Cool Announcement: Applause Please by Jack Galmitz

My Dear Friends: 

NeverEnding Story contributor, Jack Galmitz, published a collection of minimalist (haiku-like) poems, Applause Please, "rang[ing] in theme from the social to the psychological values in our lives."

 

About the Author:

 

Jack Galmitz was born in NYC in 1951. He received a Ph.D in English from the University of Buffalo.  He is an Associate of the Haiku Foundation and Contributing Editor at Roadrunner.  His most recent books are Views (Cyberwit.net,2012), a genre study of minimalist poetry, Letters (Lulu Press, 2012), yards & lots (Middle Island Press, 2012; see my in-depth review here), not-zero-sum (Impress 2015) and Takeout (Impress, 2015).  He lives in New York with his wife and stepson.
 

 Selected Poems:

Fireflies

crossing the porch

small talk

In my bureau drawer

a copy of Das Kapital

and a leather glove

A police phalanx

moves backward

a black woman

On the thruway

a black man is pulled over

a coffin is waiting