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Jon
Andersen is the author of a book of
poems, Stomp and Sing (Curbstone Press/ Northwestern
University Press 2005), and the editor of an anthology, Seeds
of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other U.S.A (Smokestack
Books-UK 2008).
Pamela
Annas is a member of the editorial collective of The
Radical Teacher, author of A Disturbance in Mirrors:
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, as well as co-editor of two
textbook/ anthologies: Literature and Society and Against
the Current. Her poem Origami Night is currently
in Pemmican and a chapbook, Mud Season, is forthcoming
from Cervená Barva Press.
Judy
Shepps Battle has been writing poems long before she
became a psychotherapist and sociology professor at Rutgers
University. Widely published both in the USA and abroad during
the Sixties and Seventies, she deferred publishing to concentrate
on career and family. Fortunately her muse was tenacious and
she continued to write during the next three decades filling
a file cabinet with scrawled and typewritten poems that are
now being organized into chapbooks and individual submissions.
The material submitted for publication represents her return
to active participation in the writing community. She can't
think of a better way to spend her retirement. In the past
six months, her poems have been accepted in a variety of publications
including A Handful of Stones; Ascent Aspirations; Barnwood
Press; Battered Suitcase; Caper Literary Journal; Epiphany
Magazine; Joyful; Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine; Raleigh
Review; Rusty Truck; Short, Fast and Deadly; and Write
from Wrong.
Dennis
J. Bernstein lives in San Francisco and has been a
long-time front line reporter, specializing in Human Rights.
His articles have appeared widely including in the Boston
Globe, New York Times, and the Nation. He is host/producer
of "Flashpoints," a daily radio news magazine heard
on Pacifica Radio. Bernstein was chosen by Pulse Media as
one of "20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009." Bernstein's
artist books, co-authored with Warren Lehrer, are in the Special
Books Collections of the Museum of Modern art in New York
City and other major museums around the world. Bernsteins
poetry has recently appeared in the New York Quarterly, Chimaera,
Bat City Review, Red River Review, ZYZZYVA. J Journal, and
Ars Medica.
Luis
Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal has published widely in the
small presses. His two most recent chapbooks are: Before
And Well After Midnight, from Deadbeat Press, and Still
Human, from Kendra Steiner Editions.
Troy
Bigelow worked for over a decade as a blue-collar factory
worker while earning a BA in English from Indiana University
at IPFW. After being laid off on Christmas Day of 2006, he
went on to graduate school and earned a Masters Degree in
English from Indiana University at IPFW in 2009. Currently,
he teaches composition and literature at Ivy Tech Community
CollegeNortheast. His first book, Resuscitivity,
won the Transcontinental Poetry Award and will be released
by Pavement Saw Press in early 2012. He lives in northeast
Indiana with his wife and children.
Robert
Bohm is a poet and culture writer. He was born in Queens,
New York. His 2007 Uz Um War Moan Ode is available
from Pudding House Press. Other credits include two other
books, a chapbook and work published in a variety of print
and online publications. More information on Bohm's work can
be found at his blog, Lethal
Injections for the Conditioned Mind, and his website,
Unburials:
The Writer as Graverobber.
Jennifer
Hollie Bowles lives in Knoxville, TN, where she edits
The Medulla Review and avoids people who suffer from
the lymphatic neurosis of sitcoms. Her work has been accepted
for publication in over fifty literary journals, including
The New York Quarterly, 3:AM Magazine, Muscle and Blood,
The Toronto Quarterly, and Thieves Jargon. Jennifer's
first poetry chapbook, Fire and Honey, was published
with Flutter Press in July, 2010.
Buff
Whitman-Bradley is the author of two books of poetry,
b. eagle, poet and The Honey Philosophies. His work has appeared
in a number of print and online journals. In addition to writing,
he produces documentary videos and audios. His interviews
with soldiers who have refused to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
can be heard on the Audio Project at www.couragetoreist.org.
He lives with his wife Cynthia in northern California.
Christopher
Butters poetry has been published here and there
in small press magazines and anthologies since the last nineteen
seventies. But he is proudest of his poetry contributions
to Pemmican and Blue Collar Review, two magazines
which have helped keep the flame of progressive working class
poetry alive during this time in the United States. He is
a former poetry editor of Political Affairs: A Magazine
of Marxist Culture, and is the author of Garden State
Graffiti and Other Poems (Pemmican), The Algebra of
Doing It (Partisan Press) and Americas (Vietnam
Generation) . He was recently reelected to his fourth term
as a chapter chair of his AFSCME local in New York City.
