Ken Nye - "Searching for the Spring"

Throughout my life and ‘careers’ I’ve always felt that though you may not create good fortune you can certainly put yourself in a place to receive it. 

We received this incredible email from Ken Nye.  Ken feels cautiously optimistic about the prospects but either way we feel that it is wonderful news.  After all, Ken has indeed worked hard to put himself in a place to receive good fortune.  Jim F 

“I've got to share this with you.  I had an hour and a half telephone conversation last night with a reviewer who was asked to read my book for the Portland Press Herald and, if she liked it, she was to write a review  for an up-coming Sunday edition.   Her name is Hannah Merker, a 73 year old author who is totally deaf.  (We were on a special telephone service call in which another person typed out for her all of what I said.)  She said that she is sent books all the time by the editor of the book section of the Press Herald "that are just terrible, but every once in a while I find a gem."  She loved it!!  "The way you phrase sentences is just beautiful."  Among other things, she told me that she thought there was a small publishing house in the Freeport area that specializes in only Maine related manuscripts. I told her that I had submitted my manuscript last summer before I was selected as EP's first Featured Poet. Hannah said she is FAXing my poems to Wesley McNair, the high priest of Maine poetry who has published a number of anthhologies of Maine poetry, teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington.  She also said I definitely should get an agent and she gave me the name of hers who "is in New York all the time."  She said she won't know for a while when the review will be in the paper, guessed it would be three to five weeks, so you may be here for the big day.  This could be the break that I've been hoping for. I was thrilled to get her call, and even more excited after I got off the phone.  She just kept saying positive things about the book.  I can't wait to see the review. I'll keep you posted.”

Ken Nye