Randomly Accessed Poetics: Heart Splatters into Significance

What can I tell you about this book that would entice you to spend twenty one dollars on an art, poetry, and word book? Probably nothing. Other than the fact that Randomly Accessed Poetics, Heart Splatters Into Significance, is an elegantly designed book. I know what you're thinking, "what book is worth twenty one dollars?" If you really want to get this book, but don't want to part with the Twenty one dollars, go to the Kindle store and get if for three. Of course, the paper version is far more beautiful and you do not need an electronic device to view it on.

Here is what you are purchasing, should you decide to part with your twenty one dollars, in between these pages there are thirty five contributors from all over the world. Most of them are from the United States. And sixteen are from Washington State.

Greg Brisendine is performance poet who makes his living in theater; he has two poems in this book. Larry Crist has been published prolifically in little magazines and big ones too, like Rattle. Duane Kirby Jensen is a poet painter from Everett. He curates a spoken word venue at Café Zippy's on Wetmore Avenue. Brandon Pitts has written plays, novels, and countless poems. For Chris Jarmick, poetry is everything, he is author of a book titled "Ignition: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares." Jeannine Hall Gailey was appointed to position of Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington in 2012. Carla Blaschka, is a Seattle lifer who, draws inspiration for her short stories from The Stranger and from Capitol Hill.

There are many more exciting writers between these pages waiting to be read. People who are just as much in love with writing as I am. People who organize the randomness of our world into words and images.

Me, I am just a country boy who lives in Oregon and works in a casino. And maybe that is why you should buy this book. To see how a nobody country guy can organize the words of others into a beautiful bouquet.

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The fourth issue of Randomly Accessed Poetics features work from B.Z. Niditch (NY), Duane Kirby Jensen (Everett, WA), Larry Crist (Seattle, WA), and Carla Blaschka (Seattle, WA). It also contains poetry, short stories, and art from Jim Boggs (KY), Greg Brisendine (WA), Christine Clarke (WA), Alfonso Colasuonno (PA), Tim Cole, Jim Davis, Doug Draime (OR), Elizabeth Fountain (Ellensburg, WA), Jeannine Hall Gailey (WA), Sarah Gawricki (CO), Jack Haines (OR), William Wright Harris, Dawnell Harrison (ID), Christopher J. Jarmick (WA), Annette Kluth (WA), Craig Kurtz (VA), Scott Laudati, Charley McAteer (WA), Tera McIntosh (PA), John McKernan (WV), Sharon Meixsell (WA), Dan Nielsen (WI), Rafael Ayala Paez (Venezuela), Brandon Pitts (WA), Raúl Sánchez (WA), M. A. Schaffner (VA), Carol Smallwood, Morris Stegosaus (WA), Kurt Swalander, Andy Wilson (WA), and Purple-Mark Wirth (WA).