SPRING 2011 CONTRIBUTORS
Doug Anderson’s most recent book is Keep Your Head Down, a memoir about Vietnam and the sixties published by W.W. Norton. He teaches in the Trinity College and Pacific University of Oregon MFA programs.
Mary Jo Balistreri spent much of her life as a concert pianist and harpsichordist. She began writing poetry with the death of her grandsons to not only transcend grief but also as a way of giving witness to their lives. Poetry has now become her way of life. She has received many awards, including a Pushcart nomination in 2006. She has published in journals such as Passager, Spindrift, The Healing Muse, Windhover and others. Her book, Joy in the Morning was published by Bellowing Ark in 2008.
Les Bares lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and has recently had poems accepted in The Cream City Review, The Prose-Poem Project, and Solo Press.
April Michelle Bratten is a writer currently living in North Dakota, USA. She was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has had work appear in Istanbul Literary Review, erbacce, Pot Luck Magazine, Red Fez, Trailer Park Quarterly, and Durable Goods, among others.
Thomas Calvary is a Canadian writer whose various interests are all united by their value as material for philosophical inquiry. The selection(s) included here is/are taken from his first - and perhaps final - collection of poetry titled "Symbiotic Wheels". He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia where he has no affiliations.
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura was born in Colombia and grew up in New York City. A former attorney, she recently left the legal profession to pursue her passion for writing. Currently, she is a student at Southern Connecticut State University, where she has received award recognitions for her poetry. Most recently, she was named Connecticut Student Poet by the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. Her poems appear in Folio and are forthcoming in Connecticut Review.
Ruxandra Cesereanu (b. 1963) has published eight books of poetry, the latest of which is Coma (2008). A collaboration with Andrei Codrescu, The Forgiven Submarine, came out in 2009 in Codrescu’s translation from Black Widow Press, which, the year before, published Adam J. Sorkin’s translations with the poet and others, Crusader-Woman.
Tarek Chemaly Born in 1974, he is an engineer and economist who has recycled himself into a university lecturer and online media commentator. On the side he is known to be a poet and an artist exhibiting worldwide. He often says, "I do not live in Beirut, it is Beirut that lives in me."
David Chorlton has lived in Arizona since 1978 and one spent a lot of his time painting. His poetry has appeared in magazines such as Skidrow Penthouse, Poem & Presa, and in numerous individual collections, the most recent of which is the chapbook "From the Age of Miracles" from Slipstream.
Kevin Marshall Chopson received his MFA from Murray State University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chiron Review, The Baltimore Review, English Journal, Concho River Review, Nashville Arts Magazine, New Madrid, The South Carolina Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Poem, The Chaffin Journal, Hurricane Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, the Aurorean, and The Broad River Review, among others. He teaches writing at Davidson Academy and Volunteer State Community College, both just north of Nashville, Tennessee.
Bebe Cook is a hodge-podge, she believes poetry is an opportunity to create a bridge; a chance to invite the reader to share a few minutes, to get acquainted and loves that every time a poem is read it is transformed by the intent of the writer and the experiences of the reader into something new. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including, Press 1, Red River Review, Illya’s Honey, Autumn Sky Poetry, Flutter and Six Little Things. Her first chapbook, An Insatiable Desire for Déjà Vu was published by Flutter Press (October 2009).
Chet Corey’s poetry has appeared most recently in Amoskeag and The Broome Review. Poems are forthcoming in Chiron Review, The Penwood Review, and Windhover.
Ab Davis has written and lived in the remote West For most of her adult life: first in the Flathead Valley in Montana, then Wyoming - at the Flying H Ranch on the Crow Indian Reservation/ Montana border, and then a decade on Bangs Mtn. in the middle of the Colville National Forest in Washington. She has studied and practiced writing at Flathead Community College, Washington State University and Tufts University, as well as participating in small communal writing groups. She currently lives in California and writes with a small group of practicing Buddhist women. Her work is forthcoming in Decanto (UK).
Janann Dawkins' work has appeared in publications such as decomP, Existere, Mezzo Cammin, Phoebe & Two Review, among others. Leadfoot Press published her chapbook Micropleasure in 2008. A graduate of Grinnell College with a B.A. in American Studies & twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she resides in Ann Arbor, MI.
