The Lit FUUSE was the brainchild of beloved FUUSE member, Rickey Holt. Rickey’s vision was to create a magazine filled with the art, poetry, and prose of FUUSE members that could then be shared with the FUUSE community and beyond. Rickey had a poet’s soul and would often bring his work to FUUSE’s First Friday Coffeehouse, as well as to other New Hampshire venues. The first volume of the lit FUUSE was released in 2004, and the creativity of the FUUSE community lives on!
| The Lit FUUSE — Volume 8 | Winter, 2025 |
| The Lit FUUSE — Volume 7 | Spring, 2023 |
| The Lit FUUSE — Volume 6 | Winter, 2019 |
| The Lit FUUSE — Volume 4 | Summer, 2011 |
| The Lit FUUSE — Volume 3 | Spring, 2009 |
| The Lit FUUSE — Volume 2 | Summer, 2007 |
The last few volumes have been co-edited by poet and FUUSE member Holley Daschbach. It has been Holley’s encouragement and her keen eye for good poetry that have helped to move the early vision of The Lit FUUSE forward. Find the current issue, Volume 8, on-line here plus some back issues that go back to Volume 2.
The current volume features poems and photos of Rickey and his wife, musician and FUUSE member Nancy Fiske. Volume 8 is dedicated to four poets and/or social activists connected to FUUSE. The poets include former Exeter High School English teacher and poet, John Ferguson, former PEA English teacher and beloved FUUSE member David Weber, social activist and beloved FUUSE family friend, Marion Mengert, and poet and poetry enthusiast, Skip Manning. Poems in the current volume are by authors Heather Crowley, Holley Daschbach, Paul Friedrichs, Leroy Jones, John-Michael Albert, Guy Capecellatro III, Mark DeCarteret, Bob Moore, Barbara Bald, Jessica Purdy, Kelly Cresitello-Ditmar, Margaret Morrill, John Perrault, Sylvia Foster, Trina Daigle, Kathleen Clancy, Paul Pindris, Paulette Demers Turco, Pat Parnell, Neil English, Skip Manning, Jonathan Stoker, Gordon Lang, Rosemary Marshall Staples, Megan Greenbaum, Rachel Kennon, Rob Richards, Priscilla Burlingham, Rickey Holt, Sylvia Beaupre, Joel Clark Beaupre, Barbara Tzivanis Benham, and Beverly Tappan. Students from Holley Daschbach’s The Primary 3 class from Cornerstone School also contributed a poem. Artwork and photography has been contributed by artist/poet Heather Crowley (including the front cover), Gail Andersen, Paul Pindris, Nancy Fiske, and Bob Moore.
We hope you enjoy these issues of The Lit FUUSE. There are printed copies of the current book and some back issues at Water Street Bookstore in downtown Exeter, NH. For more information, e-mail: bmoore628@comcast.net.