NightBallet Press announces the official publicaiton of an especially tasty treat: Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press, Year One 2012! This delicious 36 page collection of poems celebrates NightBallet Press' first anniversary. From September 2011 to September 2012, NightBallet Press published chapbooks and full-length poetry books for 18 different poets, and they are represented in this anthology by (98%) all new poems!  That's absolutely all new and exciting poems by Lyn Lifshin, John Dorsey, George Wallace, Jack McGuane, Chansonette Buck, Lady K (Kathy) Smith, Terry Provost, T. M. Göttl, Heather Ann Schmidt/Sukha-Prajna, Jim Lang, Steve Brightman, Elise Geither, Kara Johnston, Bonné de Blas, Alex Gildzen, and Russell Salamon!  The only two poems that have been reprinted from the original chapbooks are by the excellent and dynamic performance poets Zach Ashley and Ralph La Charity, and are immediately and perfectly representative of their body of work.  Lipsmack! is designed to expose and make readily available the originality and variety of poetry that NightBallet Press presents through its unique and diverse writers.  The yummy vanilla-colored pages are packaged in a soft white cardstock cover with a mouthwatering candy-apple cardstock insert.  But the real treats are the lipsmacking poems contained within!

Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press, Year One 2012

George Wallace

John Dorsey

Lyn Lifshin

Heather Ann Schmidt

Jim Lang

Terry Provost

Jack McGuane

Elise Geither

Zach Ashley

Russell Salamon

Kathy "Lady" Smith

Steve Brightman

Ralph La Charity

Theresa T. M. Göttl

Bonné de Blas

Kara Johnston

Alex Gildzen

NightBallet Press

The Eater of the Absurd is a 60 page book of poetry by Ohioan John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis. This highly anticipated thematic book of new work by John Burroughs is stunning, thorough, and masterfully executed, and is quintessential Burroughs-wordplay with its punning and juxtapositioning of words and lines. It also contains his Pushcart Prize-nominated performance piece "Lens." Packaged in a textured white cardstock cover with a heavy deep olive green cardstock insert, and printed on creamy soft-white cotton paper, The Eater of the Absurd makes a striking statement of (in John Burroughs' own words) "pleasure, pain, and deprogramming."

The Eater of the Absurd

John, Burroughs

Mosaic is a 24 page chapbook of poetry by Margie Shaheed. It contains eleven storytelling poems about the glory, the mystery, the promise, and the pain of being a Black woman.  "These are the poems of a storyteller clearly connected to her African ancestry, oral tradition, and the history of Black people in America". -Dr. Mary E. Weems, author of For(e)closure and professor at John Carroll University.

Mosaic

Margie Shaheed

Onomatopoeia

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