Poem up at Barking Sycamores
My poem “What Kind of Person Are You?: Take the Quiz” is up at Barking Sycamores: https://barkingsycamores.wordpress.com/category/issue-four/ 3 more to come in the near future.
I used to have a pair of Garfield slippers, but during our move to Texas, one came loose from the top of the car and tumbled down the highway. I kept the other slipper for a long time after. Even once I outgrew him. I kept hoping his twin would find her way home.
My poem “What Kind of Person Are You?: Take the Quiz” is up at Barking Sycamores: https://barkingsycamores.wordpress.com/category/issue-four/ 3 more to come in the near future.
A Facebook like means, “I like this.” It means, “kudos,” “cool,” “congratulations,” “way to go!” A Facebook like means, “That’s horrible; I don’t like this.” A Facebook like means, “I was here,” “I’m still following your life as a friend or fan.” It means, “I agree,” “I understand,” “I wish I understood.” It means, “I … More Anatomy of the Like
I have three publications out currently. The first is a group of poems closing out a book (I believe 17 poems) called Too Much: An Anthology About Excess: Too Much The second is a project of the Literary Underground called This Is Poetry: Women of the Small Presses. It is the first of 8 volumes, and … More Three Publications
Be someone else.
1. Applicant: Thank you for your resume and interview but you do not meet our needs. We do not want candidates who have brown hair or talk about Game of Thrones. You should buy our journal of applicant standards to see if you fit the standards. The Corporation 2. Dear Celia, … More If All Rejections Were Like Journal Rejections
It says so on Google. I type in Heather wants and it tells me this is it. It must be the reason my dreams always end with his funeral (the one I didn’t attend) and why I pull the covers over my ears so I can’t hear the memory of him saying, “If I were … More Heather Wants to Invest $40 000
It is April and it is upstate and the small patches of melting snow might once again grow into the roads and need to be salted down before Spring begins proper. But today is finally sweatshirt weather, and tees for the brave or macho. Everyone has a dog again; everyone remembers how to ride a bike; the … More Hummdinger’s is Open
1. Be smart. Have some common or uncommon sense. Know not to stick your hand in a toaster or know the works of Chaucer. 2. Be addicted. To something. Be addicted to alcohol to drugs to work to sex to writing to reading to lists. Be addicted to not being addicted. 3. Give … More CFP [Call for People], or Call for Friend(s)
Three of my poems have been selected to run in the Literary Underground’s project “This is Poetry.” “Cicadas,” “He said something about Hemingway,” and “Scared of the Dark.” They can be found at: http://thisispoetry.tumblr.com/tagged/heather-dorn The first two have only been published in print until now. I’m very happy to have these out on the web now. … More Poems