Secret Letters “revealed” by Crisis Chronicles Press

cover art (c) 2013 by Marnie Weber [text added by jc]

Crisis Chronicles Press is pleased to announce the publication of j/j hastain‘s Secret Letters on 22 October 2013. Secret Letters is 30 pages, lovingly hand bound with gunmetal cardstock end papers and a coral-gray cardstock cover emblazoned with surreal art by Marnie Weber.  This chapbook is available for $7 from Crisis Chronicles Press, c/o John Burroughs, 3344 W. 105th Street #4, Cleveland, Ohio 44111 USA or via PayPal:

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.

j/j hastain [photo courtesy of the author] 

More Recent Pics

More photo albums I’ve recently uploaded to FB, warts and all:

8/17 — Grandkids and Cleveland Zoo
8/18 — Mike Finley in Cleveland
8/31 thru 9/6 — Florida and back
9/7 — Pandemonium 2013: Shine
9/9 — Monday at Mahall’s feat. the Criswells and Buck
10/1 — Cleveland Salon book release
10/5 — Words Dance Poetry Festival
10/10 — Queen City Poetry Slam

Plus, check out the new additions to my Crisis Chronicles Press covers album.

Cleveland (Alex Gildzen’s new book) Rocks!

Cover foto: Terminal Tower by Steven B. Smith  

Crisis Chronicles Press is ecstatic to announce the publication of Cleveland: Point B in Ohio Triangle by the legendary

Alex Gildzen on 6 October 2013.  Cleveland is handbound 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 available for $6 (plus $1 for postage) from Crisis Chronicles Press, c/o John Burroughs, 3344 W. 105th Street #4, Cleveland, Ohio 44111.

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.

This collection is the middle section of his work-in-progress Ohio Triangle. The first, Elyria, was published as a chapbook by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2009. The final section will be Kent.

Gildzen with Hart Crane in Cleveland: foto courtesy of AG