

This is How She Fails (CC#23) — cover art by Lisa Marie Peaslee
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Lisa J. Cihlar's poems have been published in South Dakota Review, Green Mountains Review, In Posse Review, Bluestem, and The Prose-Poem Project. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first chapbook, The Insomniac’s House, is available from Dancing Girl Press. She lives in rural southern Wisconsin.

Lisa J. Cihlar



desire lines features 17 poems on high quality ivory paper with a cover consisting of ashen orange and white cardstock and bearing an image captured by Steven B. Smith in Oaxaca, Mexico. Dimensions: 8.5 x 7 inches. It is available for $5 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 420 Cleveland Street, Elyria, Ohio 44035.
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 the 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 of 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 eMagazine (Fall 2010). Her poems have appeared online and in print, including a feature in the journal tinfoildresses 2012. Her first chapbook, blood oranges (NightBallet Press, 2011), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Berkeley with her family, her boa constrictor, and way too many cats and dogs.

Chansonette in Lorain, Ohio, 2011 — photo by Dianne Borsenik


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Composed and published 23 March 2012 in a limited edition of 30 copies, Lens is a handmade chapbook featuring a four-page dramatic poem (also called "Lens") by Crisis Chronicles Press publisher John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis. It is not for sale, but was given away during the 27 March Nia Coffeehouse event Poems of Power, Words of Life at St. Alban Episcopal Church, 3555 Euclid Heights Blvd. in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Lens is printed in black and red ink on white recycled paper. Its cover uses "metallics" cardstock by Wassau Paper: Sparkling Merlot on the outside b/w Black Knight on the inside. JB drew the title and eye glyph with a red Sharpie.