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The occasional ramblings of a Columbus, Ohio poet.

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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.

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Today at Salon

Great day today at Salon.

Session was led by Kathleen Burgess, who did a tremendous job of keeping the momentum going while we conducted the morning "read around." Each poet presented new work or work for which feedback was needed. The poems were evocative and interesting, and our afternoon workshopping session was casual and easygoing.

Jennifer, of course, was out of town today (which you know since she was not leading). What a joy it must be for her to know that things do not fall apart at Pudding House the moment she walks away.

Great joy to all of you, and keep writing.

posted by Rose | 8:34 PM

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