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About the author Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of "Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction," and "Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies." Barr has edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of "PMLA." She is the author of the humorous campus novel "Oy Pioneer!." Reviews Marleen S. Barr takes you on another crazy narrative ride. Tighten your seat belts!James Gunn, "Recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction and Fantasy" From "Huckleberry Finn" to such modern classics as "Catch-22, Portnoy's Complaint, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and" A Confederacy of Dunces," the comic novel has long been one of the chief glories of American literature. Barr's novels, and not least her most recent one, constitute a hilarious--and unswervingly feminist--contribution to this great tradition.Carl Freedman"Russell B. Long Professor of English, Louisiana State University" Barr plunges readers into her very own academic specialty, feminist science fiction. And with it hilarious jokes, academic twists, and sex--lots of sex. Barr is an effervescent humorous writer who travels the world aboard a flamboyant imagination. Join her. You'll love the ride!Norman N. Holland, "Marston-Milbauer, Eminent Scholar Emeritus, University of Florida" Marleen S. Barr mentions Twain but I read her equally in the long tradition of Swift and George Eliot. She produces both criticism and fiction with a "savage indignation."D.M. Hassler, "Professor of English, Kent State University and former Editor, EXTRAPOLATION" "

About The Author Lance Strate is a native New Yorker, having been born in Manhattan, and moved out to Queens two weeks later, and now working in the Bronx and living in New Jersey, just across the Hudson in SopranoLand. He writes. A lot. Well, not as much as some, but still, quite a bit. His poetry has been published in " Poetica Magazine, KronoScope, Anekaant, ETC, Explorations in Media Ecology, General Semantics Bulletin, " and several anthologies, including "Candy," and "The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan." He has written comedy and humor for a zine and local access cable program, lay sermons and prayers, an episode of the nationally syndicated children's animated television program "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, " several multimedia presentations, and many blog posts. Lance is perhaps best known for his many essays that have been published as journal articles and book chapters in edited volumes. He has a few books of the intellectual sort to his credit, "Echoes and Reflections" is one, "On the Binding Biases of Time" is another, and "Amazing Ourselves to Death" is his most recent. There are some academic anthologies that he has co-edited as well, including "The Legacy of McLuhan." Lance is a teacher and enjoys his time in the classroom, his formal title being Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, and he also teaches in the graduate program in Media and Professional Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is often identified as a media ecologist, and quite happy to be known as such, having been the founder and first president of the Media Ecology Association. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of General Semantics, and President of Congregation Adas Emuno of Leonia, New Jersey, Lance hopes someday to find the time... Reviews Thunderation! Open up this post-atomic cocktail of poems by Lance Strate and let it shake you up! Thunder at Darwin Station, blends Huxleys with Darwins, evolves with jolts of Joyce and a double DNA dose of Wells and Watsons, spins the reverberations of a blues apocalypse with a green sprig of enlightenment, and delivers you a Galloping Galapagos. Drink up, it will serve you right!David Ossman, author, actor, member of "Firesign Theatre" Rhetorically poignant...witty charm mixed with story-telling prose come to mind when reading this lovely ensemble from New York poet, Lance Strate. I particularly enjoyed the Sixth Thunder.Alannah Myles, singer, songwriter a serious entrtainment a theologikul teleologikul ontologikul evolushyunaree whethr by design by who thrust n all our charaktrs th trains endlesslee run like giraffes gazells elegaik rhythmic funkee n elegant langwage heer from th erth n sky watr n fire we all ar sew changing n oftn sew maladaptiv variaysyuns thers not much time 2 wait 4 th train 2 cum in we ar alredee on wun n manee n thers brillyant sharp n profound writing a great reed how far wev cum whats next can we know ourselvs our "specious" specees r we th missing links ths book asks evreething abt thees issews a wundrful xperiens reeding thunder at darwin staysyunbill bissett, poet, painter, mystic

About the author Rich Follett is a High School English, Theatre, and Mythology teacher who has been writing poems and songs for more than 35 years. His poems have been featured in numerous online and print journals, including "BlazeVox, Four Branches Press, The Montucky Review, Paraphilia, Exercise Bowler, Leaf Garden Press" and "CounterExample Poetics," for which he is a featured artist. He lives with his wife Mary Ruth Alred Follett in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he also pursues his interests as a professional actor, singer/songwriter, playwright and director. Reviews "Rich Follet's poetry is the poetry I want to be able to write, brave beyond the meaning of the word, it's content is so real and sharp that the meaning alone often takes my breath way, but that is just the half of it. He speaks of love, loss, pain and humanity, with words so beautiful they ache in your heart. He is the poet I aspire to be. Please just read him." Si Philbrook, poet "human &c. by Rich Follett traces the harmonies of our human experience. Words squeeze, seep, obtrude and collide like the traumas and exudations they describe." Geoffrey Gatza, author of "House of Forgetting" "human &c. weighs in the hand while it gives the heart wings. Filled with feathers, dreams and hope yet grounded in New England granite, roots of oak and the miracle of Naked Ladies. Follett's poems stretch back into the mythic, uplift and propel us into now to give with an overview of the depth of &c. Not a mere throw away three characters in the title but a sumptuous examination of the etcetera of human experience. Through these poems we share a buffet with Beowulf, we see ourselves in the warrior heart, recall the longing for flight which resides in our bones, split the mundane with the spin of a paper clip and tell us that healing is possible. These carefully considered words will glide you through the complexity of our humanity, our connection to earth and air, remind us that love is undeniable and hope buoys as we head into the future towards an understanding that love conquers all. Rich Follett's feather inspired griffonage will prompt you to celebrate our shared DNA and rouse you to live your life with all your humanity and &c." Coral Carter, poet, publisher, photographer

