ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


pissing in the wind was nearly taken by Prose Ax.

a limerick was rejected without comment by Poetry and APR.

the dirty little blind sister poem was raved about by Charles Harper Webb in a workshop at Vermont College on August 11, 2005.

a recess made little Debbie Bump spit Pepsi all over herself at an open mic last year.

anal clucking and the dumps were published in The Chiron Review (which then went out of business) and were referred to as “a perfect delight and perfect for Charles’ workshop” by Roger Weingarten when accompanied by my deposit check.

the bathroom poems were published in Naked Knuckle and Dead End: City Limits simultaneously (because somebody fucked up).

there’s something going around was published in Barrow Street which has since rejected me three times in a row.

anal clucking was not nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

not one lowku was selected for the annual Best American Poetry collection.

pornku was a finalist in an “International Poetry Contest” along with 10,364 other entries, and we only had to pay $59.95 a piece for copies of the anthology that our work appeared in.

light bulbous girls was published in Knocked despite the fact that I had called the editor an asshole for rejecting my previous submission.

the script will be published in Paris Review over Simic’s dead body.

aging cracks me up was self-published on a mimeograph machine and distributed on the streets of Syracuse, NY.

manager to checkout 3 was enjoyed immensely by Tom Corrado, Dick Ross and Harry Maggio in a back room of the Last Call tavern.

the remainder of the poems in this ms. were simultaneously rejected by Fence, Rattle, Chelsea, the Colorado Review, Crazy Horse and Boulevard.