Hello, this is Stuart Krimko.

Stuart is the author of Hymns and Essays, just out from Mal-O-Mar, as well as two volumes of devastatingly sweet verse from Sand Paper Press. Stuart is also the translator of a new volume of The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley, and he is my tour buddy too. Up there he’s holding a sandwich.

The sandwich is delicious, and arrived wrapped in waxed brown paper, extremely sturdy and handsome as it seems to be people here like their things and food and their people to be. I asked about the Occupy movement as it exists here and was told that people here are in such solidarity with the values of #OWS that to occupy anything in Portland seemed redundant and that now the occupation’s encampment was basically “hippies and homeless people.” We’ll see.
I am going to write What Occupy Wall Street Means to Me. I would like for all of us to do so.
This picture of Stuart’s wonderful book is much too small, but to purchase it, you can click on it. It rhymes and it hurts, and that’s Josef Haydn on the cover.