Synposis "The Grand National Lobotomy" is a two way book comprising an anthology of poetry and the script of John Watts' play "The Last Picasso." The poetry is divided into sections including Life & Death & Philosophy, Up & Away Characters Observed, 10 Poems in a Day; all reflecting John's sardonic humour. "The Last Picasso " is the story of a writer resolving things with his daughter before his death. In exchange for helping him, Picasso is allowed to return to earth and create one last great artwork! About the Author John Watts' 34 year career has included 20 albums & 3000 concerts festivals worldwide. His family were singers. He developed his musical career in punk clubs while studying clinical psychology and working in mental hospitals. He and his band Fischer-Z were signed by UA Records alongside The Buzzcocks and the The Stranglers. The band toured Europe and North America with artists such as Bob Marley, The Police and Dire Straits. European success increased exponentially with Red Skies Over Paradise (1981), establishing John Watts as a "political commentator in song." His first three solo albums included the experimental The Iceberg Model (1983). A second Fischer-Z era included single success, 'The Perfect Day' and the political 'Say No' single. During this period Watts performed to 167,000 people at a Peace Festival in East Berlin alongside James Brown. He made Destination Paradise (1991) at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios and his next 3 albums continued to highlight some of the darker areas of human exploitation in their lyrics. He returned solo again with Thirteen Stories High (1997) before producing Bigbeatpoetry (1999) with DJ Ingo Worner - revealing a radical approach combining poetry, prose and song lyrics. His current era of multimedia solo material began with Ether Music & Film (2002), where he travelled internationally in search of random musicians and recorded them in situ on his laptop. Real Life Is Good Enough (2004), included a book of poetry and short stories. His 2010 last solo release Morethanmusic added improvised orchestral cut-ups and a filmic dimension.

Frank Reardon was born in 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts and spent his first 28 years living there. Since then, he has lived all over the country, in places such as Alabama, Kansas City and Rhode Island. He currently lives in the Badlands of North Dakota, still looking for a way to get out. Frank has been published in various reviews, journals and online zines. His first book, Interstate Chokehold, was published by NeoPoiesis Press in 2009. Frank is in the process of completing a third poetry collection and intends to take up additional prose/fiction writing and perhaps clay pigeon shooting. Reviews "Read Frank Reardon at your own risk. He'll open your heart with a corkscrew and leave you wide-eyed and longing for more...these are goddamed excellent poems." - Dan Fante, author of "Chump Change, Kissed By a Fat Waitress" and "Mooch" "You're sitting in a dark room, alone, washing down Valium with coffee, wishing you could see the stars through the dirty window; instead, you see a reflection of yourself, the lines on your face heavier, the life in your eyes drained. You hope for something better: a better girl, a better place, a better you. Cigarette smoke cuts the bitterness for a second. You squint, through the haze, trying so hard to see something in yourself. The heater brightens the room when you take a drag. There's nothing left. May as well write about it and hope to hell someone comes along to share your coffee and your life, making those damn lines mean something more than just empty scars." - R L Raymond, editor, "Pigeon Bike Press" "Frank Reardon's poetry is high-voltage! It's like when my brother stuck a screwdriver in an outlet to see what it would do. Get ready!" - Meg Tuite, fiction editor of "The Santa Fe Literary Review"

nigel ellis is a poet, songwriter and author, currently undertaking a B. Fine Arts with a major in Creative Writing at Queensland University of Technology. He has published in numerous print and online journals, and is perforce currently based in Brisbane, Australia. Review ""haematograms" reaches into the tight corners of the mind to seize instants of clarity. Ellis is unique in his knowing, sharpest when catching things that he knows won't last. This is an impressive debut, one where the charm of the ordinary and the mysterious collide; where the reader is transported into the poet's other-world to walk the edge of his imagining." - Graham Nunn, author of "Ocean Hearted"

