#21c poetry

[elskanellis]

Coffee

Matthew Dickman

The only precious thing I own, this little espresso cup. And in it a dark roast all the way from Honduras, Guatemala, Ethiopia where coffee was born in the 9th century getting goat herders high, spinning like dervishes, the white blooms cresting out of the evergreen plant, Ethiopia where I almost lived for a moment but then the rebels surrounded the Capital so I stayed home. I stayed home and drank coffee and listened to the radio and heard how they were getting along. I would walk down Everett Street, near the hospital where my older brother was bound to his white bed like a human mast, where he was getting his mind right and learning not to hurt himself. I would walk by and be afraid and smell the beans being roasted inside the garage of an old warehouse. It smelled like burnt toast! It was everywhere in the trees. I couldn't bear to see him. I sometimes never knew him. Sometimes he would call. He wanted us to sit across from each other, some coffee between us, sober. Coffee can taste like grapefruit or caramel, like tobacco, strawberry, cinnamon, the oils being pushed out of the grounds and floating to the top of a French Press, the expensive kind I get in the mail, the mailman with a pound of Sumatra under his arm, ringing my doorbell, waking me up from a night when all I had was tea and watched a movie about the Queen of England when Spain was hot for all her castles and all their ships, carved out of fine Spanish trees, went up in flames while back home Spaniards were growing potatoes and coffee was making its careful way along a giant whip from Africa to Europe where cafes would become famous and people would eventually sit with their cappuccinos, the baristas talking about the new war, a cup of sugar on the table, a curled piece of lemon rind. A beret on someone's head, a scarf around their neck. A bomb in a suitcase left beneath a small table. Right now I'm sitting near a hospital where psychotropics are being carried down the hall in a pink cup, where someone is lying there and he doesn't know who he is. I'm listening to the couple next to me talk about their cars. I have no idea how I got here. The world stops at the window while I take my little spoon and slowly swirl the cream around the lip of the cup. Once, I had a brother who used to sit and drink his coffee black, smoke his cigarettes and be quiet for a moment before his brain turned its Armadas against him, wanting to burn down his cities and villages, before grief became his capital with its one loyal flag and his face, perhaps only his beautiful left eye, shimmed on the surface of his Americano like a dark star.

©2008

[incognitajones]

Take a Body and Replace it with Another Body

Daniel Borzutzky 

Take a word and replace it with another word

 This is the most miserable place I have known

Take a word and replace it with another word

     This is the most miserable life I have known

Take a verb and replace it with another verb

     The river swallowed my face my mouth my body my arms            my hands my legs

Take a verb and replace it with another verb

     The river loved my face my mouth my body my arms            my hands my legs

Take a noun and replace it with another noun

     The authoritative body loved my face my lips my teeth            my tongue he loved me

Take a body and replace it with another body, take a verb and replace it with another verb

     The bureaucrat killed my face my lips my tongue my teeth            he killed me

Take a blank and replace it with another blank

     The blank blanked my blank my blank my blank it blanked me

The wrong face might kill you

A certain change might be possible if the wrong face kills you

A certain change might be inevitable if the wrong face doesn’t kill you

You think you drowned in the river but really it was the city that killed you

You think you are the body that drowned in the river but you are dead and you do not get to control the circumstances surrounding your disappearance

Take a word and replace it with two words

     You do not get to have feelings about the circumstances            surrounding your disappearance

Take a body and replace it with another body

     I do not get to have feelings about the circumstances            surrounding my disappearance

Take an adjective and replace it with another adjective

     I do not get to have feelings about the circumstances            surrounding your disappearance

Take a verb and replace it with another verb, take a noun and replace it with another noun

     You do not get to question the circumstances surrounding            my reappearance

It was a day he knew he would die an unspectacular death in the river of venomous aloneness

It was a night they knew they would die a spectacular death at the hands of the paramilitary nationalists who were armed by the secret police

It was an afternoon they knew they would survive and be forced to persist in a world where they’d rather be dead

