| Author | Message | ||
| Emusing
Moderator Username: emusing Post Number: 3831 Registered: 08-2003 |
Dearest Friends, Well if anyone has wondered where I’ve been I’m here to unveil the reason: a chaos of angels (Word Walker Press). It’s a project co-editor Alice Pero and I have been working on for nearly two years and it’s finally finished. While we are using lulu at the moment as our print on demand facility, we have created our own organization, www.wordwalkerpress.com to facilitate the book’s exposure and to publish future works on the subject of artists motivating change. Some of our very own Wilders have contributed to chaos  Just to give you an example I haven’t washed my hair in four days (yuck) and have been promoting the hell out of the site and the book. We already have an article in Los Angeles Citybeat http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4298&IssueNum=170 (circ. 100,000) that just came out yesterday announcing the anthology and the reading on Monday, September 11th at Moonday. There is already some good buzz happening on the book, actress Catherine Bell is promising to promote the book to all her friends and place a link on her website. As to a note to any of my friends who are on prescriptive meds, this is not a book bashing their use, it is rather a hopeful and inspired look at alternatives to medication for anyone who is interested in that. The book contains a list of resources at the back for more information on alternative therapies. Thanks for being patient. I should be back after the reading. We have poets flying in from Washington and Connecticut just to read their poems. It’s very exciting. Thirteen people will be there to represent the book. Sorry I have been an ghostly presence but my heart is always with Wild and I hope to be back in the critique chair soon. Lots of love, E | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 8406 Registered: 11-1998 |
Dearest E -- wonderful news, dear heart, and I wish you, Alice, and all the anthology contributors much success with the book. If you would like to list the book here in the WPF BookShop, just let me know. A listing in there would be permanent, while a post like this will eventually slip off the board. Love, M | ||
| penny august
Intermediate Member Username: funnyoldlady Post Number: 783 Registered: 06-2006 |
E - Congratulations and best of luck with your anthology. I'm looking forward to seeing it - I've always been interested in alternative medicine. What a great idea to use poetry! penny (-:= Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain. | ||
| Fred Longworth
Intermediate Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 323 Registered: 05-2006 |
I've met Alice Pero. Unless there's another Alice Pero, she was the featured poet at the reading at Barnes & Noble at Hazard Center in San Diego about a year ago. A bunch of us (including Alice) later went to Appleby's and had late dinner. The host of the reading was my close friend Seretta Martin. Please tell her "hi" -- from Fred Longworth. And . . . good luck on your book! Fred | ||
| Zephyr
Senior Member Username: zephyr Post Number: 4815 Registered: 07-2003 |
E congratulations on the anthology,wishing it every success. I will think of you on the 11th, won't forget as it's my partners birthday. Best wishes Zephyr Igor Stravinsky In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? | ||
| LJ Cohen
Moderator Username: ljc Post Number: 5496 Registered: 07-2002 |
E--This is so wonderful! May your reading monday be a rolicking success! Congrats to you, my friend. Yes, we've missed you, but this is a fabulous opportunity and accomplishment. Brava! xo ljc Once in a Blue Muse Blog | ||
| Emusing
Moderator Username: emusing Post Number: 3832 Registered: 08-2003 |
Dear M, Thank you and YES I would love to be listed. Tell me what I need to do. I appreciate your words of encouragement! Thank you Penny! It's hard not to be bias in favor of your own work but I do feel this book really has its own drive. It seems to be opening some interesting doors on its own and I am following through. I have already received a request from somone who wants help and referrals. That's a wonderful product so far! Thanks Fred! Yes I'm sure that's the same Alice. She's been in the poetry biz for 30 years. I hope you'll come up to the Pacific Palisades and join us for our monthly reading one month. We'd love to here ya. Zeph happy birthday to your partner and thank you kindly for the good wishes! Lisa thank you my friend. Your acknowlegement means much to me. I will keep you all posted on the event. Love, E | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 8428 Registered: 11-1998 |
Dearest E -- just take a look in the BookShop at the category of Books by Wild Poetry Forum Members. Just send me a short synopsis of a chaos of angels similar to what others have provided for their books and confirm the URL you want people to be taken to when they click on the Purchase this Book icon (I assume it's the wordwalkerpress site). That's it! I'll take care of the rest. Love, M | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 9182 Registered: 07-2001 |
Great news. Thanks. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House July FireWeed more War/Peace | ||
| Michael MV
Senior Member Username: michaelv Post Number: 1367 Registered: 11-2003 |
Yes, Great news Congrats! Much success to you, E, Michael (MV) | ||
| Emusing
Moderator Username: emusing Post Number: 3833 Registered: 08-2003 |
Dearest M, will do danke! Gar Thank you kindly MV. Sold 13 books tonight at a party. Very exciting. Tomorrow is the big reading. Wish me luck! xo E | ||
| Jim Doss
Senior Member Username: jimdoss Post Number: 2482 Registered: 12-2003 |
E, Best of luck to you and other poets at the reading. Wish I could be there..... but still proud to be part of the anthology. Jim My Books Loch Raven Review Editor Trakl Translations | ||
