Flattered and honored, I can’t help but note the subjectiveness of such lists, which is why I seldom do them. One poet’s top 100 is another poet’s bottom feeder net. But I do say I am in some good company.

Other poetry blogs that made the list include:

• Ted Kooser’s American Life In Poetry at No. 2
• Harriet: The Blog (The Poetry Foundation) at No. 4
• Read Write Poem at No. 9
• DIY Publishing at No. 15
• Poetry Hut at No. 16
• 32 Poems Magazine at No. 20
• Paul Hoover at No. 23
• Silliman at No. 25
• One Poet’s Notes at No. 32
• Very Like A Whale at No. 41
• Mark Doty at No. 50
• Mike Snider at No. 52
• PoemShape at No. 72
• Jack Prelutsky at No. 80

While I’d order these blogs in a much different way, I do agree with most of the selections. There are some irritations with this list, however.

For starters, Harriet is not a blogger. It’s the name of The Poetry Foundation’s blog and is written by a team of contributors. University Reviews Online could have done a little more homework. MetaCafe and WCBN-FM are not poetry blogs. While they include poetry videos and programming as a part of their public offerings, it’s a stretch to call them poetry blogs. While I appreciate the intent in including them on the list I’d much rather see blogs like Robert Lee Brewer’s, a real poetry blog, make the list. And I’m saddened by the absence of The Kenyon Review’s and Ploughshare’s blogs.

Nevertheless, I’m honored to be listed among the 100. Any idea where I fall? Not that it matters, but right behind Poetry Hound at position No. 29.

BTW, many of the blogs on this list can be read through the World Class Poetry Toolbar.

And if you’re interested, there’s a new book review at WCP. Ever wanted to learn how to make a living as a poet?

Actually, it wasn’t. But it was free, which made it seem really nice. And if you had any technical know-how, and most of us didn’t, then it was really good because you didn’t need any. Geocities had all the tools you needed to set up your own website. And since there weren’t any search engines not to get found in (well, not many anyway), it didn’t really matter how good you were at building a website. The few hundred other website owners at Geocities might find you anyway because you might have been smart enough to list your little website at Yahoo!

Back then, Yahoo! was a directory and not much more. It was the leading place on the Web to find information because website owners themselves submitted their sites in the categories they wanted to be found in. Google hadn’t even been thought of yet.

One year after a little start up called Google turned its lights on – 1999 for those of you with no fingers – Yahoo! bought Geocities. We were all in awe of Yahoo!

I was one of those Geocitizens with a presence in the little community that came to be owned by Yahoo! The year was 1997. I thought it would be cool to publish some of my poetry on a website so Geocities was a nice place to stack my pens. It really didn’t last long. I went on to buy my own domain name and built an actual website using HTML (though I won’t reveal what that website is because it’s just too much an embarrassment). But I was cool for about a year.

Imagine my surprise when I read the other day that Yahoo! was shutting down Geocities. They weren’t even selling it. Or replacing it with anything. Not even a plan to revamp it. Just killing it. Splat!

I wasn’t really surprised, but I feigned it for a second. I’m not making this up.

Get Your Own Poetry Blog Now! (Before It’s Too Early)
This just goes to show you can’t say never and you should never rely on free hosting.

So why should I mention this? Because it seems that the majority of poets publishing a blog today are doing it through another free host – Blogger.com, owned by Google. The largest search engine on planet earth. (Drumroll please: This should really be dramatic!)

Do you really think Google will be the biggest and baddest forever? We thought that about Yahoo! Do you think that Blogspot (Blogger.com) will be around forever? We thought that about Geocities. Today, Yahoo! is threatened with extinction and Geocities is studying to be a paleontological discovery. And me? I’m just looking forward to Armageddon.

So anyway, short story long, what will happen to all of your blog content if you are hosting through Blogger.com and Google decides to abort the baby? Well, you’ll just end up scraping little pieces of placenta off the pavement (if you can bend down that low) and wish you had listened to all of those fire and brimstone preachers warning you about the end of the world. Hell hath no fury like a blogger forewarned!

Ah, digressions aside (and indiscretions too), if you really want your blog to be a lasting document (like a will and testament or a Supreme Court decision) then you should spring $10 for a domain name. No, really, that’s all it costs. $10. Of course, you’ll have to have a host for your domain, but that usually costs about $3 per month if you go with the shared hosting plan at one of the least expensive hosts. And the benefit is this: You’ll own the blog. Lock, stock, and gunny sack. And no one can shut you down.

