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Issue 33, Vol. 07  © AUGUST 10, 2007  Ezine:  ISSN:  2237-65

 

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PUBLISHER &

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S CORNER

BY ROSANNE CATALANO

 Hello dear readers. Welcome new members! I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for your continued support, because this December will be the three (3) year anniversary of this magazine! I can’t believe three years have passed already; guess it’s true when they say that time flies when you’re having fun. Although this is early notification, I’m happy to tell you I will be publishing a “special anniversary edition” on December 10th, 2007. It’s a “surprise” though so stay tuned for more details about the anniversary edition.

 

However, with my anniversary news there is also sad news. I must inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances Nancy Currie will no longer be the executive editor of this magazine. Her new position will be as the webmistress, web designer and my assistant for my website only. This means Nancy will still be uploading the magazine every month but she will no longer write her editor’s column, nor will she do any of the job responsibilities involved with the executive editors position.

 

However there is more good news with the sad…

I know that I said in last month’s issue: “and that’s it for a while with my self-promotion” but I’m sorry that I cannot contain my good news! Which is that an author-interview with little ‘ole me will be featured on the “Time With Tannia” website for the entire month of October (http://timewithtannia.tripod.com)!

 

The “Time With Tannia” website was founded and created by Tannia Ortiz-Lopes, a published author and poet, who is located in Germany. Tannia features a different published author every month on her wonderful website. She will be interviewing me in October about my writing, this magazine and my latest book “Mirrored Images”. How cool is that? I’m pretty excited about my second interview appearing on Tannia’s site (from October 1st through October 31st, 2007)! I say second because my first author-interview was published in Carol Roach’s “Storytime Tapestry” on July 8th, 2007. Carol Roach’s interview of me was originally meant to be published in Wt~In Spirit’s print magazine. However, due to the magazine’s demise she published my interview in her own internet-based newsletter instead. And I’m forever grateful to her for doing so… thank you so much Carol!

 

Be sure to read Tannia’s interview with me on her website, “Time With Tannia”, from October 1st through the 31st, 2007 at http://timewithtannia.tripod.com (I will be Tannia’s “Featured Author” for the month). In the meantime, do check out other great authors featured on “Time With Tannia” at: timewithtannia.tripod.com! 

 
 

Now for All the Poets Out There!: check out this exciting poetry contest the New Mexico State Poetry Society is having again in September! Contributing writer Carol Dee Meeks is a member and sent this information for all to enter… I wish you all much luck! I myself am going to try to enter the September 20th contest… however, if I’m too busy here, I will definitely enter the November 20th one instead.

 

 
High Prairie Poets New Mexico State Poetry Society Bi-Monthly Contests Open to All Poets!
Next Contest Is September 20, 2007
 
 
ELIGIBILITY:  All Poets; U.S. and Worldwide. 
Poems must be in English, aligned on left margin of paper, (Do Not Center Poem on Page). 12 point font is a must.
 
 
Titles of Poems Should Look like this:
 
“Life as a Jelly Bean”
 
Not Like: “LIFE AS A JELLY BEAN”.
 
 
DEADLINE:  Postmarked by the 20th of the month.
 
LINE LIMIT:  At this time there is a 25 line limit. 
 
ENTRY FEE: $2.00 entry fee for the first poem and $1.00 for each additional poem.  No email entries.
 
 
PRIZES: $20.00 WINNER...TWO HM’S...NO POEMS PUBLISHED.
 
SUBMISSION:   Please send two (2) copies of each poem (poet‘s choice), ONE BLANK and the other with NAME, ADDRESS and TITLE OF
POEM. Do not send cover letter or biography. One poem on a page, 66 characters per line. No Themes. No Obscene language.
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION: By the tenth of the following month, IF you include an SASE. Always include a “SASE”.
 
 
 
JUDGING: Qualified, blind judging; Judge’s decisions are final.  
 
NEXT CONTEST:  September 20, 2007.
 
ADDRESS:  
Send all entries to: Carol Dee Meeks, 2010 W. Bullock Ave, Artesia, New Mexico  88210. Any entries not following these Guidelines will be
disqualified.
 
 
 
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Something new and different every month starting with this month’s issue – 
Please enjoy my new column, and “thank Sandra Hoynacki”, a contributing writer for this magazine, for giving me the wonderful idea to start this
particular column… thank you Sandy!
 
 
 
NEW! OUTSTANDING PERSON(S) IN THEIR COMMUNITY:
 
 
In honor of his outstanding life and war service, the father of contributing writer, Sandra Hoynacki, Jesse W. Allen, was written
about in the following article-document now published in the Congressional Record for the Senate of the United States of America. It was
written by a very well known businessman (located in Las Vegas, USA; where Mr. Allen lives) who felt Mr. Allen’s life and war history should be
included in the Senate Congressional Record for Outstanding War Veterans and Citizens. Although today Jesse W. Allen is 84 years old,
he was diagnosed recently with prostate cancer and has undergone numerous surgeries and treatment for his cancer.

The following article-document is from the Congressional Record section of LOUISdb.org; sent in by Mr. Allen’s daughter Sandra

Hoynacki:

 

 

 

 

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