CHOCOLATE-FLAVORED POEMS!

My favorite holiday left-overs are coming from THIS:



And others on my Recently Relished W(h)ine List are cheerfully posted below between forkfuls of chocolate. In the Publications section, note that if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects)! More info on that HERE.

PUBLICATIONS
* STUPID BIRDS by Logan Ryan Smith (poems have, among many other wondrous things, huge charisma!)

* SEVEN CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES AND OBITUARY 2004 THE JOY OF COOKING, poetry by Tan Lin (unexpectedly light on its feet. Which, for this type of project, is also to say, brilliant.)

* KILLING KANOKO: SELECTED POEMS by Hiromi Ito, trans Jeffrey Angles (a lot to admire; makes me wish I know Japanese so I can enjoy it in the original)

THE VAST PRACTICAL ENGINE, poem by Eric Hoffman (a wonderful achievement!)

PINKO, poems by Jen Benka

* EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING, poems & comics by Sommer Browning

THIRTEEN DESIGNER VAGINAS, poems by Juliet Cook

BLACK SEEDS ON A WHITE DISH, poems by Shira Dentz

KINGDOM ANIMALIA, poems by Aracelis Girmay

SHOT, poems by Christine Hume

YOUR OWN OX-HEAD MASK AS PROOF, poems by George Kalamaras

AAAALICE, poems by Jennifer Karmin

LIGATURE STRAIN, poems by Kim Koga

THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN DRIVEWAY, poems by Jennifer L. Knox

AND IF YOU DON'T GO CRAZY I'LL MEET YOU HERE TOMORROW, poems by Filip Marinovich

* ENTREPOT, poems by Mark McMorris

HOLD TIGHT: THE TRUCK DARLING POEMS by Jeni Olin

THE NETWORK, poems by Jena Osman

* IATROGENIC: THEIR TESTIMONIES, poems by Danielle Pafunda

RUINS, poems and photographs by Margaret Randall

THE BOUNTY: FOUR ADDRESSES, poems by Kate Schapira

AND I WOULD OPEN, poems by Jill Stengel

INTO THE SNOW: SELECTED POEMS OF GENNADI AYGI, trans. Sarah Valentine

HALF LIVES: PETRARCHAN POEMS BY RICHARD JACKSON

THE COLOSSUS AND OTHER POEMS by Sylvia Plath

THE WILL TO CHANGE: POEMS 1968-1970 by Adrienne Rich

TIME’S POWER: POEMS 1985-1988 by Adrienne Rich

* BLUE COLLAR POET, poems by G. Emil Reutter (wonderful, often humorous)

TRANSFER, poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

MICROGRAMS, poems by Jorge Carrera Andrade

GEOMETRIES by Guillevic and “Englished” by Richard Sieburth

THE DARKENED TEMPLE, poems by Mari L’Esperance

THE AUTUMN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, edited by Michael Simms

AUFGABE journal edited by E. Tracy Grinnell, Paul Foster Johnson and Julian T. Brolaski

THE WORKING POET: 75 WRITING EXERCISES AND A POETRY ANTHOLOGY, edited by Scott Minar (useful, which is what an anthology of this type should be)

EXILES IN EDEN: LIFE AMONG THE RUINS OF FLORIDA’S GREAT RECESSION, memoir/journalism by Paul Reyes


WINES
2007 Perlato del Bosco Rosso Toscana
2007 Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso 'Ca' del Laito Bussola Veneto
1997 Dunn Vineyards cabernet Howell Mountain NV (Christmas Eve wine!)
2008 Long Meadow Ranch pinot noir
2008 Long Meadow Ranch house red