Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio

Rosetta Trio comes on like a quiet power
trio, one that presents melodic material
with aural elegance and no artifice.
~ Josh Jackson (NPR)


Yes, this is nice
unusually nice

Chamber-jazz ensemble,
intuitive all-string improv trio

With the nice woody
bass sound
(well oaked

Earthy, but organic lite
“equally alluring and askew”*

Cycling & circling
& still moving
forward
(trés nice
(ahh
(…

*from Evan Haga review

~ Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett has had twelve books of poetry published: Re-Positioning (Ekstasis Editions, 2011); Track This: a book of relationship (BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, N.Y., 2010); S PLIT (Ekstasis Editions, 2009); Extreme Positions: the soft-porn industry Exposed (Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC, 2009); Sass ’n Pass (Ekstasis Editions, 2008); Three Women (Ekstasis Editions, 2006); Nota Bene Poems: A Journey (Ekstasis Editions, 2005); Trader Poets (Frog Hollow Press, 2003); High-Maintenance (Ekstasis Editions, 2003); High Design Refit (Greenboathouse Books, 2002); Cruise Control (Ekstasis Editions, 1996); Lucy Kent and other poems (Longspoon Press, 1983). A thirteenth book is due to come out: The Gross & Fine Geography: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2012). His work has also appeared in more than 100 literary journals in Canada, the U.S., England, Australia, New Zealand, and Finland, as well as in three anthologies, and on radio. He lives in Vancouver.

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