Publishing's Not all Its Cracked Up To Be???

This mini-essay from the New York Times, Publish and Perish, addresses the pitfalls of publishing - and author's unrealistic expectations....

Article to Ponder

Check out this article from the Oct 17th online edition of the New York Times, where they talk about a poet who quit writing for much of his life and has now won an award for writers over fifty publishing their first book... there's some interesting stuff in there, I think, including a thesis about a made up Victorian poet.

Anyone in California?

Got this from Deborah Meadows, a poet who read in Madrid this past summer. Thought if anyone out there was in the neighborhood you might wanna check it out...

Cal Poly Pomona

Poetry and Jazz
at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Art Gallery

Monday, October 17, 2005

5:00–6:30 p.m.

featuring

Ron Escheté Trio, a consummate master of the seven-string guitar as well as a CSULB Music department faculty will play with Todd Johnson on bass and Kendall Kay on drums.

Diane Ward, poet and author of numerous volumes of poetry including On Duke Ellington’s Birthday, Never Without One, and Portraits and Maps [with art by Michael C. McMillen] (Piacenza, Italy: ML&NLF).

Rodrigo Toscano, a poet whose books include To Leveling Swerve and Platform, works in The Labor Institute in NYC, and is a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

a conference on katrina

for those who enjoy such things:

----- Original Message -----
From	shahin kachwala
Date	Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:38:08 -0400
To	WMST-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject	CFP - A Feminist Response to Hurricane Katrina: A Conference

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Please spread the word (see attached flyer).

A Feminist Response to Hurricane Katrina
A Conference

Hosted & Organized
by UAlbany Women's Studies Students

- A Call for Papers -

We especially invite undergraduate and graduate students and non-academics
to submit papers and media (such as film, video, photography, paintings,
etc.) that discuss any of the issues surrounding Hurricane Katrina.
Paper topics may include (but are not limited to) any of the following:
(dis)ability, (access to) technology, age, citizenship, classism,
disbursements of funds, education, environmental factors/issues, gender
violence and other kinds of violence, government policy, identity, media
depictions, migration (unplanned, forced), militarization and
criminalization, poverty, racism, residential segregation.

Abstract Submissions Due: October 28, 2005
Presentations on December 2, 2005

Abstracts must be 200 words and submitted to: wstudent@albany.edu or
jhobson@albany.edu




--
Shahin Kachwala
Department of Women's Studies
University at Albany - SUNY
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222

In need of a long nap

Why, you ask? Here's why:

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/17635

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/17664

And then, when the new Bankruptcy law takes effect this Monday and the middle class finds out what this law is about, let the George Bush-led fun really begin.

Alexis's Best Of Piece...

Check out this piece from Alexis Wiggins, fiction student and expat writer living in Madrid, which was chosen by Fresh Yarn, and then picked for one of their Best Of editions... Its pretty damn good!

News from Stan West...

This morning, (Sunday, Oct. 2, 6:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Chicago time), I featured Prof. Peter Thompson, who taught UNO's translation course this summer, on my WNUA 95.5 FM Chicago radio show "City Voices," a weekly show streaming live that inquires into literature and cinema from the Third World. Today's show focused on the literary, cultural movement of "Negritude," and a the work by Veronique Tadjo, a poet from the Ivory Coast now living in Paris, whose book Thompson translated.

(I believe her new book with Prof. Thompson's translation will hit bookstores this month).

PS - Susan's New Book

Check out Susan's new book! Its titled A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Let's support each other!

Good News from Susan Schultz

Just found something interesting on the Tinfish website -

a Tinfish poet, Barbara Jane Reyes, has just won the Academy of American Poets Prize... congrats to Ms. Reyes and Tinfish! Go to the website and read all about it...