Time Again: Montserrat Poetry Festival, May 23rd

February 2, 2010

Montserrat Poetry Festival, May 23rd

Great news. Tonight I learned my application had been accepted to read at the Montserrat Poetry Festival near Warrensburg, MO on May 23rd. There will be 15 or 16 readers (judging by last year) including the Missouri Poet Laureate, Walter Bargen. I am quite excited.

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HOORAY FOR PUDDING HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

I admit I am biased toward Pudding House Publications. After years of building a collection of over 450 poems, taking 3 classes, and paying for some individualized instruction, I was told to be patient because it could take up to 5 years to find a publisher, a merit publisher, not a vanity or subsidy publisher.
Pudding House is one of the small press literary publishers, (the largest in the USA) who still publish according to the value of what they accept. I ordered my supply of books after I was told I would be published, and I was told I need not buy even one of my own books. In my view, that is as good as it gets in small press literary publishing.
Give a click to www.puddinghouse.com Jennifer Bosveld, the editor has filled the site with essays, information and links, enough for a long session of reading. Go there and browse. If you are a poet or essayist, email the editor with a sample of your work. Be prepared. She will answer you the same day if she is not on the road! How refreshing to talk to a very personable human being so quickly. And she answers her own phone. Consider sending a chapbook's worth of poetry -- about 18 to 24 pages. If nothing else, Jennifer is a people-person and she will be a great contact and friend to have. Hooray for Pudding House!

FIRST POETRY BOOK PUBLISHED
I am still excited over my first book of poetry now published. Gravel Dust and Dreams, the first installment of my coming-of-age series, is now in hand. The publisher, Pudding House Press, of Columbus OH, has done a superb job with its printing.Gravel Dust and Dreams - $10.00 (each) in person or $10.88 (each) by mail. If ordering by mail please furnish cash or check and full address.Outside the Crowd, a sequel, is in production and will be released in the next few weeks.

UPCOMING READINGS
February 21, 2:00 - First Christian Church, Savannah, MO

April 7-11 - AWP in Denver, CO

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February 2, 2010

Montserrat Poetry Festival, May 23rd

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