Come Into Our Whirl (PoetsNiche Anthologies) [Paperback]

Walt F.J. Goodridge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1999

Come Into Our Whirl includes the inspiring, never-before-revealed chronicle of chance meetings, actual email correspondence, and events which led to the creation of one of the fastest-growing, most unique communities on the Internet!

-Meet the poets and hear their stories sample poetry of members from all over the world

-Who is Moni?

-Experience the "Group Poem" (one poet writes the first stanza, emails to another who adds the next, and so on; No one knows how it ends until the last poet creates!)

-Learn which one of our members rode HER motorcycle from Michigan to Atlanta for the first "Offline Gathering of PoetsNiche Members"

-Discover which little girl's life was changed by becoming a member, and what her mother had to say to us!

Editorial Reviews

Review

I wanted to tell you how high my spirit is flying since I saw my writings in book form. I am truly honored to be a representative for the Poets Niche and I am speechless at seeing my work in print. This is the third book my poems have been featured in, but this is the first time I have seen it. I would like to express my deepest heart felt appreciation for allowing me this opportunity to showcase my "hobby" (for lack of a more modest term). Thanks for being my light down the path of enlightenment. -- From Valentino

From the Publisher

Walt Goodridge is at the center of an online Inspiration movement! What started a year ago as a private email to friends and family has become an international internet tradition quoted in magazines, syndicated on dozens of websites and attended by over 26,000 fans each week! Come Into Our Whirl is the first cyber-anthology of creative work from followers of the Inspirations who joined together to form the Poets Niche

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Company Called W; 1 edition (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962920266
• ISBN-13: 978-0962920264
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

More About the Author

Once upon a time, there was a civil engineer who hated his job, followed his passion, started a sideline business publishing his own books, made enough money to quit his job, ran away to a tropical island in the South Pacific, and started a tourism business so he could give tours of the island to pretty girls every day!"

A Columbia University graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, Walt was, like many people, destined for a career in his profession of training. In fact, immediately after graduating, he accepted a job working in the Design Division of the Port Authority Engineering department on the 73rd floor of World Trade Center One. However, within the first fifteen minutes of this his first job in corporate America, Walt, frustrated by the monotony, restrictions of nine-to-five employment, realized beyond the shadow of a doubt, that he absolutely hated it!

It was several years until he was able to grow his sideline business in the music industry--a personal passion--and walk away from his career to become a full-time "passionpreneur." He authored several books on the music industry, created a brand of inspiration called "Life Rhymes," and launched dozens of websites, and unique products.

As he honed his experience and expertise in website development, internet marketing, creating the life of his dreams, and living true to himself, he developed a unique "Passion Profit Philosophy and Formula" and a coaching practice to help others do the same. In 1999, he published the formula in Turn Your Passion into Profit which, with yearly updates, has consistently sold in the top 50 in home-business books on Amazon.com.

In 2006, through a friend who had visited and raved about his experience, Walt "discovered" Saipan, booked a one-way ticket, and 2 months later, escaped from New York to live his nomadpreneur dream on this pacific island paradise.

Walt writes a weekly business column for the Saipan Tribune entitled " The Saipanpreneur Project." He has written Doing Business on Saipan to further encourage entrepreneurial activity on the island, and, with former garment factory worker Chun Yu Wang, co-authored Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin: Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan and is the founder of Destination Saipan Marketing, Inc. Walt was recognized by official CNMI Senate Resolution No. 15-54 for his invaluable contributions to Saipan, its residents and economy.

Walt currently owns and operates over 50 websites, has written a total of 16 books, over 400 articles and almost 500 motivational poems.

Walt is originally from the island of Jamaica, and, you can read about his first year and impressions of his new island home in the book Jamaican on Saipan!