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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 3831
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 12:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 8406
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 1:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Post Number: 783
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 1:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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 (-:=
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Fred Longworth
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 323
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 3:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: zephyr

Post Number: 4815
Registered: 07-2003
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 4:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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

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LJ Cohen
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Post Number: 5496
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 7:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 3832
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 11:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 8428
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 4:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Post Number: 9182
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Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 4:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Great news.

Thanks.

Gary


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Michael MV
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Post Number: 1367
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 4:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Yes, Great news

Congrats!

Much success to you, E,

Michael (MV)

 
 
Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 3833
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 10:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: jimdoss

Post Number: 2482
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 7:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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GA Sunshine
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Username: ga_sunshine

Post Number: 198
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 2:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Emusing,

You are indeed missed, but what great news! Congratulations!

*Hugs*
GA
Vienna
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Username: vienna

Post Number: 480
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 3:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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'
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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 3834
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 10:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 3835
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 10:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 8471
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 11:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 8479
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 1:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Here are some photos that E wanted to share with everyone of the reading



~M~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 8480
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 1:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

And also a pic of the book cover: