Leigh Herrick & Peter Stein at AlteredScale.com #4 Launch Reading

The AlteredScale.com Issue 4 Launch Reading was held at Boneshaker Books on Sept. 21. Leigh and Peter took part. A few other people in the launch also appear on the blog this week, including Featured Artist Jonathan Brannen.




Leigh Herrick
LeighHerrick.com

Peter Stein
Stein’s Website

AlteredScale.com Issue 4 Launch Reading: Featured Artist Jonathan Brannen

The AlteredScale.com Issue 4 Launch Reading took place at Boneshaker Books in Minneapolis on July 21. The first two videos display Jonathan reading his poetry, and the third shows him singing an original Americana song. In the next week, videos by the other participants will appear.


 







"Like Birds Embrace the Sky" (words, music and performance by Jonathan Brannen)

[Sorry about the camera angle. I forgot to adjust when he sat down. But you can still hear it. --Jeff]

the FACTory

by Mary Kasimor

the breathless WHisper

BREATHless

secrets ARound my SELVEs

THE men pinnED me

down to examine LISTS TATtooed

onto my skin

I WAS

an original butterFLY

they took my WINGs

&I COllapSEd into a synthesized

SEA

there were ENDLESS products before
the wordS WERE found

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Mary Kasimor is a regular contributor to this blog.

Braille Dawn

by John Grey

oh my eyeless son

rippling flashings tell

some busted icy speeches

as supermarket brands

stuff the blind canal -

parallel sheets of wind

rock the dawn

thrash the light,

travel vibrant with your words -

sit back and watch you

wander in them –

one sharp blast

and you will shatter –

you feel like all those

who can only know

the lineal thunders –

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John Grey is an Australian born poet. Recently published in International Poetry Review, Chrysalis and the science fiction anthology, Futuredaze with work upcoming in Potomac Review, Sanskrit and Fox Cry Review.

Rorschach

by Peter Stein

(Click on poem to isolate it.)

_____________________

Peter Stein appears in AlteredScale.com 4.

Peter William Stein is a Minnesota poet and a father of four sons. His poems have been published in The Edge Magazine, Kerouac's Dog Magazine, the Planet Formerly Known as Earth, and the Zumbrota Crossings Poet and Artist Collaboration. He has read his poetry at various reading series in the Minneapolis area, and actively involved with the League of Minnesot a Poets. You can check out his work online at www.pwilliamstein.com.

AlteredScale.com Issue 4: Out and the Launch Reading is LIVE

AlteredScale.com Issue 4 Launch Reading

****At 5 pm Central Time today (July 20), AlteredScale.com Issue 4 is out and live on the Internet****

To celebrate, we will have a launch reading:

Sat., Sept. 21 at 7 pm

Boneshaker Books

2002 23rd Ave S  Minneapolis, MN 55404
(Corner of Franklin and 23rd Avenue)

(612) 871-7110

Featuring: Jonathan Brannen

Jonathan Brannen is the author of twelve volumes of poetry and five books of visual literature, including two books by TheAlteredScalePress—Sway and turning point. Recent collections include this is visual poetry (this is visual poetry chapbooks, Kingston PA, 2010), a sequence of full color word art; Mona Lisa (Avantacular Press, 2010), a sequence of visual poems he created combining computer constructed images and photocopying between 1975 and 1982; and Deaccessioned Landscapes, a collection of technically innovative sonnets (Chax Press, Tucson, AZ, 2005). His poetry and fiction have been anthologized in five countries on three continents and translated into two languages. He grew up in Florida and currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Also appearing:
Leigh Herrick
Tom Cassidy
Elisabeth Workman
George J. Farrah
Terrence Folz
Ann Bogle
Lenora Drowns
Ann Tweedy
Gretchen Marquette
& maybe more

The Smell of an Elevator

by Marc Vincenz



I’ve never known an elevator
to stink so much of garlic.


It must be Mister Huang
who’s always farting


on the way to work.
Perhaps I should have a chat


with his good wife;
though, they say


she’s a good cook
and you know


how good cooks are
about taking advice.

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Marc Vincenz is a regular contributor to this blog. He appeared in AlteredScale.com issue 2, and he edits MadHat.

See his entry at Poets & Writers.