BlazeVOX
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BUFFALO, New York
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Last Login: 6/6/2008
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Books• Bhang by Ted Pelton • Dreadful Quietude by Geoffrey Gatza • Circular Descent by Ray Bianchi • War on Words by John Bradley • Vel by Alan Sondheim • Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King • American Godwar Complex by Patrick Herron • Quinn's Passage by Kazim Ali • Epigramititis by Kent Johnson • To Be Sung by Michael Kelleher • Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke • Mainstream by Mike Magee • The History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester • I wear a figleaf over my penis by Geoffrey Gatza • I Want My Mommy by Cameron Kidman • Nonexistence by Kenji Siratori • Line And Pause by Forrest Roth • WINDOW ON THE CITY by Michael Ruby • The Lost Atlas of Desire by Jeremy Downes • Alphaville by Peter Jay Shippy • Disparity by Steven Timm • Naming God by Jennifer J. Thompson • Victory by Clarice Waldman • Ladders In July by William Allegrezza • Taste: Gastronomic poems by Francis Raven • Inbox by Noah Eli Gordon • A Pure Bowl of Nothing by Mary Kasimor • Stirring Within Poems and Tales from Mount Carmel by G Emil Reutter • Finger ExOrcised by Joe Amato • The Ecstasy of Capitulation by Daniel Borzutzky • Face Blindness by Megan A. Volpert • The Bird Hoverer by Aaron Belz • Autobiography of a Stutterer by Joseph Cooper • having been blue for charity by Kari Edwards (in production) • Holiday Idylling by Vernon Frazer • [#1 - #46] by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen • Black Diamond Golden Boy Takes Bull By Horns by Geoffrey Gatza • Thanksgiving Poems : a feast to honor Charles Bernstein, Forrest Gander, Kent Johnson, Robert Creeley & John Ashbery by Geoffrey Gatza • Sidewalk Portrait by Richard Henry • Morphology by Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump (in production) • homemade traps for new world Brians by Evan Willner (in production) • Aurora by Jared Schickling • Reading Gaol by Javier Rube • Factory Manual by Michel Jérome Dufrénoy
HeroesCharles Bernstein, Forrest Gander, Kent Johnson, Robert Creeley & John Ashbery

     BlazeVOX's Details
Status:In a Relationship
Here for:Networking
Hometown:Kenmore, NY
Body type:6' 3"
Ethnicity:Other
Zodiac Sign:Gemini
Occupation:Poet / Publisher

   BlazeVOX's Schools
Daemen College
Amherst, NY
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
 

1998 to 2002
Culinary Institute Of America
Hyde Park, NY
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
 

1991 to 1993

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Publishing - Editor - Managing
BlazeVOX Books has published over 40 volumes, mostly poetry, and will publish approximately 20-25 more each year during 2007 and 2008. Our latest publications, are by Noah Eli Gordon, Joe Amato and Megan Volpert. Also just out is the latest double-is
Publishing - Writer - Poet
Geoffrey Gatza is a poet and editor of BlazeVOX [ a refuge ]. He is the author of several books of poetry including I Wear A Figleaf Over My Penis and Thanksgiving Poems. A former United States Marine; and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of Amer
Publishing - Editor - Managing
BlazeVOX Books has published over 40 volumes, mostly poetry, and will publish approximately 20-25 more each year during 2007 and 2008. Our latest publications, are by Noah Eli Gordon, Joe Amato and Megan Volpert. Also just out is the latest double-is
Publishing - Writer - Poet
Geoffrey Gatza is a poet and editor of BlazeVOX [ a refuge ]. He is the author of several books of poetry including I Wear A Figleaf Over My Penis and Thanksgiving Poems. A former United States Marine; and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of Amer

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BlazeVOX [books]
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About me:
Geoffrey Gatza is a poet and editor of BlazeVOX [ a refuge ]. He is the author of several books of poetry including I Wear A Figleaf Over My Penis and Thanksgiving Poems. A former United States Marine; and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and Daemen College. He works as a chef at the Mansion on Delaware when not immersed in the running of the press. He lives in Buffalo, NY with his partner Donna and two beloved cats Blaze and Clarice.
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David Rowe





