Conversant, too?: May 2006

About Me

Name: Rose

Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States

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.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Moving on

Writing some new work, FINALLY! I've had a long dry spell.

Trying to work on a set list for Columbus Arts Festival. Since I won the competition (written poetry plus audition), I'm determined to have new or seldom-heard work to present for at least 75% of the set. If anyone's interested, I'll be reading at the arts fest Friday, June 2, and 7:00 p.m.

Salon this weekend. Looking forward to hearing and getting feedback on new poems.

Officially notified I did not place in the Tor Hour Poetry competition. Only submitted one poem, dear to my but apparently not to the judges' hearts.

Working on a full-length manuscript. Missed one intended deadline, but have a couple of others in mind.

Missed Is Said's wife's wake. I did not know her, but I'm certain she must have been a beautiful person. Brother Is Said has been a pillar of Columbus' poetry community for many years. I pray that he will find comfort in knowing she experienced a life well lived.

Probably will miss National Poetry Slam in Austin this year. Many transitions going on in my life, and I cannot commit to a week of travel when I don't know whether I will have vacation time to support it.

Many well wishes to anyone who happens onto this page.

Rose