Just a quick note to announce that Shirts of Bamboo is supporting the Great Art Party, a benefit for the endowment to support Floating Bridge Press. The Great Art Party will be held on September 7, 2007 in Seattle, Washington. Premium tickets are $100 which entitles you to leave with a piece of art valued at at least $100 (with the average being over $350).

Floating Bridge Press is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to affirm and promote quality poetry as a written and spoken art, enhancing the lives of poet and audience in the immediate and broader communities. Our yearly goals are to:

·        Publish a limited-edition, archival quality chapbook that is a work of art.

·        Produce a Seattle poetry reading series, with an ASL interpretation for the deaf available upon request.

·        Publish an anthology that recognizes a broad range of talent by showcasing excellent individual poems from the non-winning manuscripts.

·        Provide Washington poets with world-wide exposure through a website.

·        Encourage poets with monetary support.

·        Take on special projects when deemed appropriate.