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LATE NIGHT AT THE HAMBURG INN

Late Night At The Hamburg Inn by Cinda Kornblum printable pdf

Cinda Kornblum grew up in Newton, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa where she got a BS in Sociology and met Allan Kornblum who was selling copies of Toothpaste Magazine. They were married in 1972 and bought a house in West Branch where Allan continued to print poetry in mimeographed and letterpress formats. In 1985 they moved to St. Paul and Toothpaste Press became Coffee House Press. Cinda worked 29 years as Human Resources Generalist at the University of Iowa and University of Minnesota. Allan passed away in November 2014. Cinda currently lives in Minneapolis near her two daughters, Annabel and Gwen. Cinda co-edited (with Dave Morice and Morty Sklar) The Ultimate Actualist Convention which traces the Actualist movement from Iowa City to the Bay Area.

As A Matter Of Thought

As A Matter Of Thought by Pat Nolan printable pdf

Pat Nolan’s previous prose poem selections are Counterintelligence (Doris Green Editions) and Intellectual Pretentions (editions de Jacob). The prose poem should be the result of skillful attention to composition and the poetic potential of prose as exemplified by the Holy Trinity of prose poets, Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, and Arthur Rimbaud. As Jacob himself wrote of the prose poem, “Dimension counts for nothing in the beauty of a work, its situation and style are everything.”

Kintsugi

Kintsugi by Suzanne Maxson printable pdf

Suzanne Maxson, a retired public school teacher of History, is grateful to be still living, still writing in Northern California. Movement (Fernwood Press, 2024) is a collection of her poetry. She admires Neo-Mimeo as a timely and radical movement.

Way Out West

Way Out West By Norman Schaefer printable pdf

Norman Schaefer. Born and raised in Olympia, Washington. College at the University of California, Davis campus—degree in Art History. Lived in Davis for 35 years, making a living as a laborer. Spare time in summer and fall spent climbing and wandering in the Sierra Nevada. Moved to Port Townsend, Washington, north Puget Sound, in 2004. He is the author of The Sunny Top Of California (La Alameda, 2010), Fool’s Gold (La Alameda, 2013), and Lower Putah Song (The Alcuin Press, 2016).

Professional Poems

Professional Poems by Daniel Coshnear printable pdf

Daniel Coshnear has slowly, painstakingly lost all self-respect. Can rhyme be his salvation? No, no, it will be his downfall, the indisputable evidence of his decaying mental hygiene. He was author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award and Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly’s Cove Press 2012) and winner of the Novella Prize for Homesick, Redux (Flock 2015), recipient of a Missouri Review Editor’s Prize and a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. His last story collection, Separation Anxiety was released 10/21 by Unsolicited Press.

dimensions, doorstops, sidewalks

dimensions, doorstops, sidewalks by Jamey Jones printable pdf

Jamey Jones is the author of morning coffee from the other side (West Florida Literary Federation, 2021) In The Key of Clothespin (Fell Swoop, 2021), Light Box Over My Head, (3rd Floor Apartment Press, 2024), and Under The Big Span of Small Regards (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024). He is the faculty editor of Hurricane Review, the literary journal of Pensacola State College, where he teaches English, Literature, and Poetry.

Organized Innocence

Organized Innocence by Joe Safdie printable pdf

Joe Safdie’s latest books are Greek to Me(Chax Press), a selected poems dealing with Greek mythology, and Poetry and Heresy(MadHat Press), essays on poets and poetry featuring Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, and Ammiel Alcalay. He lives in Portland, OR.

Haiku & Tanka

Haiku and Tanka by Scott Reid printable pdf

Scott Reid is founder of Poetry du Jour. He is a published poet and writer, a poetry contest judge and a teacher of poetry classes and workshops for children and adults. He has Bachelor and Master’s degrees in English from UC Davis and UC Berkeley. Since 2010 he’s been posting haiku and tanka poetry online. He has over 5000+ Twitter followers.

Closed Environment

Closed Environment by Mark Young printable pdf

Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty years, & is the author of around seventy-five books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are One Hundred Titles From Tom Beckett, with paintings by Thomas Fink, published by Otoliths in June, 2024; Alkaline Pageantry, published by Serious Publications in September, 2024; The Magritte Poems, published by Sandy Press in October, 2024; the downloadable pdf, The Hit List, published by Scud Editions in February, 2025; &, due for publication, The Complete Post Person Poems from Sandy Press, & Some Unrecorded Voyages of Vasco da Gama from Otoliths.