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NEWS

There’s been a lot of water under a lot of bridges since this site was built in 2017. New books of mine. New Chuck Prophet releases. A barely thwarted fascist takeover of the Homeland that remains an ominous threat. The death and rebirth of Temple Beautiful: The Musical. Of note locally, this site will continue to be refurbished. For now, there are two new books (and two old books) added to the slide show and three announcements:

A pamphlet is in the works, another sui generis collaboration with Jeremy Gaulke of Four by Two and APEP Publications renown. Destined to be an instant collector’s item.

Jeremy and I are looking into getting some archives of Four by Two on this site, along with a history of the magazine.

Long Engagement: New & Selected Poems (1985–2023), put together with the hands-on editorial eye and ear of Brenda Hillman, is looking for a home. Adopt a book! Become a publisher! Launder dirty money! A lot less clean-as-a-hound’s-tooth money will come
out the other side.

THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE


Jack Gilbert
Thomas Hardy
Jaroslav Siefert
Don Marquis
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Carol Ann Duffy
Frank Zappa
James Thurber
Edgar Lee Masters
Joseph Moncure March
Ai
Roberto Bolaño
Russell Hoban
(for Riddley Walker)
Frederick Exley
Du Fu
Li Po (aka Li Bai, Rihaku)
Catullus
Sappho
Juvenal
Nathanael West


Charles Reznikoff
Wislawa Szymborska
Edmund Wilson
Sandy Koufax
Charles Portis
John Clare
Duane Michals
Flannery O’Connor
C.P. Cavafy
Emily Dickinson
Wm. Shakespeare
Chaucer
W.E.B. Du Bois
Zbigniew Herbert
Paul Zimmer
Mary Oliver (just kidding)
Carl Sandburg
Bert Meyers
Kenneth Fearing
Helen Adam
Howard Stern

George Crabbe
Christopher Smart
Karl Shapiro (criticism/essays)
Flannery O’Connor
Frank O’Hara
Ishmael Reed
Weldon Kees*
*who coined the term ‘idiot wind’

Inexhaustibles
Kenneth Patchen
Ford Madox Ford

Current Fixations
Giovanni Papini
New York Dolls