We are pleased to announce the following poets and artists who appear in our second issue.
FALL 2009 CONTRIBUTORS
CD Albin’s poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Big Muddy, Cape Rock, Concho River Review, Flint Hills Review and Limestone. He has also contributed short fiction to Arkansas Review, Natural Bridge, Red Rock Review, Roanoke Review, and Rockhurst Review. He teaches English at Missouri State University – West Plains.
John Azrak was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s very short fiction award in 2006, and a finalist in The Sonora Review’s short-short fiction contest for 2007, judged by Steve Almond. He was also a finalist in Orchid’s short-short contest, judged by Amy Hempel. His poems appear in, among others, Court Green, Poetry East, The Santa Clara Review, Coe Review, California Quarterly, The Comstock Review, Bryant Review and in the anthology XY Files (Sherman Asher).
Laurie Billman grew up in Colorado. She now lives in North Carolina where she works as a mental health therapist and misses the mountains. Her poetry has appear in The MacGuffin, /13th Moon, Seedhouse and The Rambler. She has poems appearing in the anthologies Not What I Expected, Night Whispers and Sand and Sea.
Richard Boada recently earned a PhD. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Louisville Review, Yalobusha Review, Poetry East, Oyez Review, Front Porch, New Madrid and Rio Grande Review among others.
Allen Braden has poems forthcoming in Orion, Subtropics, Poetry International, Water-Stone Review and three textbooks. His book A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood is forthcoming in the VQR Poetry Series from University of Georgia Press. Winner of the 2008 Dana Award in Poetry, he lives in Lakewood, Washington, near the historic site of Byrd Dam, Sawmill and Gristmill.
Trent Busch is a native of rural West Virginia who now lives in Georgia where he makes furniture. His poems have appeared in many journals including Best American Poetry 2001, Poetry, Hudson Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, The Nation, American Scholar, and more recently in Los Angeles Review, Rattle and Notre Dame Review.
RG Cantalupo’s work has been published in over a hundred literary journals throughout the United States, Canada, and England. His book of poetry “Say” was a 2005 runner-up for the John Ciardi award in poetry. His most recent poetry publications include “The Minnesota Review”, “The Southern Review”, “Emrys”, “The Wisconsin Review” “Nimrod”, “The Cape Rock Review”, among others. He is currently finishing a Dual-Genre MFA in Poetry and Creative Non-fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is also a two-time Regional Finalist for the American College Theater Festival, and his play “Heart” was presented at the Kennedy Center as a National Finalist in 2005. His award-winning memoir “The Light Where Shadows End” was serialized in the literary journal “War, Literature and the Arts” and selected for the anthology “Best Personal Essays, 1985-2005.” He currently lives in Malibu, California with his wife and four dogs and teaches at Mesa State University.
David Chorlton is a 30-year resident of Phoenix, having moved from Europe in 1978 with a background in Austria and England. The desert changed his way of looking at and thinking about nature, especially in these environmentally sensitive times and his poems have come to reflect this. He recently won both the Ronald Wardall Chapbook competition from Rain Mountain Press for The Lost River and the Slipstream Chapbook competition for From the Age of Miracles.
Sean Clifford was born in New Orleans, raised in Rhode Island and currently lives in Los Angeles.Since graduating from Yale University in 2006, he has worked in New York and Los Angeles in the television business, and currently works on the FX show, "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia."
Horace Coleman is a poet and essayist and an aspiring photographer. Midwestern born (Ohio), He lives in southern California and hates to breathe air he can see. Coleman's continually amused and entertained by human pretension and folly (his and other people's). Coleman likes jazz, blues, good films and art and the vagaries and mysteries of existence.
Cynthia Cruz has had poems published in the American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Boston Review, AGNI, FIELD, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, and others. Her first book, RUIN, was published by Alice James Books. Her work has been anthologized in “Isn’t it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets” and “The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries.” She has received fellowships to YADDO and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Carol DeCanio, recipient of The Arts Fund Individual Artist Award in Poetry, has been published over 30 years. She has had art exhibits of her poetry paired with her photography, and organizes poetry events in Santa Barbara. Her poems are available in letterpress editions of broadside and accordion book.
