I will start since I am the one that invited most of you here although David and Birdie also invited a few people I believe. This blog is MiPOEsias official IBPC blog/community. Our community used to be here, but there was a crash earlier this month there and a lot of poems were lost so I decided to follow the trends and move here.
For those of you that do not know me, I am the publisher of MiPOEsias Magazine. I also like to draw portraits. You can see of them here. You may recognize some of my subjects. I am planning on drawing Yoko Ono next or maybe David Lehman. I am not sure. I promised David he'd be next although in the meantime my muse took me here and there. Some of you participated in the Bettie Page challenge recently. We are currently working on this. And because I practice what I preach, you can find some of my poetry here and I will post new poems sometime later here.
Some of you are here because I have known you for a very long time. Some of you are here because I published you. Some of you are here because I visted your blog. But the main reason you are here is because I feel you are all very talented and I like surrounding myself with brilliance, beauty and genius. In other words having all of you around makes me look like if I am really cool instead of what I really am which is pretty dorky.
On a personal note, I am the mother of four children ages 8 to 17. We have three dogs (mutts) and I live in Miami.
Before I forget we are planning a cruise in 2006. I hope you can make it. We are also doing a reading in November. I am building the web page for the reading and will let you know when that is available.
Okay now it is your turn.
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I took over The Hold after Cait Collins passed on.
Hello,
I was born in Germany, live in Canada, near Toronto. As a child, I read my way through the local library. In one of many insane moments, I decided that I could write what I was reading.
I almost studied journalism, but settled on English only to learn that although I enjoyed the creative process, I wasn't that interested in learning about English literature.
I met my wife at university, married her within the year. Let's see, that will be 35 years ago this year. I have two children, 31 and 29 (very soon to be 30).
My interests have been many: collecting science fiction works, long-distance running, collecting records, playing the accordion, collecting local art, collecting wine. There's a pattern here. My wife calls me obsessive-compulsive.
I didn't write for quite some time, returned to it when I discovered poetry forums on the internet in '99. The turning point was my participation at the Atlantic Monthly site. I met a great group of poets. A number of us got together in Florida in 2000, then Italy (Sardinia) in 2001, Canada in 2002, New Orleans last year and hopefully Norway in 2006.
I tried retirement in 2003 and tried to take writing a bit more seriously. I don't know if it was the push with writing or the retirement, but I was very unhappy and I pulled back and went back to part-time work.
My wife retires in another year and we plan to travel. Oh, I should mention my latest interest, photography. I seem to be collecting lenses right now. Yup, there's a pattern.
Helm.
ok, here's some thoroughly random stuff
i work for a very large (very large) insurance company.
i'm an actuary there. sortof.
i'm also a Democrat.
i was a double major in college--English and Econ.
i graduated with Honors in English (which I did not deserve!) for a very shitty paper i wrote about Tennyson's Idylls of the King. yuk, what was i thinking?
unlike math, science, etc. poetry does not come natural for me. that is probably why i like it so much.
i have three kids, ages 5, 3 1/2, and 1.
the oldest is starting to read.
it sortof makes me more cognizant of the kind of stuff i'm writing.
which is to say, yes, if i am fortunate my future readers will be 5 year olds.
i also write for the unborn.
sometimes.
for the past six months or so i've been de facto IBPC president.
it's a pretty good gig. i don't have to much of anything really except listen to Gina and do what she tells me.
IBPC
i'm also Prose Editor for Avatar Review
we publish once a year and submissions are currently closed, but i hope y'all will keep us in mind this winter
(submit submit submit!)
that seems like enough
--D
Hi, this is DQ. Jack-of-all-trades, master of none.
I enjoy a bit of everything as long as I find myself challenged. This has led me down some interesting paths in life, and down some paths I've learned good lessons from. I've done Woodworking, Triathlons, Photography, I ran a Marathon, Done stained glass, paint. I've been close to dying at sea. I've been in love, I raced bicycles, I once stepped on an alligator and lived to tell about it, I've been on TV- twice.
I have a couple of Bachelors degrees, that I've managed to put together into one career...neither degree is obviously in art or poetry.
