Tomorrow I leave for NYC. I will be there for a week before heading off to a month-long residency at Yaddo. Yes, life is hard.
I hear there's a freaking heatwave washing over the east coast this week. Damnit! I can't escape the heat.
I will be staying with my amigo Rigoberto Gonzalez.
Is "damnit" one word or two words? I'm too lazy to Google.
I haven't been to NYC since 2005. I can't wait to walk the streets, ride the subway, and eat some good food.
I'm looking forward to Yaddo. I've never stayed in a mansion. I do hope I don't get one of the big writers bedroom that also functions as a live-in studio. I had a live-in studio at Hall Farm. I want a studio! Is that too much to ask for?
I'm busying packing for my move to Hamilton, NY. Well, I'm not packing much since my future apartment is fully furnished. I'm taking about five boxes, plus my desktop computer. That's all.
Did anyone catch my little name in bold print in the current issue of Poets & Writers? It's on page 91! My mom asked me for my copy of P&W today. I'm sure she's going to mail it to her sisters in Fresno. She likes to brag a bit.
I've been writing a lot these past two weeks. Lines, images, and poem ideas are pouring out of me. I will discard 98% of this output but it does feel good to be writing again.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
9 comments:
Thanks for the Aaron Smith interview link!!!!
I always thought it was "dammit" with an em or "damn it" with the space.
Can I send a postcard to you at Yaddo, since I forgot to mail the one I had for you at Hall Farm?
Oye! Will you and Rigoberto be anywhere in the vicinity of the Bronx tomorrow night? My feature cancelled on me, so it'll probably just be the core hearty Acentos crew reciting poems to each other all night. But we like new people, especially ones who are featuring for us. :-)
Let a brotha know.
Rich.
Dammit, I was gonna say the same thing A.D. said. Damn it all.
(I want to hear allllll about Yaddo! Next thing you'll be getting a fellowship here in Provincetown or something and I shall simply have to expire with envy.)
Eduardo:
I owe you an e-mail; we need to choose a poem
for your ACENTOS/anthology reading broadside.
Perhaps you can choose three (that would fit on one page), and then I"ll make the final selection?
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I'm jealous as all get out that you're going to Yaddo. I really need to get off my ass and apply. Looking forward to your tales from the manse.
I saw the announcement in P & W about your going to Colgate Univ...a very hearty congratulations, Eduardo. They're lucky to have you. By the way, I also really liked your poems in The Wind Shifts, one of the best anthologies around. Bravo.
Enjoy NYC.
I just tagged you, DAMMIT!
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