I regularly search for blog posts, articles, and the like containing my name. Usually I limit my search to the previous week, but today, intent on updating my author listing in Poets and Writers, I searched on articles posted over the past year.
Every once in a while, I turn up a gem, and this was one of those times: a review of Possibilities, an anthology to which I contributed a poem.
Not only did the author love the book, but his favorite piece was my poem:
“I think, however, my favourite piece was the single poem in the anthology, Margaret Fieland’s ‘Neck Less’. Playing with the concept of ‘bracelet’, Fieland writes a witty piece about that which encircles; incorporating collars as, since she explains in the poem, very little rhymes with ‘bracelet’! Inferences between restraint and control play around each verse, and I think this is why this poem was my favourite…”
Check out the whole review:
http://reviews.futurefire.net/2013/02/mccalla-possibilities.html
You can download the book free from Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/251712