Peter Nelson was born to a musical family in England and moved to Canada in 1964 at ten years old. Discovering Jane Roberts and the Seth Material in the early 70s changed the direction of his life, leading to an ongoing journey of self-discovery and expansion of awareness through lucid dreaming and out-of-body states. In 2007 a meeting with an old friend began a series of extraordinary events leading to a profound Kundalini Awakening and the dissolution of normal everyday reality. "Into the Arms of the Goddess" is the personal journal of someone learning to accept the greatest gift of all. Excerpt "This spirituality had snaked through all of my lives like a lit fuse, slowly burning down from one life to the next, sometimes sparking brightly and other times almost accidentally being trodden out, and now it was about to find its source. The umbilical cord had almost led to the mother of the universe. I was about to meet God." Reviews "An exhilarating, eye-opening adventure. Once you read this book, your fundamental view of the world is forever changed." - Alex Fasulo-Cronin, Human Resources Manager "Grounded and often humourous, this intimate account of an extraordinary shift in consciousness presents a unique outlook about what it means to be a human being on earth today. One is somehow left with a sense that this could happen to anyone." - Maggie Fraser, Psychotherapist "The mystical or psychic experience is something only the individual can tell for themselves. No amount of words my reveal the true journey - but Peter Nelson's story is the closest to Truth I've ever witnessed." - Heather Anne Burton, Medium and Intuitive

Synopsis A memory piece served up in sequence, "Sugar" is a fifty part, long form poem which tells the story of one woman's struggle with her own vices. Though "Sugar" contains the themes of drug abuse, alcoholism and hard core sexuality, they are used to explore the human condition, in particular ideas on loss, and how one copes with the solitude of heartbreak. "Sugar" is in fact a love story that asks the important questions: "Where do people go when they leave you? How small can love get?" Steve Szewczok stems from the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. With a background in theatre and music, Steve has performed in over 50 theatrical productions as well as working in radio and film and writing for the theatre. Steve currently lives in Montreal with his two children and works on the production side of the film industry. "Sugar" is Steve's debut book of poetry. He is currently working on his second collection of poems. Reviews "Steve Szewczok, with this work, fearlessly goes into the darkest recesses of human despair and explores, with a brutal honesty, the choices the abused, forgotten and lost make to simply survive. "Sugar" is a brilliant character work which reaches out and touches us, un-apologetically, in all of the soft tissues we have from past bruising."- William Marshe, poet and editor "My introduction to "Sugar" was casual. Steve had visited me at my home in Stratford and casually mentioned some "poems" he was working on, leaving them on my dining room table on his return to Montreal. I picked the pages from the table and my relationship with "Sugar" was no longer casual. I was stunned by their power, beautiful starkness and complexity; by their 'life'. I feel ardent about these poems and privileged to know the artist."- Brian McKay, theatre professional and teacher "Sugar is, all at once, beautiful, startling and mysterious. These slivers of a tortured life linger in the mind like borrowed memories."- Ed Macdonald, author of "Spat the Dummy"

April Michelle Bratten was born in Marrero, Louisiana. She received her Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota. April was a finalist for the Best of the Net award in 2009 and was nominated again in 2010. She was also nominated for the 2010 Pushcart Prize. Her work has been widely published in both print and online, including the journals Istanbul Literary Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, San Pedro River Review, Southeast Review, Gutter Eloquence, Kill Poet, The Orange Room Review, and Dark Sky Magazine among others. She co-edits and writes book reviews for the online literary journal Up the Staircase Quarterly, which can be found at www.upthestaircase.org "Bratten's cunning parallels, chilling narratives, and haunting endings remind us what breaks is often more epochal than what remains intact." Rebecca Schumejda, author of Cadillac Men "April Michelle Bratten blasts in with her potent, no-holds barred tongue and obliterates the marrow of the insulated inertia, uncorks the rabid subterfuge of day-to-day existence and lures us like a river into deep rapids." Meg Tuite, author of Domestic Apparition and Disparate Pathos "With this book, April Michelle Bratten has let her truest colors burn bright. Both a vulnerable glimpse into her day to day emotional grind and a sensual coming of age, her poems take no prisoners and offer no apologies for the beautiful awkward moments that make us who we are." John Dorsey, author of White Girl Problems: Poems & Stories "April Michelle Bratten writes out demarcations and maps of inner journeys turned outward with a velocity of truth that sears the reader with a flame of love at the center of it all. It is an eternal fire that will free the spirit from any wreckage encountered along the route that her words will guide you on from beginning to end." A. Razor, editor/publisher (Punk Hostage Press)

Carly Bryson is a native Texan raised in the oilfields of west Texas somewhere between the Edwards Plateau and the Guadalajara desert. Currently residing in Houston, she writes poetry and prose dealing with politics, current events, nature, and family dynamics. She has been published in Carcinogenic Poetry, Calliope Nerve, The Shine Journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics as well as two anthologies, and NothingNoOneNowhere. Bandana Wasteland is her first collection of poetry and contains poems which address an increasingly dystopic and Orwellian society forming amidst an age of war, disinformation, media bias, environmental decline and propaganda. Reviews "Bryson's poems reek of Texas. Each piece is imbued and informed by a landscape which tests, but never tames her protagonists. In scenes sharply observed, her characters move through an adversarial world and while her narrators may not know for what they search, they are never without a moral compass. This ain't chick lit, kids. It's the human situation." -Doc Sigerson, poet, essayist and translator "The intense sensory details and arid landscapes Bryson paints with language will have readers reaching for a cold libation, then swimming in it. Picturesque, haunting and sublime is the wisdom woven into the tapestry that is Bandana Wasteland." - Apryl Skies, author of A Song Beneath Silence "Carly Bryson's poetry is as gritty and deadly serious as the "bandana wasteland" and "big fried empty" of drought-stricken Chihuahua Desert, and as dense, humid and fecund as the "gauzy shadows" and "moss levees" of the bayous and delta of the Atchafalaya Basin. She captures the stark truth of life in both these dissimilar areas of her homelands that stretch from far West Texas to where Louisiana meets the Gulf of Mexico." - Donna Snyder, author of I Am South