Geordie de Boer, a rambler and wrangler of rhyme (internal) lives in Washington (state). He’s been published most recently by the beatnik, Offcourse, Cirque, Heavy Bear, and Alba.
Peggy Dobreer is a Los Angeles poet, parent, and community relations coordinator for LMU Extension. Her poetry has been published in WordWright's Magazine, L.A. Yoga, Literary Angles and upcoming in Mas Tequila Press. She is a member of Beyond Baroque and Hollywood Institute of Poetics, co-authored 64 Ways to Practice Nonviolence, ProEd Publishers, and MoonTide Press will release a first full length collection of poetry in November.
Writing by Richard Donnelly has appeared in Chronogram, The Dos Passos Review, and San Pedro River Review. He is a member of The Loft's Open Voices writing group in Minneapolis, MN and is listed in Poets and Writers.
James H. Duncan, editor of Hobo Camp Review, is a native of Albany, NY. Upon graduating from Southern Vermont College in 2003, he hit the road, crossed states, took notes, collected scars, drank heavily, and began writing poetry to cure what ailed him. He is the author of Welcome to the night shift (2005), Thrift Store Majestic (2006), Ballast (2007), Maybe a Bird Will Sing (Bird War Press, 2009), and has appeared in dozens of print and online publications, including Apt, Poetry Salzburg Review, Plainsongs, Reed Magazine, Slipstream, Red Fez, Zygote in My Coffee, Up The Staircase, Durable Goods, The Battered Suitcase, and Gutter Eloquence Magazine, among others.
Renee Emerson is the author of three chapbooks, Something Like Flight (Sargent Press), The Whitest Sheets (Maverick Duck Press), and Where Nothing Can Grow (Batcat Press, forthcoming). She lives and writes in Louisville, KY, with her husband.
Raina Lauren Fields currently attend the Master of Fine Arts program in poetry at Virginia Tech. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Breadcrumb Scabs, PANK, and Gargoyle.
Kristin Fouquet photographs and writes from lovely New Orleans. She is the author of Twenty Stories (Rank Stranger Press, 2009), a collection of short literary fiction. You are invited to her humble virtual abode, Le Salon, at the web address http://kristin.fouquet.cc
Graham Fulton’s poems have been widely published in the UK and USA. Full-length and chapbook collections have been published by Polygon, Rebel Inc, Mariscat Press and Roncadora Press.3 new major collections are to be published in 2011 and 2012 by Smokestack Books and Red Squirrel Press from England and Salmon Poetry from Ireland. He lives in Paisley in Scotland and runs Controlled Explosion Press.
Mike Gallagher was born on Achill Island, County Mayo. He has been published in, among others, The Doghouse Book of Ballad Poems, Irish Haiku Society, The World Haiku Review, frogpond, 3Lights, Revival, The Stony Thursday, VerbSap, The Poetry Porch, and anthologies in Europe, America and Australia. He won the 2010 Eigse Michael Hartnett viva voce competition and received a Merit in the RTE/Penguin 2010 short story competition.
Peter J. Grieco has been writing and publishing poems, both in print journals and on-line, in a variety of styles over the past five years. He is a native of Buffalo, NY where he works part-time in the college writing program at Buffalo State. Starting the month, however, he will also be attending as a full time student as he retrains in view of becoming a high school math teacher.
H. Palmer Hall's most recent book is Foreign and Domestic (Turning Point, 2009) and he has a collection of stories, The Home Front, coming out from Ink Brush Press in the spring of 2012. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including North American Review, Ascent, The Texas Observer, Mizna, Connecticut Review, The Florida Review and many others. His home page is at http://library.starytx.edu/palmer and he blogs at http://vietnamremf.blogspot.com He is a librarian at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.
Colin D. Halloran is a former infantryman and public school teacher who now spends his days travelling and speaking about incorporating poetry into the history classroom. He works with teachers and students at universities and high schools to expand their understanding of war. Colin is an MFA candidate at Fairfield University where he also serves as poetry editor for the online literary journal Mason's Road. His work has appeared internationally in publications like The New York Times, Caper Literary Journal, and Structo Magazine.