Séamas
Carraher was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1956. He lives
on the Ballyogan estate, in south County Dublin, at present.
A few of his poems have been published in Left Curve,
(13 & 14 & 20), Compages, Poetry Ireland Review
& Anthology of Modern Irish Verse. He has worked for
the last 10 years as part of the Irish community sectors
(failed) initiative to eradicate poverty and social exclusion
in Ireland. It is this Ghost called Fathering, Son
is one of a series of political poems written
around the time of the First Iraq War (Operation Desert
Storm) when he worked as a cultural activist
in Dublins south inner city, using the media of Film,
Publication and Education Workshops to help address the many
injustices inflicting a large minority of Irish people.
Jared
Carter is a Midwesterner from Indiana. He has published
three books of poems. A fourth, Cross this Bridge at a
Walk, was recently issued by Wind Publications in Kentucky.
The book consists of a series of narrative poems dealing with
incidents in American history from the Revolution to the present.
For more information please visit Jared Carter's web site
at http://www.jaredcarter.com.
Feng
Sun Chen is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota.
Feng Sun Chen's work has appeared or is forthcoming soon in
journals such as A capella Zoo, DIAGRAM, Moon Milk Review,
nthposition, PANK, So and So Magazine, Strange Machine, White
Whale Review, and Word Riot, among others. www.fengsunchen.wordpress.com.
David
Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in England, and
spent several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in1978.
His newest published books reflect this concern for the natural
world. They are Waiting for the Quetzal, from March
Street Press, and The Porous Desert, from Future Cycle
Press. He recently had a poem included in the anthology, BIRDS,
from the British Museum, and won the Ronald Wardall Poetry
Prize for his chapbook The Lost River, from Rain Mountain
Press.
Leonard
J. Cirino is the author of 16
chapbooks and 13 full-length collections of poems from numerous
presses since 1987. He lives in Springfield, Oregon, where
he does home care for his 94-year-old mother. His collection,
Ululations: Poems 2006, was published in 2008. His 104 page
collection, Omphalos: Poems 2007 has been selected by Cervena
Barva Press for 2009. Recent publications and acceptances
include America (NYC), Osiris, Blue Collar Review, Pemmican,
thepedestalmagazine.com, The Iconoclast, Barnwood, Grasslimb,
Poesia, and others.
Tony
Christini is the author of Political Fiction: Ganoga,
Homefront, YouthTopia and Other Works. He is the creator of
the websites Political Novel and Imaginative Literature and
Social Change. With Mike Palecek and Andre Vltchek, he is
the cofounder of Mainstay Press.
Glenn
W. Cooper lives and writes in Tamworth, Australia.
He is the manager of an independent bookstore. His most recent
books are His Crucible of Pain: 20 Prose Poems Concerning
Rimbaud, via Blind Dog Press; and Some Natural Things
via Kamini Press.
Philip
Dacey's most recent full-length book, his eighth, is
THE MYSTERY OF MAX SCHMITT: POEMS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF
THOMAS EAKINS (Turning Point, 2004). Two recent chapbooks
are THE ADVENTURES OF ALIXA DOOM AND OTHER LOVE POEMS (Snark,
2003) and MR. FIVE-BY-FIVE (Pudding House, 2005). He recently
moved from Minnesota, his base for 35 years, to Manhattan's
Upper West Side. His website is: www.philipdacey.com.
Lyle
Daggett's books of poems include If There Is A Song,
The First Light Touches Me and What Is Buried Here,
all published by Red Dragonfly Press, and The Idea of Legacy,
published by Musical Comedy Editions. His poems, translations,
essays and book reviews have appeared in Blue Collar Review,
Main Street Rag, Free Verse, Pemmican, and in many
other publications. His blog is A Burning Patience,
http://aburningpatience.blogspot.com
and is one of the best resources for poetry available on the
Web. He lives in Minneapolis.
Jake
David wonders why some author's bios take more time
to read than their selected poems or prose. Perhaps it's because
he hasn't won any Awards, Prizes, and doesn't have a chapbook
scheduled for publishing. In any case, Jake is an Canadian
Aboriginal living on a Mohawk reservation outside Hogansburg,
N.Y. http://www.rollingavenue.blogspot.com
Darren
C. Demaree is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with
his wife and daughter. His poems have appeared in numerous
magazines/journals, including the South Carolina Review,
Meridian, Grain, Cottonwood, and Whiskey Island.
