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Parlor Press and its authors make a difference that positively affects people and changes contexts everywhere. In our ongoing effort to measure this impact on people, our world, and (of course) scholarly and creative writing, we've collected selections from the latest writing about Parlor Press authors, books, events, awards, presentations and readings, and more. Each of these has appeared on our front page for a time. If you want to nominate a new selection, please let us know. Contact us and you may be surprised with a free book!
David J. Tietge's Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse has been named the winner of JAC's Gary A. Olson Award for most outstanding book in rhetorical and cultural theory. -- 26 May 2010.
Molly Bendall's Under the Quick has been reviewed by Carol Muske-Dukes (Poet Laureate of California) in The Huffington Post. Here's an excerpt:
There's an inscrutable, willowy, linguistic élan to the poems -- they come from the world below consciousness -- language released at pure Ophelia-speed from formality and sequence -- their surefootedness and grace is something remarkable.Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-muskedukes/confronting-words-poetry_...
Parlor Press is pleased to announce the 2008 selections for its Free Verse Editions series, to be published in Fall, 2009.Free Verse Editions Press Release 2009
Parlor Press's poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is pleased to announce the eleventh annual New Measure Poetry Prize, which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Up to four other manuscripts may be accepted for publication by Free Verse Editions editors. Submit a manuscript of at least 54 pages with a $28 entry fee between March 1 and June 1, 2020. The window for the 2020 competition will open on 1 March 2020. The judge for this year's competition is Jon Thompson.
Click on this Submit button to visit the New Measure Poetry Prize submission interface at Submittable on or after March 1 and no later than June 1:
2019: Parallel Resting Places by Laura Wetherington [selected by Peter Gizzi]
2018: Empire by Tracy Zeman [selected by Jon Thompson]
2017: Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air by Elizabeth Jacobson [selected by Marianne Boruch]
2016: The Miraculous Courageous by Josh Booton [selected by Jon Thompson]
2015: This History That Just Happened by Hannah Craig [selected by Yusef Komunyakaa]
2014: Spool by Matthew Cooperman [selected by Jon Thompson]
2013: No Shape Bends the River So Long by Monica Berlin and Beth Marzoni [Selected by Carolyn Forché]
2012: Dismantling the Angel by Eric Pankey [selected by Jon Thompson]
2011: The Canticle of the Night Path by Jennifer Atkinson [selected by Susan Stewart]
2010: Country Album by James Capozzi [selected by Jon Thompson]
2009: 13 Ways of Happily by Emily Carr [selected by Cole Swensen]
Other manuscripts not selected for the New Measure Poetry Prize may still be eligible for publication by Free Verse Editions. Friends and former students of the judge are not eligible for the prize but may submit for publication to Free Verse Editions (please indicate whether the submission is for the prize or for publication only). Each manuscript should be word processed, paginated, and contain a list of acknowledgments for published or forthcoming poems. The title page should include the name of the author, a postal address, telephone number, and email address. No feedback on submitted manuscripts can be offered. The recipient of the New Measure Poetry Prize will be announced in December each year.
For more information about Free Verse Editions, visit the series page.
Parlor Press will be in Booth 10 in the exhibit area at CCCC in the San Francisco Hilton. Stop by to meet authors and editors and to check out some great deals!
Presented at the Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication San Francisco, March 11, 2009
Scholarly presses may be in peril due to diminishing markets, tight budgets, and over-reliance on the monograph as the signifier of scholar achievement, but individuals and organizations in rhetoric and composition can take specific action to ensure that scholarly presses not only survive momentary crises but also thrive in the years ahead. In turn, presses themselves also need to adapt to the changing needs of the multiple constituencies they serve and the new technologies that enable the democratization of peer review, production, distribution, and delivery.
I'm grateful to Brad Lucas, editor of Composition Studies, and Risa Gorelick—long-time supporter and backbone of these Research Network Forums, for inviting me to say a few words to you today in this, a living example of what Kenneth Burke may have had in mind when he spoke of the unending conversation of history into which we are borne. Imagine you enter a parlor, he wrote. You've come late. People are having a heated discussion about this and that. However, everyone arrives as you do, so no one is qualified to retrace all the steps that have come before. You listen for a while, then you put in your oar. People come to your defense or align themselves against you (The Philosophy of Literary Form 110-11).
With that, let me jump right in to the fray.
Parlor Press is an independent publisher and distributor of scholarly and trade books in print and digital formats. It was founded in 2002 to address the need for an alternative scholarly, academic press attentive to emergent ideas and forms while maintaining the highest possible standards of quality, credibility, and integrity. Our primary and simple goal is to publish outstanding writing in a variety of subjects and thus to disseminate knowledge about writing and rhetoric as widely as possible and to ensure that this educational mission is met with style and grace.
As I hope some of you still know, I am a Professor of English at Purdue in my day job, with a specialization in rhetoric and composition, like so many of you. That means that Parlor Press's goals have naturally been closely aligned with my own interests as a teacher and researcher. I think, like many of you probably do also, that people everywhere ought to know what we know (that it's rhetoric all the way down, for instance!) and that students can indeed be taught to write well. You may not have known before, but I hope you do know also that Parlor Press gets its name from that Burkeian parlor I mentioned at the start. This parlor—and Parlor Press, I hope—is a place where interesting and smart discussions come to the fore, where people speak (parler means "to speak," after all) and listen, where the dialogue and debate—the parliamentary—are in play. In the end, this is what all of our university presses want more than anything. It is easy to be lulled into thinking that they want more than anything to sell books and make money so that they can sell even more books. On the contrary, the ideal of most university presses is to disseminate knowledge, with uncompromising concern for quality and currency. Only secondarily—and in more recent times—has it become necessary for presses to worry about the pedigrees of authors and the marketability of books (the other kind of currency). As John B. Thompson points out in his encyclopedic Books in the Digital Age, the golden age of university press publishing may have ended in the mid-1970s.
Since then, most academic presses have had to pay closer attention to the bottom line as they fight against budget cuts and reallocations, or—as our session today puts it—"trying economic times." We have to pay especially close attention now because, I'm afraid, the situation for many presses may be much more dire than many realize. When I was the editor of the Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory book series with SIU Press, I witnessed sales to libraries drop precipitously. In the late 1990s, you could count on 500 to 750 or more copies sold to libraries right out of the gate. That average dropped to 100 or so almost overnight, due in part to the rise of the journal conglomerates, ridiculous price gouging, and the attendant strain on library budgets. There are a number of other financial threats aside from dwindling sales, such as the outrageously high cost of exhibiting books and journals at conferences like this one. In some cases, our own organizations are complicit. I receive dozens of invitations each year to buy table space at even small conferences for hundreds, even thousands of dollars.
Our tough economic times have exacerbated this downward trend, which I believe will continue to threaten all of our presses in the years ahead. As this situation unfolds, the pressure on young scholars to publish books continues to mount, in spite of MLA's efforts to expose the crisis in scholarly publishing and to reject the monograph as the gold standard for promotion. At the same time, as our numbers increase and academic fields splinter into countless subspecialties, fewer and fewer people have time to read the major books published in their field. John Thompson calls this the "twigging" effect (177). He also cites the troubling practice of tenure committees to abdicate their responsibilities to evaluate scholarship themselves and grant it to the presses without question, often merely on the basis of reputation or, more indirectly, the success of the university's football team. No one would admit that, of course, but if you knew how many times I have answered questions about Parlor Press's pedigree, you might be surprised. (Thankfully, almost a dozen authors have earned tenure primarily on the basis of their Parlor Press books, which is gratifying.)
If all this sounds dour, I apologize. I'm actually much more optimistic—even excited—about the future of scholarly publishing in rhet/comp than this sounds. Why else would I start Parlor Press right at the time when most would say "bad idea, Dave." I have a great and very busy day job at Purdue, so I certainly didn't need more work.
Some of you may not know that Parlor Press is independent and not explicitly tied to any university, although we do have many ongoing collaborative projects with universities around the world. The Press is managed entirely by scholars and specialists in their respective fields, presently covering fourteen book series. The series editors and I manage everything from initial peer review through production, distribution, and marketing. We have no staff and no outside funding sources (not even the salary from my day job). It is all built on the sweat equity of enormously generous and wise series editors who believe with me that we can make a difference and that, if left to our own devices and free of all bureaucratic machinery, we might just find a way out of this mess.
