<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="590" style="width: 442.5pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><tbody><tr style="height: 78.75pt; "><td width="565" style="width: 423.75pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; height: 78.75pt; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Drunken Boat [http://www.drunkenboat.com<<a href="http://www.drunkenboat.com/">http://www.drunkenboat.com/</a>>], international online journal of the arts, is publishing its second book in 2013: "The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry," a collection of micro-essays by Guggenheim-fellow and award-winning poet Lisa Russ Spaar who wrote many of the pieces as The Chronicle of Higher Education's Arts and Academe Poetry blogger. We are convinced that in the right hands, this book could turn general readers and diverse groups of folks with curious intent back onto poetry, not to mention invigorate those who already love and linger over poems. Drunken Boat is currently raising funds to promote this book so I encourage you to support/share the following link about the book. Every little bit makes an immense difference:<br><br><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1721544611/the-hide-and-seek-muse-annotations-on-contemporary">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1721544611/the-hide-and-seek-muse-annotations-on-contemporary</a><br><br>Lisa writes essays on a wide range of contemporary poets, including all of the ones listed below, and the essays become a kind of cultural commentary, expressing how in the strictures and measures of verse global and social diplomacy is waged and consumer culture critiqued. The book has already been celebrated by novelist Ann Beattie, who says "I loved every minute of reading this book!" The book should be out and available by March 2013 and you can preorder at [editor@drunkenboat.com<<a href="mailto:editor@drunkenboat.com">mailto:editor@drunkenboat.com</a>>]. Thanks you for your support and best wishes for the end of the year.<br><br>Warmly,<br>Ravi </div><div><br></div><div>POETS<br>Kazim Ali ~ Debra Allbery ~Talvikki Ansel ~ Jennifer Atkinson ~ David Baker ~ Jill Bialosky ~ Suzanne Buffam ~ Jennifer Chang ~ Ye Chun ~ Michael Collier ~ Randall Couch ~ Stephen Cushman ~ Kate Daniels ~ Kyle Dargan ~ Claudia Emerson ~ Monica Ferrell ~ David Francis ~ Gabriel Fried ~ Alice Fulton ~ Rachel Hadas ~ Brenda Hillman - Edward Hirsch ~ Jane Hirshfield ~ Mark Jarman ~ Laura Kasischke ~ Jennifer Key ~ L. S. Klatt ~ Joanna Klink ~ Hank Lazer ~ Paul Legault ~ Willie Lin ~ Maurice Manning ~ Cate Marvin ~ Heather McHugh ~ Erika Meitner ~ Carol Muske-Dukes ~ Amy Newman ~ Meghan O'Rourke ~ Eric Pankey ~ Kiki Petrosino ~ Carl Phillips ~ John Poch ~ Bin Ramke ~ Srikanth Reddy ~ Michael Rutherglen ~ Mary Ann Samyn ~ Philip Schultz ~ Sarah Schweig ~ Allison Seay ~ Ravi Shankar ~ Ron Slate ~ R. T. Smith ~ Larissa Szporluk ~ Mary Szybist ~ Brian Teare ~ William Thompson ~ David Wojahn ~ Charles Wright<br><br>BLURBS<br><br>For people who are a bit wary of poetry, this is the perfect antidote: the poems are amazing, and so are Lisa Russ Spaar’s short essays in the "Hide-and-Seek Muse". There’s a sense of clarity about everything here (not that things aren’t complex; not that Lisa’s analyses aren’t fascinating constructs themselves, insightful and inspiring, though not intimidating.) I’d think anyone who cares about an inner reality that might be somehow communicated – nailed; set free; amplified; questioned -- would embrace the chance to read poems that elucidate so muchabout the mind and the heart, and to understand better the urges embodied in the process of constructing a poem, which always speaks from its structure of restraint. I loved every minute of reading this book.<br><br> --Ann Beattie<br><br>Lisa Spaar has an intense and generous spirit. She loves poetry and honors the people who read and write it. Reading her you remember once again that there’s no such thing as a bad poem or a bad reader. Time will tell which ones were better and best. Meantime people keep writing and reading, so Lisa follows many roads, some less traveled than others. She has a wonderful eye for the wildflowers everywhere.<br><br> --Jerome McGann<br><br></div></body></html>