Like seven 31-page chapbooks in one!
Published August 27th by Crisis Chronicles Press, Oct Tongue -1 is a collaborative book by Mary Weems, John Swain, Steven Smith, Lady [Kathy] Smith, Shelley Chernin, John Burroughs and Steve Brightman. This book is our biggest yet, 300+ pages, featuring 217 poems (31 by each author), all written in response to the editor's October 2013 poem-a-day challenge. [He borrowed the idea from a poem-a-day book called February 03 by Todd Colby, Alex Gildzen, Thurston Moore and Matthew Wascovich (published in 2003 by Slow Toe in Cleveland).] Oct Tongue -1 is a 6x9" paperback, ISBN 978-1-940996-08-0, available for $15 (now only $10) from Crisis Chronicles Press, 535 Parkside Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44143 USA. See October through the eyes of seven fine and quite different poets!
Please join us at these special launch events!
8/27/2014:
Official Oct Tongue -1 Book Release at Mac's Backs in Cleveland Heights, Ohio
9/1/2014:
Monday at Mahall's featuring Ray McNiece and Mary Weems in Lakewood, Ohio
...and perhaps more to be announced soon
About the authors:
Dr. Mary Weems is a poet,
playwright, imagination-intellect theorist, social/cultural foundations scholar
and former Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights. Weems is the author and/or
editor of twelve books and five chapbooks, most notably white (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series) and Tampon Class (Pavement Saw Press). Two of her books were full
collections of poetry: An Unmistakable
Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles (Bottom Dog Press, 2008) and For(e)closure (Main Street Rag Press,
2012), both finalists for Ohioana Book awards.
John Swain of
Louisville, Kentucky, is the author of several acclaimed books including Rain and Gravestones (2013, Crisis
Chronicles), White Vases (2012,
Crisis Chronicles) and Prominences (2011,
Flutter Press). His latest, Ring the
Sycamore Sky, is forthcoming in the summer of 2014 from Red Paint Hill
Publishing.
Steven B.
Smith
was born, is living, will die. He's been a poet 50 years, artist 49 years, the
publisher of ArtCrimes, editor of AgentOfChaos.com,
he blogs on WalkingThinIce.com, and sings at ReverbNation.com/MutantSmith.
Smith & Lady published his bio Stations
of the Lost & Found, a True Tale of Armed Robbery, Stolen Cars, Outsider
Art, Mutant Poetry, Underground Publishing, Robbing the Cradle, and Leaving the
Country in 2012 via The City Poetry Press.
Lady, a.k.a. Kathy
Ireland Smith, is a poet, publisher, artist and surreal photographer from
northeast Ohio. She and her husband Smith spent 31 months of traveling in 10
countries on 3 continents from 2006-9, and you can follow their ongoing
adventures at WalkingThinIce.com. Kathy is also founder and editor of The City
Poetry (thecitypoetry.com), a cutting edge art and poetry zine based in
Cleveland.
Shelley Chernin is a
freelance researcher, writer and editor of legal reference books and a ukulele
enthusiast. Her poems have appeared in places like Great Lakes Review, Scrivener Creative Review, Rhapsoidia, Durable Goods,
Big Bridge, and the Heights Observer. She was awarded 2nd
Place in the 2011 Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest. Her chapbook, The Vigil, was published in 2012 by Crisis Chronicles.
Steve
Brightman
lives in Kent, Ohio. He firmly believes in two seasons: winter and baseball. His
most recent chapbooks include 13 Ways of
Looking at Lou Reed (2013, Crisis Chronicles Press), In Brilliant Explosions Alone (2013, NightBallet Press); Like Michelangelo Sorta Said (2013, The
Poet’s Haven), Absent The (2013,
Writing Knights Press) and Sometimes,
Illinois (2011, NightBallet).
John Burroughs is the founding editor of Crisis Chronicles
Press and hosts the Monday at Mahall’s Poetry and Prose Series in Lakewood,
Ohio. He is the author of It Takes More Than Chance to Make Change
(2013, The Poet’s Haven), The Eater of
the Absurd (2012, NightBallet Press), Barry Merry Baloney (2012, Spare
Change Press), Water Works (2012, recycled karma press), Electric Company
(2011, Writing Knights) and more.