Bill
Dorris is a Yank mostly from California who ended up
in Ireland by the usual chance processes chaosing all our
lives, and that's fine by me. 'Derivatives' is courtesy of
Terkel's /Hard Times/ and Jay Gould's buddies finally cranking
it up this side...
Eric
Evans
is a writer and musician from Buffalo, New York with stops
in Portland, Oregon and Rochester, New York where he currently
resides with his wife, Diane, and son, Henry. His work has
appeared in Artvoice, Blind Man's Rainbow, Tangent Magazine,
Posey, Lucid Moon, Poetry Motel, Pemmican Press, Remark and
many other publications as well as a few anthologies. He has
published six full collections and two broadsides through
his own small press, Ink Publications, as well as a broadside
through Lucid Moon Press. He is also the proud recipient of
the 2009 Geva Theatre Center Summer Academy Snapple Fact Award.
Stacia
M. Fleegal is the author of Anatomy of a Shape-Shifter
(WordTech, forthcoming 2010) and the chapbooks The
Lines Are Not My Friends (second place, Cervená
Barva Press chapbook competition, forthcoming 2009) and A
Fling with the Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Individual
poems are forthcoming in Fourth River, Skidrow Penthouse,
Blue Collar Review, The Kerf, Prick of the Spindle, and Babel
Fruit, and have appeared most recently in Inkwell, New Verse
News, Dos Passos Review, and Protest Poems. She received her
MFA in writing from Spalding University and is co-founder
and managing editor of Blood Lotus (www.bloodlotus.org).
Brittany
Fonte holds an MFA in Creative Writing. She currently
teaches Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing at two universities,
as well as acts as an assistant editor at Lowbrow Poetry Press.
Her fiction and poetry can be found in journals such as Literary
Mama, 42Opus, Wrong Tree Review, Breadcrumb Scabs and
Mat Black Magazine. She enjoys creating poems while
she runs or practices yoga; her drink of choice is caffeinated
and sugar-free.
Anthony
Frame is an exterminator who lives in Toledo, OH with
his wife and cat. His first chapbook, Paper Guillotines,
was published by Imaginary Friend Press and his poems have
been published in or are forthcoming from Third Coast,
Blue Collar Review, Versal, Tulane Review, Splinter Generation,
and New Plains Review, among others. He is the co-founder
and co-editor of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Learn
more at http://www.anthony-frame.com/
Miguel
Gardel lives in New York and attended the City College
and has worked at many things from janitorial to journalism
and back again. His stories and essays have appeared in Tribes,
Bi-lingual Review, Inquisitive, Political Affairs and
others.
Veronica Golos
won the 16th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line
Press) for her book, A Bell Buried Deep (to be re-issued
by Red Hen Press). Her second book, Vocabulary of Silence,
(Red Hen Press, Feb. 2011) is a meditation and response to
the continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Howie
Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is
the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick
(Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield
(BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me
(Desperanto, 2011), as well as numerous print and digital
poetry chapbooks, including most recently Inspired Remnants
from Red Ceilings Press and The Penalty for Trying
from Ten Pages Press.
Terry
Hauptman is a poet/painter who has traveled to many
corners of the world, but her home now is in Vermont. She
is the author of four poetry collections, Masquerading
In Clover,(Boston, Four Zoas) Rattle,(Tulsa,Cardinal
Press) and On Hearing Thunder,
(Minnesota, North Star Press.) Her newest manuscript with
many poems published in Pemmican, and other journals,
"The Indwelling of Dissonance," is circulating at
publishers. She reads her poetry rhapsodically and exhibits
her 5'x50' Songline Scrolls,nationally.
Lois
Elaine Heckman grew up in Los Angeles, receiving a
degree in Italian from UCLA. She has lived in Milan, Italy
for the past forty-five years. She has been published in The
Shine Journal and The Fib Review, and her works
appeared in March in The Boston Literary Magazine and
Short, Fast, and Deadly. In 2010, she won the New England
Shakespeare Festival Rubber Ducky Sonnet Contest.
