[New-Poetry] Re: belated Happy B-day

[Anny Ballardini]

Congratulations. I believe in the Self-Made Man, the One Man.
As I believe in the One Wo/Man.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:49 AM, David Baratier <editor at pavementsaw.org>wrote:

> Our largest number so far was from late 1999 to 2003, when "we" was around
> 8 people regularly working not including cover production, judges, and
> deputy psaws. We had folding parties and sent out a few thousand letters
> twice a year and thousands of books, chapbooks and journals. We made
> rubberstamps suitable for envelopes. We made a graffiti spraypaint template.
> We had readers in from throughout the US. We had state grants. We had
> corporate sponsorship. One was a caffinated mint company that gave us boxes
> full of mint filled tins. We got a lot done that year.
>
> Three colleges donated interns, we even had an economic study done by an
> OSU economist to determine whether we should accept an offer to be
> distributed by Publishers Group West or (I forget, another large place
> starts with C). Interiors were all done in house except for the first book,
> the ninth journal(a special collaboration journal, John M. Bennett did
> interiors), and one asemic / handwritten by Bob Grenier (with me handwriting
> all of the page numbers, which I do not recommend). Covers for chapbooks and
> journals, except for five of them, were done in house. Book covers are often
> done out of house by Lance King or various others but sometimes I am "the
> man."
>
> I married in 2002, the birth of my daughter in 2004 slowed us down from 7
> to 8 titles a year to 4 for the last two years. Our interns and associate
> editors either went to grad school or prison and in August of 2007 I moved
> to a remote location far from humanity. The nearest shopping mall is one
> hour and five minutes away. The second nearest is one hour and ten minutes
> away.
>
> Things are loose now, here we are in the second American depression cooking
> up a new deal at the Pavement Saw labs, shenanigans are expected. Our
> website designer is out in San Francisco, a cover artist in Columbus, a few
> reader helpers elsewhere, mostly me with the signal flags keeping the
> pavement saw helium filled duck from snaring the branches of the expected
> poetry parade.
>
> Be well
>
> David Baratier, Editor
>
> Pavement Saw Press
> 321 Empire Street
> Montpelier OH 43543
> http://pavementsaw.org
>
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> --- On Thu, 1/8/09, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > From: jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Re: belated Happy B-day to Carl Sandburg
> > To: editor at pavementsaw.org, new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> > Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 10:31 PM
> > David,
> > So by 'We' it's you and how many people? Do you
> > outsource graphic design, typography, fullfilment or is it
> > all homegrown?
> >
> > Finnegan
>
>
>
>
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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