39 POEM SEEDS from POEMS-FOR-ALL

What a fabulous snail-mail of a day today!  Today, I received 38 -- I know! 38! -- mini-books for SitWithMoi's "Books on Chairs"!  Here's a fabulous picture of them all (plus one by Ed Baker from the same series):

These gems are booklets from Poems-For-All curated by Richard Hansen.  As their website notes about Poems-For-All, the books are

... scattered around town -- on buses, trains, cabs, in restrooms, bars, left along with the tip; stuffed into a stranger's back pocket. Whatever. Wherever. Small poems in small booklets half the size of a business card. A project of the 24th street irregular press, which cranks them out to be taken by the handful and scattered like seeds by those who want to see poetry grow in a barren cultural landscape.

The series has been releasing these books since 2001, and are perfect for SitWithMoi since they're slightly less than 2" x 2".  The 38 books I received comprise just a small portion of their list (which you can see HERE). I'm so grateful to Richard for sending me these.  And thanks, too, to Ed Baker who turned me on to Poems-For-All by sending a copy of his 2007 PFA book, BETWEEN TWO HOUSES, for SitWithMoi, and thus also raising the PFA count to 39 books.

I can't wait to start engaging with the books as part of "shelving" them on the SitWithMoi mini-chair collection! How FUN!

Meanwhile, here then is the list below of the Poems-For-All booklets currently in SitWithMoi's mini-book collection (if any of you readers have any others and want to send them over, I'll be grateful and promise to give them a good home as well as blather about them on the internet; email Moi at GalateaTen@aol.com).  As I blog about each title, I will update the list to incorporate the link:

Poems-For-All:

#002: THE TRUTH by Ted Joans (2)

#007: FIRST CATCH THE RABBIT by Jack Spicer

#91: RICHARD WRIGHT by Steve Dalachinsky

#102: FOUR BUTTONS TWO HOLES FOUR BROOMS by Jean Arp with illustration by Marc Snyder

#116: CONCEPTION by Angela Boyce

#153: BARE BRANCHES by Gail Ghai

#167: EDOUARD'S NOSE by Greg Boyd

#352: THIS, AFTER AN ARGUMENT by Dese 'Rae L. Stage

#360: THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS, REVISED

#407: THREE KISSES by Arthur Rimbaud

#475: THE COMPACT EDITION OF THE HEAD by Andrew Paul Sullivan

#507: THE WAR by Scott Wannberg

#508: WE DO IT BECAUSE by Scott Wannberg

#515: THE TROUBLE WITH PALM TREES by Iris Berry

#531: MUSIC TO YOUR EARS by Brian Beatty

#572: RIMBAUD POEMS by Sean Finney

#590: THE MORNING AFTER by Murray Thomas

#615: OTHERWORLDLY by Karyne de Contreras

#589: TO THE EDITOR WHOSE NAME WILL APPEAR ON MY NEXT REJECTION SLIP by G. Murray Thomas

#595: AUTHENTICITY OVER ORIGINALITY by Billy Childish

#600: IMAGINARY STUDIES OF JOSHUA TREES BY VINCENT VAN GOGH by Charles Graham Macdonald

#636: FIG by Albert Garcia

#778: BETWEEN TWO HOUSES by Ed Baker

#870: THE SHY CARTOGRAPHER by Kevin Jones

#871: A MECHANIC'S PROVERB by Adam Deutsch

#900: I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU? by Emily Dickinson

#948: ALCINOUS TO ODYSSEUS by Ken Cockburn

#950: 16th & VALENCIA by Alejandro Murgula

#1026: FIRST FIG by Edna St. Vincent Millay

#1027: THURSDAY by Edna St. Vincent Millay

#1041: A RIDDLE by Edwin Morgan

#1042: SMUGGLER by Norman MacCaig (2)

#1046: MOM-- by Craig Cotter

#1061: THE THREE STOOGES AT A HOLLYWOOD PARTY by Paul Fericano

#1082: IDLENESS by Douglas Dunn

#1098: IS THIS A POEM? by Karen Patricia Hoyt

#1112: HAIKU by Colin Will

Dear Richard: THANK YOU! Not just for the booklets but for your wonderful idea!