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Thank you for visiting our page here at For Ministry's portal for Christian ministries. Follow the links on the left side of the page for more information about our group and for information of interest to writers. We hope you enjoy your visit and find helpful resources here, and we hope to see you at one of our local gatherings some 2nd Saturday of the month. Please visit http://map.lcwriters.com for our Google Maps page where you can get turn by turn instructions to get to our meeting place from your starting point.

NEXT MEETING: Next meeting is Saturday, May 12th, 2012. Meeting time is 6pm to 8pm, and critique time is 4:30pm to 5:30pm. Doors open by 4:15pm and dinner may be purchased in the cafeteria or any nearby food source outside the hospital.

Our May meeting will include a presentation by Kentucky's Poet Laureate for 2011-2012, Maureen Morehead. Needless to say, she was very busy for April since it was National Poetry Month, but she has graciously agreed to visit with us in May. You can find more information about her by searching "Maureen Morehead Poetry" at Google, and you can watch a video of her induction as Poet Laureate at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNgrgo1dgIQ.)

Though most of the links I've found for her have been press releases for past events, I've found a few resources for those who want to see something of her before or in place of attending the meeting. Her books at Amazon were mostly out of print and sold at high prices by private parties, so we will hope she'll bring some books with her for those who would like to purchase her works.

Some online resources I was able to find found for Maureen include...

A blog post from 2008 that discusses the layers in one of Maureen's poems and includes the full poem at the bottom: http://www.public-republic.net/shifting-and-layering-of-tone-in-maureen-morehead%E2%80%99s-my-mother-is-a-hand.php/

A YouTube video where she reads some of her poetry. She takes the microphone at about the 4 minute mark in this 20 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzxa7MGKsBg

Finally, here's a link to the Louisville Review magazine online where you can click to view the PDF version of the magazine and read five of Maureen's poems: http://www2.spalding.edu/louisvillereview/ky.html

For all of our writers who desire to perfect their gifts, please don't forget to attend our regular critique session from 4:30 to 5:30pm. Attend to read and support the works of others, or bring something of your own to be reviewed by other writers and readers. If you are bringing something to be critiqued, remember to bring 4 to 5 copies of no more than 4 pages of your typed and double-spaced manuscript. The extra space is to allow room for notations by critiquers. Also, please make sure your presentation is double spell-checked. (That is, electronically and manually so you won't miss items like "lose" vs "loose" where both are spelled correctly but have different meanings.) NOTE: Paid members have first priority in presenting their writings, but all are welcome to join us for our critique session.

A Final Note: Please remember to fill out the sign-in sheet when you come in, and please note this sign-in sheet will include a place to mark yes or no for model release since we sometimes have video recording and/or photography during the meeting. Also, don't forget to drop an offering in the bag/basket for our speaker/scholarship fund, and we'd love for you to add a prayer request to the prayer bag. If you do put in a prayer request, please stay long enough for the bag to be passed around so you can take one out for your prayer direction for the month. And be sure to "like" our page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (see the scrolling windows above this meeting information).
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Also, we are still in need of help in publicity/media which includes our newsletter as well as the many online web presences we have acquired. Please pray about becoming more of a part of the vital ministry that is Louisville Christian Writers.

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