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Links for Tonight November 14, 2006

Filed under: links of interest — lorilyn @ 3:27 pm

Here are a couple of reference pages for those of you blogging with Typepad and WordPress:

Typepad knowledge base
WordPress support

Here is a nice post about blogging kindness with a link to a participation: 
Pound Cake
Here are a couple of blog listings:

Globe of Blogs

Blog Wise

Here are a couple of group participation blogs:

Poetry Thursday

Sunday Scribblings

Here’s a list of memes:

The Daily Meme

 

A Book Worth a Look November 10, 2006

Filed under: links of interest — lorilyn @ 9:01 pm
 

Election Blogger Party November 7, 2006

Filed under: links of interest — lorilyn @ 8:37 pm
 

Molly Peacock at the Carnegie Center November 7, 2006

Filed under: Carnegie Center news — lorilyn @ 12:27 am

NEW BOOKS BY GREAT WRITERS: MOLLY PEACOCK
Thursday, Nov. 9
6:30 pm: Reading and book signing
7:30 pm: Workshop: The Poet’s Spoken Voice: Reading Poetry Aloud from Inside
the Poem

The Carnegie Center’s 2006-2007 New Books by Great Writers series will continue with a reading and workshop led by poet Molly Peacock, author of Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems and editor of The Private I: Privacy in a Public World. The reading and book signing are FREE and open to the public.
The workshop is $25; subscribers to the New Books by Great Writers series may attend this and as many forthcoming workshops as desired for a one-time discounted price of $100. Funded in part by the Kentucky Arts Council, the series will continue through spring 2007 with workshops and readings by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor, children’s author Andrea Cheng, Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker, poet and fiction writer Susan Richards, poet and essayist Anne Shelby, and current Kentucky Poet Laureate Sena Jeter Naslund, who will read alongside her brother, novelist John Sims Jeter. To subscribe to the series or learn more about this and other learning opportunities at the Carnegie Center, call (859) 254-4175 or visit
www.carnegieliteracy.org.

 

Blogging Communities November 7, 2006

Filed under: links of interest — lorilyn @ 12:14 am

Check out a new way to blog at Vox.

Read this account of “Ripples of bitterness” at Electrolicious.

Group blogs and blogging communities:
Gather
Zaadz
Mama says Om
Mommybloggers
BlogAsheville

blogs that cook:
baking sheet
101 cookbooks
ben bakes a cake

vegan lunch box
52 cupcakes

arts & crafts blogs:
daretodream
in the garden of pink shadows
drawn!
paper thoughts

 

Images and Sidebar Fun October 24, 2006

Filed under: links of interest — lorilyn @ 12:10 pm
 

Some Authors who Blog October 18, 2006

Filed under: links of interest — lorilyn @ 3:48 pm

Joshilyn Jackson at Faster Than Kudzu

Jancee Dunn

Aimee Nezhukumatathil (poet)

Michelle Cunnah, Whitney Gaskell, Alesia Holliday, Beth Kendrick, Eileen Rendahl, Lani Diane Rich at Literary Chicks

Sara Zarr at Stories of a Girl

Neil Gaiman

 

Bloggers to Authors October 18, 2006

Filed under: links of interest — lorilyn @ 2:24 pm
 

Erik Reece October 17, 2006

Filed under: Carnegie Center news — lorilyn @ 8:49 pm

NEW BOOKS BY GREAT WRITERS: ERIK REECE AT THE CARNEGIE CENTER
Thursday, Oct. 19th

6:30 pm: reading and book signing - FREE and open to the public
7:30 pm: workshop: Using Investigative Journalism in the Lyric Personal Essay - $25; registration required The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning 251 West Second Street, Lexington

Author Erik Reece will continue the Carnegie Center’s 2006-2007 New Books by Great Writers series with a workshop and reading from LOST MOUNTAIN: A YEAR IN THE VANISHING WILDERNESS, his eyewitness account of mountaintop removal in Eastern Kentucky. Following a FREE reading and book signing, work directly with the author to explore techniques of nature writing, investigative journalism, and the lyric personal essay. The cost of the workshop is $25; subscribers to the New Books by Great Writers series may attend this and as many forthcoming workshops as desired for a one-time discounted price of $100. Funded in part by the Kentucky Arts Council, the series will continue through spring 2007 with workshops and readings by poet Molly Peacock, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor, children¹s author Andrea Cheng, Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker, novelist Susan Richards, poet and essayist Anne Shelby, and current Kentucky Poet Laureate Sena Jena Naslund, who will read alongside her brother, novelist John Sims Jeter. To subscribe to the series or learn more about this and other learning opportunities at the Carnegie Center, call (859) 254-4175 or visit www.carnegieliteracy.org,

 

Dear Bloggers, October 12, 2006

Filed under: weekly check-in — lorilyn @ 6:24 pm

I want to thank you for you understanding about our class this week. My brother, sister-in-law and nieces are all doing well. I have tried to reach each of you by e-mail, but a couple of addresses don’t seem to be working. I know your time is valuable, and last week’s class will not be lost! I will make arrangements for private sessions or consultations with each of you, according to your needs and how you’d like to proceed. Feel free to contact me, or we can talk on Tuesday.