BoneWorld Publishing

I had planned to update this blog every couple of weeks, & here it's been two months. 

I guess the big news in BoneWorld is that Nancy Henry's poem, "People Who Take Care," will be republished by Longman Publishers, a division of Pearson Education, in what will be a fat (1,256 pages) college textbook, focusing on literature & the writing process, set for publication soon.  We published this poem in Nancy's chapbook, Hard, back in 2003.  So Longman needed our permission to reprint it.  And this was the poem that Garrison Keillor read on his Writer's Almanac radio show a couple of years ago.  Keillor also required our permission.  Nancy Henry is a great poet & I'm glad she's getting some recognition.

Among other news, Dave Christy of Alpha Beat Press died a few weeks back.  I don't have any other details.  Dave & his wife Ana had run Alpha Beat & a variety of broadsides for many years. Their publications were low-budget photocopier creations: big on invention, w/ no attention paid to gloss & glitter.  He will surely be missed.

In happier news, Steve Henn says that the big poetry reading he gave in Chicago last month went over real well. 

I gotta go.  More next time.

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