News at Eleven (Back Page): Anyone, poet or otherwise,

can send [S.A.] Griffin a poem and it will be included. He plans to take poems from the bomb and read them to people along the way.

All submissions must be delivered by snail mail, not computer--"I want to see that people made an effort"--and be no larger than 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

Griffin isn't sure what the Poetry Bomb Tour will cost him. He says he's raised about $3,000 in contributions over the Internet so far, but spent $6,000 just for the 1995 Ford Econoline van he plans to travel with the bomb in. He may sell the van when he returns home.

"If I break even, I figure I'll have come out ahead," he says.

from The Associated Press: For this poet, bombing at a reading won't be bad

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