Cantara Chistopher’s Interview in Subtle Tea

Spring is always about seeing your way through the cold, short days of winter and building strength, energy, and new ideas in the new warmth of spring. In shifting your thoughts to brighter days, check out Cantara Christopher’s interview in the hip online magazine Subtle Tea. The interview will be launched on April 1, 2008.

Cantara is a forward thinking publisher of Cantarabooks and Cantaraville. In the interview, she discuss vanity publishing, print-on demand, and why Cantarabooks is  the future of the smll press model. She discusss publishing Stephen Gyllenhaal and the dynamics behind his poetry, her brief career in the “golden age” of porn, and he plans for the future. Check it out after you grab you first breath of fresh spring air.

Magical Realism Blog Launches

If you click on this title you will go to the Big Blog of Marvel, which deals with the slippery and sometimes disputed ideas that are and surrounds magical realism. The purpose as described on the blog: Commentary from a cluster of literary writers, educators, scholars and other thoughtful folk interested in literary magical realism. If you are interested in this topic or just curious… check it out.

Welcome Kelly Ripley Feller to Miranda

Miranda Literary Magazine would like to welcome Kelly Ripley Feller as a new media correspondent. Read her article “Riding The Wave: An Ongoing Look at how Social Media is Transforming Politics : The Power of the People: US Presidential Politics in Second Life.” Kelly has enjoyed a fulfilling and diverse professional career managing marketing and communications strategies for organizations that include non-profit, natural foods, healthcare, and high technology. She has worked with a variety of technology companies including Intel, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Intuit, SAS Software, Symantec, and IBM. Today she manages social media programs for a Fortune 100 technology company and writes about social media, marketing, business, Second Life, and politics in her dwindling spare time. An enthusiastic live music lover and classical singer, Kelly performs at local schools and senior homes and is a hospice volunteer for veterans. She has been active in Second Life for over a year and a half—the equivalent of several lifetimes in that virtual realm. She lives outside of Portland, OR with her husband and son, and holds a BA in Communications and Political Science from the University of Michigan.

The Author’s Second Life Avatar “Cindy”

 

 

Miranda Welcomes Aaliyah Miller as a New Writer

We are pleased to have Aaliyah Miller as a writer and reviewer. Please see her movie review Inside the Outsider.

Aaliyah Miller believes the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. This belief has kept her grounded as an artist and professional working in projects that encompass theatre, television, and film. Learning to multi-task as a “jack of trades” in these three fields has not only deepened her commitment to the arts, it has elevated her personal drive to achieve success.

Aaliyah is a member of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, her script Finding Patience was selected for a staged reading at HBO Inc. in New York City (December, 2007). In 2005, her short script Out of the Box received Honorable Mention from Hollywood Creative Connection, a resource for screenwriters pursuing a career in film and television.

Aaliyah’s credits in theatre, television and film include Moonshine (2006 Official Sundance selection), Father Panik Village: The Untold Story (2005), and Health for Children (2004), an educational video series for children in grades K-5, and Who’s Sarah Davis? (2003), an off-Broadway play.

Aaliyah also works full-time as a public relations specialist with Casey Family Services, the direct service arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the nation’s largest foundation solely dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children and families. As a public relations professional, she implements media strategies and outreach campaigns for local and national public relations efforts, coordinates in-house video productions and is a contributing writer for Casey’s print and online publications.

Jennifer Kronovet Is Awarded The 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize

Rochester, NY — Jennifer Kronovet is the 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry
Prize winner for her first collection of poems, Awayward. Jean
Valentine selected this manuscript from 17 semi-finalists and will
write a Foreword to the published collection. Kronovet will receive a
$1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in
March, 2009, in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series.

An annual competition, the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is open to
poets who have yet to publish a full-length- book collection of
poetry. This year’s finalists were XING by Debora Kuan; Good Question
by Sally Fisher; and Point Everywhere by Patrick Culliton. Jennifer
Kronovet’s winning manuscript was chosen from a field of 908 entries.
Jean Valentine says, “Jennifer Kronovet’s poems in Awayward are so
surprising and compelling and beautiful, so intelligent and felt.
Kronovet uses simple words and works at a mysterious depth, one we can
enter with gladness.”

BOA Editions will be accepting manuscripts for the eighth annual A.
Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize between August 1, 2008 and November 30,
2008. An entry form and fee are required. The guidelines for the
2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize will be announced on
www.boaeditions. org later this year.

Jennifer Kronovet’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The
Colorado Review, Crowd, Harp & Altar, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry
Northwest, A Public Space, and other journals. She is the co-founder
and co-editor of CIRCUMFERENCE, a journal of poetry in translation.
She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in
St. Louis, an MA in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University
Teachers College, and a BA in English from the University of Chicago.
Jennifer wrote many of the poems in Awayward while living in Beijing,
China. She now resides in her native New York City.

Jean Valentine was born in Chicago, earned her B.A. from Radcliffe
College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She won the
Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965.
Her most recent book is Little Boat (Wesleyan University Press,
2007). Her previous collection, Door in the Mountain: New and
Collected Poems 1965 – 2003, was the winner of the 2004 National Book
Award for Poetry.

BOA Editions, Ltd., the Rochester-based Pulitzer-Prize- and National-
Book-Award-winning publishing house, received a 2001 New York State
Governor’s Arts Award for overall artistic excellence. Now in its
32nd year, BOA has published more than 190 books of American poetry,
poetry in translation, and fiction.

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For More Information, Contact:
Peter Conners
BOA Editions, Ltd.
250 North Goodman Street
Suite 306
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 546-3410