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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.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Back to the Point

Hey.... took a couple of days' diversion to get back to normal journaling. Back to the focus of the day now: National Poetry Slam is getting closer, and the book release is happening Thursday! So now what?

Well... now all those of you who were hesitant to "pre-order" anything can call me, IM me, email me, or just go click over to PayPal and know that you will have the new chapbook in the mail within a day or two. (For some of you, the USPS has legs and shows up at your desk or door with a postage refund in its hand. For others of you, you're getting a great deal because I'm only charging you HALF the postage it costs to mail this thing.)

Life is good, and Pudding House Publications (being the largest literary small press in the United States) is a very quick production house. Jen over there has the process down to a science. As long as there's a vision for the book and the book is "clean," meaning no big edits, no tweaks required, it whips right throug the process with no kinks. Sort of like going down a wet slide at the pool. Trust me: We work very hard to enable poets and poetry in a timely fashion.

So... here's the deal: BUY THE CHAP! Oops... I already said that.

Okay. Here's the deal: Anyone who makes a donation of $15.00 or more to the TEAM (at the Make a Donation button) will get a free copy of my upcoming CD (currently in production). I don't have to keep track of who you are--PayPal will do it for me. I'll be sending or delivering a copy when it's ready. Deal?

You'll be helping Columbus, Ohio's team go to Albuquerque and, trust me: This city will be well represented.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you take cash? I'll see you tomorrow night I hope.

4:20 PM  
Blogger Rose said...

I sure do. Cash is a good thing. See you tomorrow.

4:41 PM  

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