Thursday is Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Well, I had good intentions of proliferating poetry all over the place tomorrow...really I did. Turns out, Husband's taking me to the big town (Austin) to see Lord of the Dance as part of my belated birthday hoo-hah. I can just see myself getting arrested for "leafletting" the crowd, or solicitation. Maybe I'll just take a small discreet stack of them and leave them in the restrooms. I have other things to do before then, maybe I can slip a few poems to unsuspecting "victims"! LOL.

Happy trails (and happy writing)!

bobbi c.

Poem a day for National Poetry Month

Friends,

My friend Janet over at her Riehl Life blog has been posting a poem a day in honor of National Poetry Month. There's some good work there, go check it out!

Happy trails!

bobbi c.

Another proliferator of poetry....

Check out the website of the Guerilla Poetics Project. They make little broadsides (poetry on small cards)that are sent out to operatives to be stealthily placed in books. COOL idea!

Get the scoop here:

http://www.guerillapoetics.org/

And speaking of proliferating poetry, I'm working on some handmade cards and such to hand out on Poem in a Pocket Day later this month.

Until next time,

Happy trails!

bobbi c.

April is National Poetry Month

Dear friends,

Check out all the doin's for National Poetry Month here!

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41

And don't forget, the 17th is Poem in a Pocket day. That's where you stuff your pockets full of poems (any shape, size, whatever) then hand them out everywhere you go. I intend to print up some of mine on little bookmarks or something and hand them around on that day. Won't the folks at the hardware store be surprised!

Personally, between you, me and the fence post, I don't know why we need a special day to do this, but it's a start, right?

You can also read about a poetry contest on that page, and a chance to win a piece of gorgeous jewelry by Jeanine Payer.

And speaking of poetry, I've been busy submitting some of my new work to on-line journals and a few contests. It's time to get those poems OUT THERE, know what I mean? I've also been working on some artist book/chapbook ideas to combine my artwork and writing.

Here's to proliferating poetry,

bobbi c.

The Independent Authors Guild

I was jazzed when I happened upon the website for the Independent Authors Guild. I love their attitude, and the fact that they have member's book covers and links for ordering on their site, too.

With the recent hoo-hah about the new Sisters in Crime policy of eliminating self-published or POD books from their members catalog, I expect this whole issue will be getting a lot of notice online. Let's just say that many former members will NOT be renewing their membership because of this new elitist rule. (BTW, did you know that SinC was formed in the beginning because of the exclusionary policies of the (mostly male writers) Mystery Writers of America? Interesting, huh?)

Check out the IAG site...there are many indie authors there with worthwhile books!

(And we don't want ME to get started on how un-earth-friendly and how un-green the whole publishing world is now, do we? :--))

Happy trails!

bobbi c.

Fantabulous idea! Broadsided Press

Hello poetry lovers!

I just ran across this amazing website from Broadsided Press. They publish a poem and art combo on a broadside that you can print out and post somewhere. You can sign up to be notified when they post new projects on their site.

Broadsides are like flyers, the forerunners of billboards, posted on windows, telephone poles, you name it...anywhere that an unsuspecting passerby is likely to stop and read it.

What a great idea for getting poems OUT THERE where they belong...in front of eyeballs!

dig it!

bobbi c.

Published Poet!

Dear friends,

I was excited to hear that a poem I submitted to the Story Circle Network Journal will appear in the March issue! This is my first published poem, and it's just as exciting as getting the acceptance letter to my first published article or book way back years ago. I've been writing poetry since I was a pre-teen, but have never had the joy of getting it published...until now.

Check out the Story Circle website for more information.

Happy trails!

bobbi c.