Katherine
L. Holmes has had creative work appear in Barnwood,
Cider Press Review, Eclectica, Literary Bird Journal, The
South Dakota Review, Beyond the Margins, Review Americana,
Shadowtrain, Straddler, Streetcake, Stirring, and Word
Riot more than 50 journals. In 2005, she was nominated
for a Pushcart in poetry. Her web site is: http://home.earthlink.net/~klouholmes/
Suzanne
Marie Hopcroft is a PhD student in Comparative Literature
and writes poetry and fiction from New York City. Her work
is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Gargoyle, LITnIMAGE,
elimae, JMWW, and others. Suzanne also teaches developmental
reading at a community college in the Bronx and writes fiction
reviews for magazines including The Literary Review, World
Literature Today, and Small Axe.
Raymond
Keen was born in 1941 in Pueblo, Colorado, graduated
with a B.A. degree in Psychology from Case Western Reserve
University in 1963 and an M.S. degree in Clinical Psychology
from the University of Oklahoma in 1966. Five of his poems
were published in the July/August 2005 Issue of The American
Poetry Review, as follows: Video Confession On Vacation
in New York City, Going to Hell, Ixion,
Holiday Madness, 1976 and How It Will End
(Previously Recorded). He has also been published in
Breadcrumb Scabs. He currently lives in Sahuarita,
AZ.
Clyde
Kessler lives in Radford, VA with his wife Kendall
and their son Alan. He is a founding member of Blue Ridge
Discovery Center, a natural history education organization
providing outdoors learning and discovery opportunities for
children and adults in Virginia and North Carolina...Website
for BRDC is http://blueridgediscoverycenter.org/
Robert
S. King lives in the countryside near Cave Spring,
Georgia. His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines,
including The Kenyon Review, Southern Poetry Review, Lullwater
Review, Chariton Review, Main Street Rag, and others.
His latest books are The Hunted River and The Gravediggers
Roots, both from Shared Roads Press, 2009. He is currently
Director of FutureCycle Press, www.futurecycle.org.
Maureen
Kingston lives and works in Wayne, Nebraska. Her poems
have appeared or are forthcoming in the Alehouse Press,
Blue Collar Review, Blue Earth Review, Halfway Down the Stairs,
Lucid Rhythms, Melusine, Nebraska Life, Paddlefish, Pemmican,
Plains Song Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Triggerfish Critical
Review, WestWard Quarterly and the anthologies Words
Like Rain and The Great American Road Show.
Cleo
Fellers Kocol loves making social comment, whether
in poetry or prose. Recently her poetry appeared in the anthology,
Riffing on Strings; one of her short stories was published
in the anthology, When Last on the Mountain. Three
of her novels were also published: Fitzhugh's Woman, Cleopatra:
Immortal Queen, and her latest offering which takes place
mostly in China,The Good Foreigner. The China book
gave her a chance to weigh in on the Chinese Civil War, the
Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square massacre in
fictional form. All the books are available on Amazon.com
Benjamin
C. Krause is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Diamond
Point Press, an international non-profit (read: we lose money)
publishing company. He is the author of one poetry chapbook,
Classifieds and Other Poems, and his writing has also
appeared in places such as Nibble, The Literary Bohemian,
and Foundling Review, and is forthcoming in Gargoyle.
Though primarily a freeverse poet, he has invented three forms
called the byte, the quincouplet, and the shuffle. An article
entitled "The Quincouplet: A Matter of Words" was
published in Galatea Resurrects in issue 16. More information
is available at http://benjaminckrause.com/.
Lavinia
Kumar lives in New Jersey, and is now retired after
various science and science education degrees, and uphill
battles to get educators to use new technologies. Shes
from Ireland, her husbands from India, and they have
a family of increasing multiculturalism. Her poetry has appeared
in Waterways, Thatchwork (Delaware Valley Poets), Orbis,
US1 Worksheets, Caper and the US1 newspaper.
P.J.
Laska has been a poet-dissident since the days of the
Vietnam War protests. At the end of the Seventies he edited
THE UNREALIST-a Left Literary Annual. Several chapters of
his translation and commentary on the Dao De Jing appeared
in LEFT CURVE 33. He recently relocated from Appalachia to
the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona.
Michelle
Lerner is an attorney living in New Jersey, and worked
as a legal aid lawyer for 10 years. She has an MFA from the
New School and her poems have been published in various journals
and anthologies. She is always thankful to discover (the few)
fora that exist for political poetry, as it is what primarily
interests her.
Grant
Loveys lives in St. John's, Newfoundland - a small
city on Canada's eastern edge. His work has appeared in numerous
literary publications. More at http://grantloveys.tumblr.com.
Lucia
May is a poet, violinist and longtime arts advocate
who teaches and plays in St. Paul, MN. Her poems have been
chosen for publication in Main Channel Voices, the
Evening Street Review, Hot Metal Press, and
Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize 2010: Anthology,
among others.
