Post by moira on Feb 9, 2012 11:28:14 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. Ann E. Michael blogs
2. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
3. Tinfish Press
4. DC Writers' Homes
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Ann E. Michael blogs on Dorothea Tanning, non-sense, and inspiration: www.annemichael.wordpress.com
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Absalom, Absalom, by William Faulkner
3. Tinfish Press is pleased to announce the 11th in our 12 chapbook series (Tinfish Retro Chaps), _Princess Abandoned_ by Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi, herself a wonderful poet.
See here for details, including a twofer offer with their previous collab, _When the Plug Gets UnPlugged_
tinfishpress.com/hyesoon.html
I'll be launching my new book this weekend in Honolulu, along with the Retro Chaps, which include work by many women. Here's info on mine:
www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780935162462/memory-cards-20102011-series.aspx
4. DC Writers' Homes announces our first major update, with 19 new writers added, and five pages updated with new information and addresses. See: www.dcwriters.org /
DC Writers' Homes is a web exhibit created by Kim Roberts and Dan Vera to celebrate the rich literary history of the greater Washington, DC region. The site documents the former houses of writers--renowned and forgotten alike--who once called DC home. Each author featured includes a bio, head shot, and a photo of how their house looks today. We include poets, fiction writers, memoirists, and playwrights whose work is of literary or historical merit. Only writers who have passed away but whose houses still stand are eligible.
Among our new entries: Emily Edson Briggs, the first woman journalist to write political commentary from DC; Victor Daly, the author of the only WWI novel written by an African American veteran; polar explorer Robert Peary; and Paul Jennings, who wrote the first memoir of a slave's life in the White House. We also include recent losses: Christopher Hitchens, Cicely Angelton, Nancy Johnson. And we have updated the pages for Pearl Bailey, Julia Child, and Floyd Dell, among others.
This now brings our total to over 140 writers documented. This represents a legacy that, as the Washington Post recently reported, "...likely would've been lost to the ages if not for the obsessive work" of the site authors. Writers are cross-referenced geographically, and by affiliations.
We invite your feedback! See: www.dcwriters.org /
News this week:
1. Ann E. Michael blogs
2. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
3. Tinfish Press
4. DC Writers' Homes
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Ann E. Michael blogs on Dorothea Tanning, non-sense, and inspiration: www.annemichael.wordpress.com
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Absalom, Absalom, by William Faulkner
3. Tinfish Press is pleased to announce the 11th in our 12 chapbook series (Tinfish Retro Chaps), _Princess Abandoned_ by Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi, herself a wonderful poet.
See here for details, including a twofer offer with their previous collab, _When the Plug Gets UnPlugged_
tinfishpress.com/hyesoon.html
I'll be launching my new book this weekend in Honolulu, along with the Retro Chaps, which include work by many women. Here's info on mine:
www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780935162462/memory-cards-20102011-series.aspx
4. DC Writers' Homes announces our first major update, with 19 new writers added, and five pages updated with new information and addresses. See: www.dcwriters.org /
DC Writers' Homes is a web exhibit created by Kim Roberts and Dan Vera to celebrate the rich literary history of the greater Washington, DC region. The site documents the former houses of writers--renowned and forgotten alike--who once called DC home. Each author featured includes a bio, head shot, and a photo of how their house looks today. We include poets, fiction writers, memoirists, and playwrights whose work is of literary or historical merit. Only writers who have passed away but whose houses still stand are eligible.
Among our new entries: Emily Edson Briggs, the first woman journalist to write political commentary from DC; Victor Daly, the author of the only WWI novel written by an African American veteran; polar explorer Robert Peary; and Paul Jennings, who wrote the first memoir of a slave's life in the White House. We also include recent losses: Christopher Hitchens, Cicely Angelton, Nancy Johnson. And we have updated the pages for Pearl Bailey, Julia Child, and Floyd Dell, among others.
This now brings our total to over 140 writers documented. This represents a legacy that, as the Washington Post recently reported, "...likely would've been lost to the ages if not for the obsessive work" of the site authors. Writers are cross-referenced geographically, and by affiliations.
We invite your feedback! See: www.dcwriters.org /