This week’s Report features poetry by Turkish poet, translator, photographer & musician Yusuf Eradam, and music by the Sonny Clark Trio. Click here to read more and listen to the episode.

… poetry & jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and raven …

Episode #51 is a special memorial tribute to fallen Saginistas Bruce Crawley, Al Hellus and Buddy “Shabazz” Harris, featuring some unpublished poems by Al and music by Al Hellus and the Plastic Haiku Band.

Episode #52 features the poem “Loon Point (Gavia Immer)” from my book The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and music by the legendary Teddy Edwards.

(POETS: To have your poems considered for a feature read on Report from the Mountains, contact me through the rftm blog for the address to send your book or manuscript. Thanks. ~Marc)

Episode # 50 is now online featuring the poem “The Illness of Windows (Junco Hyemalis)” and “Hymn to Freedom” from the Oscar Peterson Trio.

For show #8 we are talking to Deborah Emin of the Itinerant Book Show. We are discussing setting up book events in venues and selling book throughout the heartland – and more!

For more info about Deborah, visit sullivanstreetpress.com

We are also talking about apples iPad, and how it measure up to Amazon’s Kindle and what impact in may have on the indie book world.

Our book of the week is:

Authors Access
30 Success Secrets for Authors and Publishers
Edited by Irene Watson, Tyler R. Tichelaar and Victor R. Volkman
Publisher: Modern History Press

And here is the calendar for this week’s show:

Book Launch Tour: Explorer X-Alpha by local author LM Preston
Phenomanal One Press

URBAN KNOWLEDGE BOOKSTORES
IVERSON MALL (Fri-2/5, 2-4pm)
PRINCE GEORGES PLAZA (Fri-2/5, 5-7pm)
MONDAWMIN MALL (Sat-2/6, 12-2pm)
EAST POINT MALL (Sat-2/6, 3-5pm)
SECURITY SQUARE MALL (Sat-2/6, 6-8pm)

More info at http://www.lmpreston.com/

Women’s Expo
March 13-14, 2010 – 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Women’s Expo has a special section called the Book Lovers’ Cafe where authors can sell their books.

http://www.womensexpomd.com/exhibitors/

Launch party for Smile Hon’s latest edition: In Flagrante

Thursday, February 11, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Atomic Books
3620 Falls Road

Enjoy refreshments while mingling with depraved contributors (including Rafael Alvarez, William P. Tandy, Caryn Coyle, Timmy Reed and more) who will regale the listening audience with their sordid tales. And while you’re at it, pick up a copy of the issue while browsing Baltimore’s original independent, alternative book store!

http://eightstonepress.com for more info

I don’t know Maryann, and have never spoken with her. She is only 3 posts in as I write this. But I like what she’s done so far and I really hope she continues.

She has a wonderful piece about her local library, posted just yesterday. Seems her book shop is two blocks up from a library:

All the books I have for sale in my store are available free of charge less than two blocks away. Their hours are longer; they have more staff; they have access to more resources and they have comfier chairs. My tax dollars go towards paying their expenses.And I think it’s a grand and glorious thing.

Nice stuff.

Of course getting over the initial hump and falling into the grove of posting regularly is hard – Lord (and you, if you are a regular reader) knows I struggle with this all the time. Finding readers if even harder. So, here is hoping she can push through that and find an audience.

Please take a moment to stop by, welcome her to the blogosphere and drop a comment or two. The more folks we have writing about books, the better.

Debora and I had a great phone conversation a bit ago, comparing notes on how we find the state of indie publishing, what our goals and plans are etc. I think we found in each other a kindredness of spirit, and an equal dedication to spreading the indie pub gospel, and helping authors sell their books.

I am really hoping that some good things can come from our new-found friendship, and we have some big plans. I will certainly keep you posted as things develop.

Also, and I will be making an official announcement soon, but Deborah is set to join our team of freinds here at IndieBookMan – bringing us a new perspective on indie publishing.

