Before the Next Ice by Lisa J. Cihlar (2022)

 Before the Next Ice Age

Lisa J. Cihlar

Crisis Chronicles Press

Cleveland, OH

(c) 2022

Technicalities aside (this is a chapbook with a spine), this chapbook is a great read written by a talented poet and published by an interesting press out of Cleveland, OH. 

27 pages of cool prose poetry. Cover art by the poet herself as well. 

Glad to have it. Glad to have read it. 

If you know anything about Cleveland Ohio small press history, one name reverberated across the city and that name was d. a. levy. John Burroughs isn't exactly a replacement so much as someone who has picked up that baton and begun to carry it forward. Good for him. Good for publishing. Here's to Crisis Chronicles Press. 

Elyria:Point A in Ohio Triangle by Alex Gildzen (2009)

Elyria: Point A in Ohio Triangle
Alex Gildzen
Crisis Chronicle Press
Elyria, OH
(c)2009

I first learned of Alex Gildzen in 2008 when a poet/friend of mine sent me a copy of one of his earlier chapbooks. I was somewhat surprised to see this particular chapbook listed on Paperback Book Swap website since I don't think of chapbooks are items one can swap from there. I was not familiar with the Press but they seem to be pretty active in the North Central part of the state.

Staple-bound, unpaginated on copy paper (bleed-through) with a drawing by author (at age 6) on front.