April? April? I haven’t blogged since April! Oh forgive this lengthy absence you fine human beings. Let’s play catch up again shall we?
-Working Indy, Idol and Sleuths as always. Auditioning for more shows to keep diversifying myself within the company.
-Also continuing to audition for commercials and anything else my agent puts me up for.
-My acting reel is finished! It looks mighty good I tell ya. http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCharlesWaters?feature=mhum
-Finished another mud run. A 3.2 mile obstacle course called Savage Race. Sliding down muddy hills, running up hills made of sand, climbing up 25 foot walls. All in a morning’s work.
-Am now down 35 inches in my body thanks in part to the workout regime of Armor Gym owner Jeremy Brassard and cooking from Isabel Garcia http://www.facebook.com/IsaVegan.
-Published more poems in various issues of the magazine SPOTLIGHT ON RECOVERY. http://spotlightonrecovery.com/default.aspx
-There was some big news I wrote about in the last blog entry that I wasn’t entitled to share with you until now. My commissioned poem FENWAY PARK was accepted for inclusion in the upcoming book AMAZING PLACES edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins www.leebennetthopkins.com and scheduled to be published by Lee and Low Books in Spring 2014. For those of you who don’t know, Lee holds the Guinness Book of World Records for compiling more children’s poetry anthologies than anyone else in history. Combine this with my poems in the Winter 2012 book THE ARROW FINDS ITS MARK edited by Georgia Heard www.georgiaheard.com and SPOTLIGHT magazine and I’ve made more money writing poems this year than any other so far. Please let’s this be just the beginning.
-Thanks to the partial scholarship issued to me I was able to attend the weeklong HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN writing retreat with Rebecca Kai Dotlich as our leader. http://www.highlightsfoundation.org/ Let me tell you this was a game changer for me. From 7:30am – 11:00pm (sometimes later) for 5 days myself and my retreat participants wrote, rewrote, read, received critiques, offered critiques and ate some of the best food I’ve ever had. I came in with an idea for a manuscript and left with that idea not only coming to fruition but then having a heck of a head start on said manuscript. Rebecca is a patient, honest teacher who asks tough questions when a poem needs help and is a cheerleader at her core. What a blessing that week was. I wrote it on Facebook and I’ll write it here, teachers really thing about bringing Rebecca to your school for workshops. You will not be disappointed. www.rebeccakaidotlich.com
-Was asked and accepted to participate in an e-book for teens. Poetry Tagtime or p*tag for short is where a children’s poet writes about a certain topic and then tags another poet to write one of their own. In this installment over 30 children’s poets chose a picture, wrote about what it reminded them of, tagged another poet, they would choose another picture and use any 3 words from the poem that was sent to them. Dr. Sylvia Vardell and poet extraordinaire Janet Wong came up with this idea. http://www.poetrytagtime.com/Poetry_Tag_Time/p_tag.html
I’d like to leave you with a poem of mine. A call to arms so to speak. Until we meet again dear friends.
WHO
Who could distill life’s essence?
Who in the world would show it?
I know for a fact I can
Because I am a poet.
© Charles Waters 2011
