Lix and Kix Poetry Series:

"Lix and Kix" is a monthly poetry and music extravaganza held every 3rd Tuesday (7 to 9:30 p.m.) in Cleveland.  Hosted by Dianne Borsenik and John "Jesus Crisis" Burroughs, Lix and Kix events are getting a reputation for their excellent featured readers and always-interesting open mic shenanigans.  Visit us at Visible Voice Books (1023 Kenilworth in the Tremont neighorhood) and check out our Lix and Kix MySpace page for more information.  Upcoming featured poets and artists include:

16 June 2009 - Ohio poets Patti O'Luanaigh and Clarissa Jakobsons will be our featured performers for Lix and Kix 9 at Visible Voice Books in Cleveland.  Enjoy the bookstore's popular wine bar and courtyard while you're there!

21 July 2009 - Philip Metres, Terry Provost and (all the way from New York) Will Northerner will be our featured poets.

18 August 2009 - Ra Washington and Kisha Nicole Foster will be featured.

15 September 2009 - Our featured poets will be (all the way from L.A., California)  The Dave Smith, a.k.a. Handsome Duke Deal, and another TBA.

19 October 2009 - Special one-year anniversary Lix and Kix extravaganza!


Other Upcoming Featured Readings:

November 13th 2009 at 8:30 p.m. - John "Jesus Crisis" Burroughs will be featured poet for the Deep Cleveland Poetry Hour at Borders Books and Music in Strongsville, Ohio.


Forthcoming & Recently Published Works by Jesus Crisis:

I Hear Change in the Hessler Street Fair 2009 Poetry Anthology.

Two poems ("Busy Signal to Jerusalem" and "Akimbo") in the May 2009 issue of The November 3rd Club.

Mark This featured in Le Pink-Elephant Press' Second Annual Bookmark Series.

New chapbook just published by Green Panda Press!  It's called Identity Crises and features poetry by Douglas Manson, Bree, and me.  You can order a copy by sending $4 to Green Panda Press, 3174 Berkshire Rd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118.
Throw in two more dollars and get a copy of Green Panda's Crater Cleveland Erie: a Poets' inDirectory, which features some photos by Jim Lang and me.

My "Tooth Telling" was a finalist in Writer's Digest's Red Heart :: Black Heart competition and featured in a WD collection you can download for free by clicking here.  More of my work will be appearing soon in the anthology A Generation Defining Itself: In Our Own Words, in Polarity magazine, and in the July issue of Admit2 (an online magazine of collaborative writing).  I will post more details as soon as they're available.

Peace in Queues appeared in the February 2009 issue of The Cartier Street Review, an international poetry e-zine based in Ottawa, Ontario.

A handful of my works appeared last year in issue 22 ("Giving In") & issue 23 ("Crime Scene") of The City Poetry, a fine underground art and poetry zine based in Cleveland, Ohio.  Read them at www.thecitypoetry.com.

My 2008 self-published chapbook Bloggerel is now available at Mac's Backs Books On Coventry in Cleveland, Ohio.  You may also click here to order Bloggerel securely for $5.00 through Paypal (with no additional charge for shipping and handling) or send a check or money order to John Burroughs, c/o Crisis Chronicles Press, 420 Cleveland Street, Elyria OH 44035.  Only about 10 copies remain, and no more will be printed.

Just published by Crisis Chronicles Press: Dianne Borsenik's Hard Drive/Soft Wear!  Coming soon: Jesus Crisis' Offline, several d.a.levy chapbooks, Hart of Cleveland: Early Poems by Hart Crane, and (sometime during May 2009) the inaugural issue of Fuck Poetry, an anti-censorship collection featuring work by thirty poets - nearly half from northern Ohio and the rest from across the globe.


What you've missed recently:

19 May 2009 - Finally back in Cleveland after years of living abroad, legendary poets, publishers, artists and world travelers Steven B. Smith & Kathy Ireland Smith were our featured readers for Lix and Kix 8 at Visible Voice Books in Cleveland.

March 20th at