Dearly Beloved Killoggers,

I have gathered you all here today on account of the birth of my new book of poems: THE MAKING OF COLLATERAL BEAUTY (Tupelo Press 2006).

This new book is a kind of doppelgaenger/bastard child to my first one, UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS FORMING A GROUP WAITING TO CROSS (Penguin 2004). That is, the new poems have the same titles as the originals, giving the alleged "stories" behind the originals. It's a typical Yakich affair.

Anyway, link to both books on the website, including sample poems:

markyakich.com

Warm fishes from the chilly state of Michigan,
Mark

Dear Josh, Ben, Cricket & Killoggs Folk,

How in hades are y'all? I'm finally posting something after a long withdrawl into the abyss that is California. Oakland, specifically. In any case, wanted y'all to know that my first book of poems just came out from Penguin. Poetry Daily is featuring one of the poems today (poems.com) and there's more info and general smarmy nonsense at markyakich.com

Hope y'all are being good boys and girls and aren't teaching any kids this summer how to, oh I don't know, how to copy DVDs or history lessons in Atari and what a joystick is/was.

Wishes, Mark

hi there. i'm not Ben's sister but i used to know a girl named Emily who collected crystals. she worked at a kid's camp where this foto of ben-mark mark-ben was taken in our Stanford daze. oh, my name is mark. mark yakich - it rhymes w/ jock-itch. it's not that funny. (i don't know why my apostrophes don't work, sorry.)