Flash! David Axelrod, Ahadada Books author, and all-around fine poet and great guy has been awarded the Poetry Laureateship of Suffolk County, Long Island. “The Poetry Doctor” will use his position to promote the sweet science among the young, the old, and the middling in his neck of the world’s woods and in the greater poetry community. Congrats! David’s Ahadada book The Impossibility of Dreams is available at Small Press Distribution. Bravo! Let the good times roll! Jess

Thanks for featuring Lou Rowan’s reading at the Four Stories event in Osaka in your June 22nd issue. Great picture and nice write-up. Jesse Glass

Lou Rowan to Read at Four Stories, Osaka, June 17th and at Meikai University on the 19th and 25th

The innovative fiction writer and editor of Golden Handcuffs Review, Lou Rowan will be reading from his new collection of short fiction Sweet Potatoes (Ahadada Books) at Four Stories/Osaka on Sunday, June 17th. For more information, times and location please go here. Mr. Rowan will then be giving readings to selected afternoon literature classes at Meikai University on June 19th and 25th. Public invited.

For more information please contact Jesse Glass at ahadada[at]gol.com or go here.  Sweet Potatoes has been praised by such fine writers as Harry Matthews, David Antin, and Rochhelle Owens, and will soon be availabe from Ahadada Books via SPD, and/or the Ahadada Books website. Queries invited.

“Sweet Potatoes,” an amazing collection of fiction praised by the likes of Harry Matthews and David Antin, and Kikuko Otake’s “Masako’s Story; Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima” are now on the way to press. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks as Mr. Rowen will soon be coming to Japan to read from his new book at the Four Stories Series in Osaka, and Otake, a survivor of the atomic tragedy at Hiroshima, will be reading from her book at peace rallies and other venues in the United States this summer.

We hope to finish correcting Yoko Danno’s retelling of the Kojiki this month and get it to Coach House.

This review is now up at the on-line library resource “Midwest Book Review.” We thank them!

Jesse Glass was raised on a horse farm near Westminister, Maryland. He currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. His plays, poems, performance works, and fiction have been published in a wide variety of journals and anthologies over the years. “The Passion Of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems” is the latest collection of his poetry and will well serve to bring his abilities as a word smith to an appreciative readership. Glass is perhaps best known for his experimental writing and insights into human nature. This new compilation of his writings will continue to document his unique approach to the written word that includes the deft use of such postmodernism tools and poetic forms as collaging, fragmentation, and ‘Oulipo-like’ processes. The limitations of this review format cannot hope to do justice to Glass’ imaginative layouts and framing of words-on-the-page. “The Passion Of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems” collection of Jesse Glass’ work is most especially recommended to the attention of avant-garde poetry enthusiasts. Two other volumes of poetry from Ahadada Books are also highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library poetry collections: Jerome Rothenberg’s “China Notes & The Treasures Of Dunhuang” (0973223391, $12.95) and Jim Daniels’ “Now Showing” (0978141415, $10.00).