Mark
Pawlak grew up in Buffalo, New York, and has lived
in the Boston area for almost forty years. He has taught writing,
science and mathematics at various levels and is presently
Director of Academic Support Programs at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston, where he teaches mathematics. Pawlak's
original poems, and his translations from the German of Bertolt
Brecht and others, have appeared widely in magazines, journals,
and anthologies. SPECIAL HANDLING: Newspaper Poems New and
Selected is the latest of his four poetry collections. He
has received awards from the Massachusetts Artist Fellowship
Program and from the Fund for Poetry. He is co-editor of Hanging
Loose Press based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1966,
Hanging Loose is arguably the oldest, continuously running,
independent, literary magazine and press in the country. Hanging
Loose counts among its stable of notable poets Sherman Alexie,
Ha Jin, Jayne Cortez, and Hettie Jones. Last year Pawlak edited
Shooting the Rat: Outstanding Poems and Stories by High School
Writers, the third in a series of his anthologies drawn from
the celebrated high school section of Hanging Loose magazine.
Shooting the Rat is a collection of extraordinary poems and
stories by 93 of the nation's most outstanding high school
writers and it was recently name a 2003 top young adult non-fiction
title by both VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) and by the Association
of Pennsylvania School Librarians. All the work first appeared
in the special high school section of Hanging Loose magazine,
the standard for cutting-edge work by teenage writers since
1968. Pawlak has given hundreds of readings and performances
of his work locally, across the nation, and overseas.
Simon
Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in
Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Rafts
(Parsifal Editions) is his most recent collection. For more
information, including his essay Magic, Illusion and
Other Realities and a complete bibliography, please
visit his website at www.simonperchik.com/.
Charles
Portolano lives in Fountain Hills, AZ. He started writing
poetry 14 years ago to celebrate the birth of his daring,
darling, daughter Valerie. He wanted to preserve all the memories
of the first time she walked, talked. Valerie was born with
many obstacles to overcome giving him much to write about.
Writing soon became his way of saving his sanity. Valerie
is doing great now;she is quite the young writer. He has a
new collection of poetry out, Storytelling.
Joseph
G. Ramsey is a writer, scholar, educator, and activist
living in the Somerville, Massachusetts area. He is co-editor
of the journal Cultural Logic: an electronic journal of marxist
theory and practice (available at www.clogic.eserver.org)
and a participant in the Kasama Project www.kasamaproject.org.
His poems have appeared in Counterpunch, Dissident Voice,
as well on the immigrant rights blog, La Bloga, while
his essays have appeared also in Reconstruction, The Minnesota
Review, and the American Writers series. A sample
of his writings are available at the blog www.ramseythewriter.wordpress.com.
dan
raphael waits patiently for more poems to come. Besides
Pemmican, current poems appear in Otoliths, Knock Journal,
New Mystics, Unlikely Stories and Heavy Bear. :Last December
saw the re-issue of 1985's Bop Grit Storm Cafe; most recent
book of new material is Breath Test; Impulse and Warp: Selected
20th Century poems, should out by 2011. dan would like to
come to your town and read/perform, as he has at Wordstock,
Bumbershoot, Portland Jazz Festival and Burning Word. Otherwise,
living in Portland, working at the DMV, arranging readings,
reading a variety of fiction and non-, & brewing.drinking
and reviewing beer.
R.A.
Riekki is a novelist and poet. Riekki's novel, U.P.
was listed as one of the top eight books for Flavorwire.com's
"A Summer Reading List for Metalheads." It's been
nominated for some awards, but that list in particular pleased
Riekki. Gypsy Daughter Press is publishing two upcoming poetry
chapbooks by Riekki, Leave Me Alone I'm Bleeding and
Poems about Love, Death, and Heavy Metal.