My One And Only Offer For Salvation (Baptism Optional)
I realize not everyone has the technical know-how to install blog software and set it up properly. I bet you could teach yourself. It really isn’t hard. But you may not want to. No problem.

If you want a poetry blog and you are willing to buy a domain name and pay for the hosting, I’ll install and set up your software for you. WordPress is very easy to use. It’s almost intuitive. If you can type a letter using Microsoft Word then you can write a blog post using WordPress. It’s free, just like Blogger.com. Except that you can keep WordPress forever, like concert tickets. (In fact, I have the latest copy of WordPress and I’ll let you have it.)

This offer is only good if you set up a poetry blog. No charge. I’ll install WordPress and set it up for you, including ensuring that your settings are set to the best optimization standards. The only thing that I ask in return is that I put a link back to World Class Poetry Blog and my sister site, World Class Poetry, in the footer of your blog. Nothing auspicious or conspicuous, just a little attribution link for doing the work (I normally charge $200 for WordPress setups).

I’m limiting this offer to five poets or poetry-related blogs. Your blog can be for a blog on poetics, a blog on which you post your own poetry, a blog for a poetry journal, or any blog that is poetry in nature. You can’t take advantage of this offer for any other type of blog. Exclusively for poets. Plus, I’ll add your blog to the World Class Poetry Toolbar.

To take advantage of this offer, send me a request through my contact form (be sure to let me know in the comments that you are responding to this offer) and I’ll get back in touch with you about your poetry blog. Wouldn’t you much rather own the property and not just the content?

In summary, publishing is a business. Even if you self-publish, you’ve got to impress your editor and your publisher with a product that can sell. Do your editor and publisher have the skills to know what readers will buy?

The hard part is the marketing. If you aren’t prepared to handle the marketing part of your book, even a self-published poetry book, then you shouldn’t be publishing. It’s your money, but publishing a book without intent to earn a profit on it just because you think it’s good is sheer vanity. Throwing a blog up with all of your poems on it as a free buffet isn’t publishing. It’s giving away your rare jewels (if the poetry is any good). If it isn’t any good then you’re just giving away pebble stones.

An author thinks about creation. An editor thinks about packaging. A publisher thinks about marketing. You’d better be able to do all three or you’ll never survive.

Unfortunately, most of what is published online in the way of poetry, just as in print, is poetry rather than commentary on poetics, or essays. That is one of the reasons why I spend so much time on World Class Poetry Blog discussing poetics. There just isn’t enough of it and that’s a problem.

What there is plenty of instead is the publishing of poetry. It might seem strange for a poet, and someone who enjoys reading poetry, to say that free and accessible poetry is a problem. But it is. The reason I say that is because much of what is published online, just as in print, is rubbish and ought not to be read at all.

Why Single Out Online Publishing?
The first and obvious question I know I’ll get from readers about making this statement is, “If most poetry published in print and online is bad poetry then why single out online poetry as a problem?” That’s a good question and one well worth asking.

The reason I single out online publishing is because there are fewer barriers to entry for the self publisher (and the bulk of the problem is with self publishing).

Print publishing always bears an expense. Even a small chapbook costs the self publisher something. Online, however, self publishers can open up an account at Blogger or WordPress – and many have – which is free, and publish their full portfolio of poetic works for the world to see. No expense. No barrier to entry. The learning curve for using Blogger and WordPress is nil. A basic ability to read and comprehend a keyboard is all that is necessary.

So there are really two basic barriers to entry for self publishers that make it easier to publish online than in print:

1. Financial
2. Technological

Then there are two more barriers to entry that I would call indirect barriers to entry to publication in the broader sense:

1. Market Demand
2. Built-In Gatekeepers

Poetry is deemed a low-value item by most people in our culture. For a print publisher, even an independent press or self publisher, that is itself an indirect barrier to entry. In many respects, this is a larger barrier to entry for independent presses because there are always more expenses than the mere cost of printing (marketing, delivery, payroll, etc). But the publisher must always recoup expenses in order to continue publishing, and for the self publisher with no name recognition or reputable publishing house behind him, that can be an issue.

