F&F in full effect

All current F&F orders shipped today, with the exception of orders that includes Asterisk 2. I need to print more of these, so they'll ship later this week.

Asterisk 4 will be released this week. Asterisk 4 features the stylings of Tony Robinson.

Andy Mister's Hotels is ready. I'm in production mode: cutting, folding, stapling, sewing. This'll be announced soon.

Brenda Iijima's Rabbit Lesson is near-to-done. Once Brenda give me the ok, this'll hit the streets also.

Next up: Shannon Tharp and Jordan Davis. Following that will be John Coletti. After that F&F will take a break with the exception of publishing Asterisk and perhaps a little self publishing.

Thanks for the continued support.

"The trick naturally is what Duncan learned years ago and tried to teach us - not to search for the perfect poem but to let your way of writing of the moment go along its own paths, explore and retreat but never be fully realized (confined) within the boundaries of one poem. This is where we were wrong and he was right, but he complicated things for us by saying that there is no such thing as good or bad poetry. There is - but not in relation to the single poem. There is really no single poem...It was not my anger or my frustration that got in the way of my poetry but the fact that I viewed each anger and each frustration as unique - something to be converted into poetry as one would exchange foreign money. I learned this from the English Department (and from the English Department of the spirit - that great quagmire that lurks at the bottom of all of us) and it ruined ten years of my poetry."

Jack Spicer

Chicken, parsnips, potatoes, carrots, garlic, leeks, kale, turnips, ginger, oregano, and cabbage in the slow cooker.

Ah snow. There's talk of a neighborhood Xcountry ski to the pub for a beer. One advantage of the boondocks, at least in this instance, is being able to ski to the pub.

The Mitchell Report is released today. My sources tell me, here I sound like Peter Gammons, that there will be bad news for the Yankees.

I'm guessing that Roger Clemens is one of the folks named.

Clickety.

Give this your undivided attention.

You should order this.

DECEMBER 8TH

JESS MYNES and ANTHONY HAWLEY

SEGUE READING SERIES @ BOWERY POETRY CLUB

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 308 BOWERY, just north of Houston