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As an aspiring writer of poems, I am compelled from time to time to submit my work to magazines--both print and online.

I was fortunate enough to be published in the Berkeley Poetry Review for the past two years, and I'm happy to report that I've been published on an online literary magazine:

SOFTBLOW

Check it out!

Persimmons

by Li-Young Lee

In sixth grade Mrs. Walker
slapped the back of my head
and made me stand in the corner
for not knowing the difference
between persimmon and precision.
How to choose

persimmons. This is precision.
Ripe ones are soft and brown-spotted.
Sniff the bottoms. The sweet one
will be fragrant. How to ( Read more... )

I've started a new wine blog:

http://vinicultured.wordpress.com

I will also continue to post on LiveJournal, but I'm going to focus on Vinicultured for a while.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

 I am taking a creative writing class at Pasadena City College, and while I have received some good feedback regarding my poems it is difficult to really grow when a majority of the students are prose writers.  Short stories, novels.  Even a book on copyrighting (which seems very useful).

Granted, they have provided me with the insights of years of ( Read more... )

We are making dinner.  It is growing dark outside.
Autumn makes herself known on our countertops:
persimmons, quince, pomegranates.

There are 613 seeds in every pomegranate, you say,
which for the Jews represents righteousness.
All I can see are paper skins rouged with vermilion
and, beneath that, the red fruits heavy with juice.

If it is true that each ( Read more... )

 Autumn is one of my favorite seasons because it is the most refined.  There is a gentle quality to the autumn, how the heat fades as gradually as the colors on the leaves.  Death is beautiful, none as beautiful as that of the summer.

At this time I ask myself if I am happy.  I am not unhappy.  But there seems to be something more that could be ( Read more... )

you face me ( Read more... )