Dear Poets young and
old, near and far, written and spoken word:
Welcome to the 45th
consecutive week of the Austin Poets at Large e-newsletter.
I want to thank the
many people who support the APAL venues and other poetry in Austin
and across planet, including Venie and Ross in Australia, where it is
springtime. Welcome to new subscribers.
Anyone wanting off the
mailing list, e mail your request.
Table of Contents
I. APAL Poets Guide
- a list of local venues and upcoming events.
II. Featured Poetry -
This week's theme: Childhood Memories Part 1
III.
Books/Chapbooks/CD's - for sale
IV. Call for
submissions
V. Announcements
VI. Slam Stuff (which
will be incorporated into general announcements next week)
I. APAL Poets Guide
All events are free
unless otherwise noted. Some venues pass the tip jar for featured
poets.
1. Monday, Sept. 14 -
Patio of Jovita's Restaurant, 1619 S. First St. Red Salmon Arts
continues its on-going poetry series, "Southside Poetic Action
Series" Open mike reading from 7:30 - 9:30 pm. Red Salmon Arts
is an organization focusing on the literary heritage of historically
marginalized peoples, providing a space for emerging writers/artist
as well as published writers from inside and outside of
Austin. fmi contact
Resistencia Bookstore, 416-8885.
2. Tuesday, Sept. 15 -
Ruta Maya Coffee House, 4th and Lavaca. APAL open mike. Sign up at
6:30 pm. Co-hosts: Sara Sutterfield Winn and Maslow. Featured poet:
Rich Perin. fmi e-mail maslow_at_flash.net
3. Tuesday, Sept. 15 -
Electric Lounge, 302 Bowie. Weekly Slam. Sign up around 8:30 p.m.
Phil West hosts. Always worth the $2 price of admission. Win $50.
fmi call 476-FUSE.
4.. Wednesday, Sept. 16
- Movements Gallery, 211 E. 6th St. BYOB: Blast Your Own
Breath.Tammy Gomez hosts, 9-10:30 p.m. Open mic, i mean REALLY open.
fmi contact tejana.tongue_at_mail.utexas.edu
5. Thursday, Sept. 17 -
Barnes & Noble Guadalupe (on the Drag) presents poet and essayist
Richard Cole, reading and signing his newly released Success Stories.
7 p.m. See Books/Chapbooks section. fmi call 457-0581.
6. Thursday, Sept. 17 -
East Side Black & White poetry at Ebony Sun Java House, 1209 E.
11th St., Suite C. APAL open mic sign up at 7:30 p.m. Host, Stazja.
Featured poet: Vicky Charleston, author of Amazon. fmi call 346-7773.
7. Saturday, Sept. 19 -
The Austin Poetry Society opens its 50th season at the Howson Branch
Library, 2500 Exposition, at 10am. Featured guest speakers: Mildred
& Nancy Baass. Everyone is welcome! fmi:
gemartt_at_mail.utexas.edu
8. Saturday, Sept. 19 -
Saturday Night Live Poetry at Quackenbush's, 2120 Guadulupe. APAL
open mic sign-up at 7:30 p.m. Featured poet: Kai Bush. "Newcomer"
Kai's soft-spoken passion will enchant you. Diane Fleming and Stazja
McFadyen co-host. fmi contact buddydog_at_texas.net or call 346-7773.
9. Sunday, Sept. 20 -
HILL COUNTRY POETRY GARDEN, 3 p.m. Peggy Lynch of Poetry in the Arts
sponsors a poetry reading in the shady garden at Eakin Press, Ashley
Oaks, on Tara Road off 290 West. Light refreshments. Directions from
Austin: take Mopac South to 290/71 West. At the "Y" in Oak
Hill keep left on 290 for 2 1/2 miles slowing down-hill and turning
onto the left turning lane, Ashley Oaks sign. Eakin Press is on your
right, parking nearby.
10. Monday, Sept. 21 -
North American Poetry Jam - NAP JAM 2 begins at the Plaza Hotel, 1
Main Street, Las Vegas. See announcements. fmi contact
bowerbird_at_aol.com. (I know this isn't a local event, but yours truly
is going to be there, along with other APAL venue hosts Sara
Sutterfield Winn, Mark Maslow and Diane Fleming, so it will SEEM like
an APAL event).
