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  • Linking to Mira’s List

    Today we’re linking to Mira’s List.

    Mira is a visual artist, educator, and author with a list of MFA’s you could stack books on. She appears to have been everywhere and done everything, and I also like her because she was an adult in the eighties. (I have very specific interests, I know.) And because she’s been published in the Bellingham Review, from my hometown Bellingham, for whose annual poetry chapbook contest I was a semifinalist when I was 19. (That’s the only poetry contest I’ve ever entered. A few years later, I drew the cover illustration for another poet’s Bellingham Review chapbook, The End of Forgiveness by Joe Green.) Also because she likes bluegrass. We are very big on bluegrass at our house.

    However, Mira is important to you, personally, because her website is entirely devoted to researching and publishing information on grants, fellowships, and other such resources for artists and writers. You heard me right—she does this free, just because she likes you. I suppose.

    And, even more important than that, she’s an educational consultant for the Transcultural Exchange, whose mission is to promote world peace through an understanding of the many cultures that make up this amazing planet we call home and this human species we call ours.

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2 Responses to “Linking to Mira’s List”

  1. Mira said on November 14th, 2009 at 9:16 am

    Well, that is one of the nicest things anyone has said about me on a blog! Thank you so much for linking to me. Funny thing–as I was reading your post I was uploading some bluegrass tunes to learn on the fiddle. Anyway–thanks for linking to me and I was wondering if you want to be on my new link list for editorial services? Just send me an email: mbartok@gmail.com and let me know. My miraslist email was just disabled for some reason so don’t email me there. Best wishes, Mira

  2. Victoria said on November 14th, 2009 at 11:43 am

    I would love to be on your list, Mira. I’ll send you email.

    And you play the bluegrass fiddle—how cool is that! My son and I took fiddle lessons together when he was four, and we still have our fiddles. (His is tiny!) Now he’s talking about learning to play my dad’s old banjo. He runs his own bluegrass radio show in his bedroom, KLAM, which he makes tapes of—complete with d.j. banter and nonsense in-jokes between himself and a whole cast of jocular imaginary characters.

    Bluegrass is so good for the soul.

    Victoria

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I recently edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Dark and Cold.

Although my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was only a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation, in 2009 I edited two nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth.

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has new stories forthcoming in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's debut novel The Ishmael Blade.

I edited Pushcart Prize nominee Ania Vesenny's debut novel, Swearing in Russian at the Northern Lights, forthcoming from the Invisible Press, 2011.