Hank's Original, aka Hank's Original Loose Gravel Press, aka Loose
Gravel,
publishes new poetry and poming, some of which may even stay new
for a significant period of time. FWIW... Possibly 3.5 billion years,
maybe even a slot on PBS with the other foundations of American culture.
Our most recent Hank's Original "chappers" include Judith Roitman's Slackline,
Eric
Selland's Still Lifes,
Aldon
Nielsen's MANTIC SEMANTIC, and
j/j hastain's
queer phylactery.
We will also regularly maintain a spanky fresh, frankly non-generic
literary journal of uncommercial, post-capitalist, pre-compassionalist,
neat
and frappy poetry, criticism, and intellectual discourse.
This
will be Loose Gravel magazine. Stay Tuned! Our first 2012 issue will
feature
poetry
and close readings of David
Bromige and friends from Sonoma, circa 1985.
Henry
Mancini started the original Loose Gravel in 1987, along with his
cohorts
and
then bachelor buddies Jim
McCrary and Steve
Tills. It produced two or three
ecstatically
homespun "staple-job" issues and published primarily the mid-1980s'
bric-a-brac
band of Bromige pals – Cydney
Chadwick, Christopher
Reiner,
D.
A. Powell, Jayne
McPherson, Ann Erickson, T.C.
Marshall, Paul
Mariah,
Catherine
Bowers, Pat
Nolan, Carol
Ciavonne, Patricia
Hartnet, Barbara
Weber,
along with the aforementioned three aspiring husbands and fathers,
Mancini,
McCrary, and Tills. And what's around the tight corners of those mid-1980s.
Well,
of course, David's wife Cecelia Belle -- she's always been there with
David and us. &
Steven
Farmer and Susan
Gevirtz and Cole
Swensen and Trane DeVore, of course.
And
Jonah
Raskin and Gerald
Rosen and Elizabeth
Herron and Terry
Ehret and
Geri
Digiorno and Maureen
Hurley and Carl
Macki and Bill
Vartnaw and Judy
Stedman
and
Eugene
Ruggles and Layne
Russell. And then there are even more, including major
Bromige
collaborator Richard
Denner, who co-authored AT LEAST three books
with D.B. And Michael
Rothenberg and Catherine
Daly and Eileen
Tabios and
Kathleen
Fraser and perhaps especially one of D.B.'s oldest and dearest
and most
accomplished pals, George
Bowering, also a lifelong collaborator in more ways than
one. But also Robert
Grenier and Stephen
Ratcliffe and Joanne
Kyger in Bolinas and
Etel Adnan, just south of Sonoma County.