Morgan Harlow has poems, stories and other writing published or forthcoming in the Tusculum Review, Washington Square, Descant, Seneca Review, The Cortland Review, West Wind Review, Otoliths and elsewhere.
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 inhabits Studio 13 in the gloriously haunted Jones Building in downtown Findlay, Ohio. She 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.
Angela Janda Goldstein's work has appeared in journals including Whitefish Review, Adobe Walls, New Mexico Poetry Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review, and polvo magazine. She was the recipient of a 2006 New Mexico Discovery Award for poetry. She grew up in rural Minnesota.
Jill Klein has been raising teenagers and volunteering for the past several years, after an earlier career as a commercial banker. She grew up in Kansas, then the Pacific Northwest, then moved to California for college (sight unseen). As often happens, she stayed, and loves her engineering husband and adopted home in Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley. She has just completed her second poetry-writing workshop through Stanford Continuing Studies.
Curt Last lives in Huntington Beach, California. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Pre-Law from U.C. Santa Barbara and his M.F.A. in Poetry from California State University, Long Beach. He is currently serving as a Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Naval Reserves.
Jennifer Luebbers is a first year student of poetry in Indiana University’s MFA program, and works as a part-time copy editor for an online clothing company. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Albion Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Brevity, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Naugatuck River Review.
Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Iain Macdonald has earned his bread and beer in various ways, from factory hand to merchant marine officer. He currently lives in Arcata, California, where he works as a high school English teacher. His chapbook, Plotting the Course, is available from March Street Press.
Clint Margrave has recent or forthcoming work in New York Quarterly, 3AM, Pearl, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, The Tule Review, Spillway, as well as in the anthologies At the Gate: Arrivals and Departures by Kings Estate Press and Beside The City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry by World Parade Books.
Matt McGee is the editor/publisher of Falling Star Magazine. His short fiction collections can be found on http://www.facebook.com/l/b51ecCErmJU-rsugIZlEg3Ra88Q;Amazon.com along with his most recent poetry collection, "We Liked You Better When You Was a Whore."
David McIntire has been writing and performing his poems for nearly thirty years. Some of his poetry has been spontaneously composed and performed as a member of Paper Bag: Improvisational Music Co. and its offshoot Bag:Theory. He has been published both online and off. He has a CD of his poems, Wonder, Doubt & Curiousity and is currently working on his third chapbook. Along with his wife, Cat, David hosts the Poetry Stew reading in El Segundo, California.
John McKernan is now a retired comma herder. He lives in Florida & West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His most recent book is a selected poems, Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review and many other magazines.
Gerardo Mena is a decorated Iraqi Freedom Veteran. He spent six years in Special Operations with the Reconnaissance Marines and was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal with a V for Valor for multiple acts of heroism while under enemy fire. His poem, "So I Was a Coffin" won the "2010 War Poetry" contest sponsored by Winningwriters. He also has poems forthcoming in Diagram, Sleetmagazine, and the New Mexico Poetry Review. He is currently a wrestling coach at Hickman High School and is also studying at the University of Missouri to be a high school English teacher. For more information on Gerardo go to www.gerardomena.com
Robin A. Morris's poetry has appeared in a number of publications, including Windhover, Lilith, The Lowell Review, and North American Review. She is a full time online professor of English at South University Online and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Pat Mottola, from Cheshire, Connecticut, earned her M.S. Degree in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. Her work has been published in War, Literature & the Arts, Connecticut River Review, Caduceus, Long River Run, Connecticut Review, and Welter. She has won numerous awards, most recently the 2011 Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize.
Paul Doru Mugur writes poetry, prose, essays, and literary and visual art criticism, and translates from Romanian, Spanish and French. He founded and edits Respiro, a multi-lingual online cultural magazine. He is primary editor of Vanishing Point That Whistles, an anthology of contemporary Romanian poets due out later in 2011 from Talisman House.
Matt Mullins is a slash of centerline pinging your head’s transistor. His daughter, age three, just came into the room wearing nylon angel wings and told him to try harder. At what, she wouldn't say. Recent work is in print in Pleiades and Hunger Mountain and online at Hobart, decomP and >kill author.
