Nancy Bevilaqua > Recent Status Updates

*...the attention IT DESERVES." See what I mean?!

I've neglected this book because my dislike of reading anything (especially poetry!) on Kindle has become so intense. I'm planning to buy a print copy and give it the attention It's also been hard to focus on anything at all while waiting for my son to hear from colleges about their decisions--now we have them!) it deserves... Stay tuned.

I can't tell from my Kindle app how many pages I've read, but I think I'm about a third of the way through. It's been crazy busy, and these are also poems that demand careful reading so that the reader can appreciate the craft involved in their making.

I'll be writing a blog post about it tomorrow when it's actually on, but I wanted to give advance notice to anyone who's interested that the ebook version of Gospel of the Throwaway Daughter will be free tomorrow (Wednesday, 2/18), for one day only. Please share this if you know anyone who might want to read such a thing :). http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Throwawa...

OK--I've put off writing this update for months. Kerouac is without question my favorite writer--I could read On the Road and any of his novels (and even the odd and heartbreaking Some of the Dharma) over and over, and never get tired of them, never stop finding yet more to move me in them. But I feel like some kind of heretic in having to say that I just can't get into these poems. Forgive me, dear Yack. I love you.

I just wanted to let everyone know that my new poetry collection, Gospel of the Throwaway Daughter is now available (the ebook will be available within the next couple of days). And joyful holidays to everyone! http://www.amazon.com/dp/150010759X

I just uploaded my first-ever YouTube video, in which I read two poems in support of #BlackPoetsSpeakOut. I need to work on the technical issues for doing this, but I hope to add video readings of more of my poems in the near future. Consider this a test-run... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IrBV...

In commemoration of World AIDS Day, I'm once again making the Kindle/ebook version of my book Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days free for the next few days.Please feel free to share this post and let your friends know...
http://www.amazon.com/Holding-Breath-...

Five poems from my chapbook to be, Gospel, came out today in the Fall 2014 issue of Menacing Hedge (along with a lot of other great work!):
http://www.menacinghedge.com/fall2014...

I'm kind of beside myself that one of my poems is a semi-finalist in Tupelo Quarterly's TQ5 issue, which just came out today. OK--I'm ecstatic...
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/i-drea...

My poem "Skating Alone in the Woods at Age Sixteen" is a finalist in this month's Goodreads Newsletter Poetry contest. To read the poems, and/or to vote (not necessarily for mine--just the one you like the best, and there are a few really good ones among the finalists), go here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I posted this in the Poetry group, but I honestly can't remember if I mentioned it here among my updates. In any case, I have a new Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nancy-...

(Obviously, I still haven't gotten the hang of posting links.) I'll be posting mostly poems (my own and others'), and music-related stuff.

Misplaced me bloody Kindle for a few days (living between two homes these days). I think I'd intentionally misplace it for good, if I weren't reading My Heart Forgets to Beat on it!

"eLPy"--a poet friend here on GR--just posted an interview she did of me on her website. It's pretty much all anyone could want to know about me, and quite a bit more (I kind of went on at length, it seems...). eLPy does do great interview, though. Here's the link:
http://littlefacepublications.com/201...

I'm finally getting a little time to sit down and read! So far I'm incredibly impressed by the quality of the writing. The fact that the story is about an English poet in Spain during the Spanish Civil War (of course I'm thinking about Lorca, who's already been mentioned several times) is really appealing to me, as I fell in love with the country and the poet when traveled to Spain for the first time at age 15.

OK, I just opened a Twitter account, apparently. I'm using it ONLY to post poems and read others' stuff; I don't plan to use it to socialize at all. So, if anyone's interested after that curt and bitchy remark, I'm at DreamersSongsPoems@NancyBevilaqua

or something like that. :)

I'll be posting a lot of my poems on my blog here at Goodreads, but I've also started a new blog for my poetry at: http://dreamerssongs.wordpress.com/20...

It's a little spiffier, or something, I guess, so I thought I'd let people know...