Kristina England resides in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Ballard Street Poetry Journal, The Dirty Napkin, Read This Magazine, Weave Magazine, Breadcrumb Scabs, The Blotter Magazine, and Moonshot. Ms. England runs a workshop for local poets and recently joined the editorial staff at Ballard Street Poetry Journal.
Benjamin Evans is the executive editor of the arts review Fogged Clarity. His poetry, music reviews and editorials have appeared in various web and print publications. He is a graduate of Colgate University.
E. Michael Desilets was born and raised in Framingham, Massachusetts and eventually made his way to Los Angeles because he read Raymond Chandler in high school. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including The Boston Herald, California Quarterly, The National Quarterly, and The Rambler.
Alan Elyshevitz is a poet and short story writer from East Norriton, PA. His poems have appeared most recently in Lady Jane’s Miscellany, Bayou Magazine, and Quiddity. In addition, he has published two poetry chapbooks: The Splinter in Passion’s Paw (New Spirit) and Theory of Everything (Pudding House). Currently he teaches writing at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Alan Gann teaches creative writing workshops in at-risk schools, and sexuality education at a Unitarian Universalist church. He is on the board of the Dallas Poets Community, and is a poetry editor for their literary journal, Illya’s Honey. Somehow he still finds time to ride his bike, wander in the woods, look at birds, and photograph dragonflies. Recently, his poems have appeared in Sentence, Main Street Rag, Borderlands, Sojourn, and the 2009 Texas Poetry Calendar.
Christopher Giroux is an instructor of English at Saginaw Valley State University. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Wayne State University.
Katy Gunn is a poet and lifetime student from Georgia who spends her time taking classes, writing as much as she can, and waitressing to help fund it all.
Will Hochman teaches writing at Southern Connecticut State University. His previous poetry has been collected in two chapbooks (Just Around the Corner and Greatest Hits) and in his first book (Stranger Within) in l993. His poems have appeared in more than 50 small magazines and journals, he has been the poetry editor of War, Literature & the Arts since l994. He co-edited Letters to J.D. Salinger for the University of Wisconsin Press in 2002 and is writing A Critical Companion to J.D. Salinger with Bruce Mueller. His newest collection of poems is Freer from Pecan Grove Press (2006).
Marianna Hofer works from Studio 13 in the gloriously haunted Jones Building, has published poems and stories in a variety of small magazines, and her b&w photography has hung in various local exhibitions and eateries. Her first book, A Memento Sent by the World, was published by Word Press in 2008.
Eric Johnson teaches English in San Diego, California. He holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, The Greensboro Review, the anthology Never Before: Poems about First Experiences, and other journals. His chapbook The Exquisite River & Other Poems was published by Jeanne Duval Editions in 2006.
Rick Kilpatrick is a recent recipient of the American Academy of Poets Honorable Mention, the Rachel Sherwood Award for Poetry, and an earlier recipient of the Patrons Association Award for Writing. His work has appeared has appeared in Spot Literary Magazine, RipRap, The Northridge Review, Paper Wings, Avocet, with additional work forthcoming in Urthona Magazine. His first chapbook, A World Less Paved, was released Spring 09 by Transcurrent Press.
Lyn Lifshin has written more than 125 books and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off. Lyn Lifshin's prizewinning book (Paterson Poetry Award) Before It's Light was published Winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press Lyn is the subject of the documentary film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. New books include Mirrors, August Wind, Novemberly and just out spring 2008, 92 Rapple Drive and Desire. She is working on a collection about poets, Poets, (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies will be published by World Parade and Tsunami will come from Blue Heron Press. New books include Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness from Texas Review Press, Nutley Pond from Goose River Press, Lost in the Fog from Finishing Line Press, Persephone from Red Hen , Light at the End and Lost Horses. Lifshin has won awards for her non-fiction and edited four anthologies of women's writing including Tangled Vines, Ariadne's Thread and Lips Unsealed.
Richard Luftig is a professor of educational psychology and special education at Miami University in Ohio. He is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and a semi finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United States and internationally in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland, Bulgaria, Thailand and England. His third chapbook was published by Dos Madres Press in 2007.
Walt McDonald, author of twenty-two collections of poems and a book of fiction, was an Air Force pilot, taught at the Air Force Academy, and served as Texas Poet Laureate in 2001. He is the recipient of numerous Texas State, and national awards. In May 2002, he retired from Texas Tech University as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet in Residence. He has also contributed poems to Carrying the Darkness – The Poetry of the Vietnam War (1989), and Unaccustomed Mercy – Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War (1989).
