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Andrea Dietrich grew up in Iowa and now resides in Utah with a spouse and two cats. She has two grown children and six grandchildren. Having graduated BYU with a Spanish major/ESL minor, she has spent most of her adult life teaching. It wasn't until 2000 that she began writing in earnest and discovering her "niche" as a writer of lyrical poetry. The internet opened up a new world for her, and she has spent two decades now participating in poetry clubs, acting as a judge of poetry contests for various magazines, for the website Shadow Poetry, and for Poetry Soup. 

Ms. Dietrich has won numerous awards, as well as the title Poet of the Year 2008, from the Yahoo group, Poetry For Thought. In addition, she has won prizes from the magazines Lucidity, Bell's Letters, Art with Words, Poets at Work and SP Quill, the magazine for which she wrote grammar and poetry articles as well as movie reviews and for which she acted as poetry editor for the head editor Marie Summers for six years. Many of her poems appeared in Shadows Ink, a yearly published series of chapbooks of award winning poetry as well as in numerous other anthologies. Her short stories appeared in many issues of SP Quill and much of her poetry was published in eight chapbooks (no longer sold online). 

Since coming to Poetry Soup, Ms. Dietrich has been both contest sponsor and winner of numerous contests. In 2010, her poem "Cinder Girl" was first place winner of Soup's International contest (these contests are no longer held).  A song was created from her lyrics "Honeymoon Serenade" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWxc4cpHDc) and two movies have been made featuring the poetry of Andrea Dietrich: "A Tale of Fire and Ice" (a 4 min. Z-Film Fest Project, 2014) and the full length movie "Six Days of Sistine" in which 20 poems of Ms. Dietrichs serve as the thoughts of two characters played by Jamie Campbell Bower and Elarica Johnson (directed by Richard J. Perry, 2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7710360/

Is anyone having these problems?

Blog Posted by Andrea Dietrich: 6/20/2024 1:11:00 PM

First, there is a lovely poetess named Valsa. When she comments to me, I go to her poetry to read one of her poems. Once I try to comment, my comment goes nowhere. Something comes up showing it is not able to be delivered. System error, something like that. This happens no matter what I do, even if I try to comment to her on my OWN page where I can reply to a comment and even at Soupmail . I think I have this problem with one other person but I forget who. Does anyone know what causes this to happen?

Second thing: Many times I come to Soup and I cannot get on. I get kicked off a few times, and then later I am abe to get on. It can happen anywhere between several times a day or maybe only once a week. I think I heard of others with that problem. Any ideas why this happens at random times?



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Date: 6/26/2024 1:37:00 PM
Just check if your phone or computer has add blocker or some such software. The problem is not PS, it could be the filters in your device.
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Date: 6/22/2024 11:08:00 AM
I'm sorry, I have nothing helpful to add regarding your blog post but I've just read your bio for the first time and I'm star struck! You have an amazing amount of accomplishments Andrea! I'm so impressed and glad for you! And 6 grandchildren too...woohoo! It sounds like you are living the dream and it couldn't happen to a nicer, more talented person. Just wanted to share that:) <3. Sincerely, Crystol xo
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/22/2024 10:38:00 PM
Just seeing this now. Thanks for the kind words. I am not living any dreams but I have had some wonderful things happen to me since I started writing poetry in my 40's I never had a clue then where it would all take me! Thanks, Crystol
Date: 6/21/2024 3:25:00 PM
Like Tom, I get the error 500 and sometimes the comment has stayed.m
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/22/2024 9:30:00 AM
I just made comments to Valsa and I went back to see them after the error 500. And wow they went through
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/21/2024 4:20:00 PM
Sometimes, yes. It's a very curious thing!
Date: 6/21/2024 8:37:00 AM
It happens when your link to this site is interrupted. I get a "site/link not supported" message when I log on via my laptop. I force my cellphone to override it, but would not risk my computer ...
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/21/2024 4:21:00 PM
thanks for giving her last name. I completely forgot it. Not all my comments stay even with the error 500 thing.
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Suzette Richards
Date: 6/21/2024 9:31:00 AM
You are right about Valsa George 's page. It gives an error message "500", and displays your comment once you return to it. Weird, to say the least. Maybe TPS Support can look into it.
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/21/2024 9:28:00 AM
I would not know how to force overrides. Geez I am so incompetent in this techno world!
Date: 6/20/2024 10:13:00 PM
I have the same issue when I comment to Valsa, error 500 I think. But I click off and look again at her page and my comment is there. Gremlins in the soup I think. Haven't had it happen with anyone else though. Tom
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/21/2024 9:30:00 AM
I think a few times that happened for me but not always. Why Valsa? My curious mind wants to know why
Date: 6/20/2024 7:26:00 PM
Andrea, sounds very frustrating, I am lucky to not be having any of these issues at the moment, does not mean that I will not be getting them, hugs
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/21/2024 9:29:00 AM
Yes you are lucky. I just really want to know why I can't comment to Valsa!
Date: 6/20/2024 3:57:00 PM
Sometimes I can get system 500 error Andrea, so many glitches on the site and unfortunately you seem to have lots of them to deal with. hugs Jan xx
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/20/2024 5:57:00 PM
I guess different things happen to different people
Date: 6/20/2024 2:40:00 PM
Hello sweetie. I constantly get the error sign but when I look in the outbox I can see that it did work! Today, I commented on POTD and clearly saw my comment. When I checked later, my comment had disappeared? and the comment below me went in its place so I had to write another one. Never had that before. I always have trouble trying to send soupmail - it just spins round (captcha) and is so frustrating. I have to copy my message and then wait to keep trying. I guess there will always be glitches of some sort on the system. Hope it gets sorted for you soon xx
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Date: 6/20/2024 5:58:00 PM
Some of that is familiar to me. Sorry you have so many problems

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