Lance Nizami has no formal training in the Arts. He is active in the world’s most competitive profession, yet without an institutional appointment or income. He started writing poetry out of boredom while on a long cross-America airplane flight last year, and much of his poetry has been written while flying.
James Owens lives in New Carlisle, Ind., and teaches writing at Purdue North Central University. Two books of his poems have been published: An Hour is the Doorway (Black Lawrence Press) and Frost Lights a Thin Flame (Mayapple Press). His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared widely in literary journals. He walks in the dunes along the southern shore of Lake Michigan and watches the waves and the gulls.
Carl Palmer is a nominee for the Micro Award, and three Pushcart Prizes, He is from Old Mill Road in Ridgeway Virginia, and now lives in University Place, Washington.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker , San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay ‘Magic, Illusion and Other Realities’, and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
Jack Powers teaches at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Connecticut. He has poems appearing or forthcoming in Atlanta Review, The Ledge, Inkwell, The Cortland Review and Fourteen Magazine.
J. Gordon Rodwan strives to find arresting images in unusual places, such as historic buildings and rustic environments. The picture presented here was taken in an abandoned school library. As a twenty-year member of the Photographic Guild of Detroit, he is a frequent judge and photography critic for that organization as well as the Greater Detroit Camera Club Council and the Photographic Society of America. He has displayed photographs in galleries throughout the state of Michigan and is an active member of the Lawrence Street Gallery in Ferndale, Michigan.
Brad Rose was born and raised in southern California and lives in Boston. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Third Wednesday, Off the Coast, Imagination and Place, Tattoo Highway, Boston Literary Magazine, Monkeybicycle, SleetMagagazine.com, Six Sentences, Right Hand Pointing, Fiction at Work, Staccato Micro Fiction and other publications. Links to his poetry and fiction can be found at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com/
Barbara Sabol’s poetry has appeared in Public-Republic, Blood Lotus, Poets 350, the Tupelo Press Poetry Project, Apparatus Magazine, Blast Furnace Press, Red Lion Square, and on the Akron Art Museum's website. She is the author of two chapbooks, Original Ruse (Accents Publishing) and The Distance Between Blues, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Barbara has an MFA from Spalding University.
Luke Salazar has been (and continues to be) a graduate of the MFA program for Creative Writing at Cal State Long Beach, a private investigator, a repo man, a teacher, a forklift driver, a database programmer, a pirate/poet/pauper/king. He loves flowers and puppy dogs, especially in an ice-cold smoothie. His favorite number is Pi, his favorite color is Nihilism, his favorite car is the Badonkadonk Land Tank. If you see him out on the street, please spare him a dime. What kind of dime? That's up to you. Friend him on Facebook for a daily dose of weird.
Scot Siegel is the author of three volumes of poetry, most recently Skeleton Says (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Siegel has recent work in Aesthetica's 2011 Creative Works Annual (UK), Front Porch Journal, High Desert Journal, MiPOesias, Naugatuck River Review, Press 1, and the Salmon Poetry anthology "Dogs Singing". His second full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2012. Siegel serves on the board of trustees of the Friends of William Stafford, and edits the online poetry journal Untitled Country Review.
Elias Simpson is currently a graduate student in creative writing at Virginia Tech. He tried to grow up in Iowa. Recent publications include a photograph in Honey Land Review, and poems in California Quarterly, Antigonish Review: Grow-Op, and Lucid Rhythms. He is editor of the upcoming online arts journal, Toad.
Noel Sloboda serves as dramaturge for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Company and teaches at Penn State York. He is the author of the poetry collection Shell Games (2008) as well as two chapbooks: Stages (2010) and Of Things Passed (2010). He has also published a book about the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein.
Adam J. Sorkin recently published two books from the University of Plymouth Press (U.K.), Ioan Es. Pop’s No Way Out of Hadesburg (2010) and Mircea Ivănescu’s lines poems poetry (2009), both translated with Lidia Vianu. He is Distinguished Professor of English, Penn State Brandywine.
Karissa Knox Sorrell received her MFA from Murray State University. Her poems have been previously published or are forthcoming in Etchings, Number One, Touchstone, and Relief. She teaches English as a Second Language in Nashville, Tennessee.
