Post by shayepoet on Nov 28, 2008 20:58:44 GMT 2
Cauldron: Festival of Women's Poetry Newsletter Nov 28, 2008
AT THE FESTIVAL!
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
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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!!
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INTERNATIONAL:
Norway
Odveig Klyve Introduced by Ren Powell[/b]
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Poland
Wislawa Szymborska introduced by Christina Pacosz
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Italy
Abigail Brundin
Review by Ellen Moody[/b]
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INTERVIEWS
Kate Evans
By Farideh Hasanzadeh-Mostafavi
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Ann Fisher-Wirth
With Lisa Guidarini at Bluestalking
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Barbara Crooker
Interview in The Writer's Almanac Bookshelf
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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)
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LETTERS TO THE WORLD
"Four November 9ths"
Letters Poet: Anne-Marie Levine[/color]
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"A Sonnet for My Botox Baby"
Letters Poet: Barbara Taylor
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"Tending Adobe"
Letters Poet: Bette Husted
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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
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OUT LOUD
If you enjoy listening/watching Wompos do their magic,
visit these links:
Ann E. Michael
"Lot's Wife"
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Deema K. Shehabi
One poem--audio & text "Portrait of Summer in Bossey"
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Carol Levin
"Jazz"
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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
tinyurl.com/5ufeng
POEM-A-DAY:
Visit Georgia Banks-Martin's 30 days of Womponies' favourite poems!
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
tinyurl.com/5h5394
Print:
Crab Creek Review
tinyurl.com/5bgdbj
CCR just nominated our poet sister, Patricia
Fargnoli, for a Pushcart prize!
Book Publishers:
Junction Press
tinyurl.com/5fa7pd
SUDDEN INSPIRATION WRITING GALLERY:
***New Posts throughout!***
tinyurl.com/6motwq
Ekphrastic challenge for the day!
Nov 26th
On the beach
by Cecil Buller (1886 - 1973)
tinyurl.com/5tokk5
Nov 27th
ode to christina, 1927
by Nina Hauser
tinyurl.com/65ubg3[/i]
Nov 28th
Dreaming in the Bath 1991, 1927
by Lucy Rawlinson (b. 1948)
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The discussion continues in Ann's Ecopoetry!
***New posts & poems***
"the ephemeral component of Ecopoetry"
Poem by Athena!
tinyurl.com/5uyu9w
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Christina's Journal workshop!
***New Posts!***
Sarton on holiday journaling from Christina
tinyurl.com/67wwuw
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Moira's Renga Room--Renku almost there!
ONE more stanzas to go
***New posts***
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
www.simplyhaiku.com[/i][/b]
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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!
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WE ALL WIN!
November 25th
November 26th
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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.
wompherence.proboards82.com/
If you have not registered to participate in FEST 2008, click on the Register & Create New Account link and fill out the info. You'll receive a confirmation code by e-mail. Enter your code at the site and that will activate your account. Thank you and enjoy the sections visible to registered members!
Submissions are no longer being accepted.
HAPPENINGS AND UPDATES APPEARING ON-LINE!
To make announcements in the festival newsletter:
wompofestnews@gmail.com
We'd like as many people as possible stopping by and checking out our poets and their work.
wompherence.proboards82.com/
If you have not registered to participate in FEST 2008, click on the Register & Create New Account link and fill out the info. You'll receive a confirmation code by e-mail. Enter your code at the site and that will activate your account. Thank you and enjoy the sections visible to registered members!
Submissions are no longer being accepted.
HAPPENINGS AND UPDATES APPEARING ON-LINE!
To make announcements in the festival newsletter:
wompofestnews@gmail.com
Shayla Mollohan
On Behalf of FEST Team, Nov 2008
shayepoet@bellsouth.net
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