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in the line up: • Nate Graziano ...Nathan Graziano lives in Manchester, NH with his wife and daughter and now he sublives at the hold plus nate will be one of the features interviewed in the upcoming underbeat journal [#3] - check this poet out -YOU HEAR ME[...don't make me _ _ _] • debbie kirk ...joined the hold last month with some mouth watering poetry and now she's takin off with a rant column...don't miss debbie's STALKING page....Kaaarumba! • Hold-ly ...Readers/contributors of The Hold, unite! Too long have we suffered in the un-knowledge of who our future alien oppressors will be! Let us FIND THEM FIRST.!...find out more here

omen Eric C. Harrison

basinski's book reviews january 2004 Implexures - by Karen MacCormack...Chax Press A Bibliography of the Published Work of Douglas Blazek 1961-2001 - by James DenBoer...Glass Eye Books (in association with Blue Thunder Books) Admissible Evidence (Random Sightings) - by d a levy and Kent Taylor...Kirpin Press Naked Knuckle. Issue one. 2003. - Editor: Greg Edwards. (Jeff Edwards and Alex Anguzza helping out) Letters – Poems 1953-1956 - by Robert Duncan - Edited and With an Afterward by Robert J. Bertholf A book - by Serge Segay and Rea Nikonova...Anabasis Xtant. Optimism and Skepticism - by Mark Weber...Zerx Press Retirement Blues & Other Jazz Poems - by Gerald Locklin...Zerx Press Hanging Loose 83. - Hanging Loose Press goto reviews looking for a book previously reviewed at the-hold.com? find them here: basinski's book review library archives

 cat townsend
...Find Everything From The Classics To Pop Culture To Counter Culture along with a full line of Books and Blurbs at Cat's Impetuous Books & stuff  NEW ONLINE BOOKSTORE - regularly updated!

 Dr. Maura Gage
...is proud to announce The 2004 National Meeting of the Popular Culture Association to be held April 7-10, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas - for more info - PCA info

book releases

 Frank J. Marcopolos
The Urban Bizarre brings together tales of the city from the best new science fiction writers, pornographers, and zinesters -- stories too weird, too dark, and just plain too bizarre to be published elsewhere, including Cue the Circus Music Fantastic by Frank J. Marcopolos of The Whirligig published by Prime Books

 The Bukowski Hangover Project
...hold contributor RC Edrington announces this core group of cutting-edge writers - America's hottest new literary force now between the covers of one book!
... check out ...The Bukowski Hangover Project

 Alphabet Alliterations - ron androla presents the Pressure Press Poets --- a buncha yer fav poets coolaborating the a-z way - get these FREE ($1.50 s/h fee) while they
last! highlights and list of poets here - ron androla publications here

 bOOKS bOOKS bOOKS
...by the-hold.com contributors...get em while they're hot...QUALITY GIFTS AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE: books • chapbooks • small press print • audio readings -this section of the hold now UPdated for your convenience...NEW NEW NEW many NEW added...support your favorite poet and the arts! GO

• eugene dickens - dickens journal
... otherwise known as #14015-031 (via the federal correctional institution) is on the lookout for PENpals (no pun intended) / for further details visit dickens journal here at the-hold.com

• NO FRILLS ADS - for the-hold.com print journals
... that's right now you can advertise your events / new chaps / books / small press / magazines / online zines in upcoming underbeat journals for a donation...next deadline/release date: TBA/ don't be cheap spread your ink...and ours! more info

• ZINE PUBLISHER CULLEN CARTER IN COMA:
... After a horrific cycling accident, well-known and well-liked zine publisher (My Moon or More, The Secret Life of Snakes) and former TW contributor Cullen Carter lies in a hospital, seriously injured. His fellow DIY writers are organizing a benefit show in Chicago to raise funds to help his family pay for the medical bills. for more info and updates visit the whirligig - read the flyer and please help!

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