Conversant, too?: May 2005

About Me

Name: Rose

Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Rose M. Smith is a shy, quiet poet who's lived most of her life in Columbus, Ohio--a conversational voice heavily informed by human situations and emotion. Voted "poet most unlike herself at the mic," she has been known to silence an unruly room when her poems begin to speak. Her work has appeared in Chiron Review, The Iconoclast, Good Foot, Pavement Saw, Concrete Wolf, Boston Literary Magazine, The Examined Life, Main Street Rag, and The Pedestal Magazine, and other journals and anthologies. Rose reads throughout the midwest--she'll make a jaunt cross country if she's needed (you pay for it). She has been called "a quiet visionary spanning the worlds of performance poetry and literary print! challenging and enriching the norms of both. She is an associate editor at Pudding House Publications and author of Shooting the Strays (Pavement Saw Press, 2003) and A Woman You Know (Pudding House Publications, 2005) and is featured in the Poets' Greatest Hits collection now managed bt Kattywampus Press. Rose is a Cave Canem Fellow.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Sinclair Comm. College Today

Today, I did a feature at Sinclair Community for their African American student writers group's first attempt at holding a poetry slam.

Interesting event. Attendance wasn't quite what they'd hoped due to the holiday weekend, but they had several writers come out and show their stuff. A couple of very good writers in that group--mostly hip-hop flavor, though. And those of you who know me know I'm not about hip-hop bein' what slam poetry "is."

How wonderful to see more and more college campuses expanding their range of offerings for student writers. It will ultimately expand the audience for poetry in general and cultivate a larger audience for poetry.

Ed Mabrey hosted this event. Did a nice job. All in all well worth the trip to Dayton.

Rose