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Make Friday Write

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We made it! It is Friday. Thanks for those of you who read through my blogs this week. I had a lot of fun connecting my professional life with my writing life this week. I actually drafted some poems during this week as well! I’m continuing to work on my abecedarian project so the poem I’m sharing this week was inspired by that project and the conversations I heard around me from working teachers/writers/parents etc. I was working on another project with poems about a painter that I thought would be a chapbook. I realized last week, however, that I really only had about 10 poems I really liked in that “series” and that the newer material I had been creating for the last few months just wasn’t engaging me so I have folded that series into my 3rd poetry collection manuscript and one made its way into the abc project. Ya just never know where they are going to go!

–And now to dig into the revisions :)

As always I want you to share your work in progress via link or posting directly as I take down any works posted a week from today (including mine). And, of course, you don’t have to be working in poetry.

Here are some additional items to share:

  • I’ll be part of a three person publishing panel and book signing at City Light Books on July 21st at 2pm if you know anyone in the area of Sylva, NC.
  • One of the online lit mags I’m reading right now is Diverse Voices Quarterly. Love their new format. Easier to read online.
  • I’m also reading Handful of Dust in which I have a poem. If any of my Summer Institute friends from the writing project stop by they might recognize that poem as I workshopped it with some of them last summer.
  • Sort of reading, but more listening, how about Natalie Merchant singing old poems for a TedTalk?

I’m sure I’ll have more to share next week when I’m mostly free of obligations except the writing which is, mostly, a joy :)  Oh, and submitting some more work. I did submit two sets of poems this week. Yay!

Reviews and Roundups

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At the bottom of this post is a book review I posted on Goodreads for a non-fiction piece I finished reading, but I have quite a few other things I want to gather up and share with you today as I’ve been cleaning up my virtual desk, so to speak :)

  • I have a book review up in The Rumpus. It was a honor to read the book in question, to write a review and then to also have it accepted at The Rumpus so huzzah all around!
  • I am also reading the essay/memoir pieces in the newest issue of Hippocampus Magazine so I have to recommend it again. Terrific variety and the magazine is even easy to read on a mobile phone. Or, at least it is on mine!
  • And since this is really on a non-fiction kick so far (with a sorta link to poetry) I think I’ll let it continue this trend by self-publishing another non-fiction piece I wrote about Lay-Away!
  • And the final two things I’ll post today are two very different videos that are both fairly short so look to the bottom of the post!

Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television
Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television by Sherry Ginn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Full disclosure in two parts: 1 – I am a nerd; 2 – The author of this book is a colleague of mine although we don’t know each other very well, just well enough that I was thrilled to pick up a copy of this book.

Dr. Ginn’s “Our Space, Our Place” dealing with women in the worlds of Sci-Fi TV is part academic guide to the TV shows, literary analysis and psychological study. Dr. Ginn is a psychologist with a keen interest in women’s study as well as the world of science fiction.

While there are parts of this book that are very academic and other areas that necessitate summary (especially if you haven’t watched a particular show. For example, Dr. Ginn discusses Andromeda which I never had a chance to watch), overall this is a book that will be engaging to a variety of readers. If you are a fan of sci-fi (especially the TV variety), interested in women’s studies and/or needing a text for academic purposes you can’t go wrong with this thin volume. I read it straight through, but I could definitely see it as a tool for research. And, perhaps for me, a place to jump off into some poems since she discusses (in great detail) one of my favorite Sci-Fi TV shows: Farscape.

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What would you want your final status update to be? What about your archives:

And, then thinking about some unique schools that started in NC!

See you for Thursday Poem Share tomorrow!

Small additional note for those of you keeping up with my Fat Girl marketing: Day 1-YouTube 2-Blog 3-(today) Google +! And I think that final status update video would make a really good writing prompt!

Connotation

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No, up to this point, I haven’t joined in the debate about whether or not there should be a de-n worded edition “Huckleberry Finn” released but I have been following the discussion so I wanted to share some thoughts on the issue as well as some links to what people have been saying about it.

First up is a terrific post on Collin Kelley’s blog.

Then I also have a video from a YouTuber who regularly does book reviews as well as books vs movies reviews.

I’m actually not completely sure where I fall in the debate but after reading Bill Bryson’s The Mother Tongue I wonder why we can’t talk a little bit less about censoring/changing a work of literature and instead focus on finding a way to annotate the different connotations of words such as “the n-word’. Instead of changing the book, why not put the little asterick next to the word the first time it appears and then a note at the bottom to discuss why it is used the way it is.

