I am partnering with Chris Ward to create paperback books modestly priced

that express the new spirit carrying, God willing, Milwaukee and the cities and countrysides of the Great Lakes into some new kind of civilization. Here is our first offering, “My Milwaukee,” by Olde Godsil.

“My Milwaukee” will hopefully be available at the Schwartz stores on KK in Bay View and on Downer on the Eastside, at People’s Bookstore, the Riverwest Co-op, and Hoodmomma’s Salon and Gallery.

Please e-mail Backpocketpress@Milwaukeerenaissance.com to order copies($5 each). If you would like to consider publishing your works with Backpocket Press…just say so!

“My Milwaukee” at
Schwartz Bookshop
On KK & Lincoln

Cover Portrait
Painting for “My Milwaukee”
the “Soldier’s Home”
by Shelby Keefe

Olde Godsil
With Grandchildren

The poems in “My Milwaukee” can also be viewed on line at
Poetry, where they originally appeared. Included are…

• “The Harlem Renaissance Is Moving to Milwaukee”
• “Zen Peddlers in the Noosphere”
• “When Milwaukee Becomes the Holy City of the Sweet Water Seas”
• “You’re Delicious!”
• “Good Food and Beauty”
• “You’re Golden”
• “Poison Arrows”
• “Athenians Contra Spartans”
• “Out of the Closet”
• “My Milwaukee”
• “This Is How It Looks!”
• “Let Us Gentrify Milwaukee”
• “Let’s Fix Our Eyes”
• “The Sweet Politics of Savannah Baboons and Forest Bonobo”