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  1. thanks for including us, please correct spelling of our name to:
    Kramerbooks & afterwords
    good luck, Mitch

  2. Love your work!
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    > > >Do you have any pictures of your work in bathrooms?
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    > > >BGPSniper (Bathroom Graffiti Project, NYC)

  3. . . . . hopes her verse earns some canned applause. Huan Hsu, Washington City Paper ARTIFACTS, Feb 17, 2006

  4. . . . . . . likely to find an audience.  It's in the can.   Karen Schaeffer, Montgomery Gazette, Take a seat and read the writing on the stall, March 8, 2006.

  5. Why are you doing this anyway ? Owen and Tommy Sherrod, April, 2006.

  6. So the next time you enter a public restroom, don't be surprised to find one [poem] staring you in the face. Maryland Life Magazine, Ode on a Commode, May-June, 2007.

  7. "We Find This Amusing" Urban Code Magazine issue # 2, 2007. urbancodemag@gmail.com

  8. I was pleased and entertained when I discovered this project, via the bathroom along the WB & A Trail in Bowie Maryland.  J. St.O.     August, 2007.

  9. Poetry and porcelain : If you've been frequenting bathrooms in Washington, Boulder, Austin and Portland recently, you might have noticed a better class of verse on the walls thanks to the Bathroom Poetry Project. Experience them in the field or at bathroompoet.net on the Web. Evanston Review - Tall and Short of It, Aug. 30, 2007.

  10. I liked the dichotomy of being simultaneously repulsed and intrigued after discovering a post on Craigslist announcing a call for submissions for a "poetry in non-traditional spaces" project. The un-traditional spaces are bathrooms. And not the potentially cute, poetic powder rooms of cozy homesteads, but the raunchy, heavily-trafficked and more or less unsanitary restrooms of various cities' metropolitan areas, Lauren LaRocca, Frederick News Post.com, Tue, November 20, 2007.

  11. .......... [it] brings poetry to another level of accessibility and such an effort is certainly praiseworthy. - Interview with Shivani Khanna, Dec, 2007.

  12. Flush with opportunity, bathroom bards perform,  Aaron Kraut, Gazette.net Wednesday July 2, 2008. ‘‘Having [poetry] in the bathroom is a good idea because everyone eventually has to go there,” Collings joked. ‘‘You sort of have a captive audience.”

  13. This strategy not only ensures a varied audience for the poets involved, but on a more cerebral level is an exploration of poetry in nontraditional spaces. Also, it gives you something to do while you're in there. Talk about multi-tasking . . .
    Very Private Readings By Karmah Elmusa, Washington Post Saturday, June 28, 2008; Page C12