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SPRING 2013 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1
Beth Bledsoe ("NOTIONS" and "TURTLE WATCHING", poetry) has poems published most recently in the Fall 2012 issue of the Westward Quarterly and also in the Spring 2003 issue of a local college magazine Good News. She often busies herself with dodging traffic and tourists while commuting to her part-time job. Mostly she enjoys reading, writing, and the comforts of home. She currently lives in California.
Colin Dodds ("BLUE OSIRIS", chapbook) grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education at The New School in New York City. Norman Mailer wrote that Dodds’ novel The Last Bad Job showed “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.” Dodds’ novels What Smiled at Him and Another Broken Wizard have been widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. His screenplay, Refreshment – A Tragedy, was named a semi-finalist in 2010 American Zoetrope Contest. Two books of Dodds’ poetry--The Last Man on the Moon and The Blue Blueprint—are available from Medium Rare Publishing. Dodds’ writing has also appeared in a number of periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Folio,Explosion-Proof, Block Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper,The Main Street Rag, The Reno News & Review and Lungfull! Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Samantha.
Molly Gillcrist ("CAPTURED IN TIME", prose) received an MA from the University of Virginia in speech pathology and audiology and then worked in that area doing evaluation and treatment at Kennedy Memorial Hospital in a Boston suburb, after graduating magna cum laude from Duke with a BA in English. She subsequently worked in a public school system in the Portland, Oregon area as a speech/language specialist and developed ESL programs for the district. Present volunteer work in Portland is through Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Start Making A Reader Today. In 1987 and 1988, she received the Teacher as Writer Prize. Her writing has been published in apt, The Oregonian, andOregon English Journal.
John Harvey ("BLUE HAWAII", chapbook) has poems that have appeared in Ghost Ocean Magazine, Gulf Coast, NAP, 2River, Whiskey Island, and others. His poem“The Usual Décor” which appeared in Ghost Ocean Magazine will appear in Best of the Net 2012. He directs the Center for Creative Work at The Honors College, University of Houston.
Mary Leonard ("PORTRIAT IN BLUE", chapbook) is an Associate of the Writing and Thinking Institute at Bard College where she leads workshops for teachers and for high school students in the summer at Simon's Rock of Bard College. Her latest poems have been published in Naugatuck Review and Hubbub. She is a finalist in a contest at Naugatuckand will also be published this spring in Bard’s Institute journal.
Brian McPherson, Ph.D.("IN THE NAMES OF ALLAH", prose) , is a psychologist who has developed a program called Holistic Emotive Practices (HEP). HEP is based upon his research into the effect of the sounds of human languages on emotions. HEP provides a scientific and systematic way to use word formulas to modulate emotions and enhance spiritual practices, such as meditation. You can learn more about HEP at www.holisticemotivepractices.com.
Tom Pescatore ("TRAPPED IN THE NIGHT", chapbook) grew up outside Philadelphia, he is an active member of the growing underground poetry scene within the city and hopes to spread the word on Philadelphia’s new poets. He maintains a poetry blog: amagicalmistake.blogspot.com. His work has been published in literary magazines both nationally and internationally but he’d rather have them carved on the Walt Whitman bridge or on the sidewalks of Philadelphia’s old Skid Row.
Stosch Sabo ("MY QUIET OAK and THE COURSE OF LIFE", poetry) is an engineer in Texas. He grew up on a farm in the Midwest, and he studied writing and engineering in college. This is his first published work.
Jonathan H. Scott ("MARROW") lives in Birmingham, Alabama. His writing has appeared in Ellipsis, TheLouisville Review, Floodwall, Measure, and others. He serves as the assistant poetry editor at Able Muse where he enjoys his interaction with other poets.
