I'm feigning modesty, I'm holding it together. Yet what I really mean is: !!Best!! of the !!!Net!!!Nomination!!!!! And then a Kermit the Frog yell: YAY!!!!!!!!! What about: Composure? Dignity? Impassivity? NAH. I'm too happy. YAY!!!
My thanks to my favorite flappers: Elizabeth Gracen, the gracious boss (look her up) who wrote me a beautiful letter, and Annie Newcomer, poetry guru who chose my poems and interviewed me. What a dynamic duo! Clayton E. Clark wrote the nice notes on the BotN nominations page below. Thanks to her too. So, twice thrilled, once when my work came out in the Flapper Press Poetry Café and now in their BotN nomination for my poem, "Gull Eggs."
"Gull Eggs" is based on the book, Wilderness, by painter Rockwell Kent but also comes from my family history in the early days of Seward, Alaska. I bought my copy of Wilderness in the bookstore/coffeehouse that used to be the Methodist Church that my great-grandfather built by hand. For members of my family a trip to Seward is a pilgrimage.
Okay, after this honor and the implicit message that someone somewhere thinks I don't stink as a poet, I can retire. Ha! Not likely. I've got lots of new stuff to send out and hope, fingers crossed, I get a response similar to that of the incredible Flapper Press!
Stay tuned.
https://www.flapperpress.com/post/best-of-the-net-nominations-for-poetry
This is my first time coming to this page. I just wanted to wish you the best of luck and tell you, I just loved your poem in The Wise Owl.
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