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Cauldron: Festival of Women's Poetry Newsletter Nov 28, 2008




AT THE FESTIVAL!

Thank You, Wompos! Share Your Ideas for Next Year's FEST in the CHAT/COMMUNITY Section. . .




BOOKSTORE

Visit These Authors!

Across the Dark by Pam Bernard
What if your mother by Judith Arcana
Quickly Changing River by Meena Alexander
It Comes to Me Loosely Woven by Beebe Barksdale-Bruner
Small Knots by Kelli Russell Agodon
American Desire by Patricia Brody
Season We Can't Resist by Martha Carlson-Bradley
Sitting in the Sky by Annie Deppe
Femme au chapeau by Rachel Dacus
Repairs by Jessica de Koninck


http://tinyurl.com/66l4ur





CHAT/COMMUNITY:

***New posts...***

Catch up with other Wompos!

Ideas for Next Year's FEST
Thank you for your comments for FEST 2009!
We welcome more input!!
http://tinyurl.com/6xtupy






INTERNATIONAL:

Norway
Odveig Klyve Introduced by Ren Powell

http://tinyurl.com/633tl9

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Poland
Wislawa Szymborska introduced by Christina Pacosz
http://tinyurl.com/6zo2g5

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Italy
Abigail Brundin

Review by Ellen Moody

http://tinyurl.com/6xnu39




INTERVIEWS

Kate Evans
By Farideh Hasanzadeh-Mostafavi
http://tinyurl.com/5ma2fh


Ann Fisher-Wirth
With Lisa Guidarini at Bluestalking
http://tinyurl.com/5ov8jk


Barbara Crooker
Interview in The Writer's Almanac Bookshelf
http://tinyurl.com/5ulvac
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MOTHERS' DAYS:
Provided by Ellen Moody

Nov 26 Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
Nov 27 Elizabeth Laetitia Landon (1802-1838)
Nov 28 Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

http://tinyurl.com/6h9yh9




LETTERS TO THE WORLD

"Four November 9ths"
Letters Poet: Anne-Marie Levine

http://tinyurl.com/6hgujf

"A Sonnet for My Botox Baby"
Letters Poet: Barbara Taylor

http://tinyurl.com/5fz87z

"Tending Adobe"
Letters Poet: Bette Husted

http://tinyurl.com/5fz87z




OASIS: WOMPOS POETRY DAILY...

Ann White for Nov 26th
Ann Fisher-Wirth for Nov 26th
Marilyn Taylor for Nov 27th
Ren Powell for Nov 27th
Barbara Daniels for Nov 28th
Penelope Scambly Schott for Nov 28th


http://tinyurl.com/6574c9




OUT LOUD

If you enjoy listening/watching Wompos do their magic,
visit these links:

Ann E. Michael
"Lot's Wife"
http://tinyurl.com/6dwvyk


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Deema K. Shehabi
One poem--audio & text "Portrait of Summer in Bossey"
http://tinyurl.com/54spgg


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Carol Levin
"Jazz"
http://tinyurl.com/5jqfw6





PAPERS AND PANELS:

Visit Elizabeth Switaj's section, From the Classrooms:
Women's Poetry from the Academy to read:


"Wisdom and Wit:
The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska, Gloria Fuertes, and Adelia Prado"
by Ada Jill Schneider

http://tinyurl.com/5ufeng




POEM-A-DAY:

Visit Georgia Banks-Martin's 30 days of Womponies' favourite poems!
http://tinyurl.com/6kqd46

Nov 26
"won't you celebrate with me..."
from The Book of Light,

by Lucille Clifton

submitted by Tara Betts


Nov 27
No Reason
by Leatha Kendrick

Submitted by Sherry Chandler


It Was My First Nursing Job
by Belle Waring

Submitted by Julene Tripp Weaver



PUBLISHERS' TABLES

E-Zines:
Mad Hatters’ Review
http://tinyurl.com/5h5394

Print:
Crab Creek Review
http://tinyurl.com/5bgdbj

CCR just nominated our poet sister, Patricia
Fargnoli, for a Pushcart prize! :)


Book Publishers:
Junction Press
http://tinyurl.com/5fa7pd




SUDDEN INSPIRATION WRITING GALLERY:

***New Posts throughout!***
http://tinyurl.com/6motwq

Ekphrastic challenge for the day!

Nov 26th
On the beach
by Cecil Buller (1886 - 1973)
http://tinyurl.com/5tokk5

Nov 27th
ode to christina, 1927
by Nina Hauser
http://tinyurl.com/65ubg3


Nov 28th
Dreaming in the Bath 1991, 1927
by Lucy Rawlinson (b. 1948)
http://tinyurl.com/6motwq


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The discussion continues in Ann's Ecopoetry!

***New posts & poems***
"the ephemeral component of Ecopoetry"
Poem by Athena!

http://tinyurl.com/5uyu9w

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Christina's Journal workshop!

***New Posts!***
Sarton on holiday journaling from Christina
http://tinyurl.com/67wwuw

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Moira's Renga Room--Renku almost there!

ONE more stanzas to go

***New posts***
http://tinyurl.com/6z6u69


Our Moira Richards has been appointed renku
(collaborative linked verse) editor of Simply Haiku: A Quarterly
Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry

http://www.simplyhaiku.com



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SONNETS!

***new posts***
But where are our sonnets?
proposed by Mary Cresswell
Triple Crown Sonnet, What Lips, from Oasis Aug 6th!
http://tinyurl.com/67adtq





WE ALL WIN!

CONGRATULATIONS, WINNERS! 3 Winners Daily!

November 25th
November 26th

http://tinyurl.com/5f7faj





WEEKLY ON WOMPO

If you missed them: ***newest issues on-line***
Gazette - Diane Lockward
Weekly Blog Digest - Ann White
The Author Book Swap List - Lana Hechtman Ayers



Please feel free to link your blog and/or webpage to FEST .
We'd like as many people as possible stopping by and checking out our poets and their work.

http://wompherence.proboards82.com/


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Submissions are no longer being accepted.



HAPPENINGS AND UPDATES APPEARING ON-LINE!
To make announcements in the festival newsletter:




Shayla Mollohan
On Behalf of FEST Team, Nov 2008
shayepoet@bellsouth.net


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