by Deb Scott
 Underlife, by January Gill O’Neil “Underlife is an exact eloquence, an excellent beginning.”
Welcome to the April Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. For more detail about the tour, if you are new to this series, take a look at this post.
About Underlife
O’Neil’s poems and articles have appeared in The MOM Egg, Crab Creek Review, Ouroboros Review, Drunken Boat, Crab Orchard Review, Callaloo, Babel Fruit, Edible Phoenix, Literary Mama, Field, Seattle Review, Stuff Magazine, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Cave Canem anthologies II and IV and here, at Read Write Poem. In 2009, January was awarded a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant. She is featured in Poets & Writers magazine’s January/February 2010 Inspiration issue as one of their 12 debut poets. A Cave Canem fellow, she is a senior writer/editor at Babson College.
The publisher says of her debut collection, “The dynamics of race, family, motherhood, career, sex and ultimately, transformation are explored in this debut collection. Underlife represents the wilderness of thought and emotion hidden away from the external world. Through O’Neil’s narratives we see our lives as if for the first time.”
Tour stops for Underlife
Apr. 13 :: Kelli Russell Agodon :: Book of Kells
Apr. 15 :: Donna Vorreyer :: Put Words Together. Make Meaning.
Apr. 20 :: Joseph Harker :: Naming Constellations
Apr. 22 :: Sarah J. Sloat :: The Rain in My Purse
Apr. 27 :: Kimberlee Gerstmann :: Scraps and Sass
Apr. 29 :: Wanda McCollar :: Piping of Plenty
We are pleased to feature Underlife on our Nathional Poetry Month (April) tour.
To learn more about O’Neil, visit her blog, Poet Mom. To find more information about the book visit the publisher, CavanKerry Press.
Get involved!
Would you like to get involved in the tour as a reviewer? Just join the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour group, and then add your name to the forum thread titled “Sign up to be a Virtual Book Tour reviewer.”
Want to get your book on the tour? We’ve already set up partnerships with a number of presses, and we’re booked out several months. We also do the tour only once a month, which means we’re extremely limited in terms of what we can include. With that in mind, feel free to have your publisher send a query to virtualbooktour (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
 Deb Scott is a community director for Read Write Poem. She also co-manages this Virtual Book Tour and plays around with words and occasionally other stuff. Deb blogs at Stoney Moss.
by Deb Scott
It’s Thursday, and time to post links to the poems you wrote for us this week (or leave us your entire poem in the comments).
Did you find you favored other people’s words? Did some give you fits? (And if you wrote using some other inspiration, that’s OK, too. You never have to write to the prompt. We are not like that around here.) Whatever you did, or didn’t do, share it. And come back tomorrow for the next great prompt.
Please read this page to find out how the Get Your Poem On and Read Write Prompt posts work.
Remember that work linked from this post is shared in precisely that spirit: sharing, as opposed to critiquing.
If you haven’t done so already, please read all the pages under About in the navigation bar.
If you participate in a Read Write Prompt, we ask that you link back here in your posts, either with a link to Read Write Poem or by using the Read Write Poem badge in your post. Sidebar links are great but it helps others find the site when you link in every post you contribute to the project. It’s not a lot to ask in acknowledgment of the work everyone is doing in providing prompts for members to use.
Deb Scott is a community director for Read Write Poem and co-manages our Virtual Book Tour. She admits to loving Wordles if for no other reason than to admire all the offerings. Deb blogs at Stoney Moss.
by Deb Scott
This week uses words offered by Barbara, Nicole, Marian V., Mark S. and Rallentanda
To write to this prompt, pick as many (or few) of these words as you want and write a poem using them. (And if these words don’t suit you, pick your own. Just write a poem, or two.)
Enjoy the week’s words, no matter which ones you use.
Deb Scott is a community director for Read Write Poem. She also co-manages the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. In her other life she loves to hunt for treasure, and tends to leave holes in her backyard, which she disguises as weeding. She blogs at Stoney Moss.
by Deb Scott
 Anatomy for the Artist, by Molly Gaudry “I take on too much, and I tend to sometimes get behind schedule, but the truth is that without all these things I’d rot, mentally.”
Welcome to the March Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. If you are new to this series, take a look at this post for more information.
About “Anatomy for the Artist”
Molly Gaudry is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s M.A. fiction program. She is the author of We Take Me Apart, a novella in verse, (Mud Luscious 2009) and is the book reviewer for East&West Magazine, based out of Hanoi, Vietnam. Her writing has most recently appeared in Lamination Colony, and she has stories forthcoming in Robot Melon, Quick Fiction, Wigleaf, Dogzplot, and Word Riot. She co-edits Twelve Stories, solo-edits Willows Wept Review and contributes to the Big Other blog. You can find out more about Gaudry at her blog.
