For two years I did not post any news, even though I most likely had some news. But that’s all changing. Because below you’ll find plenty of news.

Lost It has gone into its fifth printing.

I’ve been selected by Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of San Francisco, as one of the winners for Poets 11, a citywide celebration of poetry in which local poets read at branch libraries throughout San Francisco.

I’m beginning to believe reports that there might be life on Jupiter’s moon Europa.

I attended the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference this summer and studied poetry with Claudia Rankine and she is extra-brilliant.

My first middle-grade novel, Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus, will be published in Summer 2009 from Delacorte Books for Young Readers. A second middle-grade novel will follow in 2010.

Ted Kooser, former US Poet Laureate 2004-2006, selected my poem "Rain at the Zoo" to be reprinted in American Life in Poetry - www.americanlifeinpoetry.org

Last week I was on a bus that broke down and we had to be evacuated in the middle of heavy traffic and it was pretty thrilling stuff.