Checking the Mail

I just checked out Silver Boomers over at Amazon.com! There's nothing like seeing a listing at Amazon.com to make my writer's heart flutter.

And I just had a great idea. I think I'll talk to the editor at Our Town. I write a column for the magazine, as well as an occasional feature. I'm thinking an interview about a new book featuring a ton of talented baby boomers would be a good fit for this magazine. Especially if one of the boomers happened to be his very own columnist!

I have a feeling he'll go for it. Meanwhile, I'll be checking the mail for my Silver Boomers copy. Can't wait!

Clockwise Cat: Cool Cat Links

Clockwise Cat: Cool Cat Links

Call For Submissions
Poetic Legacy and Birds by my Window: Willow Tree Poems, are brand new online poetic websites looking for poets and both are now accepting submissions.
http://birdsbywindow.blogspot.com/
http://www.poetriclegacy.mysite.com/

Both sites, are online poetry journals, and accept only email submissions, editor Michael Lee Johnson, author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom, are now accepting submissions from writers. I am looking for poetry, free verse and metric (but not contrived form); very small flash fiction, and small non-fiction articles that reflect a sincere cause or issue. Be in our initial issue!
E-mail: poetryoldman@hotmail.com Poetic Legacy
E-mail: promomanusa@gmail.com Birds by my Window: Willow Tree Poems.

EDITOR:

Michael Lee Johnson, Author of:
The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7
Author’s website: http://poetryman.mysite.com/

A Loss in the Silver Boomer Community

R. Scott Comegys, a Silver Boomers author from Shreveport, Louisiana, lost her mother Marilyn Driskell Comegys, part of the "greatest generation," last week and dedicates her Silver Boomers story to her mother's memory.

Scotty, our sympathy is with you and your family.

Getting to Know You

Bonus points if you recognize that as the song Anna (played by Deborah Kerr NOT Jodie Foster) warbled in "The King and I."

Of course you know it. You're a Boomer. Or at the very least, you like Boomers. Or musicals. Anyway, you're here because the Silver Boomers anthology is due to be released soon. That's why I'm here. That, and to say how much I'm looking forward to reading all the poetry and stories therein. I'm excited to be in such an accomplished company of authors!

I hope you'll take a few moments to check out Cathy C.'s Hall of Fame (www.cathychall.blogspot.com), the place where I write about the ups and downs of Finding Fame and Fortune on the Road to Publication.

Because Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey. (No bonus points if you name the group who sang that. Every Boomer knows that one).

The Inevitability of Time

I'm very happy to have my essay, The Inevitability of Time, included in this anthology. The essay was prompted by my oldest child's thirteenth birthday, now fourteen months ago. I think back to how I felt when she turned thirteen, and now that she's fourteen and firmly ensconced in adolescence, my only wish is that I could apologize to my own mother. But she's passed on, so this venue will have to do. Hopefully, the thoughts are now in the ether and will find her.

You can find me at www.audreyrlwyatt.com, should you wish to get in touch or read more of my work.

Hi folks . . .

I am Carly - you will see my work in the upcoming Silver Boomers Anthology.

I'll look forward to seeing it myself.

Thanks to the publishers/editors for having me.

Welcome to Blogger, Boomers!

I'm proud to be among the Silver Boomers anthology poets, and excited to see y'all here on Blogger--the server hosting The New Verse News, the online journal of progressive poltical poetry on current events and topical issues. I have been editing The NVN for a few years, and invite Silver Boomers, authors and readers, to visit the site, to keep up with our daily postings and to submit timely poetry to the journal.

James Penha