Note to friends: even if you're not here, you're still my friend.
Carol Trenga, xxooxx.
Susannah Indigo, editor of Slow Trains, who was the first editor to accept one of Michael Schein's poems (you go girl!).
Koon Woon, editor of Chrysanthemum and Goldfish Press; known for quiet service to the craft.
Kathleen Flenniken, and all the editors of Pontoon (Floating Bridge Press). & Steve.
Justin Belmont, editor of The Art of Bicycling (Breakaway Books 2005), tireless anthologist.
Tim Monaghan, editor of The Ledge, so edgy.
Tom Goldstein, editor of Elysian Fields Quarterly, the baseball literary journal.
Tara Blaine and David Webster, editors of The American Drivel Review (a unified theory of wit).
Jalina Mhyana, editor of RockSaltPlum. Thanks for the Pushcart; it's bigger than a skateboard 'n better than a wheelbarrow.
Brian McGuigan, editor of when it rains from the ground up, curator of the Cheap Wine & Poetry readings, who is therefore absolved of the sin of being a Yankee fan.
CB Follett and Susan Terris, co-editors of RUNES Review.
Daniel Connor, editor of Lilies and Cannonballs Review.
John Sessions for jump-starting the 2nd novel. Thank-you, my friend.
Washington Poets Association & J. Glenn Evans' PoetsWest.
Larry Coffin, one of the best unknown poets without email I know.
The Pacific Northwest Writers' Association. Great conference!
Esther Helfgott's It's About Time writers' series. Check out the archived Writers' Craft.
Pesha Joyce Gertler, Seattle's amazing Poet Populist Emeritus.
Paul Nelson of Global Voices Radio. Also, SPLAB.
Jim Bodeen and the Yakima Poetry Pole.
Julian Riepe, co-founder of Third Place Books, for being there buddy.
Thomas Hubbard, from your secret admirer.
Deanne Lyn Smith, for moving from Mexico to Montreal.
Julene Weaver wild woman & health artist.
Mike & Ed's Mighty Tieton artisan community.
Yona Zeldis McDonough, a heckuva great editor.
John Olson, for showing me the rainbow inside grey.
Katherine Grace Bond and her yawping feet.
Gladys LaFlamme Colburn. My teacher, who taught me that fewer words say more. I want to sing silence.
Seattle's Punk Poet, John Burgess.
Lorri Lambert-Smith, world's coolest mom.
AKAllen (Mimi), bringing poetry to the streets, shirts, sidewalks.
Wendy Marcus, editor of Drash.
Robert Moulthrop, my collaborator on the Just Deceits play.
Bennett & Hastings Publishing.