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On Thursday July 26, 2012 we're excited to present along with The Chicagoan a night of Words & Music at the Empty Bottle (1035 N.

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*Photo by Stephanie Bassos, Chicago-based photographer.

Franki Elliot is a 20-something author from Chicago and blogs for us every Monday.  Curbside published her first book Piano Rats (October 2011).  A typewriter is her weapon of choice.  For more Franki typewriter stories visit http://frankielliottypewriter.tumblr.com/

If I had distant lights for eyes
I could find you from far;
from smoke and spirits , unravelling
unexplained. They set us down
but turn away. But
beholden to no faith,
staying straight and true the whole of
me lengthens into loving you.
It is incorporeal, to write of it
and when my work is finished
I lay. But, at twilight, the flooring's swept,
the loom removed in lowering steps
and a hearth of sparks is overturned.
In dreams, I know unfailing life.
Did we not walk in reverie an Eden
of the evening long? Did we not stop
beneath a cataract and,
naked in rapture, press our lips below
its spill? Do I not love you well
who carries from his sleep
an odor of stars?

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Charles Bane Jr. is an American Poet.  Curbside Splendor published his first book The Chapbook (July 2011) and will publish his second book New Poems (October 2012) via Concepcion Books, a new Curbside imprint.

Yeah I get it, you have a camera. You like to capture the souls of all those empty sacks of flesh doing inane things at inane places.

With your momentary image prison you kidnapped the spirit of an instant, all the while forgetting to exist in the meaningless shudder-click of the universe’s being.

I get it.  You were documenting your boring and unimportant life barfs.  I totally get it.  You took these unflattering and invasive-poor quality stills to hang up in the creative diarrhea shelf of your computer’s hard-drive.  Force those pictures into the eye-holes of all of your friends and show them how totally creative of a snow-flake you really are.

Totally get it.

This whole “living in the flesh thing with all its beauty and never-ending sights thing”, sucks dick.  The whole “eyeball to brain” way of living is such a fucking drag.

Man… fuck those eyeball things.  Being bogged down with the minutia of looking at something then processing it thoughtfully and having a unique and beautiful way of interpreting the image is such bullshit.

I get it, you got a camera.

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Zach Medearis is the frontman for Chicago band Outer Minds, performing this weekend at the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival.  Check out an Outer Minds video below.  Curbside Rants is a series we do sometimes featuring folks ranting on stuff.  Got a rant?  Send it to info@curbsidesplendor.com and we'll consider posting it.

Curbside Splendor is pleased to introduce the terribly imaginative solo debut story collection from independent fiction’s freshest new voice, Amber Sparks.  Curbside Splendor Publishing will release May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks in October 2012.  Available for pre-order now.

Chicago, IL, July 2012.  Chicago-based publisher Curbside Splendor announces it will release May We Shed These Human Bodies, the solo debut short story collection by Washington, DC author Amber Sparks in October 2012.  This marks Curbside’s fifth book, adding to a growing catalog that has received national acclaim.   MWSTHB can now be pre-ordered directly from the publisher with free shipping here: 

http://curbsidesplendor.bigcartel.com/product/may-we-shed-these-human-bodies

While the stories that comprise May We Shed These Human Bodies are sure to captivate, charm, and at times even scare the reader, more than anything they serve to introduce Amber Sparks’ wholly unique voice to a wider audience.

“One of the pleasures in publishing books,” says Victor David Giron, President, Curbside Splendor, “is seeing those books come to life, but the greatest pleasure is knowing that you’ve played a role in an author’s ascent towards becoming something special. With May We Shed These Human Bodies, Amber Sparks has indeed achieved something special.”

Sparks will be traveling far and wide throughout the fall in support of the May We Shed These Human Bodies. To stay apprised of Sparks’ reading schedule please check back-in regularly.

“I am so grateful to the amazing folks at Curbside Splendor for taking a chance on this book,” says Sparks, “and I am so absolutely excited to start proselytizing the gospel of May We Shed These Human Bodies.  I believe in it more than I believe in plastics, or the moon, or birth control, or even polyester.