Envy leaked from the mouth and vengeance dripped from the eyeballs

Petroleum dripped from the teeth and plastic straws were shoved into the nostrils

He gave his child a kiss on the forehead

He gave the bank a body that once loved him

Parentheses       but in reality it was hard to have feelings

Parentheses       and in fantasy it was even harder to have feelings

He disappeared unspectacularly into the blank of the American night

Take a body and replace it with another body

     I disappeared unspectacularly into the blank of the            American night

Take a verb and replace it with another verb, take a noun and replace it with another noun

     I bloomed unspectacularly into the debt of the American night

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[jechristine]

You pick on the UK because you're uhb-sessed with us, bitch you're a fan.

Seriously though, don't you tink that of all the countries in the world to care so much about, you care about lil old us? Like, that is so Eurocentric and racist of you. You don't even care about the oppressive social structures in west Africa, Afghanistan or the Democratic Republic of Congo. You just love castles and drama ig?

Your lack of concern about genuinely horrific places only tells on yourself: You love England. You're obsessed with us. It's giving weirdo, tbh.

Hi, and Happy New Year!

I am particularly interested in England because I wrote a dissertation that, among other things, analyzed medieval and early modern poetry about English national identity, especially as that identity intersected with the ways that writers imagined monarchical power and prestige. Because of that, Harry and Meghan and the 21c mess of a monarchy are pop culture gossip stories that were instantly fascinating to me.

I was initially obsessed with Chaucer and Shakespeare and still am :)

I’m not sure you’re using “Eurocentric” and “racist” correctly. Seems like you’re trying to co-opt leftist ideas to insult me? You didn’t do the best job ngl.

And why are you sending me anonymous asks? Is it because bitch, you’re a fan?

[hyejungkook]

It’s been a while, but I’ll be at AWP this year since it’s in my town! I’ll be reading at three off-sites and am on a panel on community building with Anna V. Q. Ross, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Nadia Colburn, Julie Choffel. Would love to see you 💗

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Wednesday Night Poetry

Wednesday, February 7th

6:30-10:30 (I read at the end)

Charlotte Street Foundation

In a very special off-site gathering, Wednesday Night Poetry—the longest-running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—convenes at one of Kansas City’s most iconic art spaces, the Stern Theater at Charlotte Street! This is a SAFE SPACE. Open mic style, open to all WNP poets. One poem per poet, three to four minutes, any theme. Poets will read from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sign up with the Google Form. Come share a poem, stay for community and togetherness. Wine and refreshments provided. Charlotte Street is located 2.9 miles away from the conference hotel, a ten-minute drive. Uber/Lyft encouraged.

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Wild Patience: A Poet-Mom Reading

Wednesday, Feb. 7th

5:30-8:00 PM

21c Museum Hotel

219 W 9th St, KCMO 64105

Eighteen poet moms, drawing from a variety of poetic practices and traditions, will share work that occupies the overlapping spaces of our lives—war zone and garden, city and body, climate and house, populace and child. Readers include Tess Taylor, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Keetje Kuipers, Nicole Callihan, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, among others. Cash bar opens at 5:30 p.m. in Gallery One, reading starts at 6:00 p.m. in Main Gallery.

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Write Through It, Write To It: Finding Community in Adversity

Thursday, Feb. 8th

3:20-3:45 PM

Room 2211, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level

The past years have upended how and who we think of as community. Locked down in our homes and tethered to Zoom, suddenly writers several continents and time zones away were as close as those next door. As poets, essayist, teachers, and editors we’ll explore the creation of community through difficulty. How do the exigencies of today’s convergent crises and new technologies put pressure on and also invigorate communities? We’ll discuss ways to persevere and find restorative and lasting exchange. Panel with Panel with Anna V. Q. Ross, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Nadia Colburn, Hyejung Kook, Julie Choffel.

