Sitemap - 2011 - Savvy Verse & Wit Substack

130th Virtual Poetry Circle

2011 Reading Challenge Results and More

Pemberley Ranch by Jack Caldwell

2011's Best Reads

Best Reads of 2011

Christmas at Pemberley by Regina Jeffers

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Volume 1 edited by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Mailbox Monday #157

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

129th Virtual Poetry Circle

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni

It by Stephen King

The End: Stephen King's IT Read-a-Long

The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White

Mailbox Monday #156

Santa Came Early, And Twice!

Some Winners...

128th Virtual Poetry Circle

2012 Challenges

Henry Tilney's Diary by Amanda Grange

2012 Fearless Poetry Exploration Challenge

Guest Post: The Home of Visual Imagination by Amanda Grange

Mailbox Monday #156

127th Virtual Poetry Circle

2011 Book Buying Guide for Savvy Buyers

Month 4: Stephen King's IT Read-a-Long

The Unexpected Miss Bennet by Patrice Sarath

Guest Post: Out of the Pantry by Patrice Sarath

Mailbox Monday #155

126th Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Jeryl Brunner, Author of My City, My New York

Postponed: Month 4: Stephen King's IT Read-a-Long

A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

To the End of the War by James Jones

Thankfully Reading Weekend 2011

Mailbox Monday #154

125th Virtual Poetry Circle

Soul Clothes by Regina D. Jemison

Mental_Floss The Book: Only the Greatest Lists in the History of Listory Edited by Ethan Trex, Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur

Twilight: The Graphic Novel Volume 2 by Stephenie Meyer and Young Kim

Beyond the Scent of Sorrow by Sweta Srivastava Vikram

2012 War Through the Generations Reading Challenge: WWI

Mailbox Monday #153

124th Virtual Poetry Circle

The Inspiration Behind Camp Nine by Vivienne Schiffer

The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate

A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood by Allen Braden

Camp Nine by Vivienne Schiffer

We the Animals by Justin Torres

Mailbox Monday #152 & Some Winners

123rd Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Beth Kephart

You Are My Only by Beth Kephart

Guest Post: Regina Jeffers' Writing Space

The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis

Interview With Emma Eden Ramos

Mailbox Monday #151

Some Lucky Winners....

122nd Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Seth Steinzor

To Join the Lost by Seth Steinzor

Guest Post: The Next Best Thing to Being There by Gillian Bagwell

Three Women: A Poetic Triptych and Selected Poems by Emma Eden Ramos

Month 3: Stephen King's IT Read-a-Long

I'm Hosting Mailbox Monday #150

Guest Post: Trick or Treating with Jane Austen Made Me Do It by Laurel Ann Nattress

121st Virtual Poetry Circle

Jane Austen Made Me Do It Edited by Laurel Ann Nattress

My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due

Mr. Darcy's Undoing by Abigail Reynolds

Interview With Laura Harrington, Author of Alice Bliss

I'm Hosting Mailbox Monday #149

Dewey's 24-Hour Read-a-Thon Wrap Up

120th Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Alma Katsu

Her Sister's Shadow by Katharine Britton

Guest Post: Abigail Reynolds Ponders 200th Anniversaries of Jane Austen Novels

The Taker by Alma Katsu

I'm Hosting Mailbox Monday #148

Alma Katsu at Novel Places with a Dark Halloween Read

119th Virtual Poetry Circle

You Are My Only by Beth Kephart Treasure Hunt & Giveaway

Out of Breath by Blair Richmond

Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington

Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? by Steven Tyler With David Dalton

