Oh gee

Poetry can take a joke, you know.

Happy Bloofday

The store is open.

Launch party details & October readings (Buffalo, Brooklyn) are on the events page.

For Girls is so next...uh, in about a week.

Final cover

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Danielle's up at Women of the Web

They're here

They look much better in person than in this crappy phone-camera pic. (My real camera is still kaput.)

But they're here!

I'll give it one last proofread tomorrow & if everything is OK, they'll go on sale.

Hey look

Jennifer Michael Hecht has a new book on happiness.

Poll results

Some supposedly interesting findings:

A) "FillText" was preferred equally by both men and women
B) "PhysEd" was preferred by men
C) "Miss America gets a perm" was preferred by men
D) "Castle with pansies & swans" was preferred by women

Since more men than women voted, B) and C) tied for People's Choice, though I think A) may have edged them out by late yesterday.

Among the voters who have actually read the poems, C) was found to be all wrong tonewise (too funny, unless the man was cropped out).

D) raised concerns the irony might be lost (though I think the pansy-headed fairy on the back cover might have solved that problem).

B) apparently looks too much like Pattie McCarthy's Verso, which I hadn't seen.

Graphic designers & bookstore employees preferred A) as looking least like a poetry collection and as being most distinctive in general.

I have through Wed. to decide for sure, but I think I will be going with A)--it was tied with D) as my personal fave all along anyway. It will be getting a few further tweaks. I will post it when it's final.

Thanks to everybody who weighed in, here or backchannel. It was a big help.