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As if Conjured: A Poetry Reading Celebrating Publication of THE FAMILIAR by Sarah Kain Gutowski

Thursday, Feb. 8th

6-8 PM

Bliss Books

3502 Gillham Rd, KCMO 64111

Readings by Sarah Kain Gutowski, Jessica Cuello, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Vincent James, Hyejung Kook, Ananda Lima, Eugenia Leigh, and Marcus Myers. Free drink tickets for the first twenty attendees!

[cricketpress]

Tonight! We will be speaking as part of the...

Wildlands Social Club

An evening of talks about why wild places matter. This event is part of a quarterly series hosted by Kentucky Natural Lands Trust in partnership with West Sixth Brewing and 21c Museum Hotel. Talks will cover conservation, art, health and the economy; the evening will also include a poetry reading.

So, come out to West Sixth Brewing tonight 6-9pm to hear us talk about how our regional wild places influences our art.

[careergrowthblog]

Art-Science and other positive tensions that fuel great teaching.

One of the key ideas that I’ve tried to capture in this blog and in my book, The Learning Rainforest, is that great teaching can emerge from the numerous tensions and contradictions that surround us.  Not by dismissing them or by seeking to resolve them and not by picking a side – but by recognising them, embracing them and trying to making sense of them.

When you look at this image, what do you see: a grid surrounded by a cloud or a cloud with a grid inside?

Of course it is both of those things.  However, different people will see this differently.  Some people are more cloud; they embrace ambiguity; they are more comfortable where there is less structure even while seeing structures as a necessary.  Others are more grid; they prefer things to be ordered; they seek to reduce ambiguity even while acknowledging that there is room for it.  The challenge is to see structure and ambiguity as having a symbiotic relationship; they need each other; each is poorer, less healthy, diminished without the other.

How does this translate to teaching? Here’s a quick run-through:

Art: Science.  

There is a science to learning; it’s not magic.  Our brains behave in certain ways that suggest some teaching approaches are more likely to be effective than others in given contexts.  We can form models of learning processes that stand up to scrutiny and there’s a massive body of research that coheres around some common concepts.

At the same time, teaching does not consist of a series of discrete, isolated testable strategies.  There’s a multi-layered complexity of interactions and decisions driven by the reality of having a class of individuals to teach at the same time.  Teaching is nearly always a blend of multiple factors: relationships, behaviour routines, instructional techniques, questioning, practice – all interacting with the specific elements of the curriculum content.  As evidence-informed as we might be, the process can feel more art than science: we are  busking, responding, riffing, exploring, creating…   Some teachers need to work on their science; some need to develop their art.

System: Culture

Schools are awash with systems – for behaviour management, quality assurance, assessment and feedback, professional development.   At the same time, schools are also a complex mix of cultures and subcultures: among groups of staff and students, in each classroom.  You can’t simply wish a ‘high trust culture’ into being – there won’t be a trust culture if the systems are heavy-handed and communicate something  more like: we don’t trust you. You can’t talk about a ‘culture of learning’ unless you are doing specific things that provide a structure of that culture to come into being.  At the same time, as we all know, the reality of school life is all about human interactions and, because we are not machines, systems only work if the culture is there to sustain them – so people do the right things right when nobody is looking because they believe in them or at least fully accept them.

Spirit: Letter

If we try to break down an aspect of teachers’ practice – like strong behaviour management or effective formative assessment – identifying specific identifiable tasks to codify ‘effectiveness’,  we end up with what might be a checklist of ‘things everyone should do’. However, very often, the sum of the parts doesn’t seem to add up to the whole.

  You might find a teacher who is ‘doing the right things’ to the letter, but the spirit is missing.  This means that they might not be sustaining the practice or responding intuitively to events or adapting the approach to secure better responses from students.  They might be OTT with students in the way they enact routines for classroom discipline,  misjudging the spirit of a behaviour code even if they would argue they are following it to the letter.  They might consider that a few set-piece activities constitutes ‘doing formative assessment’ rather than seeing it as a broader approach that influences every interaction.

