Thursday, March 10, 2005

Updates from south of potomac

Katy has been accepted into a show at the Philadelphia City Hall, so we are making the trek north this weekend. Katy is to drop her art off Sat. morning at City Hall at 9 AM. Later the same day, I am taking Erik to the Art Museum to see the Dali show. The interesting thing here is that 21 years ago, I took him to see the Chagall show at the museum. It's a nice tradition to continue, I believe.

My own experiences down here are mixed. Mostly a nice mix but Virginia is bureaucratically challenged and well, it's a southern state and they think oddly about things down here. I am working two jobs nah, "gotta go to work" (thinking of the Jamaicans on In Living Color) plus classes. It's a great networking opportunity and opens the whole new region to me. I am involved, in one capacity or another in 5 arts activities now including starting another 501 c 3 nonprofit with 4 fellow Arts Management grad students.

We busy, yo. The press is paying for itself. We published Anne Blonstein, an innovative poet who has lived in Bern Switzerland for the past 20 odd years but is still primarily English....either way, we are now an International Press. Our contests are starting to get their sea legs and generally we are having more fun this year then when we took it over in 2003. More poets, more books, more money. We have yet to really market or advertise aggresssively, but I was just reading how "small" the first printing of The Da Vinci Code (85,000) was. It has now sold over 25 MILLION copies. That's absurd.

Anyway, we will be buzzing through. To check our availability, please call our cell phones. (we don't leave home without them)

steve & the amazingly talented Katy Jean

1 Comments:

At 11:01 PM, Blogger Bruce May said...

CONGRATS to Katy and thanks for the great update. We visited Uncle Bill and he is now at home and seems to be doing pretty well. Bought some pasties in Pen Argyl. We are in Berks this weekend and hope to do some jazz.

 

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