The long awaited poetry anthology Don't Blame the
Ugly Mug: 10 Years of 2 Idiots Peddling Poetry is finally here. This collection
features poems from 148 poets who have read at the Ugly Mug either as features,
regulars on the open mic, or both. We are honored to have poems from the likes
of Rachel McKibbens, Buddy Wakefield, Cecilia Woloch, Victor Infante, Mindy
Nettifee, Jack McCarthy, Jeffrey McDaniel, and many more of our favorite poets. Table of Contents
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From the back cover:
What you’re holding in your hand is a collection
of souvenirs from a 5.84 billion-mile journey.
This number, give or take, is on the Earth’s odometer after completing ten
revolutions around the sun.
For the last ten years, two self-proclaimed idiots have been hosting a weekly
reading series,
peddling poetry at The Ugly Mug Café in Orange—and forming what has become a
juggernaut series in Southern California.
These hosts, Ben Trigg and Steve Ramirez, have gathered poems from a selection
of poets who have,
at some point in the past decade, made the trek from coordinates across the
country to The Ugly Mug.
Have you ever experienced free fall and the full affect of gravity?
This is what it must feel like to host a series. There are moments, as with any
death-defying action,
when time slows to nothing and certain images or ideas are stamped on the memory
in a definition higher than any television in existence. These poems are those
moments, those mementos.
Read them and you’ll trace love’s orbit: blind dates to marriage to breaking up.
Your travel guide could be a pilot, maybe an angel. There are cavemen and
gravediggers.
Examine everything from crayons to planets—this anniversary anthology covers
great distances.
Open to any page, surrender and let the earth spin. Let the words pass you at
the incredible speed of life.
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