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Site News, Palace Poet Poem with a Picture Submissions, Poetry Exercise Suggestions, Founder's Column, Chapbook and Single Poem Submission Guidelines
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Jeri Garry has started sending "G" rated poetry with an accompanyng picture for use in the newsletter. Last month's poem and picture were about the ice storm in her area (if you missed it).
She has submitted another this month. This option to display your poetry and photograph does not pay, but as it will be published at the Palace, any customer can order it on a Note Card, Calendar Page or as Stationery, which does pay twenty-five cents per page/note card/stationery set ordered!
I am not sure if it's a bit late, but am going to check out participating in the following after posting this newsletter. Though we cannot endorse the poetry contained in the exchange, we highly support the exchange of poetry between world poets, so enter at your own risk! LOL
A thank you goes out to Michelle Tercha for forwarding this e-mail to me:
The 3rd Annual Poetry Super Highway Great Poetry Exchange The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people's poetry as possible.
What?
In February 2004, the Poetry Super Highway will coordinate a great free exchange of poetry publications amongst poets worldwide.
It's not a contest. There are no judges, entry fees, winners, or losers.
Last year, 70 poets participated both sending their book and receiving another poet's book from a randomly selected other participant
By agreeing to participate, someone will be exposed to your poetry, and you will be exposed to someone else's poetry.
How?
To participate you must volunteer to mail one copy of one poetry book that you have written to one other person participating. Just one book. In exchange, you will receive in the mail one copy of one poetry book written by another participating poet.
E-books are not eligible for the Great Poetry Exchange. Your book must be physical entity. Even if it's self published, or one of one that you printed from your computer and stapled together...but please no e-books.
E-mail GPE@PoetrySuperHighway.com
Include in your e-mail:
The title of your book
A description of your book no longer than 50 words.
Your name
Your mailing address
Your website address (if you have one.)
In the middle of March, we will randomly assign the books to each participant and email to you the name and address of the person you are supposed to send your book to.
We will also list your book and description on this web page along with the link to your website for all to see. In addition we will list the new books in our weekly e-mailed update which goes out to thousands of people.
Please note, as the Great Poetry Exchange is open to everyone on planet Earth, it's possible that you will be required to send your book to someone outside of your own country which will, of course cost you more in postage than it would to send it domestically.
Also, we'll ask that you send us an e-mail in March once your book has actually been sent so we can keep track and make sure that all participants who send a book also get one.
You also must agree to send out your book within 2 weeks of being notified of who to send your book to.
Get all the details at http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
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Sunset
As the sun slips down
Into the sea
A golden path of illumination appears.
A highway of brilliance
Enticing me to come to him.
He sweeps his arms
Across the heavens,
Painting the sky with color
So unbearably beautiful
My eyes greedily
Feast at this bounty.
The blaze of his eye
Watches closely for my response
To this last moment of glory.
I smile in wonder at his artistry
And yet I am saddened
By its transience
I observe his prideful smile
As his eye winks out
Over the horizon.
Splashing the heavens
With one last moment
Of his arrogant grandeur
I know it will never be
Quite like this again.
I can almost hear him whisper,
“Come back tomorrow,
Watch me do it again!”
©Jeri Garry 2004
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Hope you are enjoying the stages of growth as we move into the new year with great hope and anticipation! :)
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Poetry Exercise
Though this exercise did not yield any publishable poetry, that i recall, it was an excellent example of how the work we do all adds up to better verse in the future.1) Taking a pair of dice (three or four, if you want more options, longer poems or longer lines) and roll for the number lines in your poem.
2) Roll again for the number of words, syllables or “items” to be in a line.
2-a) If you rolled for the number of words in the line, roll again for the number of syllables in each word.
2-a-1) You may choose to roll a die once for deciding whether you use one or two die for setting the number of syllables. (Using two and three dice to set syllables per word often creates far more work in writing the poem, but as often yields the byproduct of vocabulary increases when one uses their dictionary/thesaurus in the search process.)
2-b) If you rolled for the number of “items”, you must roll again to see if the item is a word or a punctuation mark.
2-b-1) If you assigned “one” to be for punctuation marks, assign a punctuation mark to each number on the die and roll again for mark to be used.
To increase the difficulty of the exercise, simply opt to use a certain number to indicate a Proper Pronoun or the name of an animal.
Once your form has been thus completed, choose several subjects and attempt to write the poem in the confined form, without straying from the chosen subject. The benefit of the exercise is dependent entirely upon the number of attempts made; “practice makes perfect.”
The obvious question would be, “Why bother with such a complicated task?” The answer might as easily be obvious; any efforts you make to allow your mind to free itself from the thinking “norm” that it unconsciously picks up from ordinary social interaction allows for the originality needed for your verse to grab and retain the reader’s attention.
