This première collection of Alan S. Kleiman's poetry, published in 2013 by Crisis Chronicles Press, features many of his most popular works. Front cover art by John Newsome. Cover and book design by Lisa Hollander.

Grand Slam

Literature & Fiction

Kleiman, Alan S

Poetry

Crisis Chronicles Press

Citizen of Metropolis

Howey, Christine

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. Published as CC#52 in January 2014 by Crisis Chronicles Press (John Burroughs, editor).

In Bold Blackness: Selections

Jami Tillis

Crisis Chronicles Press is thrilled to announce the publication of the legendary D.R. Wagner's new book, The Night Market. I love everything we've ever published, but if anything can be called the jewel in the Crisis Chronicles crown, this book is it. Perfect bound, 140 pages, with D.R.'s poetry accompanied by ReBecca Gozion's cover and interior art. The Night Market has been called "the book of the year." John Dorsey, author of Tombstone Factory, says:"I would guess I've been reading the poetry of D.R. Wagner for about 15 years now and one of the things that has always struck me is his seemingly effortless ability to blend both classical and modern literary styles and come out on the other side with something completely his own. The pieces in The Night Market offer a glimpse into the ever-changing landscape of his dreams, his heart placed bare on a snow covered rock at dusk, stealing its revolutions back from the sun, bathing in an ethereal river of emotion that will surely leave you breathless, I promise you."

The Night Market

D.R. Wagner

The first annual Best Cleveland Poem Competition, sponsored by attorney Tim Misny, 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, 6x9" and a steal.

Songs in the Key of Cleveland: An Anthology of the 2013 Best Cleveland Poem Competition

Like seven 31-page chapbooks in one! See October 2013 through the eyes of seven fine and quite different poets.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 from Crisis Chronicles Press.

Oct Tongue -1

Swain, John

Weems, Mary E.

Brightman, Steve

Smith, Steven B.

Burroughs, John B

Smith, Kathy V

Chernin, Shelley K

This book features 60 pages of John G. Hall's best poems, illlustrated by Becky Mackay and published in the USA by Crisis Chronicles Press. Jack Hirschman says of Poems for Explosion, "These are 'letter rip' poems by a very conscious British poet who is forever breaking the chokehold that Willie Shakespeare has bent around the neck of that island. Hall really wants to include everything and everybody — he unloads personal and political contradictions with an organized spontaneity that is refreshing and millennial, and his urgencies are upbeat and rooted in a totalizing expressivity." Gerry Potter says, "Powerhouse tenderness and lyrical agility bind together John’s remarkable use of language to give work of lasting worth and historical accuracy. John G Hall is poet first and foremost and a 20th-21st century documenter second to none. In a world of increasing unfairness we need work of this richness and colour to keep us sane." Foreword by Sue Fox. Cover image by Charlotte Henson.

Poems for Explosion

Hall, John G.

A masterwork by legendary poet and mail artist Alex Gildzen, inspired by his rich experiences in three Ohio cities: Elyria, Cleveland and Kent. "Alex Gildzen rushes to the heart with the clearest of memories, tacking them to our own with perfectly wrought images from his own life and calling out real people from the shadows of the past. His work glows with the power of a master poet. There is not one word in this book that doesn't ring true. Be glad. You can share a remarkable vision in this book that echoes through time every time Gildzen fixes his focus on his Ohio Triangle." - D.R. Wagner, author of The Night Market "Just as any 3 non-collinear points determine a unique plane, so Alex Gildzen's 3-part book of chiseled poems defines and explores the unique plane that is Gildzen's life in three different cities in Ohio. Here is a triangle considered in the context of the space-time continuum, where people, places and things combine to bring the past into the present and the present into the past. It is in the dimension of time, the loving remembrances and the sad recognition of the inevitable future of each person, place and thing within Gildzen's triangular plane, and by extension, within the reader's own unique plane, that brings warmth and heart to this multifaceted diamond of a book." - Shelley Chernin, author of The Vigil I was first introduced to the work of Alex Gildzen a few years back now and out of everything I've read, this latest collection, Ohio Triangle, is without a doubt the most touching look into the memories that make up his highly colorful life, so much so that I almost teared up at several points, because this is the way we all want to be able to look back on things, on a life well lived, only, Alex has been able to put it into words in a way that feels immediately relatable and effortless, as the passing of time should be." - John Dorsey, author of Imaginary Foxholes

Ohio Triangle

Gildzen, Alex

Age of Aquarius: Collected Poems 1981 – 2016 contains 139 pages of poems by poet-performer-producer Dianne Borsenik, almost all of which were published in various journals, magazines, anthologies, newspapers, and chapbooks in the last thirty-five years.  Chosen from her vast body of work, these poems represent her most popular and enduring material, both on the page and on the stage.  Covering years of tie-dye and travel, laughter and loving, meditations and performances, her poems are, in turns, wicked, willful, wonderful, and wild.

Age of Aquarius

Borsenik, Dianne

Ship of Theseus is brilliant new poetic work by Christopher Willard. "Prepare for an ascent into the maelstrom, where the huckleberries howl and butterflies twirl, caught in the F5 tornadoes they created 10,000 wingflaps ago. The pitch and yaw of the deck is so scintillating you'll know why Christopher typed this with his tongue, and you'll never guess it's a replacement crew until they sing a sick sea shanty explaining why there is something rather than nothing. Walking the plank will never be the same." —William Merricle, author of Fractured Fairy Tales and Grace, You Let the Screen Door Slam

Ship of Theseus

WILLARD, CHRISTOPHER

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