Brya ebenus (Jamaican Rain Tree): Making headway with my next book - of poetry

Making headway with my next book - of poetry - which should be fun. I think I'll aim for about 100 pages in a not large volume (6 x 9), with possibly 10 to 15 poems in it, and priced for a poetry market in India, as well as differently in the U.S. I'm enjoying the SoulFlash email list, of which Sivikami Velliangiri may be a founder. She was an interport lecturer on Semester at Sea, and attended UC Santa Cruz in the 1970s. I met Sivakami in Chennai in around 2005 on the Semester at Sea ship.

I'll draw on poems here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry.

Hi M,

I may include 25-50 poems in my upcoming poetry book (I have a few more than 100 poems in my blog, and while many are Harbin focused, some are not) ... and aim for a 100 page book ... costing perhaps $26 in the US ... not sure how much in India.

Another of my Harbin ethnographic books sold recently, and I made about $26 on this one. Nelson said at TSWG recently that he had ordered one for the UC Berkeley Anthropology Library, a separate
Anthropology library at Berkeley which is unusual these days across the country at Unis and across the world at Unis too - so maybe this explains the purchase. Nelson "needs it for his class" - helpful
language for the future. (I'll also get $13 via Amazon soon from a book that sold in December). I guess my book will now become available in inter-library loan with Unis. (I had given Nelson a proof hard copy of my book last September). Maybe I'll be able to give a book talk at Stanford too in the Continuing Ed and Anthropology departments, with their awesome Stanford bookstore selling my Naked Harbin Ethnography at each event.

My Harbin ethnography has a few of my poems in it.

I'm waiting to hear about the Wikipedia in Residence Libraries' position I applied for, and should hear something soon now at the end of January.

Will share another poem today with the SoulFlash poetry email group (and Sivakami Velliangiri), with many of these SoulFlash participants & readers and poets based in India.

Heading to a whale fest in Monterey today -
https://events.stanford.edu/events/657/65793/ - and maybe to one of two musical events at Stanford tonight on the way back, before choir also in Palo Alto tomorrow, and then a choir potluck in the evening in P.A. :)

L,
Scott