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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Poetry Book Giveaway
Finally posting that I'm taking part in Kelli's poetry book giveaway for April. I'm not only giving away a copy of my book, Becoming the Villainess, but copies of Ice, Mouth, Song by Rachel Contreni Flynn from Tupelo Press, The Whole Marie by Barbara Maloutas from Ahsahta Press, G.E. Patterson's To and From, also from Ahsahta Press, and Minimum Heroic by Christopher Salerno from The Mississippi Review Poetry Series.
Post a comment (along with your e-mail address) and I'll put your name in a hat. The lucky winner gets three books! Then a runner up will get a different two books, because that's how I roll! Two chances to win!
Finally posting that I'm taking part in Kelli's poetry book giveaway for April. I'm not only giving away a copy of my book, Becoming the Villainess, but copies of Ice, Mouth, Song by Rachel Contreni Flynn from Tupelo Press, The Whole Marie by Barbara Maloutas from Ahsahta Press, G.E. Patterson's To and From, also from Ahsahta Press, and Minimum Heroic by Christopher Salerno from The Mississippi Review Poetry Series.
Post a comment (along with your e-mail address) and I'll put your name in a hat. The lucky winner gets three books! Then a runner up will get a different two books, because that's how I roll! Two chances to win!
Labels: book giveaway contest
Friday, April 09, 2010
Well, here I am entertaining you while all the other poets are off at AWP. WonderCon was definitely fascinating, I met some wonderful writers while I was there, real life superheroines, and got to do some very unique people watching (stormtroopers? anime characters come to life? A bevvy of Boba Fetts?) I still miss the literary slam dance at AWP, of course.
April seems to have come to California in stops and starts - it was forty and driving rain on Sunday, today it is seventy and sunny, this Sunday it is supposed to be cold and raining again. The sky can't make up its mind. This is my birthday month, which maybe I am also ambivalent about, like the weather.
It's also poetry month, and I'll be participating later in the month in a poetry book giveaway. I've been thinking about work - work that sustains poets, work I should want to do, work I should try to get - lately, too. Teaching versus marketing writing or technical writing, the practical versus the passion. There were some interesting conversations on the Harriet blog about poets who do something besides teaching for a living.
Are you writing a poem-a-day this month? I always think this idea might work better in August than April, because for me, April is usually a frenzy of events, family visits, and work overload. And besides that, I find I only write the usual amount of decent poems a month even if I write every day; if I don't try to write every day, I usually write about four poems a month, give or take. I do try to read more poetry and attend more readings during April, and also to take in more art - I went in to San Fran for some blood tests and got to go beforehand to a couple of art galleries, because that makes the trip less onerous, and also because I feel I write more when I get to see more art. Reading good books helps too.
My little brother and his wife are coming in town tomorrow, and that means doing more of the tourist stuff around Napa, which should be fun. Wish me luck and health!
Labels: April is Poetry Month, Poetry careers, teaching versus other, WonderCon AWP showdown
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Yes, while everyone else is talking about where they'll be at AWP, I'm putting the finishing touches on my presentation "From Buffy to Xena: Female Comic Book Superheroes in Women's Poetry" for Sunday at WonderCon in San Francisco. (Sunday, 12:30-1:30, in the Moscone Center, room 204/206, in case you're wondering!) It's not traditionally a poetry venue, perhaps, but I'm hoping it will be fun and some people in the audience will find out that poetry can be, well, something different than love songs and nature odes. Right? And I'll be wearing my Wonder Woman costume. Just kidding. April Fools!
Anyway, I hope you poets at AWP keep us all up on the gossip going on it the poetry world on your blogs - and I'll be sure to post if I accidentally run into Kevin Smith or something.
In other news, The Beastly Bride is available today from Amazon and other fine booksellers. This is the anthology that Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling edited on tales of transforming women - one of my favorite subjects - and it happens to have three poems of mine on the old French fairy tale, The White Doe, in it - three poems you can't find anywhere else! It's a great gift for any daughters, sisters, or friends who are even remotely interested in mermaids, selkies, or women who change into any manner of trees or animals. It's mostly fiction, not poetry, and did I mention it's a really fun collection?
Labels: AWP, From Buffy to Xena, The Beastly Bride, WonderCon 2010
Special thanks to Yumiko Kayukawa
for the use of Zen Cracker.
