Two or three announcements:

- Soon Productions is proud to present poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Theo Hummer this Saturday at the State of the Art Gallery at 120 W. State Street, Ithaca, New York, this Saturday February 12 at 7 PM. Come one, come all.

- Ms. Hecht will be giving a talk in her capacity as cultural historian Friday, February 11 in the Cornell English Department Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall, at 1:30 PM. Her talk is titled "Science Against Religion: The Society of Mutual Autopsy and Other Tales from the Lab," and it's a discussion of some nineteenth-century French atheist anthropologists dedicated to proving the non-existence of the soul. Should be bracing and a little gory.

- For those of you who will be in New York City this weekend, my frighteningly talented friend Karl Parker will be reading his poetry at Solas on 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues at 8 PM on Sunday, February 13. Karl was featured at the No Tell Motel last year and he's also got a sad n' spooky poem up at a German e-journal, gedanken-strich (click on "moist dot"). Check it out.

It's been suggested to me that I might want to turn my attention to Grood Magazines when I'm done with Grood Poets. I just might do that.