Reviews "Executive Severance," a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery--engage with Blechman s story which signals the inception of a new literary art form. - Marleen S. Barr, author of "Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium" A He Dunit. It s got everything: narrative drive, mystery, comedy, thrills, tension, laughs. Blechman is on to something, a genre as important to literature as the invention of haiku in rhyme. ... - Marvin Kitman, famous critic A delightful twitstery - a mystery written in real time Tweets that is compelling, entertaining, and shows off what can be done in the 140-character form with style and mastery. Poe would have been proud of the new form Blechman has given to the mystery story. - Paul Levinson, author of "New New Media" and "The Plot to Save Socrates" Embracing the challenges found in publishing via the medium Twitter, Bob Blechman s super silly story "Executive Severance" is stuffed with punny dialogue, clever character conditions, and a total lack of adherence to the old rules of storytelling. - Michelle Anderson, ?mediaChick, author of "The Miracle in July - a digital love story" Reviews "Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery--engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form." - Marleen S. Barr, author of Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium "A He Dunit. It's got everything: narrative drive, mystery, comedy, thrills, tension, laughs. Blechman is on to something, a genre as important to literature as the invention of haiku in rhyme..." - Marvin Kitman, famous critic "A delightful 'twitstery' - a mystery written in real time Tweets - that is compelling, entertaining, and shows off what can be done in the 140-character form with style and mastery. Poe would have been proud of the new form Blechman has given to the mystery story." - Paul Levinson, author of New New Media and The Plot to Save Socrates "Embracing the challenges found in publishing via the medium Twitter, Bob Blechman's super silly story Executive Severance is stuffed with punny dialogue, clever character conditions, and a total lack of adherence to the old "rules" of storytelling." - Michelle Anderson, mediaChick, author of The Miracle in July - a digital love story

Tom Bradley received his novelist's calling at the age of nineteen. He climbed into the moonlit mountains around his hometown, where he got an unambiguous vocation with physical symptoms and everything, just like Martin Luther in the electric storm. He doesn't recall being on acid at the time. He buzzed permanently off from America in 1985, moved to Red China, and has lurked around the left rim of the Pacific ever since, in a successful search for sinecures that steal virtually no time and absolutely no mental energy from his writing. Further curiosity can be indulged at tombradley.org synopsis Visit a relocation center for spastics, mental defectives and political derelicts in the jungle outside Foo-Chow. Help prepare Japan's Crown Princess for "bridal breach" in the Togu Palace. Watch youngsters being exposed to elemental mercury in a Soviet kindergarten. Poke around for uncollapsed blood vessels with a junkie tart during High Mass in China's underground church. Learn how to make a movie from absolute scratch using only stuff you can find in the back yard. Reviews ...a writer with a gloriously skewed and multitudinous vision... --Darran Anderson, "3: AM Magazine" Tom Bradley is the libertine that Camille Paglia tries to portray herself as, in order to keep her Jocasta fantasies at bay.--Jonathan Penton, "When Spencer met Hannibal: Recreational Cannibalism in the New American Century" It takes a twisted sense of humor to appreciate this lunatic scholar, degenerate Harold Bloom, and biblical madman.--John-Ivan Palmer, "nthposition Magazine" Tom Bradley is one of the most exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know. I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste for something so strange that it might well be genius.--Denis Dutton, editor of" Arts & Letters Daily" The contemporaries of Michelangelo found it useful to employ the term "terribilita" to characterize some of the expressions of his genius, and I will quote it here to sum up the shocking impact of this work as a whole. I read it in a state of fascination, admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage.--R.V. Cassill, editor of "The Norton Anthology of Fiction" I tell you that Dr. Bradley has devoted his existence to writing because he intends for every center of consciousness, everywhere, in all planes and conditions (not just terrestrial female Homo sapiens in breeding prime), to love him forever, starting as soon as possible, though he's prepared to wait thousands of centuries after he's dead.--Cye Johan, "Critical Appendix, Fission Among the Fanatics"

