Gabcast! Esther Press #7



Reading three new poems from the ongoing manuscript.

Cut and pasted:

A note from Eliot Weinberger

As you may have heard, Will Alexander is quite ill with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. He's spent his life largely off the poetry grid, taking on odd jobs, and has no financial support or, needless to say, health insurance.

The San Francisco organization Poets in Need is coordinating efforts to raise money for him. You can make a (tax-deductible) contribution to them, earmarked for Will, and send it to:

Poets in Need
PO Box 5411
Berkeley CA 94705

For those around New York, there will be a benefit reading for Will at the Bowery Poetry Club, Thursday November 1, 6-8 pm (readers to be announced).

Many thanks –

Eliot

A couple of pictures of the books at the Nothing Moments opening in Los Angeles. Work Book can be seen on the bottom of the first picture.

The Nothing Moments project opens in Los Angeles tomorrow. My book of short stories, Work Book, is part of the collection. You can see the cover of the book if you click and move the cursor to the right side of the screen.

The Nothing Moments project is a travelling exhibit, which will be in San Francisco next month. I will be there. The schedule of dates in other cities is here.

Received recently:

Vaast Bin, Michael Peters, Calamari Press, New York, 2007.

Infamous Landscapes, Prageeta Sharma, Fence Books, Albany, 2007.

Flet, Joyelle McSweeney, Fence Books, Albany, 2007.

Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, Christopher Kennedy, BOA Editions, Rochester, 2007.

“Today, a megayacht is indispensable,” said Olivier Milliex, head of yacht finance at the Dutch bank ING. “It’s not like 15 years ago, when a yacht was a luxury item.”

--from this article in the The New York Times

Gabcast! Esther Press #5



Reading further into current manuscript.