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The Quirk is printed and most have been mailed. Here's what people've been saying...

“You’ve sort of jumped to the head of the class. I expected the poetry to be first-rate with the cast of writers you put together, but the presentation is awesome. Beautiful, really. The interview with Winans was also really well done. Seriously, I loved it. Thank you for all your great work and I am so pleased to be included (and to be included in Quirk II). I am looking forward to getting my extra copies and sending them to friends around the country.”
– David J. Thompson, Poet, Winner of the 2006 and 2007 Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Contests

“Well done… great poetry...killer photography...slick production....nice job....proud as FUCK to be in it.”
- justin.barrett, Poet/Publisher Extraordinaire

“The Quirk landed in my mailbox, also. The production is top shelf. Fuck, it's a g.d. WOODSTOCK of poetry. Hats off to you.”
- Don Winter, Poet/Co-Editor of Fight These Bastards

In non-Quirk news, my first review for Scene Point Blank is posted here. They picked my glowingly positive one instead of one of my funny scathing ones.

Thanks for listening.

Back!

Well fellas, I'm finally updating...

Been busy as all hell with The Quirk, finally laid down the green to own TheQuirk.org and make the zine all legitimate and respectable... haw. Got a killer lineup of poets and artists that's guaranteed to blow you away or your money back. Working on making it as gorgeous as the words it features.

On a Kaveh-The-Poet note, I haven't been writing nearly as much as I ought to be lately... since I last posted, I've placed a poem ("I Was An Ugly Ten-Year-Old") in Amanda Oaks' WORDs DANCE, which is a beautiful zine done by a great lady. Also placed 3/3 poems in the West Memphis 3 Benefit Anthology ("Writer's Block", "She Told Me I Was A Fast Learner", and "Ambidexterity"), and another in Poems-For-All ("at the zoo"). Have submitted poems to Nerve Cowboy, Fight These Bastards, and Poesy... keep yer fingers crossed fer me....

Alright, still have miles to go before I sleep. Take care everybody!

-kav

Literary Quirkitude

Hey everybody, The Quirk is now taking poetry, short/flash fiction, and creative non-fiction submissions for it's inaugural literary edition. All the money it raises is going to a yet-to-be-determined charitable cause, so submit submit submit. Check out the link below to go to the website and read the guidelines, but really, it's nothing you haven't read before.

I'M A LINK, CLICK ME

A list of contributors as of 4:05 PM (ET), 2/23/2007: S.A. Griffin, justin.barrett, Dan Kopcow, David Blaine, JD Nelson, Michael Lee Johnson, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Oren Wagner, Glenn W. Cooper, Robert Plath, Steve Henn, YOU?

Been a while since I last posted, a small bit of news to report.

Resurrected The Quirk, started working on Vol. 2 Issue 3 today. It'll feature an interview with C. Allen Rearick and an interview with The Locust's Justin Pearson, as well as the typical laughtastic viscera.

Also, my poetic dry spell ended today, I wrote a new poem called "MISTAKE", it's not the best thing I've ever written or anything, but it felt DAMN good to write something again. Jesus. Let's hope it stays with me.

Placed a couple more poems in "remark." since I last posted, that's always a good thing. Working on an interview with the wise and venerable AD Winans for said zine.

Hope all is well with everybody, all is well here.


-kaveh