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Sunday, June 18th at the Multnomah County Central Library, at 3pm in the Community Room, we will have our official release party for Marginal Notes. Poet Jay Thiemeyer will be there to read and talk with guests (that’s you!) There will also be light refreshments, and we will have chapbooks on sale. Jay is also a featured reader at the 2nd Monday (June 12) reading at Borders, downtown.

Roadside Bomb will perform with open mic at Valentines on the Second Thursday as usual. That’s Thursday, June 8, Valentines at 8 pm, 223 SW Ankeny, in Portland. Roadside Bomb has been asked by KBOO to do a second pilot show, which will be aired on Thursday, June 22 at 10 am. If you missed the first one, you can listen to it online at Elohi Gadugi Internet Radio.

At last, we have been able to schedule an official reading and release party for Marginal Notes, our new chapbook from Jay Thiemeyer.

Join us on Sunday, June 18th, 3pm at the Multnomah County Central Library Community Room. Jay will read from his book, and there will be light refreshments served.

Jay will have his books for sale at the event.

For more information, feel free to call Duane or Patty at 503-284-6403.

Jay Thiemeyer’s new chapbook is now available. You may purchase it from us online, or if you are in the Portland, Oregon area, it is also available at Black Rose Books and Reading Frenzy.

on April 13 at 8pm, Roadside Bomb will perform poetry/cabaret with an open mic, at Valentines, 323 SW Ankeny in Portland. Join Fred Nemo, Anais, Heidi X, Duane Poncy, Patricia McLean and others for socially-critical poetry.

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on April 15, as part of the Wordstock Festival, over 80 Portland poets will read in 8 different venues for Poetland, the creation of PDX poet Dan Raphael. The habit of rainy nights press editors, Patricia McLean and Duane Poncy will both be reading at Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway starting at 2pm. Also at that venue will be Steve Sander, Lindsay Hill, Carla Perry, Leanne Grabel, Per Fagereng, Maryrose Larkin, Tim Barnes, and Penelope Schott. Jay Thiemeyer, whose chapbook, Marginal Notes, we are releasing at the end of the month, will also be reading the same day at The Mississippi Pizza Pub, also at 2pm.

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on Thursday, April 20th at 10am, KBOO will air a pilot show hosted by Roadside Bomb. The possible monthly show, featuring Fred Nemo, Duane Poncy, Patricia McLean, Heidi X and Anais will focus on war, poetry and social critique. Please tune in and support more poetry on the airwaves.

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April 28 is the tentative date for release of Marginal Notes by Jay Thiemeyer. Isreal Bayer, organizer and writer for the North American Street Newspaper Association says, “Marginal Notes is like a jackknifed truck coming at you with ten tons of steel. You won’t find a more raw observation of the streets than this. A clear view of the insanity that grips hundreds of thousands of people on a daily basis in America.” Stay tuned!

Stew Albert, legendary sixties activist, and one of the contributors to our book, Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War died yesterday of cancer. Stew was an important cultural figure for my generation, and his spirit lives on!!!

There is a very nice obituary on common dreams

Here is his poem from our book:

Kids
by Stew Albert

Iraqi children
dead and wounded and terrified
paying painfull prices
for Bush Gang’s military chutzpah.
Dubya spreading Reagan’s Revolution at gun point.
Iraqi oil will be denationalized and sold on the cheap.
Heil Hummer!

If surviving Iraqi kids behave themselves
we will give them chocolate
and maybe even let them drive our jeep.

Teenage American soldiers
looting a dictator’s palace,
cheered on in the embedded mind and headlines,
doing what was always forbidden,
killing people who piss you off
and stealing their pretty trinkets.
Our kids will also pay a price for this war
when after the home coming parade
feeling unemployed and unappreciated
they play at Baghdad in the suburbs.