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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.

Monday, June 20, 2005

WE HAVE BELT!

You know... wrote a long diatribe for a very intimate list of friends--full detail about the trip and the competition, but I don't want to post it here. Sufficient to say: Columbus has brought home the coveted Rust Belt for a third year in a row.

Bout 1
76.4 Milwaukee
74.9 Dayton
83.3 Ann Arbor
78.3 Bloomington
84.6 Columbus
80.0 Madison

Bout 2
89.4 Milwaukee
83.6 Dayton
86.1 Ann Arbor
83.5 Bloomington
86.3 Columbus
85.5 Madison

Preliminary Totals
166.8 Milwaukee
158.5 Dayton
169.4 Ann Arbor
161.8 Bloomington
170.9 Columbus
169.4 Madison

Finals

Round 1
24.7 Madison
27.2 Columbus
25.9 Ann Arbor

Round 2
28.3 Columbus
29.1 Ann Arbor
27.6 Madison

Round 3
29.0 Ann Arbor
28.9 Madison
29.4 Columbus

Totals
84.9 Columbus
84.0 Ann Arbor
81.2 Madison

Competition was strong. Strategies were preset and had to be modified on the fly, but we did it.... we came away with a win with an ad hoc, not-Nats-team team. Gee... good poetry in Columbus extends beyond the chosen few who get to go to Nationals? You betcha. We are a larger family than we know. We are a family. Life is good.

posted by Rose | 3:25 AM

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