11. Tuesday, Sept. 22 -
Ruta Maya Coffee House, 4th and Lavaca. APAL open mic sign-up at 6:30
p.m. Guest host: John Hawk. fmi contact maslow_at_flash.net
12. Tuesday, Sept. 22 -
Electric Lounge, 302 Bowie. The famous Slam! Sign-up 8:30 p.m. Mike
Henry hosts. Win $50. fmi call 476-FUSE.
13. Wednesday, Sept. 23
- Borders, 10225 Research Blvd. at Great Hills Trail. Borders on the
Word, hosted by Barbara Carr. 7:30 pm. A pre-publication reading of
"Feeding the Crow", an anthology of poetry featuring Austin
poets Peggy Lynch, Jose Flores, Lyman Grant, Robin Britton, Jill
Wiggins, Carlyn Luke Reding, Jennifer Cardenas, a Phillip T. Stephens
and Alyce Guynn and edited by Susan Bright, poet and publisher of
Plain View Press. Followed by round robin open mike. fmi call Barbara
Carr at 343-7940 or Susan Bright at 441-2452.
14. Wednesday, Sept. 23
- Cornerstone, 1117 Red River, 7:30-9 p.m. featuring some of Austin's
outstanding gay and lesbian poets: David Meischen, Rick Garcia,
Dennis Ciscel, and Ana Sisnett. Fmi contact Scott Wiggerman at
wigg119_at_flash.net
15. Wednesday, Sept. 23
- Movements Gallery, 211 E. 6th St. BYOB: Blast Your Own Breath.Tammy
Gomez hosts, 9-10:30 p.m. Open mic, i mean REALLY open. fmi contact
tejana.tongue_at_mail.utexas.edu
16. Thursday, September
24 - Poesia y Sur at Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress Ave. 7 p.m.
Bi-lingual readings of great Hispanic poets. Selections from the
poetry of Nicaraguan Poet Ruben Dario (1867-1916). Hosted by Sue
Littleton. Introduction to the Poet by Dr. Miriam Balboa de
Echeverria. Guitar music by Francisco Chavez. fmi contact 416-7435.
17. Saturday, Sept. 26
- Saturday Night Live Poetry at Quack's, 2120 Guadalupe. APAL open
mic sign up at 7:30. Diane Fleming and Stazja co-host. Featured poet:
Houston-based Jeramiah Frick. fmi contact buddydog_at_texas.net
18. Monday, Sept. 28 -
Patio of Jovita's Restaurant, 1619 South First St. from 7:30-9:30
p.m. Red Salmon Arts, focusing on the literary heritage of
historically marginalized peoples, provides a space for emerging
writers/artist as well as published writers from inside and outside
of Austin; hosting on-going poetry series, "Southside Poetic
Action Series" open mike reading. Fmi contact Resistencia
Bookstore, 416-8885
II. Featured Poetry
This week's theme:
Childhood Memories, Part 1
Next week's theme:
Childhood Memories, Part 2 (because of the overwhelming response).
Following week's theme:
"And the future generations?"
1. From Zer Purvee of
Austin, who requested this theme.
Summer Afternoon
The tractor had plowed
the field
a day or two before
I saw only the long
dirt rows
But Al, she always
saw more than me
She saw couches and
chairs
rooms with wallpaper
a whole new universe
asking for us to
explore
We ran and played the
day away
Her little brothers
tagging along
After we were caked in
dirt
the brook called to us
and we swam
eating the mint that
grew along the shores
I heard Mom's car
pulling up
We made one last
journey
to our furniture
then I left, only on my
next trip
to find the house gone
2. From Dreya Lee
Johannsen of Austin
WHAT METAL CAN TELL
I hear the table pushed
on whining
wheels to the wall, and
the volume
raised on the stereo;
my stepfather's
feet shuffle on aged
linoleum; his
tongue clicks
invitation and come-on
to my mother. The
dishes are done
and they dance in the
kitchen because
it is empty, the
counter is clear,
and the dishes are
done.
I am a witness to
weather,
always stand inside
this door when
the air is thick, dark
with dirt;
the hairs on my puny
arms rise-
I smell rock from the
riverbed.
A sneaky finger pushes
up my glasses
and I press my nose
flat
into the screen,
closing my eyes in
the only prayer I know:
please.
