Blog Posts for Maureen Sherbondy

What We Don't Get

Maureen Sherbondy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:37:33 -0800

What We Don’t Get My fantasy goes something like this: I enter a poetry contest and win first prize. The famous Duke professor/ poet or the North Carolina Poet Laureate phones me personally to inform me of the good news. He says I wish I had written it myself! I call every person I have ever known, receive a check for a thousand dollars, and my poem appears in a ...

The Financial Reality of Poetry

Maureen Sherbondy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:11:03 -0700

I've been getting my poetry published for 16 years now. After publishing more than one hundred poems in literary journals I have received: contributor copies, a check for 7$, a check for 88$, prize money of 100$, 50$, and 25$. When I think of the cost of sending my work out (ink, paper, postage, the yearly edition of Poet's Market, pens, etc.), I sometimes wonder why I continue to bother. I know, ...

Web Invasion

Maureen Sherbondy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:39 -0700

This is a Halloween story that originally appeared in moonShine Review. It was also reprinted in the Chapel Hill News. Web Invasion Webs first took up residence inside the yard, coating bushes and grass in an autumnal veil. The spiders weren’t visible in daylight. They worked at night. Small ones and large ones, black and tan ones. Busy as hyperactive knitters on a mission. ...