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I'm a bicycling poet who lived in Parker for several years and worked at YourHub.com, covering Parker and Franktown for two years.

I am studying poetry at CSU in the Master of Fine Arts program ...

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Success is who you know and what you do

Contributed by: Tabitha Dial/YourHub.com   on 6/29/2007

When I was a guest poet at Renee Ruderman's class at the Metropolitan State College of Denver on June 28, one of her students asked how you can make a living at writing.

I recommended getting experience at The Metropolitan and using YourHub.com to gain clips and to build a relationship with the staff.

I've discovered that success is about who you know (I was presenting poetry alongside long-time friends and fellow poets Steve Eggleston, Kathy Palmquist and Ron Green, after all) and what you do.

The "who you know and what you do" concept was witnessed in action when I heard back from the editors at The Indelible Kitchen this week about my poetry submission.

If I hadn't met a New York City poet and photographer by the name of Jorn Ake, I wouldn't have developed what I call poet envy. When I met him at the Vermont Studio Center last month, he had with him a chapbook of his poetry published by the editors of The Indelible Kitchen, through their sponsor Web site, Popular Ink.

It wasn't just a sleek, classy chapbook I went green eyed over, no!

Popular Ink sells T-shirts with an excerpt of their selected writers' work on them, too. The shirts and the chapbooks are sold together ("because everyone needs a shirt and everyone needs a story," says Popular Ink).

I love the marketing and the spirit behind the folks who believe in Jorn.

Knowing Jorn gave me the opportunity to submit to The Indelible Kitchen (which means I could be considered for shirts and chapbooks, too).

Jorn, in this moment of poetry success, is the who. The do happened when I sent a couple poems to the editors and ... well, you'll need to click here to find out how that went and what a new poem called And still it goes on looks like.

Thanks for the read and, folks, be sure to get out there, live your dreams and who and do ... you'll find that new whos lead to new dos and vice-versa.


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Submitted By: Martin McClatchy
posted on 7/10/2007 @ 8:58:12 AM
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Tabitha, Thanks for the blurb! Everyone else, check us out. We are in need of fiction and art. www.popink.blogspot.com & www.popularink.com
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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial
posted on 7/2/2007 @ 11:47:58 AM
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Bill, that's very true. Thanks for coming by so often and leaving your comments.
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Submitted By: Bill Boucher
posted on 7/2/2007 @ 8:17:51 AM
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Wherever you end up, the success part is that you are following your dream.
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Tabitha Dial

Denver , CO

Tabitha Dial has posted 194 blog entries and 816 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Tabitha Dial's average blog rating is 4.96.
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