Red Riding Hood's Sister accepted for publication

I just heard from Steven Schroeder at Virtual Artists Collective that their press is going to publish my second poetry collection, Red Riding Hood's Sister.  So that's exciting!

Now I need to start thinking about places to read it.  Festivals, book stores, women's centers.  My summer trip next year is going to be more about going places to read than hanging out in the forest! 

And workshops, I've got some workshop ideas too.  Lots of things to think about.

Here's a poem from it.  (It was published this last winter in Rat's Ass Review)

Carny

Why these memories 

of punk mermaids

at the all night carnival,

copper nipple rings

turning green from corrosive air?

The barker rasped the night with insults,

the Stones blared eight track

static fizzy on car

radio, shaggy heads

bounced to the music bingo

and she said no and no and no.

But she must have said yes

sometime, some spring

break, some wild

party night

yes to Jack Daniels and crawfish 

red on carny sticks, yes

to lying down under bleachers

yes to her torn heart.