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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, August 06, 2006

Blog or Flog

Realized today how much I've been neglecting my poetry blog site, so here goes:

Been reading at Writer's Block and Brown Stone as usual. These two venues offer an ever-changing dynamic. If you're a writer in Columbus, Ohio, you must visit at least one of them. Visit the calendar page at www.puddinghouse.com for listings of poetry events in Columbus.

Former national team members squared off against this year's national team at Writer's Block a couple of weeks ago. Old school vs. new school slam--and the old school won! Hoorah! Now the old school just needs to get back into shape for next year's competitions. (The new alternating-years rule kept us from competing for the team this year, but next year is open again.)

Read Friday night at the first-ever "First Friday's" poetry reading in Coshocton, Ohio. Nice crowd. First exposure for poetry in that venue, and coordiantor Mark Hersman of Mansfield did a nice job with it. If you live near Coshocton, I highly recommend it. First Friday of every money at the Serenity Tea House in downtown Coshocton. 7:00 p.m.

Good feedback from my CD today from Roger Lehman, and singer-songwriter who was at the Coshocton event. He called me "a shy, gentle atomic bomb." News to the front: "Pressure Switch" is "intoxicating." I am sittin' and grinnin'. And very honored.

My next reading is September 14 at Liberty Books for the opening of "The Rattlebox," yet another new poetry venue in Columbus. I believe this one meets on second Thursday of each month.

Submittals are going slowly. I just don't seem to be getting the work out of editors. I'm working on that. Beginning today: Must submit poems to at least two publishers per week. If I don't report at least two submittals a week here on my blog, you have permission to verbally FLOG me. Get it? Blog or flog!

Okay. That's all for now.

Rose

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd be at you Sept. 14 gig, but that's James' birthday.

I'm glad the 8/4 event went well.

5:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And those submissions are...where?

I say this confident in the knowledge that I have been a submission maniac this week.

Don't ask me about next week though.

1:03 PM  
Blogger Rose said...

OOOOOOOO. Ouch. I consider myself officially flogged! (But I have two more days before I'm officially overdue)

1:53 PM  

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