Mar 01 2014
By Writing Knights Press
The name Jnana (usually pronounced “jah-na”) was bestowed while he was living in a yoga ashram in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania.
After four decades as a professional journalist, Jnana Hodson is finally concentrating fully on poetry and fiction. Over the years, his literary work has appeared in journals on five continents.
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Excerpt: “a blue bathrobe from an outlet store gives a curious elegance in a motel stay
“I could be playing two racetracks, side by side
“or recognizing the economic future of Oneonta “writing the slow obit of the region”
“in a decade, the colleges will be gone along with the final stability
“confounding any sense of staying, of commitment, of roots, of proclaiming
“THIS PLACE IS MY LIFE” — ON THE BEAT
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Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.
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Excerpt:Personal faults are quickly confessed on facebook, twitter, by peculiar people seeking an audience, rushing to display inappropriate acts, spreading faster than jungle drums, smoke signals, flashing mirrors, until everyone knows what they did wrong. — Out There
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Feb 23 2014
By Dianne Borsenik
NightBallet Press is delighted to announce the first publication in this new year of 2014,
Interstate by Douglas Cole!
Interstate by Douglas Cole features a stunning cover photo of the South Satiam River in Oregon, taken by Tracey and Sarah Hiser, printed on creamy cardstock with an olive cardstock insert. The chapbook contains 32 pages of 18 poems, printed on soft white paper matching the cover cardstock.
Of the poems in this book, David Bates, editor of My Favorite Bullet, says:
“The poetic institution that nature’s elemental beauty somehow trumps humanity’s complexity in meaning is an exploding myth. Interstate takes us on a “blind drive” into the emotional geography of the American Northwest, where nature continues to recover from it’s own volcanic self-destruction. Cole’s journey–in his car, in motel rooms, in campgrounds–initially seems a final grab at the idea that there is simple reason in the mountain, and simply chaos in the city. But this conceit fails to his credit. Anxiety and tranquility are not mutually exclusive. And the black highway between the two is where these poems live.”
Through poems like “Map of the Cascades”, “All Rivers Are One”, “Indian River”, and “Holy River Gorge”, Cole takes us on a trip of discovery across the interstates of road, river, and reflection. And believe me, this is one trip you won’t want to miss.
Curtis Harrell, poetry editor of VISIONS, a Journal of the Arts, says “Douglas Cole’s crystalline images propel his poetry down the page like water flowing down a fountain.”
Douglas Cole, who lives in Seattle, Washington, has had work appear in Red Rock Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, and Midwest Quarterly. He is a recipient of the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry for a selection called, “The Open Ward,” as well as a Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House and First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” poetry contest by Tattoo Highway. He teaches writing and literature at Seattle Central College, where he is also the advisor for the literary journal, Corridors.
Interstate is available to order beginning now right here at NightBallet (see the column to the right of this post), directly through PayPal, and also is listed for sale on Amazon. Take a ride with Douglas Cole today!
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Feb 22 2014
By Writing Knights Press
Andi is a twenty-something Dopeless Hopefiend with an affinity for finger painting on the walls with her five-year-old daughter. Andi is engaged in a number of writing projects including a memoir and two novels. She wants to teach high school English and open a coffee shop called Zombie Coffee Inc. Right now, however, she will settle for graduating cosmetology school without punching anyone. Andi has succumbed to conformity and now uses the Oxford comma on a regular basis.
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Excerpt:“If we are stories, you’re the Myth of Sisyphus –
in the words of Nietzsche, and I am Stone Butch Blues –
by Prophet Muhammad.
“You are written in the language of Camus
with Latin footnotes, and I am Old English prose –”
— Bilbiophilia
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Feb 20 2014
By John Burroughs
Crisis Chronicles Press is thrilled to announce the long-awaited publication of Songs in the Key of Cleveland: An Anthology of the 2013 Best Cleveland Poem Competition.
cover photo by Michael Spear
The first annual Best Cleveland Poem Competition was held on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at the Willoughby Brewing Company. Songs in the Key of Cleveland features the best poems shared that day, including work by lit stars Catherine Criswell, Katie Daley, T.M. Göttl, Dianne Borsenik, Geoffrey Landis, Joshua Gage, Terry Provost, Jack McGuane, Ruth J. Coffey, Martin Snyder, Jeffrey Bowen, Mary A. Turzillo and competition emcee Ray McNiece.
The book is around 40 pages, perfect bound, 6×9″ and a steal at only $10 from Crisis Chronicles Press, c/o John Burroughs, 3344 W. 105th Street #4, Cleveland, Ohio 44111.
Available now by mail and online — and soon from particular local independent bookstores across the country! Please join us for the official Songs in the Key of Cleveland release party on March 3rd during Mondays at Mahall’s Poetry & Prose series, hosted by Catherine Criswell at Mahall’s 20 Lanes, 13200 Madison Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio. Meet and hear many of the contributors there. PLUS… the evening will feature a reading by Cleveland lit superhero Brad Ricca, author of Super Boys. Talk about a dynamic duo!
