Gregorio Ames lives in Levstiki, Slovenia with his compassionate wife and a house full of dogs. He writes fiction as well as poetry and is involved in poetic translation. When not at his desk arranging words into worlds, he makes music and travels.

Kimberly L. Becker is a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Her first book of poetry, Words Facing East, is forthcoming from WordTech Editions in 2011. Individual poems appear in many journals and anthologies. The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (MD) funded her study of Cherokee language, history, and culture in Cherokee, NC. Current projects include adapting Cherokee myths into plays for the Cherokee Youth in Radio Project at the Cherokee Youth Center, also in Cherokee, NC.

F.J. Bergmann frequents Wisconsin and fibitz.com. She has no academic literary qualifications, but hangs out a lot with folks who do. Publication credits include Asimov’s, Margie, Southern Poetry Review, Subtropics, and Weird Tales, as well as the 2008 SFPA Rhysling Award for the Short Poem and three chapbooks: Constellation of the Dragonfly (Plan B Press, 2008), Aqua Regia (Parallel Press 2007), and Sauce Robert (Pavement Saw Press 2003).

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.

James Bettendorf is a former math teacher, retired and enjoying my second career as a poet. His recent publications include Main Channel Voices, Free Verse, Talking Stick (Vol. 18), and Midwest Writing Center's anthology, Off Channel. He recently completed a two-year poetry internship at The Loft in Minneapolis as part of the Loft Master Track program.

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.

Peter Branson lives in Rode Heath, a village in South Cheshire, England. A former teacher and lecturer, he now organises writing workshops. Until recently he was Writer-in-residence for “All Write” run by Stoke-on-Trent Libraries.Over the last three years he has had work published, or accepted for publication, by many mainstream poetry journals, including Acumen, Ambit, Envoi, Magma, The London Magazine, Iota, 14, Fire, The Interpreter’s House, Poetry Nottingham, Pulsar, Red Ink and Other Poetry. His first collection, “The Accidental Tourist”, was published locally by The Potteries Writers’ Workshop in May 2008.

Christopher Butters is the author of two books, The Propaganda of a Seed (Cardinal Press, 1990) and Americas (Vietnam Generation, 1998).   His work has most recently appeared in Blue Collar Review, Pemmican and Cedar Hill Review.   A court reporter in New York City, his recent campaign for president of his AFSCME local won 32% of the vote.   He has also been the poetry editor of Political Affairs: A Journal of Marxist Thought. His most recent publication is The Algebra of Doing It, published by Partisan Press.

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.

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.

William Clunie is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. He can be reached at billclunie@yahoo.com.

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.

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 and What Is Buried Here, both published Red Dragonfly Press, and The Idea of Legacy, published by Musical Comedy Editions. A new collection, The First Light Touches Me, is forthcoming from Red Dragonfly Press, tentatively due out in fall 2008. His poems, translations, essays and book reviews have appeared in Blue Collar Review, Main Street Rag, Free Verse, previously in Pemmican, and in other publications. His blog is A Burning Patience, http://aburningpatience.blogspot.com. He lives in Minneapolis.

Tracey Dahl is a poet in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a student living with her boyfriend while she continues to work with youth poets as she, herself, is a youth. She continues to write and read and is working on a chapbook. This is her first major publication.

Geordie de Boer, a rambler and writer of fiction and poetry, has been published most recently by Leaf Garden, Deuce Coupe, Sheepshead Review, The Raleigh Review and Right Hand Pointing. Visit him at Cockeyed Fits (geedeboer.wordpress.com/)

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).

Larry Gavin is the author of two books Necessities, published in 2005 and Least Resistance published in 2007. Both books from Red Dragon Fly press in Red Wing, Minnesota. His poems have been published widely. He’s also editor of a postcard haiku magazine called Tumbling Crane published on an irregular basis. He is also is a field editor for Midwest Fly Fishing Magazine where he writes about environmental issues. He lives in Faribault, Minnesota.

Mark Gibbons lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife and two cats. Connemara Moonshine (2002) and blue horizon (2007) were published by Two Dogs Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, where he read in April at the Northern Arizona Book Festival with Robert Bly and Alberto Rios. War, Madness, & Love, a joint collection with Appalachian poet Michael Revere came out in 2008. Mauvaises Herbes (Weeds) a bilingual French/English collection of his poetry was recently published by Propos/2editions, France (2009). Mark teaches poetry and drives truck to pay the rent. "Labor Day" is part of an unpublished manuscript (Forgotten Dreams) looking for a publisher. Find out more about Mark at markgibbons.blogspot.com

Howard Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks, most recently Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.

