Gary Bond reads one more poem – “I Was There” – at Snoetry 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2QNDyRBlY

“I Was There” written and performed by Toledo poet Gary Bond
Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

Gary Bond reads poems at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Pn9AeGPYQ

Written and performed by Toledo poet Gary Bond
Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

Aleathia Drehmer reads at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvgZro-p3Gk

Poetry written and performed by Aleathia Drehmer

Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)
About the author:

Aleathia Drehmer is a collector of yarns and smiles and her child’s raw genius moments. She is the editor of Durable Goods, a literary mini-zine, and a co-editor of Zygote in My Coffee. Her forthcoming book Empty Spaces will be available through Tainted Coffee Press. She has had the privilege of being published by many online journals and print anthologies. You can view her previously published work at: http://myabdication.blogspot.com/ 

Nabina Das reads at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCaNeR6U6o

Poetry written and performed by Nabina Das

Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

About the author:

Nabina lives two lives, shuttling between USA and India. Her first novel Footprints in the Bajra is available from Cedar Books, India, while her poetry and short stories have been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies in North America, India and Australia. Selected as an Associate Fellow for the prestigious Sarai-CSDS Fellowship 2010 (New Delhi India), Nabina has won prizes in poetry contests and is also a 2007 Joan Jakobson fiction scholar from Wesleyan, and a 2007 Julio Lobo fiction scholar from Lesley. A journalist and media person in India and the US for about 10 years in all, Nabina blogs at http://fleuve-souterrain.blogspot.com/ when not writing. A bilingual with a Linguistics Masters, Nabina writes in three languages and is an editor with the literary journal Danse Macabre (USA).

Her book Footprints in the Bajra can be purchased at http://www.pustakmahal.com/book/book/bid,,9531C/isbn:9788122310993/index.

Alex Nielsen reads at Snoetry – part two – 16 January 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt7UX04qtto

Poetry written and performed by Alex Nielsen

Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

About The Author:

Alex C. Nielsen is currently coming down off five years as poet-in-residence at the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo, Ohio – he doesn’t remember much of it, but punching oneself in the head for a living will do that to a man. He’s the kind of guy who would leave a woman pregnant overseas, probably has already, and just doesn’t know it yet. It is also believed by some that he may be wanted by authorities for some nebulous (likely unrelated) offense somewhere in Western Europe. Alex has recently been transplanted in Cleveland, where he lives in a rusted-out boxcar with his current girlfriend and argues obsessively with random people on the Internet via stolen wi-fi signals.

He cannot be reached. Do not bother looking for him. He barely knows where he is himself.

Alex Nielsen reads at Snoetry – part one – 16 January 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMBIGRwblUk

Poetry written and performed by Alex Nielsen

Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

About The Author:

Alex C. Nielsen is currently coming down off five years as poet-in-residence at the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo, Ohio – he doesn’t remember much of it, but punching oneself in the head for a living will do that to a man. He’s the kind of guy who would leave a woman pregnant overseas, probably has already, and just doesn’t know it yet. It is also believed by some that he may be wanted by authorities for some nebulous (likely unrelated) offense somewhere in Western Europe. Alex has recently been transplanted in Cleveland, where he lives in a rusted-out boxcar with his current girlfriend and argues obsessively with random people on the Internet via stolen wi-fi signals.

He cannot be reached. Do not bother looking for him. He barely knows where he is himself.

Chuck Joy reads three poems at Snoetry – 16 January 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3gI9Lar0Q

Poetry written and performed by Chuck Joy

Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

Chuck Joy is a northwestern Pennsylvania poet, co-creator of Poetry Scene at the Erie Book Store, chairman of the Erie County Poetry Committee, and co-chair of the Art Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also the author of Dreamville and Furthur and partner with Kurt Sahlmann in Enhanced Poetry, including for their CD Live @ The Jive!

Order that CD here.

Michael Grover reads at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR9Jv360Ywc

Poetry written and performed by Michael Grover
Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

Recommended works by Michael Grover include The Man That Lives in the Park, …And Death Is All Around Us, The Cleveland Sutra, and Confessions of an American Outlaw 1-13.  He also co-hosts a poetry reading every Tuesday at 9 p.m. at the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo, Ohio.

Visit Michael Grover’s Covert Press: http://www.covertpress.com
and visit him on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/poetxl

Zachary Moll reads at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBsgWcTX4oY

Poetry written and performed by Zachary Moll
Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

Recommended works by Northern Ohio poet Zachary Moll include
the full-length collections 8, Deliberations, Such Is Life,
and the Covert Press half book Love Beengone & Other Poetic Bastards.

Visit Mr. Moll at http://www.facebook.com/poetmoll
and http://www.myspace.com/zacharymollpoetry

See him read at the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo, Ohio on 13 April 2010

John Burroughs reads Bloodshot at Feed the Gays in 2009 – video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9mNet9LYI

John Burroughs reads his poem “Bloodshot” on 4/4/2009 at the 1st annual Feed the Gays
— a benefit at Union Station for the Cleveland State University GLASA scholarship fund

Video/editing by Ken Kitt, courtesy of Poetry Vidz

An early version of this poem, entitled “Rapists,” appears in JB’s chapbook Bloggerel

Read the text here: http://crisisblog.crisischronicles.com/2009/03/22/rapists-aka-bloodshot.aspx