So, stay tuned for much more to come from this new relationship!

Christopher Herz is dedicated to selling his book, and he proves it by putting himself out on a limb every day. Not only does he believe in his book, and believe he can sell it, he knows he has to if he wants to be home in time to have dinner with his wife.

Here is his deal; He leaves his house each morning with 10 books in his hand. He then wanders the streets of New York, approaching strangers and pitching his book. He does not return until he sells them all. This has happened as quickly as an hour on some days, and has taken up to 10 hours on others.

His book is titled The Last Block in Harlem, and he published it through his own imprint, Canal Publishing (canalpublishing.com). He has been featured in Publisher’s Weekly, and has appeared in Baltimore at the Baltimore Book Festival this past fall.

His is a fascinating experiment, and he is sure to have a lot of insight on what it takes to get a complete stranger to stop, listen and buy. I am really looking forward to speaking with him, and letting you listen in on our conversation.

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The IndieBookMan Radio Show covers all aspects of literature, writing, books and indie publishing in the Baltimore region and far beyond.

If you are interested in literature, books, writing or publishing, if you know you have a book inside of you and want to find out how to get it out into the world and into the hands of readers, then The IndieBookMan Radio Show is just what you need.

Hosted by AuthorsBookshop.com founder Brad Grochowski (a.k.a. the IndieBookMan) each show we feature an author, publisher or mover-and-shaker in the indie book world, explore their history, walk through the steps they took to success, and find out a bit about their project.

Join us January 20th at 8:00 PM est at http://umbrellaradio.org for the live broadcast, or listen to the archive at http://indiebookman.com, or subscribe to the podcast at http://bit.ly/ibm_podcast

With over 20+ years of national journalism credits, Obie Joe has become renowned for finding the unusual, untraditional, and incomparable venues. They have really succeeded at finding new and unusual ways to create interest in their clients’ books.

We are going to talk about tricks and techniques for selling indie books beyond of the traditional and well trod. I am really looking foward to this one – Kelly has a LOT of insight to offer. So, if you have a book, or a book in the works, you really don’t want to miss this conversation!

The IndieBookMan radio show covers all aspects of literature, writing, books and indie publishing in the Baltimore region and far beyond.

If you are interested in literature, books, writing or publishing, if you know you have a book inside of you and want to find out how to get it out into the world and into the hands of readers, then The IdieBookMan radio show is just what you need.

Hosted by AuthorsBookshop.com founder Brad Grochowski (a.k.a. the IndieBookMan) each week we feature an author, publisher or mover-and-shaker in the indie book world, explore their history, walk through the steps they took to success, and find out a bit about their project.

Join us, you won’t regret it.

Join us November 11th at 8:00 PM est at http://umbrellaradio.org for the live broadcast, listen to the archive at http://indiebookman.com, or subscribe to the podcast at http://bit.ly/ibm_podcast

Calling all feminists, wizards, Queer theorists, ex-Black Panthers,
Christians, Green activists, avant-gardists, Kabbalists, vegans, Hawaiian
nationalists, kickboxers, Punks, Hip Hop evangelists, New New Leftists,
pink-haired emo warriors, organic gardeners — submit your work for “The Big
Book of Revolutionary Poetry,” edited by Sparrow and Mickey Z. Send up to 3
poems to: sparrow44@juno.com or info@mickeyz.net

Also, please forward this announcement far and wide, post it on your website
or blog or Facebook page, and tweet it if you must. Thanks…

P.S. Please don’t reply to find out what we mean by “revolutionary.” As they
say, if you have to ask…

Kerouac’s technique, which he called Spontaneous Prose, was a subject he loved to cover over and over again. Here’s his list of thirty essentials under the title “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose”:

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside your own house
4. Be in love with your life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

GET THE GOODS ON THE INDIE WORLD. GET CANTARANEWS.
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