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“…my body aches. I want
to feel again the touch
of a woman, fall in love
with a complete stranger,
stand barefoot outside atop
the heat of clumsy sidewalks
in the rain – both our bodies
tickled by liquid kisses
as thin as pin-pricks,
content in the imperfection
of our not yet knowing
each others’ needs or secrets…”

- From IN THIS BEDROOM

“…What a site to have seen your father,
a poor, broken man, sad and lonely,
responsibilities abandoned for
the bottle. All winter sled rides
forgotten as icicles dripped unnoticed.
Snow ball fights
becoming tightly packed questions
tossed throughout the house
as he stalked me room to room
in his fleece pajamas.”

-From DAY 18

Sean Kilpatrick interviews me. Mr. Kilpatrick is a Pushcart nominated poet/writer. Read his work Here, Here and Here.

The interveiw can be found at Sean Kilpatrick’s Anorexic Chlorine Sex Toy Museum, Here.

Only 6 bucks (shipping included) for me and s.a. griffin (co-editor of “the outlaw bible of american poetry).

Buy it HERE

Please contact me here - c_allenrearick(at)yahoo(dot)com

Bree at GreenPandaPress has been kind enough to create for me a two poem chap/pamphlet. I have some to part with. If anyone is interested in one, drop me an email at c (underscore) allenrearick (at) yahoo - you know the rest, and we will work something out.

Also, there are a few copies for sale over in the Guerilla Poetics Store. All profits go directly into funding the GPP and its mission.

I had a poem accepted for a future issue of Zygote in my coffee. More details when the issue is released. Oh, and if anyone had tried to email me here (which i’m sure no one has), sorry, but I can’t access my mail.

I can be reached via my yahoo address. c (underscore) allenrearick at yahoo (you know the rest).

Glenn W. Cooper has a new chapbook out. Go purchase it. You can do so HERE.

Why should you buy it you ask? Well, here’s what’s been said aboot it:

I have thought very highly of Glenn Cooper’s work for many years,
he’s a throwback to the glory days of the Wormwood Review.
A first-rate poet in the debut of a very attractive new series.

- Gerald Locklin

Glenn Cooper’s poems are a walking companion in the rain.
Something to think about under an umbrella. The poems are
reflective of our losses, but also include the humor that
grows like a palm tree in the snow.

Glenn is ever the student, contemplating the forces of life which
we have no control over. He says it best himself, the poignant
need to write about “the small pleasures, just to make
life beautiful.” And he does.

- Ann Menebroker

Please check out the musical stylings of my good friend William H. Michael. I particularly like “Adeline Street.” Click HERE

…has a new chapbook out titled Next Exit: Five, available from Kendra Steiner Editions. Here is a blurb from Bill. Shute:

The newest entry in our Next Exit series—-collections of poems rooted in particular towns and steeped in a deep sense of place—-is also the first solo Next Exit chapbook. When I asked Georgia-based poet Christopher Cunningham to submit some material for a future NE installment, I was assuming I’d pair him with someone else, as we’d done in the first four volumes. However, after reading the poems he sent, I felt they had such power and immediacy and diversity that he deserved an entire chapbook to himself, and here it is: NEXT EXIT: FIVE (KSE #69).

With so much flat-prose-broken-up-into-lines and so many clever-slogans-that-belong-on-a-bumpersticker being passed of as poetry, what a joy it is to read someone whose rich yet lean poetic language seems sculpted, who combines power and passion and rage with sensitivity and understatement. These ten new poems—-never before available anywhere and written especially for this project—-take the reader on a deeply-felt tour of Southern places and we experience the joy and the pain of people trapped in or bravely trying to transcend their environment. The perfectly chosen details in each poem expand in the reader’s mind but retain a sense of mystery and create a feeling of tension. This is a book you will come back to many a time, but that’s true of all Cunningham’s work.

Christopher Cunningham is author of a number of chapbooks, including THRU THE HEART OF THIS ANIMAL LIFE, from Liquid Paper Press; AND STILL THE NIGHT LEFT TO GO (a unique two-volume set, featuring both verse and correspondence that sets forth the philosophy behind the poet’s art and role in society, published by Bottle of Smoke Press) ; and, most recently, FLOWERS IN THE SHADOW OF THE STORM, just issued a few months ago by Sunnyoutside. He is also a key player in the Guerilla Poetics Project and publishes an excellent blog, UPRIGHT AGAINST THE SAVAGE HEAVENS.

Mr. Cunningham is a complete original—-he owes little to previous poets’ styles. This chap will probably not stay available very long (CC’s other books tend to sell out), so send that four dollar check today, made payable to Bill Shute, 8200 Pat Booker Rd. #399, San Antonio, Texas, 78233—or better yet, get three new releases for $10.00 postpaid in North America: Next Exit: Five; Misti Rainwater-Lites’ LULLABIES FOR JACKSON; and my own BRIDGE TO NOWHERE or DON’T LOOK BACK, whichever you prefer. There’s an offer you can’t refuse!

Europeans should order from Volcanic Tongue in Glasgow, which should have the book in stock by mid-November. Also, Kendra Steiner Editions has donated five copies of
NEXT EXIT: FIVE to the GPP store, so feel free to order it there and 100% of the proceeds will go toward keeping the GPP doing its important work. I’m also happy to trade for other authors’ chapbooks–send me an e-mail if you are interested.
Thanks! Bill S.

Visit Mr. Cunningham at his blogsite Upright Against the Savage Heavens

…on line and I’m back to work. I am currently employed with Great Lakes Brewing Co. I haven’t written anything new in about 4 months. In the words of Vonnegut, “So it goes.” Nor have I sent any work out either. But I plan on doin’ so for Zygote In My Coffee’s100th issue. Congrats to them! In other news, the Guerilla Poetics Project is doin’ quite well. Check out the write up on it in Poets and Writers by clicking HERE.