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March 6, 2012

Blogger-bloggers and just plain bloggers

All bloggers: Still collecting participants for my online book launch. Slide down to Moonlight Requisition, please!

Note for Blogger-bloggers on spam referral problems: I am no techie, but I have found a solution for a problem that has been popping up on Blogger for a lot of people. Day before yesterday I had some trouble with spam referral, and the information I found online suggested that if
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Published on March 06, 2012 07:21

March 5, 2012

Clive gets devilish in D. C.

If you haven't been following Clive Hicks-Jenkins and his progress on The Soldier's Tale, you might pop over to the Artlog--choose L'Histoire du Soldat from the Topics menu, and you can see a quick evolution. In addition, if you choose Collaborations with Poets, you can take a look at his work on The Foliate Head and see how the title page above came out of his foliate heads.



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Published on March 05, 2012 05:24

March 3, 2012

Moonlight Requisition

Blogger? Tumbler? Etc.? Interested in hosting one smallish question (yours) and some information about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer University Press, winner of The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction) in time for the March 30th book launch? You don't have to be an author or have a blog that focuses primarily on books. All questions will also appear here as individual posts and
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Published on March 03, 2012 09:25

Moonlight Requisiton

Blogger? Tumbler? Etc.? Interested in hosting one smallish question (yours) and some information about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer University Press, winner of The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction) in time for the March 30th book launch? You don't have to be an author or have a blog that focuses primarily on books. All questions will also appear here as individual posts and
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Published on March 03, 2012 09:25

March 2, 2012

The Open Secret Society of the Poets

As James Thomson is best known as the author of the poem, "The City of Dreadful Night," he surprises me with his essay, "Open Secret Societies," with its praise for heroes, poets, and saints. The last quarter of his life must have been terribly depressive, as he was insomniac and increasingly isolated by alcoholism and melancholy. But he was youthful when the essay was written, and evidently he
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Published on March 02, 2012 20:16

March 1, 2012

Wroth Redux, with chickens--

Cockerel courtesy of sxc.hu
and Philip MacKenzie of London

Approximately one year ago I (the mild-mannered, the peaceable, the tactful) committed a fulmination, a fume, and a fuss entitled Wroth, Wroth with Ted Hughes. It had to do with chickens and old ladies and lovelessness. You may want to rush over and read it all over again (because naturally you have read it once, being all up on
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Published on March 01, 2012 21:06

Hard to pin--

PIN-POST TABLE OF CONTENTS
Being rather fat, it needs one!
TO PIN

On the classification of this creature, Marly Youmans

A NEW 'PIN'

A fresh classification for the same

UPDATE ON THE ADDY FOR THE THRONE OF PSYCHE

More news about the Gold Award Addy




Golden butterfly--"gilded butterfly on a needle"
courtesy of sxc.hu and Karen Steiner of Austria.




TO PIN



For publishers and reviewers
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Published on March 01, 2012 08:19

February 29, 2012

A Gold Addy for The Throne of Psyche

A Gold Addy for The Throne of Psyche

Design team Burt and Burt (Mary-Francis Burt and Jim Burt) won an Addy Gold Award for the design of The Throne of Psyche.  The Georgia Addies were engraved lava lamps! (They won another Gold and a Judge's Choice Award for The Divine Comics by my friend Philip Lee Williams, also from Mercer University Press, 2011, as well as several other Addies.)  To see
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Published on February 29, 2012 15:37

How to be a helpful book brownie--

P. S. Publishing, 2009
Books and Culture Book of the Year



Mercer, 2011
"beautiful and brilliant"
Greg Langley, TBRA



In pre-order
The Ferrol Sams Award
Mercer University Press

Here's a list of 36 things you can do to help writers you like in ways that are not difficult and do make a difference--ranging from buying a copy at your favorite indie to yacking or blogging about the book, from
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Published on February 29, 2012 04:10

February 28, 2012

Frolic with Gala

Makoto Fujimura linked to Gala Bent yesterday on twitter, and last night I couldn't resist writing a poem inhabiting one of her vast landscapes. Today I'm saving a smidge of time to read in her blog. I would offer an enticing image but haven't asked permission--just go look!
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Published on February 28, 2012 08:55