i submitted some stuff last night, and made an excel file of places i’ve already submitted to and places i intend to submit to, to start keeping track of things better. i ended up with 25 things on the list (so far). it made me realize just how much effort i really should be making to get my work published. seriously, i have hundreds of poems (at least two or three small book-length collections by now) and a bunch of short stories, and then of course, there’s the novel which is not finished and i have a second book of fiction brewing in my head.

but the point of my post: i submitted one poem that i wrote very recently to a call for work for an anthology. i just got an email from the editor who said “beautiful poem” and accepted it for publication

yippee! my first poem published in an anthology (rather than a periodical).