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...]
The Book Stall was swell
Many thanks to The Book Stall for hosting our celebration of Poetry Month---to Roberta Rubin for inviting us to read and especially to Amy and Gordon who worked late to accommodate us. The Book Stall has been named Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year and it is obvious why. The Book Stall is supportive of readers and writers alike. We had a pretty large crowd and they were a very attentive audience. We changed up our usual reading event in that we also featured … [Read more...]
Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz
Talking To My Heart Cool, isn't it? says the technician smiling as if she had painted your image on the monitor. Who can account for her taste, dear heart? You are a tangled package bound with rivers of string, your tricuspid valve a slit in torn wrapping, your thump-thump a secret trying to escape from its chamber. How shallow the breaths that fluttered against your rib cage. I thought you would collapse like a … [Read more...]
More news from contributors
Kathleen Kirk has a busy weekend in Chicago --maybe you can catch her at one her events. The first is Thursday, April 28 to launch Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Prose, Poetry and Photography at the Book Cellar, 4736-38 N. Lincoln. The next day, Friday, April 29, she will be part of the The Encyclopedia Show: Creation Myths at the Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $8. Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz has an essay in Snowy Egret and two … [Read more...]
What is new with contributors?
I could says thanks every day to my contributors and it wouldn't be enough. That they answered my call for submissions and had faith in the project sustained me when my confidence wavered. Solace in So Many Words wouldn't be anything without them -- not only are they generous artists, they're terrific writers, and I am not the only one who thinks so. Wally Swist's new book, Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love, was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa as a co-winner in the Crab … [Read more...]