All posts by: Sammy Greenspan

Ohioana

These are some of the books we shipped to the Ohioana Library archive last week.... Read More

Bean Runner

Three poets read in Peekskill, including our own Susana H. Case, and Karren LaLonde Alenier:... Read More

the hand is quicker than the eye

book binding begins with needle & linen thread, stitching together a group of pages and don’t forget the knot!... Read More

A Reason To Survive

One in forty-five children in the U.S. live on the streets, in shelters, or in motels. ARTS (A Reason To Survive) is a San Diego nonprofit “dedicated to providing, supporting, and advocating for creative arts programs that heal, inspire, and... Read More

Sustenance

Last night’s reading at Mac’s was a tide of wonderful poetry. Thanks to all the poets who read and the poetry lovers who made it a party. Sometimes poetry of witness wakes us up. Sometimes it simply gives voice to... Read More

Night under Footsteps: Tonight at Mac’s

Saturday, April 28, 2012 This evening at 7, Night under Footsteps: Eric Anderson, Nin Andrews, Robert Miltner, and Karen Schubert. Chaps by Andrews, Miltner, and Schubert, Anderson’s handmade full length book; an exaltation of other wompus chapbooks, artist’s books. Refreshments will be... Read More

books!

April 21, 2012 This morning I forced myself out of bed too early. I needed the season’s fruits, and they were worth the effort. Our local farmers’ market meets on Saturdays and you’d best get there early–this week the shiitakes... Read More

“A Rune, Interminable”

Poetry month gives me the heebie-jeebies. Events too jammed together (extroverts must love it), and the implication that the other eleven months are not poetry months. Nevertheless, a lot of good stuff gets out for an airing in April. Here... Read More

Future of the Book

A brilliant little comic strip from illustrator and cartoonist, Grant Snider. Happy Poetry Month!... Read More

Rigsbee, Cellucci, Frisch, Flynn

At AWP David Rigsbee gave me a copy of his 2011 collection, The Pilot House, on the cover of which is Jill Bullitt’s ghostly painting, “War Dead.” No wonder this book took the Black River Chapbook Competition. The poems within... Read More