[Michael Juster]

Measure Press has just released Sleaze & Slander, my "new and selected" light verse collection:

http://www.measurepress.com/measure/...leaze-slander/

The majority of it is original verse, but it has Latin translations from Horace, Martial, Ausonius, Luxorius and Erasmus. It also has last year's co-winner of the Barnstone Prize, a long raunchy Middle Welsh poem by proto-feminist Gwerful Mechain as well as to the mirror-image poem to which she is responding by Dafydd ap Gwilym.

Sleaze & Slander also has selections from another imminent book, The Billy Collins Experience (White Violet Press) which consists entirely of poems written in the voice of Billy Collins on days that were not his best ones.

I would be grateful for your support!

[John (J.D.) Smith]

You had me at "sleaze." I'll need to get this.

[Julie Steiner]

I've been looking forward to this. Hooray, Mike, and hooray, me!

[Ned Balbo]

Congratulations, Mike. I'll be ordering soon & look forward to the laughs, wry smiles, & awkward glimpses of human nature sure to ensue. (Not to mention the metrical excellence that's a given in your work.)

[Terese Coe]

Ordering forthwith, and warm congratulations to you, Mike!

[Siham Karami]

What a great title! A must-have. Huge congrats!

[marly youmans]

It's already on my to-order list. Looking forward to it!

[Ed Shacklee]

That's disgusting, scandalous! I ordered mine immediately -- can't wait to get my hands on it.

Best,

Ed


P.S. I won't say that I'm sad, but I'll wear an exaggerated pout and hold my hands down while making an eloquent shrug if your poem about the mimes isn't there.

[Michael Juster]

Thanks, everyone, for the kind words & support.

Ed, all the poems that are a weird mix of the serious and the whimsical --including "Rounding Up the Mimes"--are in the evolving manuscript looking for a congenial home.

[Marybeth Rua-Larsen]

Congratulations, Mike!. I'll be up to Newburyport later in the month, and I hope to get a copy then, if you have some on hand.

Marybeth