Welcome to July, 2012 of Crow Poetry.
Thank you to all of our contributors, readers, supporters, and friends. Full Of Crow began over three years ago, and while I have been behind the different projects, production, printing, web, distro, zines, and other sections, this is the first time since our humble beginning that I have actually edited the poetry section. The patience and understanding and kind words of the many poets that have submitted to this issue is appreciated and I hope that I have done right by the job (somewhat?). I’m learning and I imagine there will be more steps on the way. Let me know what I can do to improve. Your feedback helps.
We just came back from an amazing trip to the bay area where we put together our first poetry event at Viracocha, San Francisco- Toxic Abatement. (learn more here) The readers and musicians were fabulous, the venue was wonderful, the turnout was great. The whole thing exceeded my expectations and I am so grateful to the poetry community for supporting this and to Paul Corman-Roberts, my partner in planning Toxic Abatement 1. Look for Toxic Abatement 2 soon!
We were also there for a number of readings and events in the bay area, and participated in the new Oakland Beast Lit Crawl in leg two, at the Inkwell in Oakland. I partnered with Michele McDannold to do a joint Full Of Crow- Red Fez reading and it was exciting to be a part of history. While there are other crawls, of course, this was a new and ambitious undertaking for Oakland and they did a great job. They were inspired by their neighbors across the bridge and they put together a great festival.
All I can say is that I am rejuvenated, energized, excited, and happy to be involved in the poetry communities that I love and I am looking forward to more in the upcoming year.
You can check out the photos in the different albums on facebook, on my page and Full Of Crow. There are some articles about Toxic Abatement, Beast, ZyFez 2, and more up on Red Fez as well in the articles section. Friend us, talk to us, get together with us. Let’s plan, let’s support one another, let’s get out there and meet and organize and rally. Poetry matters, art matters. That is why we are doing what we are doing.
As we plan more readings and events, we need to hear from you- our contributors. We want you involved and we want to hear about what you have going on in your towns.
Next issue will be coming in October. Look For MiCrow in August, the flash section. New fiction is up, and issue 12 of Blink Ink, Project U Radio, Citizens For Decent Literature, and more. Much more.
In Solidarity,
Lynn Alexander
