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Wompo Publishers, Bloggers and Teachers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Helen Ruggieri has a new blog up for Women's History Month
3. Ann E. Michael welcomes National Poetry Month
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly is pleased to announce their LGBTQ Issue
5. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents~~
6. Please join Patricia Valdata for a poetry workshop
7. McFarland calls for contributions to two books
8. Ellen Moody's blog
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Voice of the Mourning Dove: An Anthology of Haiku, by Alexis Rotella
2. Helen Ruggieri has a new blog up for Women's History Month about the history of job hunting for women in the 1960s called Working for the Man.
www.helenruggieri.com
3. Ann E. Michael welcomes National Poetry Month with a blog about the joys of complication: annemichael.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/complications/
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly is pleased to announce their LGBTQ Issue, co-edited by Gowri Koneswaran and Venus Thrash. The issue includes 40 poems by 24 poets from DC, VA, and MD that reflect on cultural historical erasure, and assert human rights and human dignity. Over half the contributors appear in the journal for the first time. Contributors include Francisco Aragon, Chris August, Roberta Beary, Regie Cabico, Wendy DeGroat, Julie R. Enszer, Tolonda Henderson, Tanya Paperny, Kathi Wolfe, and others. With visual art by Dan Vera.
Available online for free. Subscriptions are also free. www.beltwaypoetry.com
5. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents~~
5.1 Blogs:
"Mohonk Mountain Magic" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/mohonk-mountain-magic.html
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #11" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-11.html
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #12" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-12.html
"We Made Gelato" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/we-made-gelato.html
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #13" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/04/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-13.html
5.2. Also, find prompts and pictures on Yoga, Write, Tea, Repeat: christinamrau.tumblr.com
6. Please join Patricia Valdata for a poetry workshop on Friday, April 22, 2016, from 1pm - 4pm at The Palette and The Page in Elkton, Maryland. The workshop will be followed at 5:30 p.m with a free reading featuring the winners of Cecil College's Creative Writing Awards. An open mic follows that reading.
The Poet's Tool Kit: Line Breaks
The Poet's Tool Kit is a three-hour session that will focus on one of the primary tools of the poet's trade: the line break. Through a brief lecture, a writing period, and a workshop, we'll explore how to make our poems' lines more effective. During the workshop we'll read and comment on one poem from each participant. As we supportively discuss one another's poems, we'll jot down our comments on the poem being discussed, and then return our comments to the poet, so that everyone will take home a packet of written feedback in addition to having their poem discussed out loud. Helpful handouts will also be provided. Cost: $30
To sign up, please go to The Palette and The Page at thepaletteandthepage.com/april-workshops.html and scroll down to the "reserve your spot" button.
7. McFarland calls for contributions to two books
7.1. Library Outreach to Writers and Poets: Interviews and Case Studies of Cooperation
Book Publisher: McFarland
Carol Smallwood: Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences (Lamar University Press, 2014); Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching is on Poets & Writers Magazine list of Best Books for Writers.
Vera Gubnitskaia: contributor, Bringing the Arts into the Library (ALA, 2014); co-editor, Continuing Education for Librarians (McFarland, 2013); indexer.
One or two chapters sought from U.S. writers, poets, academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS and Creative Writing faculty, sharing practical know-how about outreach, workshops, literary festivals, readings, librarian/author/poet visits to schools and other groups, spotlights-on-authors, book talks/clubs on writer/poet/library cooperation. Interview format chapters by librarians/writers/poets welcomed.
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter/interview; each by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter/interview accepted no matter how many co-authors, or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.
Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters, each described in a few sentences by May 28, 2016, brief bio on each author; place WRI, Last Name on subject line: smallwood@tm.net
7.2. Women's Studies in the Library: Case Studies, Programming, Outreach
Book Publisher: McFarland
Carol Smallwood, ed. Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian.
Lura Sanborn, co-editor. Women, Work, and the Web, contributor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); public, academic, school librarian.
One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty, sharing practical know-how about what works for women's studies programs and resources. Chapters are encouraged that could apply to more than one type of library: useful to public, school, special, LIS faculty. Proven, creative, case studies encouraged. How-to chapters based on experience to help colleagues; innovative workshops, outreach, grant resources highly valued.
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many co-authors, or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.
Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters, each described in a few sentences by May 28, 2016, brief bio on each author; place WOM, Your Name on subject line: smallwood@tm.net
8. Ellen Moody's blog
My garmin & me -- In peopled worlds -- Izzy over the moon (travel writing):
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/my-garmin-and-me-peopled-worldsizzyoverthemoon/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Helen Ruggieri has a new blog up for Women's History Month
3. Ann E. Michael welcomes National Poetry Month
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly is pleased to announce their LGBTQ Issue
5. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents~~
6. Please join Patricia Valdata for a poetry workshop
7. McFarland calls for contributions to two books
8. Ellen Moody's blog
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Voice of the Mourning Dove: An Anthology of Haiku, by Alexis Rotella
2. Helen Ruggieri has a new blog up for Women's History Month about the history of job hunting for women in the 1960s called Working for the Man.
www.helenruggieri.com
3. Ann E. Michael welcomes National Poetry Month with a blog about the joys of complication: annemichael.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/complications/
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly is pleased to announce their LGBTQ Issue, co-edited by Gowri Koneswaran and Venus Thrash. The issue includes 40 poems by 24 poets from DC, VA, and MD that reflect on cultural historical erasure, and assert human rights and human dignity. Over half the contributors appear in the journal for the first time. Contributors include Francisco Aragon, Chris August, Roberta Beary, Regie Cabico, Wendy DeGroat, Julie R. Enszer, Tolonda Henderson, Tanya Paperny, Kathi Wolfe, and others. With visual art by Dan Vera.
Available online for free. Subscriptions are also free. www.beltwaypoetry.com
5. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents~~
5.1 Blogs:
"Mohonk Mountain Magic" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/mohonk-mountain-magic.html
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #11" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-11.html
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #12" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-12.html
"We Made Gelato" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/03/we-made-gelato.html
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #13" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/04/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-13.html
5.2. Also, find prompts and pictures on Yoga, Write, Tea, Repeat: christinamrau.tumblr.com
6. Please join Patricia Valdata for a poetry workshop on Friday, April 22, 2016, from 1pm - 4pm at The Palette and The Page in Elkton, Maryland. The workshop will be followed at 5:30 p.m with a free reading featuring the winners of Cecil College's Creative Writing Awards. An open mic follows that reading.
The Poet's Tool Kit: Line Breaks
The Poet's Tool Kit is a three-hour session that will focus on one of the primary tools of the poet's trade: the line break. Through a brief lecture, a writing period, and a workshop, we'll explore how to make our poems' lines more effective. During the workshop we'll read and comment on one poem from each participant. As we supportively discuss one another's poems, we'll jot down our comments on the poem being discussed, and then return our comments to the poet, so that everyone will take home a packet of written feedback in addition to having their poem discussed out loud. Helpful handouts will also be provided. Cost: $30
To sign up, please go to The Palette and The Page at thepaletteandthepage.com/april-workshops.html and scroll down to the "reserve your spot" button.
7. McFarland calls for contributions to two books
7.1. Library Outreach to Writers and Poets: Interviews and Case Studies of Cooperation
Book Publisher: McFarland
Carol Smallwood: Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences (Lamar University Press, 2014); Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching is on Poets & Writers Magazine list of Best Books for Writers.
Vera Gubnitskaia: contributor, Bringing the Arts into the Library (ALA, 2014); co-editor, Continuing Education for Librarians (McFarland, 2013); indexer.
One or two chapters sought from U.S. writers, poets, academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS and Creative Writing faculty, sharing practical know-how about outreach, workshops, literary festivals, readings, librarian/author/poet visits to schools and other groups, spotlights-on-authors, book talks/clubs on writer/poet/library cooperation. Interview format chapters by librarians/writers/poets welcomed.
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter/interview; each by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter/interview accepted no matter how many co-authors, or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.
Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters, each described in a few sentences by May 28, 2016, brief bio on each author; place WRI, Last Name on subject line: smallwood@tm.net
7.2. Women's Studies in the Library: Case Studies, Programming, Outreach
Book Publisher: McFarland
Carol Smallwood, ed. Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian.
Lura Sanborn, co-editor. Women, Work, and the Web, contributor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); public, academic, school librarian.
One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty, sharing practical know-how about what works for women's studies programs and resources. Chapters are encouraged that could apply to more than one type of library: useful to public, school, special, LIS faculty. Proven, creative, case studies encouraged. How-to chapters based on experience to help colleagues; innovative workshops, outreach, grant resources highly valued.
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many co-authors, or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.
Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters, each described in a few sentences by May 28, 2016, brief bio on each author; place WOM, Your Name on subject line: smallwood@tm.net
8. Ellen Moody's blog
My garmin & me -- In peopled worlds -- Izzy over the moon (travel writing):
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/my-garmin-and-me-peopled-worldsizzyoverthemoon/