Saturday, December 12, 2009

MAKER Four: Winter 2009

Hey all, I hope everyone is having a great start to the winter holidays, whether in the work place or finishing up those measly finals. Very very soon the latest Maker from the series of chapbooks released by RIOT Ink will be released. First and foremost, I want to thank the lovely Jennifer King for helping tremendously with the layout. I am very excited to include so many new people from the previous ones. Sometime next week I will be putting the books together, so if anyone can help that would be awesome. More details later.

MAKER FOUR: WINTER 2009

featuring. . .

Adam Braffman
Jennifer King
Neil Davé
Annie Castro
Rachel Veroff
Mark Gerchak
Ryan Bender-Murphy

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A book of poems, stories, and scripts. And the great illustrator Travis William Ballard will be designing the cover.

Cool.

Happy Holidays y'all!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

For Adam Braffman

This poem by Theodore Roethke made me audibly laugh out loud for about five minutes:

For An Amorous Lady

"
Most mammals like caresses, in the sense in which we usually take the word, whereas other creatures, even tame snakes, prefer giving to receiving them." -- FROM A NATURAL-HISTORY BOOK

The pensive gnu, the staid aardvark,
Accept caresses in the dark;
The bear, equipped with paw and snout;
Would rather take than dish it out.
But snakes, both poisonous and garter,
In love are never known to barter;
The worm, though dank, is sensitive:
His noble nature bids him
give.

But you, my dearest, have a soul
Encompassing fish, flesh, and fowl.
When amorous arts we would pursue,
You can, with pleasure, bill
or coo.
You are, in truth, one in a million,
At once mammalian and reptilian.