LOS ANGELES Area Bookstore Availability for CHAPBOOKS

CANCER POEMS, AN EYE, WIRED, and AS IF are now all available at Beyond Baroque in Venice and at
Skylight Books in the Los Feliz-Silverlake area.

Belated Post for ISTANBUL LITERARY REVIEW

The latest Istanbul Literary Review published a recent poem of mine, "Writing Down the Words" - you will find it here. Also at that site, under "Archives," you will find "Indulgences: A Sequence" in the January, 2010 issue.
Thanks for reading.

OCCUPY WRITERS

I am proud to be included in the ever-growing list of published writers on the OCCUPY WRITERS website showing support and solidarity with all fellow-occupiers - join me and add your name as have authors across the globe, from the most illustrious to the rest of us!

In Solidarity With the OCCUPYs

On October 1st, I joined my peers - the 99% of America - at Los Angeles City Hall to stand up and protest my country's outrageous actions, and lack thereof, toward it's people. An amazing day in support of OCCUPY WALL ST and ourselves that continues to grow nationwide.
We WILL prevail - we MUST! Memorize these sites for up-to-date news on all the "Occupy"s: OccupyLA.org, OccupyLosAngeles.org, OccupyWallSt.org

Interview from JaneCrownRadio

Delighted to announce the availability of my August 21 interview with Jane Crown from JaneCrownRadio. Jane, the publisher of Heavy Bear, does a wonderful show, asking questions and eliciting responses that turns the interview process into a conversation of hopes and dreams, facts and fancy; I also read several of my poems throughout the conversation. The show is about an hour and is available here. You can download it, burn a cd from it if you like, or just listen.

2 Poems

Phases


He found himself a box
a small, undistinguished box
to put himself into.

Not all of him, a part
unlamented by him, the part
most recently over
and ready to be forgotten.

Not forever - he knew
that was not possible - he knew
though it would try its best

not to fidget, to keep still,
not try to turn over, still,
it could not rest

forever, it would have to knock
at one side or another, knock
hard at times, just tap

at other times to recall him
to its time, pinpoint him
to its place on his map
for a moment or two, a year or so.

*

When he first laid it in the box
on top of the older parts in his box
he watched it settle in

without a sigh, a shrug, a lock
he closed the box without a lock
a sigh, a shrug, a smile.

SKETCHBOOK, April-2008


Someone Else's World


There's a time of will, of stout-hearted sensibility
when all may not be right with the world
but it is your world, with all its back-breakers,
its griefs, its bumps in the night ...

it is your world, where stumblings or spectres,
disturbances or despair are dare-able,
when you can settle in to work or cry or fight,
when to shatter the black knight
or be shattered
is real.

And then, there's this: tremors
under your feet, shaking the coffee cup
you've raised to your mouth; tremors,
like the aftershocks of an earthquake,
every few days, or hours. Nothing
catastrophic or unexpected, just tremors,
from the rupture in someone else's world,
rumbling through yours.


HAMMERS - 1998

June Featured Poet on Emerging Novelist's Site

I'm pleased and honored to have been chosen the June Featured Poet for the web site of emerging Guyanese novelist, Rosaliene Bacchus - click here. You will also find this a fascinating site weaving through Rosaliene's journey, joys and travails - look at the videos, listen to the music, read the words.

"Musetta" Graces PoetsArtists Magazine

The beautiful art magazine, POETS/ARTISTS, has published "Musetta's Last Waltz" in its April, 2011 issue - a beauty for both the art and the poetry. You can get a print or digital copy of the magazine or download a pdf/preview by clicking the cover - your choice - here

More POETRY Online and Off & Another PUSHCART NOMINATION

Online right now are new and not so new poems at these journal sites:

RUSTY TRUCK

HEAVY BEAR
Click on the December/2010 cover, then Table of Contents, then page number by my name.

WAR CRIMINALS WATCH
This is part of the World Can't Wait organization based in NY; click on the POETS page and scroll down for "Mankiewicz"

POETRY MONTHLY-UK
Click on December issue/#26 - @p.13 - Sorry, there is no Table of Contents

Print journal, MUSE, out of Cleveland, re-published "This Is Not a Dream" for their special section on Imprisonment, 2010.

Another PUSHCART Nomination: Thanks to the editors of OFF THE COAST for nominating "My Last Signore" from their Spring 2010 issue.

New Availabilty for WIRED and CANCER POEMS

The WIRED and CANCER POEMS chapbooks are now available on Cervena Barva's "Lost Bookshelf" page: cervenabarvapress.com