» 26 Apr 2008 - Library Minutes (fruit of the CWC Workshop)
Library Minutes
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Each day my work begins with 3 paces
behind the janitor who slips his key
Next clicks the fluorescents and beckons me with a
“Viola’ Madame”
As if he is announcing me to a reception
where books are caterers
I stop and extend my hand incline my head
over the poem-for- a –day stand
While signs circle around me
All above dark faced screens that flicker
Telling day after day
No Food No Drinks SILENCE
Sooner or later on the break of day
I meet strangers, my superiors
Shelly, Adrienne Rich, Zymborska
I wonder how their names and dates turn up
for Monday Jan 1 and not July 31
I emerge before them half statue half minstrel
Prone
EF Di Giorgio ©
April 2008/ CWC Workshop
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» 06 Feb 2008 - Synthesis of responses to questionnaire
After the first meeting of the CWC in 2008, El Capitano, Roderick Dunnett, has prepared a synthesis of the responses the questionnaire that was distributed to members. The year's activities will be based on the answers:
Everyone likes above all to write stories, and likes also anything that helps the ink flow.
Almost all enjoy exercises to warm up and liberate the spirit rather than to drive the whole evening. Most would like to do work ahead of the meeting, read it aloud and receive comments.
Everyone is relaxed about where we meet. Excitement, helped on by food and drink, matters most.
To meet once a month is fine for everyone. A preference for a little less frequently for some, or, for special projects, more frequently. It would be good to fix the dates ahead of time so that we could plan our coming and could invite friends in good time.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays are good evening for everyone. Thursday also fits most.
All would like a writing retreat, most saying not too far away. Price is not critical for most of us. The retreat should allow plenty of time for a flurry of writing and a merry dinner. There is no call for, but neither any objection to, a professional tutor’s presence.
The only argument for formalising the club is to allow projects calling for some capital investment or for the holding of stock in trade, like a library. There is no groundswell in favour. Circumstances and practical goals might compel. Setting up an asbl is quite costly in money and time.
Regularity is the best feature to encourage one to invite friends.
We are proud of the website and would mostly like to contribute to it. One of us thinks a blog and a message desk would be nice. There is little understanding of how to do a collective exercise on the website.
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» 09 Apr 2007 - Protect your author rights
Your intellectual property is a valuable asset and you should protect it. Luxembourg now has an association, Luxorr, so that writers in this country can protect their author and reproduction rights. It is inexpensive to join, and then you can have one central point that can manage your IP in the case that your work is reproduced, broadcast, distributed etc. The Luxorr web site is currently not available in English, but the Director, Romain Jeblick, is happy to answer your questions by telephone in English and he is very nice and approachable. Writers in Luxembourg should really be aware of their rights and should also be involved in the process to protect IP in this country.
Luxorr : http://www.luxorr.lu |
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