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.

Sunday, July 03, 2005

A Woman You Know

Still working on the chap for Pudding House. Really difficult choices to make here. Lots of poems I want in the book because they are the poems people ask me about when they buy the first chapbook.

Haven't thought of a title yet. Just hoping it will finally be a release that contains the things people I encounter most want to read. That means it will contain quite a few performance type poems (at least people tend to classify them as that). I just hope I can respond with a "Yes" when people ask whether the bathroom poem is in there, or Coming From.

Jennifer recommended I include one of the poems from my initial chapbook, which I've done. When I think about it, it probably is a good way to connect the two. Can't be Shooting the Strays, though, which Pudding Magazine first published. That's the title poem from the first book.

Now to finish up that manuscript and get on to the CD.

Rose

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