Introducing Andrew Lundwall

If you're a writer interested in sending me a headshot (i like "eyes" and nice colors. or a sharp-featured black and white) please do so to ronklassnik2001 (at) yahoo (dot) com and I may well do one up of you.

Am thinking also of starting a blog with just these (writer portraits)

New Action Yes

New Action Yes.... click here

From the White House: Poetry, Music & the Spoken Word

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted students from American, Gallaudet, Georgetown, and Howard Universities in May 2009, allowing them to participate in an evening celebrating poetry, music, and the spoken word.



To read the entire article and for links to other videos go here

Day of the Dead Altars

Today the plaza's filled with altars:






(Don Nico-- wrestler and then, later, plumber and electrician. worked on Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's house)


Marco Antonio Nazareth--- died after fighting one of Julio Cesar Chavez's sons...



When I see their altars I think about what other people's will or would like. James Joyce, Hitler, Moses, God, Roosevelt, Kennedy, O'Bama, Seth Abramson, etc, etc-- u get the picture.....

click on images for larger views

Seth Abramson vs Mr. Lehman (cronyism, body language, compassion)...

"Disapproving of cronyism in politics is every citizen's right; disapproving of cronyism in art is every artist's obligation. What distinguishes the artist from the politician is that the artist will promote the work of someone he despises, because politics is about personalities whereas art is (to authentic artists) only and ever about art."


etc, etc, etc, etc,....

and, much later,....


"Those who actually know me personally--a fractional sub-set of those who pretend (online) to know the first thing about me and what I value--know that I try to be sincere, to be plainspoken, and to be compassionate in all my face-to-face dealings, and that I struggle to translate those intentions and qualities into online discourse (in which tone cannot be read, facial expressions cannot be read, good intentions and sincerity cannot be gleaned from body language, and slanderous discourse often proceeds by one party grasping for low-hanging fruit--like accusing an impoverished, idealistic former public defender and current doctoral student of being a money-hungry mastermind--rather than trying to dialogue through issues directly, even if adversarially)"


etc etc etc etc etc etc for all of it, go here

November Ditch

a note from Ditch:

Hi,
Our featured poet for the month of November is Meredith Quartermain.

Meredith Quartermain's most recent book, Nightmarker (NeWest), explores the city as animal behavior, museum and dream of modernity. In another recent book, entitled Matter (BookThug), she playfully riffs on Darwin's Origin of Species and Roget's Thesaurus. Vancouver Walking won the 2006 BC Book Award for Poetry. She is co-founder of Nomados Literary Publishers.

check it out along with all the other interesting an innovative writers on ditch,

Black Ocean's Halloween Buy One Get One Free Deal

a note from Black Ocean:

Black Ocean is offering a very special Halloween Sale this week! From 12:00 am on 10/30 to 11:59 pm on 11/1 any purchases of Zachary Schomburg’s limited edition hardcover Scary, No Scary (scfrom our website will receive any other book in our catalog for free. Simply specify which title you’d like in the notes during PayPal checkout and we’ll include it at no extra charge.

Each hardcover edition of Scary, No Scary comes signed and numbered by Schomburg himself, and includes a limited edition letter pressed mini-broadside from Brave Men Press. This package was created in a limited quantity of 200 and only about half of them remain.

As always, every order receives free shipping from our website. Thanks for your time and enjoy your Halloween!

TARPAULIN SKY PRESS IS HIRING

a note from Tarpaulin Sky:

TARPAULIN SKY PRESS IS HIRING

No pay--aside from fame and free books. Start immediately.

Over the next couple weeks, Tarpaulin Sky Press will be filling
a variety of editorial and production positions. If you are
interested in working for us, please email Christian Peet
& Editors at newstaff[AT]tarpaulinsky[DOT]com, and let us know
your experiences with (or your desire to be part of) Tarpaulin
Sky Press and the small press community as a whole.

Please understand that we would be delighted for you to read
submissions, but also that we consider reading submissions to be
"the fun part" of editing, and that editors at TSky have many
other responsibilities. Also, while ambition will serve as a
fine substitute for experience in several positions at TSky
Press, we are also looking specifically for people with
experience in one or more of the following areas: web design,
book design, event coordination, marketing and promotion.

It is not necessary to send a resume/CV--a letter will do fine--
but we will happily peruse anything you send.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Christian Peet & Co.
Tarpaulin Sky Press

Where the Wild Things Are - A Brief Review

"Where the Wild Things Are" suffers the fate many movies suffer. It starts off well enough. Sets up possibilities. Then kind of just fizzles out. And the ending's a cop out. A morality lesson. Yeah, Yeah: i'm all vague about town here. Well, so what. It's a decent movie all in all. But I wanted to feel as strongly as I did when I was terrified as the creatures encircled our wayward adolescent, threatening to eat him. From there o in it was all downhill, intensity-wise. And I was needing a good sound nap.

Agassi admits use of crystal meth (me too)

Agasssi admits use of crystal meth. And lied about it.

"Then comes a tidal wave of euphoria that sweeps away every negative thought in my head. I've never felt so alive, so hopeful - and I've never felt such energy."