I’ve always felt it is important to avoid boiling things down to reductive tick lists wherever possible; the letter of a policy is a guide but the spirit is what really matters.  For example, a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum can’t be boiled down to some knowledge organisers and related quizzes.  That would be missing the point entirely.  Knowledge-rich has implications for a whole set of values and practices that inform every lesson every day.   However, sometimes an idea is too intangible to implement effectively without some definable concrete elements for people to work on.  You need to start somewhere.  The ‘spirit’ can be a nebulous hope in the absence of something solid.

Tacit: Explicit

This is an area I feel needs more attention.  It has echoes in Martin Robinson’s Trivium 21c where the dialectic has value alongside grammar. A great curriculum contains knowledge gains through experience: authentic, real-world, hands-on experience.  In science for example, there is declarative knowledge to gain about how a motor works; there is procedural knowledge you can gain through practising rearranging equations to determine measurable quantities – but all of that makes a lot more sense if students have tacit knowledge gained through experience of handling motors, making motors, exploring  the electromagnetic and mechanical variables involved.  The same goes for chemical reactions or growing plants.  There is value in putting your face into a meadow of grass to see the world of life that lies within… tacit knowledge about plant and bug-life that makes the theory of ecosystems come off the page.

Tacit knowledge is vital – and is often assumed; taken for granted.  The same goes for poetry, history, music,… any subject.  In maths, ‘playing’ with numbers, patterns and shapes informs procedural, operational routines.  Very often, students with low confidence in maths have very weak schema for numbers at the tacit level – that sense of scale, pattern, sequence that good mathematicians have an intuition for.  Unless we pay attention to that concretely, we’re building on very weak foundations.   Knowledge elements can seem isolated and arbitrary until they take shape in a wider schema held together with a glue of tacit knowledge gained from experience.  We need to make sure the opportunities for children to gain those experiences are built into our enacted curriculum within and beyond the classroom.

Knowledge: Emotion

This links to the art:science and tacit: explicit axes but adds another dimension.  As highly emotional beings, our memories and the relative value we give to elements of knowledge are shaped by the way we feel about them.   Every person, every teacher I know has passions.  Great teachers communicate enthusiasm for the knowledge they have; it’s not neutral information.  The idea that joy, awe and wonder are somehow icing on the knowledge cake doesn’t quite work for me – the icing is melted into the cake; it runs through it..(metaphor mixing ,sorry).  For me, when we’re teaching, there is power in always exploring why any element of knowledge matters.  This isn’t some lame functional idea of ‘relevance’ that leads us down a utilitarian path. Far from it. It’s about exploring our emotional connection to the stories that unfold the more our knowledge grows – and the more our awareness of how much more there is to know grows.  This is how curiosity and creativity develop – through knowledge linked to emotions.  For me, the image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field can bring tears to my eyes if I think about what it means:  it’s just so deeply profound.

I put ‘Awe’ in amongst my 10 features of ‘great lessons’ .  Knowledge can be functional; dry; prosaic; ordinary.  But it can also be earth-shatteringly beautiful.  What’s the point or learning X? There is always a point, a purpose, a reason that goes beyond the purely functional.

Values: Evidence

Finally, there is an axis around the interplay between our values and evidence in relation to what makes teaching effective and in the decisions we make in designing the curriculum.   I’m a firm advocate of teachers developing  ‘evidence-informed’ wisdom so that they are best placed to make good decisions in the heat of the complexity of classroom interactivity.  We need to understand about schemas and cognitive load theory; that retrieval practice works for strengthening recall; that fluency requires practice; that spaced practice is important for long-term memory – and so on.  I firmly reject the idea that ‘anything goes’.

However, we also need to understand that wisdom comes from experience – and includes  knowledge of our students and ourselves.  We are who we are; we can all improve but in seeking to teach like champions, we will always have personality and our own values; our hearts on our sleeves.  If I want you to stand up and read poetry by heart- there is no evidence that tells me this is ‘an effective strategy in order to secure deeper understanding’ .. No. I am asking you to do it because, guided by my values and experience, I believe this to be a ‘a good thing that will enrich your soul’.

