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News on Fiffer, Kirk, Rodley Submission info for Clutching at Straws, Silver Birch, Prime Number

01/03/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

News on Fiffer, Kirk, Rodley Submission info for Clutching at Straws, Silver Birch, Prime Number

How's 2016 treating you so far?  Maybe this news and info will be useful. Tom Fiffer who has contributed a number of essays to this site has a new book, Why It Can't Work: Detaching from Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love. He is Senior Editor, Ethics,  for The Good Men Project, which you should check out--it's "The conversation no one is having." If reading the thought-provoking stuff there inspires you to write about an issue, recently the site had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Clutching at Straws, Donna Vorreyer, Ellen Wade Beals, Escape into Life, Good Men Project, Kathleen Kirk, Laura Rodley, Nancy Drew, Poetry, Prime Number Magazine, Pushcart Prize, Red Bird Chapbooks, Resurrection, Shawn Misener, Silver Birch, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, submission info, submission information, Taking Off, The ABCs of Women's Work, The New Verse News, Thomas G. Fiffer, Tom Fiffer, Weighed Words, Why It Can't Work, writing

Looking back, looking forward

05/30/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Looking back, looking forward

If you read my last post you know that Solace in So Many Words is one-year-old. I have been thinking of the highlights from the past year. But before I give that account let me tell you how great it was that last week started with congratulatory flowers, sent by neighbor and mentor Fran Podulka and her husband Phil to celebrate the gold medal award Solace in So Many Words won from the Next Generation Indie Awards sponsored by Independent Book Publishing Professionals … [Read more...]

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About Face

01/26/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

I have been meaning to write a blog about Facebook for quite some time now, especially after I read Shawn Misener’s funny poem (see guest blog). I never thought I would be a booster for FB, but I am. Before I had FB I couldn’t imagine what I would post on FB, but I have found that I like having an outlet, a little place to share what I have found interesting. Posting on FB is easy, easier than blogging, that’s for sure. Blogging you have to write in sentences, maybe … [Read more...]

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Dear Facebook by Shawn Misener

01/26/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Dear Facebook: at this point you seem futile   I feel guilty when I forgo breakfast to read your wall   I feel guilty when I clean house and delete people   I thought I once knew in high school   I feel guilty when I write a poem and use you just to get it out to other guilty writers   Oh poor Facebook: you’re an old used-up lover   My wife glares at me when I ignore … [Read more...]

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