Adrian S. Potter

Despite the lack of posts lately, I'm not dead.  Trust me.  In fact, I can even supply proof of my continued existence:  a new poem published online over at Prairie Poetry called Finding Religion on Interstate 80. 

Prairie Poetry has been online since 1996, offering bi-monthly images and poetry from and of the North American plains - poems to feed the vast open places of the soul.  Click here to check out my poem or here to check out the July 2008 edition of Prairie Poetry.

My poem Last Call Confessional is now viewable online as part of the inaugural issue of Asphalt Sky. 

Asphalt Sky’s goal is to connect audience and author, and create a little virtual space for a vibrant artistic community.  The first issue is chock full of fresh poetry, fiction, and art.  Check it out by clicking here.

The Spring 2008 issue of Denver Syntax is now online.  Denver Syntax is a literary, art, and music review based out of (you guessed it) Denver.  The writing in it is edgy and provacative, and its format and style are top notch, in my humble opinion.

Anyway, I am lucky enough to be in this kick-ass issue of Denver Syntax.  I have two poems included in the issue, When I Speak of Life and Burn Everything Down and Start Over.  Much thanks to editor Jonathan Bitz for the chance to contribute.  Go on check out my poems and the whole issue.  C'mon, it's just a click away.  You know you want to.

I have work in the inaugural edition of Imagine, the Arts Ministry Journal of Imago Dei. My poem Conversation with an Atheist appears in this new magazine dedicated to expressing Christianity through the written word, visual arts, and creative arts ministries.

I also have new work – three poems to be exact – in the third edition of MO: Writings from the River. MO: Writings from the River is the journal of the Montana State University - Great Falls Literary Guild, published annually.

I’ll have work later this month in the upcoming first edition of a new online journal, Asphalt Sky. When it is online, I’ll post up a link.  Also in May, I'll have a poem in the online journal Prairie Poetry.

More of my work will appear in Talking Stick later this year.  My poem Minnesota and my micro-fiction piece False Hope have been selected to be part of this Minnesota literary journal.

As far as my goal to write 100 works in 2008, I am right on pace. I count 26 poems, 2 short stories, and 1 ranting piece in various states of disarray. I’ll keep on the grind, I suppose.

Finally, in the coming weeks, I’ll be doing work as a guest blogger (somewhat ironic, considering the erratic pace of the posts I make on my own blog) at Scribes’ Tribe Scribblings ), a unique and helpful writing website/blog that was spawned by a writers’ critique group. I’ll post more a little more about this guest blogging stint tomorrow. Until then, be good…

My poem Mistakes is the featured poem this week for What Light:This Week's Poem. 

Mistakes will appear here, on the Magers and Quinn website, for this week only.  It will also appear here, on mnartists.org, where it will be archived forever...I think.

The What Light reading on Sunday was uber-cool.  I was one of four poets who read work, and there was a lot of energy and diversity in the poetry that was shared.  And the (free) wine samples from Artisan Vineyards were terrific.  Good times, good times.  I can only hope that I get lucky enough to be part of What Light again in the future.

My poem, What the Dealer Didn't Tell You About Heroin, was just published over at the super cool literary magazine Cherry Bleeds.  Go on, check it out - you know you want to.  Click here to read that poem.

While you are there, read some of the other great writers in the February '08 issue, too, including Michael K. White, Scott Casale, and Daniel S. Irwin.  Click here to check out Cherry Bleeds - it's like no other online lit mag you've ever read.

If you didn't catch my poem Why I Believe in Monsters the first time I mentioned it, it is now also featured on the Poets for Human Rights website.  More exposure is a good thing for a writer, right?  Click here to give this poem a read, if you haven't done so already.  It is a strong social commentary on today's crazy world.

Not much else going on, which is why I haven't blogged lately.  I just received my first two rejection notices of the new year.  I'm actually glad to get that unpleasant (yet necessary) evil out of the way.  Now I am just waiting (impatiently) for the first two acceptance notes and the first two contest wins of the year - yeah, I'm greedy.  Be good...