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Each issue features two and a half hours of great original fiction, poetry, and music on two CDs

Sometimes an innovation is so logical that its arrival is greeted by the response "You mean someone hasn't done this yet?" Audio books have been popular for years, but a literary magazine in audio is something brand new. Now you can listen to the best voices in literature reading their own work, whenever or wherever you want.

Fiction, poetry, and music come together to create something new: Verb. Original stories and poems you won't find anywhere else, by the best writers in the country, brought to you in an innovative format.

Verb's first two issues brought you . new fiction from Tom Franklin, George Singleton, Ed Falco, Stuart Dybek, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler . new poetry from Kurtis Lamkin, Thomas Lux, Elise Paschen, Marjory Wentworth, and Chris Forhan . a previously unreleased recording of the late great James Dickey reading a ghost story and one of his most enduring poems, "The Sheep Child" . original music from author Stuart Dybek and Americana favorite Peter Case

Expect more groundbreaking, innovative content as Verb brings great talent together in a bold, new way that will have people talking-and listening.

Visit www.verb.org for more details about each issue's contents.

Daren Wang is producer of "Spoken Word," a literary radio show sponsored by the Southeastern Booksellers Association. He helped found the Decatur Book Festival which will premier Sept. 1-3, 2006. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.

March 2006

ISBN 0976562529 cloth • $19.95

"Verb ably demonstrates that the sound of poetry and fiction being read aloud reaches into territories that simply cannot be mapped by the printed page."
—Library Journal