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The Smoking Poet: A fine cigar and good literature - two of life's finer pleasures. (Kalamazoo, MI) |
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| Age: | 100 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| Country: |  United States |
| Height: | 0' 0" |
| Zodiac: |  Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21) |
| Last Login: | Jun 4, 2008 (78 days back) |
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The Smoking Poet: A fine cigar and good literature - two of life's finer pleasures. Visit us at The Smoking Poet |
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A fine cigar and good literature: two of life's finer pleasures.At The Smoking Poet , we publish flash fiction, fiction, poetry, reviews, non-fiction, and author/artist interviews that ignite our imagination, inflame our passion, leave us with a smoky aftertaste. We'll also consider the occasional novel excerpt as a special feature.Submit to us your finest flash pieces; we are open to all genres, within good taste. All we ask is that you submit your best work - polished to the highest level of your ability, and that you leave yourself open to, at worst, rejection, at best, constructive criticism.See The Smoking Poet for full submission guidelines and deadlines. Be sure to also check out our Links & Resources page at The Smoking Poet . It includes our favorite links for literary resources, literary publications, and our favorite cigar site links, too. The Smoking Poet only lists links to cigar sites that do not discriminate or objectify women smokers or women in general (e.g. portraying women dressed as "your favorite flavor"), although sites that are otherwise geared to male or female smokers only are just dandy. Please send us your favorite cigar site that fits this category and we will be happy to include it! |
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I'd like to meet:Writers and readers and artists and cigar aficionados, all who are smoking with creativity. And no! you do not have to be a smoker to enjoy literature that is hot to the touch. We welcome all. Please visit The Smoking Poet for submission guidelines. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This doesn’t look like a cigar lounge. It doesn’t smell like a cigar lounge. But it is — a virtual cigar lounge for the literati. A dusky lounge where, if you listen closely, a jazz quartet plays in the corner. A fine brandy warms in your snifter. The warm lighting lets your mind drift to faraway places... and the frazzled nerves of the day are soothed smooth again. The Smoking Poet is the literary magazine you’ll someday find on the coffee tables in your favorite cigar lounge - your own living room or den. Welcome to the Spring Issue 2008 of The Smoking Poet . — Zinta Aistars TSP Managing Editor - Russell Rowland Fiction/Non-Fiction Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SPRING 2008 ISSUE - ONLINE NOW! http://thesmokingpoet.tripod.com Table of Contents Spring 2008 Spring Issue 2008 - Table of Contents Viestarts Aistars Zinta Aistars Mark Bastable Lauren Baratz-Logsted Zachary Chartkoff Michael Clyne Adrienne-TygerLily Ernst R.A. Evans George Glasser Cindy Graham John Grey Heather Haley Vignette-Noelle Hart Michael Lee Johnson Ed Kemmick A.S. King Peter Magliocco Corey Mesler Sue Miller Radames Ortiz Harry Owen Alan Pratt Kevin Rabas Russell Rowland Kris Saknussemm Jeannie Dugan Sanders Lynn Stegner James Stotts Mark Wisniewski Robin Wright Yisa Zhuang ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Books:TSP is delighted to feature in our Spring 2008 Issue - click to read now - a feature interview by our fiction editor, Russell Rowland, with his teacher and mentor, bestselling author and Oprah's BookClub Pick, Sue Miller. Russell will be the first to tell you, every writer can use a mentor. His was a writer many of us know and respect: Sue Miller, author of The Good Mother, The Senator's Wife, The Distinguished Guest, Oprah's Pick While I Was Gone, and many other bestselling novels. If you haven't yet had the intense literary pleasure of a Sue Miller novel, here is your introduction to the author - Sue Miller, our feature author. Visit The Smoking Poet to read an interview with author Sue Miller. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submitting for a Book Review and Author Interview Please query first to submit a book review you've written. If you wish your book to be reviewed, or to be considered as a feature author in prose (including a novel excerpt and an interview), please send a query to the editors and we will provide an address to which you may then send a review copy of your book. See our Web site at The Smoking Poet for full submission guidelines! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Online NOW - THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE: Featuring: Author Interview with Sue Miller Feature Poet: Harry Owen, poet laureate of Cheshire, England Feature Artist: Viestarts Aistars Poetry by Zachary Chartkoff, John Grey, Heather Haley, Vignette-Noelle Hart, Michael Lee Johnson, Corey Mesler, Radames Ortiz, Kevin Rabas, Suzanne Roberts, James Stotts, Brian Townsley, Mark Wisniewski, Yisa Zhuang Fiction by Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Mark Bastable, Adrienne-TygerLily Ernst, Timothy Gager, Cindy Graham, A.S. King, Kris Saknussemm, Lynn Stegner Non-Fiction by R.A. Evans, Ed Kemmick, Jeannie Dugan Sanders Book Reviews The Nurse in the Delivery Slapped Me ... Once by D Anthony Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver Thirst by Mary Oliver Into the River Somewhere by Mark Jackley Driving with Dante by Brian Michael Tracy Spaceman Blues: A Love Song by Brian Francis Slattery Poems (CD) by David Francis Turpentine by Spring Warren (pending) The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller The Cigar Lounge: George Glasser and Alan Pratt CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - DEADLINE MAY 31, 2008 - see The Smoking Poet for full submission guidelines! ************************************************** The Smoking Poet seeks cigar reviews of between 100 and 300 words. Let our readers know what your favorite smoke might be — maybe it’s a Nat Sherman Explorer, a Punch Rare Corojo, or a Romeo Y Julieta Reserva Real, or whatever you’d care to share with us. Tell us what you like and why, and maybe even when you like it. Maybe there’s a cigar lounge, where everybody knows your name, at which you stop nightly to unwind on your way home from work. If so, tell us about it. Paste your review into the body of your email — no attachments — to the attention of Fiction Editor. Subject line should read: Cigar Review — Last Name. Click The Smoking Poet to find contact information. Deadline for the SUMMER ISSUE 2008 issue of TSP ezine is MAY 31, 2008, but we accept submissions all year long. *********************************************** Coming in June - our SUMMER 2008 ISSUE Feature Author: Lynn Stegner Feature Poet: Feature Artist: Ed Rode Feature YA Author: Kate Buckley, author of "Choices" Fiction by the winners of our First Annual Short Story Contest Non-Fiction by Poetry by Jessica Barksdale Inclán, Laura Sobbott Ross Book Reviews: "A Free Life" by Ha Jin "Belly of the Whale" by Linda Merlino "Notes from the Waiting Room: Managing a Loved One's End-of-Life-Hospitalization" by Bart Windrum "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith "Choices" by Kate Buckley ******************************************** The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSP or not, and in any genre. An entry fee of $10 per submission is required, payment to be made through PayPal. Entries must be submitted as a Word doc file, one per e-mail, in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced. The author’s name, address, and telephone number must appear in the upper right hand corner. Word count must not exceed 5,000. Please include a short bio statement, not to exceed 100 words, in the body of your e-mail. The judges for the contest are Zinta Aistars, managing editor of The Smoking Poet; Russell Rowland, fiction editor of The Smoking Poet and author of In Open Spaces and The Watershed Years; and Dominic Smith, author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous. Prizes will be awarded to the top three stories: first prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25, and two honorable mentions will receive a copy of Dominic Smith’s new novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous. All of the winners will be published in the summer issue of The Smoking Poet, online in mid June, 2008. Submission deadline for the contest is May 31, 2008. Please send your submission with the subject line stating CONTEST/Last Name to thesmokingpoet[AT]lycos.com. If the subject line does not state CONTEST, then we will assume it is a submission for the ezine. We look forward to reading your best work! ******************************************** |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Hometown: | Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA |
| Occupation: | Literary Ezine |
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Sexism in the Cigar Industry |
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| Sexism in the Cigar Industry
By J. Conrad Guest
Like it or not, sexism is alive and well in the 21st century. If you don't believe me, just consider the movies Hollywood turned out this year: Superba... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:56:00 PST |
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The Smoking Poet: Call for Submissions - Summer 2008 |
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| THE SMOKING POET: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Summer 2008
THE SMOKING POET publishes flash fiction; fiction; nonfiction; poetry; feature author; feature poet; feature young adult author; feature artist; a... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:00:00 PST |
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Two New Book Reviews From THE SMOKING POETs Spring 2008 Issue |
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Into the River Somewhere by Mark Jackley
Book Review by Zinta Aistars
Paperback (chapbook), 27 pgs.
Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59924-224-8
Lifeand ... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:56:00 PST |
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The Smoking Poet Spring Issue 2008 |
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THE SPRING ISSUE 2008 of THE SMOKING POET - Online Now!
Dear Readers,
Where there was ice, feel the warm wine of renewed life flow ... all the lifelines ope... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:18:00 PST |
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Walking the Edge of the Blade |
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| Dear Readers and Writers:Dare I say it? There is a penchant in ourAmerican culture to avoid pain, avoid discomfort,even to avoid the unknown (however better itmight be) and as yet unexplored. But what... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:37:00 PST |
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A Writer’s Inner Voice of Wisdom |
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| "Have patience with everything that remainsunsolved in your heart."Rainer Maria Rilke
Dear Readers and Writers:
Hard, isn't it, to be patient? Especially withourselves. We are surely our own worst cr... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:59:00 PST |
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TSP’s Fiction Editor Semifinalist for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award |
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| The Smoking Poet's Fiction Editor Russell Rowland's unpublished novel, DIG, has been chosen as one of the semifinalists for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
The judges are going to take revie... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:07:00 PST |
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The Smoking Poets FIRST ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST |
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THE SMOKING POET'S FIRST ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST
The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP's first annual short ... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:04:00 PST |
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The Smoking Poet on AuthorsDen |
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Expanding our reach, The Smoking Poet has posted another promotional site on AuthorsDen - where authors and readers come together. Find us at
http://authorsden.com/thesmokingpoet
J... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:28:00 PST |
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| For those of you who play in more than one neighborhood, come join us and The Smoking Poet writer-gang at... that other site:
The Smoking Poet discussion group
If you haven't an account yet, mayb... Posted by The Smoking Poet on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:00 PST |
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