It's a New Year
Well, it's a new year and I have promised myself I will try to balance my life a little more. I set up this site as a way for family and friends to keep track of what was going on and to post more personal/family photos and I have not done very well. So, here goes.
I have been doing well as far as opportunities go. I've become the Assistant Editor for Haz Mat Literary Review (a literary review established by Norm Davis- also affectionately known by some as "Papa Mic"). Norm is the co-host of Pure Kona Open Mic here in Rochester- which is the longest running open mic in the area- they've changed venues over the years and gone through a few MCs, but they are still going strong. He also hosts the Wide Open Mic at Writers and Books on the last Friday of every month and is basically a notorious ex-school pyschologist and underground poet. He also reminds me a lot of dad.
I've been asked to do a showing of my photography at the Flatiron Cafe in January (probably the last Tuesday of the month). Hopefully, this will tie in with the Haz Mat that just came out which featured several of my altered photos from the 2005 Native American Dance and Music Festival.
Flatiron Cafe will be carrying the magazine. It is also being sold at Greenwood Books, Barnes and Nobles, Borders, Daily Perks, and possibly the Blue Dahlia in Canandaigua. It is an impressive feat Norm has accomplished; in the eight years he has been running the magazine he has turned it from a local venue for poets who he felt needed to be heard into a national magazine.
I have also been asked to feature again at Pure Kona on February 16th and at the Wide Open Mic at Writers and Books at the end of April. In May (9), I've been invited to feature in the Genessee Reading Series at Writers and Books, which I have never done before - so that is exciting. It is also hosted by MJ Iuppa (my favorite fellow poet and professor).
Meanwhile, I'm still trying to find people who will pay me for what I do but I think I'm getting closer. I have been talking to the owner of the Blue Dahlia in Canandaigua and he is interested in having an open mic at his coffee shop, so I might be setting up and hosting that. I've also submitted some artwork/photography to local venues. A bookstore in Honeoye Falls is looking for art to display (and sell) and I am putting together a portfolio to show the owners of Charming Sisters (a day spa in Victor that also carries local women's art and jewelry).
One of my resolutions is to submit at least five queries a week. Right now, I have decided they can be anything. I have a couple written up for the books I've already written and one I am working on but I would also like to query magazines and submit artwork and photography. I have lists and lists I have compiled on which query I should send to which publisher or magazine or contest, now all I have to do is actually submit.
Having my computer on the fritz has set me behind a bit, but (hopefully) all the issues have been resolved now that they replaced the motherboard. It's going to be a lot of work restoring and reorganizing all my information but I am up to it (I think). So, if you don't hear from me often - don't worry, neither do the people who live with me - but I will try to keep this blogspot up to date on what is going on so I am not completely antisocial. Okay, so I am completely antisocial but it's the winter and I'm always antisocial in the winter (maybe I was a bear in my past life. . . hmmm) you never know - that would explain the hairy legs. . .
I have been doing well as far as opportunities go. I've become the Assistant Editor for Haz Mat Literary Review (a literary review established by Norm Davis- also affectionately known by some as "Papa Mic"). Norm is the co-host of Pure Kona Open Mic here in Rochester- which is the longest running open mic in the area- they've changed venues over the years and gone through a few MCs, but they are still going strong. He also hosts the Wide Open Mic at Writers and Books on the last Friday of every month and is basically a notorious ex-school pyschologist and underground poet. He also reminds me a lot of dad.
I've been asked to do a showing of my photography at the Flatiron Cafe in January (probably the last Tuesday of the month). Hopefully, this will tie in with the Haz Mat that just came out which featured several of my altered photos from the 2005 Native American Dance and Music Festival.
Flatiron Cafe will be carrying the magazine. It is also being sold at Greenwood Books, Barnes and Nobles, Borders, Daily Perks, and possibly the Blue Dahlia in Canandaigua. It is an impressive feat Norm has accomplished; in the eight years he has been running the magazine he has turned it from a local venue for poets who he felt needed to be heard into a national magazine.
I have also been asked to feature again at Pure Kona on February 16th and at the Wide Open Mic at Writers and Books at the end of April. In May (9), I've been invited to feature in the Genessee Reading Series at Writers and Books, which I have never done before - so that is exciting. It is also hosted by MJ Iuppa (my favorite fellow poet and professor).
Meanwhile, I'm still trying to find people who will pay me for what I do but I think I'm getting closer. I have been talking to the owner of the Blue Dahlia in Canandaigua and he is interested in having an open mic at his coffee shop, so I might be setting up and hosting that. I've also submitted some artwork/photography to local venues. A bookstore in Honeoye Falls is looking for art to display (and sell) and I am putting together a portfolio to show the owners of Charming Sisters (a day spa in Victor that also carries local women's art and jewelry).
One of my resolutions is to submit at least five queries a week. Right now, I have decided they can be anything. I have a couple written up for the books I've already written and one I am working on but I would also like to query magazines and submit artwork and photography. I have lists and lists I have compiled on which query I should send to which publisher or magazine or contest, now all I have to do is actually submit.
Having my computer on the fritz has set me behind a bit, but (hopefully) all the issues have been resolved now that they replaced the motherboard. It's going to be a lot of work restoring and reorganizing all my information but I am up to it (I think). So, if you don't hear from me often - don't worry, neither do the people who live with me - but I will try to keep this blogspot up to date on what is going on so I am not completely antisocial. Okay, so I am completely antisocial but it's the winter and I'm always antisocial in the winter (maybe I was a bear in my past life. . . hmmm) you never know - that would explain the hairy legs. . .
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