Doren
Robbins has published poetry in over seventy literary
journals, including The American Poetry Review, North Dakota
Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, International
Poetry, Hawaii Review, Paterson Literary Review, Sulfur, New
Letters, 5 AM, Exquisite Corpse, Willow Springs, Bombay Gin
and Hayden's Ferry Review. Essays and book reviews have appeared
in Sagetreib, Contact II, Onthebus, and The Daily Iowan. From
1975-82, he was co-editor for the Los Angeles-based journal
Third Rail. In 1994 he served as a contributing editor to
the Japanese-based literary journal Electric Rexroth. Robbins
has received a state fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts,
as well as prizes, grants, and awards from The Indiana Review,
River Styx, Literal Latte, Passaic Poetry Center, the Loft
Foundation, The Centrum Residency Program, The Judah Magnes
Museum (first prize for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Jewish
Poetry Award), The Chester H. Jones Foundation (commendation
prizes in '93, '96 and '97), The Lane Literary Guild (first
prize), The Seattle Arts Commission and, as an editor, from
the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and The California
Arts Council. His four previous collections are Driving Face
Down, winner of The Blue Lynx Prize, Lynx House Press, 2001;
The Donkey's Tale (Red Wind Press, 1998); Sympathetic Manifesto
(Perivale Press, 1987); and The Roots and the Towers (Third
Rail Press, 1980). His chapbooks are Dignity in Naples and
North Hollywood, introduction by Philip Levine (Pennywhistle
Press, 1996), Under the Black Moth's Wings (Ameroot, 1987);
Seduction of the Groom (Loom press, 1982). In 2006, Eastern
Washington University Press will publish a new book of poems,
My Piece of the Puzzle. A mixed media artist as well as a
writer, two of his works are currently on exhibit at the Crossing
Boundaries: Visual Art by Writers exhibit, held at the Paterson
Museum in New Jersey. Currently, he teaches creative writing
and literature at Foothill College where he is director of
the Foothill Writers' Conference.Currently, he is Professor
of Creative Writing/Literature at Foothill College, where
he is coordinator for The Foothill Writers' Conference.
Daniel
Romo teaches high school creative writing, and lives
in Long Beach, CA. His recent poems can be found in Scythe,
Fogged Clarity, and Praxilla. He is an MFA candidate
in poetry at Antioch University. More of his writing can be
found at Peyote
Soliloquies
Scott
Ruescher
teaches English part-time in the Boston University Prison
Education Program, coordinates the Arts in Education program
at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and does volunteer
work for bilingual Spanish-English schools in Cambridge and
Central America. Sidewalk Tectonics, his 2009 chapbook
from Pudding House Publications, takes the reader on a road-trip
from Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville, Kentucky, to the
site of Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis.
C.
Vincent Samarco's fiction has appeared in numerous
literary journals and zines, including Mississippi Review,
Flashpoint, and In Posse Review. He is co-editor
with Stephen Muzzatti of Reflections from the Wrong Side
of the Tracks: Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience
in Academe. C. Vincent Samarco teaches creative writing
at Saginaw Valley State University.
Dawn
Schout won first place in the 2008 Lucidity Poetry
Journal Contest, and her work has appeared in Flashquake,
Fogged Clarity, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Gloom Cupboard,
Halfway Down the Stairs, Tipton Poetry Journal, and other
publications. She has a B.A. in creative writing and lives
near Lake Michigan.
Rebecca
Schumejda is working on a collection that loosely and
playfully mimics the format of the U.S. Constitution. Most
recently her work has or will appear in print or online at
Breadcrumb Scabs, The Smoking Poet, Stirring, Home Planet
News, The New York Quarterly, Red Fez and Right Hand
Pointing. Her full length collection Falling Forward was
published by sunnyoutside press last year. For more information,
check out her website: www.rebeccaschumejda.com
Nancy
Scott is the current managing editor of U.S.1 Worksheets,
the journal of the U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative in New Jersey.
She is the author of two books of poetry, Down to the Quick
(2007) and One Stands Guard, One Sleeps (2009) both
published by Plain View Press, and a chapbook, A Siege
of Raptors (2010) published by Finishing Line Press. Nancy
was a caseworker for the State of New Jersey for more than
twenty years, working with homeless families, abused children
and individuals with AIDS. Her writing is often informed by
those experiences. Recently, her poetry has appeared in Poet
Lore, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Cadeceus, Slant, and
New York Quarterly, as well as online at Segue
and Umbrella.
Emily
Severance has had poems published in several magazines
including Boston Literary Magazine, Defenestration, qarrtsiluni,
and Sisyphus. She teaches elementary special education
in New Mexico.
George
Shaw has been a teacher, builder, scrubber and potter.
He now lives in Warwickshire, England where he writes poems
and novels at his kitchen table.
