Dear Calendar Aficionados,
I think you can file this in the Psst, What Time Is It? drawer. I just received a comment to a post from 2000-and-freakin’-three, people. Not just any post either. It was a post republishing a poem that was meant to call me out on my pro Iraq War stance. As I recall, the poem in Arts Thursday was meant to be a scathing indictment of my naivete. It holds up fairly well though, if you go in for that kind of thing.
Apparently somebody does, because here’s David Kowalczyk to clue us in on the great (if late) news…
Just to let everyone know that
“Going to Gitmo” was published in hard copy in Volume 1, Issue 1 of Gentle Strength Quarterly, a journal of fine arts out of Los Angeles.Hawley-meigs (now just Hawley) had two other poems in that inaugural issue, as well as being a featured poet, with four (4!) poems in Issue 2.
Issues can be obtained by sending a check or money order for $8 for each copy ordered, payable to DO Designs, to the following address:
Gentle Strength Quarterly
16161 Ventura Bolevard, #406
Encino, CA 91436.
So! As far as brazen, callous PR stunts go, this is pretty low on the list. What’s next? A YouTube video of a kitten? A pinewood derby car sponsorship? A press junket to Peet’s Coffee & Tea? The mind reels.
Well, good luck with all the people with the words and stuff. And books. And Encino.
Your pal,
bob