People have asked me a lot recently how Parlor Press is doing during this recession. Well, the good news is that our funding hasn't been cut or threatened, if only because we have none to begin with (the glass is half full, I guess). And there really isn't any bad news at all. Sales of our books have risen steadily—from almost none to a number respectable enough to keep everything running smoothly and to maintain, as they say, our growth mode. In only six and a half years, we have published 70 books and can now count more than 300 Parlor Press authors. There are another 75 books under contract. This year, we will publish 20 or more books, 75 percent of which will be in our field. We have just launched two new series and have plans for growth into new areas, such as multimedia writing and other hybrid forms of print, visual, aural, and haptic media that will take advantage of new digital printing, publishing, and dissemination technologies. We have also made certain that our peer review process is rigorous and that development is collaborative. Publication decisions are made by peers in the field and no one else.
Parlor Press is a phenomenon made possible by what Chris Anderson in The Long Tail called the "democratization of production." It is also much easier to innovate when you've gone rogue. We have leveraged new digital printing and publishing technologies while also developing a sustainable model for managing all aspects of scholarly publishing efficiently and productively. (People ask me about sustainability all the time, but we're in year seven now, which makes me wonder what the threshold for sustainability might be.) The Parlor Press model takes advantage of, among other things, digital printing technologies (such as print-on-demand) and powerful communication technologies like Drupal for collaboration, content management, and production in a network of distributed responsibility. Scholars, organizations, and institutions with a clear stake in creative and scholarly research have managed to pool limited resources. We are in rhet/comp, after all. We're used to building grand designs from nothing but hard work.
I'd like to mention a few examples of what this freedom makes possible. In a publishing partnership with Mike Palmquist and the WAC Clearinghouse at Colorado State University—we created the first open-access book publishing project in our field (or any, perhaps) to offer free ebooks with a print option, the Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition series edited by CCCC program chair Charles Bazerman. Since then, Parlor Press has published a number of Creative Commons -licensed books in electronic and print formats, including the first book in rhetoric and composition ever published under such a license, John Logie's Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion. Mike and I are now working on the new Perspectives on Writing series that will also publish books under a CC license with a print option. The print versions of these "free" books have sold every bit as well as our print-only books, if not better. Finally, some of you may have noticed the recent announcement for Writing Spaces: Readings for Writers, a series created by Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky that will includes CC-licensed books jointly published by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. (See writingspaces.org.)
I want to conclude with a list of some things you can do to help us ensure that scholarly publishing in rhetoric and composition thrives. Here are some steps that I've cobbled together from experience, friends, and fellow publishers, people like Lisa Bayer (Marketing Director, University of Illinois Press), Karl Kageff (Editor-in-Chief, Southern Illinois University Press), and Jonathan Haupt (Assistant Director for Sales and Marketing, University of South Carolina Press). (I am proud to say that all of these fine people are former students of mine from SIU-Carbondale and are scholars in their own right in rhetoric and composition.)
I could go on (there's so much to do!), but let me close by quoting Burke again: "[T]he discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, and you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress " (The Philosophy of Literary Form 111).
Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. New York: Hyperion, 2006.
Burke, Kenneth. The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action. 1941. Berkeley: U of California P, 1973.
Thompson, John B. Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2005.
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"Peter Riley's most recent full-length poetry collection, A Map of Faring, is precisely the sort of project that is helping to distinguish the newly established Free Verse Editions, a joint venture between Free Verse and Parlor Press. With its commitment to featuring translations, combined with an international scope, Free Verse Editions has been consistently proving that the site of contemporary poetry consists not so much of place, but of places and their rich, adjacent terrains." —Word for Word: A Journal of New Writing (Issue 14, Fall 2008).
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From two new reviews of Rhetoric and Incommensurability, edited by Randy Harris:
Harris's book is especially strong for its reminder to rhetoricians that Kuhn's notion of the paradigm is not the only source of incommensurability theory. In tracing the history of incommensurability in both Feyerabend and in Kuhn's evolving theory, Rhetoric and Incommensurability helps to create a productive space of interaction between rhetoric and incommensurability studies more broadly conceived. Although Rhetoric and Incommensurability probably will not be the final word on rhetoric of science and incommensurability studies, it does an excellent job of summing up recent rhetorically based incommensurability scholarship. Finally, it expertly integrates research from the allied humanist and social studies of science while continuously keeping the focus on the rhetorical issues involved.
—S. Scott Graham, in Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38.2 (2008): 233.
Readers of this journal, chiefly interested in incommensurability as a philosophical topic, will be most attracted to Parts 1 and 2 of the book, where the essays are more theoretical. It is on these that this review is focused, particularly Harris's booklength introduction which impresses me as a real tour de force. The book is worth buying for this essay alone for the revealing way it disentangles themes in the literature on incommensurability, including discussion of rhetoric and ways of dealing with incommensurability.
—Struan Jacobs, in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22.1 (2008): 100.
"I think it's possible for the imagination — and the heart — to make meaningful connections out of more far-ranging material than we often challenge it to do." Read the full Interview with Boyer Rickel on remanence at Christopher Nelson's Poetry Blog. (Oct. 2008).
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Dawn-Michelle Baude, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Gaffiot Exquis (1997), The Book of One Hand (1998), The Beirut Poems (2001), Egypt (2002), Through a Membrane / Clouds (2006), and The Flying House (Parlor Press, 2008). She earned an MA from the New College of California, an MFA from Mills College, a Diplôme des etudes approndis in Shakespeare from the Sorbonne, and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois - Chicago. She teaches in the U. S. and in Europe.
Adam Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006) and A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming). He lives in Kalamazoo and co-edits Typo Magazine (http://www.typomag.com).
F. Daniel Rzicznek's books include Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, forthcoming in 2009), Neck of the World (Utah State University Press, 2007) and Cloud Tablets (Kent State University Press, 2006). He is also coeditor, with Gary L. McDowell, of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2010. He currently teaches English composition at Bowling Green State University.
Jon Thompson teaches at North Carolina State University where he edits Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and Free Verse Editions, a new poetry series. His first collection of poems was The Book of the Floating World, reissued in an expanded edition in 2007 by Parlor Press. In the spring of 2009, Shearsman Books will publish his book of lyrical essays, After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing. He recently completed a new volume of poems, tentatively titled Strange Country.
"What appeals to me—what has always appealed to me in poetry—are the material conditions of language itself. All the texturizers that work the surface of the poem, from typography down to the aural level of phonemes. Consonance, assonance, rhyme, yes. But also homophones, puns, anagrams, transposition, neologisms, portmanteau—the oddments and extra-intentional sleights-of-hand one can use to complicate words and their meanings. . . ."
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December 3, 2008
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"Clay . . . revisits romanticism and allows us to experience it in much the same way that I imagine those first readers of Blake, Shelley, and Clare might have experienced their work. And it's a visit worth making." "Tom Dvorske on Adam Clay's The Wash" in H_NGM_N: An Online Journal of Poetry and Poetics.
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Tracy Zeman's first full-length collection, Empire, examines the European settlement and ecological devastation of the North American prairie. Her ecology-based serial poems employ collage, borrowed text and fractured narrative to probe the connections of humans to the natural world through the lens of culture, history and personal experience. Zeman uses image, juxtaposition and fragment to tell the story of a savage and intricate landscape, once conquered and now imperiled by forces such as climate change, invasive species and contemporary agricultural and land practices. Empire is a journey through an endangered world where beauty is enshrined and the lost, human and animal, is elegized.
Tracy Zeman's poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chicago Review, jubilat, TYPO and other journals. She has received a number of residencies, most notably six weeks at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the central Oregon coast. Currently, Zeman is a freelance writer and editor for a number of conservation organizations in the Midwest. She lives outside Detroit, Michigan with her husband and daughter.
The ordinary becomes urgent in Monica Berlin's Elsewhere, That Small. Each a landscape, these poems trouble over the cornering-in of any life and trace the modest square mileage of here. Tending to sky and to weather, turning streetscape to inscape and back again, this almanac, this journal of memory, lists toward the local—where even region can be made verb.
