Guess who got a nice mention in this week's Arkansas Times?
Success in the world of poetry and a $5 bill will buy you a cheap hamburger, but bragging rights and publication in a well-regarded journal might at least make the hunger pangs easier to bear. Scott Standridge, a Little Rock writer who programs computers to pay the bills, was a finalist for the 2007 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award...
Standridge's entry, “Noir, #28,” clothes classically Shakespearean themes in a Humphrey Bogart trenchcoat, describing a man's sensual but deadly encounter with a femme fatale.
Yes, it pays to be charismatic, intriguing, and talented. Of course, it also pays to have friends in the field of journalism. But however I get it, I'll take it and like it!
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