By Kara L.C. Jones


News Notes:

As always there are many announcements from the KotaPress front. We hope you will find these helpful, and feel free to contact us via email at info@kotapress.com or via phone at 206-297-1012 if you need further information.

»» Tuesday, April 24th, 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, UVillage, Seattle
"KotaPress presents Poetry Off the Page"
This free interactive workshop presents authors and editors talking about poetry once it is peeled off the paper page. Topics cover electronic publication, music & poetry, memorizing your own works & works of others, the process of recording poetry in a studio. Presentations of poetry off the page will be offered in various formats.

»» KotaPress Reading
Friday, May 4th, 7 to 10pm
Sunset Hill Community Center, Seattle WA (Ballard Neighborhood):
At this release party, winning authors from the KotaPress Anthology Contest Vol. 1, No. 2 will read and be available to sign copies of the book. Featured readers include Charles Fishman, Ruth Daigon, Allegra Wong, Joseph Lisowski, and Kevin Simmonds. (If any winner cannot attend, local Seattle poets will read works from the Anthology for them.) Open mic spots are available to anyone who is previously published thru KotaPress. Suggested donation at the door is $4/person (which enters you into door prize contest) with a portion of donation proceeds going toward the Mrs. Duck Project providing free grief support books to families around the world who are enduring the death of a baby.

»» Saturday, May 5th, 2pm @ Elliott Bay Book Store, Seattle
KotaPress Anthology winning author, Charles Fishman reads! Check it out.

»» Tuesday, May 15th, 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, UVillage, Seattle
"KotaPress presents Poetry In Performance"
This free interactive workshop presents authors and editors teaching tips for stage presence and performance. Topics cover ideas for how to relax prior to a reading, tips for memorizing your own works, use of multi-media with poetry performance, tips for getting reader spots in local reading series.

»» KotaPress Reading
Wednesday, October 24th, 7 to 10pm
Sunset Hill Community Center, Seattle WA (Ballard area):
Featured readers will include winners from the KotaPress Anthology Contest Vol. 2, No. 1 plus Poet Chat authors who have been showcased at KotaPress.com website-- including John Fox (author of Poetic Medicine) and Dr. Elizabeth Gray (producer of Conversing with Mystery). (If any winner cannot attend, local Seattle poets will read works from the Anthology for them.) Open mic spots are available to anyone who is previously published thru KotaPress. Suggested donation at the door is $4/person (which enters you into door prize contest) with a portion of donation proceeds going toward the Mrs. Duck Project providing free grief support books to families around the world who are enduring the death of a baby.

»» In 2001, you have one more chance to get into the print KotaPress Poetry Anthology series. One more contest is being offered in 2001, and here at KotaPress we don't charge a reading fee on the front end, and you don't pay for books on the back end-- if you win, you get at least 10 free copies of the book in which you are included! Check out the guidelines under Anthology Contest in our Journal section.

»» KotaPress now offers Services to you! We offer one-on-one or group/workshop consultations that can be tailored to your needs. Want to know how this publishing market works? Interested in how poetry can be used for healing? Or would you like to have your own book cover custom designed by our very own Hawk Jones? Check out our services page in the Contact section or send us email for more information. info@kotapress.com.

»» KotaPress eStore is now online for our customers! You can make credit card purchases without leaving our secure website. This means no more hassles with those other online bookstores. The eStore offers all our cd and book titles for sale with new items being added all the time. Don't miss this chance to get your very own copy of KotaPress Poetry Anthology Volume 1, Number 1 featuring Nancy Talley, Tim Hulley, and so many more! All yours for only $9.50 (+shipping). Check it out in our Books Section!

»» Are you looking for ways to support the Mrs. Duck Project? 10% of any purchase you make from Mary Kay representative Bonnie Hallock will be put toward the Mrs. Duck Project! We are so honored to have this generosity from Bonnie, and we wanted all of you to know how to participate. Go to Bonnie's Mary Kay site at www.mymk.com/bhallock and order away-- IMPORTANT: There is a place on the online order form to put a message, and you must put KOTAPRESS in there so she knows it's a Mrs. Duck order. Bonnie can take check or money order for any amount, and she can take Visa/MC for orders over $60. She can also take PayPal.com for orders. If you have further questions, feel free to send her an email from her site at www.mymk.com/bhallock. (In the spirit of fairness, Bonnie can only accept orders from patrons who do not currently have a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant. Thank you for understanding.)

»» Want yet another way to support Mrs. Duck and SeattleMISS? Just buy your favorite products at our new online shopping village -- at no extra cost to you or us -- at http://www.greatergood.com/partner/misschildren-wa. Up to 15% of your purchases go directly to SeattleM.I.S.S which in turn supports The Mrs. Duck Project, providing free copies of the Mrs. Duck book to grieving families around the world. SeattleMISS shopping village includes brand name items from more than 100 leading online retailers like Amazon.comŽ, Dell.com, ToysRUs.com, L.L. Bean, 1-800-FLOWERS.com(SM), OfficeMax.com and more. You don't pay more to buy things online. And your security and privacy are rigorously safeguarded. Ready to do a little shopping? Visit the SeattleMISS/GreaterGood web site at www.greatergood.com/partner/misschildren-wa, click the "Shop" button and off you go. What's more, if you register at SeattleMISS shopping village, you'll receive a great bonus from one of our retailers. Do it today and make your online shopping really count!

»» Still want another way to support Mrs. Duck?! Now you can make a donation to Mrs. Duck through our non-profit umbrella organization M.I.S.S.. We at KotaPress believe so whole-heartedly in the work of M.I.S.S. that we house the Seattle chapter's web information in our Loss section and we offer them our office space as a base for the Seattle chapter. You can support the Mrs. Duck Project thru SeattleM.I.S.S. which is the Seattle, WA, local chapter for the national non-profit org M.I.S.S.ing (Mission for Infant Survival & Stillbirth In Natural Grieving/ Mothers In Sympathy & Support).

M.I.S.S. recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 with a tax ID number. The national office is physically located in Arizona, and the website is hosted at www.MissChildren.org. If you wish to support the Mrs. Duck Project, you can send a check or money order donation to the SeattleM.I.S.S. group with a note asking that that funds be earmarked for Mrs. Duck. They will use 80% of the donation to fund the making of more Mrs. Duck books which we give away free. 10% will go toward the local chapter so they can continue offering free support group meetings, one-on-one crisis help, and mailing outreach literature. And the last 10% will go to the national office to support their outreach and the medical research that is happening about stillbirth at The Pregnancy Institute. The SeattleM.I.S.S. is registered with the state of Washington Charities Programs. For more information, please feel free to email or call Kara at 206.297.1012.

 

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