"Bhang is a magical book. I loved Fried's journey with Anders and Sylvia, and the strange relation each had with the dead filmmaker Antoine, and the silence that steals over him as though he had just had sex, that unreal place of catching up..."
- Kevin Killian
"If John Cheever had done psychedelics he might have ended up with Bhang."
- Brian Evenson
This site was designed by The great Geoffrey Gatza.
COMING SOON Bartleby, the Sportscaster. A novella. (Subito Press, University of Colorado, 2010) "Animated by an uncanny spirit, a profoundly original tenderness. Ted Pelton is a master poet." - Joseph Lease
LEST WE FORGET: BUFFALO IS A BEAT CITY/POVERTY IS ANGELIC
I live in Buffalo, New York. I teach literature and fiction writing at Medaille College of Buffalo. In 2000, I founded Starcherone Books (pronounced "start yer own"). I named it that because nobody but my own press would publish my first collection of stories, Endorsed by Jack Chapeau. But that edition sold out and an expanded 2nd edition is now available. Ten years later, Starcherone is a non-profit publisher of innovative fiction that has published more than 20 books to date (TITLES). Starcherone is a collaborative effort, and would not exist with the efforts & creativity of a number of wonderful and amazing people, Starcherone's Board and Staff, all of whom have volunteered time and effort.
There's a Frank Lloyd Wright house two doors down from the apartment where I live with my wife Susan Muchshima Moynihan, and our daughter, Sophia Boonyen Pelton. One night a couple of years ago I went to dinner with a visiting poet -- and in the restaurant, just a regular restaurant, were two other poets, one of whom was the former winner of a MacArthur grant. Another poet in town won a Pulitzer. And my pal G. Gatza runs BlazeVox Books and the micro-press poetry revolution out of his apartment down the street.
And poverty, America? We beat you there. We've been in a recession... gosh, really, since before the first time I got here, 1983.
Kerouac: "Everything belongs to me because I am poor."
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