11 in 5

It has been an interesting time book-wise for me — I figured I’d been in or on maybe five books these past five years, but it turns out to be eleven.

2006 – Lady and I were both in the final ArtCrimes issue. Of course I’m the publisher and Lady along with Beth Wolfe were the editors, so maybe this doesn’t count.

In 2006 I also had my true story My First Armed Robbery in the first issue of The Delinquent, published in London England.

2007 saw my true prison story (Back in Black in White Film Noir) plus a humorous poem published in issue 2 of The Delinquent.

2007 issue 3 of The Delinquent published my true story How I Met My Ex.

2008 I had one of my fotografs used for the cover of Sara Holbrook and Alan Wolf’s book More Than Friends. The foto was taken inside the walled city of Essaouira Morocco – someone had scratched the word LOVE on the inside of the city wall over by the sea.

2008 saw me included in Cleveland Poetry Scene as one of eight poets born in the 1940s and 41 Cleveland poets over all. They included three of my better poems and mention in a half dozen of the articles for things like publishing ArtCrimes.

2009 Lady and I had our fotos taken by Charlotte Mann included in her book Hotel Poem, each foto facing one of our poems.

Also in 2009 Jennifer L. Price asked permission to use a piece of mine for the cover of her novel Phases of the Moon: Book 2: Half Moon. I haven’t seen what it looks like because I’ve not heard back from her once she received permission. I did do a search, and the cover I see online is not my work. This brings up an interesting phenomena – many people have emailed me asking for permission to include poems or art in essays, thesis’s, books, classes, and once I say yes and ask for feedback on how it goes, I never hear from them again. Most folks seem to lose their politeness once they get what they want.

I had two poems in 2010’s Water Me Well, an anthology benefiting African water projects put out by Green Panda Press

Last month I was one of a half-dozen featured artists in The Pink Eye Book of Collage and I had half a dozen pieces in their attendant collage show at the Wall Eye Gallery. This means I have justified my creative existence for 2010 and can loaf the rest of year.

Within the next month I’ll have a couple poems in Fuck Poetry from Crisis Press. It was to be out last year but had publication delays.

And finally, Avant-Gash, a new London England punk magazine just inquired if they can use my art in their magazine and perhaps interview me as well. I replied yes of course, but once again once I agreed, they stopped communicating.

I know there are more that I forgot, but these eleven are way more than I figured there’d be, so I’m a happy sappy.