Which brings me to my next point. In order to get published by a reputable publisher, a poet must go through at least one gatekeeper. If one seeks publication through a journal, there is an editor (and even small journals have at least one). At larger publications there may be an additional gatekeeper who is a reader and whose job it is to read through a slush pile and recommend the best picks to the editor or publisher, who then selects from the best of those. Other publications use a “checks and balances” system that require multiple decision makers, co-editors usually, to give their input. Even book publishers have a system that requires one or more people to read manuscripts and approve them, so for a poet that has no name recognition and few publication credits this is another barrier to entry to the world of publication itself.

To get over the hurdles of these barriers to entry, many poets have succumbed to the temptation of online self publishing and that’s the reason for this discussion.

Why Online Self Publishing Is A Form Of Vanity
Vanity publishing has traditionally involved an independent publishing house providing a service for authors who pay to be published. In essence, the author pays for the manufacturing costs of getting published then they are faced with the ardent task of recouping their investment through marketing and sales of their product. Most do not recoup their investment. But they feel good about being published and have bragging rights.

Some vanity publishers exist in the form of a contest where the poet sends in a submission along with an entry fee. This is a more subtle form of vanity because it acts under the veneer of respectability. If the poet “wins” the contest, she is “honored” with publication. Most of these vanity schemes, however, publish all contest entrants so there isn’t really much of an honor other than the warm, fuzzy feeling the poet gets in the pit of his stomach for being suckered.

Thanks to Blogger and WordPress, a poet can get that warm and fuzzy without an entry fee or paying for publication costs. The poet may not have any more readers than before, but she gets all of the same benefits, including bragging rights, with none of the expenses or drawbacks to other forms of vanity.

One can refer to online self publishing as “independent publishing” or anything else for that matter, but I consider it vanity publishing because, with a few exceptions, most poets publishing themselves online would probably not be able to get into print through traditional means of publication. Unless they paid the entry fee or the manufacturing costs, many of those poets would simply send in poem after poem after poem and get nothing back but rejection letters, if that. That hardly classifies someone as a member of the esteemed literati.

Now I’m not saying that self publishing is itself a vain pursuit. Many fine poets and writers were self publishers – Dickens, Whitman, Poe, and I could spend days going through the list – but there is something about the nature of vanity publishing in general that tends to take away from the value of and credibility of being a published author or poet. But what is that exactly?

How Vanity Destroys Value
Vanity destroys value in a number of ways. First, by masquerading as something of value it pretends to be the thing that it imitates. That’s always destructive. Just ask any Christian who considers the arch-nemesis of Jesus, Satan, to be a faux “angel of light”.

Secondly, vanity destroys because it really doesn’t bother with the task of self improvement. This is a bigger issue because art always retains its value by being something that is in possession of admirable qualities. Those qualities vary from work to work, but in general they consist of

• Uniqueness – Any work of art, be it poetry, photography, sculpture, dance, et. al. must bear a mark of individual originality. People who see value in any art form see an intrinsic value in the uniqueness of the work itself. No one wants to see a copy of something else. Everyone values originality.
• Connectivity – A work must also connect to some audience. It may not connect with the entire human race. It may hold some value only for a particular subset of humans based on race, religion, nationality, gender, or some other identification class. But a work of value must connect with some audience.
• Experiential Compensation – Finally, a work of art must provide an experience that acts as a form of reward for the audience. This is the subjective element of art. One person’s experience may be entirely different than another person’s experience, but the value in literature comes from this experience. Whether it makes one laugh, instills fear, or creates catharsis in some other way, a positive or negative reaction can be valuable enough in and of itself to prove a work of art as something worthy to be recognized.

So when we apply these three general values to poetry we can easily see the problem with vanity publishing. These three values may exist in great abundance but generally speaking exist only for the author, or primarily for the author and self publisher, but generally not for anyone else. The vanity publication is valuable to the publisher because the publisher believes that these three values exist and that others will recognize them; unfortunately, that rarely happens.

Fixing The Problem Of Vanity
There is only one way that I’m aware of to fix the problem of vanity. The vain must achieve an element of self awareness as it applies to that vanity. Calling oneself an independent publisher when no one else sees you that way does not make you an independent publisher any more than a man walking into a room and announcing himself a bag of raw fish makes him a bag of raw fish. A thing is what it is, not what it claims to be.

