Sandy Coomer
@SandyCoomer
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Poet, artist, endurance athlete. Editor: Rockvale Review. Director: Rockvale Writers' Colony. Author: Rivers Within Us and Available Light. Fav word: Believe
Brentwood, TN
Joined July 2017
Kickstart your weekend with the Voices from the Sky podcast! Our first episode features tremendous insights from the Tennessee-based poet, Sandy Coomer, and her stunning poem, “How to Spell America.” https://t.co/opSyVFMvZD
#podcast #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #litmag
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Immigration, Language, and Communication. I'm grateful to discuss these important issues via a poem in the new Sky Island Journal podcast series, Voices of the sky. The poem is titled "How to Spell America." Take a listen!
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I'm so happy to share Issue Six of @RockvaleReview which has 33 incredible poems, art paired with each one by @shelleykthomas and music for some by Michael Morton. The work by fellow editors @YasminKloth, Christine Fraser, @PoetBroderick, and Shahe Mankerian is a beautiful thing!
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There are ten more days to submit your poems to @RockvaleReview. We've got 2 fine new editors: @PoetBroderick and @YasminKloth joining us for this issue and 3 returning editors. We want to read your poems! Send them in!
rockvalereview.com
Rockvale Review has ended its run as an online journal of writing. We invite you to view the work of our writers by clicking on the links for the individual issues. Guidelines applicable to all gen…
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I'm looking forward to @WriterFestNSH this November 22-23. Ciona Rouse and I will be talking poetry in a panel called "Poetry in Motion: Writers Using Artful Language." Still time to register for this conference created to empower, inspire, and promote writers!
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Because I don't like to hear myself talk, I might not listen to this interview, but maybe YOU should and see the lovely things AROHO is doing to support women writers and artists. @RockvaleWriters is providing a one-week residency for one lucky writer!
Hot off the presses! Listen to the effervescent @SandyCoomer founder of @RockvaleWriters talk about "a room of her own," the power of creativity, and her gift of a writer's residency. Will be drawing this holiday season! Find here: https://t.co/lR62nkGivq
#makeroom
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Come say hi if you're going to be at the Decatur Book Festival this weekend. I'm reading poetry at noon on Saturday at Ammazza and Rockvale Writers' Colony will be in Booth 437. It's gonna be fun!
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Big thanks to @SinkingCity for published 2 pieces of art in Issue 6. I'm very grateful! https://t.co/ESfR5tot4l
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I'm so happy to share this news! Poet Shahe Mankerian is now part of the editorial team of Rockvale Review. See how the universe is smiling! Let the poetry world rejoice with us!
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Putting this out there: Rockvale Review wants to add another editor to better represent the poetic diversity across the country and widen our editorial viewpoints. We're looking for a western state female poet of color to join our team of 5. For details: rockvalereview@gmail.com.
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I have new art online at The University of Pittsburgh's way cool journal, @HMBMag. So grateful and happy! https://t.co/WmibH6l7nt
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With huge gratitude to novelist Jennie Fields, I'm sharing this beautiful essay on @chapter16's website about her stay at Rockvale Writers' Colony. And she has a sweet book deal too!
chapter16.org
Sometimes long ‘marriages’ don’t work out. I had just left my literary agent of twenty-seven years, a bittersweet parting. My new agent was responsive an…
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This is what I believe: The world needs your kindness. The world needs your goodness. If you put it out there, no matter if you see its effect or not, the world feels it. And the world is changed. Shhhhh. Listen. The world is changed.
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I'm happy to have some art in this very cool journal! I'm also very grateful to the editors!
Some amazing artwork from @SandyCoomer in the latest issue. Both through this link below and spread out through the entire issue. https://t.co/Ca7iujborn
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Rockvale Review had to close a little early for Issue Four, but we'll be back in July!
Yikes! We had to close Issue Four early! So sorry, poets, but we received a massive number of submissions and we reached our allowed limit yesterday. No more until the reading period for Issue Five opens in July. We want to read your poems so send us something this summer!
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I created Rockvale Writers’ Colony so that other writers who carry the weight of their own creative genius can have a safe and inspiring place to risk it, to believe in it, to free it. And to offer it to the world with all its power and beauty.
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because it’s who I must be in order to be authentic. I submit and risk rejection. I create and risk disapproval. I write and risk misunderstanding. I do it because to refuse that power is to refuse myself. And that is something I won’t do, I can’t do.
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The genius of creativity can be terrifying because it’s soul-baring, and heart-opening, and it makes us vulnerable. But it’s necessary and essential too. Believing in the power of my words makes me fearless and daring, makes me believe the risk is what I must do,
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