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Blog Clean Up

June 12, 2009 on 4:55 pm | In Updates | No Comments

Because my blog went off-line sometime ago, there were some things that I wanted to share with you that didn’t get posted. To transition to the new blog entries I will begin making shortly, I will add these posts now. One of them is a short blog that tells about our ART Poetry Night presentation of our grant award by members of the Oregon Country Fair board. The other is a wonderfully detailed feedback provided by Judy Hays-Eberts of our April issue…

The ART, Inc.’s “Open Mike Poetry Night” and the Oregon Country Fair of the presentation of the $1,500 grant award to The Groundwaters Magazine Project was a big success. We had more than 20 people in attendance. The Oregon Country Fair was represented by Clare Feighan, who presented the check, Charlie Ruff and Steve Wisnovsky. Jen Chambers, Pat Broome and I represented the Groundwaters staff. We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the board of the Oregon Country Fair who demonstrated their support in our efforts.

Since our last blog entry, a lot of things have been happening with Groundwaters. We have been wanting to put together some chapbooks to promote the magazine, showcase some of our contributors and provide a means to raise funds towards the costs of buying a new printer for use in producing the magazine. When we accepted the job of sponsoring and organizing an author’s table at the Chateau Lorane Fine Art and Wine Festival in Lorane on Memorial Day weekend, we decided it was the perfect time to design a book of poetry – The Best of Groundwaters – that we could introduce to the public. (Please note: I will write a separate blog on our fun experience at the Chateau Lorane Fine Art and Wine Festival.)

We contacted our poet/contributors who had published more than three poems with us over the years to ask their permission to use some of their poems. We had such a good response, that by the publication deadline, we had enough to fill two-volumes of the book. The books are now available for sale. See the ad for them in the July 2009 issue of Groundwaters or the ad on the home page of our website at http://www.groundwaterspublishing.com.

After a short hiatus, we are now back on-line with our blog. It was necessary for us to restructure the blog on our own website instead of on Pat’s Sawdust and Cider site where it was set up. The former blog entries are not lost, however… if you want to read all of what went on previous to this entry, please go to http://sawdustandcider.com/blog1/