Just receieved Luke Johnson's brand new book, After the Ark , and having already read it through more than once, I implore all remotely interested parties to order a copy (or several copies) now.  I mean now.

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2011 has been very good to me so far.  Most of this is old news on Facebook, but whatever. In the first week of January I received a $7,500 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation in support of my first full-length manuscript, had a poem ("Ruin") picked up by online hotshots, Blackbird , and won the 2010 Codhill Press Poetry Chapbook Award for my ms., The End of the Folded Map. All I can say is, "wow." And, of course, "thanks."