new issue of Nerve Cowboy...& Merry Xmas

today, as a nice, early Xmas present, arrived my contributor and subscriber copies of the new Nerve Cowboy (#20, Fall 2005). two of my poems, the ultimate irony of the recently sobered & the geometry of a relationship on the rocks, are featured in this issue. Nerve Cowboy, once again, released an amazing issue. it is the best small press journal of literature out there. since i have two copies, if you're interested in seeing what Nerve Cowboy offers, let me know and i'll send you my extra copy. i'm pretty certain you'll love it and will wind up becoming a subscriber. it's THAT good.
other poets featured in this issue include: Gerald Locklin, Karl Koweski, Kathleen Paul-Flanagan, christopher cunninngham, A.D. Winans and Michael Kriesel.

well, tomorrow is Xmas. unfortunately, and oddly, we've been hit with some kind of freakish warm spell. it's like 50 degrees (Fahrenheit) outside today. no snow, except on the mountains, and plenty of sunshine. it's actually quite nice.

anyway, Merry Xmas folks. i hope you have a beautiful end of the year, and i hope 2006 is everything 2005 wasn't.
for all of us.

RIP

seems i'm not writing on here much anymore. or, at least not as often. seems i'm not writing much of anything anymore. hopefully, that will change. it's just work is a bitch right now. balls to the wall busy. 10 hour days. plus, it's the dead of winter (Happy Winter Solstice!!) and i'm driving to work in the dark and driving home in the dark. never a good thing.

yesterday i received the final issue of Chiron Review (#81). it is an all gay and lesbian literature issue. CR will be greatly missed in the small press world. a rarity, too, being printed on newsprint in a full-size format. i'm proud as hell to have been in a few previous issues of CR, and wish Hathaway (the editor) the best.

i doubt i'll post before xmas, so Merry Xmas to all of you who celebrate it. Happy Chanuka to those who celebrate that. to everyone else...Season's Greetings, i guess.