Central California Poetry Journal

Volume 99 Number 1

The Poetry of Central California Page 91lr

Letters to The Editor

For 1998 and 1997 letters, please see page 81lr and page 71lr

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:15:40 -0500
To: journal@solopublications.com,
From: "Dr. James Yates"
Subject: CowboyPoetry

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association invites papers or panels treating any aspect of Cowboy Poetry for its annual meeting to be held at the Sheraton Old Town hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico (February 9-12, 2000)

Possible themes for paper/panels include but are not restricted to:

The Cowboy in American Poetry
Definitions/characteristics of Cowboy Poetry
The Portrayal of the West in cowboy Poetry
The Cowboy as Poet
Individual Artists/Performers and their works
The Recent Popularity of Cowboy Poetry
The Origins of Cowboy Poetry
Symbolism in Cowboy Poetry
Spirtual/religious themes expressed in Cowboy Poetry
The figure of the Native American Indian
The figure of the Ranchhand
The Use of the Southwest in Cowboy Poetry
The Western Landscape
Mythmaking in Cowboy Poetry
The uses of Myth and Mythic figures in Cowboy Poetry
The Poetry of Wally MacRae
The Poetry of Baxter Black
The Influence of Popular Music
The Image of the Cowboy in Country Western Lyrics
The Uses of Humor in Cowboy Poetry
Rodeolife in Cowboy Poetry
Ranchlife in Cowboy Poetry

Please submit a one-page abstract or panel proposal and a c.v. by DECEMBER 1, 1999 to the Area Chair:

Dr. James Yates
English Department
Box 242
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Alva, OK 73717
(580) 327-8469
jnyates@nwosu.edu

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:56:57 -0400
To: journal@solopublications.com
From: leesa beales
Subject: poetry

I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to attend the Physik Garden Poetry Room as part of The Physik Garden. The Physik Garden, is a long-term collaborative project by painter Michael Eldridge and photographer Simon Larbalestier. This project is more about a metaphor for experience, as it explores the plurality of existence; it exists in real time hidden in the mystic hills of Tuscany and yet it will have its virtual life online with its own perpetual motion developing and maturing 24 hours a day. The Physik Garden is about journeys and exploration, passing through gates and opening 1,000 windows.

The Poetry Room invites work from Poets who would like their poetry published on The Physik Garden website. The Poetry Room is open to contemporary poetry of every description. Work will be published initially in English and eventually in other languages too.
Visit us often to see how this is developing and please don't be shy about sending us comments and suggestions. If you have further questions about the Poetry Room please contact us. Once again, welcome!

http://www.physikgarden.com/gate.html

From: "TC Duvall"
To: journal@solopublications.com,

From: webmaster
To:
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999
Subject: new poetry site

Just buzzing around the web tonight looking for magazines/sites/poets that might want to link, promote and contribute. And there you were.

Hope you'll stop by Poetry Tonight at http://www.poetrytonight.com and have a
look around! The site won't be officially open for a while, but I'm trying to
build up the poems as well as the reviews and links.

Thanks for the time...

Brian Robertson

From: jjohnson@northshore.net
To:
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:17:53 PST
Subject: Press Release: FREE CLASSIC VERSE AVAILABLE ONLINE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
to poetry readers, writers, editors, publishers

FREE CLASSIC VERSE AVAILABLE ONLINE

Readers and writers of poetry can now download free copies of classic verse from the World Wide Web, as 'virtual' books.

For those still unfamiliar with the term, virtual books are not physical objects made of paper and ink; instead, they are books that can be downloaded as data files from the Internet, directly to the computers of readers around the world.

Books by poets as diverse as William Blake, Robert Browning, Joyce Kilmer, John Milton, Robert Service, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sara Teasdale and many others, are available free of charge from The 1stBooks Library, at this Web location:

http://www.1stbooks.com/?freeverse

Books by contemporary poets are also available at a nominal charge, typically 25% to 50% below softcover prices.

At a very low cost, authors can also publish their own work online, and make new titles available to an estimated 50 to 70 million readers worldwide, at the click of a mouse.

Writers who publish at 1stBooks retain all rights, control of content, and receive royalties of 40% or more -- compared with industry standards of 5% to 15%. Because the royalty is so large, most authors earn more income from the sale of an online book than its hard-copy counterpart.

As noted by Jon Swartz in the San Francisco "Chronicle" on 11/12/98, "Digital books are growing in respectability and sales ... 1stBooks is now the largest online publisher with 1,300 books -- ranging from science fiction to cookbooks. By early 1999, it should top 2,000 titles, making it the most prolific publisher in the country."

The 1stBooks Library is actively seeking new titles in all genres. Writers who are interested in publishing online can obtain more info at the 1stBooks Library website, or simply reply to this message with the word "REQUEST" in the subject line.

Whether you are a reader or writer of poetry, you are invited to browse the 1stBooks catalog. More than 100 new titles are added each month, so visit often to check the latest offerings.

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