Michael Bernstein’s Fracture Mechanics at Lix and Kix 18 May 2011

Michael Bernstein performs his “Fracture Mechanics”
accompanied by T.M. Göttl and guitarist Will Merchant
during the Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza on 18 May 2011
at Bela Dubby, 13321 Madison Ave., Lakewood, Ohio
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

Michael Bernstein is the author of the chapbooks cinderbook (Gold Wake Press, 2009), the rot to light (Gold Wake Press, 2010), 8s (Scantily Clad Press, 2010), imaginary grace (Recycled Karma Press, 2010), from “a heap of swords and mirrors” (Bedouin Books, 2010), the transit illuminate (mud luscious press, 2010), nanostars (greying ghost press, 2010), the Fire District (Differentia Press, 2010), Well (Splitleaves Press, 2010), and death ray (Minutes Books, forthcoming). His poems have appeared in magazines such as New American Writing, Puppy Flowers, milk, Moria, BlazeVOX, Columbia Poetry Review, Conundrum, Ink Node, swap/concessions, 13myna birds, Unscroll, Cannot Exist, A Trunk of Delirium, The Bathroom, The Balloon, Monkey Puzzle, Phraseology, and Pinstripe Fedora. He currently co-edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora, has appeared as a featured reader in numerous U.S. cities, has had his work featured on NPR’s “Chicago Amplified” program, and has written book reviews for Gently Read Literature and Tarpaulin Sky. Michael lives and writes in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

“Fracture Mechanics” appeared in print in the Crisis Chronicles Press chapbook Fracture Mechanics / TRAP DOORS.

 

On the Feast of Snow and Shadow (by T.M. Göttl) – video

T.M. Göttl reads her poem “On the Feast of Snow and Shadow”
2011 Hessler Street Fair Poetry Competition honorable mention winner
at Mac’s Backs in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, on 11 May 2011
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

T.M. Göttl of Brunswick is Vice President of the Ohio Poetry Association and a member of the Buffalo ZEF creative community. Her work is online, in publications such as Pudding Magazine and Verse Wisconsin and has been heard on 91.3 WAPS Akron and 89.7 WOSU Columbus. She is the author of the full-length collection Stretching the Window and the chapbook Angels and Copper.

T.M. Göttl at The Barking Spider in Cleveland – 8 May 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M55xfQhhWZw

T.M. Göttl reads on 8 May 2009 at the Barking Spider in Cleveland, Ohio, during
Tres Versing the Panda: Three Days of Poetry Soiree.  Filmed by Jesus Crisis.
 Event sponsored by Green Panda Press (Cleveland Heights) and The Temple, Inc.

T.M. Göttl, a member of the Buffalo ZEF creative community, won first place the first time she competed in a poetry slam, and she’s been heard on 91.3 WAPS and 89.7 WOSU radio. Her work has appeared online and in print, in publications such as Pudding Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, Common Threads, The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology, Opium Press, The Poet’s Haven, and others. Her first full-length collection, Stretching the Window, was published in 2008.

Find more T.M. Göttl at http://www.buffalozef.net/artists/tmgottl.

T.M. Göttl at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010 – part two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrURqvng0lE

Poetry written and performed by T.M. Göttl

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:

T.M. Göttl, a member of the Buffalo ZEF creative community, won first place the first time she competed in a poetry slam, and she’s been heard on 91.3 WAPS and 89.7 WOSU radio. Her work has appeared online and in print, in publications such as Pudding Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, Common Threads, The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology, Opium Press, The Poet’s Haven, and others. Her first full-length collection, Stretching the Window, was published in 2008.

Find T.M. at http://www.buffalozef.net/artists/tmgottl.

T.M. Göttl at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010 – part one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC5rLJQI_G4

Poetry written and performed by T.M. Göttl

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:

T.M. Göttl, a member of the Buffalo ZEF creative community, won first place the first time she competed in a poetry slam, and she’s been heard on 91.3 WAPS and 89.7 WOSU radio. Her work has appeared online and in print, in publications such as Pudding Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, Common Threads, The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology, Opium Press, The Poet’s Haven, and others. Her first full-length collection, Stretching the Window, was published in 2008.

Find T.M. at http://www.buffalozef.net/artists/tmgottl.

