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http://thelitpub.com/an-interview-with-sheldon-lee-compton/ Author Jody Paloni is doing this great project called 365 Short Stories in 2013, and I was so thrilled to find I’d made her list. She blogs about her week here: http://jpaloni.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/365-short-stories-week-3-short/ I didn’t grow up like this, but Richard Blanco is so eloquent in Making a Man Out of Me at the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-blanco/making-a-man-out-of-me_b_2507024.html Superstar: An excerpt from Susan Steinberg’s amazing story collection, Spectacle is up at Nervous Breakdown: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbfiction/2013/01/superstar-an-excerpt-from-spectacle-by-susan-steinberg/ Meg Tuite’s got a killer poem at Clutching at Straws, “Not Always a Happy Place”: http://clutchingatstraws.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/not-always-a-happy-place/. And you can also read Meg’s story at the January Bartleby Snopes, and please vote for it: http://www.bartlebysnopes.com/diggingtofreedom.htm This could make you bawl…Matthew Salesses at The Good Man Project: http://goodmenproject.com/families/i-will-be-alone-but-not-alone/ A poem, I Go To The Mall For A Knife by Dorianne Laux, stayed with me for days, at Cortland Review: http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/12/winter/laux.php – 1 I’m not sure where I got turned on to Madison poet Adam Fell, but here are two of his stunning poems in Diagram: http://thediagram.com/9_1/fell.html Get ready for author Alex Pruteanu, he’s gearing up for the release of Gears: A Collection: http://swine.wordpress.com/gears-a-collection/ Bonnie Zobell’s new book, The Whack-Job Girls is out and ready for purchase (plus, watch that incredible video!): http://monkeypuzzlepress.com/books/the-whack-job-girls/ So, in a week of Presidential Inaugurations and Martin Luther King Day, the 40th anniversary of Roe versus Wade and Serena Williams passing the potential torch to fellow teenage American Sloane Stephens in the 2013 Australian Open…what are you paying attention to? What inspires you? Motivates you? How are you going to impact changes in your life in 2013?        ]]>