Patricia Goodwin grew up in an Italian-American neighborhood outside of Boston. She was the first in her family to finish high school and go on to college. She graduated cum laude from Salem State College, Salem, MA where she earned a BA in English Literature. In the early days of the natural foods movement, she created and taught macrobiotic educational programs for the East West Foundation, Brookline, MA (now the Kushi Institute, Becket, MA). She has practiced the macrobiotic discipline for 34 years. She also teaches brown rice cooking classes to continue this work. As a publicity agent for artists and independents, Patricia has her own public relations firm, PGPR. She was Public Relations Coordinator for the Marblehead Historical Society. She co-produced and promoted Women in the Arts 2003, which raised funds for H.A.W.C. (Help for Abused Women and Children). As a writer, Patricia has written many articles of non-fiction, which have appeared in publications such as The Boston Herald, The Record American (human interest reporter and movie critic for two years), American Express OnTime (business/travel fax newsletter, writer for two years), AAA Horizons, The Marblehead Reporter and The North Shore Sunday. She created her own independent imprint, Plum Press and published three books of poetry: Marblehead Moon (Plum Press, 1993), Java Love (Plum Press, 1997), and Atlantis (Plum Press, 2006). Her historical novella, When Two Women Die was published in the muse-apprentice-guild.com literary ezine. "A Child's Christmas in Revere", a chapter from her novel, Holy Days was published in the anthology, Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America (Seal Press, 2004). She produced "American Race", a four-poet event in conjunction with the publication of Under Her Skin. She appeared in a PBS Forum, March 10, 2005 reading for Under Her Skin filmed at The Center for New Words, Cambridge, MA. Her poetry has been published in Marblehead Magazine, IndeArts, muse-apprentice-guild.com, Runes, Gone Soft (now Soundings East), and nthposition.com. She has more than ten years experience reading and speaking in public. She is currently working on another book of poetry, The Phenomenon of Day, and a novel, Oxygen. Patricia lives with her husband and daughter in an historic seacoast town in Massachusetts.

John Grey's latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. He has been published recently in Agni, Worcester Review, South Carolina Review and The Pedestal.

Kenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM. His latest published collection, Writers' Block, is available through amazon. To learn more about Kenneth, visit www.kpgurney.me

Alba Cruz-Hacker straddles borders as a Dominican-American. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she was awarded the 2007 UCR Poet Laureate and the 2007 Tomas Rivera Endowment Poetry Selection. Her poetry collection No Honey for Wild Beasts is forthcoming October 2008 from Plain View Press. Alba's creative and critical work has been published throughout the Caribbean, Canada and the United States, including Poetry Magazine (Senior Editor?s Choice), The Caribbean Writer, Canadian Woman Studies, Spillway Review, Pacific Review, Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, an anthology edited by Gary Young, and the Hispanic volume of the American Encyclopedia of Ethnic Literature, among others. She teaches creative writing at the University of California Riverside.

Rick Hale is completing his undergraduate degree in English and creative writing at Michigan State University. His writings have appeared in Splinter Generation, The Offbeat, and The State News.

Paul Handley spent a career as a student and a student of odd jobs. He has an MA, an MPA, and is ABD. He has driven a cab and sold meat door-to-door. Paul has work included or forthcoming in Anemone Sidecar, Apollo’s Lyre, Boston Literary Magazine, Poesia and others.

Brian Hendrickson is a Florida-born ex-Alaskan who currently resides in High Point, North Carolina, teaching English at a nearby community college. His poems have recently appeared in publications such as Indiana Review, New York Quarterly, and Versal.

Michael Henson is the author of Ransack (a novel), A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind (stories), and The Tao of Longing (poems). HIs most recent work is Crow Call, an extended elegy for the homeless activist Buddy Gray. His column, "Hammered: Essays on Poverty and Addiction," appears monthly in StreetVibes, the newspaper of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless. He is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative.

Bette Lynch Husted lives in rural eastern Oregon. Her poetry collection is forthcoming in 2010 from Wordcraft of Oregon; Pudding House published a chapbook in 2002 and poems have appeared in Runes, Natural Bridge, The Oregonian, Basalt and other journals. A collection of memoir essays, Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land (Oregon State University Press, 2004), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the WILLA award in creative nonfiction. She received a 2007 Oregon Arts Commission Award for her essays, which have been published in Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, Northwest Review, Oregon Humanities, and other journals.

Victor Inzunza is an Undergraduate student pursuing a BA in English at the University of the Pacific in Stockton,CA. He is a former Marine who served during the initial invasion into Iraq in 2003 and returned to Iraq for another tour of duty in 2004. He writes short stories and poetry on various subjects. He is the 2009 recipient of the Arlen J. Hansen Award for creative writing, and 2009 Pacific Fund Grant recipient which he used to attend the William Joiner Center's annual writer's workshop at UMASS Boston during the summer of 09'. His work has been featured in the Stockton Record (recordnet.com), on the Sierra Club's website in the Le Conte Words for Wilderness project, and in University of Pacific's award winning literary arts magazine Calliope. He currently resides in Stockton,CA with his Wife Heather, and his three year old son Cadence. He plans on continuing to pursue his writing and attending graduate school once he completes his Bachelors Degree.

Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review and many more. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander.

Cleo Fellers Kocol has been writing and publishing prose for years. Although she didn't start writing poetry until the age of 74, six years later she is proud to be among those keeping the writing soup stirred. She has been published in a variety of journals, including Mobius, Querqus Review, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Song of the San Joaquin, Blue Collar Review and California Quarterly. She was Grand Prize Winner of the Artists' Embassy International Contest in 2003 and first place winner in 2006. Her poetry was choreographed to music and danced at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco in 2003.

Jerry Landry grew up in the bayous of Louisiana, graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson, MS, and currently makes his home in Charlotte, NC. He has previously been published in the Stylus, Central Speak and the Jackson Free Press. More information can be found at his blog at http://jerrylandry.wordpress.com.

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.

Ken Letko's poems have been published in three chapbooks and in a number of magazines and anthologies, recently in Caesura, Natural Bridge, and Toyon. He also has work forthcoming in Alehouse, Bloodroot, Dos Passos Review and Rattle. In 1995 he founded the poetry annual the Kerf, which is published at College of the Redwoods where he teaches.

Roseann Lloyd has published eight books, including three collections of her poetry, Because of the Light, (Holy Cow Press, 2003), War Baby Express, (Holy Cow! Press, 1996, awarded the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, 1997), and Tap Dancing for Big Mom, (New Rivers
Press, 1986). The anthology she co-edited with Deborah Keenan, Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile, (Milkweed Editions,
1990) was awarded an American Book Award in 1991. Some new poems/prose poems appear in Askew (#5), Water-Stone Review Volume 10, So to Speak (Winter/Spring 2009) and Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (Backwaters Press, 2009). Please visit roseannlloyd.com.

Loretta Marie Long is a former carpenter's apprentice, waitress, and caregiver, now working as a massage therapist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. She will complete an MFA in fiction writing from the Rainier Writer's Workshop this coming summer. In her spare time she is a political activist without health insurance who sews, makes homemade herbal tinctures, and takes photographs.

J.S. MacLean lives in Calgary Alberta. His work has appeared in such places as ditch, Why Vandalism? Battered Suitcase, Soundzine, The Toronto Quarterly, and various others. In 2007 he won first place in poetry in THIS Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt. In his spare time he wears various hats on the staff of an online literary journal, The Triggerfish Critical Review.

Vanessa Marfin is the daughter of Tony and Maggie, sister of Colby and Jamie, and mother of Amal and Joaquin. She is cousin to coyote, crow, and dolphin, and champion of earthworm. She lives in Seattle, Washington where she works hard to never waste a single moment. She has never been published before.

Michelle Matthees' poems have appeared or are forthcoming in "Pank," "The Bellingham Review," "Hayden's Ferry Review," "Bloomsbury Review," and numerous other journals. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's MFA program and is a recipient of grants and awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Jerome Foundation, The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, and Intermedia Arts/SASE. She currently lives a stone's throw away from Lake Superior in Duluth, MN.

Gerald McCarthy's poetry appears in War, Literature & the Arts, River Oak Review, The Broome Review, Third Wednesday, Connotation Press, Pale House, and in an Italian language anti-war anthology Signor No! His new book of poems is Trouble Light West End Press/Univ. of New Mexico Press.

Mark Mitchell lives in St. Charles, Illinois. His poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry East, Third Coast, Sojourners, Farmer's Market, The Other Side, and other literary magazines.

Merimee Moffitt, an expat from the West Coast, has lived in New Mexico since May 1970. A memoirist and poet, she writes and teaches writing and has published in Oasis Journal, the Harwood Anthology, Earthships Anthology, American Open Mic II, Fourth Genre, and Woman Made Gallery Calendar. She did guerilla protests with Code Pink for a couple of years locally and believes in peace as a possibility. She has four kids, four grand-kids, two dogs, a husband, and a cat. She co-edits a monthly poetry broadside, paper only, called The Rag.

Esther Greenleaf Mürer lives in Philadelphia. She has been a composer, literary translator, and editor. Although she has been writing poetry all her life, she started getting serious about learning the craft at 70. Her work has most recently appeared in The Externalist, The Umbrella, Unsplendid, and The Literary Bohemian.

Christina Pacosz’ most recent book is Greatest Hits, 1975 – 2001, Pudding House, 2002. Her chapbook, Notes from the Red Zone, originally published in 1983 by Seal Press has been selected by Ron Mohring of Seven Kitchens Press, as the inaugural chapbook to be reprinted in his ReBound Series. It will be available autumn, 2009. Born and raised in Detroit, she has lived in New York City, the Pacific Northwest, North Dakota, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Alaska. She has been a poet-in-the-schools and a North Carolina Visiting Artist. For a dozen years Christina has been living in Kansas City with her husband and teaching at-risk youth both sides of the Kansas-Missouri state line for most of that time.

