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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Be
sure to introduce yourself in the Federation online forums,
and check out the
member biography
section to find out more about each.
New Members:
Doug Roy - Trenton, ON
Paul Gerhardt Fleisher - Accra, Ghana
Lesley Pasquin - Kirkland, QC
Prasenjit Singh - Noapara, Kolkata
Gary Pierluigi - Mississauga, ON
Mitali Adhvaryu - Toronto, ON
Robert L. Fisher - Woodbridge, ON
Joan Shillington - Calgary, AB
Renewals:
Amir Hasham
Elaine Traviss
David Fraser
Lorna J. Knox
Thelma Davidson
Check out this months feature poet
Stella Ducker.
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POETRY CANADA $9.95 SUBSCRIPTION
Poetry Canada is now available for only $9.95 USD in PDF format, for
a full year. Get all the great information from 2004, 2005, 2006, and
2007 - for one LOW PRICE! ORDER TODAY
and get started right away!
This edition features great articles, wonderful poetry, amazing photography,
and tons of great things to enjoy, buy and share.
Get your copy today!
Poetry Canada Magazine
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CONTESTS & CALLS
Check out the current contests:
NEW! The Way to Happiness and
Rhyming Poetry;
where the winner
of each will appear in Poetry Canada magazine and get a free copy! Call now open.
NEW! Stellar Showcase Journal
Our Fall Issue (online & print) are published and we are
now focusing on our Winter Issue (Dec 1st quarterly publication)
Our poets and writers are from all over the world.
Check out our online journal. www.stellarshowcasejournal.com
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest - No Fee
Online Submission Deadline: April 1, 2007
Winning Writers invites you to enter the sixth annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. The prize pool has doubled to $3,336.40 in cash, with a top prize of $1,359. There is no fee to enter. Judge: Jendi Reiter.
Submit online
SPREAD THE WORD WINNER
The winner of the 2006 CFP promote award goes to: Mark Clement
Thanks to everyone who continues to promote the CFP, and proudly display our
logo on your site. You will be put in for the 2007 contest automatically, and
we encourage all new members, and NON MEMBERS to help promote the CFP.
The Canadian Federation has a new logo, and we want everyone to take it, and put it
on their website. If you have a website, put it up there. If you receive this
newsletter, you are free to copy the logo, and put it on your website, with a link
to http://www.federationofpoets.com.
Anyone who puts the logo up, let us know with an email that has "Promote Poetry" in
the subject line, and the website name, and on December 31st, we will select one lucky winner to win a
free ad in Poetry Canada magazine's Poets' Marketplace section. Help poetry,
and yourself - it's a win, win!
If you need help, let me know and I'll show you what you need to put in your webpage
to get it running.
FORUM FUN
Are you looking for a nice area to post your poetry, share your thoughts, and meet like-minded
people who believe the written and spoken word is crucial to the fabric of society and its growth.
Then you should be a part of the CFP Forum. This group is respectful, and since it requires
approval
to participate, it ensures we have a community that cherishes friendship and growth.
For the Christmas season we have 2 special forums for you - Christmas Cheer and Resolutions, where
you can find friends, share your resolutions and stories, post your poetry, and make things
happen in 2007. Post your goals in the resolutions section, and then check back in to update
on how you are doing, or seek advice, or see what other people plan for themselves. More
importantly though - have fun here.
If you haven't registered for the Forum/CFPChat Area - it is FREE. Check out this
newsletter for how to do it.
Already registered? Proceed to the:
Resolutions Forum
Christmas Cheer Forum
CALENDAR COORDINATOR
Betty Dobson of Halifax, Nova Scotia who has taken on the position of
Calendar Coordinator!
If you are a CFP member, this is a great way to promote your book launches, appearances,
and check out contest calls and events.
If you are a CFP member, or a CFP Affiliate Organization feel free to submit
your events to us. It is a great way to easily increase attendance.
Send your information to: Calendar Coordinator: Betty Dobson
FEDERATION OF POETS
Canadian Federation of Poets
2431 Cyprus Avenue
Burlington, ON L7P 1G5
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2007, a fresh new year is ahead of us. I love when there is a new year, because
I use to really take a look at what I did in the past year. I take a look at the
goals I wrote for myself, and compare them to what I acheived. I make adjustments,
celebrate my victories, and start all over again with continuations and
additions that changed along the way.
Did you set your goals? Did you put together ways you were goint to acheive them?
Let's make this a wonderful year for poets and The Canadian Federation of Poets,
and show mankind that our words matter.
I am posting a 31 day plan on my personal blog for taking control of 2007 - now it
pertains to Internet Marketing which is my other identity - but if you took the
same advice and applied it to your writing or book marketing efforts - it probably
wouldn't be far off. Feel free to check it out. Tracy Repchuk
and if you really want to help promote it, include it as a link from your site to help
others out as well.
Check out all of the benefits and
become a part of the CFP family for
a full year of poetry fun, and a free bonus subscription to Poetry Canada magazine.
