issue 44 - photo/header cait collins

foreplay a bing-de-doh-bong! ding_dong...i am against the wrong wall of the casino. i should be outside along the boardwalk, instead of inside gamblin' everybody's $$$ away, jigglin' my own can. this is your basic atlantic city boardwalk freeloader and if you don't think this is big biz, grab yer 'tool', pull up a vacant board and beat yer meat. get a load of the new shoes and duds this dude adorns. nuff said. pidgeon pellet puke/  night dave!   XO's cait

columnists/rants Untitled  Dave Dembinski dickens' journal  spokane county jail Dolomite  Dolomite harangue  Goo PULL MY FINGER  Shannon M. Johnston smell ME  cait collins the word poetry/prose/art book reviews -w/ Michael Basinski INTERVIEWS -w/ hold contribs. previous issue bukstuff features spoken hold chapbooks cafe soundoff GRAFITTI -messageboard current events FYI guestbook add YOUR link -view links memoirs the hold issue #1 KENT poetry slam mcn mcn issue#35 inside info about the-hold the hold reviews staff submissions webrings award contact

• important_announcements_to_envelope_flap_lickers • lynne douglass lives in southern california except when she's at the hold and she's here from now on with awesome poetry, art and prose. welcome to the hold gurl/ btw, do you sip beer through a cactus needle? (just wondering) cheers! trina stolec reigns from NW ohio, heads logic alley and trina now joins the hold. a pleasure to have you here trina.. everybody, read trina poetry and when you're through with allthat, the new issue of the incredible 'the alley!' is now online. jim christ longtime poetry contributor at the hold, jim now adds prose to his page along with his poetry, don't miss: "an incident from childhood"...^5 s.a. griffin is back and this time's he's brought along a new chapbook. get the low-down on what it's all about through michael basinski's book review on s.a. griffin's "Unborn Again" and then get the book... henry porter says we can all go home and fuck ONLY after we visit Lloyd and Hillwill at his shack at the hold! welcome back henry o porter man! Shannon Michele Johnston go ahead, yea, go ahead - pull her finger! shannon's back with PULL MY FINGER and love at first type..ha! i won't tell you what happened when i did that just now with my own finger...*wet splat* dickens' journal updated with a buncha stuff/it's what goes on behind bars at the spokane county jail and on the other side of em. INTERVIEWS in celebration of the holds' upcoming 50th issue (November 2001), founder and maharajeee dave dembinski, co-editor Jay Miner and I have teamed together to INTERVIEW all of the contributors of the hold. this issue continues contributor interviews which proves to be not only interesting, intriguing but also I hafta say...these people eat life (luv) ..ha! anyways, by November, I will have assembled all of the issues of the hold (1 - 50) on cd, including these interviews, which will be distributed to all of the contributors. *Dave, Jay and myself will receive interview questions submitted by the contributors of the hold and anybody else insane that wants an answer - no dead animal questions, you'se! art expO at the-hold.com: (alphabetically)     "mom 1926" by Bill Beaver http:///www.cheshire-cat.org has taken a major design hit recently, with most of the member sites being updated. We've also added two new artists, Elliott & Silent David, and the Hold's Dan Symonds is trying to keep an online journal of sorts, called d-log. At the same time, www.cheshirecat.tv is going great guns, with five short films, a quiz show and an mp3 review series. We're filming new stuff in March, but we really need your clips to get it going. Got a camcorder? Then email us: smile@cheshirecat.tv and join in our experiment. Thunder Sandwich Broadside Edition is now online...read more contemporary poetry, prose and check out the art over the other side of the internet! Erosha edited by Donna Hill / Elaine Thomas is now updated! if you would like to submit to the most erotic journal on the internet, subject matter should be sensual, sensuous, erotic, provocative, and original. for poetry or art submission, click here for more details or for more information, email dmhill65@home.com Michael Basinski Assistant Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo offers us complete reviews of the poetry books of not only some of our contributors, but ezines and other books available online and in your local bookstore. Michael's poems, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. send your book to Michael for review! ADD-ALL Search, compare, and save at 40 bookstores, 20,000 dealers, and millions of books. Looking for hard to find, used or out of print books? Why waste your time going from site to site? You can search all of them with just one click. If they have it, AddALL will find it. click here! (if you've updated your website....email me and I'll make a 'ta do' about it - even roll out a red carpet full of fleas...nah, fuck the fleas, make that a joint!) COMING NEXT MONTH the hold - issue 45 yep/who woulda thunk?!