I'm Hosting Mailbox Monday #147

118th Virtual Poetry Circle

The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa

Guest Post: The 200th Anniversary of Sense & Sensibility

Waking by Ron Rash

Mr. Darcy's Bite by Mary Lydon Simonsen

Winners of So Near

I'm Hosting Mailbox Monday #146

117th Virtual Poetry Circle

Fitzwilliam Darcy Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud

Guest Post: Keeping out the Distractions by Heather Lynn Rigaud

Month 2: Stephen King's IT Read-a-Long

My God, What Have We Done? by Susan V. Weiss

Guest Post: Navigating a Flexible Writing Space by Joan Leegant

A Weekend of Firsts at the 2011 National Book Festival

Mailbox Monday #145 and Library Loot #7

Winner of Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye

116th Virtual Poetry Circle

11th Annual National Book Festival

To the Moon and Back by Jill Mansell

Guest Post & Giveaway: Liza Gyllenhaal's Move to Rural Inspiration

Interview With Poet Jessica Piazza

Around Germantown (MD) Then & Now by Margaret Coleman

Mailbox Monday #144

Novel Places, the New Bookstore for You

BBAW Winners and More Winners

Virtual Poetry Circle #115

She by Saul Williams

BBAW, the Final Send Off

Buoyancy and Other Myths by Richard Peabody

Reading Changes...

BBAW Community Connections & Giveaway

Ten Beach Road by Wendy Wax

BBAW Interview Swap: Gautami of Everything Distils Into Reading

Mailbox Monday #143 & BBAW Welcome

Appreciating Bloggers

Virtual Poetry Circle #114 & BBAW Shortlist

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 by Stephenie Meyer and Young Kim

Guest Post: Mark Mustian's Writing Space

Cross Currents by John Shors

Believing Is Seeing by Errol Morris

Giveaway: Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye

Mailbox Monday #142

Virtual Poetry Circle #113

The End of an Era: Weekly Geeks 2011-03

Guest Post: After the Novel: Re-Finding Your Writing Groove by Áine Greaney

Dance Lessons by Áine Greaney

Nominations Are Open!

Mr. Darcy Goes Overboard by Belinda Roberts

Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

Mailbox Monday #141

Some Winners...

112th Virtual Poetry Circle

Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

Guest Post: No Saber Tooth Tigers Allowed by Samantha Sotto

Month 1: Stephen King's IT Read-a-Long

Interview: Harrison Demchick on Changes in Publishing

Mailbox Monday #140

111th Virtual Poetry Circle

Guest Post & Giveaway: Author Genni Gunn's Writing Space

Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto

Guest Post & Giveaway: Researching Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

Ideal Cities by Erika Meitner

Mailbox Monday #139

R.I.P. Charlee (10/8/1997 - 8/13/2011)

110th Virtual Poetry Circle

Review of Quirk's The Baby Owner's Books

The Snow Whale by John Minichillo

Interview With Poet David Mason

Focus Features Giveaway: One Day by David Nicholls

Mailbox Monday #138

109th Virtual Poetry Circle

The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock

Flies by Michael Dickman

Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens

Guest Post: Margaret Dilloway on Her Mother's Immigration

Stephen King's IT Read-a-Long

Mailbox Monday #137

Enemy Women Read-a-Long at War Through the Generations

108th Virtual Poetry Circle

Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, Illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, Read by Samuel L. Jackson

Winner of Shadow of a Quarter Moon

The Tree It Was by Sandra Fuhringer

BookTrib E-VENTFUL Book Party with Elin Hilderbrand 3 PM Today

An Interview With Poet Rachel Zucker

A Weekend With Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly

Guest Post: My Craziest Austen-Related Adventure by Victoria Connelly

Mailbox Monday #136 and Library Loot #6

107th Virtual Poetry Circle

Curses and Wishes by Carl Adamshick

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

The Secret Lives of the Four Wives by Lola Shoneyin

Mailbox Monday #135

Weekly Geeks 2011-02

106th Virtual Poetry Circle

My Blogiversary Winner

Interview With Eileen Clymer Schwab & Giveaway

Surprise!

The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair

Interview with C. Ray Nagin

Mailbox Monday #134 and Library Loot #5

Summer Winners...

105th Virtual Poetry Circle

Lagan Love by Peter Murphy

Interview With Poet Stephen Cushman

A Wife for Mr. Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen

Guest Post: Confessions of a Pantser by Mary Lydon Simonsen

Mailbox Monday #133

Challenges Update -- Midway 2011

104th Virtual Poetry Circle

Everyone Is Beautiful by Katherine Center

Giveaway: Her Sister's Shadow by Katharine Britton

Interview With C.C. Humphreys, Author of Vlad: The Last Confession

Robert Greer, an Unlikely Novelist & Giveaway

Happy Birthday & Mailbox Monday #132

Some Winners

103rd Virtual Poetry Circle

An Interview With Poet Casey Thayer

Literacy Is Important, and Book Bloggers Are Integral to the Cause

Vlad: The Last Confession by C.C. Humphreys & Giveaway

Giveaway: Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens

Guest Post & Giveaway: Belinda Roberts' Writing Routines

Mailbox Monday #131

Happy Father's Day!