Monica Berlin is the author of Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), No Shape Bends the River So Long, a collaboration with Beth Marzoni (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions, 2015), and two chapbooks. A professor of English, Berlin also serves as associate director of the Program in Creative Writing at Knox College, in Galesburg, IL.
In this series of open-field meditations, embodied in moments both personal and cultural, Bruce Bond' new book The Calling explores the act of naming as critical to survival—biologically, psychologically, and ethically—and yet no less an obstacle to attention, empathy, and the realization of a functional republic. To call is to summon, but also to obscure, to occasion, in times of greatest clarity, a keener sense of our connectedness, aloneness, dread, and limitations, of word and world and—as music among strangers teaches—the immensity between them.
Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-two books including, most recently, Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (U of MI, 2015), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, SIU Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (L.E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018), and Frankenstein's Children (Lost Horse, 2018). Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at University of North Texas.
The sustained lyricism of The Republic of Song moves from abhorrence to its antithesis. Poem by poem, by turns declarative, tender and oppositional, Kelvin Corcoran pursues what it is that poetry can do in the face of calamitous politics. The journey explores abiding friendships, the ever present cultural and personal history and the inherent delight of poetry and music. It arrives at an account of how the blueprint of mythology still plays in our lives and how the deep past and present conditions stand together in a renewed perception of the world.
Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including most recently Facing West, 2017, the Medicine Unboxed sponsored Not Much To Say Really, 2017, and Article 50, 2018. The sequence 'Helen Mania' was a Poetry Book Society choice and his work has been highly commended by the Forward Prize jury and is the subject of a study edited by Professor Andy Brown, The Poetry Occurs as Song, 2013. He is the editor of an account of the poetry of Lee Harwood in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, 2008
Peter Kline's Mirrorforms is a daring, experimental collection of poems in which language reaches its most pressurized state. Kline has invented a new poetic form, the mirrorform, which he uses with musical verve to essentialize thought and intensify feeling. The result is that these poems achieve jewel-like precision: each darkly glinting facet reveals the nuances and ambiguities of longing, transgression, and faith. In one section of the book, agnostic psalms unite the skeptical inquiry of Emily Dickinson with the bodily, passionate petition of John Donne's "Holy Sonnets," while bringing a highly contemporary perspective to the tradition. In another section, shadowy, madhouse speakers lay bare their worldview and turbulent inner weather in a series of incisive dramatic monologues. These poems are sharply ironic, darkly funny, and ferocious, and mark out a unique place in contemporary American poetry.
Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House, James Merrill House, Marble House Project, Artsmith Orcas Island, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, and the Random House anthology, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. His first collection of poetry, Deviants, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2013.
Kevin Prufer has written, "Eric Pankey peers through the clarifying lens of metaphor and parable to meditate on mystery, human sympathy and the divine." Alias is Eric Pankey's second collection of prose poetry from Free Verse Editions. Like the first, Dismantling the Angel, Pankey continues his investigation of possibilities of the prose poem, an oxymoronic form, which subverts both the conventions of the lyric mode and of habits of prose genres. Roger Lathbury writing about the complexity of Pankey's prose poetry has said that the poems "yearn for completeness, unity, and, if not transcendence, still some condition that would provide what transcendence, or even a hint of transcendence, might offer: fulfillment, harmony, completeness, acceptance, understanding, universal love. With the tact born of honesty (the book never lies; you never feel "manipulated") these poems refuse every answer they see offered."
Eric Pankey is the author of many collections of poetry. He is Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University where he teaches in the BFA and MFA programs in creative writing.
2013 New Measure Poetry Prize Winner
Selected by Carolyn Forché
No Shape Bends the River So Long meanders through the American landscape in search of site and relic, home and away-from-home. Part meditation on our tenuous position in the natural world and part interrogation of that relationship, these poems map what any place records and what it has erased. Weathered by obsolescence, chance, complacency, and awe, they carve out a new idiom for how we go on. Monica Berlin and Beth Marzoni's collaborations have been published or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, New Orleans Review, DIAGRAM, Better: Culture & Lit, Meridian, TYPO, Quarterly West, and Vela.
Translated by Clarissa Botsford
A darkly humorous exploration of the human body and its various functions in poetic prose, Valerio Magrelli's personal chronicle of clinical experience catalogues a life history of ailments without ever being pathological. Every sensation and malfunction is placed under the subjective microscope of the poet's eye and examined in excruciating and obsessive detail. This Gray's Anatomy of the soul leads the reader on an inside-out voyage of discovery, with many surprises on the way. One of Italy's most celebrated living poets, Valerio Magrelli has also attracted an international following, including luminaries such as Octavio Paz and Joseph Brodsky.
Translated by Luis Ingelmo and Michael Smith
"The Magnetic Brackets . . . is one of the liveliest and truest poetical testaments that a reader can tackle at these times of disbelief, of half-truths, of vacuity and passivity in thought. For this is one more gift from the book: where thought and feeling are perfectly merged." —Antonio Colinas. Jesús Losada is the author of eleven collections of poetry, among them Huerto cerrado del amor (2nd prize, Premio Adonáis, 1994), La noche del funambulista (Premio Provincia, 1998) and Corazón frontera (Premio "San Juan de la Cruz", 2010).
Centuries before modern museums, European wonder rooms housed artifacts and curiosities that mirrored the worlds of their collectors. In them, the New World met Old; superstition tangled with natural science; the monstrous roomed with the commonplace. In Allison Funk's fifth collection of poems, Wonder Rooms, she is similarly in between: at once in the shelter of her childhood home and the chaos of a madhouse. Like Renaissance collectors before her, she invents a nomenclature to make sense of her world. Allison Funk is the author of four previous books of poems and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The poems in Sunshine Wound leave behind, if not a "beauty mark," an impasto. The lines are thick with grief but also phantasms that ambush us with a "manufactured light." It is this dream power that exposes the vulnerable, whether it be the "forgotten" head of George Washington that "looks like it wants to speak" or a "cardboard fawn" on the verge of an "elegant collapse." Relying on a protean poetic line, the poet improvises a likeness of America that is both genuine and synthetic, reminiscent and alien. L. S. Klatt's second volume (Cloud of Ink) received the Iowa Poetry Prize.
Using a supple but precise idiom, Split the Crow chronicles the history of European settlers and the Indigenous Americans they sought to convert, assimilate and eradicate. A range of stories and voices are woven throughout the collection: those of Europeans such as Mary Rowlandson and Roger Williams; a native-owned African slave during the Civil War; and indigenous voices, some clear and attributable, others literal marginalia in European bibles. Sarah Sousa's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Apalachee Review, Barn Owl Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. Her first collection won the Red Mountain Press Prize and will be published in 2014.
Parlor Press's poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is pleased to announce the sixth annual New Measure Poetry Prize, which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Jon Thompson will judge this year's competition. Up to four other manuscripts may be accepted for publication by Free Verse Editions editors. Submit a manuscript and a $28 entry fee between March 1 and June 30, 2014. Visit Free Verse Editions at Submittable for full guidelines: https://parlorpress.submittable.com/submit (after March 1)
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2012 New Measure Poetry Prize Winner
Selected by Jon Thompson
Dismantling the Angel, Eric Pankey's tenth volume of poetry, collects prose and hybrid poems written over the last two decades. At times god-ridden, the poems enact and subvert the form of the parable, the not-so-good news of the gospel. At times whimsical, the poems question the veracity and stability of the autobiographical I. Always speculative, the poems nag at the threadbare veil between the known and as of yet to-be-known. By turns brooding and bemused, the poet turns his attention to a past that recedes as quickly as it can be approached, to the examples and lessons of art, film, and poetry—Max Ernst, Alfred Hitchcock, and Li Ho—and to the ordinary mess we call today.
The sixteenth of the twenty-five major works of Guillevic published by Gallimard since 1942, Requis represents a pivotal moment in his oeuvre and reaffirms his position as an essential and compelling voice in contemporary poetry. A long poem composed of short, lapidary verse that the poet calls quanta, each in itself a miniature poem, Requis distils familiar themes and motifs of the Guillevician universe within an expanded vision encompassing the outer reaches of space. Within this poetic hurly burly at once totalising and fragmented, arboreal and rhizomatic, cadenced and discontinuous, expansive and condensed, there is a summons to bear witness to the human condition while heeding the injunction of 'notre toucher/De l'illimité' that seeks to transgress the boundaries of knowledge, to abolish the dichotomies of presence and absence, motion and stillness, word and silence.
