A Brief Update from Geoffrey

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

Hello friends,

I wanted to share a quick update as I slowly make my way back into the swing of things here at BlazeVOX. As many of you know, I’ve been out of commission for a bit with a significant leg injury. This past Thursday marked a small but meaningful milestone: I had 32 staples removed from my knee—yes, thirty-two! For a moment there, I looked a bit like I’d borrowed a zipper from a well-loved winter coat.

The good news is that everything is healing exactly as it should. I’m still very much in recovery mode, and that will continue into January, but each week brings improvement and a little more mobility. I’ve started easing back into work, catching up where I’m able, and doing my best to keep things moving forward for our authors and readers.

Thank you all for your patience, kindness, and support during this time. BlazeVOX has always been a community of resilience and imagination, and I’m grateful to be part of it—even if at the moment I’m hobbling through the days more slowly than usual.

More updates soon. Until then, onward!

Warmly,
Geoffrey

 

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

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