Jacket # 15 is under construction, and will be complete in December 2001.
In the meantime you can read these items (...together with dozens of poems
and reviews) , at
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket15/index.html
"Kenneth Koch Tribute" -- A special tribute to New York poet Kenneth Koch
-- 23 items from over twenty writers, including an audio recording of
"Popeye and William Blake Fight to the Death" — a hilarious public rhyming
contest between Koch and Allen Ginsberg at St Mark's Poetry Project, New
York City, 9 May 1979
and
"Words to Comfort" -- A selection of poems and photographs from the benefit
readings to support the World Trade Center Relief Fund on Wednesday October
17, 2001. Many of the poems being read were selected from the enormous
public outpouring of poetry after the terrorist attack, posted at New York
City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous other memorial sites around
the city.
...and of course Jacket 13 and 14 are still available:
-- Jacket 13, the special co-production with New American Writing
magazine, at
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket13/ and
-- Jacket 14, another special co-production
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket14/
with Cambridge UK magazine SALT, including a French writing supplement.
... Jacket magazine, free as the breeze. Enjoy!
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-- John Tranter, Editor, Jacket magazine
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