Negotiating a tightrope between narrative and lyric, Siobhán Scarry's debut collection Pilgrimly keeps vigil over an assortment of wayfarers as they search for "something solid for the mutable world." In these poems, Orpheus appears on the staircase of a house renovation, Narcissus emerges blessedly free from his lake fixation, and alchemists, nuns, and fortune-tellers all work their attempts at divination. At the heart of these soundings is a desire to find what binds us, and what wrests us apart, in our various belongings to one another. In the mostly prose poems that make up this collection, language and thought careen until they reach their limits, and then begin again, leaving resonant silences in the interstices. Through poems that carefully attend to language and resist easy closure, the collection testifies to the paradox that renewal cannot be willed, or simply waited for, but must arrive through devotion to the pilgrimage itself and with "eyes unstitched."
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Asao Inoue's book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future has now won the CCCC Outstanding Book Award (March, 2017) and the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Best Book Award (July, 2017). Inoue's book was co-published by the WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press in 2015.
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Emily Carr, 13 Ways of Happily
"If ostranenie—'to make strange'—is the mandate of contemporary poetry, Emily Carr has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary Ruefle, it's not their voices, but their facility for invention, itself here reinvented, that keeps waking us up into a world sometimes alarming, often unsettling, and always careening until we, too, arrive 'delirious & shredded, sailing sideways through the greenly ravished vowels.'"
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December 3, 2006
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Rich in river imagery, and filled with the sense of the passage of time, The Wash explores the incessant music that permeates journeys with destinations unknown. Interweaving the voices of John Clare, Audubon, Roethke, and others, the poems depict a landscape of loss in which language and images provide the only concrete platform on which to stand. Ending with an elegy for the self-portrait and an acceptance of the inevitability of decay, the speaker discovers "the stillness of frames both comforts and terrifies." Playing a lyrical voice against the limits of silence, The Wash uncovers the voices that can be made, and heard, both in and out of nature.
The poems in These Beautiful Limits delight in the transparency—and the obliquity—of language. Invested with a "jocoserious" sensibility, they explore the borders of language to see the ways in which language defines identity—not merely the language of meditation and philosophical inquiry, but also the quotidian language of everyday life that hovers on the edge of forgetfulness. The collection, which culminates in a long poem, "Hemp Quoits," takes as its premise the assumption that the borders of identity are permeable with all the languages the self encounters on a daily basis. These poems value mobility and freedom, yet they recognize that we transact our affairs within borders: the body, the mind, the poem, the sentence, the phrase, the word, and that voyages of being are inevitably processes of discovery: "As long as what you write is in your hand/and my name is nowhere affixed,/ any connection will be conjectural…"
Lisk's collection finds an aesthetics that comes with this risk taking with language, one that is affiliated with some of the experimental traditions of twentieth-century American poetry, but not simply reducible to them. Rather than talking about the world, These Beautiful Limits listens to it, and discovers in that attentiveness, paradoxes of time, history and desire that are both comical and elegiac.
For over 25 years, Nicolas Pesques has been writing a homage to St. Julien, the mountain he sees out his window. In this, the fifth book of the series, he weaves philosophical reflection in and out of an encounter with the body of the mountain, the body of language, and the human body that bridges the two. The spare, precise phrasing of Physis underscores the distance on which all landscape is based, seeking to understand how humans work to make a home here on earth.
Puppet Wardrobe is a pop-up book, surprise is in its element. In search of the "dateless lively heat" that Shakespeare sourced to Cupid, Daniel Tiffany mounts a Jarmanesque masque of punk pageantry and finds "the infamous promiscuity of things" in broad display. Here is delight in "making up": these poems are trannies, the mind of each earning its costume through misdirection and imposture, enabling fictions that reconcile the cosmetic and the cosmic noise all in a fit. The poet may wear his "wide-awake hat," but let him blush. It's just a thank you to Vertigo, whose party's not yet finished.
As watchword, you have Tiffany's "slang for the pink redoubt," the chummy vulgarity beneath prosody's underthings, so where the sense is lost, canonical Paradise was unfounded anyway: say hello to the New Flesh.
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- Main article: Dungeons
Region: Illfalo Port
Recommended Level: 20 Party Size Limit: 6
How to Unlock Edit
- Minimum Soul Rank Required: 3
- Required completion of Dungeon: Golden Dragon Ruins
After clearing GDR and reaching SR3 go visit The Adventurers Guild Headquaters in Illfao it will trigger a cutscene, after that go in and talk to old man...
Maps Edit
Material Checklist Edit
There are no items you need to farm. All items are directly related to each statue and will be available due to the unlocking process.
Dark Angel Statues Edit
Floor1 Edit
Dark Angel Statue 1 Edit
- Location: Directly across from entrance.
- To enter the first Dark Angel statue you need to turn around and go right to library. On your way you will find porkul-servant (Clouseau) of this house. As you talk to him he will tell you about secrets of Owner of The House and about way to unlock first statue.
- Go get the book in the library. It is at the left entrance to the next room. After you read it, you notice a missing page. Enter the corridor next to the ledger. In that corridor, is a giant stone soldier(Loitering Armor). Follow the corridor into the next room (spiders to the right, an imp and some undead to the left). In the center is a re-spawn guardian statue. Opposite where you came in, a stairway leads down into another corridor (with stone statue and some undead, Be careful with the undead, they have a spit attack that triggers quickly and has decent range). Follow to the next door. Inside is a room with spiders to the left and a trench with the corpse of the librarian. Inspect the corpse to find the missing page. Return to the library to read the now complete book, which will give you the combination of switches you need to push to unlock the statue.
- Warning : In corridor with that giant soldier(Loitering Armor) is a small opening (nearby the end at left) where any man under lvl 30 can enter. The corridor is hidden by a fake wall that you must break with a weapon in order to enter. Run through the spider rooms, drop down the series of drops until you get into a room with burning spirits (fire blast wraiths) and cold spectres (ice). To the right of the entrance is the succubus NPC(Friendly Monster: Succubus) that will give you a crystal that will allow you to access an easier version(easy mode) of 1st statue, It's worth it. The first werewolves hit for 500+ damage (physical defense 410). The easy werewolves hit for 87.
- Other indications
- The page for the book is located in Locked Stair of Despair E6, by spiders search the corpse on the right.
- Order to acitvate switches:
- Not fixed, seems to change per day like it was for SR2 7th statue - so you need to write it down yourself.
- Enemies: 5x Werewolf type mobs
- If you have a player under level 30, have them access easy mode for you. You will want a decent tank/DPS and a Healer able to take a hit or two, Preferably levels 20-30.
Dark Angel Statue 2 Edit
- Location: Upfloor - From the entrance go to left upstairs at the end of the hall. The statue is behind the first door at left side (H6)
- To enter the second Dark Angel Statue you must first ask the porkul-servant about the book that "The Familiar" mentioned. Porkul will redirect you to the library where by reading the pile of books on the table from entrance you will learn that Adventure book you are searching for is in Bookshelf nr. D-3.
- After you read each page you will need to collect important items that are mentioned in each chapter.
- After finding items from each chapter you need to go back to read more pages.
- Page 1 : Item: Medation: First of all you need to find Pilgrim's medalion looted from Queopatry Monk body. You will need to turn back to entrance and enter last doors at the right wall of hall, go past diner room and access second door. In "Torture Room" on end of corridor you will find a corpse (I3/B1Floor, Immediately to the right as you enter) that you can loot to get medalion (name: Avruole Crest).
- Page 2 : Item : You need to go to Succubi and sleep in her bed, choose the most expensive course for 20k to obtain Dirty Sheets, reminder take off your armors.
