Dancing Elephants Press 1st Poetry Book
Announcing Final poets and next steps
Say those words The ones I dream The way you tell me The most beautiful they seem. GK 2/28/23
💥Our First Poetry Book💥
Goal: Spread joy and positivity through poetry
I have to be honest I could not deny anyone who showed interest to be part of this poetry book. Poetry is very close to my heart and if you want to be here you meant to be here. Welcome to our new journey into the world of poetry together to create something beautiful that speaks to the heart and brings joy into our lives.
🐘🐘Poetry sings like harmony to me. Thank you for being here with me.
DEP Poetry Book 1–2023
Poets
Tagging the poets✍ — I would greatly appreciate it if you commented to let me know you saw this post. Thank you!
Dancing Elephants Press Poetry Collection Project
William J Spirdione, Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar, Garima Sharma, Buddhi Ruparathna, Sanghita Pal, Leah Lynch, Warren “Storyteller” Brown, Christopher Grant, Divya Goswami, Lisa Precious / Smiley Blue, NancyO, Carmen Micsa, MA in English, podcaster and Dr. Fatima Imam.
Your editors for the poetry book will be Dr. Gabriella Korosi, Dr. Preeti Singh, Sharing Randomly and Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles.
Next steps
💥Biography submission to DEP and to DEP’s e-mail address. If you are also part of the Spirituality book and submitted a biography you do not need to submit a second one. Deadline March 15th.
A few wonderful biography examples here to date
💥Register to Draft2Digital —our publishing platform send your registration username to DEP’s e-mail.
💥10 original poems were posted in Dancing Elephants Press between Jan 2023 -July 31st, 2023. Use tag #DEP Poetry #Dancingelephantspress. If DEP editors have concerns regarding the poems you choose and send to us for the book project we will reach out to you to discuss.
💥 Make sure we have your e-mail address and you got a link to our WhatsApp chat. Our ways to connect easily with you if we have a question, update or a concern.
💥The next ZOOM meeting will be on March 18th at 7 am PST. The meeting will be recorded and the recording will be placed on DEP’s YouTube channel. Please bring your questions. If we need additional time for the poetry book project we will schedule more meetings. By joining you agree to the recording.
Meeting ID: 864 9110 7384 Passcode: Sy3vZ6 Join Zoom Meeting https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86491107384?pwd=b2gxTGN4SWpDdW5FNjFaTXFoVDdFUT09
💥Also, send the poem collection in word document format (no links or pictures) to the dancing elephants e-mail by or before July 31st. The first 5 poems are due by April 30th. Next five by July 31st.
💥Start submitting your poetry to DEP publication and send them to DEP’s e-mail address in a word document as well.
A few recent wonderful poems below from Lisa Precious / Smiley Blue
By NancyO
by Leah Lynch
💥Sign poetry book consent and return to DEP’s e-mail. Dr. Gabriella Korosi sill working on these will be sent out soon.
💥Looking for ideas how we should name our amazing poetry book. Thoughts? Please share your ideas in the chat.
Have questions or need clarifications? Do not hesitate to get in touch with us via email at: [email protected] or via a private note, or a comment on this post.
Please support each other by tagging and highlighting another DEP writer’s work you have read in your post.
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🐘🐘Please e-mail us your contact information so we can add you to our DEP Community on Whatsapp if you are not a participant yet. This invitation is open to any DEP writers.🐘🐘
With love from your editors:
Dr. Gabriella Korosi, Sharing Randomly, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Dr. Preeti Singh,
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