a few things today that made my whole month or several months.

1st/ got a cool photo of jim mccrary drinking with his old friend and boss william s. burroughs with a mini-memoir by mccrary. i'll post these soon as i get the okay from mccrary to post his words. in short, fucking amazing.

2nd/ please see nicholas manning's lucid and erudite response to last night's post re: permanence in poetry and publishing here.

3rd/ some time back i queried gina myers about whether ny poet douglas rothschild had published any chaps or fugitive pubs. she was kind to look for an email address for me. rothschild's one of those poets i google fairly frequently for more texts. i'd not heard anything from rothschild and as gina warned me that she didn't know whether the email she sent along was still valid, i figured it all for naught.

but then last night i googled for more of rothschild's poems and came across drew gardner's blog with an entry from '05. gardner gives his email address and said if you want a pdf of rothschild's selected poems just give him a write. which i did, and this morning drew forwards rothschild's selected much to my surprise and delight. been grooving on that all day. a big thanks to drew for sending the book and to rothschild for writing it.

4th/ i'd lost my draft of a poem, one that i think will conclude quite nicely my split chap with jonathan hayes. i remembered sending a copy to poet steve tills. so i emailed him last night and lo, he sent it along. 9 bows to steve cuz now my manuscript is finito.

5/ finally, as you probably figured out from the poems of john tyson i've posted here, john is in the clink and won't be out till late '08. again, gina myers is the one responsible for hooking us up, and as john's become a close friend, i want to give gina a huge shout out of thanks. i'm not one for much self-promotion but gina posted a bit from my indie chap today and again i say thank you.

john's gone thru hell this past year or so. at my nudging and with the the help of his friend kelly john's begun a blog the old man: prison poet. please spread the word. john explains some of his circumstances and gives out his address where you can write him. please do so, now. john is an extraordinary man and poet.