- Page 3 :
- Page 4 : Items: Y need to give finger nails to twin porkuls (I4; near revive2 after knights) that are in one of rooms in corridor behind 1th statue. You will need to talk to twin porkuls and lisen to their problem. Neccesary items are : old bandage from next room (near revive 2) in that corridor and some tools from torture room (the room in B1F where corpse found)( lying on floor not these hanged in cage). If you accept request of twins you will get Living doll for fulfiling it.
- Page 5 : Items: First go to Succubus room and search for empty bootle, then take Living doll and kill it in Iron maiden (B1F) to optain living Blood. Go to Dinning room and on oposite wall find fireplace, you will need to burn blod here to optain Ashes.
- Page 6 : Items: Go to torture room and take hand from corpse (B1F). Next thing you will need to do is accessing tools that are in cage to remove brancelet from hand and then go with optained items to burn then over fire in fireplace of dinning room.
- Page 7 : Item: no item nececary, just go back to book and read last chapter.
- The Dark Angel Statue will ask you multiple choice questions, you will recieve alignment points based on your answers.
- Enemies: 1 x Semalie
- Its our familiar cat, it have 2 lives one as small mob smillar to other cat mobs and one of bigger demon, don't be fooled by it dieing on you and watch your backs.
Dark Angel Statue 3 Edit
- Location: New door opened right from entrance teleport pole.
- The third Dark Angel Statue request gathering 4 types of Nigthmare fragments.
- First you need to talk to pink vorpal bunny (friendly) in room to your right, it will tell you about nigthmare fueled items and beedrooms where you can dream various nigthmares.
- First items is a Diary in Room on oposite side of open space you unlocked. Diary is ifilled with essence of Lost and then find the correct bed, after dying with its fuel a pillow that gave you pink Vorpal and that will let you enter nigthmares, u need to take it to rooms that lay beside this hall. Note: if you need feel first to make sure the bed is you want to find or not. If you sleep at right bed, you will get cutsence and item. There are 4 bed, and 3 places to fill with emotions. Furthermore, the emotion of bed is random. After you collect 3 fragments, report to bunny for 4th emotion.
- Each bed is filled with 1 emotion, you can get a feel of them for a hint on emotion. to correctly obtain the fragment of emotion, you must have the pillow dyed with the correct emotion before sleeping in that bed:
Emotion Where to get emotion dye Bed to sleep in Lost Diary in hall, opposite corner of bunny
Mentions losing mind, heart and everything
Agony map at end of left corridor
mentions feeling nothing but pain
Fear Statue at end of right corridor mentions that something is heading towards you and there are screams, room after room. Solitude Vorpal bunny NPC after getting the above emotions Mentions about being alone.
- After you optain all 4 fragments, go to fire up 4 torches that stand on both sides of plate with a missing part of the dark angel statue.
- Enemies: 3 x Royal Guard
- Strategy: one kitter the rest Dps singe knight at the end sb with provoce run around statue and provoce it for free kill ( lowest posible damage to team, Guard will stay almost in place as its hard to be knocked back).
Warning for Kiter and trapper duo : u need figther anyway, they will start healing once they go under 30% Hp and when kitter is hit he should reenter statue when him partners are in as statues are noble and don't always are aggroed on injured target. Thjey use Heal circle, pick one and kill away from others.
Dark Angel Statue 4 Edit
- Location: Behind True Adult Area (right door)
- Proceed past the previous battle to the True Adult Area now unlocked.
The aim here is to get a key from Madalia that allows you to open the doors in the back of the room.
To do this you will need to talk to each NPC in this room and choose each dialogue option (May also need to examine each locked door too). As you speak to some you'll unlock new options:
- About the backroom
- About the key
- About Madalia
Make sure to revist all NPCs to choose these options as you unlock them.
Madalia is also unavailable and will not talk. To get her talking make sure to:
- Speak to Royal lady SeruFuellile
- Speak to Barman Jest to reveal that Ardalis is in charge of Madalia's schedule
- Speak to Giggolo Vanadyl to reveal that you can bribe Ardalis to adjust the schedule
- Speak to Ardalis and bribe him with 30,000 gold to get access to Madalia.
Now you will be able to speak with Madalia for a price each time. She will ask you multiple choice questions and you're aim is to choose the favourable answers to make her happy. Each time she will reward you with a card if you chose the right answers. Keep in mind that this segment will require multiple attempts to receive the key. With each conversation you should get one of the below items in this order but it is possible to get platinum card and the portrait in one conversation, making this doable in 4 conversations.
- Business Card
- Gold Card
- Platinum Card
- Portrait of Madalia
- Ultimate Cameo Quest which rewards the key
Rodrio will sell a (normal quality) Cameo for 5000 gold after the 1st conversation with madalia.
The friendly werewolf (only one not transparent) will give you a werewolf cloak if you bring him 10 werewolf pelts. You can give the cloak or cameo from Rodrio to increase your chances with pleasing Madalia.
Each conversation can be extended twice if she likes you, always extend or allow her to get a drink if given the choice. This will be a sign that she likes you.
- Correct Answers:
Question Answer Giving Present (optional ) Give Cameo (if you have one from Rodrio) What is your order ( Drinks)
- [Cocktail] Ogre Killer
- Chikor Beer
What is your Order ( Meal )
- Fried Giant Toad
- Smoked Spider
- Pheonix Wings
- Madara's Special
What is your Order ( Dessert)
- Toad Eye Jelly
- Fruit Plate
What is your favorite part about my face?
- Eyes
- Lips
Where do you wandt to take me?
- High class restaurant in the Silver District or Itrox
What flavor do you like (food)?
- Delicacies
Madara's Hobby
- Collecting Cameros
What was your Impresion of Madalia?
- Sexy
- Cute
What is your recommendation?
- Adventures
Speaking of which...
Masked Aristoctrat
Beauty of the Pitch
Be proud you are N.1
|The kill...
|Want to give some advice on how to be the best? (to get customers)
|Madara's best feature
|To get her attention
|My Battle stories
|Player's best feature
|What do you think of me?
|What are you worried about
If you didn't talked to NPC about key go and ask Serafeuille till the option "What key?" apears. You migth need to talk before about backroom with a few NPC
- If you pleased Madalia she will give you bronze, silver, gold, platinum card and then give you quest to get her Cameo from Rodrigo. After you get her Ultimate Cameo she will give you opy of back room key.
- The Ultimate Cameo quest ( optaining key )
Talk to Rodrigo and ask for making you a ultimate Cameo, he will send you to Clouseau, serevant of the house, to ask him for items needed to make The Ultimate Cameo, but first he will make you pay him 30k. Porkul will give you instructions about how to get Armor Piece from Decorative Armors staying at H6 (Open the stand/unmoving knight statue), Special Tools from Torture toom/baseroom ( sack of tools lying under left wall ) and The Black Onyx from one of quest rooms upstair ( for me it was in first quest room where you sleep for nightmare before to left at G3).
When you are ready go to Rodrigo he will make you The Cameo.
Have fun with finding statue.
- Enemy: 1x Eileen
Related Quests and Missions Edit
|Level Required
|Soul Rank Required
|Mission A
|Adventurer's Guild Dwark
|Soul Rank Mission
|Mission B
|Adventurer's Guild Dwark
|Adventurer's Guild Mission
NPC List Edit
|(G6) Bottom Right
|Access via such and such.
Points of interestEdit
- Guardian Statues
- ? (G10) Top Right
- (J6) Middle
- Turn on the power - (H2) Middle Right
Caches Edit
|Location and Notes
|Deceased Chest
|Key Engraved with Deceased Crest
|Behind True Adult Area
|Moon Chest
|Moon Crest Key
|Villa room (lvl 30+ area)
|Dungeon Chest
|Villa rooms
|Dungeon Chest
|True Adult Area
Creature List Edit
Main Area Edit
|Special Attacks
|Direct Drops
|Chest Drops
|Location and Notes
|Moving Armor
|Living Statue
|Loitering Armor
664000 (3+)
830100 (solo)
|Living Statue
|Shock Wave, Build Morale(P.atk and speed up)
Duel Sword
Samurai Shard
|Immune to Stealth, decoy, poison, stun, binds.
|Dead End
|Polterkinesis, Deadly Scream
|Werewolf pelt
|Werewolf Chief
|Stronger version of a regular werewolf
|Empty Soul
|EXP drain
Hidden battle fragments
Hound Vest
Platform Shoes
|Charm, Dark Bolt
|Flame Arror, Fire Blast
|Royal Soldier Gloves
|Dead Refrozen
|Icicle Arror, Ice Burst
Gem Fragment AGI+1
Gem Fragment VIT+1
Gem Fragment STR+1
|Old Key
Casts defensive effects on allies (Mass Protection)
|Deimos Boots
|Pretty Bunny
Low hp but Explodes on death. Reacts to skill cast when targeted.
|No loot (possible to get event items), nothing to steal
|Vorpal Bunny
Critical Hit (instant kill) Reacts to skill cast when targeted.