I stretch my tongue
till it touches steel
then pull it back,
testing the taste of grit
like my first sip of
beer and I know
it's going to rain. I
stand at the screen
with dust on my nose
and lips, knowing
rain will bring my
brother inside,
my parents from the
kitchen. My stepfather
will go to the store,
buy ice-cream
for us, a bag of candy
for himself;
he will eat it at
stoplights on the way home.
I stand at the door,
eager knuckles wrapped
around the grille,
watching nickel drops
of water staining concrete;
I blow the hair off my
face and wait,
praying for the lights
to go out
and candles:
please.
3. From Jimmy Smith of
So. Cal.
memories?
small white hands
fingers dirty,
feet dirty
sidewalk and dirt
and gray days
children in the hydrant
cars on the street
an old piano sits and
waits
sister plays heart and
soul
without any of either
"get away from
that"
stolen time when no-one
is listening
three stooges on the
box
one finger at a time
I play a tune that runs
like water
"I have heard this
somewhere"
and add a finger
and another
"get away from
that"
three years go by
before
a stranger, visitor,
temporary official
stands outside the door
and tells my loving but
ignorant mom
and my hopelessly
drunken dad
and my heartless and
soulless sister
that she stopped
because
she heard somebody
playing
Rachmananoffs
concerto in F#
and wondered who the
player was
duh..
duh..
streets and dirt
and the theme from
Paganinni
what a whirlpool
we divest our time
4. From Dr. Robert
Brown, of Austin,
Ruby Hunter
Among my grandmother's
things
Is a yellowed newspaper
clipping
"Local girl tricks
her grandpa:
Miss Ruby Taylor of
Sweet Home Plantation
Played an amusing
stunt. Her
grandpapa was washing
his eyes
with an eye lotion and
she quickly
turned out the only
lamp in the room.
When he opened his
eyes, he shouted
I'm blind, I'm blind.
He was so
startled she didn't
dare laugh at him."
Ruby told me a story
about his
prayers in the old
days, including:
"Dear Lord, it's
OK to send the boll weevils
but please send some
with smaller appetites."
I follow his traditions
today. Every
election day, I stumble
blindly into
the voting booth and
vote for the lesser
of two weevils.
III.
Books/Chapbooks/CD's
chap*book (noun) First
appeared 1798 : a small book containing ballads, poems, tales, or
tracts
Addenda to definition
of 'chapbook' - it was so called because it was hawked by 'chapmen' -
or peddlers. The word 'chap' comes from a ME and/or OE word meaning
'cheap.' - from large Random House Dictionary
You are invited to
bring your books/chapbooks/anthologies to sell at Ruta Maya on
Tuesdays. For guidelines e-mail maslow_at_flash.net
1. Success Stories,
Limestone Books; Austin, Tx. Poetry and essays by Richard Cole.
$11.95. "Success Story is a great book, and I don't use the word
lightly. It's as new as Leaves of Grass was for its time. Richard
Cole has written about the corporation-run, downsizing world of today
as one who knows it from the inside. But this is only half of it --
there is the engrossing report of his adventures, anxieties, fears,
and -- wonderful to see in poetry these days -- tenderness and love.
The poems link to make a continuous action. The voice is unforced,
direct, surprising." --Louis Simpson, Pulitizer Prize Winner.
Available at Barnes & Noble, signing on Sept 17 at 7 p.m. or e
mail the author at cole_at_GlobeSet.com.
2. Tina's Fine-Ass
Lingerie: The First Four Years of The Austin Poetry Slam Team.
CD recorded Live at the
Electric Lounge. Contains cuts by the Austin Slam Team members
1995-1998. OProduced by Wammo. $10. Available at the Electric Lounge.
e jacksabbath_at_yahoo.com or call 476-FUSE. Order multiple copies now,
while supplies last.
3. New offerings from
The Poet's Tree Press:::::::
Each book is $7 or you
can buy them as a set for $12
For ordering
information e-mail CVannoy727_at_aol.com
Into The Storm
by Chris Vannoy
From San Diego,
California to St. Petersburg, Florida this collection of poems cross
the continent. Poignant snapshots of relationships with a dash of
Beat. They both combine to be a whisper within a shout.
The Unwinding
by C. Passmore
This book reflects the
changing of seasons and the changes that come when life moves through
the turbulent times of a woman's life. It shows how parents and
children view different sides of life and how, when the roles are
reversed, the other side of the storm is seen from a different view.
