Meow Press is currently undergoing reorganization and while I will continue to produce chapbooks, the focus of my publishing energies is changing. My collaboration with Bill Marsh on the Sunbrella Network and its related entities (including the editorial collective behind the magazine ZAZIL) has allowed for a much wider range of publishing opportunities, including web-based programming and a editorial collective designed and produced by San Diego area college students--an extension of the Small Press Collective-template into my teaching practice. More on all this later.

Because of this shift in priorities, I feel I am moving away from "poetry" towards something else--oh, I dunno, how 'bout sixties mass-market paperbacks on radical education theories? (-- and whatever happened to "deschooling society" anyways--)

While I will still publish chapbooks on a frequent basis, I will no longer even pretend to be able to read unsolicited manuscripts. If you want to arrange for me to read a manuscript -- especially if you live in the San Diego area -- then, please, let me know what you are up to. But as of now, if you are reading this page trying to figure out if you can get published, I suggest you publish your own work, and then send it to the people whose work you most enjoy. Write them a letter. If that letter happens to come to the pearly gates of Meow Press world headquarters, then so be it. But don't think that this operation is anything more than one person with too many things to do to be doing away with his time this way.

While I cannot accept unsolicited manuscripts, I am happy to consider proposals for "critical chapbooks" (from lecture notes to manifestoes to monographs) or good old-fashioned collections of poems. But the point here is to contact me first.

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