102nd Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Poet Jennifer C. Wolfe

Somewhere Over the Pachyderm Rainbow: Living in an Elephant-Controlled 2010 Election Diorama by Jennifer C. Wolfe

Ordinary Miracles by Erica Jong

Guest Post: Rich Wallace's Writing Space

War & Watermelon by Rich Wallace

4 Year Blogiversary, 100th Virtual Poetry Circle & Giveaway

Mailbox Monday #130; Library Loot #4

101st Virtual Poetry Circle

Guest Post: Is It Like Listening to You Talk? by Graham Parke

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

An Interview With Poet Hope Snyder

Interview With Poet Amy Pence, Part 2 & Giveaway

Interview With Poet Amy Pence, Part 1 & Giveaway

Weekly Geeks 2011-01

100th Virtual Poetry Circle

Guest Post & Giveaway: Bruce Littlefield's Writing Space

The Decadent Lovely by Amy Pence

The Bedtime Book for Dogs by Bruce Littlefield

Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins

Mailbox Monday #129

99th Virtual Poetry Circle

Armchair BEA: Blogging about Savvy Verse & Wit

An Interview With Poet Charles Jensen

Armchair BEA: Interview with The True Book Addict

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

Welcome to My First Armchair BEA

Gaithersburg Book Festival

Mailbox Monday #128; Library Loot #3

98th Virtual Poetry Circle

Monster by David Livingstone Clink

Gaithersburg, MD, Book Festival

National Poetry Month Winners . . .

The Beach Trees by Karen White

Mailbox Monday #127

Civil War Challenge Participants' Giveaway

97th Virtual Poetry Circle

Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager

Lit Windowpane by Suzanne Frischkorn

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

The Baghdad Blues by Sinan Antoon

Library Loot #2

Happy Mother's Day!

96th Virtual Poetry Circle

Holocaust Remembrance Week

Some Winners . . .

An Interview With Poet Kathleen Winter

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Guest Post: Inside the Writer's Studio by Jean Kwok

Big Thank You . . .

Mailbox Monday #126

95th Virtual Poetry Circle & Giveaway

The Poets Laureate Anthology Edited by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt

This Just In . . . One Time Only . . .

City of Regret by Andrew Kozma

Bone Key Elegies by Danielle Sellers

Winner of Forgetting English

City of a Hundred Fires by Richard Blanco

Wickham's Diary by Amanda Grange

Mailbox Monday #125

94th Virtual Poetry Circle

Earth Day 2011

National Poetry Month Giveaway: L.A. by Luke Rathborne

An Interview With Poet Jeffery L. Bahr

Giveaway: Eighth Scroll by Dr. Laurence Brown

What Would Mr. Darcy Do? by Abigail Reynolds

Gatekeeper Interviews Dr. Laurence B. Brown, Author of The Eighth Scroll

White Egrets by Derek Walcott

Guest Post: Inside the Writer’s Studio

93rd Virtual Poetry Circle

Guest Post: The Passion for Poetry: the Writer and the Reader

Guest Post: Novelists Who Are Poets Too

An Interview With Poet M.E. Silverman

Interview With Poet Halli Lilburn

An Interview With Poet Terri Witek

Mailbox Monday #124

92nd Virtual Poetry Circle

Gatekeepers Post Interviews Me . . .

Interview With Poet Natalie Shapero

More Poetry Events . . .

Poetry Books 2011: Indie Lit Award Suggestions

Richard Hugo House's National Poetry Month Celebration

Staying at Daisy's by Jill Mansell

National Poetry Month at 32 Poems Magazine Blog

Interview With Poet Matthew Thorburn

Poetry Activity From Poetic Asides

Mailbox Monday #123

Haiku Mama by Kari Anne Roy

91st Virtual Poetry Circle

Welcome to National Poetry Month 2011

Vanilla Heart Publishing's Kimberlee Williams on the Changing Face of Publishing

Books I Love . . .

