Meredith -- what a riot! How did I miss your name? That is awsome. That makes it even more special to me!!

Ya know, I only even found out about it by doin' a Google search! No one notified me my poem was accepted! I think it's cool you are part of that group.

Every now and then I do a google search on my own name. That was how I found out about a few international finalist lists I had made it onto, though eventually one did mail me a notice by post and the other did let me know by e-mail that I had made their short lists. Those were short-story venues.

Anyway, when I saw this I e-mailed the Palabras site to inquire about the copy I am supposed to receive. If no one even notified my I was in the book, I doubted they'd bother to send me my copy of the chapbook!

Maybe you can nudge someone there on your end of the country, since I haven't received an answer to that e-mail. : 0 (

I did see on the site that they talk about picking up the books in person and participating in the reading, but surely I'm not the only displaced poet. They must have a system in place to deal with sending copies to poets who are out of the immediate area.

Well, let me know if you find anything else. I'll look forward to reading your poem now. And thanks for that description you gave mine. I thought that was pretty well said.

- gar