don’t check this one as much; and I’m somewhat sporadic with Facebook. (Feels like I get sucked into it when I do go scrolling through my feed and groups I follow, & then time disappears… but I know, there IS sometimes good content there.)

    Wishing the best to both of you and your two young ‘uns.. all grown up now, I guess.

    And, golly, here we go into 2024! Yep, how on earth did that happen!? I pray all the horrific killing in Gaza ceases and that Netanyahu, somehow, comes to his senses… Praying somehow for a more peaceful world altogether… although peaceful times ahead don’t exactly look promising.

    Love and hugs to you two…
    Gerie

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