IV. Call for
submissions
1. Long-Time San
FranciscoF Slam supporter/co-host Lauren Shiffman is now seeking
submissions for the next issue of Crack, her lit zine:
-------
It's time to submit to
the BIGGER, BETTER, BOLDER crack #2!!
We are seeking
submissions of compelling and innovative poetry, sudden fiction and
b/w art. Send 3-5 poems, fiction under 2,000 words, or inquiries
regarding non-fiction pieces along with a SASE before October 31to:
crack
P.O. Box 411113,
S.F., CA 94141.
Please include a phone
number or email address.
Please forward this
message to anyone who might be interested.
Lauren
2. GULF COAST
PUBLISHING COLONY (12/27/98-1/3/99): Call for Entry. Ten
selected writers to
join poet/editors, Susan Bright and Margo LaGattuta, for 7-day
intensive, collaborative publishing colony on beautiful Texas Gulf
coast resulting in publication of the 17th Plain View Press New
Voices Series anthology, a national showcase for American writers and
issue-based literary work. Send 15-20 pages by Nov 15: Plain View
Press, P.O. 33311, Austin, TX 78764. Inquiries: Susan Bright,
512-441-2452
(sbpvp_at_eden.com), Margo LaGattuta, 810-693-7344
(lagapvp_at_aol.com.)
Follow New Voices Series link:
http://www.eden.com/~sbpvp.
Reading Fee: $10.
V. Announcements
1. Austin Poets at
Large (APAL) is a not-for-profit group of poets come together to
promote the growth of poetry in Austin and provide a nurturing
atmosphere for poets and those who love poetry. APAL runs one monthly
and two weekly open mic venues. For more information attend Saturday
staff meeting at Quack's, 6:30 p.m. or call John Hawk 458-3159.
2. BOWERBIRD: dear
performance poets-you're invited to come and perform at
***** nap jam two
*****the north american poetry jam, a 4-night explosion of
performance poetry. unlike slam, where the central focus is
competition, jam has _cooperation_ as its organizing principle. jam
is a performance poetry showcase,
a videoshoot, and a big
party, all rolled into one. the next jam is from september 21-25,
1998, at the "plaza" hotel, in downtown las vegas.
for an online version
of the jam "manual", which contains all the info you'll
need, visit <http://users.aol.com/bowerbird>. because of the
las vegas location, we've got a great rate of $40 per room, double
occupancy, so that's just $20 per person per night, $80 for all 4
nights.
Bowerbird_at_aol.com
3. 1999 Austin
International Poetry Festival dates are set for April 15-18, 1999.
The next board meeting
will be held on Monday, September 28 at Cepeda Branch Library, E. 7th
and Pleasant Valley, at 7 p.m. fmi contact aipf98_at_aol.com or call
Midge Kocen at 835-5942
4. Great News from
Howard Frost of West Yorks - received funding approval to produce
poetry festival 2000. Details later.
5. Last week I asked <<
"The pen is mightier than the sword" ,,, (who originally
said that, anyway?) >> I got an answer:
"Although I would
have thought it was ole' William S himself, according to my research
it was Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton in his play
Richelieu (Act II, Scene 2) written in 1838, who wrote the line,
'Beneath the rule of men entirely great/The pen is mightier than the
sword." He was probably alluding to Cervantes' line from Don
Quixote (1605-15) "Let none presume to tell me that the pen is
preferable to the sword." Robert Burton was probably similarly
influenced when he used a similiar phrase, "The pen worse than
the sword," in Anatomy of Melancholy also written in the 1600's.
If you know otherwise,
please let me know, too.
Thanks!
Exbrook_at_aol.com (Julie
Dercle)"
6. If you are hanging
online with some spare minutes, check out this website
http://www.workingtitle.demon.co.uk/whoFrame.htm
And who are "Working
Title Writers"?
"Working Title
Writers are a group of poets and artists in Cardiff. We're dedicated
to promoting poetry. We want everyone to hear and read the poetry we
think is good. Apart from this, our job is to make sure poetry
regains its status as a first-class, mainstream means of
communication."
