Didi Menendez: Poet, Artist, Publisher

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-05-24T12_27_05-07_00

Didi Menendez is a Cuban-born American artist and author. She is also the publisher for MiPoesias, http://www.mipoesias.com/ ,OCHO and Oranges & Sardines. Her series The American Poet Portraits is gaining momentum. http://americanpoets.blogspot.com/
Her latest book of poetry is WHEN I SAID GOODBYE released by BLAZEVOX.

Gypsy Art Show Facebook Edition

Art by Jeremy Hight












http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-13T14_12_18-07_00

Special thanks to my facebook friends for sharing their talent. In this show we have original poetry and/or music from:

Jeremy Hight..........flood, untitled soundscape and Cover Art: Weather Map

David Francis...........2 poems with music

Larissa Shamailo.......How to Meet and Dance with your Death

Valerie Melchioretto....From the Intestines of a Mystical Dog

Dave Dembinski........The Fall

Carol Novack................Same As

Peter Buffett................Where Are You Now

Janice Hale-Hobby....If a Button Were More Important than the Pope

Penn Kemp...............from soundscape Play Us

Jim Clark......................One Late Night

Jessie Randall...........Thank You Note to the Supposed Lesbian Who.....

Suchoon Mo................A Song For My Funeral

Michelle McGrane......She walks On Water

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-13T14_12_18-07_00

Andy Thibault: author of LAW AND JUSTICE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-10T11_17_43-07_00

Thibault is the author of three books, Law and Justice in Everyday Life, the most recent one, was published in 2002. Between 2000-2006, he published the “Cool Justice” column in The Connecticut Law Tribune. He is a regular guest on radio and TV interview shows in Hartford. He served as chief investigator for the Washington, D. C. public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, at the time of its investigation of corruption activities in the U. S. Commerce Department. In 2004, Thibault delivered the Pew Memorial Lecture in Journalism at Widener University in Chester, Penn.

Currently, Thibault is an adjunct lecturer in English and a mentor in the MFA writing program at Western Connecticut State University. He is author of The History of the Connecticut State Police and The 12-Minute MBA for Lawyers, a consulting editor of the literary journal, Connecticut Review, and—as an indication of his many outside interests—a licensed professional boxing judge. Thibault is the author of three books, Law and Justice in Everyday Life, the most recent one, was published in 2002. Between 2000-2006, he published the “Cool Justice” column in The Connecticut Law Tribune. He is a regular guest on radio and TV interview shows in Hartford. He served as chief investigator for the Washington, D. C. public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, at the time of its investigation of corruption activities in the U. S. Commerce Department. In 2004, Thibault delivered the Pew Memorial Lecture in Journalism at Widener University in Chester, Penn.

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-10T11_17_43-07_00

Patricia Smith: Four-time national poetry slam winner, author, teacher

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-03T14_17_18-07_00

Internationally renowned as a performance poet, Patricia Smith is four-time national individual champion of the notorious and wildly popular poetry slam, an energized competition where poets are judged on the content and performance of their work. She is also regarded as one of the few performance poets whose work translates effortlessly to the page. Indeed, the Small Press Review declares, "Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings." Smith's most recent collection, Teahouse of the Almighty , was chosen by Ed Sanders for the 2005 National Poetry Series, and was published by Coffee House Press in 2006. Her three previous books of poetry are, Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big Talk (Zoland Books), and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha). She has won the prestigious Carl Sandburg Award, as well as a literary award from the Illinois Arts Council and an honorary degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2006, she was inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, putting her in the company of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, and others.

She was featured in the nationally-released film "Slamnation", and was a featured poet on the award-winning HBO series "Def Poetry Jam." Smith has shared the stage with Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, Allen Ginsburg, Walter Mosley, Ntozake Shange, Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell and Viggo Morgensen.

An author of prose as well poetry, Smith wrote Africans in America (Harcourt Brace), a chronicle of slavery in this country and the companion volume to the groundbreaking four-part PBS series.

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-03T14_17_18-07_00

Invitation to submit for a special show

Submissions DEADLINE May 9, 2008

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Poets, writers and musicians are welcome to send a recording of 3-7 minutes in length. MP3 format only please. Include a brief intro stating your name and a little about yourself and/or the piece you will be reading or playing. Work should be your own. Send to gypsysubmissions@yahoo.com
If you prefer me to read your intro I will do that.

Michael Neff: Founder and Director or of WebdelSol.com

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/2008-04-27T09_46_18-07_00

MICHAEL NEFF on The Gypsy Art Show (may listen from the Podcast Player on my page)

Michael Neff is the founder and director of WebdelSol.Com and it's affiliated literary organizations including the Algonkian Writer Workshops. He is an artist, photographer, also chief editor of Del Sol Review, as well as publisher of the several literary journals including In Posse Review, The Potomac, Perihelion, 5_Trope, and La Petite Zine. His literary work has appeared in numerous publications including American Way, North American Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Quarterly West, Conjunctions, and The Literary Review. His book YEAR OF THE RHINOCEROS is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.