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curiouser and curiouser…. [but where it says :[click here…] nothing happens for me…] meeting in a basement room suggests the dark, dank breeding places of the mushroom farmer… M On Jan 3, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mycological Association of Washington DC > 6 January 2015: Welcome Jay Millar! > January’s speaker will be Jay Millar, a Canadian poet, editor/publisher, and author of Mycological Studies, which examines the similarities between the world of mushrooms and writing. > Jay Millar is a poet, editor and publisher (BookThug) who has been actively involved in the Canadian experimental poetry community for the past fifteen years. He is the author of five books; the co-editor of the magazine BafterC; and the proprietor of the online/itinerant bookstore Apollinaire's Bookshoppe. > Mycological Studies, Jay Millar's second collection of poems, looks at the world of mushrooms through a kaleidoscope of perspectives and styles, ranging from innovative and constraint-based writing to visual and concrete poetry. This book [Click here for a link to his book] makes a unique contribution to the poetry of science and nature; if mushrooms have a language that is spoken to us or through us as hallucinogenic experiences, Millar has managed to tap into that language and refine it into potent poetic form. > > Membership meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month in the basement meeting room of the Kensington Park Library, 4201 Knowles Avenue, Kensington, Maryland. > The monthly meetings start at 7:00 pm; doors open at 6:30 pm. Jay MillAr will start ca. 7:30 pm. Gratis. > The curatorial idea came to my mind one day & MAW decided to realize it. > > Cordially, > Barry Alpert