Tuesday, April 24, 2012

More online.

The BluePrint Review
(for poetry and art)

On Barcelona
(for prose)

Jama's Alphabet Soup 
(for poetry and recipes)

Shot Glass Journal
(for art and poetry with Gail Fishman Gerwin

qarrtsiluni
(for art)
New poems online - April, 2012


Front Porch Review
Verse Wisconsin
5-2 Poems on Crime



The Beauty of Software.

Now that my website is rapidly becoming obsolete because the software can't be updated, I am in the process of negotiating to redo the whole site with Wordpress, which is where my collages are actually located, and how it's all combined is beyond me. Although I tend to be smarter about other things, the beauty of software is that it is a mystery not unlike some men I've known. Having just fallen into a sink hole with a course in InDesign, I have finally come to the realization that I have absolutely no interest in putting in the effort to learn InDesign. Perhaps if it had been around forty years ago! I think I'll just stick to good old Word, which I used to layout several issues of U.S.1 Worksheets.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

On Location is alive and available

Always exciting when a new book arrives. Always the favorite at least for a while. I reread the poems and can't believe I wrote them. The book is available at Amazon.com and directly from me via nscott29@aol.com.

Turns out I can't update my website to include On Location; the software can't be updated, so we are in the process of switching everything over to Wordpress, which is where the collages are housed. Next problem is that this blog is a hell of lot easier to navigate than the Wordpress blog that is set up. Always a complication.

To see what I could do on my own I took non-credit courses in Web Design and Web Graphics at Mercer County Community College, and, though interesting, they only pointed out how much I really don't know.

That said. The book is cool.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Purple Pages

Always something. Great Christmas, except for 10 preview copies of the new chapbook that arrived with bright purple front and end pages. Unexpected and had I known I would not have okayed the fantastic cover which is mustard, grey and red. It's probably a non-issue to ask the editor to change the color to red or gray or black, but these are the kinds of things I obsess over. Like the side of the brain that processes color has gone beserk and won't let me off the hook until I confront the issue.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Brag Book

Last week was a feast of acceptances from qarrtsiluni, Verse Wisconsin, Apollo's Lyre, and Quill & Parchment, and three poets have offered to do reviews of On Location, which is amazing, as I had much less luck with my previous books, although Journal of New Jersey Poets may be reviewing Detours & Diversions in its 2012 issue.

I'm flattered that Carolina Morales has asked me to do a blurb for the back cover of her latest chapbook. You know with her work you are on a ride into the macabre, when the title is Dead Monster. Great poems.

I visited my 10x10 collage at Artworks in Trenton. I can't make the opening reception. The exhibition is a fundraiser for the organization. Over a 100 artists were given 10x10 inch canvases to create their work, and some of the work is really amazing. The idea is to raise money by selling each canvas for $100, split the proceeds with the artist, or ask the artist to donate his/her cut to Artworks, or, if not sold, donate the work to be sold through the Artworks online shop. The show runs for December and I think into January. I'm really bad at remembering when show are over and work needs to be picked up, but in this case, mine is theirs all the way.

On Location from March Street Press

My new chapbook is down to the last poem, last word. Confusion over whether Van Gogh's painting of the blue bedroom is  "The Bedroom", "The Bedroom at Arles" or "The Bedroom in Arles". The Internet sites can't make up their mind, and after changing it several times, I gave the publisher the okay with my latest pick, only to find out that the book that I have used as my bible for ekphrastic poems, "1000 Poems You Must See Before You Die," which is where I should have looked in the first place, does not use the word that I settled on. I wonder if anyone will notice. Maybe now that I've made a point of it, someone will.