The value in a publication comes from what the reader, or the audience, of that publication walks away with. That may never be spoken or shared. But it’s there nonetheless.

Vanity self publishers should seek publication through other means prior to publishing their own works. Validation of one’s ability as a poet is important, not for the sake of ego but for the sake of value in poetry in general. When one poet improves his craft, the entire pantheon of poetic expression improves along with it. The tide rises all ships. This is the mystery of the value of literature. One man’s improved essence is the improved essence of all men.

The problem with vanity is that it seeks value in itself for itself. But poetic expression was not meant for that kind of valueless value. Poetic expression was meant to provide value by connecting with others through a unique mode of expression for the purpose of delivering a personal experience to the reader by way of the writer. When that happens, vanity vanishes and the poet’s audience will grow.

Poets who wish to be recognized as poets should first learn the many tools that poets use in the craft. They should practice them. They should then, after crafting a poem in which they have some pride, share it with others who are in a position to reject them. That does not mean your cat or the mailman. Although you may include the mailman by asking him to deliver your poem to a journal editor. You should put yourself in a position that promises you gain or delivers you pain. Publishing your own poetry on a blog may provide that if you are willing to accept honest feedback and accept when you get it. But the real essence of this type of gamble is in asking a gatekeeper to review your work and provide feedback or to submit it for publication and risk rejection. Then, when rejected, immediately look for ways to improve and go through the process again.

Why? Because print papers are dying. Meanwhile, online distribution is growing. What’s 2+2?

Well, literature is pretty much moving in the same direction, only slower.

I don’t think paper literature will ever die. There will still be newspapers in print. There are still radio programs that deliver the news, right? Old systems don’t just die off. They find their niche and hold on. So too do I think print editions of poetry will stick around even as the masses move to online delivery of a dying lit.

It’s already happening. How many poetry blogs are there? They’ve become sort of a cliche, a bit like family memoirs. The only people who care enough to read them are distant cousins. But the good ones really stand out. And it’s just a matter of time before a real literary “blockbuster” takes off in the digital world. There have been a few successes, but nothing yet really stands out as a true blockbuster in the NYT best seller sense. But I see it coming.

What do you see as the future of publishing for poetry and literature? Is there a new Gutenberg on the horizon?

Jim Lewin runs the local independent bookstore and curiosity shop called The York Emporium. I’ve written about it before. It seems that he had a little too much to drink on New Year’s Eve (sorry Jim) and made a New Year’s Resolution to maintain a blog. He credits me as the inspiration (now I know he was drinking!).

Bookflaps is just the kind of blog we need. Already, Jim has written some interesting blog posts:

• 50 Cents (dated Dec. 24, 2008 – get the impression I’ve been drinking?)
• Raymond Chandler
• Year 4
• The neatest thing in the shop
• We have a ghost? (People in these parts are infatuated with ghosts)
• Ian Fleming
• The Stratemeyer Syndicate

These are just the type of blog posts you’d expect from an emporium. I love Jim’s ephemeral tone about vintage trivia – literary things that matter. I’m also looking forward to more of Jim’s very interesting tidbits about the books and things he sells at the Emporium. From time to time I stumble in just to be reminded of what a book store is supposed to smell like. And when I leave, I’m hardly a short pace away before I miss it. I have a feeling that’s the way I’ll come to see Bookflaps too.

You’ll notice that I’ve added Jim’s blog to my blogroll. I hope you’ll visit often, kick back, and enjoy a good read. Just don’t lose your cigarette in the velour.

• Silliman’s Blog
• Poetry Hut
• Poetry Hound
• The New Verse News
• Paul Hoover’s Poetry Blog
• Lime Tree (K. Silem Mohammad)
• The Best American Poetry
• Harriet
• One Poet’s Notes
• Poetic Asides

I thought it was a shame that there would be a poetry aggregator somewhere and that these blogs would not be included. About three hours ago I got an e-mail from the Alltop administrator informing me that all of these sites were included and that they’d show up at Alltop within an hour. Well, they’re there now. And they are beautiful.

