Conversant, too?

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, July 09, 2005

Nobody's perfect

Salon today was a day-long meeting of the minds of seven poets. A wide range of styles and sensibilities meeting in one room to share and react to each other poems. Share in each others success stories, embrace each other in the common sea of words at work, and critique each other in the process. I am told I should stop pulling on my clothes when I speak. That I knew... nobody's perfect. Everyone has a tick, and habit, a tendency. What makes you say ouch?

posted by Rose | 6:35 PM

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