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Rouvalis Chapman
My latest poem was published in Main Channel Voices.
I have had poems recently published by Circumference, The Jabberwock Review, Tar Wolf Review, and Phantasmagoria.
My horse, Zoom, now has her very own page with some photos.
Last page update: 4-10-06
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| Nap Attack! Zoom decides to take a nap in the middle of a horse show. Ana and I snuggled up while she dozed. Believe it or not, she woke up after a ten minute snooze and jumped in lovely form in her next class. |
The Lowell Review was an annual literary journal published by myself and Judith Dickerman-Nelson. We ceased its publication after three issues, but many of the selections can be found in the online version. Well, they can be found in a box in my basement, too, but it's probably easier for you to stick with the web version.
This site contains an enormous number of electronic publications. I am primarily responsible for the Zines section, having begun my collection in 1991 and merged it with the larger ETEXT holdings in 1993. The mission of ETEXT is to house electronic magazines regardless of content in order to
a) provide a stable home for them, and
b) preserve them for scholarly study.
We are still adding new titles to our archives. If you publish an e-zine that is free of commercial content, warez, and pornography, we will be happy to archive it for you. Currently, space is not an issue, and you will be provided with the ability to manage the content yourself. This is a free service.
Way back in time when Internet users were tallied in the mere thousands and there were no such things as ISPs, people were fooling around with the idea of electronic publication. CORE was one of these vanguard publications. At the time, most e-zines were focused on technology or science fiction, and I wanted to try to do something more literary/artistic. CORE was distributed to a couple of Usenet groups and a few hundred email addresses. It all seems so low-tech now, but, well, that's just what you did before web pages. My favorite issue is CORE1.03, which focuses on ascii art as a medium unto itself.
Every now and then, somebody decides to publish one of my poems. I've been trying to update the page with more recently published work, but most of the poems here are still fairly old.
This is the obligatory page full of photos, etc. for those interested in such things.
I own a couple of showdogs. Vinnie, an Irish setter who I managed to put a few points on but never finished, and Luba, a Vizsla. Luba has already picked up her first point at eight months and I'm determined to finish her championship. I'm also apprenticing as an AKC Hunt Test judge. And because I have way too much time on my hands, I'm also campaigning my Appaloosa mare, Zoom, this summer. She has a lot of potential as a working hunter -- we school 2' because she scoffs at crossrails -- but she has some maturing to do before we get serious. We're aiming for hunter hack and hunter on the flat for now. And maybe some endurance rides.
I am an English teacher at Webster Groves High School in Webster Groves, Missouri. This year I teach World Literature (sophomores) and Modern International Literature AP/ACC (seniors), but that changes every year. I find it vastly amusing when Jonathan Franzen writes about the Webster of his childhood in The New Yorker. Same as it ever was, is all I have to say about that.
I am also the Senior Warden of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.
I spend a lot of time exploring various parts of The Confluence Greenway, which fascinates me. I'm slowly learning to identify the native birds, flowers, and bugs of Missouri. Although I'm still in awe of being able to see bald eagles on nearly a daily basis during the winter, my favorite bird remains the junco due to their sheer joyfulness in winter.
I'm a sporadic (at best) member of Loosely Identified, which is a women's poetry workshop.