I've been writing for about 8 years. I met Didi at about the same time I started writing. Didi makes good Cuban Coffee. She's a great lady. (Although sometimes quite moody). Dido’s dog is actually moodier, bordering on what experts would define as rabid vicious, and a threat to male genitalia.
My writing is affected by my art; if I am busy with a project...I tend not to write at all. Thus, I frequent the board off and on, depending on which ear the muse is whispering. Most people either love my poetry, or flat out hate it.
Long poems bore me, so I tend to scan poetry on length, then on content. I have found a favorite poet in many of you reading this.
Regards to all- DQ
Hi. I haven't participated much here because I've been crunched for time -- but hope to be more participate-ish later this summer (fingers crossed).
I live in the greater Washington, D.C. area with my husband. We have a four month old son. I'm the editor of No Tell Motel and am working on a print anthology titled _The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel_ with Molly Arden (No Tell contrib editor). Also, I write a monthly poetry column at The Happy Booker.
All of my favorite TV shows have been taken off the air (Buffy, Angel, Strangers with Candy). So I'm left with Dr. Phil and Craft Corner Deathmatch. I love Bon Jovi, for real.
I live in South Florida, but was raised in South Carolina and still have that accent, though I've not lived there since I was 16.
Before Florida, I lived in the midwest (grad school mainly), Hawaii, Rhode Island, Boston, and a 22 foot sailboat (six months). In each place, except the sailboat, I worked as a Clinical Psychologist.
I'm married, but have no children and no sibs. The egg stands alone, so to speak, as far as blood family goes.
I started writing poetry in 1999, but it really sucked big time. I started publishing in 2002 or so, but the writing still was pretty bad. I can see improvement each year that I write (as defined by what I like in my own writing. I enjoy the process of changing how I write. When a poem isn't on its way, I feel restless, like I'm pregnant, but can't get it to go down the birth canal.
Oh, I have a dog, my third now. Used to be a cat person, so discovering dogs was a big thing for me. My last cat, Monster, lived with me in the Boston Commune and then on the boat before retiring in Florida until her death at the healthy age of 18. Always an interesting experience to go outside and call her when someone new was in the neighborhood:-) Yes, I like to laugh and make others laugh.
I live in rural Canada but was raised in NY. Got A degree in psychology at Boston Univ., then I followed Leary's advice (I guess his ashes are in space now) - from Woodstock to Mexico to Morocco to etc...
I've been rooted for a long time now though & have grown used to the solitude of nature. Well. Not every year of course!
As long as there's a cold beer and a bonfire at the end of the day.
Two grown kids, dogs, horses. Today I'm freezing spinach from the garden, shipping a full length play around, looking for a producer, getting forestry plans in place.
Anything to avoid the vacuum. (I mean as in housework, haha)
I think what I really like, is to make people laugh.
Cheers
deirdre
I currently live in Dallas, TX where I am an artist in residence at the Southside on Lamar Residency Program. I work full-time in advertising and teach poetry at a local university. I maintain a blog at http://makura-no-soshi.blogspot.com. I am an interdisciplinary artist and involved in a number of collaborative projects such as http://52haiku.blogspot.com. I have lived in a number of wonderful places - the West Coast, Boston, Madrid, Boulder, and Chicago, but will always be a Californian at heart.
Hello all,
Didi created the portrait you see [on the right] after one of my poems was accepted for a MiPO issue.
Sometimes my brain can't cope when I read too much poetry. I think it's because I read so hard -- it hurts!
I like reading other poet's bios.
And I think that's enough about me. :-)
Ivy is here
Poets' bios, I mean.
Dammit -- that's terrible.
Hi Poetry People!
I grew up on the red clay of Stone Mountain, GA. My feet used to be hard as stone. I moved to Baltimore at 15 to finish growing up. My feet got softer (they wear shoes more often). I went to Buffalo for grad school. My feet grew white as snow. I kept growing through three winters. Then I had to decide between Atlanta and New York City. I thought the latter via the former (trans: NYC until Atlanta). I'm still here in Brooklyn (9 years now), still growing (no longer up but maybe mentally? emotionally?), and it's hot as Georgia ever was in Brooklyn today, with humidity to breathe against. I'm happy to be on cafe cafe among the poets of the world, gathering! Thanks for the invite, Didi~
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