Scrivner

The New Yorker has issued its Top 20 Under 40 article that names ZZ Packer as one of those 20.  Besides the guy that wrote that weird novel that turned in a weirder movie about some Ukrainians that didn’t act like any Ukrainians I’m related to – I didn’t know anyone.

I do know, however, that ZZ Packer and I (Zed Zed as I call her being a Canadian) shared a list once, too.  I’d love to prove it to you but sadly the InterWeb is a temporary thing.  Making the Top Short Fiction Writers longlist in 2007 with ZZ  doesn’t count a whole lot when you’re begging for a Starbucks and she’s in the New Yorker.

But, hey, we ride on anyway.

Congrats to you, Zed Zed.  I always knew you’d make it big.

…is in a place I’ve never seen before on my Google searches called Wordletting.  Nifty name!  I was struck by the current issue they had at the time because no one, I mean like no one, publishes what may be considered ‘you-based poetry’ anymore.  It had to have some kind of a tilt or be about a psychotic cat or something.

So I dredged up a little something I wrote when I first met my way-cool friend B. (met being the optional word since we’ve never met in person) called “Jave Mocha“…which tuned out to be pretty darn coincidental since my way-cool friend B. lives in birthplace of the over-priced coffee.  Also, a very nice surprise, another writer acquaintance Christian Ward appears on the first page with his piece, “The Sea”.  Good work, man!  (How do I get moved from the fourth page to the first?)

A small dilemma – the poem situated next to mine, “Memories”…okay, I’ll just say it.  It’s WAY better than mine.  The title needs a bit of refreshment but wow, good poem.  Okay, so how do I get off the fourth page and get posted next to someone less talented?

Wordletting is holding on to my other two options for the April issue possibly.  Do you think they take bribes?