Almah LaVon Rice is a mostly horizontal poet (that is, a scribe of lyric essays) and enjoys all manner of hybrid tigers. She likes to visit the moonlit clearing where performance, ritual, and incantation make love.  Recent obsessions include radical altruism; the erotics of language; EXTREMITY!; saudade; adventures in interiority; Pink Panther; dreams, irreducible dreams; intimacy; the gothic potentials of nonfiction; and, per Gertrude Stein, saying something in her own handwriting.