Updates!!

Hello out there in TV Land....



I am currently right in the middle of my residency here. Here are some pretty cool happenings:



Here's a review of my book by the SC Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth.



Metta Sama interviewed me for the Torch poetry blog.



ESSENCE Magazine published my poem "Lament" from _How God Ends Us_ in the September issue.



Upcoming: The State Newspaper will run a small story about me & the book & the official book party August 28 in Columbia, SC.

Forced reprieve

Last night I dodged a thunderstorm in the mountains. I heard stories from a friend who was here before I was who lost her laptop to the thunderous rains. She was trying to wade out the storm on her laptop. Her laptop is dead.

Thinking that I was smarter than that, I unplugged my laptop from the wall the two hours that the storm was passing through. You should know that my AC adaptor, for whatever reason, was already on the outs and I knew any extra electricity could possibly kill my computer or worse.

So, I tried to move my computer to a different part of my studio. This meant unplugging then re-plugging the laptop. My ac adaptor made a hissing noise then stopped working. Luckily the residency has a group computer for printing....but as of right now my computer is out of commission. I guess I am just blessed that it wasn't my hard drive.