Aug 26 2008 8:54 PM

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Happy Cortazar's Birthday, y'all!

davIdiot RAw.
"If you can't beat em: Poem.
"
David F. Hoenigman





Aug 13 2008 3:24 PM

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David Rowe





Aug 1 2008 1:52 PM

Raise your glass: Today's Catholic Boy (redeemed thru pain, not thru joy) Jim Carroll's b-day...

davIdiot RAw.
"If you can't beat em: Poem.
"
Gina





Jun 19 2008 4:45 PM

Happy Birthday Geoffrey--I hope you have a good one! xo
David Rowe





Jun 19 2008 1:00 PM

Happy Birthday, & Happy Juneteenth (the ritual of struggle is our mutual inheritance)!

davIdiot RAw.
Aine MacAodha Poetry. AKA (Ann Keys)





Jun 16 2008 10:39 PM

Have a smashing birthday and big hugs from Ireland,

Slainte;
Aine
Elizabeth





Jun 13 2008 10:00 PM

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday tooooo Yoooou. Haaaapppppy Birrrrrrrrrrrthdaaaay, Haaaapppppppy Birthhhhhdaaaaaay, Happy Birrrrrttthhhdaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooo Yooooooooooooooooooooou!
Celebrate and dance with gusto. Drink good wine or have (chocolate) whatever. And CAKE! Don’t forget the CAKE!!!

~Elizabeth
oscar





May 7 2008 10:42 AM

many cheers BlazeVOX
greetings from sunny manchester
David Rowe





May 7 2008 3:14 AM

Thanks for the add from New Orleans.

Hoping you find that mine is a kindred voice of fire,

davIdiot RAw.
Donna





May 6 2008 10:20 PM

Geoffrey You're great!!! Thanks for everything
David F. Hoenigman





Apr 27 2008 3:25 PM

my Word Riot interview please click beetles
David F. Hoenigman





Mar 16 2008 2:19 PM

The book that will blow the roof off everything!! - out now on amazon
The Smoking Poet





Mar 16 2008 3:03 AM

THE SMOKING POET Spring Issue 2008 – Online Now!


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If you haven't yet had the intense literary pleasure of immersing yourself in a Sue Miller novel, please meet: Sue Miller, our feature author.


Also in this issue: our feature poet, Harry Owen, Poet Laureate of Cheshire, England.


Wander through four pages of poetry by many fine poets from various points across the globe... then lose yourself in a collection of stories, essays, and a memoir that will haunt you for days. Continue your tour of Greece, part two, then don't forget to read the book reviews. Gracing these pages with watercolor and oil paintings, etchings and charcoal sketches is the artwork of Viestarts Aistars.


Feel the creative juices flowing yet? Your muses awakening? Ah, then you mustn't miss TSP's First Annual Short Story Contest, underway now. Visit The Smoking Poet today!


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justin sirois





Jan 14 2008 1:09 PM




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Jeffrey Side





Dec 30 2007 8:17 PM

Happy New Year! Keep up the good work.
The Smoking Poet





Dec 26 2007 3:03 AM

THE SMOKING POET - Winter 2007-08 Issue Online Now!
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How quickly one year rolls by! This issue of TSP is our one-year anniversary issue, with feature author, Russell Rowland; feature poet, William Doreski; travel essay on Greece by Jeannie Sanders; and pages of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, book and cigar reviews, links and resources, and more. Visit TSP today to see why we have grown so quickly: A fine cigar and good literature, two of life's finest pleasures.


To submit your work for the spring issue, see our submission guidelines at THE SMOKING POET.

