looking for how to spend $3?

Observable Readings, a free reading series which in October will host the impeccably dressed and usually beer-clad François Luong, needs yr good will. For every dollar you PayPal them, the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission will give them another dollar.

Also!

NOÖ Journal will soon print its super-hurrah fifth issue -- sometime in early September, prolly -- and we're free too, giving away 32 honey soaked pages of goodness to rural readers throughout Northern California and Southern Oregon^*. Funds come from our pockets and a thimble full of beautiful donations. If you want to support us, donate a paltry $2 and get a bad poem, so we can keep printing good poetry for free.

If you don't believe in "bad" and "good," relax: neither do we. Think of it as a giant joke, think of it as you giving us $2 pweese.

If you don't believe in money: shit. Shit. I guess we're up a creek.

K. Silem Mohammad, Tao Lin and Bryan Coffelt are all on deck to write you some deliberately awful poems.

Pluck $3 from yr July paychecks? Pweese?

^*They aren't actually slathered with honey. That would be kind of combative.