Conversant, too?: January 2007

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.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

WOW! A new YEAR!

Yes! Suddenly I'm getting multiple poems per week (which will come as a great surprise to those who know me!). It really is a new year. Riding to work on COTA gives me an extra hour or so each day to let my mind just relax. Poems have sprung from this new experience!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Send your poetry off to prep school

Pudding House Publications presents:

SALON 2007

Monthly read-around, feedback, interactive critique.

Every month, in the banquet room of a restaurant in east Columbus, a diverse group of thinking people meets to eat, breathe, drink, sculpt, hammer and polish poetry. We work on craft, presentation, voice and style, persona, place, voice and content, freewriting, seed poems, how to become selfless at the microphone, and much, much more. Each poet consumes as much of this sustenance as he or she can contain. A unique synergy fills the space. A unique bond is created over the common love of words. You are invited to join us!

First Saturday of each month, February through December 2007

MCL Cafeteria

5240 East Main Street

Columbus, Ohio 43213

All participants: Please plan to have lunch at MCL. Light lunch (soup or salad with drink just over $4, full lunch meal (entrée, two sides, drink, plus) approximately $7-10. Coffee with unlimited refills is $1.25. Tea/hot water available.

Cost: $60 per year (covers all sessions--attend one or attend all)

Workshop Facilitator: Rose M. Smith

Associate Facilitator: Connie M. Everett

Where will WORDS take YOU in 2007 and beyond?