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Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology is a collection of erasure poems based on the novels, letters, and poetry of Charles Bukowski. The 41 poets who contributed to the collection have high regard for Bukowski's work and approached this exercise with respect and even awe. So, with love and appreciation, we dedicate this collection to Charles Bukowski, who has inspired so many writers to keep writing and so many people to keep living. Contributors include: Suzanna Anderson, Tara R. Andrews, Beth Ayer, Jenni B. Baker, David Barker, Mary Bast, Alessandra Bava, Brinda Buljore, Kathy Burkett, Tobi Cogswell, Subhankar Das, Melissa Eleftherion, Mark Erickson, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Jeffrey Graessley, S.A. Griffin, Jack Habegger, Mark Habegger, Ara Harris, Mitch Hicks, Wm. Todd King, Laurie Kolp, Paula J. Lambert, Alexander Limarev, Karen Massey, Catfish McDaris, George McKim, DE Navarro, Kelly Nelson, Richard O'Brien, Winston Plowes, David S. Pointer, Sheikha A., Scott Stoller, Keyna Thomas, Melanie Villines, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Zachary Weber, Theresa Williams, Birgit Zartl, Ali Znaidi.

A fun, photo-filled exploration of Ronald Reagan's Hollywood years that reveals how The Gipper evolved into the Great Communicator.

ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD tells the story of J. Herbert Klein - movie producer, builder, impresario, and inventor - who started life as an everyman and ended up working with some of the richest, most powerful people in the world. We meet Klein at the start of World War II as a 21-year-old U.S. Air Force private assigned to a new unit established to defeat the enemy with one of America's greatest inventions - movies. At the base, Klein meets his commanding officer - Captain Ronald W. Reagan, film star and future president of the United States - who puts the young recruit in charge of a top-secret project. In ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD, Klein is finally at liberty to reveal details of this operation - and to describe how Hollywood professionals helped bring about the Allies' victory. After the war, Klein takes over his family's business - and begins to build luxury homes for the rich and famous. During the late-1940s, he builds three houses in Bel Air for Howard Hughes - renowned aviator, entrepreneur, and movie producer - that the billionaire turns into love nests for his teenage protégées. In 1955, opportunity knocks when Hughes taps Klein to produce the star-studded DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL, one of the mogul's final forays into moviemaking that still creates a sensation on Turner Classic Movies. Klein offers new insights about Hughes in ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD - one of the few books about this American icon written from an insider's perspective. During the 1960s, Klein seizes another opportunity when he establishes a business partnership with Jon Hall - leading man of the 1930s and 1940s - that generates patents, technological innovations, and controversy. Hall believes his new invention - the anamorphic camera lens - can capture the invisible, including alien life forms, on film. Klein seeks proof for Hall's incredible claims - and ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD includes evidence, along with out-of-this-world, never-before-published photos.

In this original poetry collection, Silver Birch Press of Los Angeles has gathered poetry chapbooks by 14 distinguished poets from across the United States and produced a unique anthology of verse. Poets of singular and diverse expression are joined together to celebrate the written word in one voice. The reader is treated to not just one or two poems by each author, but to a generous body of work self-contained in 14 separate and distinct chapbooks. If flight is a common language of birds, Swallow Dance is a celebration of poets on the wing. The poets and their chapbooks included in this anthology are: Lightning Storm by John Brantingham All Other Time Is Peace by Kirsten Dierking The Hollywood Catechism by Paul Fericano Bone Box by Chris Forhan Her Blue Dress by Jeffrey Graessley The Democracy of Carbon by Donna Hilbert Beach House by Ruth Moon Kempher Four Years in Pocket Change by Steven Kuhn Out of the Earth by Tamara Madison Aida by Catfish McDaris In the Garden by Carolyn Miller Where the Stars at Night Are Big & Bright by Joan Jobe Smith Letting Go of Ashes by Rick Smith Wasn't Columbus a Bachelor? by Fred Voss

A collection of poetry, short stories, memoirs, book excerpts, interviews, and essays about Charles Bukowski as well as portraits of the author from over 75 writers and artists around the world. Cover Art: Mark Erickson (markerickson.com) and Katy Zartl (birgitzartl.com) Contributing Editors: Jocelyne Desforges, S.A. Griffin, Suzanne Lummis, David Roskos, Joan Jobe Smith, Eddie Woods Contributors include (in alphabetical order): Christopher R. Adams / Sheril Antonio / RD Armstrong / The Art Warriors (Antonio Gamboa) / David Barker / William Barker / Black Sifichi / Harry Calhoun / David Stephen Calonne / Jared A. Carnie / Neeli Cherkovski/ Kim Cooper / Abel Debritto / Henry Denander / Jocelyne Desforges / Rene Diedrich / John Dorsey / Mark Erickson / Dan Fante / Paul Fericano / Karen Finley / Jack Foley / FrancEyE / Ed Galing / Joan Gannij / Anggo Genorga / Marjorie Gilbert / Jeffrey Graessley / S.A. Griffin / win harms / Donna Hilbert / Rodger Jacobs / Linda King / Harvey Kubernik/ Dana Laina / Lautir (Fabrizio Cassetta) / Suzuki Limbu / Michael Limnios / Gerald Locklin / Suzanne Lummis / Marvin Malone / Adrian Manning / Dean Marais / Germa Marquez Catfish McDaris / Ann Menebroker / Heather Minette / Austin Mitchell / Richard Modiano / Jon Monday / Jeff Morgan / Paul Nebenzahl / Gerald Nicosia / Michael O'Brien / bart plantenga / David S. Pointer / Alvaro Pozo / D.A. Pratt / Wendy Rainey / Steve Richmond / David Roskos / Russ Runfola / Richard Schave / Raymond King Shurtz / Joan Jobe Smith / Ben Talbot / Mark Terrill / dirk velvet / Melanie Villines / Fred Voss / Scott Wannberg / Vanessa Wilken / A.D. Winans / Bradley Wind / Erik Woltersdorf / Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood / Tim Youd / Katy Zartl