If you’re not familiar with Alltop.com then you may be familiar with one of its founders, Guy Kawasaki, a big-wig in the Web Business 2.0 world. It’s quite an honor to be selected as a member of the Alltop club, which also includes such poetic stalwarts as:

• Poets.org
• Cosmopoetica
• Blogsboro Poetry Club
• International Exchange For Poetic Invention
• 32 Poems
• Poems and Poetics
• Me~tronome
• They Shoot Poets – Don’t They?
• ThePoetryCollaborative.org
• Word Play Poetry Blog
• Read Write Poem

This is not a complete list of poetry sites included in the aggregation and I’m just as surprised at the poetry blogs that are not included:

• Silliman’s Blog
• Poetry Hut
• Poetry Hound
• The New Verse News
• Paul Hoover’s Poetry Blog
• Lime Tree (K. Silem Mohammad)
• The Best American Poetry
• Harriet
• One Poet’s Notes
• Poetic Asides
• And any of various poetry journal blogs (ie Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, et. al.)

There are a ton of great poetry blogs out there and while I may be in good company at Alltop, I’m not necessarily in the best company possible. Still, it’s an honor.

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1. The Vanity Blog – For lack of a better term, I’ll call the first category of poetry blog a “vanity blog”. The reason I call it a vanity blog is because the owner, the poet, simply uses the blog to post their own poems and they are not really much concerned with anything else. Vanity publishing has taken a new face from what it was a few years ago – it’s moved online and exists in two forms (digital and print self-publishing through services like AuthorHouse and Xlibris; and self-publishing through a blog). The second form of vanity publishing is the easiest and least costly. Many of these blogs are run for free because the blogger uses one of the free hosts like Blogger.com or WordPress.com, therefore there are no expenses involved (though I have seen one instance where the poet used Google AdWords to promote his blog and obtain new readers). Simply put, most of the vanity blogs exist solely for the poet’s own vanity. The poems are not that good and the readership is limited. However, there are a few poetry vanity blogs where the poems are not that bad, but I will leave that to your judgement.
2. The Marketing Blog – The second type of blog that you’ll find is what I call the marketing blog. These blogs are usually maintained by individual poets, journals and publications, and other poetry organizations. The purpose of these blogs is to promote the works of the poets, events of an organization, or to discuss issues related to a particular journal (such as contests, promotion of the poets published in the journal, deadlines, new issues, etc.). Some of the marketing blogs that I’d recommend are:
   • The Kenyon Review Blog
   • Harriet
   • Blogalicious
   • 32Poems
   • One Poet’s Notes
   • Poetic Asides
   • World Class Poetry
3. The Poetry Journal Blog – Some blogs act like poetry journals. That is, they have submission guidelines and accept poetry submissions from the general public then they publish the ones they like. Some noteworthy poetry journal blogs include:
   1. The New Verse News
   2. I’d love to hear other blogs that are poetry or literary journals
4. Poetry News – Another type of poetry blog you’ll find online is the blog that promotes poetry in general and that acts as a news resource for poets, delivering upcoming contests, new poetry journal announcements, etc. Here are a few poetry resource blogs I’d recommend:
   1. DIY Publishing
   2. NewPages
   3. Poetry Hound
   4. Poetry Hut
5. Philosophy Blogs – The last type of poetry blog you’ll find online is what I call a philosophical blog. Its primary purpose is to advance a particular philosophy of poetics or to discuss poetics in general. There aren’t as many of these types of blogs online as I’d like to see, but there are a few, including World Class Poetry Blog, and in addition to WCP I’d recommend these:
   1. Silliman’s Blog
   2. Lemon Hound
   3. William Watkins

I’m sure there are blogs that I’m leaving out in each category. I’d like it if you posted your own favorite blogs in each of these categories. We could add one other category – the Hybrid Blog – but I’m afraid that would be a huge list. The Hybrid Poetry Blog is one that could fall into more than one category above, such as the World Class Poetry Blog, which exists partly to discuss poetics in general and partly to market myself as a poet and my own works, including the sister site World Class Poetry (practically speaking, however, its purpose is primarily philosophical and secondarily marketing). Other blogs, such as Poetic Asides, serve similar functions.

I hope you find additional blogs to read here in this list and while I realize it’s a rather short list of mostly popular blogs that you’re likely already familiar with, I’d hope the benefit is to help us see how we can use blogging as a tool to further the cause of poetry. By categorizing the types of blogs currently online we may form new categories or expand upon the categories we now have. I’d like to see more poetry journals as blogs and more discussions of poetics taking place on blogs. Any takers?

