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Mini-Memoir Contest Uses Google-Search–your own You Tube video in 5 minutes!
Womens Memoirs keeps coming up with new, fun contests. This one uses the Google-Search tool to make your own You Tube video that quickly shows the arc of your story. Besides being fun, it helps you sharpen the classic story stages. Does this sound complicated? Not at all. The technology is transparent with easy instructions….
National Poetry Month Poster 2010
Hurry, hurry! Request your poster by March 1st. The Academy of American Poets revealed the National Poetry Month poster for 2010 by award-winning illustrator and graphic designer Marian Bantjes, who recently created several campaigns for Saks Fifth Avenue. Bantjes’s intricate design features kaleidoscopic figures turning beneath a star-filled sky—a scene inspired by the poetry of…
Inspired Art: Drawing Voices Together (America SCORES St.Louis–Call-for-artists)
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Audiobook “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” update: mechanical licensing completed
Good news! We’ve completed the mechanical licensing phase for the music used in the upcoming audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music”. Now, onward into the production phase! For those interested, the phases in creating and producing your own audiobook are: 1) creative phase: recording, editing, fileswapping, decisionmaking, “notes” back and…
Prose? Poetry? Who knows?
Prose? Poetry? Who knows? My collaborator Stephanie Farrow and I have discussed this topic endlessly. Where is the line between poetry and prose? Is a story poem just prose with line breaks? Does a poem have to be obscure to qualify as art? I’ve explored these questions and many others with participants at conferences for…