Help a Sister Out!

Leigh Stein, author of the chapbooks Summer in
Paris, How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance, and Least Inhabited Island
II, is awesome.

http://leighstein.blogspot.com/

She's also obsessed with puppets! And putting
poets voices inside them.

Leigh is asking for your help. Not because
she’s insane, silly. Because she wants to buy a FlipCam so she can bring
puppets to AWP in Denver as a part of Poets and Puppets!

http://poetsandpuppets.blogspot.com/

Leigh writes:

For those of you who were at AWP last year, I might
have asked you to record a puppet video with Bernadette or another special friend.
This year I am asking for your sponsorship. If you like poetry, if you like
puppetry, if you like fun, hell, if you like me, please consider helping me
purchase a Flip Cam so I can bring puppets to Denver, and in return you will be
handsomely rewarded in heaven and also here on earth:

For $5, I will record a video of a puppet of my
choosing reading a poem of your choosing

For $10, I will make a puppet that resembles you or
a loved one and this puppet will ride in my suitcase and join my cast of
characters (please send reference photos to leighstein (at) gmail).

Such a steal! Leigh’s project is 92 percent
funded so far. She just needs a few more sponsors. So go to Leigh’s blog and
sponsor a puppet. And if you’re at AWP, be sure to stop by TABLE X to make your
own movie at AWP.

I confirmed this with Leigh: “ANYONE can make a movie with me at AWP, whether I know them or not,
whether they gave me $ or not.”

But still, even better to sponsor a little puppet of your own and get to know Leigh, don't you think?

The puppet recordings will be happening at Table X
at AWP.

April 8, 2010 from 12 - 2pm
April 9, 2010 from 12 - 2pm

Good luck, Leigh. Good luck, Poets and Puppets.