THE OLD HEAVE HO

Hello from Warszawa, where we've published the newest WCWPCCS publication,

The Old Heave Ho: Rejection Odes

Rejection Odes is a petite pink pamphlet printed in an edition of 50. Five pink poems about rejection.

Perhaps you would like to have one for yourself? This can be arranged. Contact thefeelingismutual@gmail.com.

Please enjoy an excerpt from our Rejection Ode to Love, "Dear Fighter" --

Fighter, why do we like what pigs bring to the party? Why, Fighter, do we go down and party like pigs? With great relief, with extreme sports, you will conquer ladies except me.

Belated post about really nice review on HTMLGIANT

Sean Lovelace wrote a really fun-to-read and nice review of our chapbook. You can read it here.

Here is how he ends it:

I don’t know why I was green-eyed when I first saw this book, but I am now full of hot red pepper flakes and cold brass tokens and bonfires and ice-box pie and casserole left out and soapand goats and herons and malt liquor and FUCK YOU YOLK! and crumble equations and stars andblackberry bramble and cherry stems and spookles and I would sure like to share a Guinness with these women of the Washtenaw County Women’s Poetry Collective and Casserole Society. They would drink that Guinness, drink it well, and they would spin all kinds of stories, I can just tell. They are pretty amazing. These poems the same. They seem a way of living, or of trying to live:

I will dance until my legs don’t remember

how to make the non-dancing shape.

Well. Amen.

I hope it was fun to write, Sean!

Release Party Pictures

We unpacked books...
Nervous, but excited...We sat in alphabetical order...And encouraged audience participation...

A lot of casserole was eaten...Many books were sold...And enjoyed by readers and their pets...

The Feeling Is Mutual: Release Party Sunday February 21 at 7pm

Join the Washtenaw County Women's Poetry Collective and Casserole Society in celebrating the launch of their chapbook!

Where: Work Gallery, 306 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

When: Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, 7:00PM

What: WCWPCCS will read from their chapbook of collaborative poems, The Feeling Is Mutual. There will be collaborative readings by WCWPCCS members and contributors! Audience participation! Homemade casseroles!

We will be selling and signing copies of our book as well as commemorative memorabilia.

CONTACT US FOR A BOOK! (in time for the holidays!)

Perhaps you read CA Conrad's great post on THE FEELING IS MUTUAL (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/) and would like to get your hands on a copy. We'd also like you to get your hands on a copy! Please email thefeelingismutual@gmail.com with your interest and address and a copy can be yours!

THE FEELING IS MUTUAL in production