PUMP KEEN!

Yo! Got Moi the first true pumpkin of the season!



And speaking of harvests, here's moi latest update to my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. Note that if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects ). And I'm looking looking looking for reviewers to get books offa moi floors and to hit 100 new reviews for the next issue! Yeah! More info on that HERE.

CITY SLICKER SUMMER HARVEST
112 cherry tomatoes
144 regular tomatoes
28 red onions
2 strawberries
18 zucchini
74 summer squash
51 squash flowers
44 green beans
1 lemon cucumber
2 pumpkins (the first doesn't count as it was harvested prematurely when I thought it was a melon...)
27 sprigs of basil
5 clumps of sage
1 green cucumber
4 lemon cucumbers
8 sprigs of mint
50 Concord grapes
24 figs
3 bunches of chives


PUBLICATIONS
THE ULTERIOR EDEN, poems by j/j hastain (worth re-reading; highlights the power of eros)

* A TOAST IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS, poems by Akilah Oliver (couldn’t help but notice the energy that reared up with the first page and just boomed on each succeeding page until the end – it wrote itself and the poet is to be admired for ego not getting in the way)

"NEITHER WIT NOR GOLD" (FROM THEN), poems by Ammiel Alcalay

HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD, poems and essays by Leslie Scalapino

PHOTOGRAPH OF A NUDE, poems by Gary Silva (I’d seen Gary Silva around while he was doing Poet Laureate duty for Napa Valley, e,g. hosting a poetry reading at the local library. I finally got a chance to read his poems through 2 chapbooks including the one listed below, and was pleasantly rewarded!)

CERAMICS: LAUREATE POEMS by Gary Silva (wonderful “occasional poems”)

IN THE COMMON DREAM OF GEORGE OPPEN, poems by Joseph Bradshaw

PORTRAIT OF COLON DASH PARENTHESIS, poems by Jeffrey Jullich

HANK, poems by Abraham Smith

* THE DIVINE SALT, poems by Peter Blair

* FLOWER CART, poems by Lisa Fishman

FROM HERE, poems by Zoe Skoulding with images by Simonetta Moro

CORPORATE GEESE by Christopher William Purdom

* TWO HATS APPEAR WHEN APPLAUDED: AN IMPROVISATION by Raymond Farr

* SPEAKING OFF CENTRE by James Cummin

KITCHEN TIDBITS, poems by Amanda Laughtland (charming)

THE SPIRIT OF THE SAINTS / EL ESPIRITU DE LOS SANTOS, St. Helena High School Literary Arts Journal 2010, co-eds Susan Swan and Sophia Cahua

OFF THE GRID: INSIDE THE MOVEMENT FOR MORE SPACE, LESS GOVERNMENT AND TRUE INDEPENDENCE ON MODERN AMERICA, study by Nick Rosen

NO BIKING IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A HELMET, memoir by Melissa Fay Greene

THE SIEGE, novel by Stephen White

THE SHADOW CATCHERS, novel by Thomas Lakeman

IN PURSUIT OF HONOR, novel by Vince Flynn

SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT, novel by Lydia Joyce


WINES
2001 Brunello di Montalcino Valdicava
2005 Trevor Jones Dry Grown Barosso shiraz
2010 Dutch Henry sauvignon blanc Chafen Family Vineyards
1990 Ch. Margaux (Moi Birthday Wine this year!)
2004 Samuel's Gorge shiraz McLaren's Vale
2001 Monprivato In Castiglione Falletto Barolo Mascarello Guiseppe E. Figlio
2002 Puligny-Montrachet Clos de la Mouchere Jean Boillot & File Monopole
2002 Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Pruliers Philippe et Vincent Lecheneaut
2008 Conundrum
2002 Bonneau du Martrey Corton Charlemagne
Vega Sicilia Reserva Especial
1988 Ch. d’Yquem