About the author Misty Cosgrove has a long history of being successful at life. She's taken home the first place ribbon at the Georgia State Fair Chili Cook Off, TWICE, and is currently the reigning Champion of the Women's Southeast Division Mud Wrestling Association. This is her first book of poetry. Reviews "Cormac McCarthy once opined that he wrote few women characters because he did not understand them. Misty Cosgrove's poetry provides the voices that McCarthy's novels lack, while providing a similar aesthetic. Each poem has a great sense of time and place, but still manages to tap into the universal. Misty provides us with a litany of grotesqueries and casual atrocities, but never fails to provide some hope scraped from the bottom of the barrel. I can think of no one better suited to provide empathy for both martyrs and monsters, and isn't that what literature is for?"Neil McCrea, author of "Wisdom & Dust" "In Misty Cosgrove's writing - as within our dreams - no figure or fragment is incidental or without meaning. Consequently, entire stories emerge with just a few essential words or gestures: We glimpse a man's past and future in a moment of silent chivalry for a sex doll; we witness a woman's lifetime of violence through the quiet washing of a dress on a porch. Cosgrove stares unflinchingly into the hearts and bowels of her subjects and records with charm and imagination, though without false sentiment, everything telling that she observes. There is pain in the humour and humour in the pain. A woman has laid herself bare for us, laid her people bare, and in turn she has unveiled a nation. Sugarfoot has invited us into her America - an America whose death rattle is indistinguishable from riotous laughter."Clement Piedra, enigma

Craig Podmore is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and director from Manchester, UK. He is the author of "I am a Gun" and "The Abattoir Heavens and The Holy Ghost." His work has appeared in various journals and e-zines including "Gloom Cupboard, The Plebian Rag, The Scottish Poetry Review, Epic Rites, Ditch, Poetry, Danse Macabre, Calliope Nerve, Horror, Sleaze, Trash, Sein Und Worden, Sex and Murder Magazine, Gutter Eloquence "and "Fashion for Collapse." Reviews The poems are like Genet's red rose of monstrous size and beauty discovered in the heart of the executed murderer. Given the name of the press, one might note that these poems embody poiesis as the word is explicated in e.g. Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics," they do not thematize Being explicitly, but they disclose, they reveal the death camp logistics that has replaced the primitive "Mitsein" of the squaddy. Get this book; these poems need to be read. - David McLean, author of "Cadaver's Dance" and" Hellbound" Had Rilke made it to The Front Line he may very well have compiled a series of poems such as Craig Podmore offers us in his harrowing yet tender collection, " Love Notes from a Soldier's Diary." Podmore is no stranger to the themes of love, death, war (he does not tackle the minor issues), and here we have the double spectres of death and absent love - the ones that hollow us out yet make us feel desperately alive - set against the agony and futility of war. - Gillian Prew, author of "Disconnections"

M. Z. Ribalow is a poet, playwright and author. His novel Peanuts and Crackerjacks and his new playMasterpiece are 2011 publications, and his short fiction appeared in an anthology on Luck in 2010. His two dozen plays have received some 180 productions in a dozen countries; four have been published. His work has been anthologized and has won prizes in London, New York, and regionally. He is series editor of the Plays from New River volumes (McFarland Publications) and has also co-written ten children's books and non-fiction books on sports, baseball and chess. He writes frequently on film, theatre, literature, music, and has appeared as a film historian on The Discovery Channel and on special feature documentaries of several DVD releases of classic films. He is Artistic Director and co-founder of New River Dramatists, which has for the last decade successfully developed hundreds of new plays and screenplays while discovering and nurturing gifted writers, and which also presents poetry, fiction and drama on the New River Radio Show on Art International Radio online. He lives in New York City, where he is currently full-time artist-in-residence at Fordham University. Reviews "M. Z. Ribalow is a poet of real distinction. His work is precise, perceptive, and provocative--in the best sense available to the mind and heart. I strongly recommend Chasing Ghosts. Discover it, and you will return to it again and again." - N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize Laureate, author of Again the Far Morning "An intellectual who persists in the love of language, an aging lover who dates Dickinson but marries Millay, a poet who is a king of paradox, M. Z. Ribalow, in his Chasing Ghosts cannot escape blood in our bloody continuing era, but his poetry is inspiring. He is a first-rate poet who yearns for connection even as he is most at home with the separateness with which we are all afflicted. If you strive for the poetry which builds a rough unity and is about the flightiness of reality, you will be at home with Ribalow's work." - Andrew Glaze, SEBA Book of the Year Winner for Poetry, author of Reality Street and Someone Will Go On Owing "M. Z. Ribalow is a poet not of the thing itself, but of the thing's echoes, the thousand aftermaths of movies and conversations with God and midnight neurotic phone calls and ticking memories, the regret that becomes a salvation of sorts without ever ceasing to be regret, the 'quiet ache that is its own heartbeat.' These poems are lyrical but never flowery, cool but not detached, suffused at every elegantly turned phrase by meaning, or the hunger for it." - Glen Hirshberg, winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award, author of American Morons and The Book of Bunk

