Jazzmen by Lee Kitzis

Big Pen Press, Oak Park, IL, April 2002   $3.00 "Jazzmen," the new chapbook of poems by Lee Kitzis please click photo at left for a full-size view

"Lee came out of nowhere and was doing poetry as good as or better than people who had been writing for 20 years."
-- David Gecic (poet and publisher of Puddin'head Press)

Lee Kitzis is a graduate of the Chicago Academy for the Arts. He is currently pursuing his B.A. in magazine journalism at Columbia College Chicago.

Lee has been performing and publishing his poetry for over seven years (since the age of 14). At 15 he edited and was published in the Anti-mensch poetry anthology (Puddin'head Press, Chicago). Since then he has had his poetry published in numerous periodicals, such as: After Hours, Flipside, U-Direct, Chicagopoetry.com, Comrades e-zine, Echo, and the Columbia Chronicle.

Lee has had one book published, Plainfield Follies and Israel to Prague Poems (Writers Club Press, 2000), and one chapbook published, Jazzmen (Big Pen Press, 2002).