Received in the mail:
-908-1078, by Brandon Brown (Transmission Press, 2006) Thanks, Logan.
-Mail art by Lauren Kohne, for our collaboration project. It's too big to be scanned and my digital camera is already packed.

Leaving Houston tomorrow for St. Louis. We'll go through Shreveport (LA), Little Rock (AR) and Memphis (TN) and yes, many pictures of the trip as well as of the reading will be taken.

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Alex: François, what's an anapaest? (Alex is reading 908-1078).
François: It's a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one.
Alex: Can you give me an example of anapaest?
François: Well, anapaest is an anapaest.

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And I am leaving you with a poem by James Laughlin:

Above the City

You know our office on the 18th
floor of the Salmon Tower looks
   right out on the

Empire State & it just happened
we were finishing up some
   late invoices on

a new book that Saturday morning
when a bomber roared through the
      mist and crashed

flames poured from the windows
into the drifting clouds & sirens
     screamed down in

the streets below it was unearthly
but you know the strangest thing
      we realized that

none of us were much surprised be-
cause we'd always known that those
     two Paragons of

Progress sooner or later would per-
form before our eyes his demon-
     stration of their
     true relationship.