Samuel
Smith originally hailed from Winston-Salem, NC, but
now lives, works and writes in Denver, CO. He'd love it if
poets sold millions of copies of their work and played stadium
tours, but since that's not the planet he was born on he labors
away in the exciting world of marketing by day and plies his
craft in the evenings and on weekends, which never last long
enough. His work has appeared in places like The New Virginia
Review, Poet & Critic, The Cream City Review, storySouth
and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. He
is the executive editor and poetry editor for Scholars
& Rogues, an online magazine of culture, arts, literature
and politics.
Thomas
R. Smith is a writer and teacher living in western
Wisconsin. He is a Master Track instructor at the Loft Literary
Center in Minneapolis. His most recent poetry collections
are WAKING BEFORE DAWN (Red Dragonfly Press) and KINNICKINNIC
(Parallel Press). Another new book of poems, The Foot of
the Rainbow, was recently published by Red Dragonfly Press.
Visit his web site at www.ThomasRSmithpoet.com.
Joel
Solonche
is coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter
(Grayson Books). His work has been appearing in magazines,
journals, and anthologies since the 1970s. He teaches at SUNY
Orange in Middletown, New York.
Charles
Springer is an award winning painter, an advertising
director and an avid bicyclist. He writes from Pennsylvania.
Charles is published in Apalachee Review, Boxcar Poetry
Review, The Cincinnati Review, Cold Mountain Review, Faultline,
Heliotrope and Licking River Review, among others.
A new poem currently appears in Oak Bend Review. He
is very proud of this, his first appearance in Pemmican.
Scott
T. Starbucks chapbook, The Warrior Poems,
was one of six finalists of over 500 entries at the 2009 Pudding
House Chapbook Contest, featuring protest poems about human
rights, animal rights, media distortions, Iraq War, sour economy,
and the G.W. Bush presidency. It is available at jen@puddinghouse.com
His "Wild Salmon" creative nonfiction essay will
appear in the 2011/12 issue of The
Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy at Athabasca University
regarding the theme of deep ecology across generations. You
can hear him read two poems at Fogged
Clarity.
Russell
Streur is a resident of Atlanta, Georgia. His works
have appeared in 63 Channels, The American DIssident, Half
Drunk Muse, Juked, Lost, Megaera, Raving Dove, Poems Niederngasse
(Switzerland) and The Blanket (Ireland).
Theresa
Swanson works as a legal secretary in Omaha, Nebraska.
Having raised her three children, she is pursuing a master's
degree in writing and English at the University of Nebraska
at Omaha. She lives, proudly, in the same working class neighborhood
in South Omaha where she grew up.
Nicole
Taylor has attended college in Salem, Oregon where
she lives near her siblings, British mother and other family.
She has published widely in various online magazines.
Tobin
Terry is an Instructor of English at Central State
University in Wilberforce, Ohio. He is the recipient of the
2009 Sam Ella Dukes Memorial Promising Fiction Writer Award.
His work has appeared in The Akros Review, and YACK,
and his prose poems, "The Consequences of Containment,"
"Grand Opening: The Largest Assembly Facility in the
World, 1966," and "Affair in Boiler Room 6, Dearborn,
Michigan" have appeared in Pemmican.
Michael
Torres is a San Francisco Bay Area psychologist and
unpublished novice poet relying on written words to cope with
late night delusions and historic regret. Two thousand-nine
marked the beginning of his devotion to writing poetry.
Geoff
Kagan Trenchards poems have been published in
numerous journals including Word Riot, The Nervous Breakdown,
The Worcester Review, SOFTBLOW and November 3rd.
He has received endowments from the National Performance Network,
Dance Theater Workshop, The Zellerbach Family Foundation and
the City of Oakland to produce original theatrical work. As
a mentor for Urban Word NYC, he taught weekly poetry workshops
in the foster care center at Bellevue as well as in Rikers
Island with Columbia Universitys Youth Voices
on Lockdown program. He is a recipient of a fellowship
from the Riggio Writing and Democracy program at the New School
and the first ever louderARTS Writing Fellowship. He has performed
poetry on HBOs Def Poetry Jam, at universities throughout
the United States, and in theaters internationally as a member
of the performance poetry troupe The Suicide Kings.
He lives in Brooklyn and can be found at kagantrenchard.com.
James
Valvis lives in Washington State with his wife, daughter,
and cat. His poems or stories have recently appeared in Arts
& Letters, Atlanta Review, Crab Creek Review, Hanging
Loose, LA Review, Nimrod, Pank, Rattle, River Styx, and
is forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Fractured West,
Kill Author, Midwest Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Night
Train, Pinyon, Sierra Nevada Review, Verdad, and many
others. In addition to being a multiple Pushcart and Best
of the Web nominee, a poetry collection, How to Say Goodbye,
is due in 2011.
