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Wow Cynthia - you are really blazing along. You rarely get
feedback from me, and for that I apologize. I spend all day on the pc at work
and so try to minimize it at night. But your page is wonderful, and all the
ideas below - superb. I'll spend some time this weekend poking around and send
more feedback later.
You rock.
Maria
Thanks so much, Cynthia. One of the women on your list wrote to
me about reviewing. =) I really appreciate the way you help spread the word.
Lynn
I bow to you three times,
James Downs, Yosemite
Hi Cynthia,
I have been meaning to send you a note for days — to congratulate you for your much deserved award from Artist’s Embassy International. It is great to see you get some recognition for all your hard work.
Gayle Eleanor
Hi, Cynthia.
I want to thank you profusely for all the work you do to increase everyone's
awareness of poetry. You do a great job ... but as a graphic designer of some
experience, I am offering a suggestion.
Please, please do not gussy up your e-mails with color, font changes, size
changes, etc. It does not make it easier to read, it doesn't attract anyone
since each e-mail is going directly to the recipient anyway and designwise it
goes back to the days when the personal computer was first on the market and
everyone was besotted with all the cutsey fonts that became available to the
user. No more typesetters, yeah, we can do whatever we want. But ... it didn't
last long. Always ... the direct way to an advertiser's clientele (and in a way
what you do is advertisement/public relations) is simplicity, simplicity,
simplicity. Easy to read, to the point, direct access and where to buy, go,
listen, look at. All that extra stuff just gets in the way.
I WANT to get your information, I think you are amazing, a wonderful poet. Every
time you send out a notice, an announcement, I WANT to get at it and all that
fancy stuff gets in the way. It doesn't emphasize it, it buries it. I've been in
the graphic design business for more than 40 years, I designed both the first
(and now the second Every First Tuesday book). I worked with The Nature Company,
North Face, Hilltop Mall, Sierran Designs and many more, have won awards.
Elegance does not shout, it whispers, it tickles, it sneaks into the
subconscious and grabs you but first and foremost it GIVES YOU THE INFORMATION.
I hope this information (which is intended only to help) gives you
something to think about, to work with. I am at your service should you want
some help with design, if you want your e-mails to stand out. Free. (I told you
I love what you do.)
Most sincerely,
Carole
Dwinell
www.caroledwinell.com
"today
is the day to DO IT!"
You deserve it, Lady!!! Love and Peace, JC
Congratulations Cynthia, well earned.
Your friend and admirer,
Gloria M. Rodriguez
Cynthia in my vernacular " MAZELTOV"
which simply means congratulations with a delicious Yiddish flavor.
It's an honor you deserve and have earned . All of us who
benefit from your skilled labors thank you most kindly. Sylvia
Congratulations, Cynthia! A big rousing cheer for this well-deserved award...
Mark States
Congratulations Cynthia! Well deserved! See you there.
Maria
Oh,
CONGRATULATIONS! That's a worthy addition to your accomplishments! BRAVO! I
hope you have a great time accepting that award. Don't forget to put a "blurb"
on your website opening page! HUG! Ursula T. Gibson, Poet Laureate of
Sunland-Tujunga (UrsulaTG1@aol.com
)
WOW !
Congrats ---you deserve it all.
Tshaka
Hi Cynthia,
Congratulations, Cynthia. Well deseerved. I look forward to receiving your emails.
Peace,
Kit Kennedy
Cynthia,
Wow! You've come a long way, Baby!
In all seriousness, what AE says about you is right (write) on. You are
invaluable. If you ever get discouraged, think about this award.
Congratulations.
Fred
That's great Cynthia.
You sure deserve an award for all the hours you put in.
Very few have that much dedication.
Regards,
Frank Thornburgh
Congratulations on your Artists Embassy
International Award! And from me, too -- thanks for all you do.
Really looking forward to seeing you in Pleasanton soon.
Warmly,
Jan
Cynthia: Nice to see the new
format...how cool...good photo of you 4 also at
the Century House too...keep up the good work!---Peter Bray, Benicia, CA
Thanks so much, Cynthia. I appreciate your support of poets and poetry.
