drawing by Karyn, hand by Jesse

5 new chapbooks bought and gifted

Stained Glass Windows Of California by Julien Poirier (Ugly Duckling Presse)
 

Let The Smoke And The Tracks Carry You! by Christina Fisher, Patrick James Dunagan and Derek Fenner (Bird And Beckett Books)
 

Jack Of Diamonds And The Queen Of Spades by Jackson Meazle (Bird And Beckett Books)
 

Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi (Insert Blanc Press)
 

Fright Analog by Joseph Mosconi (Insert Blanc Press)
 

re: the Atacama Humanoid

"Today, the team has elected to share the following additional 'Atacama Humanoid' conclusive findings: 'Ata' was male and survived post-birth 6 to 8 years.
Speaking specifically to Internet controversy over 'Ata,'..While it's size led many to suggest that it was an aborted fetus, bone density and epiphyseal plate studies have already concluded that this creature survived post-birth 6 to 8 years."

Stephen Vincent grew up attending Camp Ravencliff 40 years before I did.

Jack Hirschmann is the godfather of Amber Tamblyn.

these are poetry facts, I learned them at the Anselm Hollo memorial, then later at the Amerarcana issue #3 book party at Bird And Beckett. 

today is the Sunset season opener. I'm not going. 

the screaming meemies gave us the heebie-jeebies
living ghosts go down the logger's trail
chewing cud at the crossroads,
Vanishing Hitchhickers never get where they're going

Anselm Hollo, a Memorial Tribute Saturday
April 6, 4:00 pm @ CCA Graduate Writing Studio, 195 DeHaro (at 15th Street)
California College of the Arts, San Francisco

Jane Dalrymple-Hollo and Tamsin Hollo will be our honored guests

Participants to include:
Alan Bernheimer
Mary Burger
Maxine Chernoff
Brenda Coultas
Steve Dickison
Stephen Emerson
Derek Fenner
Gloria Frym
Tinker Greene
Donald Guravich
Paul Hoover
Alastair Johnston
Joanne Kyger
George Mattingly
Lucy Farber Mattingly
Sarah Menefee
Jim Nisbet
Eric Olson
Michelle Puckett
Kit Robinson
John Sakkis
Andrew Schelling

3 Failed Email Collaborations
for Ben Mirov, Julian Poirier and Chris Martin

a little nose dive down,
my posture is a yellow balloon
into and out of the bottle
this sour spittle, this
little wreckage-go-round
I can't feel my legs
licking it it sprightly, a love burn nervously fleeing
the last time I was in NYC I flooded
SFO will never be named MILK
now that blah blah "diamonds and furs..."
a WASPish widow, and the apple of my eye,
and the layover of my loutishness, my bald
balls are hung and heavy with merriment,
a ribald toast to our brattiness, cake and food
I'm a bubble wrap B-Boy, smell smell smell
say that's really swell Mr.
say you're a bottom dweller skimming Cul de Sac
clean, like a mean Reaper you give good BONE
let's play kick the can down the road/ TELEPHONE
repeat after me "my bloody gums receding"
"my buddy knows no bleeding"
"my buddy's nose knows no's"
and I really couldn't remember
your text preference whether
your outta-didact was fuzzy
and x-rated but yes, definitely
human and stiff as a stream
straightening out small tweak-
ers huffing and puffing above
me working the floor
till kingdom come   
[starts couplets]
Sparks Outrage on the internet
[starts couplets]
the Bonnie Bay Bridge of Autumn
and I really couldn't remember
your text preference whether
your outta-didact was fuzzy
and x-rated but yes, definitely
human and stiff as a stream
straightening out small tweak-
ers huffing and puffing above
me working the floor
till kingdom come