Been reading Brenda Shaughnessy's Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon, 2008) and Lee Ann Roripaugh's On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois UP, 2009) -- thanks, Lee Ann! Shaughnessy's book has some shared investments with the poems I've lately seen identified with the Gurlesque. I wonder if she's in the anthology coming out from Saturnalia Books in 2010. Her poems also have affinities, for me, with Ruth Williams' poems (see her poem the new H-NGM-N -- issue 9 -- later this week). The pictures here document dinner in Columbus when we visited the Jenike-Butts household yesterday. Josh showed us how to make dough without a mixer. Which we needed to know. (Which someone kneaded at some point.) Toppings 1: red sauce, caramelized onions, roasted garlic, mozzarella, pecorino. Toppings 2: olive oil, pepperoncini, pecorino, fresh pepper. Toppings 3: olive oil, pepperoncini, olives, caramelized onions, pecorino. Toppings 4: cherries, chopped cashews, apple, bourbon-butter sauce, pecorino.