Does This Mean I'm a Poet Now?
I just got a rather cool parcel in the mail -- two of my contributor's copies
for the 15th Anniversary Issue of
Sport Literate,
a Chicago-based literary journal focusing on "honest reflections on life's leisurely diversions."
You see, editor-in-chief William Meiners and I have been exchanging email for the past few months after
I sent some of my poetry to him. Apparently, Frank Van Zant,
Meiner's poetry editor, liked my stuff enough to include it in their current issue (he also used
one of my poems for their electronic newsletter back in November, 2010).
Two Minutes and Zebra
are both ostensibly about hockey, although if you read between the lines ...