As evidence-driven as schools should be, it’s always part of the contract between schools and parents that “teachers will impose their values on your child”.  We have no choice; it’s going to happen.  The thing is to be explicit about what these values are and to seek as much alignment within a school community as possible.  As a Head I used to say things like “at this school we teach that evolution is a fact…because it is!”  I wanted this to be very clear.  I would also make statements about work ethic and discipline and the curriculum much of which would values-driven more than evidence-based.  Values matter – they are not some wishy-washy notion that impedes the flow of evidence; they are always part of how evidence is sought, filtered and mediated.  The important thing is to recognise the bias-fest that constitutes research-engagement and be honest about it.

  Along every axis, there is a context-specific sweet spot where the right balance is struck.  But neither end is ‘right’ or ‘good’ compared to the other.  It’s never either/or; it’s never a choice – it’s always both; always a blend; always a symbiotic synthesis.  Not resolved but in tension; in equilibrium.  Let’s embrace that. It’s what makes teaching so great!

Art-Science and other positive tensions that fuel great teaching. published first on https://medium.com/@KDUUniversityCollege

[louisvillerenaissance]

Official Updates

It’s been a while, though I’ve been steadily keeping on with research and talking to people. I completed my goal of doing at least a couple interviews last year, although none ended up being publishable because I didn’t know what I was doing. That’s something I’m working on. The future of the arts renaissance project is looking something like this:

Focus on writing articles and essays for publication, so I will have the skills to write for my own project. I wrote an essay about grief and art/music/poetry we use to cope with grief and about being in love with Real Simple magazine while disabled for Shakespeare & Punk, which is a wonderful start.

Move away from tumblr, which I don’t use much, to a blogging platform where I could eventually have my own domain, and more control over the site. Also, trying to be confident while linking people my tumblr as my only “professional” website is difficult.

Make variety a priority. I love what I’ve learned about the Orchestra - and there’s a lot more to do with them, to learn, to write - but if I take one or more years to research every single thing, I’ll be eighty before I write anything at all.

As part of this, I’m trying to go to more local shows. So far in 2018, I’ve been to four shows (War + Peace twice, Louisville is for Lovers premiere, Orchestra Enigmatic at 21c), a talk at the KMAC, and hopefully a show tomorrow and two or three things next weekend.

Possibly most importantly: reach out to cool people doing cool things, and tell them I think they’re doing great. I am not naturally brave, so this is hard, but I’ve managed it a few times recently and the responses have been wildly wonderful. And even when I’m too broke to go to shows the least I can do to support this arts community I value is let people know I value it.

Notably there still aren’t exact plans for “produce content” or even “decide what medium I’m going to put this nebulous thing out in.” That’s in there, but I think these building blocks have to come first. I think they’ll enable me to begin sharing more about the arts in Louisville, too.

[vanessaarm-blog1]

Smashwords Style Guide - Mark Coker | Computers |365802036

Smashwords Style Guide Mark Coker Genre: Computers Price: Get Publish Date: May 5, 2008 The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Oyster, Kobo. Smashwords also distributed to public libraries via OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360. It also provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 300,000 copies downloaded! Updated September 24, 2014. INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE GETTING STARTED Welcome to Smashwords! Do-it-yourself, or hire help? Good formatting examples What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish How to distribute books with Smashwords How ebook formatting is different from print formatting Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats Understanding the different ebook formats The beauty and utility of simplicity AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors Your required source file FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FORMATTING * Pre-Prep* Making Word Behave Step 1: Make a back up Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features Step 4: Turn off Track Changes Step 5: The Nuclear Method Step 6: Hug a loved one *Formatting* Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?) Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing Step 7b-e: Managing font color Step 8: Check your normalized text Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces Step 10: Managing paragraph returns Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks Step 13: Working with images Step 14: Text justification Step 14a: Centering text Step 15: Managing font sizes Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs Step 17: Headers and footers Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional) *Building Navigation* Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript Step 20a: Creating the NCX Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes) Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing *Front Matter* Step 21: Front matter Step 21a: Blurbs (optional) Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!) Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page *The End of Your Book* Step 22: The end of your book *POST-FORMATTING* Step 23: Preparing your cover image Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution *Uploading Your Book to Smashwords* Step 25: How to upload your book Step 26: How AutoVetter works Step 27: After you publish – check your work Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!) Distributing Your Book with Smashwords Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works *How to Market Your Book* Step 29: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) Step 30: Read the Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (best-practices of successful authors) Step 31: Watch our video workshops on YouTube *Helpful Resources* Send Feedback About the Author APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts

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Smashwords Style Guide - Mark Coker | Computers |365802036

Smashwords Style Guide Mark Coker Genre: Computers Price: Get Publish Date: May 5, 2008 The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Oyster, Kobo. Smashwords also distributed to public libraries via OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360. It also provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 300,000 copies downloaded! Updated September 24, 2014. INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE GETTING STARTED Welcome to Smashwords! Do-it-yourself, or hire help? Good formatting examples What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish How to distribute books with Smashwords How ebook formatting is different from print formatting Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats Understanding the different ebook formats The beauty and utility of simplicity AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors Your required source file FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FORMATTING * Pre-Prep* Making Word Behave Step 1: Make a back up Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features Step 4: Turn off Track Changes Step 5: The Nuclear Method Step 6: Hug a loved one *Formatting* Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?) Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing Step 7b-e: Managing font color Step 8: Check your normalized text Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces Step 10: Managing paragraph returns Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks Step 13: Working with images Step 14: Text justification Step 14a: Centering text Step 15: Managing font sizes Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs Step 17: Headers and footers Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional) *Building Navigation* Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript Step 20a: Creating the NCX Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes) Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing *Front Matter* Step 21: Front matter Step 21a: Blurbs (optional) Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!) Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page *The End of Your Book* Step 22: The end of your book *POST-FORMATTING* Step 23: Preparing your cover image Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution *Uploading Your Book to Smashwords* Step 25: How to upload your book Step 26: How AutoVetter works Step 27: After you publish – check your work Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!) Distributing Your Book with Smashwords Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works *How to Market Your Book* Step 29: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) Step 30: Read the Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (best-practices of successful authors) Step 31: Watch our video workshops on YouTube *Helpful Resources* Send Feedback About the Author APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts

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Smashwords Style Guide - Mark Coker | Computers |365802036

Smashwords Style Guide Mark Coker Genre: Computers Price: Get Publish Date: May 5, 2008 The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Oyster, Kobo. Smashwords also distributed to public libraries via OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360. It also provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 300,000 copies downloaded! Updated September 24, 2014. INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE GETTING STARTED Welcome to Smashwords! Do-it-yourself, or hire help? Good formatting examples What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish How to distribute books with Smashwords How ebook formatting is different from print formatting Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats Understanding the different ebook formats The beauty and utility of simplicity AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors Your required source file FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FORMATTING * Pre-Prep* Making Word Behave Step 1: Make a back up Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features Step 4: Turn off Track Changes Step 5: The Nuclear Method Step 6: Hug a loved one *Formatting* Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?) Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing Step 7b-e: Managing font color Step 8: Check your normalized text Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces Step 10: Managing paragraph returns Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks Step 13: Working with images Step 14: Text justification Step 14a: Centering text Step 15: Managing font sizes Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs Step 17: Headers and footers Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional) *Building Navigation* Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript Step 20a: Creating the NCX Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes) Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing *Front Matter* Step 21: Front matter Step 21a: Blurbs (optional) Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!) Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page *The End of Your Book* Step 22: The end of your book *POST-FORMATTING* Step 23: Preparing your cover image Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution *Uploading Your Book to Smashwords* Step 25: How to upload your book Step 26: How AutoVetter works Step 27: After you publish – check your work Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!) Distributing Your Book with Smashwords Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works *How to Market Your Book* Step 29: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) Step 30: Read the Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (best-practices of successful authors) Step 31: Watch our video workshops on YouTube *Helpful Resources* Send Feedback About the Author APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts

[elskanellis]

The Blight

James Lasdun

What’s there to say? We didn’t care for him much, and you can’t exactly commiserate with someone you don’t just not love but almost (admit it) hate. So the news just hung over us like the dud summer weather we’d had— rain since June, the lawn sodden, garden a bog, all slugs, late blight so bad our sickened Beefsteak vines, our Sweet One Hundreds, San Marzanos, the lot, yellowed half black before the fruit had set, which, when it did, began to bloat and rot before it ripened—but like I say (and not to speak ill of the dead) we just didn’t care for him, which is probably all there is to be said. ©Poetry, July/August 2012

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Smashwords Style Guide Mark Coker Genre: Computers Price: Get Publish Date: May 5, 2008 The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Oyster, Kobo. Smashwords also distributed to public libraries via OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360. It also provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 300,000 copies downloaded! Updated September 24, 2014. INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE GETTING STARTED Welcome to Smashwords! Do-it-yourself, or hire help? Good formatting examples What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish How to distribute books with Smashwords How ebook formatting is different from print formatting Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats Understanding the different ebook formats The beauty and utility of simplicity AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors Your required source file FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FORMATTING * Pre-Prep* Making Word Behave Step 1: Make a back up Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features Step 4: Turn off Track Changes Step 5: The Nuclear Method Step 6: Hug a loved one *Formatting* Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?) Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing Step 7b-e: Managing font color Step 8: Check your normalized text Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces Step 10: Managing paragraph returns Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks Step 13: Working with images Step 14: Text justification Step 14a: Centering text Step 15: Managing font sizes Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs Step 17: Headers and footers Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional) *Building Navigation* Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript Step 20a: Creating the NCX Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes) Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing *Front Matter* Step 21: Front matter Step 21a: Blurbs (optional) Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!) Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page *The End of Your Book* Step 22: The end of your book *POST-FORMATTING* Step 23: Preparing your cover image Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution *Uploading Your Book to Smashwords* Step 25: How to upload your book Step 26: How AutoVetter works Step 27: After you publish – check your work Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!) Distributing Your Book with Smashwords Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works *How to Market Your Book* Step 29: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) Step 30: Read the Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (best-practices of successful authors) Step 31: Watch our video workshops on YouTube *Helpful Resources* Send Feedback About the Author APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts

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Smashwords Style Guide - Mark Coker | Computers |365802036

Smashwords Style Guide Mark Coker Genre: Computers Price: Get Publish Date: May 5, 2008 The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Oyster, Kobo. Smashwords also distributed to public libraries via OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360. It also provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 300,000 copies downloaded! Updated September 24, 2014. INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE GETTING STARTED Welcome to Smashwords! Do-it-yourself, or hire help? Good formatting examples What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish How to distribute books with Smashwords How ebook formatting is different from print formatting Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats Understanding the different ebook formats The beauty and utility of simplicity AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors Your required source file FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FORMATTING * Pre-Prep* Making Word Behave Step 1: Make a back up Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features Step 4: Turn off Track Changes Step 5: The Nuclear Method Step 6: Hug a loved one *Formatting* Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?) Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing Step 7b-e: Managing font color Step 8: Check your normalized text Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces Step 10: Managing paragraph returns Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks Step 13: Working with images Step 14: Text justification Step 14a: Centering text Step 15: Managing font sizes Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs Step 17: Headers and footers Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional) *Building Navigation* Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript Step 20a: Creating the NCX Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes) Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing *Front Matter* Step 21: Front matter Step 21a: Blurbs (optional) Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!) Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page *The End of Your Book* Step 22: The end of your book *POST-FORMATTING* Step 23: Preparing your cover image Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution *Uploading Your Book to Smashwords* Step 25: How to upload your book Step 26: How AutoVetter works Step 27: After you publish – check your work Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!) Distributing Your Book with Smashwords Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works *How to Market Your Book* Step 29: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) Step 30: Read the Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (best-practices of successful authors) Step 31: Watch our video workshops on YouTube *Helpful Resources* Send Feedback About the Author APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts

