THANK YOU POET-PUBLISHERS!

What I love about the above photo -- of Robert and Elizabeth Murphy who run Dos Madres Press -- is that it allows me a glimpse into the facility (so to speak) of one of my indie publishers. Dos Madres Press published INVENT(ST)ORY and you  can see its blue cover on a box behind Elizabeth. I look at that photo and I'm so moved over the idea of all these poets working selflessly to put out more poetry into the world; often, these poet-publishers work out of their homes and I love the implicit intimacy. Thank you to all poet-publishers: among those who've aided my work, in addition to the Murphys, I think of and thank Jukka-Pekka Kervinen,  Mark Young, William Allegrezza, Catherine Daly, Sandy McIntosh and all the poets of the Marsh Hawk Press collective, Marthe Reed and Nicole Mauro and other poet-editors at Black Radish Books, lars palm, Jesse Glass, Peter Ganick, Kristy Bowen, Tony Frazer, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Steve Tills, Amanda Laughtland, Alec Newman, among others.

I stumbled onto the photo of the Murphys at their new Facebook page set up for AWP.  I won't be at AWP but they will have my book so hope you check out all the lovely Dos Madres books. Speaking of poet-publishers and AWP, you can go HERE for a photo of the founders of Marsh Hawk Press which was recently highlighted by AWP-Facebook. (Marsh Hawk also will bring my latest book, THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS, to AWP).

Lovely poets, lovely publishers, lovely poetry.  Thank you all!