Stephen Roxborough (aka roxword) was born in New York to a Canadian fatherand American mother. He's a past board member for the" Washington Poets Association," co-founder of "Burning Word" poetry festival, and "Head Poet for Madrona Center" on Guemes Island. An internationally acclaimed, award-winning performance poet, Rox has been twice nominatedfor the "Pushcart Prize" (2003, 2006), appeared at the "Skagit River Poetry Festival" (2004), "Brave New Words" (Whidbey Island, 2009) and co-edited "radiant danse uv being, a poetic portrait of bill bissett" (2006). He is the author of "making love in the war zone "(2001), "so far all the very long important subversive mind-expanding long ones"(2002), "impeach yourself! "(2006), "blurst" (2009) and "son of blurst" (2010). His spoken word cd, "spiritual demons" (2002) is available at amazon.com and cdbaby.com. Reviews "Stephen Roxborough, combination sardonic intellectual, Lucille Ball and Peter Pan east of Eden, is one of the finest poets working today. His new collection exposes the bright, quirky eyes and ears of a visual artist with a mastery of words. A remarkable book. Look for him in the holding cell for the maximally aware." Bart Baxter MTV Poetry Slam Winner, Seattle Poet Populist "In the form of postmodern Buddhist meditations or mantras, these poems are aboutsimple human happiness. Created out of a pop sensibility and in a pop modality, they're fashioned to free minds and shuffle off some of the weight of contemporary life. They cheerfully bend and blend the clich?'s and methods of contemporary consumer culture, but send it in a fresh direction. The pleasures here are wise and simple." Jamie Reid poet, activist, publisher, co-founder of TISH "Rox has a light touch while reaching deeply inside what makes the universe tick, gentle while grappling with the dead ends of Today. This book knocks on your door and wants tocome in and make you laugh and sigh and think." David Ossman author, actor, director, member of Firesign Theater "Lounging on the surface of domesticity, luminosity and drunken beauty, "This Wonderful Perpetual Beautiful, serves as a guidebook through life, language and the pursuit of ecstasis. Everyday life transformed through a lexicon steeped in the elegance of cascading desire, where a vibrating present is continually re-invented." Adeena Karasick poet, cultural theorist, performer, media artist "a beautiful wundrful book sew romantik sew full uv ironeez abt our destineez n our presents th ironeez uv mor loving all th time thruout th book n th langwage sew brillyant n upliftingsew mesurd n unmesuring sew 4giving what we all need 2 heer n feel as deeplee as ths book duz alert us n moov us n uplift us th blessings uv its inkredibul langwage uv hope n sew artful navigaysyun ths is th book 2 reed giving n sumptuous sew wise n linguistiklee adventurous reelee wundrful n brillyant" bill bissett poet, painter, performer, mystic, author of 80 books "These poems feel like breathing to me. I need nothing more. I am utterly sated." Susan Musgrave author, teacher, beachcomber

Reviews No one understood causality, whether Aristotelian or electric, like Marshall McLuhan. Now, in Media and Formal Cause, no one reveals understanding of formal cause in the digital environment better than McLuhan's protégé son, Eric. In the foreword, Lance Strate writes that M. McLuhan's Understanding Media was one of the most important books of the 20th century. For anyone who wishes to understand how things truly work, Media and Formal Cause is one of the most important books of the 21st. Arguably formal cause has been the least understood but the most intellectually important of all of Aristotle's four agents or processes of causation. This small volume proffers a large understanding of this formative, previously mysterious level of invisible creation. Three essays by Marshall (one with co-author Barry Nevitt) and a powerful new essay by Eric give new meaning to ye olde cliché, "like father, like son". While reading writing that is engaging, encyclopedic, and electric, we discover that formal cause is not what you think... but it is vital to how you think.-Thomas Cooper, Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College; author of Fast Media/Media FastIn Media and Formal Cause Eric McLuhan updates an important part of his father's work that is often overlooked, the quixotic role of causality in making sense of how new media change the way we construct our environment and our communication. How does novelty cause antiquity? When do effects precede causes? Read on, and you shall find out.-David Rothenberg, Professor of Philosophy and Music, New Jersey Institute of Technology; author of Why Birds Sing and Thousand Mile SongLike his mentor, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Marshall McLuhan was often accused of indulging in mere paradox. But Media and Formal Cause demonstrates the profound understanding that underlies the work of both Chesterton and McLuhan, the understanding that we live in a paradoxical world. Both McLuhan and Chesterton attempted to jar readers loose from what Cardinal Newman called "paper logic" into a recognition of the total situation in which we find ourselves. This very readable and accessible volume should greatly assist new readers of McLuhan and remind long time students of just how challenging and exhilarating his explorations were.-Philip Marchand, author, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the MessengerA sage and perceptive quartet of essays which capture and extend a still quintessentially unique way of thinking about media, via patterns and connections that harken to the ancient world and redound to our present and future.-Paul Levinson, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University; author of Digital McLuhan, and of New New Media

