Currently Reading Mississippi Sissy By Kevin Sessums see related

The thesis is drafted; that's a good thing.  It's going to be a bitch to format, though.  Seriously - ten plus pages of instructions for margins, abstracts, discussions of paper, etc.!  It feels good to have this (pretty much, at least) completed. 

So I've been accepted into the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Ole Miss.  And that's super-exciting.  Three years of writing poems, teaching classes, and reading books.  Not a bad deal at all.  And no "getting to know you" period necessary. 

And springtime in Oxford is an astonishingly beautiful time.  Oxford Conference for the Book is next weekend.  Conference in Pittsburgh the next.  Double Decker soon enough.  New York trip to see my Suz, too.  The next two months should be exquisite.

Oh yeah, and Richard Schwartz, the illustrious Jackson attorney, now refers to himself as "The Heavyweight" in his commercials.