Dog Days and Dragonflies
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Welcome to the Web site of author Chrissie Anderson Peters! We hope that you will enjoy what you see and welcome all comments, questions, and suggestions from our readers.
See the ANNOUNCEMENTS page for a full schedule of signings with addresses!
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4 April 2013
Congratulations to the winners of our Haiku Contest from February! I received the final judge's rankings last night and am posting the winners HERE first! All three winners' poems will remain on this website for the entirety of April, per the contest rules, and to help celebrate National Poetry Month. Congratulations again, and thanks for entering!
Chrissie
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1st Place: Jim Collier, Abingdon, VA
Mid-air tapestry
silken strands without a flaw –
weave for me some dreams
2nd Place: Gil Wetmore, Independence, VA (Gil also wins the "Last Man Standing" honors, as his poem was the last one received before the deadline)
Chrissie Peters writes.
Spins out rhymes on paper now.
Binds in volume form.
3rd Place: Dory Hudspeth, Alvaton, KY (Dory also wins the "Go the Distance" honors, as she lives the greatest distance from Bristol, TN, of all the folks who entered)
Title: What Holds
In the post-hardware
age - screws, hinges, nails, be gone
miracles clasp fast.
4 April 2013
This is National Poetry Month! I am involved with NaPoWriMo, a national challenge to write a poem each day of April. I will be posting snippets, titles, ideas, some writing prompts, and other things here throughout the month to hopefully inspire others to do the same.
In other news, I'm up for the office of president of the Poetry Society of Tennessee's Northeast Chapter (PST-NE -- you can find us online at http://pstne.weebly.com). One of my goals as president is to increase our membership, so you will likely hear me talking about PST-NE A LOT in the coming months! So check us out and feel free to join us, whether you live in Tennessee or not!
Additionally, I have a BUNCH of events and conferences coming up in April. I barely know whether I will be coming or going and/or when! If YOU want to know where to find me and when, head over to the ANNOUNCEMENTS page and get all the details.
I was also selected to give away books through World Book Night US for World Book Night -- 23 April (also Mr. Shakespeare's birthday, if you're keeping track at home AND exactly four months before I turn 29 again)! I will be handing out copies of Playing for Pizza by John Grisham at Barnes & Noble in Johnson City. Come check out the fun!
You can get FREE SHIPPING on Dog Days and Dragonflies through 7 April by using the coupon code FRIENDS at checkout. We appreciate those of you who continue to tell your friends about the book; with over 300 copies sold, I'm marching on towards my personal goal for the book. With a self-published project like DD&D, word-of-mouth is a powerful marketing tool, so we are especially thankful to everyone who talks it up among their friends, family, and colleagues! I learned yesterday that a friend in DC is reading it on the Metro each day and was beyond delighted at even the thought of it being read on her commute to and from work!
Chrissie
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NaPoWriMo Snippets, Titles, Ideas, Prompts, Etc.
1 April 2013 => "Lyric Lifter"
A poem about "lifting" the lyrics of favorite songs and the effects thereof.
2 April 2013 => "Don't Spill My Secret"
Being the lyric lifter that I am, I've lifted this line from Duran Duran's "The Man Who Stole a Leopard." Phenomenal band. Amazing song. Creepy story of someone totally obsessed -- their song. My poem? Guess you'll have to wait and see. ;-)
3 April 2013 => "Vision"
Written after my visit to the optometrist's office.
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"Dog Days and Dragonflies is Chrissie Anderson Peters' tribute to the people who made her, especially her mother and her grandparents. She writes for her life in these personal essays, short stories, and poems, detailing a childhood world of both hardship and tragedy and also love and contentment. Many in these stories are maimed in some way, the walking wounded, but they showed her how to not only survive, but thrive. This book is the story of all kinds of salvation, how all the old verities -- family, church, community, work, and nature -- are all finally the only important things. Dog Days and Dragonflies reminds us to be always hopeful and to wait for our 'red bird wishes' to come true." ~ Rita Sims Quillen, author of Her Secret Dream and a finalist for Poet Laureate of Virginia for 2012
"Imagine learning to drive an old pick-up in a hayfield, your grandpa teaching you. But instead of riding beside you, Grandpa walks in front of you. Which of those three pedals do you press to stop? That tension and humor will pull you along through Chrissie Anderson Peters' Dog Days and Dragonflies." ~ Jim Minick, author of The Blueberry Years
"These stories and poems by Chrissie Anderson Peters are a real delight, full of nostalgia but also a hard reality of strong, tough women and broken men. And the facts are wonderfully vivid, from the smell of crayons in a box to the grandmother who holds a lit match to let a little girl blow it out."
~ James Whorton, Jr., author of Angela Sloan
"Chrissie Anderson Peters takes us into the complicated, dark, and beautiful heart of contemporary Appalachia with these intriguing stories, essays, and poems." ~ Silas House, author of Same Sun Here and Parchment of Leaves
