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So great to meet @njjenwroblewski and see her wonderful new space @goldscopophilia ! 1. @kristenhassenfeld #kristinhassenfeld 2. @lbtk #leahtacha 3. @meglipke #meglipke ... other works included in the show from #heidipollard and #melissavandenberg ... Thank you @mandattacks for the invite ! So excited to have this wonderful space in our community showing fantastic contemporary art. #painting #scuplture #textileart #worksonpaper #ceramics (at Gold / scopophilia)

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"THIS" AMERI-CAN-AH BY CURTIS L. CRISLER Launching January 1st, 2016 PRE-ORDERS available now! Only $16.95 on Cherry Castle Publishing https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=B4XE3DH67Q2DY PRAISE FOR "THIS" AMERI-CAN-AH: Crisler out-schools every school of American poetry in this new book that is formally diverse and attractively multi-voiced. But in all of these odes, elegies, litanies, and contrapuntal clap-backs, there is a commitment to exploring the vernacular that keeps his "This" Amer-ican-ah a book that sounds much more like an intimate conversation between too long lost brothers. Or, as Crisler himself puts it, "...You bend words into lives that / live. Most get grounded. Some take sky." - Jericho Brown, American Book Award Winner Curtis L. Crisler has a humorist's knack for off-kilter Rockwellian portraiture. Among the models for his odd Americana, a way-gangsta Amish dude, a rabbit lamenting a kind of gentrification, an elementary school teacher dropping n-bombs for lit's sake, and men jeans-deep in muddy water, their arms inside giant catfish. All these and more Crisler renders genially enough that you may not notice how each is set against a background in a broken land. A land the poet insists is ours. All of ours. - Douglas Kearney, National Poetry Series Award Winner - Cover Design: Deb Dulin / Melissa Vandenberg (c) 2015