| GA Sunshine
Valued Member Username: ga_sunshine Post Number: 198 Registered: 06-2006 |
Emusing, You are indeed missed, but what great news! Congratulations! *Hugs* GA | ||
| Vienna
Senior Member Username: vienna Post Number: 480 Registered: 11-1998 |
Best wishes E! I hope all goes spiffingly well, sock it to 'em! Hugs V XXXX 'All of us get lost in the darkness Dreamers learn to steer by the stars' Neil Peart My poetry books at Lulu http://people.lulu.com/users/index.php?fHomepage=101596 | ||
| Emusing
Moderator Username: emusing Post Number: 3834 Registered: 08-2003 |
Dear Jim, GA and V, Thanks guys! Your good wishes paid off. We had a wonderful reading. Here are two picks showing the attendance. We sold 17 books (and 13 the day before) so we're starting to see a little bit above the water. The great news is it looks like I will have an interview on an AM radion station in Boston on the book as well as a spot on a local cable tv show. There is someone who is very interested in the book and is connecting me up with press lines. Not wanting or expecting to be a public speaker (M can attest to my reticence) I have no choice--so I'm taking the plunge and even getting tips on professional speaking and the like. I miss reading all of you, let alone doing any writing but that will come soon enough. I thought I would also include a couple of poems from the book to give you an idea. If you would like to order your copy, please go to www.wordwalkerpress.com. You will not be disappointed! The Poet Chooses His Drug Paxil® starts with a pop, unsettling the air, made louder by the explosion in its midsection, gastrics in excess spurt into a tail that lingers indefinitely at your tongue-palate interface, inducing no confidence in one who has what I have. The other SSRIs in my PDR —Prozac®— the sound frightens my children into nightmares. The word spits at you. Then, its long o like the cry of a vampire who snoozes in the wrong place, a coffin surrounded by prone-axe wielding SS agents: —Serzone®— a military salute with clicking heels and rifles snapping to attention. Serzone® orders you into well-being as wide and deep as its mouth-filling long o and never-ending nasal. Those two don’t sound like they’d help what I have. Why do they use so many z’s in drug names? And long o’s? I’d heard that pharmaceutical companies hire poets to invent the names of drugs. Makes sense–a poet to elevate a chemical named sertraline to Zoloft®, to hack Prozac® from fluoxetine hydrochloride, to erect Viagra® from sildenafil citrate. An industry insider invited me to send my resumé, warning me not to spread the word because, you know, poets? Inventing drug names? That’s like a honeybee from PETA pollinating a Venus fly trap. Imagine the introduction at a reading: “...we are honored to welcome the Poet Laureate of Pfizer, maker of Viagra®. His three-syllable, Latinate creation of sound and sens uality has been purchased and enjoyed by 256 million satisfied readers around the world...” I like the sound of Zoloft® best. The softest sibilant eases my larynx into the low-tension long o vowel, which pours nicely through liquid to —ah— fricative eases into the faintest of plosives, a soft landing, but a landing no less. Zoloft® is Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, who would never have what I have. Tom Lombardo Walking To Watmough Bay Down through a long corridor of trees we pass wearing a mantle of low clouds. Scattered by death, yellow leaves decorate our hair. Today we transcend our bodies. Today we inhabit the wind and lie naked with rock cliffs plunging to the bay. Past their season, the rosehip bushes do not acknowledge us. But the darkening afternoon, the slate gray waters of the cove– these speak in muffled voices. Tiny swells undulate the blood. A flute follows gulls into winter. Music for two fish we play imperceptibly, feathers brushing stone. Within ourselves we are shaping what the earth spinning on its axis shapes, we mold our own slow time. All points now to a great shutting down of things, a flutter of wings above a thin white candle burning where the world unveils a minor key. Isn’t this what we decided lifetimes ago, the touch of your rain-flecked hand a witness? Peter Ludwin Rx We will pay them gladly to fill our need to make our pitiful lives more agreeable, to deaden our ear to the miserable music of bad winds, dry bones, drumbeats of death, depression, and bellyaches that bleed over the edge of our sheets. A double will double the half-life of any pill liable to keep us asleep and out of the real. So a nurse named Dot who wants no trouble heeds the hypocritical oath, and in double time, fills the script with a pharmaceutical treat- ment to kill, types the white label that reads Serene as needed with food at bedtime and pushes it through the moon-eyed window. Grace Beeler By the way, Grace Beeler came all the way from Connecticut to read her poem. She was a sparking addition to the reading! More to come! Love, E | ||
| Emusing
Moderator Username: emusing Post Number: 3835 Registered: 08-2003 |
Oops these images are too big. Don't know how to size them down with the program I have (all I have is Paint). Any advices, let me know  | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 8471 Registered: 11-1998 |
Dearest E -- What images are you trying to upload, hon? If you want to send them to me, I can size them down and post them for you. Also, I'm still waiting for the synopsis for the BookShop. Not trying to rush you, just letting you know in case you sent the information and I didn't receive it. Love, M | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 8479 Registered: 11-1998 |
Here are some photos that E wanted to share with everyone of the reading   | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 8480 Registered: 11-1998 |
And also a pic of the book cover:  |
