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February 11 2010 - In: A/V, Internet Prowess, Poetry autumn
argh! so, i just realized how painfully out of date i was (am?): apparently, the site that was hosting my audio files went belly up a year ago! whoops! and apparently they only notified the paying customers – not the folks that were hosting audio for free (because, you know, sending a mass email is [...]
February 7 2010 - In: Poetry, The Writing Life autumn
They’re here! This week, I debuted my first set of poetry postcards/broadsides at my reading in Elkins Park. I designed four unique cards (4×6 inches) featuring four different poems, using word art, images, and ink stamps. I’m really happy with how they came out, and people seemed to like them (they bought them!) so I [...]
February 4 2010 - In: Books, Fiction, Poetry, The Greater Good, The Writing Life autumn
So, I was just flipping through my most recent issue of Poets & Writers (a mag with which I’ve had a several years love/hate relationship), and I saw a little blurb about Madras Press. Madras is a new press that publishes stories in individually bound editions… so fiction writers don’t have to cut their stories [...]
February 3 2010 - In: Poetry, The Writing Life autumn
Phew! I knew this blog was badly out of date… every week I think of new things I want to blog about- things I’m baking, reading, listening to, etc. And then… well… But tonight I had a great reading at the Elkins Park Free Library and a few people, including a very generous spirit named [...]
Many years ago (I think maybe when I was in college though I can’t be sure) a friend of mine (I think maybe my now husband though, again, I can’t be sure) gave me a slim, silver volume entitled Very Bad Poetry. I never really knew the motivation and have sometimes wondered whether I should [...]
May 19 2007 - In: Poetry, The Writing Life autumn
On April 28th, I began teaching a course through the Mt. Airy Learning Tree, called Poetry as Memoir. When I started, I was sure that I knew what I meant by “Poetry as Memoir” — but the question usually comes up at least once each week, so I continue to reflect and refine my definition. [...]
This Thursday, my wee poetry book group – The Bard’s Book Club – will be discussing poems from Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. Each month, as I prepare for these discussions, I find myself asking not only what we should talk about, but why? What makes this poet worth looking at, as opposed to others. With Sylvia, [...]
April 1 2007 - In: Internet Prowess, Poetry autumn
Lookout blogosphere, there’s a new kid on the block. Or, more accurately, five old kids and one new kid, all milling around suscipiciously on a different street corner. The Mad Poets Blog, an offshoot of the Mad Poets Society’s main web page, has been a while in the making. It includes a wicked-cool sidebar events [...]
In just a few weeks, I’ll end my two-year stint of working from home and return to the daily grind of having a job that actually requires I *gasp* leave the house. I couldn’t be more excited. Not only because I get to re-assert the much-needed separation between work & life (although, ironically, my new [...]
Poetry Festival: A Celebration of New Jersey’s Literary Journals Sunday, May 20, 2007, 1:00 – 5:00 PM Hosted by: Diane Lockward West Caldwell Public Library 30 Clinton Road West Caldwell, New Jersey {Directions} The event will feature 24 poets representing 12 different journals from throughout New Jersey, as well as a few immediate neighbors from [...]