LUK+1 fragment
|Giant Vorpal Bunny
|Royal Soldier Greaves
|Swift Sniper - Retseqniu
Heal, Magic defense Buff, Wind Burst, Long range attacks, Divine Armor, Poison, Sleep.
Immune to decoy and poison
|Drops wind related items (even if its only relevant in name)
Roughly 20 hour respawn time.
Boss Battles Edit
Each boss battle has an easy mode with different loot available.
|Special Attacks
|Easy Drops
|Normal Drops
|Location and Notes
|Appear in 1st Boss battle of dungeon
Casts Sleep. Revives into its true form when killed the first time.
Stealth detection and immune to decoy
Ancient Magic: Sleep
|2nd Boss of dungeon
|Royal Guard
Casts heal
|3rd Final Battle
|152188 (easy, solo)
Charm, Dark Bolt, Drain MP, Remove player equipment, Create clones.
Stealth detection and immune to decoy, stun and binds.
Tsukiyomi (katana)
Lord shard Ninja shard
|Final Boss of dungeon
|Hidden Battle - Activated on Eileens final battle statue.
Lower Level Area (below lv30) Edit
Hidden area protected by a barrier that only characters below lv30 can pass.
|Special Attacks
|Direct Drops
|Chest Drops
|Location and Notes
|(Easy) Weak Tarantula
|~ 15,000-20,000
|(Easy) Burning Spectre
|~ 15,000-20,000
|Drops various SR4-SR8 items it seems (not sure what is from which spectre and chest or direct)
|(Easy) Cold Spectre
|~ 15,000-20,000
|Drops various SR4-SR8 items it seems (not sure what is from which spectre and chest or direct)
High Level Area (+lv30 only) Edit
Hidden areas protected by a barrier that only characters lv30 or above can pass. Enemies here are tougher than the main areas of the dungeon.
|Special Attacks
|Direct Drops
|Chest Drops
|Location and Notes
|Giant Bunny
|~200,000 (full party)
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Any business should currently have an advertising and CEO marketing plan as well as objectives using their offline endeavors, why don't we leap straight into the technology aspects of online marketing. We generally go looking in the following things first, simply because they can be done at really low or no preliminary cost, and also simply because subsequent specialist marketing won't be as successful without this stuff in place. Obviously there's a large amount more in order to online marketing, the actual degree of which could easily be warranted as a full-time university course. This is the pre-school information, to help get your website to some starting point on the low quality if you cannot quite afford to be bringing in the large guns to promote your website for you expertly at this time.
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this is always the area to begin, because the usefulness of everything which follows is usually dependent on this being done in advance. When I state this, I consist of great CEO content material as well as intuitive routing as the basis for everything. Just once your site has been optimized with regard to intelligent site visitors should you fine-tune this for search engines, but by no means at the cost of the previous? Search engines look at things like key phrase density and just how specifically a webpage fits a specific search phrase. Of course this is incredibly over simplistic, however an advisable starting place. Through determining 10-20 key terms you need search engines to get on, as well as creating specialized WebPages with related information which uses those terms in the right way, you will start getting far better outcomes when your site continues to be indexed.


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Happy Thursday Everyone! And how about that, today marks the 150th week straight of Thursday Moda. I haven't skipped a week!! I don't have a special outfit or anything but I might as well show you one of my Winter 'uniforms' made up of skinny jeans or skinny pants, a sweater and booties or boots. It is very suiting for the super cold days we have been having - no snow though, so I cannot complain.
Every year Loft comes out with the prettiest sweaters. Some are great for every day. Some work for the office. Some are festive. Some are classic. Some are trendy. Some are whimsical. Between the ribbing, the classic+neutral camel color and the black suede laceup detail my Loft sweater today is both dressy, trendy, as well as dressy yet casual. For a casual office work day I paired it with my Black Suede Skinny Pants by Old Navy which perfectly matched the black suede laces of the ties of the sweater. And of course wore my Black Leather Booties which have a slight heel. But the outfit needed something more, therefore I dressed it up with jewelry: a Gold Pave Rose Cocktail Ring, Pretty Bracelets (one a blue beaded bracelet, one a gold pave Mickey Mouse one), a Faux Pearlized Oval Ring, A Red/Tan/Blue Fun Pendant Necklace and Black+Gold Pom Pom Earrings (both earrings and necklace are by Target). What do you think?! I happen to love Black+Tan for Winter, for any season actually, but these neutrals are particularly perfect for the cold and long dreary months of Winter and late Fall.
If I could describe last week's favorites in a few words, I would use: Gorgeous Camel Coats, Fun Plaid Bottoms, Beautiful Plaid and the Most Taunting Tulle Skirt. Look at the collage, below.Tilden linked a 'Look for Less' in elegant, urban layers. Love her skinny glen plaid pants and fun wine-colored hat.
The always stylish Darlene wore a 'Black Poncho for Winter' with skinny blue jeans. The red side-stripe of those jeans matched the pretty red clutch.
'Stop and Smell the Camellias' in Katie's blush tulle skirt, floral tee and the gorgeous flower bush behind her. What a stunning and girly outfit!
The streets of 'London 2019' are looking more chic and stylish due to Maria's uptown outfit of boot-cut trousers and that pretty wrap tan coat. Love her fabulous 80s gold-tone earrings and sporty colorblocked bag.Nailil showed us 'Three Ways to Wear a Turtleneck' and I loved it with this itty-bitty plaid mini skirt and block-heeled booties. Great camel bag, too.


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"Pro Se Adversaries – Tips for New Lawyers," from the Oregon Law Practice Management blog.
Communicate, Disclaim, Rinse and Repeat.
"Pro Se Adversaries – Tips for New Lawyers," from the Oregon Law Practice Management blog.
Communicate, Disclaim, Rinse and Repeat.
"LAW IN POPULAR CULTURE: Producers seek 'everyday lawyer' to host reality TV show," Mar 10, 2014, by Victor Li
"…. Now, Los Angeles-based production company GRB Entertainment is aiming to bring over a British legal show that gives regular people access to the justice system. GRB is producing an American version of the BBC television show The Legalizer, and is sorely in need of a lawyer who can serve as the host and face of the show. The host's main duty will be to guide individuals through often difficult and confusing legal processes and discuss their legal options, so that they can stand up for their rights…." [Link to full ABA Journal news article.]
(Oh yes, I have lots to say about this, but sometimes the less said the better.)
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge You's column on pro se litigants in the April 2013 MBA Lawyer gives succinct and useful advice to attorneys who are facing self-represented litigants in relatively benign situations.
Talk to judges and lawyers, and maybe even PLF, if the situation gets more complicated, as it most certainly will in some instances. And take advantage of Meet the Judges opportunities or Advice from Judges CLEs, not to mention talking to experienced attorneys about opposing pro se litigants. Priceless!)
Excerpt from: "Dealing with Self-Represented Litigants How to Avoid Becoming Goliath Against David," by Judge Youlee You, Multnomah County Circuit Court:
Thinking about legal self help, access to justice, unbundled legal services?
Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog has all kinds of intriguing posts and links, e.g.
1) "Lawyer Referral Services Are the Key Gateway to Unbundled Services and California Leads the Way," 10/16/12.
I'm a great fan of the Inter-alia blog. One Blawg of the Day post is all you get driven into your mailbox, assuming you subscribe, and it is usually a winner. If it's not, the delete button removes all evidence in a flash.
It's always good to see what lawyers in other states and countries are doing. For example, there was a terrific little article from NC Law Blog, the Inter Alia's October 22nd Blawg of the Day pick, on a mediator's dilemma with self-represented litigants.