One Man's Journey From Hollywood's Golden Age to Out-of-this World Experiences! BEYOND HOLLYWOOD tells the story of J. Herbert Klein, an "everyman" who leads a truly extraordinary life. With a Forrest-Gump-like knack for landing in the right place at the right time, a creative and inventive mind, and an enduring curiosity about things beyond the obvious, he is a one-of-a-kind American icon. During Hollywood's Golden Age, Klein was associated with some of the world's richest, most powerful, most celebrated people. He counted Ronald Reagan as a mentor, Frank Sinatra as a friend, Howard Hughes as a boss, Jayne Mansfield as a confidante, and Zsa Zsa Gabor as a leading lady. BEYOND HOLLYWOOD reveals Klein's inside stories of these American icons -- but there's more. A close friend of legendary actor Jon Hall, Klein's adventures include forays into the unusual and unknown, and outright mysteries. Hollywood producer, builder, impresario, inventor, and innovator, after decades of silence, this mover and shaker shares his fascinating, never-before-told stories in BEYOND HOLLYWOOD.

The Silver Birch Press SUMMER ANTHOLOGY is a collection of summer-related poetry, prose poems, short stories, essays, and memoirs from over 70 established and up-and-coming in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Africa. Contributors include: Jeffrey C. Alfier / William Blake / John Brantingham / Julie Cadawallader-Staub / Anton Chekhov / Virginie Colline / Colleen Delegan / Kirsten Dierking / David Dondero / Paul Laurence Dunbar / Barbara Eknoian / Merrill Farnsworth / Paul Fericano / Chris Forhan / Susie Sweetland Garay / Jeffrey Graessley / Syed Afzal Haider / win harms / Donna Hilbert / Rodger Jacobs / Diane Eagle Kataoka / Michael C. Keith / Ruth Moon Kempher / Linda King / Ted Kooser / Thomas Kudla / Moriah LaChapell / Ellaraine Lockie / Gerald Locklin / Tamara Madison / Karen Margolis / Clint Margrave / Catfish McDaris / Daniel McGinn / Lori McGinn / Marcia Meara / Edna St. Vincent Millay / Carolyn Miller / Paul Nebenzahl / Gerald Nicosia / Jax NTP
/ Jason Parker / bart plantenga / Jackie Pledger-Skwerski / Stanley Plumly / Ivon Prefontaine / Conrad Romo / Daniel Romo / Carl Sandburg / William Shakespeare / Raymond King Shurtz / Tere Sievers / Joan Jobe Smith / Rick Smith / Clifton Snider / Dale Sprowl / Kendall Steinle / Caitlin Stern / Robert Louis Stevenson / Tate Swindell / Larry D. Thomas / Thomas R. Thomas / Jeri Thompson / Mary Umans / Dirk Velvet / Philip Vermaas / Melanie Villines / Diane Wakoski / Bruce Weigl / Edith Wharton / Heathcote Williams / Eddie Woods / Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike

Self-portrait poems from 67 poets around the world. The authors offer portraits of themselves that are, by turns, humorous, heartfelt, harrowing, honest, stunning, surreal, and full of surprises. Contributors include: Kathryn Almy, Cynthia Anderson, Ivan Argüelles, Ronald Baatz, Suvojit Banerjee, Carol Berg, Alan Birkelbach, Eric Burke, Ana Maria Caballero, Mary-Marcia Casoly, Tobi Cogswell, Beth Copeland, Anthony Costello, Tasha Cotter, Kaila Davis, Rodrigo V. Dela Peña, Jr., Daniel Patrick Delaney, David Diaz, Barbara Eknoian, Adelle Foley, Jack Foley, Michael Friedman, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Phillip Giambri, John A. Grochalski, Clara Hsu, Elizabeth Jacobson, Loukia M. Janavaras, Mathias Jansson, Jax NTP, Kasey Johnson, Jennifer Lynn Krohn, Angela La Voie, Roz Levine, Alexander Limarev, Stephen Linsteadt, Tamara Madison. Adrian Manning Michael Mark, Daniel McGinn, Victoria McGrath, Bob McNeil, Ann Menebroker, Danielle Mitchell, karla k. morton, Robert Okaji, Jay Passer, Alan Passman, D.A. Pratt, Billy Roberson, Rizwan Saleem, Paul Sands, Rebecca Schumejda, roy anthony shabla, Sheikha A., Jakia Smith, Kimberly Smith, Eddie Stewart, Jacque Stukowski, Rosa Swartz, Simen Moflag Talleraas, Keyna Thomas, Sarah Thursday, A. Garnett Weiss, Denise R. Weuve, Liz Worth, Birgit Zartl

"Windy City Sinners is a freewheeling, wry and whimsical novel about the deepest human feelings and questions." PATRICK T. REARDON (patricktreardon.com) Part crime caper à la Donald Westlake, part magic realism tale in the spirit of Gabriel García Márquez, part John Kennedy Toolesque hijinks and high comedy, Windy City Sinners offers mystery and mayhem with fun and froth mixed in for good measure. The story takes place on the Far Northwest Side of Chicago, right on the edge of town where the cops and members of the Outfit live side-by-side in perfect disharmony. The unlikely partners in crime include a notorious hitman, a detective in league with a drug kingpin, a vengeful mailman, an embezzling bank clerk, a petty holdup man, a conniving cleaning lady, an embittered priest, and the ghost of composer Antonio Vivaldi. At sugarskullpress.com, watch a book trailer for Windy City Sinners and check out our classic and gothic mystery titles.