Sincerely,
Terry
I guess "Get it off your chest" would be where I'd place it! Thank you so much for accepting me, and hope I can become a part of your poetry community. I have done spoken word throughout the southland, and am looking to expand into the rest of the state. I've read in NYC, the Bahamas, and have my 2nd book at the publishers working on number 3, also working on a 15 poem CD with music currently. I'd love to do a tour of Cali and read up and down my state now! Any suggestions? I love what you're doing!! Yea Poetry!!
Thank you! Wow! 33 pages of people expressing their individual opinions! You're doing a real service! HUG! Ursula-Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga
Sorry. But could you remove my address from your list. I'm on a dialup here, in a rural area where there is no high-speed hookup. When you send long graphic files--like the one for the the big poster for the reading that we got today-- it causes a big problem for us and turns into a real disservice to anyone in our position. Between bad phone lines and slow dialup speeds it can take up to an hour to clear the line so that our email becomes usable again. Couldn't you send such notices in a non-graphics form--or at least smaller files.
Sorry to miss your news but such is life until we get better service here.
Hal Zina Bennett, author/writing coach
www.halzinabennett.com
Dear Cynthia Bryant:
Artists Embassy International appreciates your excellent work on behalf of the art of poetry with your illuminating web site: www.poetslane.com. Creating, sharing and extending information and knowledge of the poetry opportunities and all manner of informational events is an outreach of grand proportion which is much appreciated by Artists Embassy International, the Dancing Poetry Festival and the community of poetry in general. The ideal and mission of Artists Embassy International is to promote the arts which contribute to understanding and good will through the universal language of the arts. For your wonderful achievements and service to the poetry community, you have been nominated by our board for our Artists Embassy Award.
We would like to honor you by presenting this award at our 14th annual Dancing Poetry Festival to be held Saturday, September 29, Noon to 4:00 p.m., at San Francisco’s Palace of the Legion of Honor. Please call with any questions you might have about this event or any information that might be helpful: 510-235-0361 or email me at naticaaei@aol.com. Also please see our website: www.dancingpoetry.com.
Here is some information you might like to know:
Artists Embassy International was founded in 1951 by Althya Youngman, a Red Cross representative to the Geneva Convention and active Opera Singer, who was invited to a world peace conference in India to share with Mahatma Gandhi and other prominent international dignitaries in discussions and meetings on peaceful co-existence. As a creator of San Francisco’s first opera in English performance company, she and many of her artist companions realized that their presence at this prestigious world event created “friendly space” for disagreeing factions to find a common ground of enjoyment and sharing in cultural arts exchanges. She became friends with Gandhi and his family and soon found discussion of the importance of the artist as a window for seeing, experiencing and sharing the feelings of other diverse cultures and peoples. The role as artist, poet, musician etc., as vital intercultural mediator, educator, and ambassador, plus the possible role as artist as peace maker were much discussed and shared. She then founded Artists Embassy and the organization continues to serve the arts and the world in many outreach programs and events.
The Dancing Poetry Festival, under the auspices of Artists Embassy was created by “the poet and the dancer”, Natica and Richard Angilly, to continue international outreach and understanding through the sensitivities and thoughts inherently carried in the arts of poetry and dance. This easily transmitted communication using visual, vital and moving poetry has been honored to be written in the Congressional Record of the United States as the “mother tongue of the world.” The Dancing Poetry Festival, now in its 14th annual presentation, encourages and brings together the creative actions of many international and local artists for presentation and illumination of the vitality and significance of poetic thought in the life of all culture. Artists Embassy has a website at www.artistsembassy.org.
Thanks for your contributions toward the same goals. Much appreciation from all of us at Artists Embassy.
The enclosed VIP tickets let you bypass the Museum entry lines and go directly into the exhibition and theater areas. At the theater foyer, please check in with Dancing Poetry Festival staff so we will know you are present for your award.
Congratulations. We highly appreciate your wonderful dedication and talents in poetic creativity.