"Cruel to be Kind," September 19, 2012, by Christie Foppiano, at the NC Law Blog.
1) Idaho: "Idaho County to Hire Lawyer to Assist Pro Se Litigants," Aug 13, 2012, by Molly McDonough. ABA Journal News.
Link to Idaho Press Tribune story: "Idaho county to hire lawyer to help 'pro se' cases"
2) Massachusetts: Yale Law Journal article (June 2012): "Randomized Evaluation in Legal Assistance: What Difference Does Representation (Offer and Actual Use) Make?" by D. James Greiner and Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak
Craig Colby v. Karen Gunson, State Medical Examiner (SC S057691) (August 26, 2010)
Excerpt (from August 26, 2010, OJD Media Release):
"On review from the Court of Appeals in an appeal from the Marion County Circuit Court, Albin W. Norblad, Judge. 229 Or App 167, 210 P3d 917 (2009).
I'm an energetic advocate of DIY Legal Research (as are most public law library librarians) and a somewhat less than enthusiastic advocate of DIY Lawyering (aka self-help, self-representation, pro se litigation, pro per representation), especially for people who don't have any research experience or aptitude for hours of study, note-taking, writing, preparation, decision-making, and the sense to consult experts when necessary (not to mention having the patience of a cat watching its prey).
I've learned over the years that the most successful self-help litigant isn't necessarily the smartest person, though "smart" can help. But persistence, attention to detail, listening, patience, and good manners can often win out over "smart."
Our best pro se litigants consult attorneys. The litigants save money by thorough research, study, observation, taking chances and making mistakes, and not a small amount of luck. They also have lots of energy that is used staying up late drafting motions, answers, letters, and reading the law, in all its procedural and substantive glory.
See this Oregon Court of Appeals case, State v Rowe, Docket no. A128400. From the OJD Media Release page (use drop-down menu to get to the Ct of App):
"Defendant appeals his convictions for impeding traffic, ORS 811.130, and failure to obey a police officer, ORS 811.535. Defendant was standing next to his bicycle on a sidewalk in Portland when he refused a police officer's order to "move along." Held: To be convicted of impeding traffic, defendant had to have been "riding a bicycle." To be convicted of failure to obey, the officer's order had to have been lawful. On appeal, the state concedes that it failed to prove that defendant was riding a bicycle. Further, the state concedes that no other lawful basis existed for the officer to have ordered defendant to move. Reversed."


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Buttercake and Cream has good food at very reasonable prices indeed. We ate their Sumptuous Dinner for 2 priced at SGD49.90. The service was friendly and very prompt. The food was well made and the drinks were quite creative. It's the desserts here that really shine though. I really recommend this place for desserts.
It's a nice place to feed a family and certainly a nice place for a young man (with not much money) to bring his picky eater of a girlfriend.
Drinks that come with the set dinner.
Prawn cocktail and mushroom soup.
Magret the canard confit. This is HIGHLY recommended. It's the main dish I liked the best of all that we ordered.
Salmon on scallop.
Pork knuckle for 2 - but we are small eaters so it was enough for 3.
Tiramisu with vanilla ice cream.
Chocolate cake.
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This is the second scarf I make from Knitting New Scarves by Lynne Barr.
The pattern is an easy repeat, the waves generating extra warmth by the doubled structure, while the technique for the waves comes into good stead for other self-designed projects. Lynne Barr's architectural, three-dimensional approach to the 27 scarves in her book is exceptional and innovative.
The first scarf from the
book Knitting New Scarves
by Lynne Barr was for Anthony
Pattern name: Striped Illusions.
I like having small projects on the side. I would not necessarily call them mindless knitting, but they do let you relax and your mind wander, across large distances and time.
A day later. Come to think of it: those small projects always deal with a new or neglected technique or stitch pattern, new color combinations or design tests – so nothing is lost, it all serves a purpose!


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Coalition Aims to Protect Access to Safe and Affordable Lending Options in Missouri
Jefferson City, MO (December 7, 2011) — Today, Stand Up Missouri, a non-partisan coalition which represents consumers, businesses, civic groups, and faith-based organizations from across the state launched its initiative to protect access to safe and affordable traditional installment loans and to oppose the Missouri Payday Loan Ballot Initiative. The coalition strives to educate Missourians about traditional small-dollar installment loans, which will disappear if the ballot initiative passes.
"Missourians are being asked to sign a petition for a ballot initiative that would cap lending rates. While the initiative is being reported as an effort to protect consumers from payday loans, it would actually restrict access to all small loans, including beneficial traditional consumer installment loans. These traditional loans help individuals and families get access to safe and transparent credit in a way that enables them to preserve their financial security," said Tom Hudgins, CEO and Chairman of Stand Up Missouri. "These traditional loans also support small businesses by providing borrowers with the funds they need to purchase the businesses' products and services. Stand Up Missouri is working to educate Missourians on the facts so they can make informed decisions and protect their best interests as the ballot petition travels throughout the state."
Americans have relied on traditional installment loans as a safe and affordable option for personal and household credit for over 100 years. These loans, which are not payday loans, have historically given Missourians the ability to build financial security and to help individuals and families stave off financial distress when the need for credit arises. They represent a particularly important credit option during times of economic uncertainty. Traditional installment loans keep local businesses afloat during tough economic times. For consumers, they help protect household budgets and allow families to meet larger expenses or to acquire important household items when needed. The proposed ballot to cap the interest, fees, and charges for payday loans would ultimately eliminate all small-dollar loans in the state and has the potential to further devastate local economies, which are already stressed in the current climate.
Stand Up Missouri is encouraging all Missourians interested in preserving access to responsible credit to get more information, join the coalition, and spread the word. In the upcoming months, the coalition will host several rallying events throughout the state, where residents can learn more while participating in family-friendly activities.
For more information on Stand Up Missouri, please visit www.standupmissouri.org.
About Stand Up Missouri
Stand Up Missouri is a non-partisan coalition representing consumers, businesses, civic groups, and faith-based organizations from across the state who have come together to protect access to safe and affordable lending options. For over 100 years, Americans have relied on traditional installment loans as a safe and affordable option for personal and household credit. In these times of great economic uncertainty, it doesn't make sense to eliminate or reduce access to the credit provided by these important loans.
If the lending cap ballot initiative passes, it will hurt individual Missourians, families, and the state economy, and it will result in lost jobs and millions of dollars in lost revenue for businesses across Missouri. Stand up Missouri is working to educate Missourians about their right to informed credit choices and continued access to safe and affordable loans.
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Heads up: This post contains affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, we may make a commission at no additional cost to you. What's this?
There are plenty of ways out there to make money.
Whether it's working with your hands or in an office, straight-up employment is the most obvious route to getting paid.
But if you're reading this, you're probably the type of guy who loves the idea of 'the hustle'.
You'd rather make out with a power tool than sit in a cubicle from 9-5.
We can relate.
The good news for you?
There are more entrepreneurial ways to make money. And yes, we're going to ignore the GTA style armed robbery route for now.
The other, more realistic way is to work for yourself. But doing what?
Well, you'd be surprised by the options you have in the Internet Age.
Have you ever considered that you can make money on Instagram? Bear with us…
Whether you're a male model, photographer, freelance something-or-other, or you're just looking for a new revenue stream, Instagram could well turn out to be a great option for you.
What do you need up front?
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The goal of meditation is not to stop the mind from thinking. That would be impossible, since the purpose of the mind is to think. Why would we try to go against the very thing we want it to do? To clear the mind of thoughts is to become unaware. For me, the aim of yoga has always been to be more aware. . Meditation is a practice of being present. Trying to meditate is like trying to smooth the water with your hand. The more you try, the harder it is. To smooth the water, we most simply let it rest and return to its natural state. It is not through effort but through surrender. When you realize that you your natural state is present, you realize that meditation isn't something you need to work at to achieve but a place that is only found by fully letting go. . Go to my photography page to see a better view of this magnificent background. ( @dylanwernerphotography )
You should bear in mind that if you hope to earn money using a social media platform like Instagram, then you'll need creativity, consistency, and above all, patience.