Joannie Kervran Stangeland is the author of two poetry chapbooks, and her third collection is forthcoming in 2011. In addition to San Pedro River Review, Joannie’s poems have appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Crab Creek Review, and other publications. She lives in Seattle, where she works as a technical editor and occasionally teaches writing classes at Richard Hugo House.
J.J. Steinfeld is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island. He has published fourteen books – ten short story collections, two novels, two poetry collections – along with five chapbooks, the most recent ones being Word Burials (Novel, Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink, 2009), Misshapenness (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2009), A Fanciful Geography (Poetry Chapbook, erbacce-press, 2010), and A Glass Shard Memory (Stories, Recliner Books, 2010). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over forty of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States.
Kaz Sussman is a carpenter and disaster response worker living in a home he has built in Oregon from abandoned poems. His work is available or upcoming in From Here We Speak: an Anthology of Oregon Poetry, Dance Macabre, qarrtsiluni, flashquake, Raven Chronicles, and This I Believe: Fatherhood (print), among other publications.
Brett Taylor is a writer and photographer who lives in Mossy Grove, Tennessee. His photos have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Big Muddy, and Redivider.
Charles Thomas lives in Tennessee. Other poems have been published in Borderlands and in Poem.
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 sixteen collections of poems, most recently A Murder of Crows (Virtual Artists Collective 2011), Five Lavender Minutes of an Afternoon (e-chapbook, Right Hand Pointing 2010), The Skin of Light (Dalton Publishing 2010) and Wolves (Timberline Press/El Grito del Lobo imprint 2010). Larry's website address is www.larrydthomas.com.
Called by The Bloomsbury Review, “one of the most insightful and spirited poets today,” Pamela Uschuk is author of five books of poems, including CRAZY LOVE (2009 Wings Press), winner of the 2010 American Book Award. Her work is published around the world and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. She teaches creative writing at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In Spring 2011, she will hold the Hodges Chair as Visiting Writer at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Laura Walker currently lives in central Washington with her husband and son; she lived in Utah for ten years, eight in Las Vegas, and twelve in Wyoming, where she was born. Her MFA is from Eastern Washington University and her BA is from Southern Utah University. She teaches creative writing at Washington State University–Tri-Cities and English at Columbia Basin College. For two years she taught a poetry workshop for offenders in a medium-security prison.
J.S.Watts lives and writes in the flatlands of East Anglia in the U.K. Her poetry, short fiction and reviews appear in a variety of publications in Britain, Canada and the States including: Acumen, Ascent Aspirations, Brittle Star, Envoi, The Journal and Orbis and have been broadcast on BBC Radio. She is Poetry Reviews Editor for Open Wide Magazine. Her first poetry collection, Cats and Other Myths is being published by Lapwing Publications in 2011. Further details at: www.jswatts.co.uk
Julene Tripp Weaver is a counselor who lives in Seattle. Her book, No Father Can Save Her, was published by Plain View Press in 2011. Her poetry is published in many journals; two recent anthologies with her work are A Dream in the Clouds, featuring art inspired by the 2008 Presidential Election, and Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS. She does wordplay on Twitter @trippweavepoet and has a website: www.julenetrippweaver.com.
Nicholas YB Wong is the winner of Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition and a nominee for Best of the Net 2010 and Best of Web 2011 Anthology. His poetry is forthcoming in Saltwater Press, Assaracus, Prime Number Magazine, the Sentinel Champion Series and Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology 2010. He is currently an MFA Candidate at the City University of Hong Kong. Visit him at http://nicholasybwong.weebly.com
Robert E. Wood teaches at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. His film studies include essays on Fosse, DePalma, and Verhoeven, as well as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He is the author of Some Necessary Questions of the Play, a study of Hamlet. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Blue Fifth Review, Jabberwock Review, Sojourn, Minnetonka Review, and Prairie Schooner. His chapbook, Gorizia Notebook, was published by Finishing Line Press.
Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who has long adopted English as his writing language and has published widely in literary magazines around the world. He is the author of three collections, most recently Straight Astray, the poetry editor of Private Photo Review, an international magazine of b/w photography and short writings, and the Italian Stanza's Representative for the Poetry Society of London. Website: http://www.writesight.com/writers/Zanelli/
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