So the idea that I'm keeping up with my prose project weekly and in public has completely crumbled under the combined weight of teaching responsibilities, administrative responsibilities, and blah, blah, blah. I look at my calendar now and I wonder who I am.

But the good news is a new ekphrastic poem (about the Diebenkorn show in DC) has been taken by The Southern Review. So that means I am still writing a little here and there, even after having lost three new drafts when I stupidly didn't back up my work computer, I'm still writing about art because it makes me happy, and I'm still, despite my complete, utter, and fruitless obsession with long poems, able to write short ones too.

The other good news is that a few weeks ago I put an 11 inch MacbookAir on a credit card. It's a tiny little writing dynamo and now I can leave my crushingly heavy work computer at work. 

And besides that, this is my new favorite piece of music: