
This is How She Fails (CC#23) — cover art by Lisa Marie Peaslee
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Lisa J. Cihlar's poems have been published in South Dakota Review, Green Mountains Review, In Posse Review, Bluestem, and The Prose-Poem Project. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first chapbook, The Insomniac’s House, is available from Dancing Girl Press. She lives in rural southern Wisconsin.

Lisa J. Cihlar

desire lines cover bears a foto taken by Steven B. Smith in Oaxaca
Chansonette Buck spent her childhood “on the road” as stepdaughter of a Black Mountain poet, living all over the American West, in England, and in Spain. She holds the PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she concentrated on 20th-century poetry and poetics and wrote a dissertation on childhood trauma as the source of William Carlos Williams's poetic obsessions. She has a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art, and has won awards for her visual art, her poetry, and her teaching. Chapters of her memoir Unnecessary Turns: Growing Up Beat have appeared in Why We Ride: Women Writers on the Horses in Their Lives (Seal Press, May 2010) and Polarity eMagazine (Fall 2010). Her poems have appeared online and in print, including a feature in the journal tinfoildresses 2012. Her first chapbook, blood oranges (NightBallet Press, 2011), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Berkeley with her family, her boa constrictor, and way too many cats and dogs.

Chansonette in Lorain, Ohio, 2011 — photo by Dianne Borsenik
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Cee Williams is a poet and spoken word artist residing in Erie, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in the poetry and visual art journal Bathtub Gin (Pathwise Press) and in the Dwelling in Possibilities anthology edited by Berwyn Moore. In 2010 Williams was named as a finalist for the Erie County Poet Laureate award. He is the founder and director of Poets’ Hall: the International Fellowship of Poets and Spoken Word Artists, for which he was the recipient of the EMBYP 2011 award for Business Innovation.
See Cee spit a bit at the first Snoetry a couple of years ago:
Composed and published 23 March 2012 in a limited edition of 30 copies, Lens is a handmade chapbook featuring a four-page dramatic poem (also called "Lens") by Crisis Chronicles Press publisher John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis. It is not for sale, but was given away during the 27 March Nia Coffeehouse event Poems of Power, Words of Life at St. Alban Episcopal Church, 3555 Euclid Heights Blvd. in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Lens is printed in black and red ink on white recycled paper. Its cover uses "metallics" cardstock by Wassau Paper: Sparkling Merlot on the outside b/w Black Knight on the inside. JB drew the title and eye glyph with a red Sharpie.
Primer for the Vanguard Youth, published 8 March 2012, features new poetic works by multi-dimensional Ohio artist RA Washington. This 24-page chapbook, saddle stitched and lovingly hand-assembled using high quality gray and dark blue cardstock with white pages, is available for only $5 US (plus $1 for shipping) from Crisis Chronicles Press, 420 Cleveland Street, Elyria, Ohio 44035.

cover foto: Like a bird on a wire... by Steven B. Smith
RA Washington is the author of 16 books, most recently the novella, The Further Adventures of Gentleman Richards. He is a member of the soul punk duo, Crave, and has released ten albums under various monikers. For more, see http://clevelandtapes.com/ or stalk him on Facebook.

RA Washington at The Lit in Cleveland — photo by John Burroughs

cover foto: A Face in the Crowd by Steven B. Smith, manipulated by John Burroughs
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"Jay Passer has been writing poems and fiction for the littles for twenty four years. This is his seventh chapbook of work about cohabitation with bums, whores and addicts in cities up and down the west coast. Startling, perverse, and absolutely original, Jay's work will entertain a wide array of readers and deep thinkers. Jay currently resides in a spartan shithole in Sacramento." —Brian Pinsker
"I love my friend [Brian] but I think this is a bit overstated, a bit raw, a bit inaccurate, and a whole lot inappropriate. Perhaps he was too far on the box wine." —Jay Passer
"Passer's poetry is the wine. I'm passing it around at my next last supper." —Jesus Crisis
A cook by trade, poet by nature and vagabond at heart, Jay Passer doesn't own a car but enjoys driving fast. Born in San Francisco in 1965, he loves cats but is allergic to them. His first 3 chapbooks were published by the now defunct OuterDark Press in Seattle, his 4th by Piss Pour Press. His 5th and 6th are e-chaps, available at Poetry Superhighway and Ten Pages Press.
Contact Mr. Passer at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001958656517.

Rapid Eye Movement is a collection of 17 poems by Ohio's own J.E. Stanley. This 20-page chapbook, saddle stitched and lovingly hand-assembled using high quality white and black cardstock with cream pages, is available for only $5 US (plus $1 for shipping) from Crisis Chronicles Press.

cover foto/collage: Looking Up by Steven B. Smith
J.E. Stanley is an accountant and on again/off again guitarist from the grayscale suburban wilderness of Northeastern Ohio where he is lucky enough to hang out with the Deep Cleveland Poets and the Cleveland Speculators. He is the author of Dark Intervals (vanZeno Press), Dissonance (Deep Cleveland Press) and co-author, with Joshua Gage, of Intrinsic Night (Sam’s Dot Publishing). His work has appeared in Amaze, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Cinema Spec, the Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, Paper Crow, The Rhysling Anthology, Scifaikuest, Sein und Werden, Star*Line, Sybil’s Garage and numerous other mainstream and genre publications. He continues to assert that, winged or not, Man was always meant to fly; the moon and stars were just put there as incentives.
You may contact the author at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000309806552.
Grace, You Let the Screen Door Slam is a stirring 16 page poem by Ohio's own William Merricle. This chapbook, saddle stitched and lovingly hand-assembled using high quality white and burnt orange cardstock with ivory pages, is available for only $4 US (plus $1 for shipping) from Crisis Chronicles Press.

cover foto/collage: Downstairs by Steven B. Smith



