Introduction by Chad Parenteau

Photo by Cindy Williams

The issue's out.

No more excuses, only solutions. After any catching up we do for the rest of this year, Spoonful will come out in 2010 biannually. Maybe things will change in the future, but that's the plan for now.

Our friend Mike Amado passed away the day after 2009 began. The last poem he submitted to Spoonful appears in this issue. Stone Soup Poetry held a memorial open mike in the beginning of the year, and dedications to him will be presented in issue #4.