tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39467642007-11-29T17:16:36.900-08:00Richard HansenBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946764.post-56178211972743032782007-11-29T16:47:00.000-08:002007-11-29T17:16:36.973-08:00

My first time in a Rocky Horror audience was in Marysville, CA. Bored theatre staff stood in the balcony and threw bags of ice at the weirdos below. I remember being hit in the groin by one of those ice bombs. Better memories came with my move to Sacramento. In college, my new friend Noel, so straight-laced, so bookish (or so I thought) invited me to Rocky one night where his roommates --Lurch

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For the last several months we've held events at the bookstore wherein Antonin Artaud and his Dopplegangers lead the assault on literary pigshit (you have to be present to appreciate the sentiment.) Alas, this month's event has been cancelled due to broken bones (and low moral fiber.) Look for Unheimlich next month (or not.)

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San Francisco poet Dan Brook (PFA #459) dropped by the bookstore today to pick up PFAs and turned me on to Park(ing) Day, a brilliant little fluxus action that just recently took place in The City. From the Park(ing) Day website:"A parking spot is essentially a short term lease. Feeding a parking meter enables one to rent precious urban real estate for as little as a dollar an hour. By

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Tonight at 7pm Los Escritores Del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun present an evening of poetry and stories Honoring Phil Goldvarg at the La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. http://www.larazagaleriaposada.org/

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A little package (I call them kits) of poems distributed randomly during the French Film Festival held every July in Sacramento, CA. The Tri-Color Dead French Poets is the cover which is made not on a color printer but by printing the word Dead on blue paper, French on white paper, etc. and then cutting and pasting to create the bright French flag appearance. (Ah, the lengths one goes to to

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Inch! Inch!

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Catching up with poems published back in 2004!

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It's the Inch! The Weakly Inch! The French invade July...

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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

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

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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

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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

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Scatter like seeds. That's been the whole point of Poems-For-All: a Johnny Appleseed approach to the distribution of poetry. We're pleased to welcome another miniature effort at poetry distribution based in Liverpool, England and developed by poet, and now publisher, Justine Tennant. Pictured above is the proof copy* of the first booklet in the Poetry Found Series. Mission: Buses, bars, and

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forthcoming collection: War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions

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Sunday, the day after the Mimeo Gathering, my back gave out. Perhaps it was the overwhelming weight of experience that did me in? The Gathering was overwhelming in the best possible way and I'm still processing it all: everyone who came, the poets who read, this incredible mimeo-publication that was created with the involvement of so many. So, here, the first picture (above) of many I'll put up

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Poems-For-All mailart stamp honoring small press poet Eugene Ruggles.

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Cover #24 for Patti Smith's "a small entreaty" gets a make-over. An early booklet in the series, published April 2001, one month after Poems-For-All began. Some of my early design foibles can be seen in that early design below, particularly with respect to color. (What's with the slate-grey background? And the multi-colored text.) The new cover features a photograph by Gareth Owen who kindly

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Mimeo Gathering? During the '60s and '70s folks used mimeo machines the same way we presently use Xerox copiers and computer printers to make chap books, zines and other small press publications. Sal Mimeo will fly from the east coast with a mimeo machine which will be in operation throughout the day making a very special limited edition commemorative chap of the event. Special things will be

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