The Wordsmith's Forge

I'm planning to participate in a project called "Couplets" in April, as part of National Poetry Month.  This is a multi-author poetry blog tour.  Here is what I have planned ...


Guest Posters on my blog:
Mary Alexandra Agner (around April 9) guest post
Anne Higgins (around April 14)
Carol Berg (around April 22)

My Guest Posts in other blogs:
Featuring Prismatica on Peg Duthie's Dreamwidth blog Zirconium (around April 20)
Featuring From Nature's Patient Hands on Wendy Babiak's Wordpress blog Visions & Revisions (around April 29)


This project is organized by Upper Rubber Boot Books.  Check out the "Couplets" page for more details.  So far there is a blogroll of participating poets.  In April the links to actual entries will begin appearing.

Here's a lovely post about clicks in language, as consonants or other features.

This month, boycott the commercial entertainment industry.  Buy your books, music, movies, and other goodies from independent producers.  Support crowdfunding and other alternatives to the corporate economy.  There is a banner for this on my LJ scrapbook.

The bimonthly webzine AVENues  is opening again.  It specializes in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry about asexuality.  They're open to submissions now (from people of all orientations).

This crossed my desk today, passed along by several folks who know Suzette Haden Elgin ( ozarque ) and her husband George.  Her health is not in great shape.

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Here's an article that exhaustively details reasons not to buy books from Amazon.