March 7, 2013
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Gilded Lady – foto Smith
There’s a temp dental plate in my mouth past three weeks and it is not the most enjoyable acclimation — my tongue’s roamed my mouth 67 years and abruptly finds itself restricted top, front and sides by plastic. We’ve a book reading in nine days, down in the college town of Kent; be interesting to see how I perform.
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WHO: Standing Rock Cultural Arts Rock in the River Literary Series in cooperation with Last Exit Books and with support of Wild Goats Cafe
WHAT: Rick Marlatt “Desired Altitude” Launch Reading with SRCA Friends Steven and Lady K (Kathy Ireland) Smith
-Launch of “Desired Altitude”
-Smith Book Tour of “Stations of the Lost & Found” Memoir
-Readings by Rick Marlatt and Smith & Lady
-Books available for purchase & signing
-FREE to attend
WHEN: Saturday, March 16, 2013 – 7:30 PM
WHERE: Last Exit Books (in back of bookstore)
124 E. Main St #3, Kent, Ohio 44240 – (330) 677-4499
CONTACT: Standing Rock Cultural Arts
257 N Water St / Kent OH 44240
330-673-4970 / info@standingrock.net
ABOUT ROCK IN THE RIVER LITERARY SERIES
The Standing Rock Cultural Arts Rock in the River Literary Series is the press portion of our literary sector with a mission to promote literary arts in our general area and to promote local and national poets with publication. The series launched with the Premiere Standing Rock Open Poetry Chapbook Competition in July 2010 and our first title launched in February 2011.
ABOUT “DESIRED ALTITUDE” BY RICK MARLATT
The captain says feel free to move but I’m not going anywhere…
Rick Marlatt’s newest collection opens with this take on modern society in a multidimensional dreamlike void where myth meets math, theology meets technology, and spirituality meets the stagnation of a world saturated in electronic static. Like any intriguing and complex dream, Marlatt’s multi-layered collection is woven together through an impressive number of binding threads that lead the reader through a fascinating loop of reflections on everything from ancestral roots, spirituality, myth, and the natural world to the psyche, tension, and the fatigued technological hangover of a desolate decade of “connected” disconnect.
While readers feel as if smoke signals and spirit animals are leaving a web of warning and igniting the speaker’s anxieties at every turn, they will want to learn whether the speaker successfully navigates the mechanics of this over amped dimension where “the buffalo are all gone” and “pigeons are actuated by satellites,” where even “the microwave wants a little rest. / The light switch pines for solitude.” Subsequently, Desired Altitude will leave enlightened readers relieved to relocate the ability to find simple resolution within themselves. In a unique and subtle man-versus-machine missive, a constant bevy of new discoveries to consider both surprises and pleases with each subsequent read.
ABOUT RICK MARLATT
Rick Marlatt’s first book, How We Fall Apart, was chosen as the winner of the 2010 Seven Circle Press Poetry Award.
Rick is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Riverside, where he served as poetry editor of the Coachella Review. Previously, he studied English and Philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where he also earned a MA in Creative Writing, and he is currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A teacher, poet, screenwriter, and literary critic, Rick’s work has appeared widely in print and online publications. He lives in Nebraska with his wife and their two sons. His website is rickmarlatt.com.
ABOUT “STATIONS OF THE LOST & FOUND” BY SMITH & LADY
The man Cool Cleveland labeled “everything your mother warned you about” (2003) has released an autobiography that continues his tradition of shock and awe.
The book, *Stations of the Lost & Found: A True Story of Armed Robbery, Stolen Cars, Outsider Art, Mutant Poetry, Underground Publishing, Robbing the Cradle and Leaving the Country* by Smith & Lady, is the story of Steven B. Smith, a Cleveland artist who pursued the outrageous and the good, finally finding meaning in art, poetry and odd life experiences.
The back book blurb sums it up:
Drug orgies, massive refindings of reality, the acceptance of interdimensions. Errant life scout, cultural adventurer, perception tester, court jester, inner seeker, reality adjuster, flow surfer, servant and searcher of Other.
Born in Bitterroot, raised on Paradise Prairie, farm boy, car thief, Naval Academy, expelled for dope, society marriage, armed robbery, jail, illegal loft dweller, Artcrimes, rat attacks, overdose, celibate, remarried, expat. Ran from the cops ten times, got away nine.
ABOUT LADY K (KATHY IRELAND SMITH)
Kathy Ireland Smith, a.k.a. Lady K, is a poet, publisher, artist and surreal photographer from northeast Ohio. She and her husband Smith spent 31 months of traveling in 10 countries on 3 continents from 2006-9, and you can follow their ongoing adventures at WalkingThinIce.com. Kathy is also founder and editor of The City Poetry (www.thecitypoetry.com), a cutting edge art and poetry zine based in Cleveland.
ABOUT SMITH (STEVEN B. SMITH)
Steven B. Smith was born, is living, will die. Smith has been a poet 49 years, artist 48 years, publisher of the Artcrimes journal 27 years, editor of AgentOfChaos.com, 10 years, WalkingThinIce.com blogger 7 years, ReverbNation.com/MutantSmith singer & lyricist 2 years.. He and his wife Lady K just published a memoir of Smith’s life and crimes “Stations of the Lost & Found.”
Etch-a-Smith – foto Smith