Sincerely
Natica Angilly
President, Artists Embassy International
Sponsoring organization for
The Dancing Poetry Festival
Dear Cynthia,
Thank you for your fabulous website. It continues to amaze and inspire me, and
provides such an invaluable service to the writing community in the Bay Area.
Terry Ehret (Poet Laureate Sonoma County 2004-2006)
tehret99@comcast.net
Thanks for your continued Poet's Lane emails. They are a great resource. I just wanted you to know that I read and sometimes attend events. I get great pleasure in knowing what is going on in the lives of other wordworkers in this area. Personally I am deep in the writing cycle on a project. So I am not able to get up and out. Send me good writing faeries to hold the Velcro on my seat and fingers to the pc. Smile, Ilsa
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Dear Cynthia
Congratulations on a
job well done as Poet Laureate.
You were what the
city of Pleasanton needed - a full time, dedicated, and involved
poet to open the eyes, ears and hearts of the citizens to the
beauty of poetry.
I sincerely regret
not having been able to attend your final event as Poet
Laureate. I felt compelled to host a poetry event in my home
town from 9:00 AM to 4:00 Sunday and just couldn't say "no."
You will be a hard
act to follow for the next Poet Laureate of Pleasanton.
I'm sure we will
meet again and often too.
My very warmest
regards.
Joel Fallon(Poet
Laureate of Benecia, CA)
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Hi Cynthia....
Congratulations on such an energetic and successful term as poet laureate of
Pleasanton. It was good to meet you along the way. Thanks for keeping me
informed about Poet's Lane events. It sounds like your work with Poet's Lane
will continue apace as you leave being poet laureate...that's great!
You might like to know about this (click the link) new web site...it's just
getting started....but it took root during a workshop I led up in Spokane and
then blossomed on it's own.
Click Here: Check out "Harnessing the Power of Words to Change the World"
I'd like to hear Jack Hirschman on the 4th but am trying to drive less because
of gas prices! I hope it goes very well. His is a voice we need now more than
ever.
best to you,
John Fox
Thank you for all your good works in the name of poetry. The Iraqi project should be a stellar achievement.
I was surprised to here that you have not been receiving limericks for March. I find it hard to believe in a St. Patrick’s Day without limericks.
Attached is a compound limerick. I hope to have a couple more for your March page soon.
Dick Weingart
Good morning Cynthia. Thank you for providing such lively and diverse poetry in this accessible format.
Cynthia,
Thanks very much. I just checked out the section called Poets in the Know and was surprised to find several poets I know. Would you please add me to the list?
Many Thanks for supporting poetry.
Gary Lehmann
Thank you for all the work you put in doing the Poet's Lane.
Cynthia
Surfed your site but couldn't figure out how to submit poems. This one
might work for your civil rights theme.
Thanks for your support of literary publishing!
Cheers, Ed Zahniser
Hello. Hope all is well with you. I just came from your wonderful
website and was wondering if you could please add me to your mailing
list for further news and opportunities. Thank you! Stephen- Albany, NY
hi, Cynthia
Dear Cynthia,
Happy New Year! Hope all your poetry projects are going well. I am impressed
by your Poet's Lane
and just thinking and wondering about your experience with putting that
together. It is an idea for
us on the Sonoma County Poet Laureate Committee - that I am just starting to
explore - so I'd love to hear
your experience with your website. Some of the questions that I have for you
are; do you have guidelines
for poets, and what are the guidelines, is there a geographic boundary that
you represent, and what are the
sort of issues that have come up?
One other question that I need to ask you is whether it would it be all
right for me to seek publication
in a literary journal for the poem "Costs" which is part of The Gift of
Words. It is that time of year, for
submissions, and new year's resolve!
Thank you! I look forward to hearing from you.
Nancy
Cynthia,
Hi Cynthia:
Regards,
Cynthia:
Rich and fortunate we are
to have your venue for our views,
as if we could stand upon our pews,
cavorting without distorting
our poetic views.
Thank you for your Poetslane,
highway, boulevard, and terrain.
If I were a searchlight
grasping in the fog and loss,
I'd grasp for the brilliance
at such a low cost;
let's change our world
one poem at a time.
Washington, DC or Sacramento
can't even find the rhyme,
let alone the time.