You may want to read an interview with Gaudry at jmww: “We Take Molly Apart (and carefully put her back the way we found her).” She talks about blogging, her writing life, working on journal(s), Cincinnati, all kinds of stuff. (You do want to read it. No maybes about it.)
We are pleased to feature “Anatomy for the Artist” in our March Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour and invite you to follow along — the collection is available online through the publisher’s site, Blossom Bones.
Tour stops for “Anatomy for the Artist”
Mar. 2 :: Donna Vorreyer :: Put Words Together. Make Meaning.
Mar. 4 :: Catherine Fitchett :: Poetry Chook
Mar. 9 :: Lawrence Gladeview :: Righteous Rightings
Mar. 11 :: Ren Powell :: Babel Fruit
Mar. 16 :: Wanda McCollar :: Wanda McCollar
Get involved!
Would you like to get involved in the tour as a reviewer? Just join the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour group, and then add your name to the forum thread titled “Sign up to be a Virtual Book Tour reviewer.”
Want to get your book on the tour? We’ve already set up partnerships with a number of presses, and we’re booked out several months. We also do the tour only once a month, which means we’re extremely limited in terms of what we can include. With that in mind, feel free to have your publisher send a query to virtualbooktour (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
Deb Scott is a community director for Read Write Poem. She also co-manages this Virtual Book Tour and plays around with words and occasionally other stuff. Deb blogs at Stoney Moss.
by Deb Scott
It’s Thursday, and time to post links to this week’s poems (or leave us your poem in the comments).
Last week’s Read Write (Word) Prompt offerings were all over the map! How did that work out for you? (And if you wrote using some other inspiration, that’s OK, too. You never have to write to the prompt. We are not like that around here.) Whatever you did, or didn’t do, share it. And come back tomorrow for the next great prompt.
Please read this page to find out how the Get Your Poem On and Read Write Prompt posts work.
Remember that work linked from this post is shared in precisely that spirit: sharing, as opposed to critiquing.
If you haven’t done so already, please read all the pages under About in the navigation bar.
If you participate in a Read Write Prompt, we ask that you link back here in your posts, either with a link to Read Write Poem or by using the Read Write Poem badge in your post. Sidebar links are great but it helps others find the site when you link in every post you contribute to the project. It’s not a lot to ask in acknowledgment of the work everyone is doing in providing prompts for members to use.
Deb Scott is a community director for Read Write Poem and co-manages our Virtual Book Tour. She admits to loving Wordles if nothing other than to admire all the offerings. Deb blogs at Stoney Moss.
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read write poem news- read write poem napowrimo anthology
June 20, 2010 | 1:36 pmThe Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology is still in production. Selection, placement, layout and copyediting are taking longer than anticipated. Thank you for your patience. I hope to have the piece completed in July. For those who have emailed asking if they can be included, the May 7 deadline for submission of work stands. Those who met that deadline will be included. Please check the post on this site listing who I received submissions from by that date. If you submitted your work by the May 7 deadline in accordance with our guidelines and your name is not listed, send an email to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
- read write poem napowrimo anthology
May 5, 2010 | 3:09 pmRemember that Friday* is the deadline for submitting work to the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology. Check out the guidelines for submission in the main column (to the left). On May 8, we’ll post a news item listing everyone we’ve received work from. If you submitted work and your name is not on that list, please let us know. Thanks!
*I initially said “tomorrow,” but I meant to say “Friday.”
- napowrimo congratulations, and a reminder
April 24, 2010 | 12:05 pmIt’s the final week of the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge! Just 7 days left. With that, a reminder that Read Write Poem will culminate with the anthology featuring work from those who complete the challenge. A post with details for submitting to the anthology will be published May 1. Be sure you remove any information from the site that you want preserved — such as group content and personal messages. Those elements of the site will be removed May 1 as well. The main site will remain up as an archive.
- ‘underlife’ tour at january gill o’neil’s blog
April 20, 2010 | 8:11 pmJanuary Gill O’Neil’s virtual book tour has moved to her site and is underway now. Check out the lineup at Poet Mom.
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thank you and farewell As of May 1, 2010, Read Write Poem is no longer active.
In late May, an anthology featuring work from those who completed the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge will be published here and on issuu.com.
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