Category: poetry

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  Mortals, Myths and Maybes releases tomorrow

  Earlier this week, I headed to the Post Office, one of the less glamorous jobs I have to do, to mail custom bookmarks and our Parisian Phoenix bookmarks to McKenna Graf who plans to stuff publicity boxes for her poetry collection Mortals, Myths and Maybes which launches TOMORROW. When people ask me about the…

  20 Jun 2024
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  Otto the Oak launch this weekend and other news

  Parisian Phoenix has the following news to announce: This weekend, in honor of Arbor Day, Echo City Capers will launch The Ballad of Otto the Oak at the Barnes & Noble in Center Valley, Pa. Author Ralph Greco Jr. and illustrator Joseph Swarctz will be on hand 11 a.m. April 27 to sign books and celebrate this story of…

  26 Apr 2024
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  April Showers bring poetry?

  This weekend launches a fun April for us. Parisian Phoenix has a little bit of everything happening, from a school visit on Thursday to the grand opening celebration of the Blue Flame Retail Store at the Palmer Park Mall in Easton, Pa., and of course, our first official event of National Poetry Month, Poet…

  2 Apr 2024
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  The Poetry Preseason

  In February, on the first of the month, Parisian Phoenix will be sponsoring the poetry workshop supplies for the Noble Quills Poetry Workshop and Open Mic at the Barnes & Noble, Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township, Pa. The event starts at 7 p.m. in the Barnes & Noble cafe, which their cafe…

  23 Jan 2024
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  A Noble Quills Poetry Workshop & Debut

  Our local Barnes & Noble has a poetry open mic about two times a month. That’s Barnes & Noble 2210 at the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township, Pa. The community relations manager there, Ron, has asked me to table at PoetPallooza II as a local publisher (and he’s very…

  5 Jan 2024
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  Another Day in the Life of a Small Publisher (December edition)

  As publisher here at Parisian Phoenix, my days never quite go as planned. But I thought I’d take a moment to describe a recent approximate 24-hours-in-the-life. Let’s start roughly at 5 p.m. last night. I had completed a project earlier in the day for a client, and sent it to…

  8 Dec 2023
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  News, NaNo and the Noble Quills

  It’s been a few days of minor excitement. Projects for new clients are coming together– a journalist friend looking for help launching a socially-conscious web news magazine, Dr. Steven Hymovitch’s upcoming The Emotionally Intelligent Dental Office has reemerged on my schedule for a block tomorrow, a ghostwriting true crime project…

  2 Nov 2023
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  Disability Poetics

  Parisian Phoenix editor Nancy Scott and I have worked together now for probably a decade. She thought I might know someone who could help her manage her writing career, and I told her I’d just do it, and she protested that I probably had better things to do with my…

  26 Oct 2023
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  One More Day

  What’s the difference between a book and a blog post? It’s not a joke, but a question presented by Andy Laties of Book & Puppet Company at the Easton Book Festival’s independent academic researchers’ panel Friday night. (The event was very well attended and preceded our Juicy Bits book launch.…

  21 Oct 2023
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  Parisian Phoenix events at Easton Book Festival

  Juicy Bits released last week and can be purchased at all the regular places like Amazon, or Bookshop.org, or you can ask your local bookseller to order it for you from Ingram. We will be hosting a launch party at the Easton Book Festival at Book & Puppet Company on the circle (22 Centre Square) in downtown…

  20 Oct 2023