Cheese (by T.M. Göttl) – video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxBc-feobjc

“Cheese” by T.M. Göttl, all rights reserved

Read by the author at Cleveland’s Literary Cafe on 12 March 2009

Camera & editing by Ken Kitt, courtesy of PoetryVidz
http://www.youtube.com/user/poetryvidz


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Order T.M. Göttl’s acclaimed poetry collection Stretching the Window here
To check out T.M. Göttl’s www.buffalozef.net artist page, click here
Visit T.M. Göttl on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/tmgottl

Get your poetry fix at the Literary Cafe (1031 Literary Road, in Cleveland)
on the second Thursday of every month from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

The Last (by T.M. Göttl) – video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHzhVjBe1E


“The Last” © 2009 by T.M. Göttl, used with permission

Read by the author during the Deep Cleveland Poetry Hour 
at Borders Books in Strongsville, Ohio,  8 August 2008

Camera & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis


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Order T.M. Göttl’s acclaimed poetry collection Stretching the Window here.

To check out T.M. Göttl’s www.buffalozef.net artist page, click here.

Visit T.M. Göttl on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/tmgottl.

Confessions, Part II (by T.M. Göttl)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3SiEZB5FEw

(c) 2008 T.M. Göttl, all rights reserved
Included in the Crisis Chronicles Library with the poet’s permission

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Order T.M. Göttl’s acclaimed poetry collection Stretching the Window here.

To check out T.M. Göttl’s www.buffalozef.net artist page, click here.

Visit the poet on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/tmgottl.

She’s also very involved in the Evening for Chuck benefit for Pancreatic Cancer, which will be held on Sunday, September 14th 2009.  Please check out www.eveningforchuck.com for more information and to show your support for this very important cause.

Out of the Desert (by T.M. Göttl)

T.M. Göttl at Cleveland’s Literary Cafe, 10 July 2008 [photo by Jesus Crisis]


Out of the Desert

A liar and a cheater,
like a crayon-painted road sign
melting waxy puddles through
tomorrow afternoon, I
never quite believed
in men with wings—
big and great golden eagle wings,
growing from their shoulder blades—
no.  I never quite believed,
although I said I did.  

Because I always watched my brothers,
carrying the weather on their backs,
past the blue welding light,
scouring the steam-loving cranes
until they burned and bled and
cracked all the gunmetal nightlights,
lifting iron ladders, girders
crossed into star-shaped flowers
worshipping a dead and contrived
second sun.  

And I said no.

I painted neon pink and silver
over all the attic drywall,
called it Heaven, climbed those eighteen stairs
every afternoon at four o’clock,
said my prayers, almost
thought I heard the saints
talking back to me.  

And then I stood on the crystal jukebox
declaring, in forty different tongues
like a knighted prophet in
leather sandals and a corduroy tunic, that
yes, I believe
men can grow
glossy wings from their backs,
crossing canyons and vaulting the rapids.  

I had to believe.
But I never quite believed.  

And the doubt?  I knew it,
a chewing nest of carpenter vermin
drinking the ink out of prayer books
and clipping black eyes to the curtains.  

They chased me from the cathedral,
from the railroad, from the statehouse.
They chased me from the school and
from the grocery, from the park.  

They chased me to an old garage
underneath an old factory.
And there, without fish-tail testimonials
or a porcelain-faced audience,
there, I found
a man, with wings,
who showed me how
to find my own, auburn and burgundy-feathered,  

crossing lakes and vaulting
the heroic moon I’d never met.
And finally, finally, I believed.



(c) 2007 T.M. Göttl, all rights reserved

www.buffalozef.net
www.eveningforchuck.com

“Out of the Desert” included in the Crisis Chronicles Library with the poet’s permission


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“Out of the Desert” appears in T.M. Göttl’s book Stretching the Window.  Order it here.

To check out T.M. Göttl’s BuffaloZEF.net artist page, click here.

T.M.’s address on MySpace is http://www.myspace.com/tmgottl.

She’s also very involved in the Evening for Chuck benefit for Pancreatic Cancer, which will be held on Sunday, September 14th 2009.  Please check out www.eveningforchuck.com for more information and to show your support for this very important cause.  Please!