"I thoroughly enjoy Adam Watson's work!  He is a rising star, a brilliant poet!"  -- Ron Whitehead, author and activist

"Some of [Watson's] lines are quite smart. Some are even insightful . . . 'Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged' is . . . promising early work . . ."  Paul Kopasz, LEO Magazine (July 25, 2001)

Louisville, Kentucky, December 3, 2001 - Author, student and aspiring teacher, Adam Watson's new book Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged is a collection of poetry. Composed in an eclectic mix of new and old styles, the resulting poems are memorable and moving. Watson challenges the notion that poetry today must be academic, emotionless, or difficult to understand. "I am not against poems making you think," he writes in a provocative foreward. "I am against poems not making you feel." Coupled with the beautiful black and white photography of Douglas Staley, Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged is an attempt to bring poetry back to the forefront of popular culture, without patronization or diminishment.

Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged is now available from your favorite bookstore, from online merchants such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble (bn.com), or from the publisher directly. The author can be contacted through his website: www.adamwatson.org.

Published March 2001, by iuniverse / Writers Club Press. 5220 S. 16^th , Suite 200, Lincoln, NE 68512. www.iuniverse.com. ISBN: 0-595-17495-7. Price: $10.95 (U.S.) / $17.95 (CANADA)

ADAM DUANE WATSON was born on February 7, 1974, in Kokomo, Indiana. His father was in the Air Force, which resulted in frequent moves; Watson has lived in Las Vegas, Nevada; Louisville, Kentucky; and Crete, Greece. When his parents divorced in 1981, Watson moved back with his mother to Louisville. He is currently a junior English major at the University of Louisville. Watson's play "The Birdbath" was produced in 1995 (when he was only twenty-one) as part of Bunbury Theatre's Tenth Anniversary 10-Minute Play Festival. He has published two books in 2001: Lollygagged and Flannel Flogged and Frighten the Horses and Other Plays.