cross+roads press

How do I run Cross+Roads Press? I try to keep it as simple as possible. It’s a 500 pound bear that will eat you alive if you let it. Sometimes the bear eats you. Sometimes you teach him to dance. You’ve got to learn to dance with the bear. Norbert Blei

Late in 1994, writer [...]

percaso | christoph gallio

percaso production was established in 1986 by Swiss saxophonist and composer Christoph Gallio who operates the label singlehandely. percaso production is a “subjective” label not charakterized by certain musical styles, but rather a selection by director’s choice. Quality of musical expression counts; commercial determinans not. percaso production collaborates with visual artists in packaging. Danish graphic [...]

jeffrey winke

Jeffrey Winke lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a downtown industrial loft with his wife, two-thirds of his children and a posse of four cats where he plies his skills as a PR counselor, magazine editor and adjunct university professor at the Milwaukee Center of Upper Iowa University.
Jeffrey Winke co-edited the first small press North [...]

kevin frenette

Download listen to The Kevin Frenette 4 | merger doctrine
The Kevin Frenette 4: Connections
(fsm 1781-2)
Kevin Frenette – guitar | Andy McWain – piano | Todd Keating – bass | Tatsuya Nakatani – percussion
Tracklist: 1. connections (6:36) 2. network theory (8:12) 3. logic synthesis (4:00) 4. correlation coefficient (6:22) 5. amalgamation (7:49) 6. combinatorial mathematics (9:06) [...]

raindog

RD Armstong aka Raindog Photo: Jim Coke
My friends call me Raindog. About fifteen years ago, I realized that there was more to life than working, eating, sleeping and messin’ around with some gal. So I began a search for the one thing that would fulfill me. I soon realized that there was no single [...]

norbert blei

Norbert Blei
born in Chicago, the author of a trilogy concerning that city and its people, Chi Town, Neighborhood, and The Ghost of Sandburg’s Phizzog has lived in Door County, Wisconsin since l969 and written extensively about Wisconsin as well. He has taught, lectured, given writing workshops throughout the state and the Midwest, and is the [...]

jared smith

Jared Smith is a prominent figure in contemporary poetry, technology research, and professional continuing education. Having earned his BA cum laude and his MA in English and American Literature from New York University, he spent many years in industry and research. Starting in 1976, he rose to Vice President of The Energy Bureau, Inc. in [...]

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Zeitgeist Press
started in 1986 to publish work from a group of poets generating tremendous heat at the Cafe Babar readings in San Francisco. It was originally a collective more than a traditionally structured press, which explains both the press strengths and weaknesses. All the way back to the [...]

poesy mag

bringing intense human emotion to the eyes of the unexpected

Brian M Morrisey about Brian M Morrisey
True human emotions inspire me to devote words that leave a lasting impression. At the age of fourteen I discovered the power poetry possessed my existence. Since then I have been writing and publishing on a steady basis. One of [...]

bayou seco


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Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie, who form the heart of Bayou Seco, have been researching and playing the music of the Southwest USA – from the Mississippi to the deserts of Arizona – for twenty two years. Respectfully drawing from these traditions and from their own ancestors, they present [...]