Several folks asked me about being able to read the poems I talked about in an earlier post highlighting my three anthology appearances in 2008. Here are links to each of those poems on my selected publications list on Gyroscope Rebel Arts.

Thanks very much for asking - enjoy

sunset (winner - Late Blooms Contest)

waiting (Pontoon 10)

a comment on migraines and subtitles (most recently- Migraine Expressions)

All of these publishers / projects are very worth supporting. They are all independent and/or non-profit, royalties are not a part of the picture, they do excellent work, and contribute a great deal to promoting poetry & poets. As I mentioned in the earlier post, I do have sets of the Late Blooms cards for sale - if you are interested in buying them from me, shoot me an email. I’m pretty low tech with the sales stuff (sorry no PayPal, etc.). But as I said, I encourage you to support these folks directly if you’re in the market for this kind of stuff.

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Here are a few of my publication highlights from 2008, perhaps you will find some of these interesting.

In September, I was selected as one of the winners of the Late Blooms Poetry Postcard contest.

This is a wonderful contest for women poets over the age of 40 who have not yet published a full length collection.

In this contest, the seven winning poems are paired with artwork from seven women artists and a series of art quality 5 x 7 post cards are produced for sale (winners receive 10 20 sets of cards they can sell at readings, etc.).

The 2008 series is available from series editor Lana Ayers on her website, as is the 2007 series. Both groups of cards are really gorgeous.

As a side bar for you writers out there, if you follow the link you may notice that I was a finalist in 2007 with a poem of the same title as the one I won with this year.

The 2008 poem is a new version of the same poem I submitted in 2007. Just something to keep in mind - the crafting process is often quite iterative, and can yield more than one good finished version of a piece of writing.

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It was also my privilege to be selected for inclusion in two wonderful anthologies in 2008.

The first is Pontoon #10, the tenth anniversary edition of this wonderful journal from Floating Bridge Press.

One of my favorite poems from recent work, a piece called ‘waiting,’ appears here in the tremendous company of a great many truly gifted poets. This really is a volume worth reading.

You can read a bit more about it via this link (which includes a link near the bottom of the page where you can purchase a copy if you want).

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The other 2008 anthology my work appears in is Migraine Expressions, edited by Betsy Blondin. And I am truly delighted to have my work included this wonderful book.

In this case, the poem that appears is one of my all time favorites, ‘a comment on migraines and subtitles,’ written in 2003 and published several times since then.

Migraine Expressions contains writings and images from artists, writers, and other individuals with migraine disease. And it is a tremendously powerful collection of work.

Each individual piece of writing or visual art speaks volumes about this diverse and troubling disease, and the exquisite editing of the book makes it all resonate in harmony. The order of work, and the pairing of the written and visual work paints a distinctive tableau that truly gives this collection an integrated and independent voice of its own.

The icing on the cake is that the book is produced as a beautiful 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover publication printed on heavyweight paper, with great design, and containing really superior reproductions of the visual artwork.

The book is available through Amazon via the marketplace, or the editor’s website. The marketplace seller, Word Metro Press, is actually the editor, Betsy Blondin. Ms Blondin, a migraine sufferer herself, conceptualized this project, obtained grant money to help fund it, was the point of contact for everything from submissions to questions, and is one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. Her energy and dedication was and is an inspiration.

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indy work, all of it - in case you care…

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