50 Years of Publishing

Still getting it through my skull that I have been publishing for 50 years, ever since Books by Kids put out The Thing In Exile in 1975, when I was 16. The book included about a dozen poems each by me, Mark Laba, and Steven Feldman. We had a launch with champagne (my first champagne!) and we did a little reading tour of schools and the book even got a few reviews.

I'm working on a small Proper Tales Press chapbook to commemorate this birthday. It will contain my dozen poems from The Thing In Exile, plus a short essay about the circumstances around and process of its publication. I gotta say, my poems are not to bad for a teenager!

Over and out.