Hi, folks.
Thanks to everyone who has visited the site this month, I know I haven't been as consistent as of late - I appreciate your loyalty. And a special Thank You to anyone who has read and thought about my mini-rant on the "Criticism & Rants" page - I haven't been that productively incensed in a while.
All apologies going out to my weekly visitors for the missed weeks of poems - I've been sick for two weeks and haven't been able to sit at the computer between fighting the infection and my work schedule.
Let's get to the point. In order to cover my ass in terms of publishing rights I will be removing a select few poems from the site. As of today, I am submitting "The Dadaist Professor" and "Something Borrowed" to The Round Up - a literary e-zine that publishes essays, short stories and poetry - and those poems will not be visible on the site.
In order to have poems published elsewhere, I must give The Round Up exclusive rights to whatever I submit for a 60 day period. I will be adding them to my list of blogs I'm following so you have the opportunity to read my poems there, should they be accepted.
Once that passes, however, I plan on re-posting them to the site and if the poems aren't accepted, I will re-post them immediately. As I submit more poems to other contests and publishers, poems will disappear, but I will post another one of these messages to notify you of whether or not the poems will reappear, and at what date.
I hope you're all in good health and spirits. Wish me luck.
Your part-time webmaster and neighborhood angry black man,
A.L.J.