Claudia Serea ("THE WOMAN IN THE MOON SINGS", chapbook) is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in 5 a.m., Meridian, Harpur Palate, Word Riot, Blood Orange Review, Cutthroat, Green Mountains Review, and many others. She was nominated two times for the 2011 Pushcart Prize and for 2011 Best of the Net. She is the author of To Part Is to Die a Little (Červená Barva Press), Angels & Beasts (Phoenicia Publishing, Canada), and A Dirt Road Hangs from the Sky (8th House Publishing, Canada). She also published the chapbooks Eternity’s Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and With the Strike of a Match (White Knuckles Press, 2011). She co-edited and co-translated The Vanishing Point That Whistles, an Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry (Talisman Publishing, 2011).
Robert Joe Stout ("RIGHT OF WAY", prose) has published two novels and half-a-dozen poetry chapbooks including “They Still
Play Baseball the Old Way”. His non-fiction books include The Blood of the Serpent: Mexican Lives and Why Immigrants Come to America.
Matthew Vasiliauskas ("THE TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF DEATH", prose) is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film and Video Production. In 2009, he was awarded the Silver Dome Prize by the Illinois Broadcast Association for best public affairs program as producer of the Dean Richards Show at WGN Radio. His work has appeared in such publications as The Pennsylvania Review, Stumble Magazine, and The Adirondack Review. Matthew currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Colin Dodds ("BLUE OSIRIS", chapbook) grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education at The New School in New York City. Norman Mailer wrote that Dodds’ novel The Last Bad Job showed “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.” Dodds’ novels What Smiled at Him and Another Broken Wizard have been widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. His screenplay, Refreshment – A Tragedy, was named a semi-finalist in 2010 American Zoetrope Contest. Two books of Dodds’ poetry--The Last Man on the Moon and The Blue Blueprint—are available from Medium Rare Publishing. Dodds’ writing has also appeared in a number of periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Folio,Explosion-Proof, Block Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper,The Main Street Rag, The Reno News & Review and Lungfull! Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Samantha.
Molly Gillcrist ("CAPTURED IN TIME", prose) received an MA from the University of Virginia in speech pathology and audiology and then worked in that area doing evaluation and treatment at Kennedy Memorial Hospital in a Boston suburb, after graduating magna cum laude from Duke with a BA in English. She subsequently worked in a public school system in the Portland, Oregon area as a speech/language specialist and developed ESL programs for the district. Present volunteer work in Portland is through Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Start Making A Reader Today. In 1987 and 1988, she received the Teacher as Writer Prize. Her writing has been published in apt, The Oregonian, andOregon English Journal.
John Harvey ("BLUE HAWAII", chapbook) has poems that have appeared in Ghost Ocean Magazine, Gulf Coast, NAP, 2River, Whiskey Island, and others. His poem“The Usual Décor” which appeared in Ghost Ocean Magazine will appear in Best of the Net 2012. He directs the Center for Creative Work at The Honors College, University of Houston.
Mary Leonard ("PORTRIAT IN BLUE", chapbook) is an Associate of the Writing and Thinking Institute at Bard College where she leads workshops for teachers and for high school students in the summer at Simon's Rock of Bard College. Her latest poems have been published in Naugatuck Review and Hubbub. She is a finalist in a contest at Naugatuckand will also be published this spring in Bard’s Institute journal.
Brian McPherson, Ph.D.("IN THE NAMES OF ALLAH", prose) , is a psychologist who has developed a program called Holistic Emotive Practices (HEP). HEP is based upon his research into the effect of the sounds of human languages on emotions. HEP provides a scientific and systematic way to use word formulas to modulate emotions and enhance spiritual practices, such as meditation. You can learn more about HEP at www.holisticemotivepractices.com.
Tom Pescatore ("TRAPPED IN THE NIGHT", chapbook) grew up outside Philadelphia, he is an active member of the growing underground poetry scene within the city and hopes to spread the word on Philadelphia’s new poets. He maintains a poetry blog: amagicalmistake.blogspot.com. His work has been published in literary magazines both nationally and internationally but he’d rather have them carved on the Walt Whitman bridge or on the sidewalks of Philadelphia’s old Skid Row.