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Smashwords Style Guide - Mark Coker | Computers |365802036

Smashwords Style Guide Mark Coker Genre: Computers Price: Get Publish Date: May 5, 2008 The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Oyster, Kobo. Smashwords also distributed to public libraries via OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360. It also provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 300,000 copies downloaded! Updated September 24, 2014. INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE GETTING STARTED Welcome to Smashwords! Do-it-yourself, or hire help? Good formatting examples What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish How to distribute books with Smashwords How ebook formatting is different from print formatting Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats Understanding the different ebook formats The beauty and utility of simplicity AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors Your required source file FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FORMATTING * Pre-Prep* Making Word Behave Step 1: Make a back up Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features Step 4: Turn off Track Changes Step 5: The Nuclear Method Step 6: Hug a loved one *Formatting* Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?) Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing Step 7b-e: Managing font color Step 8: Check your normalized text Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces Step 10: Managing paragraph returns Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks Step 13: Working with images Step 14: Text justification Step 14a: Centering text Step 15: Managing font sizes Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs Step 17: Headers and footers Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional) *Building Navigation* Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript Step 20a: Creating the NCX Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes) Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing *Front Matter* Step 21: Front matter Step 21a: Blurbs (optional) Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!) Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page *The End of Your Book* Step 22: The end of your book *POST-FORMATTING* Step 23: Preparing your cover image Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution *Uploading Your Book to Smashwords* Step 25: How to upload your book Step 26: How AutoVetter works Step 27: After you publish – check your work Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!) Distributing Your Book with Smashwords Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works *How to Market Your Book* Step 29: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) Step 30: Read the Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (best-practices of successful authors) Step 31: Watch our video workshops on YouTube *Helpful Resources* Send Feedback About the Author APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts

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MUSIC ART WORDS: 2008

Beyoncé, Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (2008)

Colette LaBouff Atkinson, Mean (2008)

Jacob Collins, Bed (2008)

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Smashwords Style Guide - Mark Coker | Computers |365802036

Smashwords Style Guide Mark Coker Genre: Computers Price: Get Publish Date: May 5, 2008 The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Oyster, Kobo. Smashwords also distributed to public libraries via OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360. It also provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 300,000 copies downloaded! Updated September 24, 2014. INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE GETTING STARTED Welcome to Smashwords! Do-it-yourself, or hire help? Good formatting examples What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish How to distribute books with Smashwords How ebook formatting is different from print formatting Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats Understanding the different ebook formats The beauty and utility of simplicity AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors Your required source file FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FORMATTING * Pre-Prep* Making Word Behave Step 1: Make a back up Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features Step 4: Turn off Track Changes Step 5: The Nuclear Method Step 6: Hug a loved one *Formatting* Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?) Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing Step 7b-e: Managing font color Step 8: Check your normalized text Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces Step 10: Managing paragraph returns Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks Step 13: Working with images Step 14: Text justification Step 14a: Centering text Step 15: Managing font sizes Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs Step 17: Headers and footers Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional) *Building Navigation* Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript Step 20a: Creating the NCX Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes) Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing *Front Matter* Step 21: Front matter Step 21a: Blurbs (optional) Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!) Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page *The End of Your Book* Step 22: The end of your book *POST-FORMATTING* Step 23: Preparing your cover image Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution *Uploading Your Book to Smashwords* Step 25: How to upload your book Step 26: How AutoVetter works Step 27: After you publish – check your work Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!) Distributing Your Book with Smashwords Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works *How to Market Your Book* Step 29: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) Step 30: Read the Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (best-practices of successful authors) Step 31: Watch our video workshops on YouTube *Helpful Resources* Send Feedback About the Author APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts