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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.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

"East Side Girl" -- Poetry as Visual Art

Jen Bosveld (owner, chief editor of Pudding House) opened her one-woman show of ekphrastic poetry and broadsides last night at Don Parmesan's Italian Restaurant in Reynoldsburg. Her show--some art or photography accompanied by poems, some broadsides--(large, frameable poems) will run for about a month at the restaurant.

Read some poems with Columbus east side roots, and "Pressure Switch" (at Jen's request). Great evening for poetry when the spoken word takes over an entire restaurant space.

Kathleen Burgess and Louise Robertson also featured, both of them masterful. Nice, laid-back night of poems, followed by a brief open mic. Great time. Great time.

posted by Rose | 7:57 AM

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