Gmp Still Lingering In The Holiday Spirit
The February edition of GMP (George & Gertie’s Place) is on the stands.
If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, you should know that GMP is a homey (as opposed to homely) little Spokane-produced newsletter that prides itself on whimsical polemics.
For example, the cover story for February reprints the contents of a humbug-sounding Christmas message sent out by Cheney resident Steve Peterson.
In it, Peterson likens Christmas to a time when “we bring dead trees into our homes and hang trinkets upon them, trash the family budget, indulging each other with items we may or may not want or need, and gather into groupings we wouldn’t voluntarily choose to gather into in places we wouldn’t ordinarily choose to visit.”
“I think this will teach him to write in Christmas cards to friends who are editors and publishers of scurrilous rags such as GMP,” write those responsible for this “rag,” Mertie Duncan and George Thomas.
To order GMP, or to find out how you, too, can write for it, contact GMP, P.O. Box 10335, Spokane, WA 99209-1335.
Homes for poems
If you’ve got a bit or two of doggerel to get rid of, you might consider sending it to EPS Publishing Co. of Gulfport, Miss.
EPS is publisher of “Words From the Heart,” an annual publication of the works from “amateur” poets. Applicants are invited to send in up to two original poems of 24 lines or less on any subject, postmarked no later than June 1.
Send your work to: EPS Publishing Co., 17400 South Blvd., Gulfport, MS 39503.
Caution: Don’t be surprised if you get a letter back saying your work has been accepted along with a bill for purchase of a copy of the book.
Off the page
Tellers Two, a storytelling duo composed of Krysten Lee and Eric Hurtt, will perform “Of Love, Laughter and Longing” at 2 p.m. Saturday at Auntie’s Bookstore, Main and Washington.
The reader board
George Jacobson, author of “50 Secrets Your Grocer Doesn’t Want You to Know,” will read from his book at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Members of Word Weavers, a Spokane writers’ group, will read from their latest edition of “Hemmingstein’s: Stories and Poetry by Spokane Writers” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Patricia Briggs, author of “Steal the Dragon,” will read from her book at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Maria Maggi, author of her first book of poetry, “The Rings Around Saturn,” will read from the book at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Idaho Law School. Maggi is a writing instructor at UI.
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