Yahia Lababidi, who has a wonderful two-page poem titled "I Wept for Creation" included in Buzzkill, sent this photo of himself with the anthology. Steve Smith reports: "We each got our copy of Buzzkill: Apocalypse yesterday. Fine looking book. We each read from it last night at NIA Coffee House. Looking forward to reading the rest. Thank you." Mary Turzillo says "I am in love with this gorgeous anthology! It is truly splendid. And a poem from F. J. Bergmann and also one from David Brin, how excellent! I do hope you've printed extra copies for sale- I will be buying some to send to Star*Line for review. And now I must sit down and read, read, read it!"
To order your copy of Buzzkill: Apocalypse, just click on the "Buy now" icon beneath the book's photo in the right-side column of this webpage. At only $10 (postage/handling included in the U. S.), it's a steal. There are 80 pages of 52 poems, 2 short fictions, and 17 photographs from 26 Ohioans (home of NightBallet Press), 15 non-Ohioans (from NY to TX to CA), and 4 out-of-country (Canada, England, Australia) contributors! Also included in the book are four pages of bios, so you'll know who's who. You might feel like it's, er, the end of the world if you miss out on this fabulous collection!
To celebrate the publication of the anthology, NightBallet's editor has composed a very special- and very different- poem, "Countdown", about her version of the end of the world. She'll be performing the poem for the very first time ever at the 4th Annual Poetry in the Park event, Saturday June 30, at Frontier Park in Erie, Pennsylvania. The event runs from 2pm to 9pm (with Borsenik scheduled at 7:45pm)- hope to see you there! Yes, she'll have copies of Buzzkill there for sale- plan on getting your copy before it's... too late! ;)