Project editor for Songs in the Cleveland: Dianne Borsenik
Executive editor: John Burroughs
For more information about the annual Best Cleveland Poetry Competition sponsored by attorney Tim Misny, please visit http://misnylaw.com/best-cleveland-poem-competition/.
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Feb 11 2014
By John Burroughs
Crisis Chronicles Press is thrilled to cut loose this fine new chapbook by Ben Heins!
cover foto by Steven B. Smith
Cut Me Free is a brave and rich, lovingly handmade eighteen-page chapbook featuring a brilliant word stew seasoned by a peppering of astute erasure, pregnant margin variation and other deftly applied spices/devices. Highlights include “Letter of Disaffiliation to Freedmans Lutheran Church,” “Delivering the Eviction Notice, Christmas Eve,” “Reconsidering the Single Father,” “I’ve Got This Grin You’ll See from Space When You Come Down” and “Songs from the Ruptured Amniotic Sac.” Cut Me Free is in 8.5×11″ format and sidestaple bound using high quality Hollo’s card stock and faux ivory parchment paper.
Get yours while supplies last. Edition limited to 100 copies. It’s a steal for only $5 from Crisis Chronicles Press, c/o John Burroughs, 3344 W. 105th Street #4, Cleveland, Ohio 44111. (Please add $2 for postage.)
Ben Heins is the author of Greatest Hits & B-Sides (Vagabondage Press, 2012). He graduated from Rosemont College in 2012 with an M.F.A. in poetry and from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2008 with a B.A. in professional writing and a minor in English literature. He currently teaches at Rowan University and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Find him at www.benheins.com.
ISBN: 978-1-940996-06-6
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Feb 01 2014
By Writing Knights Press
Walter Beck is from Avon, IN and has taken the poetry underground by storm, praised as one of the most original voices in American poetry today, admired by some of the top critics and biggest names in poetry. Called “subversive”, “dangerous”, and “a threat to the morality of poetry”, even after five books and counting, Walter’s pen and mic remain as sharp and lethal as ever.
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Excerpt“That must be a good book,” the lady said to me.
I was on my smoke break
And reading a little Kerouac
in the cool September evening.
I told her,
“Ma’am, this is all I have right now at work
To feel human.”
Ten minutes
With a cigarette and a book of blues;
It’s like winning the Powerball.
— “On Break”
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Bethany W Pope is an award winning author of the LBA, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards. She was a runner up for the Cinnamon Press Novel Competition. She received her PhD from Aberystwyth University’s Creative Writing program.
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Excerpt
He pries open her mouth,
green tinted teeth,
foam spittle, the scent
of gone milk.
‘Have to reach in to check it.’
He rolls up his sleeve and vanishes
to the elbow, grunting, finding nothing.
The vet cries on extraction,
a harsh mannish bark,
‘Bitch got me with her teeth.’
— Rabies
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Jan 22 2014
By John Burroughs
Crisis Chronicles Press is pleased to announce the publication of In Bold Blackness: Selections by Jami Tillis on 23 January 2014!
This chapbook, a selection of 14 poems from Jami Tillis’ yet-to-be-published In Bold Blackness series, is 18 pages, lovingly handbound with top quality off-cream cardstock and black endpapers. The cover art is a detail of an Edward McKnight Kauffer illustration in the Borzoi Poe, as photographed by Steven B. Smith. Poems include “Couldn’t Sleep,” “This Is Gonna Hurt Me,” “Cancer,” I Should’ve Known Better,” “Where’s That Dress?,” “If These Walls Could Talk,” “Hotels,” “Ode to Hip Hop” and more.
In Bold Blackness: Selections by Jami Tillis is available for $5 (please add $2 for shipping) from Crisis Chronicles Press, c/o John Burroughs, 3344 W. 105th Street #4, Cleveland, Ohio 44111.
About the author:
My name is Jami Tillis. I am 24 years old. I graduated from Northeastern Illinois University in May 2012. My field of study is Secondary Education with a concentration in English and history. In college, I belonged to a variety of groups—Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc., Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, and Pi Alpha Theta History Honors Society.
I have a 6 year old daughter named Chayse who is my current inspiration for writing. All of my poetry and other written works are derived from real life experiences that I have witnessed and survived before and after she came along.
I am currently living in Chicago and working as a 5th and 6th grade Reading and Writing teacher in Chicago Public Schools.
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Jan 19 2014
By Writing Knights Press
From the adoption of the new slogan:
“Only Poetry Can Save You Now”
to the inception
of perfect bound releases,
Writing Knights Press
has advanced by leaps and bounds
in the global literary pool.
Our crop of authors has only increased
in quality as well.
Writers from all over the world
have contributed to our releases.
Now the best of the best:
the finalists for nomination
to the world renowned
PushCart Prize
are compiled here for your enjoyment.
What’s more: these authors
have contributed additional pieces
to show off their literary prowess.
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