GUD magazine

I've been posting really abstract things lately, so let's get concrete. I am posting this because I am procrastinating. I already let myself sleep in an extra three hours, but what's the harm in a wafer-thin blog to top it off?

My poem "Deadman on the Titanic" is going to be published by GUD (pronounced good) magazine. GUD stands for Greatest Uncommon Denominator. It is my first paying publication! =)

And I've always always wanted to get into GUD. It might as well have been Tin House from where I stand or Fairy Tale Review. I am moving up in the world.

That poem is really special to me, actually. It's the first poem I wrote that I felt really good about. I mused over it for quite some time, wrote it, revised it over and over, and the presented it in Gerald Locklin's poetry class. It made the whole class laugh really hard (in an ordinarilly quiet class), and the meanest kid in the class gave me a backhanded compliment. He said, "It was so good. I don't think you understand why it's good, but it was hillarious." Ugh. Thank you for your expertise. I didn't write it randomly, I had all kinds of undertones I hoped to get across, and while I'm glad he got them, he could have been less of a dick about it. Joke's on him. He didn't get into the MFA, and I did. Also, this poem is getting published and paid for, and vindication is nice.

This was supposed to be a happy blog, where did all this hate come from? I'll stop there. Anyway, this poem and I have been through a lot together. And I'm happy to hand it over. I feel very proud.