"HOME" ON THE ARS POETICA RANGE

Newly-released AND RECOMMENDED is poem, home: An Anthology of Ars Poetica, edited by Jennifer Hill and Dan Waber. This is the print version of what become a popular, viral site, Ars Poetica that came to feature 569 poems by 251 poets. Check it out!

Meanwhile, here's my latest Relished W(h)ine List :

WINTER GARDEN (to date)
86 persimmons
46 green figs & 4 purple figs (they should be out of season now but Mom's managing to eke 'em out)
6 red peppers
2 yellow pepper
94 tomatoes (Mom keeps eking them out...)


PUBLICATIONS
AUTOPSY TURVY, poem-collaborations by father-daughter team Thomas Fink and Molly Diablo Mason (brilliant and sophisticated and elegant and witty and just all-out charming! Read in manuscript form as this will be forthcoming from Meritage Press in early 2010)

MANUSCRIPTS FOR DAD'S POETRY PRIZE (read all submitted manuscripts including the following winner and finalists):
ARCHIPELAGO DUST by Karen Llagas
LOVED LETTERS: MAILED WITHOUT A SCENT OF HOME by Niki Eskobar
TRAJE DE BODA by Aileen Ibardaloza
A DARK CONTINENT COMPANION by Sean Labrador y Manzano
RIZAL IN SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER POEMS by Don Pacis
TATTOO by Joel Vega

SEE HOW WE ALMOST FLY, poems by Alison Luterman

AIRS & VOICES, poems by Paula Bonnel

DARK CARD, poems by Rebecca Foust (deeply moving: poems of intense black diamonds with their stubborn, fierce light)

TO LIGHT OUT, poems by Karen Weiser

NEW EXERCISES, poems by Franck Andre Jamme

SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGS, poems by Amy King

MADE-UP INTERVIEWS WITH IMAGINARY ARTISTS featuring Pat Ament, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Joanne Greenberg, Peter Granbois and Cecilia Vicuna by Alex Stein

VANITAS 4 (TRANSLATION ISSUE), literary/arts journal edited by Vincent Katz

AURA: LAST ESSAYS by Gustaf Sobin

SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END, memoir by Diana Athill

FROM CHINA WITH LOVE: A LONG ROAD TO MOTHERHOOD, memoir by Emily Buchanan

OUT OF MANY, ONE FAMILY: HOW TWO ADULTS CLAIMED TWELVE CHILDREN THROUGH ADOPTION, memoir by Bart and Claudia Fletcher

A DRESS FOR ANNA: THE STORY OF THE REDEMPTION OF THE LIFE OF A UKRAINIAN ORPHAN memoir by Deborah J. Amend

THE VINTAGE CAPER, novel by Peter Mayle (effervescent but not lite ... for oenophiles anyway)

WITHOUT WARNING, novel by John Birmingham

AFTER DARK, novel by Phillip Margolin

UNDONE, novel by Karin Slaughter

BURNING TIME, novel by Leslie Glass

TRACKING TIME, novel by Leslie Glass

CANDLES ON BAY STREET, novel by K.C. McKinnon

BLUE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT, novel by Jonathon King

ACTS OF NATURE, novel by Jonathon King


WINES
2005 Peju estate cabernet NV (given by poet-friend, which just goes to show you can gift me wine or poetry books as neither are coals and Moi ain't Newcastle)
2004 B Cellars Blend 24 Cabernet, merlot, syrah NV
2002 Dutch Henry Zinfandel Rutherford NV
2005 JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Reisling Auslese
1989 Rayas Pignan CNP
1985 Clerico Ciabot Mentin Ginestra Barolo
2000 Aldo Conterno Barbera D'Alba Conca Tre Pile
2000 Gloria de Ostatu Rioja Alavesa
1996 Dalla Valle Cabernet NV