7. "Stazja -
thanks for putting me on the mailing list, another nice
benefit from working
the slam...
thanks -
Dreya"
VI. Slam Stuff (After
this week, this segment will be incorporated into the general
announcements section)
1. Seems I've forgotten
to mention the weekly winners of the Austin slam over the past three
weeks. Let's start with Sean Shea on Aug. 25. And for two weeks
running, Jeff Knight has won the big bucks. Congrats to both of you!
2. Mo' Media - Slam
The Wall Street
Journal, Thursday, September 10, 1998, Page A20.
[Headline] Poetry in
Motion: Slam-Dunking With Words
[Byline] By Anne Lewis.
Ms. Lewis is a writer in Austin, Texas.
[Dateline] Austin,
Texas
Ed. Note: To request
the article text, e-mail me at stazja_at_aol.com
Visit the National
Poetry Slam website for collection of press coverage.
http://slam.home.texas.net/98Nationals/welcome.htm
3. posted by Robb
Thibault, on the slam list serv
"Greetings from
Fargo, ND
I've been advised by
the producer of the CNN story on the NPS that the
segment should air on
CNN-Newsstand Entertainment Weekly on Thursday Sept 24 after Larry
King Live ( 10:00pm EDT)."
4. excerpt (the best
part) from Joshua Ostrander, the captain/coach of this year's Mesa
National SlamTeam.
"In Austin, I was
inspired by all of you. Your work made me long to refine and
appreciate my own. I cried at a slam. This, however commonplace it
must be in the medium, is not something that I had ever done. To me,
this was priceless and without compare.
"I have never met
such a group of people whose talents, words, and personalities have
made me long for something more substantial in myself. I drank beers
with you, shared phrases with you, and....drank another beer with
you. I consider this invaluable and will carry within my cranium with
relish."
5. Dear Stazja,
After attending the
slams 98 I feel even more connected with the Austin Scene. You news
is now a wonderful reminder of a highly mobilized congregation of
cooperative operatives. you are the seamstress of the word. You all
made the festival smooth & dazzling. you provided wonderful
stages for the verbalists.
And Austin is a
comfortable town
access to the water and
the parks
my only complaints:
Bob Holman's name was
not on the marquee as a feature on Saturday
the music at the
Paramount Theater went on toooooo long
if I wanted to hear the
Grand Ole Opery I could have stayed in Nashville
Barton Springs was
locked up
the sacred cold waters
were off limits
this was irksome
because I have a feeling the springs
was there before Lavaca
St
before Book People
before the university
before the word there
was running water
the Austin Poets
created a great space
thanks to everyone
involved. Bravissimo
Beatlick Joe
6. Tim Wood provides
Slam Family list serve through DataWranglers.com and publishes The
Word.
The Word Online: the
monthly guide to the arts in Dallas and beyond. In this issue, we
interview slam founder Marc Smith. Noemi A. Collie talks with the
Dallas Slam Team. We also have excerpts from their poetry. Finally,
we have a poem by Dallas
poet Michael Jasper and
this month's calendar
http://www.datawranglers.com/word/issues/9808/index.html
7. from Gary Drilling
of Sarasota:
What I am looking for
is video of the Slam, particularly the finals. I don't know if there
are plans to release such a thing or not. I'm not even sure if people
were allowed to video tape any of it. Anyway, I've been trying to
explain what happened in Austin to people around here and they have
no frame of reference. Video would help a great deal and possibly
get some interest stirred up. I'm wondering if you know anyone with
video, or if you might be willing to ask in your newsletter. I would
appreciate anything you could do for me.
Thanks,
Gary Drilling
Drilboat_at_gte.net
Now, we come to the end
of the newsletter. Thank you for reading.
Much love,
Stazja
Subj: RE: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-14 13:47:57
EDT
From: larry_at_jaffe2.com
(larry jaffe)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
good job... :)
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-14 15:32:34
EDT
From: benne_at_texas.net
(Kendall & Benne Walton)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
Don't recall reading
with such pizzaz
News any better than
yours dear stazj.zzz
Well, wanting to rhyme
isn't poetry anymore..
I shall come to Ebony
Thursday after working at public domain gathering
tickets and have a
java with you and marla.....much love 2 c u ben
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-14 13:38:56
EDT
From: Becarlton
To: Stazja
Very nicely done, Ms.
Staz!
I actually read this
one all the way through. I like the Table of Contents, is that a
new addition or was I just not paying attention before when I skimmed
through the newsletters?