Rich Follett has recently returned to writing poetry after a thirty-year hiatus. He lives in the sacred and timeless Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he joyfully teaches English and Theatre Arts for high school students. His poems have appeared in numerous contemporary journals and e-zines including "BlazeVox, Paraphilia, Exercise Bowler, Calliope Nerve, Sugar Mule, Four Branches Press "and "Counterexample Poetics," for which he is a Featured Artist. He is the co-author of "Responsorials" (with Constance Stadler). Most recently, his haiku/photo combination "Aurora's Adieu" received first place honors in the first "international iPoetry Poe-Tography Competition." Reviews As a survivor, it removed that barrier in my heart that kept me from seeing men as my brothers in a shared legacy. As a poet, Follett, reminds me of what we are meant to do. "I'm following you, brother, and I'm listening."      - Lisa Alvarado, poet, novelist, author of "Raw Silk Suture" and "Sister Chicas" This is a poetry of conclusions, not interrogation. While the fashionable Mei-mei Berssenbrugge writes a long line so the reader cannot keep the whole line in his mind, Rich Follett terminally shortens his and thus becomes accessible.     - Duane Locke, author of 21 books of poetry and recipient of "The Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize, The Charles Agnoff Award," and "The Poetry Society of America s Walt Whitman Award" As a poet, Rich Follett is a chronological genius. In this, his collection of poems, "Silence, Inhabited," Follett himself self-summarizes these poems in a word: "surviving"     - Felino A. Soriano, author of 21 collections of poetry, including "Variant Tongues of the Conjunctive Application" Follett shatters the silence, without losing any of that expressiveness or wonder. Following a phoenix paradigm, Follett constructs flawless monuments to sound from the beautiful, bursting bones of the ruins he rises from; the result is an epic symphony heavy on emphatic truth and refreshingly bereft of the gossamer falsehoods that often compromise such bright flights.      -William Crawford, author of "Fire in the Marrow" and "Pushcart Prize "nominee. A stunningly deep dive into the psychological scar tissue of abuse. A soldiering in the cause of self preservation and reclamation. Warrior brave, purely painful and full of victory. Abuse has its most profound adverse emotional impact when left to fester deep in the soul's soil. This collection of poetry is an outline for the redemption of victims of abuse to the ends of going in as fully as the Word can go, and digging it out.     - Dan Kellett, poet, spoken word artist and track producer, music reviewer and radio show host For me, Rich Follett is everything a poet should be, bold in words, thoughts and honesty; skillful and artistic yet so accessible. The challenge he takes on here is brave beyond words. He explores and defeats the abuse he has suffered and emerges stronger, as does anyone who reads these stunning poems.     - Si Philbrook, poet, published in several journals including "Poetry" (UK)

Neil McCrea is a poet and author living in the Pacific Northwest. His work has most recently appeared in "Knock, Etc: a Review of General Semantics," and in the NeoPoiesis anthology "Candy. Wisdom & Dust" is his first poetry collection. Reviews Like water into wine, McCrea consistently and effortlessly transforms the quotidian into the revelatory. Wisdom & Dust dazzles and surprises with its pathos, wit, and insight.    - Jonathan Evison, author of "All About Lulu" and "West of Here" The impressive poems in "Wisdom & Dust" have the swagger and pulse of the authentic. McCrea's characters, filled with equal parts rage and longing, bravado and despair, live in a universe where sucker punches and life-changing epiphanies wait at every turn.   - James P. Othmer, author of "The Futurist "and "Holy Water" Vivid and revealing, Neil McCrea's "Wisdom & Dust" tells stories of lust, love, lawlessness, and root beer. The powerful but dark outlook reminds one of Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," but with a sexual twist.   - Alyse Black International Award-Winning Touring & Recording Artist Following Neil McCrea's optimistic and innocent boy into manhood left me feeling like I'd committed some sort of new sin myself, like I was partly responsible for his descent into all of this cool, blue madness.   - Jeannette Kantzalis, songwriter/novelist

Reviews "In Compatible Aspects of the Disparate Endeavor, Soriano's vision driven poetry colludes with the pulsing surfaces of several contemporaneous paintings, until insatiable curiosity draws both the writer and the reader into the fathomless interior world of the painting itself. This symbiotic Stendhal Syndrome allows a full forensic analysis of the merged body, the heart which propels the art itself, the mind which the eye fecundates. This allows for a full absorption of ideas which promote a continuous growth that starts inside both poet/artist and witness/reader; a visceral communion, an epistemological closure, where heart and mind are joined in a scrupulously controlled passion play."- William Crawford author, Fire in the Marrow "The language in this book is innovative and fresh. Every line is pregnant with a creative calliopean voice: a revival of the sacred-authentic poetry. This project emends the notion that contemporary poetry is unsustainable. Everyone should be reading Felino A. Soriano's work."- Serena Tome poet, co-editor of Differentia Press "Teeming with abstractions and laced with what I can only term a stoical lyricism, his labyrinthian language challenges readers to confront their own ideas about poetry's sometimes tenuous place in the modern world. At the same time, Soriano's ekphrastic poems boldly if somewhat vertiginously challenge our notions of how we might approach visual art interpretation."- Alison Ross publisher and editor, Clockwise Cat

