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Chicago Book Expo 2011

11/14/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Weighed Words just signed on to participate in the Chicago Book Expo 2011 this weekend, November 19 and 20, at the Uptown Goldblatt's Building (formerly Border's Books), 4720 N. Broadway. Put on by the Chicago Writers House Project, the expo will showcase more than 40 Chicago fiction and poetry presses in this pop-up bookstore.  The extravaganza also features an after-party concert on Saturday night by Joan of Arc and  the Uptown Poetry Slam at The Green Mill on Sunday.  And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Another Chicago Magazine, Anthology, Ben Spies, Ben Tanzer, Busy Beaver Button Company, Chicago Book Expo 2011, Chicago Writers Hourse Project, Chris Bower, Contributors, Curbside Splendor, Ellen Wade Beals, Fred Sasaki, Green Mill, James Tadd Adcox, Joan of Arc, Natalie Edwards, Paul Luikart, Philip Jenks, Poetry, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Sondra Morin, Uptown Poetry Slam, Weighed Words

Water by Kathy Buckland

11/08/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Kathy Buckland, Glenview photographer, took this photograph from the back of a ferry on its way from Victoria to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, which is about 40 miles south of Alaska. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Glimpse of Solace Tagged With: Anthology, appreciation, beauty of water, British Columbia, Canadian coast, Contributors, Ellen Wade Beals, Glenview Photographer, Kathy Buckland, Prince Rupert, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Victoria, water, Weighed Words

Susan O’Donnell Mahan

11/07/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

I first met Susan O'Donnell Mahan in Minneapolis when we both attended the launch of Kiss Me Goodnight.  The poem she wrote for that book is titled "World View" and is about her mother Florence 'Sis' O'Donnell who died when Susan was 14.  Susan and a couple other poets who appeared in Kiss Me Goodnight (Patti Wojcik Wahlberg and Tekla Dennison Miller) responded to my call for submissions. And now Susan and I keep up on Facebook, where I noticed she has published some poems. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: After the Postmark, Anthology, appreciation, Contributors, Ellen Wade Beals, Florence 'Sis' O'Donnell, He called me Princess, Kiss Me Goodnight, Missing Mum, Paris Awaits, Patti Wojcik Wahlberg, Poetry, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, South Boston Arts Association, Steam Heat, Susan O'Donnell Mahan, Tekla Dennison Miller, The South Boston Literary Gazette, Weighed Words, Weymouth, Wilderness of Grief, World View

Silesky After Hours

10/29/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

This past Sunday I went to the American Artworks Gallery in Forest Park to attend a reading event for After Hours magazine in which Ellen T. McKnight, friend to Solace in So Many Words, was a featured reader (along with Christopher Gallinari). The venue was cozy, and like most readings emceed by Al DeGenova, who along with Pat Hertel edits After Hours, it had a relaxed and mellow vibe. After Hours is a one of Chicago’s great little magazines. Published twice a year … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Al DeGenova, Algonquin Books, Anthology, Barry Silesky, Claire Kirch, Coffeehouse Press, Contributors, Ellen T. McKnight, Ellen Wade Beals, Eye of the Comet Press, Ferlinghetti, Forest Park, IL, John Gardner, Literary Outlaw, One Thing that Can Save Us, Pat Hertel, Pudding House, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, T. C. Boyle, The Artist in His Time, The New Tenants, This Disease, University of Tampa Press, Weighed Words

New reading events!

10/12/2011 By Ellen Beals

We have been busy planning new events.  Mark your calendars! On Monday, December 5 at 7 pm, Evanston contributors Joan Corwin, Paula W. Peterson, Carol Kanter, Pat Rahmann, and Susan Spaeth Cherry will be featured readers at Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Avenue, Evanston.  Joining them will be Pamela Miller, D. J. Lachance, Kathleene Donahoo, J. Scott Smith, Ellen Wade Beals and others TBA! On Sunday, December 11, from 2 to 4,  we will be reading at Woman Made … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Car, Carol Kanter, Contributors, D. I. Gray, D. J. Lachance, Ellen Wade Beals, Evanston Public Library, J. Scott Smith, Joan Corwin, Kathleen Kirk, Kathleene Donahoo, Pamela Miller, Pat Rahmann, Paula W. Peterson, Poetry, publication, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Susan Spaeth Cherry, Weighed Words, Woman Made Gallery

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