Here's just one of its poems, "Trace," not to indicate the kind but the level of work in The End Review. It's by W.B. Keckler.

Now to the exciting news-bytes about Me! One is that my web- site, Comprepoetica, had its official first birthday last October. It was intended, as its name implies, to showcase poems, poetics and poets of schools and managed to collect something like fifty bios of various poets--and one critic--and samples of poetry from maybe a fifth of them in its first half-year. Some of my essays are on it, too--and the beginnings of an attempt at a dictionary of poetry-related terms. My rough first part of '98, and happy but busy summer and fall, kept me from doing much, if anything, to keep it active with new materials and publicity, so it's been drawing hardly any traffic (in spite of what I thought was my great idea of running a poll on favorite living and dead American poets (Ashbery leads living poets with 11 votes, Williams the dead with 22).

I'm now writing a weekly poetry commentary for it, and have put out word that I'd like to run reviews by others, once-a-week, if I can. So if you have any reviews, or material for review, send 'em my way (1708 Hayworth Road, Port Charlotte FL 33952). I'm soliticiting Serious Essays, as well--and feedback on anything that appears at Comprepoetica. I bring all this up not only to publicize my site but to commend the value of running a web-site (mine is free but I'm required to keep commercial advertising banners at the tops of all my files; to use the Internet costs from $15 to $30 a month--and the investment of at least a thousand dollars, generally speaking, in a computer). The main virtue: you can write whatever you want to and know it'll be published, no matter how long or intelligent, for your site can always take it. Good place, too, for old published material hardly anyone's seen (like all my published material). And maybe (yes, the odds against are about ten million to one) someone in a position to help you will see something he likes of yours (and, yow, could I use that).

My other piece of me-related news involves my book, Of Manywhere-at-Once, Volume One, which I've updated and had reprinted for the second time. Multiply this column by fifty and you'll have a pretty good idea of what my book's like. What should make you sit up, though, are the details of its printing: it cost me just fifty dollars to get ten copies done (perfect-bound with four-color, laminated covers, if I wanted them, and I didn't because of the way laminated covers tend to curl)--that's fifty dollars upfront! Five-dollars-a-book isn't cheap if you're doing a hundred copies or more, but it certainly is for just ten.

And now I can order additional copies for just $3.30 or so apiece as long as I want to. The company doing the printing, an outfit called Sprout (http://www.sproutinfo.com or 430 Tenth St. NW, S-007, Atlanta GA 30318), you see, is an "on-demand printer," so it charges only to scan your master-copy (which you have to provide) into its computer, plus $25. (In my case, the scanning charge, which is 25-cents-a-page, was waived due to a special introductory offer.) I think it's a great deal if you want to self-publish a book you don't expect to get rid of very many of, and/or if you don't have the five hundred bucks or more that you'd otherwise need. And it eliminates the need for warehouse space. I hope to use Sprout for the second volume of my Of Manywhere series--and have already also used it for the third printing of Jake Berry's Brambu Drezi, Volume One. It's really gotten me excited!