Post by shayepoet on Dec 1, 2008 2:46:47 GMT 2
Cauldron: Festival of Women's Poetry Newsletter Nov 30, 2008
A celebration of "you." With love and humble thanks from The FEST Team!
"The Faces of Wompoherence"
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"The Faces of Wompoherence"
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BOOKSTORE
Visit the Authors!
Yes! The bookstore will remain open for browsing.
120 great possibilies for holiday gifts!
New titles coming to FEST in 2009!
tinyurl.com/66l4ur
See all of our Wompo Authors collectively here:
tinyurl.com/6hz53h
CHAT/COMMUNITY:
Last day to post ideas for Next Year's FEST
Thank you for your comments!
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INTERNATIONAL:
Plans for a much larger International Section
is already in progress! Now is a great time to
review all of your contacts & make queries.
A special thank you to Luisa, Louisa, Farideh,
Ren, Christina, Joyce, Reme, Ellen, Diane K, Claire,
Marilyn, Kimberly, Riva, Amelia, J.C., Andrea, Rachida,
Larissa, Eva, Susan R. and Moira, Muse Mother to this
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DIRECTORY
Still open to readers!
Visit Wompos' Starring pages!
tinyurl.com/6c4ygw
INTERVIEWS
This section will continue to be
available to readers!
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MOTHERS' DAYS:
Provided by Ellen Moody
Nov 29 Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
Nov 30 Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)
Great news! Mothers' Days will still be available
for your enjoyment after Nov 30th. Visit any time!
tinyurl.com/6h9yh9
LETTERS TO THE WORLD
Look for new posts to "Letters to the World" in 2009!
Visitors still welcome!
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OASIS: WOMPOS POETRY DAILY...
Jean Anaporte for Nov 29th
Penny Harter for Nov 29th
Moira Richards, Barbara A Taylor, & Claire Chatelet for Nov 30th
Cherryl Floyd-Miller for Nov 30th
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Due to strange happenings on October 12th, Carolyn Moore's
poetry link was bumbled. Show your support and visit her link
today! Great poems! Please accept Shayla's apologies, Carolyn!
tinyurl.com/66us3u
OUT LOUD
Visitors may continue to enjoy these audio & video
readings! Thank you contributors for such a treat.
And to our host Beverly for her hard work!
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PAPERS AND PANELS:
We are delighted to tell you that the PAPERS section
will remain open! Visit Elizabeth Switaj's, "From the Classrooms:
Women's Poetry from the Academy" and Wendy Taylor Carlisle's
"From the Back of Beyond: Women’s Poetry Outside the Academy."
Thank you Wendy and Elizabeth for the amazing work
you've done to bring us these brilliant writers!
tinyurl.com/6kp9ya
POEM-A-DAY:
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Nov 29
"Wild Geese"
by Mary Oliver
Submitted by Malaika King Albrecht and Judy Longley
Nov 30
First Trip Through the Automatic Car Wash
by Mona Van Duyn
submitted by Kate Bernadette Benedict
Sincere thanks to Georgia Banks-Martin for her generous
spirit and hard work on Womponies' favourite poems!
PUBLISHERS' TABLES
E-Zines:
tinyurl.com/5h5394
Print:
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Book Publishers:
tinyurl.com/5fa7pd
Many thanks to all of our Wompo editors and publishers
for sharing information about their publications and for
remaining an invaluable resource, not just to Wompo,
but to hopeful poets everywhere...
SUDDEN INSPIRATION WRITING GALLERY:
ALL workshops will close at the end of FEST.
Ekphrastic challenge for the day!
This section will be closed Dec 1st. We extend our greatest
thanks to participants, on-line and off-line. Louisa's fine eye
for "art that inspires" has served us all well.
tinyurl.com/6motwq
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Ann's Ecopoetry!
This fascinating discussion led by Ann
Fisher-Wirth will no doubt not end here but has only
begun. Thank you Ann! And we hope you'll reopen this
workshop in 2009!
tinyurl.com/5uyu9w
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Christina's Journal workshop!
Christina has renewed and shed new light on
journaling and we'll all look forward to 2009!
Thank you for reintroducing many of us once
again to our old friend, the journal.
tinyurl.com/67wwuw
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Moira's Renga Room--The renku is there!
Read the finished poem here:
Possibilities of Change
Moira wants to thank all the participants for
donating their time and talent to complete this first Wompo
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Sonnets!
We wish to thank participants and Sonneteers for
beginning this roundtable and look forward to 2009!
tinyurl.com/67adtq
WE ALL WIN!
The Grand Finale Drawing!
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Wendy Galgan handed out 28 prizes today - 18 books and 10
sets of Late Blooms Poetry Post Cards! Thank you Wendy,
lovely lady in a Paris window...go see her and the rest of this
gorgeous group!
tinyurl.com/5uejel
WEEKLY ON WOMPO
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If you missed them:
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.
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Shayla Mollohan
On Behalf of FEST Team, Nov 2008
shayepoet@bellsouth.net
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