[stylist] A New Member

Sat Dec 27 02:21:59 UTC 2008

Thanks, Robert, for the welcome, introduction, and encouragement to join the
division.

As to the last, I'd be very happy to join.  I have been meaning to send in
my membership dues and to subscribe to NFB's various publications.  I
recently got a free cane and appreciate that program very much, so that's
another reason for me to join NFB.

Can you tell me if joining the Division means another type of membership
with its own dues?  If so, please instruct me as how I might do all of this.
Thanks!

John

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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Newman
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:15 PM
To: 'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] A New Member

John, the posts  I've seen thus far leads me to believe you will be a very
welcomed and interesting addition to this mailing list. We all love a new
view, an intellect that is sharp, a strong love of writing and sharing. This
list has (last time I asked and that has been a while) 90 members and most
read and do not write; and that is okay. 

I am the current president of the NFB Writers' Division and will ask you to
join the division, if you haven't already. And hey, and know that you do not
have to be a member of the Division to post to this mailing list; here we
just like to talk writing and support one another as writers. In regard to
joining the Division, a person gets additional support, fellowship and sense
of belonging and accomplishment for what we can do collectively. You would
receive 4 issues of our quarterly publication Slate and Style; full of
articles about writing, a showcase for our poetry and short fiction and
more. Also check out our budding wet site the URL found at the bottom of
each of the posts  from Stylist (this mailing list). Also consider attending
our 2009 annual Division meeting and writing workshop coming up in July of
2009, in Detroit.

As for my writing, since September of 1998, I've authored and hosted a web
based discussion forum on blindness issues, called THOUGHT PROVOKER- URL
http://www.thoughtprovoker.info I set up the discussion via a short-short
story that encapsulates a issue of blindness and people read and respond,
and I collect the responses and post them to my web site; I'm on #140 of
these THOUGHT PROVOKERS. And I'm like a lot of other folks in respects to
having written a few articles (posted in the NFB-s monthly magazine the
Braille Monitor and I have a few novels that need a lot of attention before
I could cut them lose and try and put them out there. 

Whue... That is enough for now. Welcome aboard. 

Robert Leslie Newman 
Email- newmanrl at cox.net
THOUGHT PROVOKER Website- 
Http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:12 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] A New Member

Welcome, John.   Don't worry.   The list is quite active, but it is
Christmas 
Eve!   Give this a day or two!
Lori

In a message dated 12/25/08 12:02:51 AM, johnlee at clarktouch.com writes:

> Hello!
> 
> I recently subscribed to this list, on the suggestion of Lori Stayer.  
> I would have liked to lurk for a while before introducing myself, but 
> so far the list has been awfully quiet, too quiet even for someone who 
> is deaf.  So I am going to dip my toes in here.
> 
> To introduce myself briefly: My name is John Lee Clark, and I am a 
> native of St. Paul, Minnesota.  I was born deaf to an all-deaf family 
> and so American Sign Language is my first language.  I gradually 
> became blind in early adolescence, just as my father did and my 
> younger brother did.  After graduating from the Minnesota State 
> Academy for the Deaf--on the other bank of a former river across from 
> where the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind is--I studied briefly 
> at Gallaudet but jumped up in love, not fell, with Adrean, a deaf girl 
> from North Carolina.  We got married fast and moved to Minnesota.  We've
been married for ten years now and have three sons.
> Currently, I am the head of a new service that provides accommodations 
> for deafblind people using video relay service.
> 
> As for my literary pursuits, my wife and I ran for six years a small 
> press devoted to signing community literature both in English and ASL.  
> But it could not support our family, so we've had to turn to other 
> sources of income.  I've published many essays, but it's through my 
> poetry that I've won the most recognition--awards, grants, 
> fellowships, all that.  Recently, my chapbook of poems, Suddenly Slow, 
> came out from Handtype Press.  I've also done some independent 
> scholarship on the literature of the deaf and deafblind communities.  
> In March, Gallaudet University Press will come out with Deaf American 
> Poetry, which I edited and which is the first definitive text of its kind,
covering nearly two centuries of poetry by Deaf Americans.
> I am nearly done with anther anthology, this time of writings by 
> deafblind people all over the world and since 1820.
> 
> This should suffice for now!  I would love to learn about who's on 
> this list, so please do introduce yourself.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John
> 
> 
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