In Bryson’s book, he talks about a variety of topics related to the development of English, and I think this discussion fits in well. Think of the “c-word.” Back in Chaucer’s time it essentially had the same meaning but wasn’t as hated as it is now. Should we take the word out or, if we choose to teach that material, instead explain what it means. Have the British stopped called cigarettes fags? Even though that means something completely different here?

Anyway, those are just a few of my thoughts on the issue. As always, open to discussion here!

And since, I am loading videos and thinking about writing and writers how about two more to finish off your Tuesday.

First up is Mel Bosworth reading a piece by xTx:

and next is a short discussion and reading by YA author Garret Freymann-Weyr which I took at a recently Charlotte Writer’s Club meeting in Davidson, NC

And wait. One more super short one for silliness :)

See you tomorrow with a writing prompt. Which, of course, I still need to come up with!

Video Wednesday

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I am really challenging myself by making this video Wednesday. Why? Well, I already skipped it being Video Tuesday because I didn’t have a vlog read and as I type this (almost 10am EST) I don’t have a vlog ready yet either! Ok. So Late blog/vlog for myself but I have other vids I want to link so let’s get on it. For more info about my book check under publications tab and/or the book art in the side bar. (finally made the video and had it uploaded by 4pm EST but now waiting on processing, ah YouTube)

Last Friday night was the monthly Green Rice (last Friday of the month) Art Gallery reading. There were three featured readers and I was having a hard time deciding which one to list here! I did make a playlist where vids from February show up first. I’ve decided to post Rob Abbate’s reading because I didn’t record his book release party. The other readers were Scott Owens and Alan Michael Parker who were also fantastic so check out the playlist linked above.

And to finish out this short week of videos, I have many more to share soon! Is another poem from the YouTube Channel Favorite poem. This is a Langston Hughes piece I really enjoyed hearing read.

Have any vids you want to share? Questions about these and/or comments? Love to hear from ya!

Video Wednesday

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First up for Video Wednesday is a Reading Round Up vid I made yesterday of books I had been meaning to talk about. In the video I talk about Bar Book by Julie Sheehan (I also read one of the poems from it),  the graphic novel/memoir Nylon Road and the most recent issue of the AWP Chronicle which is one of two magazines on writing I subscribe to. Only two!

Next up are videos from Poetry Hickory. I was a complete goober this morning and/or very tired and I forgot to cut off the beginning and ending of the Poetry Hickory videos so they look better, so oops! For the Poetry Hickory playlist click here, but I have included part of Nancy Posey’s reading. She read in the Open Mike. Nancy won the 2009 Poem A Day Chapbook Challenge hosted on Robert Brewer’s wildly popular blog for Writer’s Digest! I am loading this even though there are two more videos that need to be loaded but are taking forever! These are the featured readers. Hopefully the playlist will be updated tomorrow and I’ll also try to link directly to them in comments once they are finished but, man, I have to get off the computer!

And third on our list, is a video book review I did for Folded Word Press. I’ll be doing period chapbook reviews or chapbooks that are sent to them for review. For my first I reviewed Cynthia Reeser’s Light and Trials of Light

Completely exhausted but think I’ll be looking forward to Thursday Poem Share but what to share?

Video Tuesday

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First up is this week’s issue of Shape of a Box with poems by Timothy Gager (for text of the poems with video box click here:

And then how about some material from my personal YouTube site? Which has 53 subscribers now! Now, I’m not sure how many of those people actually ever watch my videos but still nice to have some people who follow you and comment from time to time as I enjoy doing on other sites. I’m user /charlottepoet

This first video is really short. It is when I received my copise of The Wait of Atom which I needed to sign and then ship out to happy customers:

The next video is from one of the two open mike’s I regularly attend where I read from Folded Word’s unfold as well as from Atom.

And finally (this one gets load about 10 seconds in. Just some fun I did with YouTube audio swap on a video we took of one of our silly kitties. Hope everyone is continuing to have a good week. One of my NaNo poems will be down at the end:

NaNo/Poem a Day from 11-15

[once a week the poems disappear....like ghosts....]

Video Tuesday

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First up is this week’s issue of “Shape of a Box” with a short fiction piece by Kyle Hemming:

Next up is me vlogging from my NEW car with a tour and some poems:

And finally Folded Word Press has a new page on YouTube and their first video up to celebrate work that appeared in their Twitter Zines (yay for Jessi!)

Working on submitting poems and chapbooks today but time seems to be getting away from me!