Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize

My collection, "Magnificent Errors," is the recipient of the 2020 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize and will be published by University of Notre Dame Press in the spring of 2022. I am grateful to the judges, Orlando Menes and Joyelle McSweeny.

I am fighting the good fight up the hill. Here is my second collection SEVEN (3: A Taos Press, 2013). It is a good book as I feel it is much stronger and more cohesive than PITY THE DROWNED HORSES which came out in 2005. Please consider checking out SEVEN if you haven't done so. It can also be purchased at
the Small Press Distribution Website.




http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Sheryl-Luna/dp/0984792511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394160289&sr=8-1&keywords=sheryl+luna

Thanks

This is the most recent painting. It's my 13th. It looks a bit better from a distance. I am slowly improving. Wrote two drafts of poems yesterday as well. Trying to type up manuscript #4, but procrastination has come. Will type two poems this week. That's my goal. I have a title for the fourth collection. Scared mostly about finding a publisher for #3 and #4, but pleased that I have written so much in the last year.

Thinking a lot about compassion for myself. And others. Thinking about the poems of Alfred Corn (Contradictions) and Robert Creeley (Earth). All alone in cyberspace. Thinking about anonymity as a poet, but more so how I am learning some things about letting go of ego. Just beginning, but starting where I am. It is difficult to let go of ego, to move on towards joy. But that's where I want to go.

I think this is my 12th painting.  I was going to take a class in painting with acrylics, or 6 classes at the Active Adult Center in Wheat Ridge, but it will have to wait until later.

Here are my sunflowers. They need more work than I thought. I think this is the 9th or 10th painting and people say I am too hard on myself-- in general of course. So I wish I'd added more petals, but it's okay. Will try to add more detail to purple flowers which are supposed to be morning glory.

Here are two more paintings I did at the Living Arts Co-op

http://www.livingartsco-op.com/

I'm still enjoying painting. I'm a beginner, and I'm too hard on myself!!!