Hot off the press- the last two broadsides in the 2011 NightBallet Press Broadside Serises are published!
Dan Smith of Cleveland has two poems featured in his broadside: "Wine on a Rope" and "The Rubaiyat of the Green Shazam". Both are dynamic and exciting poems, written in the way that only dan smith can write. NightBallet
cannot wait to hear him perform (yes, perform, not read) them!
John Burroughs of Elyria, Ohio (and Lix & Kix, Snoetry, and Crisis Chronicles fame), had a (100, 000 Poets for Change) commemorative broadside, "For Change Is", published earlier in the series. Now, NBP is proud to present his classic freedom of speech poem "Low Kay Shun" as the cap to the 2011 Series! NightBallet hopes to add a video of him performing this poem to this site, soon.
You can get both of these fantastic new broadsides, along with all 8 of the other broadsides in the series, for only $5, postage paid- for your convenience, you can order directly through the PayPal button on the left hand side of this page.
Congratulations to both of these wonderful poets! And stay tuned- NightBallet has some new announcements to make, first thing in the New Year!
...and it's a stunner! Her imagined lands are lush and magical, and you won't want to miss this journey through time, space, and the mind of this truly gifted poet.
Chansonette Buck spent her childhood “on the road” as stepdaughter of a Black Mountain poet, living all over the American West, in England, and in Spain. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she concentrated on 20th-century poetry and poetics and wrote a dissertation on childhood trauma as the source for William Carlos Williams's poetic obsessions. She has a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art, and has won awards for her visual art, her poetry, and her teaching. Chapters of her memoir Unnecessary Turns: Growing Up Beat have appeared in Why We Ride: Women Writers on the Horses in Their Lives (Seal Press, May 2010) and Polarity, and several poems have been accepted for publication over the next year. blood oranges is her first chapbook. Crisis Chronicles Press will be publishing her second chapbook, desire lines, in early 2012.