Saturday, February 28, 2009

Publicize that Book!

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Over at January's blog , Deb recommended this site , which has lots of ideas for how to promote a book. I suspect that many of us who ha...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Cool Teaching Idea

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When I was in grad school, one of my friends who focused on Composition and Rhetoric told me that until very recently, students learned to w...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A Poem for Ash Wednesday

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Soon I leave for church. No longer do churches have a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and then the next day, an Ash Wednesday service, at le...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Freelancer's Economy (and we're all freelancers now!)

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As we got settled the other night in the theatre, I watched the ushers and remembered my own ushering gig at the Koger Center, during gradu...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Seeing "A Chorus Line" on Academy Award Night

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When I was 12 years old, if you had asked me to envision my adult life, I would not have talked about poetry or teaching English. I'd h...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Creating a Book of Poems is like Quilting

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Yesterday, I took a nap under a quilt that I made several years ago. I decided to leave it spread out across the bed for the evening. ...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Postage Rates and the Mail (and Online Submissions)

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Yesterday, I spent a small fortune mailing manuscripts to various publishers. My poetry manuscript and cover letter came to less than 80 pa...