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Cheryl A Townsend
In the year of my 40th birthday, I opened my life's ambition to the public in the only place I felt would understand it. Kent, Ohio. Stocked with most of the titles those big box stores & their ilk deemed not mainstream enough (ie; independent presses) I began my first year as an entrepreneur. With the help of Suzanne DeGaetano at Mac’s Backs Paperbacks in Cleveland Heights, I connected with all the distributors of all the books a college town like Kent hungered for. Staffed with volunteers, I filled my magazine rack with zines and chapbooks, comix and anarchy. I sold incense and oils, tarot decks and poetry CD's. I hosted readings & musical performances, showcased artwork and put out a monthly newsletter of events and schtuff. We drank wine and beer. We ate cheese and grapes. We poeticized in the alley and sang dirges from the balcony. Poets slept on my floor. Bands practiced after hours. Locals partook of the solitude with keys handed out at random. My cats welcomed everyone that entered my doors. Books were signed, videos taped, and history made.
E-mail me for stock/pricing of what's still left at [email protected]. OR send me your wish list and I'll see if it's here.
An art review/interview done by myself, Cheryl Townsend, on/with NE Ohio artist, Rebecca Urbanski is in the newest issue of Oranges & Sardines. Full color glossy reproductions of selected pieces are available for viewing and your own analysis at :
Oranges & Sardines Issue 3, Winter 2008 - Upload a Document to Scribd
And do check out the mighty fine poets and various delectable writings also within its pages. Buy your own copy.. it's always better to snuggle in with a good book than with a computer screen. Besides that, Mz Didi Menendez deserves your support for the simply mahvelous publications and dedicated nonstop work she continues to produce.
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WOMAN INTO WOLF by Alysse Aallyn

Woman Into Wolf: A True Crime Tale by Alysse Aallyn  WOMAN INTO WOLF by Alysse Aallyn  Murder as Fine Art-The Midnight Reader / 978-1-59712-289-4 / 240pps / $12.95 www.TheMidnightReader.com ...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:14:00 GMT

HALF GIRL by Stephanie Dickinson

Half Girl by Stephanie Dickinson   My review   rating: 4 of 5 starsHALF GIRL by Stephanie Dickinson  Spuyten Duyvil / 1-933132-18-1 / 337pps / $14.00 spuytenduyvil.net   There is d...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:12:00 GMT

Cheryl Townsend in "The Artists Diary"

Cheryl Townsend just had 2 pieces of my work (photograph & painting) published in a collection called The Artists Diary .. an actual diary filled with eclectic art by varied artists. Pretty damn ...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:10:00 GMT

Book Review - VOICES by Lucille Clifton

Voices by Lucille Clifton         VOICES by Lucille Clifton  BOA Editions, Ltd.  978-1-934414-12-5 / 54pps / $16.00     Winner of the National Book Award   Clift...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:16:00 GMT

Book Review: The Cone Ssiters of Baltimore

The Cone Sisters of Baltimore by Nancy Hirschland Ramage THE CONE SISTERS OF BALTIMORE : Collecting At Full Tilt by Ellen B. Hirschland & Nancy Hirschland Ramage  Northwestern University Press...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:49:00 GMT

Book Review - Hesitant Commitments by Pris Campbell

Hesitant Commitments by Pris Campbell - The Lummox Press, POB 5301, San Pedro, CA 90733 / 31pps / $5.00    Poems of that one love we never forget. Memorable for all that it wasn...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:51:00 GMT

Book Review: Anna Nicole by Grace Cavalieri

Anna Nicole : Poems by Grace Cavalieri - Menendez Publishing - 2008 - 978-1434896087 / 73pps / $14.99    Poems, as one would guess, based loosely on the short and pathetic life of Ann...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:54:00 GMT

Book Review

What To Say To Death by Ron Androla  GOSS 183/CASA MENENDEZ - ISBN 978-1440414916     Ron Androla is a poet's poet. Not the Laureate style poet, but the street poet kind. Road rash, septi...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:03:00 GMT

Book Review : Ravenwolf by Kelley Heckart

Ravenwolf by Kelley Heckart - Earthling Press / 978-1-58749-656-1 / 284 pps / $15.99    One needs to get their bearings straight when reading this book, as it follows the normal complex...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:10:00 GMT

Book Review : No Name Harbor by Barbary Chaapel

No Name Harbor by Barbary Chaapel , Publish America / 1-4241-1719-4 / 81pps / $14.95    One one of my near monthly trips down to Tucker County, West Virginia, I stopped in the Mountai...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:57:00 GMT