EXTREME READING!

Making art with words is just plain silly. Because beauty is savage and alphabets are the product of civilization. And what is civilization except people figuring out how to live with one another without killing one another. The process is incomplete. The world needs readers.
--John Olson

Now that's what I'ma talkin' about! Poetry ain't words! If you wish to upgrade your reading from moi blather, enchanting though such blather is, GO HERE FOR JOHN OLSON'S EXTREME READING! Brilliantly and hilariously illustrated by Steven Fama.

Elsewhere, I am looking forward to reading the new winner's book of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize: by Neil de la Flor. Poets from fifteen countries plus the U.S. entered our contest this year judged by Forrest Gander. Information on finalists/runners-up HERE.

Elsewhere, I relished yet another book recently that contains hay(na)ku: Mark Young's MORE FROM SERIES MAGRITTE (Moria Poetry, Chicago, 2009). Wonderful read! Check it out, and here's moi latest Relished W(h)ine List:


CITY SLICKER'S SPRING/SUMMER GARDEN HARVEST (to date)
5 artichokes
20 green onion stalks
12 onions/scallions
23 strawberries
11 yellow squash
5 zucchini
50 basil leaves
2 cucumbers
25 pepper leaves


PUBLICATIONS
ANALFABETO: AN ALPHABET, poems by Ellen Baxt (lush gorgeous language; uncertainty's blossoms grows beautifully here)

TERRACOTTA WORRIERS by Mark Young (I'll read anything by this poet; this one's free HERE)

MORE FROM SERIES MAGRITTE, poems by Mark Young

ODES TO ANGER, poems by Jason L. Yurcic

TAKE IT, poems by Joshua Beckman

DICK OF THE DEAD, poems by Rachel Loden

LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT: GUERRILLA POETRY & PUBLIC SPACE by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand

LIGHT FILLING MY BONES, poems by Dorothy B. Anderson with cut-paper illustrations by Donna Bruhl

SPIRITS, Spring 2009 (Indiana University Northwest literary journal), Ed. Dylan McKee

ANTHOLOGY SPIDERTANGLE, visual poetry anthology Edited by mIEKAL aND (made me so happy to peruse its pages)

SCRATCH BEGINNINGS: ME, $25, AND THE SEARCH FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM, memoir by Adam Shepard

THERE IS NO ME WITHOUT YOU: ONE WOMAN'S ODYSSEY TO RESCUE HER COUNTRY'S CHILDREN (story of Haregerowoin Teferra), investigative journalism by Melissa Fay Greene

THE RUSSIAN WORD FOR SNOW, memoir by Janis Cooke Newman

A GIRL NAMED MARIA, memoir by Valerie S Kreutzer

I'LL NEVER BE FRENCH (NO MATTER WHAT I DO): LIVING IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN BRITTANY, memoir by Mark Greenside

ROADSIDE CROSSES, novel by Jeffery Deaver

ASHES TO ASHES, novel by Tami Hoag

WICKED PREY, novel by John Sandford


WINES
1998 Wild Duck Creek Estate Springflat shiraz
2004 Dead Letter Office shiraz
2007 Judds Hill pinot noir
1994 Penfold Bin 707 cabernet
2003 Donnhoff Norheim Dellchen Riesling Auslese
1999 Behrens & Hitchcock "Ode to Picasso" NV
2006 Miner Family Sangiovese "Gibson Ranch" Mendocino