This post is free of hyperbole, and that's hard for me to do.

Well Meaning White Girl by Alli Warren is now available from Mitzvah Chaps. Robert Baumann works as hard as anyone I know to build communities of writers, and to publish interesting poetry publications. Two of Mitzvah Chaps' books are on a shelf in a public school in Tianjin, China, along with a complete set of the Chronicle of Narnia, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and a bunch of other books I bought for my students, to go in the makeshift library some of the teachers at my school made for them. I think my taste in poetry sometimes runs in a different direction than Rob's, which is why I enjoy going to the Actual Kansas reading series he organizes with Anne Boyer, because I always hear new things and think about poetry differently after I listen to the poets. I once did a lot of research in order to make a baseball joke in an e-mail that referenced Rob. I really don't like baseball or any sports. I did all of this research into the Milwaukee Brewers because I love Rob and Rob loves baseball more than is appropriate. In the end, it wasn't a very good joke, but Rob is a very good Rob.