Margaret
Walther is a retired librarian from the Denver metro
area and a past president of Columbine Poets, an organization
to promote poetry in Colorado. She has been a guest editor
for Buffalo Bones, and has poems published or forthcoming
in many journals, including Connecticut Review, anderbo.com,
Quarterly West, Naugatuck River Review, Fugue, The Anemone
Sidecar, Chickenpinata, The Smoking Poet, Barrier Islands
Review, Gone Lawn, Willow Review, A cappella Zoo, Pirenes
Fountain, Tattoo Highway and Nimrod. She won the
Many Mountains Moving 2009 Poetry Contest. Two of her
poems published in the online journal In Posse Review
in 2010 were selected by Web del Sol for its e-SCENE best
of the Literary Journals.
Rob
Whitbeck is
a farmer and timber thinner living in eastern Oregon. A full-length
collection, Oregon Sojourn, is available from Pygmy
Forest Press. A second collection, The Taproot Confessions,
also from Pygmy Forest Press, was released in the summer of
2003.
Kelley
White has returned to New Hampshire to work at a rural
health center. Her poems have been widely published, in journals
including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and the Journal
of the American Medical Association and in chapbooks and
books, most recently TOXIC ENVIRONMENT (Boston Poet Press)
and TWO BIRDS IN FLAME, poems related to the Shakers in New
Hampshire (Beech River Books). She received a 2008 Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts grant.
Buff
Whitman-Bradley, a long-time peace and social justice
activist. He has been a member of the Courage to Resist (www.couragetoresist.org)
organizing collective, was the originator and producer of
the Courage to Resist Audio Project, and co-editor, with Sarah
Lazare and Cynthia Whitman-Bradley, of the new book based
on Audio Project interviews, About Face: Military Resisters
Turn Against War (PM Press, 2011). He is also a member
¡Presente! a non-violent direct action affinity group
actively opposing war and empire. His poems have appeared
in many print and online journals and he has written two books
of poetry, b. eagle, poet and The Honey Philosophies.
He has co-produced/directed two documentary films, Por
Que Venimos with the MIRC Film Collective, and with his
partner Cynthia, an award-winning documentary about visitors
to death row, Outside In.
S.V.Wolfland
is a writer, poet, and storyteller based in the UK and published
in many magazines such as The Argotist Online, 20x20 Magazine,
Spokes, the Bathyspheric Review, Fickle Muses, Poetry Manchester,
Everyday Poets etc., and has three poetry chapbooks -
The Book of Contentions, The Book of Indictments and
The Book of Offences, and a novel, Porlock the Warlock
out currently. S.V. is also editor of Spoken/Written Bulletin
S.W., has appeared at many festivals including the Glastonbury
Festival and the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. and co-presents
a fortnightly radio show on Phonic FM. S.V. has an MA in Writing
and is a member of the Cartwheels Collective group of artists.
www.cartwheels-collective.co.uk
M.A.
Zamani rejects art. His slogan ART MEANS WAR fails
him as an artist but serves well in wartime. Prior publications
have been largely unknown and unwritten, dynamic and situational,
exposing themselves in spurious emissions of heraldic ceremony
promulgating a cryptic reversal of order (d.v., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xuzCa1aOqY
, e.g.). Notable failures have employed electroacoustic transducers,
slogan visualizations, photographic self-evidence, the Boy
Scouts a la the Beast 666, spraypaint, ceramic tile, 100%
preshrunk cotton and one male prostitute. Often eschewing
craft for concept, and determined that a lack of talent preserves
freshness, his official title and nome de fume is that of
ILLEGITIMATEUR.
Marilyn
Zuckerman
has published four books of poetry: Personal Effects
(Alice James Books, Cambridge, 1976), Monday Morning Movie
(Street Editions, N.Y, 1981), Poems of the Sixth Decade
(Garden Street Press, 1993), and from Cedar Hill Publications,
Amerika/America, 2002, as well as a chapbook from The
Greatest Hits series, Pudding House Publications, 2001.
Her many poem publications include magazines such as New
York Quarterly, The Little Magazine, Nimrod, Pig Iron, Mystic
River Review and Pemmican (last two online) She
has also received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and an Allen
Ginsberg Poetry Award. Her latest book, recently out from
Red Dragonfly Press, is In The Ninth Decade.
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