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Waiting for "Tomorrow"

5/22/2013

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"Tomorrow" is approaching way too quickly.  What's the hurry?  Slow down ,"Tomorrow," I have so much to prepare before your arrival.  Take a nap, chill a while, but please just slow down!

With the Clockwork Alchemy Convention only a few days away, my heart beats a bit faster each time I survey my preparations, thus far: handouts ready to print, business license acquired, copies of Echoes packed, logistics figured out ... wrapping my brain around the idea that I will be on a panel?  I'm still working on this last one.

Facilitating and observing author panels is not new to me.  I've had many opportunities to do both at the San Francisco Writers Conference, year after year.  This time, however, I am the panel, and there will be no moderator present, which makes it more of a symposium.

The title of this upcoming panel is "Classic Victorian Poetry Today: The Awakening of Steampunk," which will focus on the relevance of writing "traditional" verse in the twenty-first century.  "Traditional" in this case refers to poetic styles that predate the "Era of Modernism."  Feels like pretty heady stuff, to me.
  
To paraphrase Dr. McCoy, "I'm a poet, not a historian!"  However, my poetry does reflect the Cyberpunk and Steampunk eras as I internalized them.  So, I'll be speaking from that specific conceptual framework so as not to step on the toes of those who know these eras well.

For now, I need to resume editing my notes, and tidying up all those little last-minute odds and ends that keep trying to flag me down on my way to being ready.  Alas, I know all too well that  there's no putting off "Tomorrow." 



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Leanna
5/26/2013 11:03:34 am

met you at the con, you heard me read your poem out loud and enjoyed it. Love what i have read on your site! do you think you could publish your book echos in an .epub or adobe format?? i dont have a kindle.

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Janice
2/17/2014 04:41:25 am

Hello Leanna! I am so sorry that I couldn't reply to your comment earlier. It's taken me this long to figure it out.

Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry is available at http://www.smashwords.com/ in the formats your asked for. I hope that this helps! Please let me know if you encounter problems with it.

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    I've written many poems over the years.  This blog is a preview of my books: Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry (April 2013), Echoes ll, More Neo-Victorian Poetry (May 2014), Echoes lll, Even More Neo-Victorian Poetry, (August 2016), A Compilation of Echoes. (September 2016), and When None Command (April 13, 2019)

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