POESY #37 Cover

Another t.kilgore splake photo attacked with accented edges in photoshop. The interview this issue is with Len Fulton of Small Press Review, so the design is going to be based on a small press/typer design concept. Should be fun as I go along...

Thursday and a cup o' tea

Yeah its thursday. I haven't been able to type because instead of working on the issue, this weekend, I was wakeboarding and I strained muscles in both my arms. I have been walking around doing the robot for four days now.

I sit here with my cup o' loose leaf green tea thinking about the issue and procrastinating here. The issue is moving along though. We have an article from our Boston editor Doug on Aafa Michael Weaver and his Pushcart winning poem American Income. Doug talks to him about everything from China to spaghettios.

I am interviewing Len Fulton for this issue. The force behind Dustbooks and Small Press Review. See, if you read this boring blog, you might get a glimpse of what's about to explode in POESY. Usually I don't reveal who I am interviewing until a week or two before the issue is released. Wait a second... October 1 is our deadline... hmmmm....

Good poems and amazing photos from a few gifted folks.

In other sloppy poetry news, the Wired Poets, the infamous weekly open mic in Santa Cruz, has been proceeding at my house until we find a venue. My neighbors haven't banged on my door yet at all the rucus so we will continue to tear up the grass in my yard, smear chocolate chip cookies on my walls and maybe continue to read mind-boggling poems.

Upcoming for POESY: Issue #37, a revamped website (one that actually works), our monthly newsletter back in the circulation, and a smart dog eating contest.

Need photographs - XXXVII

Working on the poetry for POESY #37, but more immediately, working on getting some good images going and getting the inpiration nailed for a cover. Send your creative, nutty, poetic photographs to submissions@poesy.org

I should have the interview subject nailed down in the next week because we have to get rolling on this. Either option I am aiming for will be a great addition to our past victims, this I am sure of!

Issue #37 - scheduled for October 1 release

POESY will be published twice a year until we get our act together and find an economic way to publish. Maybe we could do a web version only of the even issues and a print version of the odd issues... ideas ideas.... Our current printer (shall I call them out?) who quoted me $750.00 for the issue jacked its price up to almost $1k. That's almost the price of Lulu.com who has excellent quality I know I can trust and will even put a spine on the issue and not just saddle stitch it.

October 1st is the deadline I've created for the next issue. So far: mindblowing poems and trippy photos... enough to ____ (Fill in the blank)

Books are on the horizon for POESY Press besides my own self-indulging poems.

In other news: the Wired Poets may have found a home at Bad Ass Coffee on Pacific Ave in Santa Cruz. I will confirm it later. Just wanted to jumpstart the rumormill that we are back in full effect.

I've even written a few poems lately... what do you know?