Teahouse of the Almighty

Coffee House also receives significant support from: an anonymous donor; the Elmer and Eleanor Andersen Foundation; the Buuck Family Foundation; the Bush Foundation; the Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Stephen and Isabel Keating; the Outagamie Foundation; the Pacific Foundation; the law firm of Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.; the James R. Thorpe Foundation; the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation; TLR/West; the Woessner Freeman Family Foundation; and many other generous individual donors.

Coffee House receives major funding from the McKnight Foundation, and from Target.

general operating support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This book received special project support from the National Poetry Series and the Witter Bynner Foundation.

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I say everything I write will be about you,

then you will be famous too. And we dip and swirl

and spin, but then he stops.

And sniffs the air.

You will be a wonderful writer

and you will be famous someday and when

you get famous, i

who was probably scrubbing something with bleach,

or watching Bonanza,

When you smell the burning begin, flip it.

When you smell the burning begin again,

dump it onto a plate. Y

I think about starting a fire, but don’t think I can stand

the way the paper curls, snaps, and dissolves into ash.