Video Wednesday

First up is this week’s issue of Shape of a Box. Click through on first Shape of the Box to read the text of the piece and watch the video or watch the video below. If you are interested in Linda’s book click through:

Next up is the summary of the November [...]

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Trying to get a Book Published

You thought this was Video Tuesday right? Well it will be more like Video Wednesday or Thursday because Poetry Hickory is tonight and I want to include the readings there in our video update.
So, instead, I thought I’d revisit the issue of getting a book published. Previously, I had discussed the process of chapbook publication [...]

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Monday Shout Outs

Monday already? Well, let’s start our week right with shout outs.
Best American Poetry 2009. I purchased my first BAP back in 1996 when I needed to memorize a poem for my undergraduate intermediate poetry workshop led by Stuart Dischell. And it is funny to see how that book has trailed my ins and outs with [...]

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Too Much Poetry?

I’ve been toying with posting this for a while, but I was unsure if I wanted to continue the debate.
But, here it is, is there too much poetry being made?
So many people argue that poetry is dead, that no one is reading poetry. Etc etc etc. And yet, I am constantly bombarded with new chapbooks, [...]

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ABC Survey Meme

Ok. I don’t normally do meme’s but my dear younger writer friend asked me to do this one so I will.  I won’t tag anyone but feel free to participate on your blog and tag back here.
A – Age: 34
B – Bed size – King we bought this year. So nice!
C – chore you hate [...]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Jeez my computer has been having issues this morning! So it is almost 11am I have not finished my to do list, have not finished working out, and I really want to be present at the 4pm Publishing Panel at Queens. Will I make it? But at least I did these:
S: 2
A: 0
R: 2 – [...]

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Thursday Poem Share

Trying to decide what poem, or poems, to share today?
Think instead of directly posting a poem I’ll link to The Wild Goose Poetry Review where I have work up that was accepted earlier this year. I’m the Featured Poet too! Wow! The featured poem “Amphibian” will be in Paper House when it comes out in [...]

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