edited by Rob Plath

SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE! ALL EMAILS WILL BE DELETED.

Submissions must be pasted into an email along with “submission” in the subject line & zapped to rsplath@fastmail.fm Send no more than THREE poems under 30 lines. Nothing longer. No previously published poems. Don’t send some so-so fucking poems that were rejected somewhere else and pawn them off on me “to see what happens.”

This zine will be highly selective. Keep that in mind.  Please remember to obey the guidelines. If you don’t follow the few simple rules then the editor will delete your email. Also, the editor knows what he likes and if it’s not of his taste then you don’t get in. If he doesn’t like anything then he will publish nothing.

Please note:
The Exuberant Ashtray will be published on an irregular basis. If you don’t like that then find some other place for your poems.

Rob Plath
Editor of The Exuberant Ashtray

• 13 poems

• Drinking at Sal’s Place
• The Last Whiskey
• My Old Car
• Carnival
• Noisy Neighbour
• Haddam Meadows memory
• Guts
• Sentenced
• ring! ring! ring!
• Stumps
• Wordsmiths Are A Wait Staff
• The Government’s Got Nothin’ To Do With It
• Love Delusion No.2
• The Kiss
• Mr. Bones
• faceless
• black and red
• leftovers
• I learned

• One Summer Morning
• Not From Concentrate
• Ethics and Aesthetics
• Robert Frost Loves Yoga Pants
• They Are Not Friends
• Everything is Addressed
• Leaving
• Scorched Scalp Policy
• Fat Women and Slow Horses
• The Set-Up
• In The Abode of My Cat's Eyes
• It's New Years
• The Music Is Still The Same
• Gasping
• Understanding Man
• Asking
• Another Day In Paradise
• October 2003
• Hitting The Big Time

• 13 poems

• How Could I Feel Alone With So Many Imaginary Friends?
• Blowjob
• Wristwatch
• I Would Never Let You Down
• Ending Our Relationship
• My Father, Kafka
• Two For The Show
• Small Black Hearts
• Another Man’s Wife
• Monks and Motherfuckers