JOE BALAZ

Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio.  His writing has appeared in Hawai’i Review, boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture, Scrawling Wall, Kaimana—Literary Arts Hawai’i, Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversations and Contestations in and around the Pacific,Wisconsin Review, Honolulu Weekly, Pidgins and Creoles (United Kingdom),Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English (New Zealand), Chaminade Literary Review, ‘Oiwi—A Native Hawaiian Journal, Tinfish, Honolulu Stories, Hapa, The Honolulu Advertiser,  Salome: A Literary Dance Magazine, Seaweeds and Constructions, Saving Place: An Ecocomposition Reader, Bamboo Ridge, Buss Laugh, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Outch: An International Haiku Magazine (Japan), Hybolics and Mana: A South Pacific Journal of Language and Literature (Fiji).

His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Icon, Oregon Literary Review, AdmitTwo, Eleventh Transmission, Right Hand Pointing, Neon Literary Magazine, Zygote in my Coffee, The Cerebral Catalyst, Clockwise Cat, Subtle Tea, Otoliths, Route 66, Ink Sweat and Tears, Ascent Aspirations, Unlikely Stories, Word Riot, Wheelhouse, Locust Magazine, The City, SUB-LIT, Blue Fifth Review,  LITnIMAGE, Apocryphaltext and The Pittsburgh Quarterly.

Balaz edited Ramrod—A Literary and Art Journal of Hawai’i and was also the editor of Ho’omanoa: An Anthology of Contemporary Hawaiian Literature.

He is the editor of 13 Miles from Cleveland.

Balaz is also coauthor of JOMA—online, an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography

with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis.

Domino Buzz features the music-poetry of Joe Balaz.  It is comprised of selections that mix his writing with music that stems from psychedelic, funk, new age, jazz and rock influences.  Balaz’s wry and pondering philosophy touches upon various subjects such as black holes, microbes on meteors, the Big Bang Theory, new love, lost love, the homeless, self-evaluation, coconut logic, reptilian gigolos, an emotional parallel to a Roman emperor and a here and now attitude of life.  Get buzzed now and enjoy the journey.

Electric Laulau features the music-poetry of Joe Balaz written in Hawaiian Islands Pidgin.

                 Selections from Domino Buzz—                                                                           Selections from Electric Laulau--

                                The Other Side                                                                     In Da Same Place

                                In the Alley                                                                             Da History of Pidgin

                                Coconut Trees                                                                      Regarding Waffles

To purchase Domino Buzz send a money order in the amount of $17.50 (includes shipping and handling)

to—                 Joe Balaz

                        6846 Chaffee Court

                        Brecksville, OH 44141                                                                               

International orders inquire for rates at joe@joebalaz.com