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Posted in daily on Nov 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Look.
Look how adorable:
Biscuit is the current victor of no fewer than 2918 kitten wars. But, alas, not unlike her human (me), she was rejected from publication. Biscuit does not appear in the book, kittenwar: May the Cutest Kitten Win! published by Chronicle Books. News of rejection (rather, utter lack of consideration) recently [...]
Posted in poetic on Nov 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
The November 2007 issue (Issue 31) of San Francisco-based Del Ray Cross’ Shampoo (a poetry magazine) is now up. This issue features poems, actual postcard images and actual postcard scribbles from a July 2007 Kundiman-poets postcard poetry exchange, including a toothbrush-inspired poem, “Clean-Up“, written to poet and fellow-Kundiman-fellow Hossanah Asuncion. Read [...]
Posted in poetic on Nov 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Just finished reading the 48-page chapbook of poetry from independent press CAKETRAIN [a journal and press]: Dolls by Tom Whalen, winner of the 2006 Caketrain Chapbook Contest. It’s an expertly themed chapbook of 30 prose poems about (of course) dolls–the sexualized, stained, empty, thinking kind–and their owners. A spooky read. Available [...]