Guest Poet: Tightrope Books' Halli Villegas Talks About the Fun of Small Press Publishing

Announcing the 2011 Indie Lit Awards

Interview With Fred Ramey of Unbridled Books

National Poetry Month Blog Tour 2011

90th Virtual Poetry Circle

Guest Post: A.J. Odasso Talks About Her Experience With a Small Publisher

Interview With Poet Andrew Kozma

Guest Post: Candlemark & Gleam's Kate Sullivan Talks About Payment and Distribution Models

Guest Review: 200 Nights and One Day by Margaret Rozga

Guest Interview: Jennifer Flescher Talks With Adam Deutsch of Cooper Dillon Books

Mailbox Monday #122

89th Virtual Poetry Circle

Guest Review: Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser

Guest Post: Libby Sternberg Talks about Istoria Books

The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry

Guest Post: Lou Aronica on Running a Small vs. Big Press

Guest Post: Victor Volkman Talks About Small Presses in the Modern Era

Breaking News . . .

88th Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Margaret C. Sullivan, Author of The Jane Austen Handbook

Guest Post: Caleigh Minshall Talks About Porcupine's Quill and Its Mission

Guest Post: Bancroft Press' Harrison Demchick on Small Press

The Rorschach Factory by Valerie Fox

Interview With Poet Joseph Milford

Mailbox Monday #121

87th Virtual Poetry Circle

Guest Interview: Melanie Huber Speaks With New York Quarterly Editor Raymond Hammond

The Other Life by Ellen Meister

Guest Review: Confederate Streets by Erin E. Tocknell

An Interview With Dan Cafaro, Publisher of Atticus Books in Maryland

Celebrate! Indie & Small Press Month Schedule

Mailbox Monday #120

Winner of $35 Credit with NextDayFlyers

86th Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Poet Matthew Roth

Villette Read-a-Long Week 3

The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret C. Sullivan

Winner of Madame Tussaud and Marie Antoinette Cupcake Earrings. . .

Mailbox Monday #119

Giveaway: $35 Credit at NextDayFlyers.com

Winners. . .

85th Virtual Poetry Circle

March 2011 Independent and Small Press Month

Villette by Charlotte Bronte Read-a-Long Week 2

Jarrettsville by Cornelia Nixon

Interview With Authors Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery

Giveaway: Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran

Kill Shakespeare by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery Event

Mailbox Monday #118

84th Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Sweta Vikram

Villette by Charlotte Bronte Read-a-Long Part 1

Giveaway: Sins of the House of Borgia by Sarah Bower

Interview With Poet Danielle Sellers

Guest Post: Author Anjali Banerjee's Writing Space

Mailbox Monday #117

83rd Virtual Poetry Circle

Stephen King’s IT Read-a-Long 2011

Open Slowly by Dayle Furlong

Call for Guest Posts…

Winner of Dreaming in English...

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Mailbox Monday #116

Villette Read-a-Long

82nd Virtual Poetry Circle

Semper Cool by Barry Fixler

When I guest post at The 3 R's Blog...

Interview With Poet Lesley Jenike

Guest Post: Author Gillian Bagwell's Writing Space

Interview with Author Rosy Thornton

Mailbox Monday #115

Giveaway: Laura Fitzgerald's Dreaming in English

81st Virtual Poetry Circle

The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton

Guest Post: Author Laura Fitzgerald's Writing Space of Her Own

Winners of The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy

Interview With Author Linda Gray Sexton

Guest Post: Author Ann Wertz Garvin’s Writing Space

Half in Love by Linda Gray Sexton

Mailbox Monday #114

80th Virtual Poetry Circle

Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors by Sweta Srivastava Vikram

Another Challenge You Say…

Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel

The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen

Mailbox Monday #113

79th Virtual Poetry Circle

Interview With Poet Kim Bridgford

Sanditon by Jane Austen

Guest Post: Mary Lydon Simonsen on Research and Travel

Vietnam War Reading Challenge Givaways Ready!

Mailbox Monday #112

Happy New Year! And the 78th Virtual Poetry Circle