NightBallet Press: Sometimes, Illinois by Steve Brightman is published!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Sometimes, Illinois by Steve Brightman is published!

Ohio poet Steve Brightman's brand new NightBallet Press chap Sometimes, Illinois, is published!

It debuted at the Mac's Back's event in Cleveland Heights last night, where Steve Brightman gave a simply delicious reading from his book:

NightBallet is very pleased to publish this fine poet, who uses both brevity and wit to create pithy little poems that pack a punch. Seek him out and buy a copy of Sometimes, Illinois, or order yours on this website from NightBallet today!

Ohio poets Jim Lang (Coyote Moon, NightBallet Press 2012) and Bree (the melody, I swear, it's just around that way, Crisis Chronicles Press, 2011) also gave fantastic readings last night. Jim Lang brought his own unique brand of performance, along with his wonderful, autobiographical poems:

Crisis Chronicles poet Bree began her reading with a song, and continued with a good number of beautiful, lyrical poems:

Many thanks to these three poets, who made March's combined NightBallet Press/Crisis Chronicles Press/Mac's Back's Books on Coventry event an exciting, satisfying, outstanding evening of poetry! Special thanks to Suzanne DeGaetano for giving NightBallet and Crisis Chronicles the opportunity to bring this event to life.

The Magyar linotypist types typos.

He peppers my writing with an assault of errors.
He steppes through the plaines of my poems.
He impales them upon his malapropisms.
He transylvanias the woulds of my versus.

His hands pass over my poems
like bats across the face of the moon.
He fingers the keys
in a commentary
of typographical errors.
He pulls the wolves over my I's
that obey his cacography.

Velvet turns to flannel
under his hand.
What one might "feel",
he would find "fell".

—"Proofing" by Christopher Franke, circa 1971, used with permission

Ezekiel 1900 Hours

"The path of the punctual man is deterred at all times by the inequities of the tardy and the tyranny of Poet Standard Time. Honored is he/she who, in the name of syntax and spoken word, speeds the latecomers through the streets of Cleveland, for he is truly the sonnet's keeper and the finder of great beer. And I will slam down upon thee with great minutes and furious seconds those who attempt to postpone and delay My poets. And you will know My name is The Clock when I strike My hours upon thee."

—by J. E. Stanley, used with permission

Knife Edge & Absinthe-The Tango Poems

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Sometimes, Illinois by Steve Brightman is published!