Have an exercise you created for improving your writing? Would you like to see it in this newsletter? Send it to
Poetry Palace
Remember, if the exercise is easy, the benefit is minimal… :(
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Welcome to another month here at the Palace!
Continued efforts are being made to initiate high school use of the site and free seminars in the Southern New Hampshire are being offered. Note Card, Stationery, and Calendars using the Diary of a Poet Series verse can be used by schools not in the local area for student sales to finance seminars. (The reason for using Diary of a Poet Series verse is that no royalties need to be paid on those sales.) Sales needed depend on the seminar specifications. Only travel expenses are necessary for seminars that include no chapbooks. Higher sales needed for chapbooks to be included depend entirely upon the number of chapbooks needed.
This year’s vacation included the editing of three of the year’s Palace Poet chapbooks, and a start on the fourth. It also included the distribution of over fifty promotional copies of Diary of a Poet series chapbooks, as well as a number of Note Cards and Stationery.
One of the benefits of Southwest’s open seating was my being separated for the Mrs. on the second leg of our flight to Orlando. This seating arrangement placed me beside two young men immersed in their listening to ‘walkmans’. It was quite the wait to be addressed, just itching to get their opinions on the poetry brought along and the Palace in general. When that correspondence was finally initiated, i quickly jumped at the chance to pull out a copy of Just Scribbled Words© and hand it over, though neither one actually displayed much enthusiasm when asked if they liked to read. After that there was that horrible wait while they read pages, just dying to know what they thought! LOL When I realized that interest had surpassing the number of books, I quickly pulled out a copy of Back from the Block©. The success of the vacation was immediately increasing, prior to actual destination arrival.
Somehow I sweated though the reading duration, holding back the important question… When the books had been closed and the young men convinced that giving them away, i popped it.
Just Scribbled Words is formatted in the same, easily readable font (Rockwell or Arial, not sure) and Back from the Block is formatted like the Palace Poets series; each poem is set to a different font, and each has its font size and spacing adjusted for effect. This formatting as been a constant focus of debate since the release of Palace Poets Volume I, Because You Asked© Heidi Greenhaw 2003. So…
Which way do you think do you think is best?
The answer, immediate, unanimous and enthusiastic was “This one!”, referring to Back from the Block, the one with the poems individually spaced and fonted!
Whew! I acted as if i knew this, but it was quite nice to hear it from two young men of the age the project is attempting to reach!
Because of my bad habit of not introducing myself, most conversations leave me without the name of te individual with whom i was speaking, or as here was the case, individuals. Memory usually does the same for me when introductions are utilized! LOL
When they email me, i will thank them by name. Until then, Thanx guys! Your help was of great value! Hope you enjoyed Disney!
Neither Linda Mae nor i are much for rides. Knowing this, i spent a good part of Thursday, at MGM, trying to talk her into going on the Tower of Terror with me. A five year old named Morgan, the same as her granddaughter, shamed her into it with a simple, “I loved it and want to go on it again!” She also called my bluff! LOL I will leave you with the picture of that ride. It would seem that the lack of desire to go on rides is far more prevalent in Linda’s case…
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We poets here at the 'Palace' hope you continue to enjoy visits to the sample and posting pages!
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And, feel free to send comments to
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Donations to Poetry Palace help thomas beal to continue publishing poets and further the attempts to bring these works to High Schools.
www.PoetryPalaceScholarships.org is in the creation stage. We apologize for not having this tax deductible option available at the present time!
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Submitting Poetry For Chapbook Consideration
Three or four poems will be plenty for a query. Poetry MUST be submitted with NO tabs, aligned left, in Arial ( other common fonts if you do not have Arial) font, with titles, in bold, on the first line of a page (or five spaces below the last line of the preceding poem), in one document. Poems in all CAPS will be deleted. Please do not have lines of over 40 characters (even those might have to be divided, and it would be far more comfortable if the poet did it before sending, probably on both sides of this adventure!) If this is too much work for you, that is fine; do not submit (I do not mean to sound cold, but the amount of work done here is ridiculous!). Please put "chapbook" in the subject of the email! :)
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We have a contract for single poetry submissions for People Say; a new volume will be released each year. If you have a poem that you think would be a great note card, please send it along with this contract to poet@poetrypalacegiftshop.biz. Please put “single submission” in the subject line.
Single Submission Contract
I have submitted this poem to be used in the note card catalog knowing that if used it cannot be sold or used elsewhere until it goes out of print. I understand that the catalog sales are for 'Palace' support and no royalties are paid, but that I will receive twenty-five cents for each note card purchased with my verse appearing on it. I understand that royalties are paid quarterly. I hereby agree to all Poetry Palace terms and understand Thomas Beal has all creative authority. The content of the poem cannot be changed without my permission, but the artwork, fonts etceteras to be used is dictated by the needs of Poetry Palace.
I _________________ agree to all the stipulations set forth by Poetry Palace.
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