On Publishing

Despite having a great track record, with hundreds of poems published, and garnering dozens of literary awards, I got so tired of being rejected, or coming in 2nd place to 3rd Honorable Mention on book contests, I gave up on ever publishing a book. Then a freakish car accident stopped me dead (well, nearly dead) for a few years, and I got out of the habit of submitting. I don't miss it now that I'm old and grey... but still....so, most of my work is right here on my blog. I guess it'll have to do at this august hour. Now I'm far too poor to even enter poetry contests, so it's the odd poem here and there that gets published, usually only by vociferous request.