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In the near future, the change and online users are going to be much more clear. (along the lines of the facebook chat) Working on it!

Fondly

stephan 

If you're going to be there, let me know. I'll make sure I'm around to talk with you. You can visit the festival site for more information!


FEATURED PRESSES

 Adventures in Poetry / Zephyr Press
Black Sparrow Press / Godine Publishing
Bootstrap Press
Cuneiform Press
Fence Magazine / Fence Books
The Figures
Hanging Loose Press
Loom Press
Pressed Wafer
Ugly Duckling Presse
Zoland Books
 
Other Presses and Magazines

 AGNI
Albatross
Anamorphy Press
Ballard Street
Black Ocean
Boston Review
Café Review
Cervana Barva Press
The Chuckwagon
Critical Documents
Farfalla Press
Flim Forum Press
Fulcrum Magazine
Ibbetson Press
Jubilat
Quale Press
Shakespeare's Monkey Revue
Upstreet
Worcester Review

GETTING THERE

To drive to the ALL Arts Gallery, from either

Interstate Route 495 (Exit 35C) or Route 3 (Exit 30A if traveling southbound, Exit 30B if traveling northbound) take the Lowell Connector to Thorndike Street (Exit 5B). On Thorndike Street, which becomes Dutton Street, continue straight through four traffic lights.  Turn right onto Market Street and the gallery will be on your right at the National Park Visitor Center.  Parking is available on the street and in the Market Street Garage, which is just past the gallery on your right.<br style="display:none" gauntlet_tokenizer_reserved=""/>

Commuter rail service is available from Boston's North Station to Lowell's Gallagher Terminal. Lowell Regional Transit Authority shuttles run between Gallagher Terminal and downtown Lowell every half hour. Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

CONTACT:

If you have any questions about Lowell or the festival, feel free to contact me directly at stephan@shakespearesmonkeys.com

There is also a new private chat feature. It's a bit burried, but folks on-line on the site can now chat through the site. I found it a bit bulky and slow, but it does work. It can't be anything but good for the site. If you go to a user profile and click 'contact' it's in there.

Oh, and you can invite others to join and have 3-4-6 way chats if you'd like.

I think you can also use it to co-browse and collaborate on pages as well. I'm not sure though, I Haven't tested it that extensively.

The only reason for the new look is that the old template breaks the new site. We'll get that fixed asap. Don't panic.

Love,

stephan

Well, there is a lot to talk about people, so why don't i start the conversation and you jump in as needed.

First of all, the latest issue is out. If every member bought just one copy, i would break even! So there's the challenge. Find it in your heart to buy a single copy of the magazine. Support poetry. Support writing. Support the arts. Put your money where your mouth is, and your pen wants to be!

I know it's a lot to ask, but if you believe in this like i do, help me publish people who might not otherwise get the chance.

Second of all, support our advertisers. Fundsforwriters.com , Loom Press , Sperry Software and Bootstrap Productions . Each of them are tremendous supporters of the arts, poetry and writers in general. By buying their products, and supporting them, you're helping artists all over the world get a chance to share their work.

Next, the contest is going on right now! So far, It hasn't quite paid for itself, and that's ok, i guess. I certainly don't mind writing the checks to support the wonderful poets who've won, and then publishing them in the magazine. However, there's a greater goal here, that i hope you can all embrace -- every entry that goes beyond paying out on the prize, helps support both this site and the magazine. The goal is to pay everyone that is published in the magazine with the proceeds from the contest. If you believe in paying people for their work, then please encourage your friends to enter, and enter yourself.

Last but not least, for now, i want to thank you for all the ways you support me. The site, the magazine, and the wonderful little notes and pats on the back. It is greatly appreciated and makes it all worth while.

Later this week, they will receive their top-secret package containing all the entries and will take a fwe days to pore over them to determine the winner.

As soon as I know, I will notify the winner, then announce to the world! 

As winner of the contest Amanda Baker receives $100, publication in the debut issue of Shakespeare's Monkeys Revue, and qualification for Shakespeare's Monkey’s $100 prize for best poem of the year in December. Honorable Mention goes to Carol Lucas for her poem “Number 14.” I would also like to commend all the contestants for the high quality of work submitted, allowing this to be a great success.

Fondly,
Stephan Anstey
Publisher of Shakespeare's Monkey Revue

Many of you probably noticed a ton of emails from the site tonight. That is all old stuff that was waiting for you. As the weekend goes on hopefully the problem will be fixed.

In the meantime there'll be no more email floods.

In other news..

Well, geez, there's too much to go into it all. Let's just say. Contest. Magazine. Big changes. Tracey. Julie. Leanne. Alcuin. Derma. Laurie. Rockin!

Site, getting better.

Changings coming to look.

Um. Ok. I'll say more tomorrow tonight, I'll say. yawn.

On behalf of the site and the magazine and all the little monkeys out there in the Amazon jungle hanging from their prehensile tails, I'd like to wish the beloved old-coot a happy birthday.