E.J. has returned

Hey, troops. I'm back!

After a few months of being cooped up in an editorial hell-hole for complicated sins of commission and omission, I have been granted access and freedom to contribute to the blog.

Let's get evil.

First, a spoiler.

He is, as you know, doing some kind of thing for the Arts Festival in Morgantown (been there, done that, am staying put)...but, a few days before it, to help feed the (in a perfect world) surge of attention to his website (did you know that his hometown newspaper, the Dominion Post, has never profiled him? No once. Not even after he put a photo that was originally in their paper aeons ago by their best photographer on the cover of his book that was about the town. Not even after he was one of only four locals to be named the the Appalachian Education Initiative's list of 50 outstanding creative artists from West Virginia (which puts him in company with people like Morgan Spurlock, Kathy Mattea and a couple of Academy Award Winners (you should be on that list, Morg, you wuz robbed!) WVU's student paper, in the meantime, has profiled him three times, including on the front page, and the newspaper in nearby Fairmont, which has more of an arts flavor to it, anyway, has profiled him) I have been tasked with putting up a couple of new sections on the site. One of which is to be a new interview...

I've asked and gotten permission to "solicit questions"...so here's what I want from you all. You have a question you want to know the answer to about the poet, his works, his muses? Send it to me at trojanhearse@cityoflegends.com or post it here as a comment to this blog entry and I'll include it in my list...I want hard, fast pitches...no grapefruit. here.

Want to know about who really inspired a certain poem? Or what a poem is about, in truth? How about some of the back room legends about the guy? Most of them I already know about...a few, I'll just ask him. (Favorite answers already include: Yes. Yes. No. Boxer briefs. Never. No. Sex. Yes. No, and wouldn't. Chicken livers. Diet Dr. Pepper. Coconut. Gracelessness.)

So, delve deep into your curiosities and send them along.