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Send A Book To A War Criminal! (If they can read...)

Tinfish Press's "Send a Book to a War Criminal" Drive

Tinfish Press has just published a chapbook by Sarith Peou, titled CORPSE WATCHING. This book of poems details Peou's experiences under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Please see http://tinfishpress.com/corpse.html for details.

I decided to send a copy to former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Henry Kissinger, whose actions were largely responsible for the Khmer Rouge's coming to power in 1975.

But I want everyone to have this chance. Send $10 to Tinfish Press (less than the usual price of $12) and we will send a copy of the book to the war criminal of your choice with a personalized card to say who's responsible for sending it along. There are many such war criminals-choose one or more. If at all possible, please track down their addresses for us.

Susan M. Schultz, Editor
Tinfish Press
47-728 Hui Kelu Street #9
Kane`ohe, HI 96744
http://tinfishpress.com

a noun sing e·ratio 9 ·2007

with poetry by:  louis armand, bill lavender, jeff harrison, brian
zimmer, jon cone, alifair skebe, nicole mauro, michelle cahill, kristy
bowen, julie waugh, robyn alter bielawa, jack foley, ivan arguelles,
jake berry, jonathan minton, scott wilkerson, and amy grier

http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com

edited by gregory vincent st. thomasino

Check out the archives, too (a body fine of work): http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/archives.html

Six Word Story

Cigarette ash falling down your pants.

Mom

Crg, for Ten Years

Long story foreshortened: on August 26, the day after my birthday (when I will move closer to 100 than to 0), my artistic name will become Crg Hill (pronounced kerg). Every ten years thereafter I will drop one letter from my name. Hence:

At 60: Cg Hill

At 70: g Hill

At 80: _ Hill

At 90: _ Hll

At 100: _ ll

At 110: _ l

At 120: _ _ At this age I will only write anapaest verse about the spaces between electrons.

Perhaps, though, I've started too late in the quest to become nominally invisible...

Six Word Story U

Her down under is his continent.

Sharing the New Directions Baton

I grew up as a reader in the 1970s with New Directions. In my late teens/early twenties, three publishers earned my trust. From each of them, I'd buy new books from writers I didn't know because City Lights, Black Sparrow, and New Directions never let me down. Never (and that's not an easy word to use).

I intend to pass the New Directions baton to my students (worried though I may be that "parent" corporation W. W. Norton will muddy the depths of its body). With glee, I recently snapped up World Beat: International Poetry Now, edited by someone I trust, Eliot Weinberger, hoping it's rich enough to adopt for a World Lit class I'll be teaching.

So far, the Paz, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Dunya Mikhail, and Gu Cheng selections trip up the narrow U.S. axis of what poetry is/does, especially the Iraqi poet Mikhail selection which I read "appropriately" over the 4th of July (see Jordan Stempleman for a link to an NPR interview).

There was a

police

report of

a banged-up white

truck

ramming a car

at a

stop

sign on South

Jackson Street

and

then heading

north on Washington

Six Word Story

Chasing the babies down the mountain.

Six Word Story O

On the drive, the crash crashed.