William Crawford has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently including, "Counterexample Poetics, The Criterion, Danse Macabre, Differentia Press: Corporeal Manifestations, Leaf Garden, Luciole Press, Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind," and "Up the Staircase Quarterly." "Fire in the Marrow" is his first poetry collection. William lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is an animal rights activist. Reviews In an age where poetry is prominent by the selves of most prevalent self-definition (too, by like-minded thoughts creating intertwining ideologies), Crawford needn't qualify himself as a poet through the eyes of his very own, for he is easily identifiable by the markings his poetry creates across the psyche of his fortunate readers."    - Felino A. Soriano, author of "Apperceptions of Reinterpretations" "Drink deeply, all ye who revel in the ability of language to spark perceptual transcendence - William Crawford offers hope and sustenance for aesthetes mired in the all-too-often catachrestic wasteland of modern popular poetry."   - Rich Follett, co-author of "Responsorials " "Crawford isn't afraid to shoot the rapids, and anyone who is capable of flying will find their arms much more malleable after soaring along these canyons of his rhythmic vision."   - Scott Wannberg, author of "Strange Movie Full of Death" "A sentinel calling us to rise above our need for distance from the pain of life, Crawford is a singular patron poet-saint reminding us of the beauty we can draw from the marrow of afflictions. "   - Karen Bowles, Publisher, "Luciole Press"

About the Author M. Z. Ribalow is a poet, playwright and author. His novel Peanuts and Crackerjacks, his new play Masterpiece and his poetry collection Chasing Ghosts are 2011 publications, and his short fiction appeared in an anthology on Luck in 2010. His two dozen plays have received some 180 productions in a dozen countries; four have been published. His work has been anthologized and has won prizes in London, New York, and regionally. He is series editor of the Plays from New River volumes (McFarland Publications) and has also co-written ten children's books and non-fiction books on sports, baseball and chess. He writes frequently on film, theatre, literature, music, and has appeared as a film historian on The Discovery Channel and on special feature documentaries of several DVD releases of classic films. He is Artistic Director and co-founder of New River Dramatists, which has for the last decade successfully developed hundreds of new plays and screenplays while discovering and nurturing gifted writers, and which also presents poetry, fiction and drama on the New River Radio Show on Art International Radio online. He lives in New York City, where he is currently full-time artist-in-residence at Fordham University. Praise for "The Time We Have Misspent" "With this collection of sonnets, Meir Z. Ribalow takes his rightful place alongside the likes of Frost, Millay, Shelley, Keats and - yes, I'll say it - Shakespeare, as one of our rare masters of the English language sonnet form. The evident joy with which Mr. Ribalow plays with language in each gem contained in this volume shows the freedom he feels where others find constraint; in the mere fourteen lines allotted him, Mr. Ribalow manages to take his readers on journeys as deep and as intimate as they are epic. You will be delighted, charmed, moved and awed by what you find in this collection. It is nothing short of astonishing." -Rhona Silverbush, co-author, Speak the Speech! Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated "By turns heartbreaking, wry, clever, and devastating (and sometimes all that and more in a single poem), these sonnets marry a precise attention to form with a casual conversational tone to create a universe of yearning observation. Combining the couplets of Pope with the concerns of Petrarch, Ribalow has created something new under the poetic sun that feels fresh and timeless at the same time. If you think sonnet-writing is a lost art, then this is the book to change your mind." -Matthew Wells, 2011 winner of the Donna Jo Davis Discovery Prize for Poetry "I'm not one for poems as words-to-live-by...except when they're words to live by, like almost every one of these. They don't so much rediscover or reinvent the sonnet as remind us why we loved sonnets in the first place." -Glen Hirshberg, winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award, author of Motherless Child and The Book of Bunk "This is an intelligent poet willing to address with tenderness, sometimes bluntness, all that he does not know - namely the reasons and rationales for the way a life unfolds. Still, 'I breathe as deeply as I dare, ' he says, and in the saying makes his reader want to breathe more deeply as well." -Allison Elrod, 2012 winner of the Donna Jo Davis Discovery Prize for Poetry

VICTORIA FOTIOS is a poet and author who currently divides her time between London and her family in Hampshire. She was Online Poet of the Year 2008 and has been published collaboratively, most recently in "Cand"y by NeoPoesis Press (2009). "Sunday Morning Spiders" is her first poetry collection. From the Introduction There is a gentle revelation that comes with the gift of anothers carefully crafted vision; with these poems, there is not a sense of the hypocrisy of a vicarious experience, there is a sense of shared consequence. Her words draw us into a world where a certain shaping of the imagination is required to enter the portal. - Amanda Joy, author of" Not Enough to Fold" Reviews When I first came across Victoria Fotios poetry, I knew I had found a poet I would read and enjoy for many years. Her very English slightly off-centre poetry reminds me of Larkin at his best. Pegs is and always will be one of my favourite ever poems. This is a collection not to be missed. - Si Philbrook, poet, published in various journals including "Poetry Monthly (UK)" A beautiful insight into a life that is conveyed with breathtaking poignancy. The secret moments, emotions and scenes that are weaved throughout this collection have an intimacy that is compelling. Refreshing honesty and imagery that effortlessly transports the reader into another's life. Victoria Fotios paints pictures with her words. - Kiersty Boon, author of "Walking On Chalk "and "The Poet Busker"