Wednesday, October 21, 2009

PORTRAITS BY B.Z. NIDITCH REVIEWED IN ZYX #51


ZYX, out of Bayside, NY, and spearheaded by Arnold Skemer, gave a kind review of Portraits by B.Z. Niditch:


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Review:
PORTRAITS, B.Z. Niditch, Propaganda Press (Alternating Current, P.O. Box 398058, Cambridge, MA 02139) $6.00 52 pp., 4 1/4 X 5 1/2, saddle stapled, 2008. There is something about extreme concision, the summing up of the style of an artist, his world view, in a few spare lines. This is what Niditch attempts in Portraits. Examples:

Breton

Caressing night arms
with yellow umbrellas
by beach trees
dreams half speak


or

Mishima

You left a skeleton
over abrupt lives,
uncovering a canvas
of poetic skulls
tattoos, butterfly;
a man's bloody stone face.


Presumably these are artists [whom] have carved a place in Niditch's psyche. He knows them well and thinks about them deeply to the extent that micro verbal intensity results. This is something that we all might delve into, creating a verbal distillation for all those artists whose spirit has sunk into our mindset and become a part of us, a discipline of exacting description, a precision that defines our own tastes and inclinations and intimate intellectual desires.

Kindly note that Alternating Current prints/publishes mini-poetry chapbooks, starting at $90.00 for 50 copies. According to their statements[,] they also publish in the normal pattern. Most authors pay nothing up front and "pay only an author price for however many copies they want to purchase. We distribute, they get a royalty[...]" Their website is: alt-current.com.
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ANOTHER THANK YOU CARD FOR CHILDREN'S ART AWARD

We got another nice thank you card from Barbara Makela, another of the three recipients of our children's art awards at the Ingham County Fair in Mason, Michigan, presented through the Mason Art Guild. Congratulations, Barbara!


THANK YOU CARD FOR CHILDREN'S ART AWARD

We got a nice thank you card from Kirstyn Baker, one of the three recipients of our children's art awards at the Ingham County Fair in Mason, Michigan, presented through the Mason Art Guild. Congratulations, Kirstyn!


Tuesday, August 18, 2009

POEM BY LEAH ANGSTMAN IN COKEFISHING IN ALPHA BEAT SOUP 8/09

Editor Dave Christy of Alpha Beat Press published a poem by leah angstman, port of call, in his August 2009 issue of Cokefishing In Alpha Beat Soup, available for $1 from Alpha Beat Press, 806 E Ridge Ave, Sellersville PA 18960.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

POIESIS LISTED IN LABOUR OF LOVE VOL 32

Poiesis was listed in the Worth Checking Out section of the Volume 32/July 2009 issue of Labour of Love, a Canadian poetry and art magazine put together by Norman Cristofoli. Labour of Love, itself, is definitely worth checking out, so thanks for the exposure and compliment! Purchase the glossy, full-color magazine at: Labour of Love, 47 Marcia Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6B 2Y6. Price is not listed, so be sure to include enough for international postage, as well! (ISSN: 1192-621X)

Thursday, July 2, 2009

POEM BY LEAH ANGSTMAN IN COKEFISHING IN ALPHA BEAT SOUP 7/09

Editor Dave Christy of Alpha Beat Press published a poem by leah angstman, salem witch house, in his July 2009 issue of Cokefishing In Alpha Beat Soup, available for $1 from Alpha Beat Press, 806 E Ridge Ave, Sellersville PA 18960.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

LETTER BY LEAH ANGSTMAN IN DAVE CHURCH TRIBUTE #3

R. Emolo included a postcard sent from leah angstman in For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 In Memoriam.

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Post:
R.
Good to hear from you. Thank you for the Church broadside. Some of the same authors contributed the same works to me, so there will be a couple repeats in my Church tribute, due out mid-March, but I'll be sure to give you simultaneous credit. Here is my Church poem, if you do another broadside. Best to you.

Together for the revolution,
leah

P.S. The title of my poem comes from a line in Taxi Driver -- fitting.
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