Solace in a Book

Happy Birthday Happy

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Today Solace in So Many Words is one year old. In addition to commemorating that milestone, we also have a new reason to celebrate. Earlier this week we received the news that Solace in So Many Words is the Winner in the Anthology category of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Yippee! The final announcements about the winning books and grand prize winner will be published at the Next Generation Indie Awards website in the next few weeks. I will keep you … [Read more...]

Celebrate Poetry Month with us at Book Stall in Winnetka

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I went to a reading of "A Light Breakfast" a unique collection that is edited by Arlyn Miller and features a sackful of great poems  including ones by Solace in So Many Words contributor Carol N. Kanter ("Her Best Medicine," "Alternative Eulogy," "The Advanced Course"). I was lucky enough to meet with Roberta Rubin, owner of The Book Stall (and friend to books, readers and small presses) and I just so happened to have a copy of Solace in So Many Words to show her. So, … [Read more...]

Laissez les bons temps rouler — AWP here we come!

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Weighed Words is super excited to be going to the Associated Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair February 29 to March 3 at the Chicago Hilton and Palmer House, and we hope you will stop by.  Our table is C6 and we are sharing it with Hyacinth Girl Press and Arsenic Lobster Journal.  The keynote address will be given by Margaret Atwood.  Another presentation we are stoked to see features U. S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine (who contributed to Solace in So Many Words) and … [Read more...]

NOLA solace, part 3

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  This sign is one of many on the white clapboard exterior of the very delicious Elizabeth's Restaurant in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans (601 Gallier Street, New Orleans, LA 70117, 504-944-9272). The food there is excellent and the decor features the artwork of Dr. Bob, much of which admonishes: "Be nice or leave."   Love. … [Read more...]