{"id":1534,"date":"2012-06-29T00:13:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2012-06-29T07:44:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T20:44:49","slug":"illyas-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Illya’s arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a very pleasant surprise checking my mailbox in our Himeji apartment a couple of weeks ago. As well as the usual utilities bills written in Japanese and ads for very expensive pizzas, there was a copy of Illya\u2019s Honey<\/a><\/em>, the bi-annual journal of The Dallas Poets Community. In this Spring\/Summer 2012 edition were two of my poems \u201ca cup\u201d and \u201cmy left hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems that the small presses are keeping poetry alive in many parts of the world, no doubt existing on a shoe-string budget and manned by volunteers giving up their own time to keep a labor of love extant.<\/p>\n

I love seeing my work alongside of others\u2019 I\u2019m not familiar with \u2013 in this case mostly US poets – and I still get a buzz knowing that my work has been printed (and read) on the other side of the planet. And I\u2019ve \u201cmet\u201d yet another Walker poet (Loretta Diane Walker) who\u2019s poem The Help\u2019s Daughter<\/em> I read serendipitously the day after I saw the \u00a0movie The Help<\/em> based on Kathryn Stockett\u2019s novel.\u00a0 A bonus \u2013 included in the envelope was a chapbook by Budd Powell Mahan, whose work is also previously unknown to me and wonderful, being a book of poems written on One Saturday<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was another US small publisher (The Red River Review) which nominated me for a Pushcart Prize<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Nothing against online publications \u2013 but let\u2019s hope the small presses continue to thrive and support creative artists around the world!<\/p>\n

Thanks Dallas Poets Community for your generosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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