Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Does This Mean I'm a Poet Now?

Sport Literate 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 ...