He was a big name in the small press
when I was starting out. Dude was
prolific.
He wrote me a few times, told me once
that he liked my relationship poems,
asked me to send a batch his way.
He wrote a response poem to each one
from the female perspective and published
the whole thing as a sort of call & response
chapbook called S & M, credited to
John Sweet & Paula Weinman.
Published it through the fictitional
CONCRETE BLOCK IN YOUR FACE THEN, PRESS.
1995, I think. Definitely my 2-room
apartment days.
There were some extra poems he published
as A Little S&M, a mini-chap stapled
into the centerfold of S & M.
Again, I think my copy might be the only
one out there.
S & M is probably my all-time
best seller, and I don't want to kid myself,
Weinman's participation is a huge reason for that.
2 comments:
oh the memories
Weinman died last year. The upstate NY contingency is down to me and Alan Catlin, I think. At least as far as people who were publishing in the small zine scene back in the 90s. It's not easy being a relic.
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