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Megan Burns, Bill Lavender, and the New Orleans Poetry Festival Team:
First, thank you all so much for hosting this event. It is a highlight to poets, presses, and more.
It would be a joy and an honor to participate on behalf of Meadowlark Press (and its poetry imprint specifically, Meadowlark Poetry Press) by having a table and/or having a group reading with a few of our poets. I presently serve as Meadowlark’s publicist and poetry editor and would personally attend the event, along with some Meadowlark poets, including Kansas Notable Book Award winner Brian Daldorph; Birdy Poetry Prize winner Alison Hicks; Co-Editor of New Orleans-based small press, Six Ft. Swells Press, Julie Valin; and repeat Meadowlark author and badass, Olive Sullivan. We would love to have a table that features these poets, their books, as well as other Meadowlark poetry books, which can all be found on meadowlarkpoetrypress.com. Meadowlark has a history of publishing the Kansas Poets Laureate, has had a collection endorsed by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, and, though I love to celebrate these notable traits, what we really love to do is bring people together through poetry. Meadowlark believes that books are a way to explore, connect, and discover. Poetry incites us to observe and think in new ways, bridging our understanding of the world with our artistic need to interact with, shape, and share it with others. Publishing poetry is our way of saying, “We love these words, we want to preserve them, we want to play a role in sharing them with the world.” What better place than to do this in New Orleans? Being a part of this event, we all get to support poetry—something we all passionately care about.
Thank you for your consideration!
Take care,
Linzi Garcia
Publicist and Poetry Editor
Meadowlark Press
www.meadowlarkbookstore.com
(303) 547-6763
