Deadly Chaps

Barbara Rosenthal

A native New Yorker, Barbara Rosenthal is a prolific, idiosyncratic, highly original Media and Performance artist, referred to in print as “Media Poet” in The Village Voice and elsewhere since the 1980s. She produced her first Performance/Installation in 1968, and Photography/Video in 1976, often mixing her Surreal Photographs with her texts, and such works are in the collections of MoMA, Whitney, Tate, etc. Her major books are Clues to Myself, Sensations, Homo Futurus and Soul & Psyche and the next, the novel Wish for Amnesia is just out now from Deadly Chaps Press, NYC.

Eryk Wenziak

Eryk Wenziak serves as art editor of A-minor magazine, art director of A-minor press, and teaches at the graduate level. He is widely published and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is the author of four chapbooks, including "1975," a long poem on the Cambodian  genocide, and "4am," a collection of visual poetry and photocopy art.  His text-based visual art is routinely on exhibit in Brooklyn area gallery exhibitions and his photography has been used as cover art for several prominent authors. He lives at www.erykwenziak.com.