Did you ever wonder what life would be like if you let your dark side take over?

Maybe it's not as bad as you think.

This piece explores the delightful devil inside:

Drug Dust Fairies and Fizzy Blue Seas

Kathleen Spivack is teaching an Advanced Poetry Workshop at the PARIS Writers Workshop in late June 2012 in France.*  A great conference; participants read their work in distinguished Paris venues. Please join Kathleen in Paris! It fills up quickly. For more info:
http://pariswritersworkshop.org

Kathleen Spivack's last book A History of Yearning was awarded the  Sow’s Ear Chapbook Prize, and the London Book Festival First Prize, among others. Recent work received the Allen Ginsberg Award, the Knightsville Poetry prize, The New Guard Review, selected by Charles Simic, and is a Pushcart nominee. “The Tolstoi Quartet’s Story” a novella, just won the Carpe Articulum Short Fiction Award.

Kathleen’s memoir With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Plath, Sexton, Bishop, Kunitz et.al. will be published in fall 2012 by the University Press of New England .Kathleen came to Boston in 1959 to study with Robert Lowell in that ”famous class.”  He introduced her to the poets of his time who took her under their wing. The memoir looks at personal friendships and work. It gives unique insights into the poets and the poetry.  Kathleen is available for readings and presentations. For further information and to pre-order the book, please contact
http://www.upne.com,  also katy.grabill@dartmouth.edu,  

I do believe that I might have ordered the last proof of my children's book! I've only been working on it for the past 2 years, but it's looking like I might be very close to being finished and ready to start marketing it! 

Two huge honors have come my way lately.  Former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser has chosen one of the poems from my latest poetry collection, In the Palms of Angels (Press 53) to feature in his national column entitled American Life in Poetry (sponsored by the Poetry Foundation) in 2013.  AND, I just found out that one of my poems has been chosen, along with 19 other poems by various authors, out of nearly 2,000 submissions, for inclusion in the 2013 Poet's Market.  I'm so over the moon about both of these things, I haven't touched the ground yet...  I feel very blessed and grateful!

Exciting news!  My autobiography, NO ORDINARY WOMAN, will be published and available for purchase on January 31, 2012 @ www.austinmacauley.com or www.amazon. com.  Here is the teaser promo I made for my life story.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKRAUlUfZU

It's happened! Amazon UK & US are now offering my Short Story collection, Claiming One.

My publisher (Inspired Quill) feels it has legs, and hopefully they'll be right. I was lucky enough to get a Cover blurb from Catherine Ryan Hyde.

Check it out, Kindle versions is up now, and paperback will be there in a week or so.

Here’s the Amazon links to the kindle editions

For a writer, God really is in the details.  Inspired by Robert Olen Butler, and a hummingbird hidden in the pages of the Jan/Feb issue of Poets and Writers, I talk about imagination, a profound experience at a young man's grave, and the power of metaphor.  I would love to hear your thoughts too.   http://www.pagelambert.blogspot.com/.

Page Lambert: All Things Natural. All Things Literary.

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To bitch or not to bitch...it really is the question. What's your answer? Beth Mann's latest  piece on Open Salon.

Unhinging the Bitch