Apparently I really like these two-word imperative titles. They work! I am writing and I am dancing because I found out yesterday that the truly wonderful Dancing Girl Press will publish my chapbook, A Woman Traces the Shoreline, in December of this year! They put out beautiful, hand-made books by women and I feel like I am in excellent company. I’m really honored.
So who is Nancy? Why, she’s me, of course. A friend, in congratulating me upon hearing the news, remarked that I have been such a “Negative Nancy” about my writing lately. We had been talking mostly about memoir, I think, but either way he’s right. I have been and it’s been for longer than just lately. So clearly that has to stop.
Between this great news and the equally wonderful project-in-progress with Kattywompus Press, it’s time to put on my party dress and my pretty shoes and get out on the dance floor and boogie.
Sheila squillante 
So someday let’s have a conversation about the difference between poetry and a well crafted and truly evocative paragraph. Of course I get the rhyming poems, but those (typically angry or otherwise full of angst) unrhymed ones….nada. I’ve asked many people, Eng. Profs, other writers, but nobody can clarify this for me. I love some poetry, Ted Kooser, a prior poet laureate for instance, but his mostly rhymes, mostly. But perhaps a real poet can lift the veil? Anyway I love reading these posts. XO
Dianne, I’d love to have that conversation with you! I’ll put on a pot of tea…