Goodbye Norma, we’ll miss you!
Norma Kassirer, author, poet, painter; influenced generations of writers, artists.
Jan. 14, 1924 – Feb. 17, 2013
Norma Kassirer, a Buffalo author, poet and artist who influenced generations of local writers and artists, died unexpectedly Sunday in Buffalo General Medical Center after going to the movies with friends. She was 89.
A Buffalo native, the former Norma Kelly grew up in Hamburg. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in social work from Case Western Reserve University. She went on to do casework for Buffalo Family Service and, after the birth of her two daughters, began writing.
She was best known for her two novels for children, “Magic Elizabeth” in 1966 and “The Doll Snatchers” in 1969.
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Continental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant Reviewed
“BURGUNDY STRIATIONS AND STRAINS OF ACCORD”: CHERYL PALLANT’S LINGUISTIC DRIFTS
A wonderful review of Continental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant
Reviewed by Joseph Harrington
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/02/cheryl-pallant-linguistic-drifts/
Check out her new book at BlazeVOX [books]
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Check out Nick Mansito’s new tattoo! Yes indeed that is the BlazeVOX logo with a moving quote from Neruda. Now check out Nick’s new book, Miscellaneous Debris
Nick Mansito is just a dude – a dude who writes poems every once in a while. He hopes you
enjoy them. His first book, 3rd & 7th, published by BlazeVox [books] in 2009, is a very weird
(in a good way he wants you to know) collection of poems produced through the interaction
of constraint writing and other influences neither he nor I are legally at liberty to discuss. To
pay his bills and save cash for surf trips (and other extracurricular activities like video games
and miscellaneous vices – he didn’t want me to tell you that), he robs banks and moonlights
as a covert CIA operative codenamed The Spulk. He’s mostly known by his birth name, Dick
Bandito. And he has recently secured the position of bass player for a band called Bring Your
Beats, though they are thinking about changing their name to Free Beer. If you are Charlize
Theron, he wants you to know he is single too and doesn’t mind that you have a baby.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 100 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-128-3
$16
Miscellaneous Debris by Nick Mansito
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Hurray! We are now working on a new server and able to post without worries. It is a good feeling to be able to bring you some good news and reviews that I could not post before. This is because our old server was run by a bunch of lunkheads. Now we are up and running as we should!
Not only have we moved to a new server, but we also moved house in January. For the year of the Snake, we shed a layer of skin and once again, we are shiny and new. Hurray!
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PS: Below is a link to some of my more recent work - enjoy :-)
http://www.valeveil.se/posts/ouxpo-excerpts-from-read-writinghood
http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/reviews/compostmentis-by-aaron-aaps-a-review-by-jj-hastain/
http://www.sibaweb.com/siba-book-award/nominations?resetfilters=0&limitstart8=25
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/7028
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