You are indeed "the
seamstress of the word", you lovely thing. Dr. Robt Brown
sounds like quite a character.
Please give my love to
Bowerbird, Joseph, et all when you see them. Sorry I can't make it
to join you. I will be able to next time though, if the invite is
still good.
Lots of love.
Betty
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-14 07:36:47
EDT
From: kerrylee_at_workingtitle.demon.co.uk
(kerry-lee powell)
To: Stazja_at_aol.com
hi Stazja,
Thanks for the mighty
blurb.
xKerry-Lee
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-14 05:49:28
EDT
From: CPKoss
To: Stazja
Just wanted you to know
how much I enjoy your weekly updates and wish I could be there to
hear/read/enjoy.
You do an incredible
job!!
We are about to start
new readings in OKC and I will keep you up on the latest as soon as I
have the information.
Carol
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45- "And the future generations?"
Date: 98-09-14 06:05:54
EDT
From: CVannoy727
To: Stazja
I got the Clone Jam CD.
It sounds AWSOME....It is called THE BASTARD MUSICIANS OF MESMER.
Also, Digitized Eyes is on a CD titled WORMHOLE. If any one would
like to purchase a copy...please have them contact me. both are on
sale now for 10$ CVannoy727_at_aol,com
Clone
This is the year twenty
twenty-two
You are here by
instructed that
I am clone number two
zero four
Of Master Body three
three five
Fully functional
Standard intellect
level was achieved
Through symbiotic
representation
And sentience through a
miscalculation of amino acids
I am being held in
passive restraint
For donor organs
I overheard the
bio-tech’s
Talking in low whispers
As they were excavating
clone number two zero three
For master body
implantation
Full retrofit
All usable material
removed
I lay in darkness of my
fate
For eighteen years
Prepared for a world
that I had seen only
Through the
pre-programmed memories of
Master Body Three Three
Five
I am being kept alive
for donor organs
I stand before you to
plead for my life
I am CLONE
NUMBER two zero four
And I am alive!
Copyright (c) 1994
Chris Vannoy
Digitized Eyes
Digitized eyes
She had
Digitized eyes
That were always
flashing
In alternating
sequences
Of ones and zero’s
Making my heart flip
What a trip
Didn’t have any thing
like her in the sixty’s
Copper colored hair
Chest bare to the hips
Lips painted with
platinum jewelry colors
Green leotards
stretched
All the way to the
ground
Belly button pierced
With transistors
hanging down
On a gold chain
A schematic tattoo
Spilled over her naked
breast
I must confess
It was loves glance
Just singing in my eyes
Took a chance
Ask for her phone
number
Said she was listed
In the personal’s
under
E l e c t r i f y i n g
Left me sighing in her
neon glow
Don’t you know?
She melted my plastic
exposed wires
I dripped WD-40 tears
for 560 nanoseconds
Just trying to reboot
my vacuum tube
Of crashing reality
She said she didn’t
need me
My battery lacked her
juice
(and that was news to
me!)
Dissipated I said,
“Wait here! I’ll be
back!”
And ran to find a Radio
Shack.
Copyright (c) 1994
Chris Vannoy
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-15 10:35:18
EDT
From: VALPOET
To: Stazja
Stazja,
I want to thank you for
the newsletter. Even though my own muse is silent, and my pen lay
idle, the words and announcements encourage me that the poet is alive
and busy and changing the world with words. Peace.
Valerie
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-15 19:44:49
EDT
From: WBSheridan
To: Stazja
Dear Stazja - just to
let u know I am stil an avid reader of the newsletter and have
followed the Austin teams progress thro the Nats as a devoted fan!
Hope to get to AIPF 99
and will try to register this time.
Frank Poole gave me his
card after the Ice House event but seem to have mislaid it.
Have agreat time in
Vegas - Love Brinsley
ps - hope to see
Genevieve in London soon - if she does,nt succumb to hypothermia -
its more November than September here at the moment!
Subj: Re: Austin Poets
at Large #45
Date: 98-09-15 00:12:44
EDT
From: mgreene_at_sage.net
(Morrie W. Greene)
To: Stazja_at_AOL.COM
dear sweet staz,
I hope the opening
debut of your new book was fabulous...
wish I coulda been
there
I know it was great!!
hope you enjoy nap
jam!!!
and have a great
time!!!
much love,
mo