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Works By And Featuring Janice Brabaw

Tongue For Folie $13/including S&H

November 20, 2009 marks the official release date for Tongue For Folie, the second full-length collection of poetry by New York City writer Janice Brabaw. Her sophomore effort appears shortly on the heels of her debut publication, Universe, Disturbed, which critics hailed as "full of raw emotion," "fine, powerful original poetry," "soft and fine like silk laced with strychnine" and "Prozac Nation in verse."

Tongue for Folie is Universe, Disturbed all grown up - but yet still seeking, still struggling. Now at thirty, Brabaw doesn't claim to have any answers to the questions posed in her earlier works, but continues to explore emotional quagmires with a rare grace, an open heart, and a captivating insight that infuses every line of her poetry. Her work is deeply personal but yet universally appealing with its brutal candor and stripped-down humanity.

Universe, Disturbed $10/including S&H

I didn't know who Kurt Cobain was.

I hadn't yet heard Liz Phair, The Smiths, or many of the other artists that would have made my adolescence just a tad bit easier. I grew up on a farm six miles outside of the booming metropolis of Hermon, New York (Population 500.) I was a fat, bullied child who ballooned into an obese, depressed teenager. With my hormones and neurotransmitters awry, sometimes the only way I could vent my frustration and pain was in late night sessions of journal writing. Lights off, music on, I'd cry and write and cut my arms with a razor. It was a very difficult time in my life as Borderline Personality Disorder, Social Anxiety, and Depression waged war on my moods and my mind.

Bad adolescent poetry is a rite of passage, something we all write while drowning in a sea of hormones. Maybe song lyrics, maybe a simple flurry of words scrawled in ink amongst the margins of our Mead Composition Books in homeroom. These poems are a bittersweet reflection of my late teens and early twenties when everything was raw and melodramatic. This book reflects who I was between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two (with a few modern selections thrown in at the end).

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The Best of Stain Anthology, Volume Two $7/including S&H

Tangled Up In Blue Productions & Stained Glass Confessional Music & Literary Series are proud to announce the release of The Best of Stain Volume Two featuring:

Jessica Reed
Angel Thompson Georges
Amy Uzi
Boris Zilberman
Jen Bush
Stephanie Darrow
Lori Williams
Caroline Berger
DeLana R.A. Dameron
David Lawton
Eric Crow Draven
Ameilia Terry
Luis Bernard
Reina Miranda
Mike Marcellino

The Best of Stain Anthology, Volume One $7/including S&H

In the fall of 2008, Janice Brabaw created the music and literary series Stained Glass Confessional in Brooklyn, New York. After nearly forty performers and features in Time Out, New York, The Greenline, The Brooklyn Eagle, AMNY, and The NY Daily News, Janice is proud to announce the release of the chapbook anthology, The Best of Stain, Volume One.

The Best of Stain Volume One features: Swapan Basu, Janice Brabaw, Patricia Carragon, Mike Fiorito, Roxanne Hoffman, Valerie Jupe, Laurel Kallen, Nina Karacosta, James Kass, Frank Kelly, Jee Leong Koh, Harry Bentivenga Lichtenstein, Nick Loss-Eaton (Leland Sundries), Jason Madison, Puma Perl, James Skidmore, Carrie VanDenburg, Darcie VanHamlin, and Joe Yoga. Edited by Janice Brabaw with an introduction by James Kass, Host of Stained Glass Confessional.

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Poesis #2 (featuring Janice Brabaw) $7 including S&H

From Alternating-Current:

Poiesis #2, the newest issue of our poetry litzine of various authors, is now available! Chock-full of poets, this issue is our thickest and best yet. Copies can now be purchased online or through the mail for $4 (plus $3 shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA, or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com.

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The Toronto Quarterly #3 (featuring Janice Brabaw) $6.00 on Lulu!

Welcome to issue three of The Toronto Quarterly. We have feature interviews and poetry with Desi Di Nardo and Stephen Morse. Also, in this issue, Janice Brabaw, Ewan Whyte, Lyn Lifshin, Melanie Pierluigi, Elana Wolff, Bernice Lever, Charles Blackstone, Megan Hamilton, Georgiana Marcu, Laura Silver, Michael Salcman, Petra Whitely, Tamir Bar-On and many more.

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