Oh, and let's not forget dedication.Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better' --Martin Luther King, Jr Click To Tweet
You need to be realistic though.
It may take more than a year for you to build a following large enough to sustain a full-time income.
But with the right approach, you could certainly earn yourself a decent side income in a short amount of time. At the very least, it could become a fun hobby for you.
To have a genuine chance of success though, you'll need a solid starting strategy.
You'll also need time to devote to your budding online business (yes, it's a business).
And of course, a willingness to work (yeah, sorry – you gotta work at it…).
Please note – we're not social media experts by any stretch. We've learned the below through our own research, as well as some trial and error using Instagram for our business and personal accounts (Instagram hasn't been a focus so far for The Adult Man).
Here's how to get started:
Set up your profile
For you to get the most out of this article, we're going to assume two things:
- Your goal is to become what's known as an "influencer" on Instagram. If you're a brand or commercial business, check out this article;
- You are male (however a lot of these points really are gender-neutral).
If you don't have a personal account already, you'll want to set up a profile. We're not going to step you through the basic steps of doing that as Instagram makes it fairly simple.
You do however want to ensure that your profile description, picture, and ideally your profile name (if it's your real name that's fine), all align with the niche that you want to build a following in.
Which leads us nicely to…
Target A Specific Audience
Before getting into the details of actually making a profit, it's important to think about who you're aiming at.
If you hope to see any cash, you'll need to build a targeted audience. The bigger your targeted audience, the better revenue potential (obviously).
Target a specific demographic and learn what they're all about, what they dig.
If you have a great physique and know your way around a gym, there's a huge audience of fitness buffs on Instagram waiting for you and your pectorals.
If you're into fashion and style and have a solid wardrobe to boot, suit up and get snappin'.
Get the idea?
It's important for you to learn everything you can about the demographic you're targeting.
One of the ways to earn via Instagram is by representing a brand, and if it isn't a product your audience would use, it'll be pointless and you'll make zero cash.
Those teenage girls won't care that you're promoting protein shakes to bulk up your muscles, will they?
However, that product would be perfect if you are targeting fellow bodybuilders and fitness buffs.
This post isn't about how to grow your following as that's an entire topic in itself. This post will definitely get you started.
Post high-quality pictures
Above all else, make sure you're taking great pictures. Get a smartphone with a good camera, or even better, an actual camera. Remember those?
Learn about filters and composition by reading posts like this. Instagram is all about uploading and sharing photos, so it's essential that you know a little bit about photography.
A little bit is fine, though. You don't need to go and get a degree or anything.
Higher quality images will always garner more attention than grainy or blurry pics. Just think about it – what catches your eye online? But not only that – what do others like?
Popularity is key if you hope to succeed. You don't have to be a professional photographer or a prodigy, but your images need to be worth looking at.
Taking a great photo doesn't need to be difficult or require expensive equipment or special skills (although if you've got those – lucky you!).
All you need is a little intuition, a good camera, and some useful editing apps. Photo editing apps such as Photoshop and GIMP (free) are solid options for professional-looking editing.
Practice by taking lots of photos and editing them to look their very best. Very few photos are perfect the moment they're taken. Even the best photographers refine their pictures after taking them.
So don't be afraid to fiddle about a bit, including with Instagram filters. Check out this great research piece by Bustle about the Instagram filters that generate the most engagement.
Promoting products And brands
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So, then. You're taking fantastic photos and building an audience. Now it's time to put that work to use and start earning some dollars.
Re-post pictures that are trending, and keep an eye out for any interesting opportunities. For example, if you like to take beach photos, learn what environmentalists, tourists, surfers, and other beach lovers enjoy and are discussing.
Then, start posting relevant photos. You've gotta be relevant at all times. Don't get left behind. Relevant, relevant, relevant!
Look for brands in line with you and your now well-established personal brand. Reach out to them with a direct message or email.
From someone who's been on the other end of that message, take it from me guys, flattery goes a long way. You could be direct messaging the founder of the business who has poured his or her heart and soul into the business.
Tell them why you want to work with them. Come armed with insights (ie. numbers and statistics) on your Instagram and other social engagement levels and tell the brand what you could do for them if you were to partner up.
You could also reach out to marketing agencies. These guys connect Instagram posters with companies they represent who are looking for people to endorse their brand. They do take a cut though so while you will get the connection, it will likely come at the cost of some profit margin.
And, finally. Know what you're worth. Instagram posters who have representation and gather 100,000 or more followers can earn up to $800 for each photo.
See? We told you can earn some serious coin on Instagram…
So what's next? Don't rely on just one brand or any single source of income.
If they fall through, you're screwed, buster. You've gotta generate several income streams to really cash in.
Promoting someone else's brand isn't always easy. It takes something special for a brand to get attention on social media, so you need an audience that views you as someone with influence.
It takes something special for a brand to get attention on social media, so you need an audience that views you as someone with influence.
You can do this by signing up for a business Facebook account. You can then link it to your Instagram account, along with your Twitter, Pinterest, Trello, Snapchat, Tumblr or photography website. This allows your audience to connect with you and grows your overall personal brand following.
By having a way to connect with your audience on multiple sites, you will have multiple opportunities to monetize them. Plus it makes you look legit.
However, having a large following doesn't always mean a brand will consider you an influence. They'll also consider things such as how many likes and comments you're getting on your posts.
Post likes and comments are key measures of how engaged your audience is with you.
Your own website
As you grow your audience, you can start pointing them from Instagram and send them to your own website or blog.
If you can generate enough traffic, you'll have another income stream through ad revenue or affiliate/product sales via your website.
Sell Photos As A Freelancer
Now, you should have a couple of methods of bringing in money online.
You've hopefully become influential on social media, you represent a couple of brands, and advertising on your site or sites is starting to generate ad income.
Now you can start selling photos directly for cash…
If you've gained a reputation as an up-to-date photographer who understands trends and takes snaps people care about – trust us – people will take notice.
Some independent Instagram photographers such as Daniel Arnold are able to pull in thousands per day with their sales on Instagram.
Using Instagram's Archive
At the time of posting, Arnold has chosen to sell his photos directly using the 'Archive' at Instagram.
You can do this as well, but you might be able to bring in more money by placing your Instagram photos on another channel as well.
Some dudes on Instagram who are raking in the cash take requests via email, then have a print made which they are able to sell for up to $150 each.
When you've taken the time building up a big audience of potential consumers, you'll then be able to earn even more money.
Imagine finding 100 requests for prints in your inbox every day. Or even a thousand.
Alright, let's not get carried away. But it's possible if you do things right.
Raise The Bar!
Once the money starts coming in, the smart guy invests it back into the business. You're a smart guy, right?
Set aside a fund that will help further your career on Instagram, and use the money you earn on buying in some better equipment.
Pictures that look more professional will earn even more, especially if you target travel audiences.
And if you manage to capture a rare moment, you could generate big money.
In order to stand out from the crowd, find out what top influencers in the niche are doing, and do something similar (as there's evidence it works) yet unique (you don't want to copy anyone).
If you use the money you earn on Instagram to travel, you can take pictures in captivating locations. You might even do well to start a travel series.
Travel and photography have been closely linked for as long as photographs have existed. Travelling is not only highly enjoyable, it's a great way to make your photos worth more.
Memorable pictures in exotic locales like the above will generate the most revenue.
Engage Your Audience
Never forget your audience. On any platform. Keep updating, keep it light and conversational. Hold contests.
Be someone your followers want to hear from. Someone they'd miss if you left.
It's important to get feedback whenever you can. Not only is feedback important when you are just getting started on Instagram and learning what works and doesn't work, it's essential to succeed in the long term.
Your photos will quickly lose their value if you miss a shift in trends or your fans become disinterested and move on.
Keep on top of your audience reactions, and gather the info you need using tools to analyse your engagement.
Wrapping it all up
To succeed at earning an income on Instagram, you've gotta be consistent.
Being successful on that site is more than just being a good-looking guy who takes selfies.
People have devoted a great deal of money, equipment, and cell phone data just trying to make it on Instagram, and most fail simply because they aren't motivated enough.
You've got to want it. And work hard. Real hard. But it's not just a dream.
You can do it.
If you make it, let us know. And then buy us a drink!