By the by, I discovered I nice little mention of myself here, under the Room of One's Own review.
Amazing what you find on-line. I'm on the authors list of a new paper in Physics Review D, too. I haven't read the paper, but I'm on the list. It tells you how far my life has come in the last ten years that I'm more excited about a. than b. Was a time a mention in PR-D would have made my day. Now I just wonder about their definition of "author."
Finally, I've discovered someone posting "Fall Haiku" to their blog. Credited, with a link back. I'm torn between being flattered to find myself between John Donne and Alice Sebold, and being irked to see my work posted without my permission. In the end, I decided to be flattered.
But I guess I need to say this: if you want to use something here, ask first.
This brings back to mind that for me, this blog is dicey business. You'll notice that all the poems on my main page have been published. That's because most literary journals will only take unpublished poems, and more and more of them consider appearance on a webpage as publication. (The legal definition has yet to catch up with the technology.)
On this site, Vivid, I post poems-in-progress, not finished work. In my mind, that makes this site more akin to a public reading than an online literary journal or magazine. It's part of my process. (For now -- it's an experiment.) But on somebody else's site -- that's a different matter.
In this case, I'm coming down on the side of flattery -- mostly because "fall haiku" is a minor poem I don't have publication hopes for, so I'm glad someone liked it enough to pass around.
Now, if it had been "Leah Names Her Sons," I'd be growly.
