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Some very sad news.

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I am so sorry to have to share some terribly sad news here.  I spoke recently with a family member of Matthias Kruger,  the truly wonderful publisher at Newington Blue Press in Germany.  Our friend Matthias has passed away very suddenly due to a heart attack.

If you were lucky enough to know Matthias, then you know how important he was to so many creative people.  He was an easygoing, sublimely good-natured man whose love of literature was cheerfully contagious.  This was best evidenced, of course, by his outstanding work on Newington Blue Press’ BUK100 series — a beautiful series of elegant chapbooks commemorating the legacy of Charles Bukowski.

If you are anything like me, you hope that Mathias is somewhere tonight kicking back and having a beer with ol’ Buk himself — who is doubtlessly pleased by the way Matthias encouraged countless others to enjoy the writer’s work.

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BUK100 Issue #4 includes “Confession” and a photo of mine.

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I’m honored to share here that Newington Blue Press in Germany will publish my poem “Confession,” along with at least one of my photos, in the upcoming BUK100 Issue #4 — the Forever Young Edition.

Preorder information can be found here.

Thanks once again to Publishing Editor Matthias Kruger for allowing me to showcase my work in this outstanding chapbook series dedicated to Charles Bukowski!

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Photo of tablet marking Charles Bukowski’s birthplace, 2013

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Andernach, Germany.

Photo credit: Bolcuse, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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The Creativity Webzine features “Roanoke Summer Midnight”

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I am thrilled tonight to see The Creativity Webzine in Germany publish my poem “Roanoke Summer Midnight.”

The theme of the May issue is “History,” and my poem is meant as an homage to the spiritual, natural and architectural history of my adopted home, rural Southwest Virginia.   You can find it at the link below:

The Arts Section of The Creativity Webzine

Thanks to Editor-in-Chief Charles E. J. Moulton for allowing me to see my work showcased within this wonderful creative community.

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Illustration from “Die Gartenaube,” 1894

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Publisher —  Ernst Keil’s Nachfolger. Leipzig, Germany.

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Graffiti in Berlin, Germany, 2007

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Sprayed stencil and tags.

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IIIIIIIIII, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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Photo of memento mori epitaph in Germany, 2022

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Nebel, Amrum.

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Photo credit: Mitumial, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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Photo of Falco Tinnunculus, 55129 Hechtsheim, Germany, by Vera Buhl, 2009

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German movie poster for “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)

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Paramount Pictures.

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Volume 2 of Buk 100 Features “Ode to a New Black Ball-Point Pen”

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Airmail from Germany!

I am honored to see a poem and a photograph of mine published in Buk 100: Notes for a Dirty Old Birthday!  Like the first volume of Buk 100, Newington Blue Press created this second limited edition chapbook to honor what would have been legendary poet Charles Bukowski’s 100th birthday.  (You can order your copy right here.)

The short poem is entitled “Ode to a New Black Ball-Point Pen” and the photo appears just below it.  (I think my fellow Roanokers will recognize Shaffer’s Crossing Norfolk Southern Railway Bridge.)

Thanks again to Matthias Krueger for selecting my work for this superb recognition of Bukowski’s legacy!

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