A Poet’s Alphabet arrived as a simple idea to fill a little box with words and pictures. I asked 26 of my favorite poets (including myself) to write a poem for each letter of the alphabet, then created a design to go with it. Here is the result of our collaboration.

Each letter poem was made into a rather large rubber stamp. In fact, 32 separate stamps were used to print each collection. In this box, you will find two sets of alphabet poems printed as a small postcards—one to send, and one to keep—a pocket-full of poems that range from silly to simply sublime.

Hand-printed
in a limited edition of 226.

C – Ginger Perry
Candles
Caressed the room where you lay dying—
Jazz, too. So different from the whispered past tenses
Of my father's room where cancer
Had whittled him down, eight years before—
A Connecticut chill on a summer eve.
But when I reached to pull the blanket up over your thin shoulder
You pulled it back down with a moan.
You always had a mind of your own Ed

Thank you for letting me say Good bye

26 poets / 26 poems (x2)
A – Jack Collom
B – Reed Bye
C – Ginger Perry
D – Bobbie Louise Hawkins
E – Susan Edwards
F – Anselm Hollo
G – Reg Saner
H – Keith Abbott
I – Tom Peters, jr
J – Max Regan
K – Mark DuCharme
L – Rebecca DiDomenico
M – Naomi Horii
N – Camilla Beck
O – Michael Wojczuk
P – Peter Michelson
Q – Andrei Codrescu
R – Richard Wilmarth
S – Lee Christopher
T – Tree Bernstein
U – Randy Roark
V – Laura Rosenthal
W – Ted Ringer
X – John Wright
Y – Jim Cohn
Z – Anne Waldman

$40 + $5 postage and packaging

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PO Box 1144
Ojai, CA 93024

You have beheld a smiling Rose,
Yellow-lit Budweiser signs over oaken bars,
You used to wear dungarees & blue workshirt.
You here on earth, in cities.

You'll ask perhaps wherfore I stay,
You meaner beauties of the night.
You'll bare your bone you grow
you'll pray you'll only know
You, that decipher out the fate.