(pronunciation of respondent's name) like the flag (street address) 1304 S.E. 50th (city&state) Portland, OR 97215 (e.mail address) spangle@pdxmex.com (phone number) (503) 233-2115 (affiliations/organizations) Senior Ed., Rain City Review; reviewer for any-damn-body (incl. Small Press Review
(publication credits) lot of small mags everywhere couple hundred credits here, there, everywhere. Three chapbooks (Initial, Suite: Lost Things and 2 1/2 Bridges) of poetry and edited the festschrift Homespun: A Tribute to Mary Barnard. Only a couple of webpubs (Caffeine Destiny and PDXNET.net). Reviews, as I said, in a lot of places, incl SPR (list of works) see above, plus, what might interest you, some graphic poems in later issues of Tight, Take-Out & in an exhibit Nico Vassilakis did in Seattle a year or so ago. (where written up) huh? Like in cafes, on the sly at work, in my armchair, out walking, etc.?

contemporary poets important to Spangle: This is why I'm really responding here. Thanks for your mention of Bill Sylvester's Gerald Burns homage in House Organ (in SPR a few months ago. Through Ken Warren, I got in touch with Sylvester in Buffalo. I'm a pal and fan of Gerald Burns's and have access to his literary remains. Bill, I, another guy who's doing thesis work at SUNY with Creeley, and others are attempting to put together a GB network. I thought you'd be interested. Contact me at my email address above for more. Aside from the above, I can't even to start to catalogue the poets important to me. A whole bunch.

poets of yesteryear important to Spangle: A whole bunch of them too. Even more than the contemporaries, if possible. Yeats is the oldest and fondest love, probably.

critics important to Spangle: Everyone from Aristotle to the yobbo in the last SPR. Hazlitt. Robert Peters.

Concerning his tastes in poetry, Spangle says, "I'm basically conventional, but have a broad view of convention. I'll try anything once: sonnets, graphic poems, acrostics, chance arrangements, field poetics, confessional, rant, et al." A critic as well as a poet, Spangle says that in his criticism "I try to DESCRIBE the work, to the best of my ability, taxonomize (though try to keep to a dull roar on the Linnaean stuff, as it bores a lot of readers). Be fast and funny, since I often write for general audiences, and I'm not, in any event, particularly deep anywhere. Do a little homework. Use whatever wit, judgement and discretion I have lying around.

Sked for a sample of his criticism, he said, "I'll do this another time, if you don't mind. Hacked-down and abbreviated examples in back issues of SPR."

Criticism feedback? "sure. Does it apply?"

His impression of contemporary poetry: "My five-year old could do better. No, seriously, it's like a huge, seething ocean -- and no telling what will wash up on my stretch of beach. Best for me to remain receptive to whatever it might be. (zines, etc., that ought to be listed in the dictionary) Don't get me started. Too many of them, good, bad and just plain weird."

feedback about poetry?)"sure, when I send some." Personal Data about Spangle: (birthdate) February 8, 1951 (place of birth) Roanoke, Virginia (height) 5'8" (weight) 160 (hair color and eye color) brown/green (sex) male (handedness) mixed dominance (sexual orientation) straight (ethnic background) Anglo-Mexican (pets) cats, rat (spouse) yes, common-law (number of children) one (occupation) Marine Traffic Coordinator (yearly earnings) $30,000 (schools and degrees) High School diploma George C. Marshall Regional HS, Ankara, Turkey 5 semesters University of Maryland, Munich Campus, 2 semesters Nicolet Comm. College, Rhinelander, WI (all the above late 60s through late 70s). Associate Degree, MAYBE ( don't remember, don't care) (vocations) writer, mostly, with a series of "day" (mostly at night) jobs. All kinds of dopey stuff (hobbies) observing the universe (religion) agnostic (politics) Anarcho-Democrat (Non-Yuppie/"Liberal") (what respondent enjoys in the arts besides poetry) some of all the above, but no specifics at the moment. Suffice to say, a lot of all them. James Ensor? Shakespeare? Bruckner (listening to him right now), folk art? accidental art? (why poetry, etc.) To stay alive. Earliest poems dictated to my grandmother at the hearthside at 3 1/2, 'cause I wanted to. Read it for same reasons. (science and philosophy) Interested, passionately, more or less, no expertise or education. Almost no math aptitude, but can count on fingers and toes, if forced to do so. (interests in sports) Used to like watching Dizzy Dean and the Game of the Week. Play utility infield, not very well. (life- in-general) I oughta write a book. (The first poem that comes to mind right now is) Dickinson's "A narrow fellow" (What do you think of the current status of the world, and can you do anything about it?) make remarks (questions left off survey) can't imagine

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