In the mail...

Received:



The new issue of Skidrow Penthouse, edited by Rob Cook & Stephanie Dickinson--more than 280 pp. of poems, prose & art by Andrew Kaufman, Larry Sawyer, Guy R. Beining, Tom Savage, Julie Lechevsky, Gil Fagiani, Antler, Shanna Compton, and many more!



The new issue of Field with cover postcard from Jennifer L. Knox dated September 2002, and poems by Bob Hicok, Thomas Lux, Kevin Prufer, Charles Wright, Raymond Queneau, and others.



Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross by Mark Yakich (selected for the National Poetry Series by James Galvin), and which has just a fabulous cover.



The premier issue of Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, edited by Morgan Lucas Schuldt & Mark Horosky, with poems by Jane Miller, David Lehman (and an interview), James Tate, Aloysius Bertrand, Barbara Cully, and others. This new little mag is very well done and gorgeous--brown on brown in an elegant typeface. A little like the first issue of Parakeet, physically.



And all this just yesterday, from my various mailboxes. Like Christmas! I've only really had time to dip into the Yakich book, so here's a nice taste of that:



Two-Pack Solitaire



That hand of yours represents

An elegant route



Snowed-



Out

Where sleeves come from



Dummy



(I only want you

To love me & you)



Like a perfectly potholed surface



We are

Or a cup of wine



Crushed



Sometimes lovers lie

Together



Sometimes a lay is all

We're good for