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?

FREQUENCY of PUBLISHING POESY and Issue #37

I have been mulling over this for the past year and it is only going to get worse. I have decided to make POESY a bi-annual publication. Quarterly at today's printing prices with the new format is going to put me in the poor house indefinitely.

This may only be temporary until I get used to my new schedule and things slow down, but for now plan on POESY coming out in March and September.

I have been reading submissions like crazy and wish I could only be inspired... come on.. give me something I can sink my teeth into and grapple with for a while!

I also considered running a Wired Poets (poets of the Wired Wash Cafe open mic in santa cruz) issue, but since it shut down in June due to the rent being stolen (allegedly), that has dissolved as well. I don't want to step back into the tracks of poetry, I want to carry what is groundbreaking now into the future. Something that poets of today can relate to and identify with what is happening in the poetry world as of now, this very moment, today.... I need answers!

Bloggin out and San Francisco Zinefest

Everyone seems to be doing this blogger thing. I guess that is the trend. I guess its cool. I guess I could try it. Anyway, I will try to stick to the subject. POESY #36 was a complete success. Erika King did an amazing job as guest editor with her creative mind and approach to poetry. I know she will go far in the poetry world. It was nice having a co-conspirator.

This past weekend I attended the San Francisco Zine Fest. It was quite impressive. The last time I went, it was at Cellspace in the Mission District of San Francisco. This year it was at the San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park. There seemed to be much more traffic and participation. I hope they can keep up the momentum next year too. A decent stack of POESY's were sold consisting of the current #36 and of course, the Diane di Prima issue (#25) went pretty fast.

I shared a table with Christopher Robin from Zen Baby. Here's a couple pics…