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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.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Roller Coaster Health

I missed a reading last night. Was scheduled to do a feature at Kafe Kerouac but was running a rather unhealthy fever and had not voice. Tried to notify everyone via ColsPoetry listserv, my poetry lists, etc., but didn't catch everyone. A friend who'd been trying to catch me at poetry for months came out and I was not there. I AM SO SORRY, Jean!

I hear Kerouac was fun nonetheless, and I'm pretty darn sure there were poets enough around to carry that night. I just hope I wasn't called too many awful names since not everyone got the word. Honestly, I was too out of it to think to call the venue.

My apologies to anyone whose time I stole.

posted by Rose | 3:17 PM

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