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Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Tamam Kahn's Blog: Completeword
3. DC Writers' Homes
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
http://wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Sun, Sy Safransky Editor
2. Tamam Kahn's Blog: Completeword
POET Gjertrude Schnackenberg
<http://completeword.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/poet-gjertrude-schnackenberg/>
New Poems in Santa Cruz
<http://completeword.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/new-poems-in-santa-cruz/ >
Prophet Muhammad's Jewish Wives
<http://completeword.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/prophet-muhammads-jewish-wives/
3. The web exhibit, "DC Writers' Homes" by WOMPO Kim Roberts and her collaborator Dan Vera, was profiled in the Washington Post. The Post notes that many of the houses profiled have "no plaques or markers denoting...historical significance" so their "legacy likely would've been lost to the ages if not for the obsessive work of two Washington poets." See the article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/....ryO_story.html
We asked for help in locating additional homes in that article, and the response has been incredibly gratifying. We've heard from people as far away as Brazil with suggestions, and are getting ready to do our first major update to the site beginning in January. New additions will include recent losses such as Christopher Hitchens, Gideon Ferebee, Anthony Hecht, William Meredith, and Alice Bradley Sheldon (aka James Tiptree, Jr.).
But I've also continued to research early DC writers, and where their houses still stand, we want to include these forbears. New additions will include: Emily Edson Briggs, one of the first women to write political commentary from Congress; Victor R. Daly, who wrote what is believed to be the only WWI novel written by an African American veteran; polar explorer Robert Peary; and Paul Jennings, a former slave who wrote the first memoir of a servant's life in the White House. All in all, we plan to add 24 new addresses--which will bring our total on the site to nearly 150.
Because Washington, DC is the seat of the Federal government of the US, it has drawn a unique mix of writers from around the world, and we have tried to represent the city's international character. The site is also quite strong on US Poets Laureate, and on African American writers from Reconstruction through the Harlem Renaissance.
See the site here: http://www.dcwriters.org
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