First, if you aren’t familiar with Facebook, you should get familiar with it. It’s what is called a social networking tool and it allows you to network with other people who have similar interests no matter where they live. There is quite a community of poets already using Facebook and every day I bump into more. The tools available to poets for promoting their books, chapbooks, individual publishing successes, blogs, newsletters and e-zines, poetry journals, etc. are fabulous and expanding every day.

I’d like to highlight a few people who I believe have done very well at using Facebook to promote themselves and other poets. This is not an exhaustive list, but these are observations based on my own use of Facebook and the networking that I’ve been able to do. I’m only sorry that I haven’t done more through Facebook until now or I’d have more to share. You can bet that I’ll be using it more in the future.

Belinda Subraman on Facebook

Belinda Subraman is the host of a podcast that promotes poetry and independent music artists. Her show is called Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show. She frequently sends out calls for interview subjects and poetry MP3s, which she then plays on her show. I responded to one of those calls and Belinda interviewed me. After her weekly show, Belinda then sends out a Facebook notice to all of her fans and friends to let them know the latest podcast is ready for listening. It’s very effective and I’m sure that Belinda Subraman’s weekly poetry podcast is very popular. I know I like it.

You can connect with Belinda Subraman on Facebook here.

Robert Lee Brewer

Robert Lee Brewer is the editor of Writer’s Market. He also writes the daily blog Poetic Asides. Robert is one of the many poets on Facebook who use the feed feature of Facebook to promote their blogs. Robert’s feed is very effective because he writes to his blog every day and every time he updates his blog an automatic notice is sent to all of his friends and fans to let them know they can read the latest update on Poetic Asides. I like this feature of Facebook because it means that I don’t have to subscribe to every RSS feed in the world to read great writing. I can be notified through Facebook that a blog is updated and click a link to read the posts that I want to read.

Connect with Robert Lee Brewer on Facebook here.

Didi Menendez

The real test to how effective you are at networking is how much you can get other people to do your promoting for you. Didi Menendez needs no help in promoting herself, but she has it. As the publisher of Oranges & Sardines and MIPOesias Magazine, Didi is well known in the world of poetics. But that doesn’t stop Grace Cavalieri from promoting O & S through a Facebook page.

I believe Facebook pages are one of the best ways to promote yourself online, and Grace’s page promoting Didi’s journal is a great example of a Facebook page.

Connect with Didi Menendez on Facebook here.

Connect with Grace Cavalieri on Facebook here.

What You Can Do With Facebook Pages

As stated earlier, this is not an exhaustive list of poets on Facebook doing great things. But I like what these people are doing. Facebook pages are powerful promotional tools because they are so flexible and much more accessible than Facebook profiles. A Facebook user can hide their private information so that others can’t see it without permission – even if the profile comes up on a Google search. But the information provided in a Facebook page can be viewed by anyone without permission and the pages can be found through search just like a normal web page. That makes a Facebook page a very accessible marketing tool for any creative person from poet to movie star.

There are many other great things you can do with a Facebook page, however. You can upload photos and videos, aggregate blog RSS feeds, promote events, publications, and upcoming readings and book signings. Virtually anything you can promote through a website can be promoted through a Facebook page – and you don’t have to have a lot of technical skill to be able to use it effectively.

And Facebook pages have the same interactive features that Facebook profiles have – that is, people can become fans, leave comments on your wall, start and enter discussions, and even upload their own photos and videos. That’s one powerful interactive marketing tool.

The World Class Poetry Toolbar Facebook Page

I’m always looking for new ways to promote the things that I believe in. That’s why I decided to write a Facebook page for the World Class Poetry Toolbar. Just one day after adding that page and promoting it to my Facebook friends I had a few more downloads. Of course, I get a few downloads every month, but to receive the number of downloads that I received the day after writing the page is pretty good. I’ll definitely be writing more Facebook pages and improving this one as well.

If you haven’t downloaded the WCP Toolbar, I’d encourage you to do so. You’ll have access to more than 30 poetry blogs,  nearly as many online poetry journals, poetry podcasts and radio shows, including Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show. And that’s just the beginning.

If you are a Facebook user and you haven’t connected with me yet then I invite you to add me as your friend. I’m looking forward to doing more networking through Facebook.