2 poems, "Oklahoma" and "Harry" accepted by Vertebrae. They were very nice about it, seemed excited. I'm looking forward to seeing the issue.

Been moving forward with the short story collection. NAMING THE ANIMALS will be published by Mary Celeste Press in June, I believe. I've proofed it and we're tweaking the cover. I'd like to proof it once more before we go to press.

http://www.troubadour21.com/series/clbledsoe/the-idealists-part-xi/

"Not Ours to See," from the manuscript in progress "Habit of Doubt," or whatever it will be called, was accepted by Smash Cake, which actually pays a little. These poems deal with a period of my life that occurred a few years ago when Jillian and I were first living together and I underwent testing for Huntington's Disease. The manuscript isn't quite "there" yet, but people seem to like it...

"The Mouth"
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/clbmouth.htm

I had this idea I was going to write another series of month poems similar to the series in ANTHEM. I wrote one, "February", which was just picked up by Right Hand Pointing #33, guest edited by Howie Good.

http://thescrambler.com/apr10-contents.html

http://www.troubadour21.com/series/clbledsoe/the-idealists-part-x/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-idealists-part-x

http://thendoftheline.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/from-cl-bledsoe%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cmy-constant-wife-and-our-theoretical-children%e2%80%9d/

Christopher Newgent takes the last word in each line of a poem and makes it into a poem. He did one of mine...