Secret Letters - by j/j hastain (CC#47)

cover art (c) 2013 by Marnie Weber

Crisis Chronicles Press is pleased to announce the publication of Secret Letters by j/j hastain on 22 October 2013. Secret Letters is 30 pages, 5.5 x 8.5", lovingly hand assembled and saddle staple bound with white pages, gunmetal card stock end papers and a coral-gray card stock cover emblazoned with surreal art by Marnie Weber.  The chapbook is available for $7 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 535 Parkside Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44143 USA or via PayPal:

Click here to read Juliet Cook's reaction to Secret Letters.
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Click here to read a brief selection from Secret Letters in the Crisis Chronicles litmag.
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j/j hastain

j/j hastain is a queer, mystic, seer, singer, photographer, lover, priest/ess, and writer. As artist and activist of the audible, j/j is the author of several cross-genre books and enjoys ceremonial performances in an ongoing project regarding gender, shamanism, eros and embodiments. That project is called: you make yourself your own tilted stage. 

j/j is the author of several cross-genre books including the trans-genre book libertine monk (Scrambler Press), anti-memoir a vigorous (Black Coffee Press/ Eight Ball Press) and The Xyr Trilogy: a Metaphysical Romance. j/j’s writing has most recently appeared in Caketrain, Trickhouse, The Collagist, Housefire, Bombay Gin, Aufgabe and Tarpaulin Sky. j/j has been a guest lecturer at Naropa University, University of Colorado and University of Denver.

Cleveland: Point B in Ohio Triangle - by Alex Gildzen (CC#46)

Cover photo: Terminal Tower by Steven B. Smith

Crisis Chronicles Press is ecstatic to announce the publication of Cleveland: Point B in Ohio Triangle by Alex Gildzen on 6 October 2013. Cleveland is hand assembled with love and includes many of my favorite Gildzen poems, including "All in the Eye," "Alone in Cleveland," "West Side Market," "Tracing the Places of d.a. levy," "Short Vincent," "Sergeant Gildzen," "Day after I Learnd Daniel Thompson Died" and "Dead Poets Day." This chapbook is currently out of print. But its contents are now available in Gildzen's full-length Ohio Triangle, published in 2015 by Crisis Chronicles Press.

Cleveland: Point B in Ohio Triangle is 14 pages, 8.5 x 5.5", inkjet printed and saddle staple bound.  The cover is a deluxe ivory card stock that was recommended for watercolor.  The endpapers are a thick, shiny, deep chocolate card stock. And the poem pages are a creamy faux parchment.

Click here to see and hear Gildzen read "Tracing the Places of d.a. levy" from Cleveland at Outlaw Poetry.
Click here to see and hear Gildzen read "All in the Eye" from Cleveland in the Crisis Chronicles litmag.
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Gildzen with Hart Crane in Cleveland

Alex Gildzen never had a Cleveland address. But he’s enjoyed lasagna at Guarino’s and pierogies at Sokolowski’s. He’s danced at Traxx and listened to drag queens sing at Shaker Club. He’s purchased books at Kay’s and seen plays at the Hanna. Since being one of "11 Cleveland Poets" to appear in a special section of the British magazine Asylum in 1968, Gildzen has been identified with the city.

Cleveland is the middle section of Gildzen's work-in-progress Ohio Triangle. The first, Elyria, was published as a chapbook by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2009. We will publish the complete Ohio Triangle (including part three, Kent) as a perfect bound book in the spring of 2015.