Tracy Lynn Repchuk
President and Founder of the Canadian Federation of Poets
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A DIFFERENT APPROACH
I was on a Teleseminar the other day with Peggy McColl and Randy Gilbert, and these guys
are Amazon bestsellers with many of their books. They started with great ideas and a book, (just
like we did), and they made it happen. Notice I use the word 'made' it happen. They wrote a book,
and thought it was going to fly out the door, and when it didn't, said okay, what will make this happen,
and put the steps in place to make their dreams a reality.
So anyone who is interested in trying something new, stick with me through this article, because
I am about to start to change reality.
I have a business background, and poetry is my passion, my mission, an important part of our culture,
we need to adapt, and make use of the tools out there to help us succeed, and stop saying "Poetry
doesn't sell."
Step one - Change the attitude, and it will change the environment.
That is a very simple, yet powerful thought. If we all stop saying and/or agreeing
with the general population that states: poetry doesn't sell, nobody
wants to listen to poetry, poetry is boring, poetry is only for intellectuals, poetry isn't
mainstream, and the list goes on, ad infinituum, things will change. We have to face everyone
head on, stop letting them suppress us, and shove us into the corners of coffee houses, and the back
of bookstores, and change it!
Okay so that might be a tall order, but it is acheivable. Look at what has been changed throughout
history. Blacks can't ride on the bus, women should stay at home,
(I am using the slang of the times.)
It took the voice and people of that time period - to change it. Lets not wait for that time
period to come, lets make it! It didn't take a quiet voice from the back of the room, it took
an all out movement.
The Mission of the Canadian Federation of Poets has been the same from the beginning - Creating One Voice -
so that we can change reality together, and I am taking initiatives and trying new ideas (some may
work, some may not), but change is better than another year of the same. In fact, things don't stay
the same, they either go up, or down, and I have seen far too long the direction of poetry.
Do you know how far back it goes that poets have been made to be quiet. Centuries. Writers
would have to put on plays secretly to get their work seen, and hide pages, and we are still
carrying some of this energy, and stigma with us. We are going to break free from all of this,
and get the job done.
For those of you who don't know my background - I am an Internet Marketer by trade,
and poet by heart.
Among other business ventures, this is what pays the bills, supports Poetry Canada magazine, and
supports the Canadian Federation of Poets. But I want us to be able to support ourselves at what
we really love to do - write poetry, read our poetry, listen to poetry, whatever that passion may be.
I haven't worked out the whole plan yet, it is in its infancy - and if you have ideas - email them
to me and I will introduce each of them through the newsletter, and give you credit for them. Great
ideas need to be shared, and this is the tool we will use to do that right now.
Are you with me so far? Good. Because I can't do this alone. It will take each and every
subscriber to do something within their own environment, their own mindset and their own
family and friends. And I think we will be amazed at how easy this will be when we do it together.
For starters, I am going to be purchasing master resell rights for some
e-books
so that you can get them for a bargain, that will help us to market,
promote, and take advantage of the largest delivery method in the world, the Internet. I make millionaires
in the business world with internet marketing, and we can do the same thing here.
So I am going to give you the first task which has two parts.
Think like a business person when marketing your book. Not like a poet, we use that to create the
book, but now we have to switch our hats, and sell the book. You don't have to think like a salesperson,
but think like a marketer - and look outside of your own box and come up with a different way
to market your book. We need to get out of our own heads, and tell everyone what we have, what we
do, and why they need it. We are helping them, and a book is a business.
Read something different to help you do this. I have an e-book that I can offer at
a really good price about conquering AMAZON. Take a look at this, or find something else in the
library, from your
office, something that deals with the ability to give you a new skill, or a new way or idea
to distribute and share the words you need to have heard.
And as an aside - if you have a book you want to get published, don't wait another year.
If you believe in what you've written, get your book done, take it to a company such as
LuLu Press like we did for our reprint, or
contact contract publishers such as Hidden Brook Press.
You're going to need your book, because by the end of this year, you're going to also be a marketer.
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CFP EVENTS
Thursday January 18th, 2007 - 7pm
Oakville Federation
Contact: George Arnold
Timothy's World Coffee
321 Lakeshore Rd. E, Oakville,
Open mic event where poets and performers can get together and share both poetry and short stories.
Sunday January 21st, 2007 - 2pm
Ottawa Federation
Contact: Richard Vallance
Royal Oak II Restaurant
161 Laurier East, Ottawa
Every third Sunday of the month. 2-4pm
Admission: Free
Open mic event where poets and performers can get together and share both poetry and short stories.
Halifax Federation of Poets contact Betty Dobson or Donelda Kent at
bettyd@federationofpoets.com or doneldak@federationofpoets.com
Durham Region Federation of Poets contact Stella Ducker at
StellaCD@federationofpoets.com
Penticton, BC Federation of Poets contact Donna Thompson
at: DonnaT@federationofpoets.com
Calgary, Alberta Federation of Poets contact Wei Yin
at: weiyin@federationofpoets.com
Check out all of our happenings or get complete details on the above events from our
online calendar.
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