Dysfunction should be mothballed
when it's past its prime.
Peter Bray, Benicia, CA 12/23/06
Hello Cynthia,
Dear Cynthia,
Your idea of communicating with the people of Iraq through poetry is outstanding. It is just another open door to the common thoughts that we the people of earth can share. Words, music, art, dance Etc are more effective than guns or bombs in spreading understanding between different cultures, I spent my entire youth 17-23 from 1941-47 I the service U S N & the Marine Corps. I saw the hell of war from Guadalcanal to Saipan. I am now an old man of 82 and I pray each day for peace in Iraq and through out the world.
I am strictly an amateur in writing poetry but I wish to thank you in advance for the opportunity of expressing some of my feelings.
Sincerely, John Whalen
Walnut Creek, CA
Hi Cynthia:
I'm so glad that you are doing the event for peace poetry on Dec. 3rd.
I wish I could be there to contribute but I'll be back east.
You are doing such an admirable job with Poets Lane - keep up the great work.
Best, and Peace,
Joan
Joan Gelfand
Vice President
Women's National Book Association
joangelfand@pacbell.net
74 San Jacinto Way
San Francisco, CA 94127
(415) 665-9292
http://jg.typepad.com/ciel/
"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for" – Jean Cocteau
Cynthia,
You know, this Iraqi poem project of yours is one of the best ideas to appear in
2006. I hope more people hear of it. You deserve some recognition for this, and
the Iraqi people deserve to know about you. Thanks.
Fred Norman
Poet's Lane Offers a Wealth of Material
www.poetslane.com
Reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin
"Let's change the world one poem at a time," says Pleasanton's Poet Laureate Cynthia L. Bryant. To help poets do that, she shares resources, venues, and networking opportunities on Poet's Lane, www.poetslane.com.
Did you know there's a poetry reading almost every day in the area? Click on ongoing, annual, and one-time poetry events for details. Many venues have open mikes. Interested in who's who among local poets? Click on Poet's in the Know to learn about local published poets.
Looking for a place to be published? Submit your own poetry, if
it meets the categories listed month by month inside "2006 Poems of the New
Year." Bryant asks that you please include your name and a photo and send it to
PoetsLane@comcast.net . Some
wonderful work has already been posted in 2006. For ongoing information and
networking, join the Literary List. It's an e-mail venue for poets and writers
that shares an amazing amount of valuable information. Whether you are new to
poetry or are ready to share your latest chapbook, the resources and venues at
Poet's Lane, www.poetslane.com can help.
Sandra Wade
Hi Cynthia:
I am a stay-at-home mother who was writing in isolation until I found the community at Poet's Lane. I signed up for the email list at the Fair in 2005 as a total novice, and then I submitted a poem and won a silver the next year.Thanks for this message. I love Poet's Lane and this email list. It has changed my life. It has given me so many ideas about where to send my poetry.
I am a relatively new poet, but I will be attending the Ina Coolbrith Banquet this year. I already have tickets for myself and my husband.
Regards,
Sherry Smith
San Ramon
It's fun following your adventures, Cynthia. You are the busiest poet I've ever known. More power to ya! I want to thank you for passing along the information I send you; but I don't know how you find the time to help all of us get the word out. One thing is for sure, you have to be a lot more knowledgeable about the workings of these machines than I am. Love and Peace, JC
Poets Lane, a
virtual literary salon, is your best source of information about the vibrant
poetry community in the North Bay and in fact much of the San Francisco Bay
Area. Kudos to its creator, Cynthia Bryant, for helping energize the local
literary scene.
Jan Steckel
Author of
THE UNDERWATER HOSPITAL
(Zeitgeist
Press,
2006)
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Hi, Cynthia,
I appreciate the poet news. Thanks for keeping me on your list.
Zara Raab
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Dear Cynthia: Thank you so much for bringing us the broadcast
of all the great poetry news in the bay Area.
I am just one of so many who really appreciate it. It is a
tremendous undertaking and you deliver in a timely
and courteous manner. Keep up the great work. My best
regards, LaDonna Fehlberg