Into the home stretch

It's almost mid-February and we are rounding the final turn, heading into the home stretch for our 2009 poetry chapbook contest. It's exciting for us as we will soon be publishing yet another NEW book (which we thrive to do). I am one of the readers but as this is a blind submission process, only Kate (the non-poet) actually sees all the raw submissions before dividing up the stacks and sending them off to our various readers, who then send their favorites to our JUDGE. This year that would be Deborah Ager of 32 poems magazine.