Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. (Don Marquis)

If any of my poetry friends are interested in writing and publishing a review of Lines of Flight, I invite you to contact me at: catherine.chandler.poetry@gmail.com

So far, reviews have appeared or are scheduled to appear in: The Raintown Review, New Walk, Shit Creek Review, First Things, and Alabama Literary Review - venues originating in the US, the UK and Australia. Still waiting for a Canadian reaction . . .

I invite you to visit my other poetry blog/website, The Wonderful Boat.

I'll be reading from Lines of Flight and some new pieces at the Poetry Invitational event - StoryFest, Hudson, Quebec, on:

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011

7:30 P.M.

I'll be reading from Lines of Flight and some new poems this coming Saturday, September 10, 2011, at the Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, Massachusetts, at 3 p.m.

Everyone's welcome -- I hope you'll be able to make it!

Cathy

Dear Friends,

My last blog entry was June 29. A few minutes after posting it, I received a phone call from my sister, tellimg me doctors had found my mother had a brain tumor. Hugo drove me down to Wilkes-Barre the next day and I stayed by her side until her death on her 81st birthday, July 10. Her memorial Mass was this past Monday.

Now that Lines of Flight has been released, I have begun work on my second collection, tentatively entitled Winterbourne.  So far, I have around 40 pages of poetry, including my sonnet sequence "Seven Deadly Sonnets".

I'm thinking about including five or six of my English translations of French-Canadian poets (Nelligan, Dantin, Fréchette, Lozeau, LeMay) but at the same time feel this might put off US publishers. Maybe two MS versions, one for Canadian submissions, another for US, UK and Australian.

While I was away in West Chester (from June 7 to 12th) I entered my thoughts and impressions on the Eratosphere blogs here:

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/blog.php?u=3193

I imagine many of you have read them already.

Suffice it to say, the conference was a wonderful experience. I met many of my "virtual" poetry friends for the first time, made many more, and reconnected with others I had already met in the past.

I can hardly believe it -- tomorrow I'll be on my way to the West Chester Poetry Conference!  I've been longing to attend this conference for years, but for one reason or another, have never made it. Until now.

And thanks to a full scholarship from the University, I'll not only be attending, and taking part in Alicia Stallings's master class, but, as you all know already, reading on the First Books Panel on Wednesday afternoon.

In a week's time, God willing, I'll be at the West Chester University Poetry Conference, reading from my book, Lines of Flight, on the First Books Panel, June 8, at 2:30 p.m.

I'm hoping to recite nine poems from memory, including a special request, "Matryoshka", one of Rhina Espaillat's favorites.

I'll be pretty busy this summer and into the fall as well, with readings scheduled (so far) here:

Wednesday, June 22, 6:30 p.m., Half Moon Café, Hudson, Quebec