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    Why Write and/or Attempt to Publish Poems

    Presented by Poetry West at Colorado College - Worner Student Center

    February 4, 2012


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    Why Write and/or Attempt to Publish Poems

    Local poet Aaron Anstett will present “Why Write and/or Attempt to Publish Poems, How Does One Do Such Things, and Other Impossible, Vexing Questions” in a reading and workshop open to the public and presented by Poetry West.

    This meeting includes the annual business meeting of Poetry West and election of officers. The program is free, but voting for officers is restricted to members. Annual membership costs $30....

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    Local poet Aaron Anstett will present “Why Write and/or Attempt to Publish Poems, How Does One Do Such Things, and Other Impossible, Vexing Questions” in a reading and workshop open to the public and presented by Poetry West.

    This meeting includes the annual business meeting of Poetry West and election of officers. The program is free, but voting for officers is restricted to members. Annual membership costs $30.

    Possessing more bewilderment than answers, Aaron Anstett says he “will rant and opine,” and also may “inadvertently provide useful advice based on several years' experience submitting work, reading slush piles for magazines and book contests, serving repeatedly as a poetry editor, instigating and overseeing a chapbook contest, ” along other endeavors. Workshop attendees are instructed to bring rejection slips for ritual burning, as Anstett presents this important topic with humorous energy.
    Aaron Anstett's poems have been rejected by many of the best-known and most obscure journals and book publishers. They've also sometimes been printed and won prizes. His work has appeared in over five respected magazines, and his three collections of poems were published by presses run by people to whom he paid no money. Anstett knows some things about poems but little more. For one: Most of the poetry he loves was not written by him.
    Anstett developed “Poetry While You Wait”, a recent poetry project that brought poetry from a number of local poets to the public via posters, table tents and a published volume given away free to waiting rooms and facilities throughout the region.


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    Colorado College - Worner Student Center

    902 N. Cascade Ave.
    Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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    10 a.m. - 12 p.m.


    Phone: 719-473-5264


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