TO-DO LIST

Wow. It's really true: everything takes much much longer once one becomes a parent. I believed it intellectually but never really understood it until I became a parent myself. E.G., here's a literary to-do list below (which I blog to not forget to do) which, pre-parenting, I would have done a month ago in addition to have created a hundred new poetry manuscripts (grin):

--proof/print next Meritage Press anthology
--contact anthology participants for mailing logistics of contributor copies
--proof next Meritage Press poetry collection
--calculate and pay state taxes for Meritage Press
--revise chap manuscript
--write two book reviews
--write up a blurb for a forthcoming poetry book
--write a letter of recommendation for a poet
--update art blog

What doesn't fall behind as much, though, is the fitful reading this insomniac does. To wit, here's my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List.

SPRING/SUMMER HARVEST:
1 stalk of "miner's weed"
100 stalks of green onion
97 strawberries
2 artichokes
2 cherries
7 zucchini
4 stalks of scallions
3 summer squash
6 cucumbers
34 tomatoes
1 fig


PUBLICATIONS
EXHIBITS, poem by John Yau (mischievous delirium)

SALINE, poems by Kimberly Lyons (so many poems are wondrously delicate)

APPARITION POEMS by Adam Fieled (admirable. deceptively multi-layered)

THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Robert Hass (Dude decided to relax in his newer work...)

KING OF THE JUNGLE, poems by Zvi Sesling (unornamented and totally effective poems)

THE PRECARIOUS RHETORIC OF ANGELS, poems by George Looney

THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT, curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios (yes it's out in book form! But it's a proof book, so it'll take a few more weeks to straighten out some last minute details...but all very exciting to see it!)

DEAR SANDY, HELLO: LETTERS FROM TED TO SANDY BERRIGAN, Eds. Sandy Berrigan and Ron Padgett (fascinating. compulsive reading--I meant to flip through the book when it first arrived and instead ended up reading it all in one sitting)

WALANG HIYA: LITERATURE TAKING RISKS TOWARD LIBERATORY PRACTICE, Eds. Lolan Buhain Sevilla and Roseli Ilano (nice to see younger generation of poet-editors come up)

MiPOesias, Summer 2010, literary/arts journal, Ed.Didi Menendez

THE ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW, Spring 2010, Eds. Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis and Gerard Maa (kewl. And, just accepted invite to serve on its Advisory Board)

HOUSE ORGAN, Summer 2010, literary review edited by Kenneth Warren

THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH: THE TRUE STORY OF A THIEF, A DETECTIVE, AND A WORLD OF LITERARY OBSESSION, journalism by Allison Hoovert Bartlett

WISDOM OF THE LAST FARMER, memoir by David Mas Masumoto

RESCUE INK: HOW TEN GUYS SAVED COUNTLESS DOGS AND CATS, TWELVE HORSES, FIVE PIGS, ONE DUCK AND A FEW TURTLES, memoir by Rescue Ink with Denise Flaim

SCENT OF THE MISSING: LOVE & PARTNERSHIP WITH A SEARCH-AND-RESCUE DOG, memoir by Susannah Charleson

NEVER LOOK AWAY, novel by Linwood Barclay

TOO CLOSE TO HOME, novel by Linwood Barclay

CREATION IN DEATH, novel by J.D. Robb

THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE, novel by Mary Higgins Clark


WINES
2006 Aubert chardonnay
Tra Vigne house chardonnay
2009 Dutch Henry sauvignon blanc Chafen Family Vineyards
2006 Dutch Henry merlot Yountville
1983 Graham's vintage port
2007 Rebellious Red NV
2005 Joh. Jos. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese