Welcome to Rebecca Schumejda's site

Photo taken by Michael Grover, The Mark Twain House, June 2008 Beat Fest.

picture taken In Ellenville, New York, Fall 2007, Me and Kaya

June 17, 2008

Updates:
There is never enough time.
My daughter eats all of my books.
Her eyes may be hazel or maybe brown.
I hope she isn't anything like I was as a teenager.
I respect mothers, far more than ever before!!!


I read with Nathan Graziano at the Mark Twain House in Hartford Conn. for the last day of The Beat Festival  on June 8th. I am working on the last of edits for a new collection. I also started working on some new pieces on pool halls. Basically, life is good and busy and  I wish there were 8 more hours in a day. Is that so much to ask?




March 9, 2008

Wow, it has really  been a year since I last updated this page--I can not believe it! Anyway, New- sunnyoutside just printed my poem "Logic" on a postcard......ummmmm, working on some new pieces for a new collection. Motherhood, reading, working, living......

March 11, 2007

Okay... Yes, it has been a long time since I updated this page.  I have some readings coming up including:
April 2nd at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock, NY at  7:30pm hosted by Phillip Levine, the poetry editor of Chronogram magazine.
April 7th  at the Alternate bookstore in Kingston at 5pm with Nathan Graziano.
June 8th at Morning Brew Coffee House in High Falls, NY at 7pm.
June 16th at the Mudd Puddle in New Paltz, NY at 7:30pm with Nathan Graziano.
July 17th at the Acoustic Coffee in Portlane, Maine at 7pm with Nathan Graziano.

In addition, I read from "Dream Big, Work Harder"  on The Woodstock Roundtable with Doug Grunther on WDST on 2/4/2007. Which was great and I have to thank my friend and fellow poet, WIll Nixon, for the opportunity!

My reading from The Small Press Fair in December can be viewed on line: "Dream Big, Work Harder " Reading

Melody Sherosky, the editor of The Blind Man's Rainbow, reviewed my chapbook in Winter 2007, Volume XII, Issue 1 of BMR. See the  "Dream Big, Work Harder" on this site for clips from the review.

In addition, I am working on various projects with some great poets and am pretty excited....the March snow is fading and life is good....Feel free to drop me a line, if you feel inspired. -Rebecca

January 3, 2007

Happy New Year! Just a few updates... one of my pieces from a new collection I am working on was published online at Zygote in my Coffee . Doug Holder reviewed Dream Big, Work Harder; you can check out the review at Author's Den. I am reading at the Morning Brew on January 12th, see below information. Also Nate Graziano and I started plans for  reading dates this summer, including one in Maine in July; will give more details soon. Hope everyone is having a good start to 2007.

December 11, 2006

I will be reading at Morning Brew Coffee House in High Falls on January 12th at 7pm with local poet Glenn Werner. Other readings to be announced as they come closer, including  a reading at Alternative Books, 35 North Front Street in Kingston, on April 7th. They are also holding copies of Dream Big, Work Harder.  ForeWord editor at large Eugene Schwartz, who I met at the Small Press Book Fair, reviewed my book in the December 6th newsletter.  

December 4, 2006

sunnyoutside just released my new chapbook Dream Big, Work Harder... and I just read this past weekend at the small press fair in Manhattan. Have been setting up some other reading to be announced and will also be reading with Nathan Graziano in the New Hampshire area in the spring.


November 14, 2006

On Saturday December 2nd, I will be reading at the small press fair in New York City for the release of my book Dream Big, Work Harder via sunnyoutside press. I will give more details as the date approaches... Mannequin Envy published two of my poems online, you can check them out at www.mannequinenvy.com


September 4, 2006

Ohhhh, the close of the summer... I did however win the first poker game that I have ever played last night. Many updates: I just started working on a book with sunnyoutside press. I absoloutely love the work they are putting out, especially William Taylor Jr's book "So Much Is Burning" and Nate's book. One of my poems appeared in the August posting of Zygote in my Coffee and a few pieces were accepted for an upcoming issue of Controlled Burn. I just finished reading "give a poor man god and watch him starve" by john sweet and I really enjoyed it. You can order it through lulu.com.

July 21, 2006

My Favorite Bullet just came out with a new on-line issue that includes one of my pieces. My Favorite Bullet
Going to Brooklyn finally to see some friends--one of which I will be working on a project with and will give more details soon. Just read Men of Letters by Nathan Graziano and Daniel Crocker--I recommend it! The pieces are a moving mosaic of   honest humor. It was the last book in a trilogy put out by Green Bean Press.

July 15, 2006

Wordriot just posted three of my poems in the July issue. Including "Gone" which tortured me for five years, I could never get it just right. I was bent on fine tuning the multiple layers, so it read three ways. I would like to blame the consumption of at least  two gallons of vodka on "Gone." Just read Dead Stars Have No Graves by Joseph Kerschbaum and highly recommend checking it out! You can order his chapbook at pathwise press . 

July 8, 2006

Just read some good pieces in the June issue of remark  including two pieces by Michael Estabrook that were beautiful! I am honored to be beside great poets ... and excited that one of my pieces will also appear in the August issue. Currently, I have another piece included in the July on-line issue of spentmeat.  In addition, I started a myspace page that I am posting new and different work on.  Hoping to start some new projects soon...

May 23, 2006

Codhill Press www.codhill.com is accepting manuscripts for their chapbook contest, judged  anonymously by Pauline Uchmanowicz. Pauline's the author of  Sand & Traffic, a collection of poems worth checking out!