019 | HIRSCHMAN (redesign)

I made PFA #19 to present to Jack Hirschman when he came to do a reading in Sacramento, CA back in 2001. Like many of the early editions within Poems-For-All, this poem remains one of my favorites. Mr. Hirschman, San Francisco's Poet Laureate, has been one of several enthusiastic distributors of PFA booklets throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area. Booklets by Ted Joans, Jack Spicer, Roque Dalton, and others have been dispensed by his kind hand at Library readings he puts on around the City. For that I'm grateful. I felt it was time for a little makeover of his booklet before sending copies to be scattered like seeds. Pictured below is the old version; one of my first cover designs for the Series which, four years later, seems dated and ... well ... purple. Above, a new cover with a better image of Mr. Hirschman in a solid black and white layout.

JUNE 28 | The Weakly Inch

What's happening in Sacramento? It's all in the Inch.

719 | MK Chavez

I had the great pleasure of working closely with MK designing the cover for her poem Mr. Bukowski I Didn't Know You Were Dead. We came close several times, devining a few covers that came close, but not quite. Then she took the picture. While all the other cover attempts included my own efforts to fuse, meld, layer images together, this image, the one perfect vehicle to convey everything I wanted this cover to convey, required no modifications whatsoever. Even its inherent blur was perfect. Our patience paid off.

JUNE 23 | REVOLT AGAINST POETRY: ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS

Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.