now if we could just sit on the cannons and hatch laughter at the stupidity
called history

     Mission Statement:

     This web site is designed to be a one-of-a-kind piece that evokes a multimedia
     cluster of images, sounds, observations, written words, and explorations. Its wish
     is to become a street corner in the global internet city where poets, artists,
     performers and painters can gather, stand on their hind legs and sing all manner of
     strange and wondrous songs like ekphrastic nightingales from unidentifiable celestial
     bodies.Their opinions and visions may wax as diverse and plentiful as the stars
     and create an intervibrational harmony for all to sample. The site includes written
     poetry, recorded poetry, video dramatic performance of painting poetry dance and
     music, storytelling, and oral history. In short, it proposes to be an internet festival of
     the arts in the true ancient oral tradition.


     Biographical information:

     Firmly believing poetry is the origin of wisdom in the evolution of consciousness,
     Stephen Rozwenc lives and composes his verse in the pastoral village of
     Haydenville, MA. Its population includes about 600 human beings and numerous
     other perspicacious wildflowers, fish, and animals he considers number among
     his closest friends and acquaintances. His home is located just off the eastern
     edge of the first slope in the Massachusetts Berkshire hills. He also maintains this
     street corner address in the bobbling midst of the 21st century internet city.

     He has published a collection of poems entitled, The Fourth Turning, and a
     chapbook, Grass Hill.The chapbook was printed on a one hundred year old
     letterpress with its garamond type hand set by the author. The chapbook's costs
     were funded by a Massachusetts Arts Council Grant. Poems in his current new
     collection have recently appeared in the following publications: "Philadelphia Poets",
     www.PoetsWest.com, "Poets At Work", "In The Arts" magazine. and "The Whole
     In The Doughnut". In addition, selections from a CD of his recorded and performed
     poetry will be aired by KSER 90.7 fm public radio this fall on the "Poets West"
     weekly public radio poetry program.

     He has run poetry workshops at the Zone Art Center in Springfield, MA and taught
     writing in the writing center at Holyoke Community College, in Holyoke, MA. for 6
     years. He has also served as the editor/publisher of "Fractals", an arts and literary
     newsprint broadside.

     He holds a B.A. degree from Colgate University and is a Montessori trained
     elementary teacher. He has participated in poetry workshops with poets James Tate,
     J. D. Reed, Joseph Langland, and Allen Ginsberg.

     Signed Copies of The Fourth Turning are available for purchase. The volume contains
     53 poems composed in the 1980's. The price for one copy of this signed, limited
     edition of 150 is $50.00. Contact SRozwenc@aol.com for purchase and shipping
     information.

     Signed copies of Grass Hill are available for purchase. This chapbook contains 10
     pages of poems printed in handset type on a 100 year old letterpress. It is a unique
     collection. The price for one copy of this signed, limited edition of 75 is $25.00.
     Contact the poet at SRozwenc@aol.com for purchase and shipping information.

     Contact information: My email address is SRozwenc@aol.com. If any poets wish to
     be added as a "guest room" in The Poet's Inn, please send your work in the body of
     an email. Attachments will not be opened.

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