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2000 Poet's Market (Poet's Market, 2000)
 | author: Chantelle Bentley asin: 0898799155 binding: Paperback list price: $23.99 USD amazon price: $23.99 |
Writer's Digest's annual Poet's Market offers great entertainment value. Sure, it lists a whopping 1,100 journals and magazines, 500 book publishers, and 200 chapbook publishers of poetry. Of course it is a great resource for information on contests, awards, conferences, workshops, organizations, publications, and Web sites of interest to poets. This year's edition even features bold new icons, so that you can expediently locate new markets, significant contact- information changes, online publishers, and publishers that actually pay real money for poems. read more »
The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean
 | author: Michael N. Kalafatas asin: 1584652721 binding: Hardcover list price: $26.00 USD amazon price: $26.00 USD |
For centuries,the young men of the Dodecanese Islands, a string of islands in the Aegean Sea between Greece and the coast of Asia Minor, earned their living by diving for sponges. They would descend to the bottom of the sea on just a single breath of air, using as a weight and rudder a flat, marble diving stone called a bellstone. They used this ancient technique of "naked diving" until 1863 when the deep-sea diving suit was introduced into the sponge-fishing industry. read more »
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
 | author: Kenneth Koch asin: 0684824388 binding: Paperback list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 USD |
In Making Your Own Days, celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no one had written about it before. Full of fresh and exciting insights and experiences, this book makes the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry clear for those who read it and for those who write it -- and for those who would like to read and write it better. read more »
