I don’t think I had a proper appreciation a year ago how insane my life and Patti’s life would be right now. We are busy bees, so suffers the blog. I wanted to post stuff on other presses, cool reading series around the country, interesting books. Yeah, that has kind of gone out the window.

Instead, here’s what we’ve been doing and learning in March, which even isn’t our busiest month, yet.

1. Paper from Nepal is delicate. Ink bleeds all over the place.
2. In-Design was made by a sadist.
3. Printing presses in our book arts department is absolutely incredible.
4. Coincidence can be the greatest funder of the arts.
5. Flood lights are relatively inexpensive.
6.  45 poets is a lot of freaking poetry.
7. 30 poets at 5′ a piece is still a lot of freaking poetry.
8. “On Time” is relative statement.
9. Grant writing gets harder the more you know. So does poetry.
10. Cool and hip small town venues always have one foot in the bankruptcy grave.
11. A fine line between the curt email and the succinct one/
12. A fine line between the detailed email and the impossibly dense one.
13. Hobby Lobby is Patti’s second home.
14. Adventure is a relative term.
15. Undergrads are open to the world in ways lecturers and professors are not.
16. Our Fall reading will take place on more than 8 miles of trail total (but in 4 hikes).
17. A great first poem makes me want to read an entire manuscript.
18. Book Arts/Renegade Arts is where the heat exists in poetry, the love.
19. We have enough pots, enough burners, enough cooks–but that doesn’t make it easy.