Review
“In its imagery, its phrasing, and its probing of our inner selves, Cover Charge is truly impressive. Only Linda Kleinbub can make the dirt in a vegetable garden filled with eggplants and praying mantises seem seductive.” ― R. Bremner, author of Hungry Words --Back cover blurb

“What a great title! All the beauty, the art, the sex, the doubts, the daily chores, the life from subway to sky ‘trying to make snow angels at midnight.‘ Don’t you wish you had thought of that line? Linda Kleinbub takes us on a sensory journey from basement to club to the soil, from depths to the planets ―clearly a poet with a painter/gardener’s gift for replanting and survival ― read these poems, and like the canvases and places the ‘she’ of these poems describes, the images, textures, and colors will live in skin’s memory.” ― eve packer, author of no mask no talk corona poems 2020–2021 --Back cover blurb

“Linda Kleinbub’s poetry is honest, incisive, and deeply felt. More important, it is direct and accessible. She writes about what it’s like to experience life. Each poem provides a moment (or moments) of recognition, when, as readers, we can say, ‘Aha’ I feel I know this poet better through her poems.” ― Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Tricks of Light --Back cover blurb
About the Author
Linda Kleinbub’s family settled on 12th Street and Avenue B on New York’s Lower East Side when they arrived from Poland at the turn of the century. She is a lifelong Queens resident. She returned to the land of her ancestors as a photographer in the early eighties, capturing the abandoned tenements and desolate city streets. Later as an MFA candidate at the New School, she immersed herself into the downtown poetry scene. She is curator and host of Fahrenheit Open Mic and founder of Pen Pal Poets. She’s the publisher and editor of The Silver Tongued Devil Anthology (Pink Trees Press, 2020.) Linda was one of six local poets invited to read at the Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2021. She’s hosted readings at the Playhouse Theater, New York City Poetry Festival, 6BC Botanical Garden, and Black & White Bar. Follow her on Instagram @LINDAKLEINBUB to see some of her published work. This is her first full-length book of poetry.