thanksgiving------hOly gobbleee gravy gloop fatman! xmas...? it's NOVEMBER already dammit time to think about eatin bird (i always doooo PUDDLE ALERT!) and xmas gifts..now support yer favorite poet THIS YEAR..get with it now before the holidays are up yours...goto the hold's online bookstore and get em while their hot --- this year make a poet happy...buy a god damn book...and so i purposely waited to upload nov's issue on the fifth of nov cause...it's MY party ..yes i am one year older than i was last year...and i'll fry if i want too...moresothananyotherdaynight,,,neener i am currently collecting best buy/staples/office max/the pleasure chest and/or condom kingdom gift cards directed to my pobOX...and don't be cheap mutha fuggers...i ain't collecting dust...YOU HEAR M?E...thanx a heap ahead of time...I MEAN most impOrtantly the event we celebrate in november is thanksgiving you say (ok hapPy birdday) but i say let's focus on yes,,,,noneother than National Peanut Butter Lovers' Month..mouth month...YiPpeeeepeee errr...SKIPPPyy...nutterbutterbreath -ding_DONG only i prefer peter's pan...p.s. hopefully the next journal cover will be ready for december's online issue..if not well then it will be a surprise for the new year -even for me -YAyaalalabUrP...
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=--> i like to call him...ummm...the pianO man? <--= ha+++++
DAVE what's goin' on...night xo cait

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Mostly Free Of Fecal Matter collage by S.A. Griffin

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• basinski's book reviews • november 2003 Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite - John Sinclair - Surregional Press Chunk- Sandra Guerreiro - House Press Raining All Over- Rebecca Morrison - Lumox Press Sleeping With Demons - A.D. Winans - Mystery Island Publications A Series of SHARP POINTS - A Horvath - Kirpin Press Pegasus Descending (A book of the best bad verse) - Edited by James Camp, X.J. Kennedy and Keith Waldrop The New Renaissance. Spring. No. 35. Vol. XI, No. 3 - Louise T. Reynolds goto reviews looking for a book previously reviewed at the-hold.com? find them here: basinski's book review library archives

• cat townsend
...read cat's review about this book DEAR JIM by Linda K. Sienkiewicz published by Main Street Rag Publishing and Find Everything From The Classics To Pop Culture To Counter Culture along with a full line of Books and Blurbs at Cat's Impetuous Books & stuff  NEW ONLINE BOOKSTORE - regularly updated!

• Dr. Maura Gage
...is proud to announce The 2004 National Meeting of the Popular Culture Association to be held April 7-10, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas - for more info - PCA info

 book releases

•  Frank J. Marcopolos
The Urban Bizarre brings together tales of the city from the best new science fiction writers, pornographers, and zinesters -- stories too weird, too dark, and just plain too bizarre to be published elsewhere, including Cue the Circus Music Fantastic by Frank J. Marcopolos of The Whirligig published by Prime Books

•  Gerald Nicosia
new new NEWest -"Not So Profound": new and selected poems published by Green Bean Press - Gerald's first full-length collection of poetry and A new broadside of poetry along with a CD of a reading live in Portland, ME is available as a package deal from a hot new press called Hemispherical Press. "Cracker and Me" & CD titled "An Exit To Nowhere." check this one out at www.hemisphericalpress.com

• Alphabet Alliterations - ron androla presents the Pressure Press Poets --- a buncha yer fav poets coolaborating the a-z way - get these FREE ($1.50 s/h fee) while they
last! highlights and list of poets here - ron androla publications here

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• eugene dickens - dickens journal
... otherwise known as #14015-031 (via the federal correctional institution) is on the lookout for PENpals (no pun intended) / for further details visit dickens journal here at the-hold.com

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... After a horrific cycling accident, well-known and well-liked zine publisher (My Moon or More, The Secret Life of Snakes) and former TW contributor Cullen Carter lies in a hospital, seriously injured. His fellow DIY writers are organizing a benefit show in Chicago to raise funds to help his family pay for the medical bills. for more info and updates visit the whirligig - read the flyer and please help!

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