Marek P. Parker is a Buffalo, New York based poet, writer, and special education teacher. His poetry and other writings have been published in the anthology Nickel City Nights, The Hanging Moss, The Buffalo News, OUTcome, and Bflo Journal, on which he also served as assignments editor. In 1986 He was a participant in the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament.

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/.

David S. Pointer has poems in The Lineup: Poems on Crime, Criminal Class Review, and elsewhere. His work is included in "Empty Shoes: Poems on hunger and Homelessness" anthology available at www.Amazon.com or www.popcornpress.com. He lives in Murfreesboro, TN.

Judith Kelly Quaempts lives in rural eastern Oregon and is an active member of Internet Writers Workshop. Her work has been published in Shadowcast, Camroc Press Review, 50 to 1, Flash Fire 500, Drunk and Lonely Men, and T-Zero. She has completed a suspense novel, A Place Called Winter, and is at work on a second, A Creek Named Sorrow.

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.

Sally Arango Renata grew up in a San Jose, CA that was surrounded by orchards and ranches. That area is now called Silicon Valley,
and there is no going home. She presently lives along the coast of South Carolina although she considers herself a citizen of the
world. Renata is a folk artist and poet and has been published in various collections including The Town Anthology, The Petigru Review, The Shine Journal, Ken*again, and most recently in Lilith, A Collection of Women's Writes. She has placed or shortlisted in the
Interboard Poetry Compeition (IBPC), is a Pushcart Prize nominee and she is presently a Poetry Fellow, awarded by the SC
Arts Commission.

Andrew Rihn is the author of several slim volumes of poetry, including two forthcoming chapbooks: Foreclosure Dogs (Winged City Press) and America Plops and Fizzes (sunnyoutside press). He was born in Canton, OH, which, according to local legend, used to be a steel town. Now its mostly foreclosure and high school football games. He is twenty-five years old.

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

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, will be coming out from Red Dragonfly Press this year. Visit his web site at www.ThomasRSmithpoet.com.

Kurt Sobolik lives in an old trailer on the outskirts of Missoula, MT. He enjoys drinking beer, hiking, playing disc golf, and reading. He is pleased to be appearing in Pemmican.

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.

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.

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Insatiable Psalm (Hershey, Pa.: Wind River Press, 2005) and What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn (West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, 2008; Free Verse Editions series). Visit his web site at http://www.yataub.net.

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.

Lauro Vazquez is a twenty one year old poet . He was born in Mexico and is currently an undergraduate student at Dominican University of California and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lauro believes words are little animals that live inside poems. He believes in utopias because they are worth imagining. And writes with the conviction that writing is an act of personal and political liberation.

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.

Larina Warnock works for a nonprofit organization in Corvallis, Oregon. In her spare time, she volunteers for a variety of social and literary organizations and edits The Externalist, an online literary journal focused on significant social issues. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Oregonian, Eight Octaves Review, Hanging Moss Journal, Space & Time Magazine, among others. Her essay, 'You Are Here: Activism from the Edge of the World' will appear later this year in an anthology of work by presenters at PRESS: a cross-cultural literary conference, where she presented on disability rights in literature.

Joanna M. Weston M.A. has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty years. Has two middle-readers, ‘The Willow Tree Girl’ and ‘Those Blue Shoes’;
also ‘A Summer Father’, poetry, published by Frontenac House of Calgary, all in print.

Kelley White is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School and worked as a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for more than twenty-five years. She has recently returned to her small New Hampshire village and begun work at a rural health center in the North Country. Her poems have been widely published over the past decade, in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Rattle and the Journal of the American Medical Association and in several chapbooks and full-length collections, most recently TOXIC ENVIRONMENT from Boston Poet Press. She is the recipient of a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant in poetry.

Stephen Jarrell Williams loves to write, listen to his music, and dance late into the night. He was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His parents are native Texans. He has lived most of his life in California. His poetry has appeared in Aoife's Kiss, Aphelion, Blue Collar Review, The Broome Review, Camroc Press Review, Censored Poets, Chronogram Magazine, Deuce Coupe, Fissure Magazine, Freefall, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hawaii Review, Heroin Love Songs, Hungur, Is This Reality, Kalkion, Liquid Imagination, Mad Swirl, MediaVirus Magazine, Metazen, Mirror Dance, Neonbeam, Nerve Cowboy, Nomad's Choir, POEM, Poesia, Posey, protestpoems.org, Purpose, REAL, Rusty Truck, Scifaikuest, Sex And Murder, Shoots And Vines, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Thieves Jargon, Zygote In My Coffee, and others.

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.