You may remember that last summer Toledo had a pretty bad drought, that pretty well prevented me from taking photos anywhere. We’ve been a bit dry recently, but of course we’re coming off that killer winter with near record-setting snowfall so I don’t know what to think. The thing is, earlier today I was out grocery shopping with my sister, and the cottonwood pollen was so bad (because there hasn’t been rain to take it out recently) that it looked like it was snowing, even…

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Publication Alert — My poem “Freddie Mercury” will be published in the July/August 2003 edition of Northern Stars. This is obviously big for me, as this will be my first publication, and the more publication credits I can get before applying to MFA programmes, the better. If you want to read the poem, though, you’ll have to buy the journal; sorry, but I’ve decided not to put any of my published works on here, for the sake of supporting the small publishers who work so…

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