I just returned to Japan from a week-long reading tour in the U.k. and in Prague. Shook a lot of hands and met lots of fine writers. When I came back yesterday I was surprised and saddened to see that our second Ahadada Event at the Zinc Bar, hosted by Robert Thompson and featuring Ahadada author Rich Murphy and his daughter Liz Murphy and the great on-line magazine the Straddler failed to show up on this website and was completely passed over as far as publicity on the Buf. List and other venues. This kind of neglect was not supposed to happen and it will not happen again. Fortunately, some people did show up at the Ahadada/ Straddler event and many thanks to them. The long-promised second issue of Ekleksographia is in the works and hopefully it will transform into a quarterly. We have curatorships from Vivian Shipley, Skip Fox, a special all-Prague issue in the works, and a promise of an all-Brit issue from Alan Halsey. A new addition to our team, Jonathan Penton, has the energy, enthusiasm, and the web skills that we sorely need to off-set Dan Sendecki’s increasingly busy schedule. We’re working the glitches out here, so please stand-by. Many new books and projects in the works. Jesse