Where's my Fuck Poetry, Dammit? (March 6th 2010 Update)
Fuck Poetry should finally be assembled and on its way to you this coming week, though things at home (as well as biting off more than I can chew in a reasonable time frame) have taken a lot of my mind and time from it. As a reward for your patience, I'm enclosing an extra surprise (my Identity Crisis chapbook) for everyone who has a copy coming. Also: to contributors who gave up on me sending them a free copy (there are a few) and actually paid for one via PayPal (unnecessary, but understandable and much appreciated) — and also to my kind friend whose donation helped me finish and mail the project — I will be sending some bonus poetry as a token of my appreciation. All of this ASAP, as home life allows....
More CC Press updates are forthcoming — and to everyone who's waiting for a response to submissions or other press queries I offer my deepest apologies. I'm terribly behind, overwhelmed, and perilously close to (if not already) losing track (in more ways than one), but will try to respond to you sometime this month. If you do not hear from me by then, please feel free to write and ask me what's up, cuss me out, send your poems elsewhere (which you're always free to do anyway, as I'm not averse to simultaneous submissions), or all of the above.
I'm grateful for your continued friendship and support!
Peace and poetry,
John Burroughs, editor
Crisis Chronicles Press
Maybe you need a co-editor or a secretary at this point. Just let me know if you need any help and I will be glad to oblige. Helen
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At this point, with this project at least, it would take longer to get someone else up to speed as it would for me to finish it myself. But thank you very much for the offer - and I may take you up on it in the future.
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I think others have offered in the past to help as well Elena... but John I think is a perfectionist..... A good trait to have.... But many people with small presses often have helpers.. not always but often.
Nice to hear this is still in the works to come out.... I thought maybe it had been shelved permanently.
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I'd never shelve it. I am very excited about the project and it's full of great poetry. But for one thing, the press is in my bedroom and my main work space is on my bed (where I sit cross-legged right now), and it's not just my bedroom. In prison I'd stay up all night to finish a writing project -- but that's not an option here with the press -- and my library (in the spare bedroom) is so packed I barely have room to walk to my chair or set down my coffee -- which is one reason I'm moving the Press/library to the basement, which has much more room, but that's required a lot of prep work (sealing the walls, painting, carrying over a dozen bookcases and thousands of books down multiple staircases) and time -- plus I can only do so much before my back and chest start hurting. Once it's done (almost there!) I'll have plenty of room to lay things out and collate. Smaller works require less room to collate. E.g. ,my 6/9 chapbook consisted of four full size sheets of paper and a cardstock cover before folded. It's easier to find and clear enough room to collate something like that than to collate Fuck Poetry, which consists of 70 full-size sheets. That's one reason I skipped FP and collated Gildzen's, levy's and Heather's chapbooks first (plus I wanted to have Heather's done in time for her reading at Lix and Kix). There are lots of things going on at home, as well, that make sustained attention to one task a greater challenge than usual -- other people in my family who have more important needs than the basement or Fuck Poetry -- and my own health -- and the other six chapbooks I've committed to doing -- as well as my finally being super-inspired to write (and that doesn't come often, so when it does, I try to put everything else aside and write, lest I lose the flow). And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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And of course Fu@k poetry is hand made by a press with no staff besides the editor.
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Dude, you completely suck. Why the filthy mouth full of garbage? Obviously you can not articulate your thoughts, or most likely your thoughts are your language.
You're a disgrace to the human race.
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Saying someone you don't know sucks and is a disgrace - all because he's used a word you've most likely have used at least once in the course of your life - apparently makes you a credit to the human race? Peace and poetry to you, Rodney....
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There's only one letter different between the words suck and fuck... but a lot of difference in someone leaving a comment on something he hasn't read or knows little about. Or a blanket comment on someone he does not know and never met... I think it is "attitude" not "words" that shape a person and tell you who they are or aren't. Your comment/ attitude says more about you than you realize.
Also, making a personal attack on a person publicly instead of approaching and expressing your displeasure privately says more about you than it does about the person you've just attacked.
Rodney.. I think you could have handled this better.. just sayin'.
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Some people just don't understand the real meaning behind this title. Now it is May 21 so where is this publication...?
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And I thought I was the sensible one. Thanks for settnig me straight.
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