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| The artist I collaborated with on a series of postcards - one of the thank-you gifts for sponsoring me during my 30/30 month! |
Would you believe that weekends are a little crazier when it comes to finding time to write in the morning? I mean, there's eggs and bacon to be made, people! But, find time I did. Saturday morning Chris and Cora went to the Potato Bowl Parade and I wrote about dinner.
Saturday night I stayed up very late listening to music, writing, and finishing the sci-fi book I'm reading along with my brother and my dad, so that I would have something to post Sunday morning before the busiest day of the weekend got underway.
I have been thrilled to hear from people following my poems - knowing which poems have struck a chord with different readers is a rare treat! Please keep letting me know when you really like what you see!
I also hope that if you continue to enjoy the poems, or if you think it is pretty neat that I am sitting down every day and writing something that you get to read just a few hours later, or if you, like me, believe poetry is important and alive - if any of those things is true, I hope you will consider becoming a sponsor. Not least because I have some really exciting ways to thank you!
Let's say you decide that my poems are worth, say, 16 cents a day to you this month (or, maybe it's worth more, but hey, you also have to feed that family - I totally get that!). Donating $5 to Tupelo Press marked as a sponsorship for me would get you a set of stickers featuring haiku I've written to accompany photos. These are really nice stickers, even though my photo of them is blurry!
Maybe you have $10 you can put towards sponsoring me: I'll send you the stickers, sure, but also a set of 4 postcards that feature a poem by me that Cora has illustrated. She chose the poems, too. These came out so well, and Cora and I are both very proud of them!
A $15 sponsorship comes with a special perk: the first 10 people (8 spaces left, I believe) to sponsor me for $15 can choose five words for me to use together in one poem. (Frankly, these are so much fun I might go beyond ten, provided there is time in the month.) You also get stickers and postcards.
I have already heard from a couple people that the $20 sponsorship is the most attractive one to them because it comes with cookies! (Chocolate chip or gingersnap, your choice, to be mailed in October.) Plus stickers and postcards, of course.
And finally, sponsor me for $30 or more this month and you'll receive all the above, plus a handmade chapbook of all the poems I write for the 30/30 Project this month (which I will mail to you in October, along with some stickers, postcards, and cookies!). (If you want to build your library, you can also subscribe to Tupelo Press and receive 9 books for $99 - you can even choose the Tupelo titles you want to receive!)
If you sponsor me, be sure to let me know so that your dollars can be matched up to my name and so that I know who to send these little thank-yous to. Here are the ways to donate:
- Subscribe to Tupelo Press (9 books for $99). Visit http://www.tupelopress.org/books_subscribe.php and fill out the form; be sure to put my name in the “comments” field!
- Complete the Tupelo Press Donation Form at https://www.tupelopress.org/donate.php and be sure to put my name in the “honor” field. (You can also print out the form and send it in with a check.)
- Donate using PayPal at https://www.tupelopress.org/donate.php - click on the orange “Quick Donation via PayPal” button - be sure to put my name in the “message” field.
And, again, thank you most of all for reading along and for letting me know you're listening!
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| Writing journal page from the Sibelius poem |
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