Posted in crafty, poetic on Apr 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
Long craft-deprived, I finally took this past weekend to crack the knuckles, pull out my Print Gocco and complete a chapbook project for twenty-one Kundiman fellows who exchanged poems written on postcards for the month of September 2007. Ten poets contributed their small-size poems.
After months of mulling it over, conceiving of it and mostly [...]
Posted in poetic on Apr 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
Here’s poetry review #4 for National Poetry Month. Previously posted, reviews 1 , 2 and 3.
Pegasus Books Downtown is proving to be fertile ground for limited edition, locally-produced chapbooks and journals, including my own DIY chap, which it is carrying as of this past Thursday. (Thanks, Clay Banes!) A find this week is [...]
Posted in poetic on Apr 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Today, poetry review #3 for National Poetry Month. Reviews 1 and 2 are here and here.
Dan Magers‘ spooky teen/frat/sorority horror sonnets are collected in the clever Exploitation Poems (Immaculate Disciples Press 2007), a 32-page square-shaped chapbook that I recently found at Pegasus Books in downtown Berkeley. Framed under muted olive covers (with silkscreen [...]