Rattling Books





Dec 11 2007 1:15 PM

Christmas Razorbill Colouring Sheet – Nerve Pill

This season,
Colour and be Calm


Best wishes from RattlingBooks.com
kara





Oct 25 2007 11:12 AM

4077th





Oct 22 2007 4:38 PM

Hey Geoff long time how is everything going ???/
Andrew Lundwall





Oct 9 2007 9:57 PM

it's good to be in current issue...thanks geoffrey!
Hecale





Sep 17 2007 5:11 PM

Hi BlazeVOX, thanks for befriending Hecale. Added a banner link in the site's Small Press Listings/ All the best.

Hecale - A Portal for Writers
Michael S. Begnal





Sep 4 2007 5:44 AM

My collection Ancestor Worship has just been published by Salmon Poetry (Ireland), for real. For anyone interested, please buy at the above link (directly from the publisher). If you need to, it's also available on Amazon.



Ancestor Worship
Poems by MICHAEL S. BEGNAL

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12.00 Euro | Paperback | 130 x 204mm | 72 pages | ISBN 978-1-903392-54-3 | June 2007

"Unusual routes become strategies. Mike Begnal is Irish-American, he writes in English and Irish, he can invent a hybridisation of st yle. Ancestor Worship is an extension of this, it can take on a new romancing and deciphering: 'the warm blood / that flows through to this age, / dangerous and violent in veins...' Likewise a journey or pilgrimage can be undertaken somewhere, from 'olive-green felt couch' to 'olive sky'. The essential is no one has been quite there before, along the genealogy or amid the furniture." --James Liddy
David Caddy





Aug 6 2007 6:31 AM

Hi Geoffrey,

Good to meet you. I have been greatly impressed by BlazeVox books. I have a copy of The Bird Hoverer by Aaron Belz, one of my favourite recent books.

All the best, David
Michael S. Begnal





Aug 1 2007 9:42 PM

zafusy





Jul 30 2007 8:39 PM

Thanks for adding us BlazeVOX. Keep up the good work.


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zafusy: contemporary poetry journal
Donora Hillard





Jul 29 2007 5:30 PM

I sent you the last edits for the last time last week, sir. Thanks for taking such good care!
[ marco ]





Jul 29 2007 3:46 PM




thx 4 add !!!

marco




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Jul 7 2007 11:22 PM

Hi Geoff. What's with the boomerang wallpaper? I think you have a secret inkling to be an antipodean? Ms D
Donora Hillard





Jun 20 2007 2:29 AM

Happy Birthday!
Mag Man





Jun 19 2007 8:41 PM

Have a happy/healthy birthday, G.!
(P.S. HOPE YOU'RE READING "transeXotica"??)
justin sirois





Jun 19 2007 2:34 PM

The Smoking Poet





Jun 19 2007 1:36 AM

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Summer 2007 Issue
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The Summer 2007 Issue of The Smoking Poet is online now! Our thanks to our many fine contributors in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, book and cigar reviews. To our many readers, we hope you will continue to read and enjoy TSP as we grow.

A standing ovation to Dorianne Laux, poet extraordinaire and one of today's beacons of word-light in contemporary poetry; don't miss our feature author interview with Dorianne. Even her answers to our probing questions are sheer poetry.

Also, feature poet Lori Williams, one of our newest discoveries, soon to be yours, whose poetry evokes wave upon wave of emotion.

Poetry by Michelle Bitting Abrams, Forrest Armstrong, Matty Bram, Ryan Crossan, Joshua Daniel, Gabriel Dey, Edna Floretta, Dan Halpern, Jennifer Harding, William K. Lawrence, Adrienne Lewis, C O McCauley, Ryan McLellan, Peter Magliocco, Christopher Major, Crawdad Nelson, Lori Noll, Judith Skillman, Ray Succre.

Fiction by Theadora Brack, Roger Real Drouin, Sarah Hohman, Louisa Howerow, Craig Kirchner, Wayne Scheer, Lori Williams.

Non-Fiction by Andrew D. Blechman, Jeannette Cézanne, Jothy Rosenberg.

Six book reviews, five cigar reviews, links and resources for writers and cigar aficionados - something for every reader.

Visit The Smoking Poet today and immerse yourself in smoky pleasure...


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