{"id":3030,"date":"2024-08-07T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:44:57","slug":"updates-and-thoughts-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"UPDATES AND THOUGHTS, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Only UPDATES this time.<\/strong> I have met a return of covid with a short hospital stay, pneumonia, and low oxygen head on, and I am now home and only need oxygen at night.\u00a0 And Charlie, always Charlie\u00a0 The amount and pace of my story-telling is almost back to normal, but no one has mentioned how pleased they are. I am not deterred.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

UPDATE #1\u00a0 The Missing Link<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

This may be the last time I figure out a way to bring up my award-winning poem, <\/span>The Missing Link,<\/b> but I wouldn’t count on it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You may recall that one of the things I won was an online mention of my poem. This did happen, but the location of the online mention was fairly obscure.\u00a0 No one has mentioned seeing it, so click on THE MISSING LINK<\/strong> <\/a>for your private viewing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another winning-poem-perk was to replace the ads on city bus innards, but none of the crowd-sourcing riders, which include the 4 bus riders I know, have commented on <\/span>The Missing Link<\/b>, so who knows if my poem had few, if any viewers?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>To enhance the viewership, and because they agreed with the sentiment of the poem, my Landmark colleagues posted a poster sized copy\u00a0 of the poem\u00a0 in the front window of the Landmark to enhance the number of viewings.\u00a0 Viewings\u00a0 matter because I remember reading in an old UN document that 50 viewings equaled a publication.\u00a0 So a grad school bud and I quickly made 50 copies of our latest poems, handed them out to passers by, and, SHAZAM!<\/strong>\u00a0 We were published poets.\u00a0 But does looking at the poster in the sidewalk window count as a viewing if it is covered by reflections or if I volunteered to read it and nobody came?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Are we reading the poem, checking the street life, or looking at ourselves?<\/span><\/p><\/div>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span>Then I and the 134 other King County Public Poetry Contest winners were invited to join the open mic crowd of one of the sponsoring 4Cultures Poetry Group\u2019s regular events, but I don’t do crowds well in my wheelchair.\u00a0 So Charlie and I went down to the Ship Canal Locks and made a video, which I sent to the poetry project folks to use instead. Here it is and, SPOILER ALERT<\/strong>, the outtakes win:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n