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan also has forthcoming work in The Los Angeles Review, The Iguana Review, Beeswax Magazine, among others. He is counting the days until the 2009 NFL season begins. In the meantime, he's doing his best to knock off as many summer books as possible. He hails from Skaneateles, NY.
Sergio Ortiz grew up between Chicago and Puerto Rico. He has a B.A. in English literature from Inter-American University, and a M.A. in philosophy from World University. He was an ESL teacher most of his life. His work has been published or is forthcoming this in: Salt River Review, Modern English Tanka, and Yellow Medicine, The Battered Suitcase, Shipwright, Loch Raven Review, Red Fez, Rust and Moth, Tongues of the Ocean, Word Catalyst, Clean Sheets, MagnaPoets, Collective Fallout, and over fifty other journals.
Robert Peake studied poetry at U.C. Berkeley and in the MFA program at Pacific University, Oregon. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Rattle, Silk Road, and others. He writes about poetry and poetics on his website, www.robertpeake.com.
Kenneth Pobo had a book of poems published in 2008 from WordTech Press called Glass Garden. Also published was his online chapbook, Crazy Cakes, which can be accessed at http://scars.tv. Catch Ken’s radio show, “Obscure Oldies,” from 6-8pm EST on Saturdays at WDNR.com.
Doug Ramspeck's poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, was selected for the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and is published by BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City). His chapbook, Where We Come From, is published by March Street Press. He was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2009.
Judy Rifkin is passionate about lots of stuff - computing, flying, cooking, knitting, travel to name a few, but particularly loves taking pictures of the subject, her one-and-only grandson, Owen. “Sidewalks of NY” was taken on a visit to the Big Apple in Dec. 07.
John Riley is the founder and publisher of Morgan Reynolds Publishing, an independent educational publisher in Greensboro, North Carolina. Before founding Morgan Reynolds, he worked as a freelance writer and teacher. His fiction and poetry have appeared in or is forthcoming in Willows Wept Review, Corradi, Aberrations, Hardboiled, The Houston Literary Review, SmokeLong Quarterly and Hobble Creek Review.
J. E. Robinson has had his work appear widely. He has received the Plainsongs Award from Hastings College (Nebraska) for his poetry. He lives in Southern Illinois, near St. Louis.
Julia Runcie is a student and poet living in Vermont and Boston.
Joannie Kervran Stangeland is the author of two poetry chapbooks. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals, most recently Iota Magazine and Valparaiso Poetry Review. As part of her day job, Joannie is working on a video series, “A Writer’s Guide to Microsoft Office.”
Thomas Stein was born in Connecticut. His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, periodicals and web sites and frequently reflects his travels in America and abroad. In 2003 and 2004 Mr. Stein taught high school in Bulgaria on a Fulbright Teacher Exchange. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Bismarck State College in North Dakota.
Brett Taylor is a writer and photographer who lives in Mossy Grove, TN. His photos have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Big Muddy, and Redivider. His photo in this issue shows the house in the Woody community of Cumberland County, TN, built around 1887, where his grandfather, the late Dallas S. Taylor, grew up.
Mark Terrill shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and has lived in Germany since 1984. The author of 15 volumes of poetry, memoir and translations, he recently guest-edited a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review, which includes his translations of Günter Grass, Peter Handke, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and many others. A three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, his own work has been translated into German, French and Portuguese.
Larry D. Thomas served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He retired in 1998 after a three-decade career in social service and adult criminal justice. He has published nine collections of poems, most recently The Fraternity of Oblivion and New and Selected Poems. Larry’s website address is www.larrydthomas.com.
Steve Tompkins graduated from Colorado State University-Pueblo with degrees in English and Spanish. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Big Muddy; Borderlands-The Texas Poetry Review; The Chiron Review; Cutthroat; Jelly Bucket; Natural Bridge; Nerve Cowboy; and New South. Steve currently works as the director of the English Language Program at a charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
James S. Wilk is a physician in Denver, Colorado, specializing in medical disorders complicating pregnancy. A Pushcart nominee, his work has appeared in Pearl, The Salt Flats Annual, The Blue Unicorn, The Raintown Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine and others. His 2007 chapbook, Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies, is available through Pudding House Press.
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