Stosch Sabo ("MY QUIET OAK and THE COURSE OF LIFE", poetry) is an engineer in Texas. He grew up on a farm in the Midwest, and he studied writing and engineering in college. This is his first published work.
Jonathan H. Scott ("MARROW") lives in Birmingham, Alabama. His writing has appeared in Ellipsis, TheLouisville Review, Floodwall, Measure, and others. He serves as the assistant poetry editor at Able Muse where he enjoys his interaction with other poets.
Claudia Serea ("THE WOMAN IN THE MOON SINGS", chapbook) is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in 5 a.m., Meridian, Harpur Palate, Word Riot, Blood Orange Review, Cutthroat, Green Mountains Review, and many others. She was nominated two times for the 2011 Pushcart Prize and for 2011 Best of the Net. She is the author of To Part Is to Die a Little (Červená Barva Press), Angels & Beasts (Phoenicia Publishing, Canada), and A Dirt Road Hangs from the Sky (8th House Publishing, Canada). She also published the chapbooks Eternity’s Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and With the Strike of a Match (White Knuckles Press, 2011). She co-edited and co-translated The Vanishing Point That Whistles, an Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry (Talisman Publishing, 2011).
Robert Joe Stout ("RIGHT OF WAY", prose) has published two novels and half-a-dozen poetry chapbooks including “They Still
Play Baseball the Old Way”. His non-fiction books include The Blood of the Serpent: Mexican Lives and Why Immigrants Come to America.
Matthew Vasiliauskas ("THE TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF DEATH", prose) is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film and Video Production. In 2009, he was awarded the Silver Dome Prize by the Illinois Broadcast Association for best public affairs program as producer of the Dean Richards Show at WGN Radio. His work has appeared in such publications as The Pennsylvania Review, Stumble Magazine, and The Adirondack Review. Matthew currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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WINTER 2012 VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4
Martin Altman ("THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN POEM", chapbook) was born and raised in The Bronx, he graduated from Lehman College (CUNY) with a B.A. in English, and worked in NYC’s Garment District for 40 years. Since 2010 he and his wife have lived in Chicago. He as been Featured Reader at The Café and at TallGrass Writers Guild in Chicago. His poetry has been published in A Bird in the Hand: Risk and Flight (2011, Outrider Press), and Deep Waters (2012, Outrider Press). He has also been published in the 2012 issue of Obscura, the literary magazine of Lehman College, and his poem “The Stranger” is included in the LGBT literary magazine Off the Rocks (2012, New Town Writers). He has been nominated to“Best New Poets” (2012). His poem“Bed-time” along with a photo-collage by Henny DuBois was in a joint exhibit from Sept 7 to Nov 4 at the Lemont Center for the Arts and the Illinois State Poetry Society entitled ““Is It Love, Or Has the World Gone CrazyIs it Love, or has the World Gone Crazy?” He is a board member of the TallGrass Writers Guild. Being a stutterer from childhood, his poetry is mainly concerned with speaking and hearing, breathing and cessation, connection, isolation, and silence.
Ute Carson, ("TOWARD EVENING", chapbook) a German-born writer had her first story published in 1977. Her story “The Fall” won the Grand Prize for Prose and was published in the short story and poetry anthology, A Walk Through My Garden, Outrider Press, Chicago 2007. Her novel “Colt Tailing” was published in September 2004 and was a Finalist for the Peter Taylor Book Award Prize for the Novel. Her second novel “In Transit” was published in 2008. Her poems have appeared in Arts & Letters Magazine, The Barricade, The Texas Observer, TheWriterWithin, The Jimson Journal, Secret Attic, The Inkpot Press, The Blind Press, Timbuktu(UK), Decanto (UK), EarthLove Magazine (UK), AWEN, Atlantean Publishing (UK), Lyricalpassion Poetry, Literary Magic, FreeXpression, (AU), Shots (UK), and Dreamcatcher. Carson’s poetry was featured on the televised Spoken Word Showcase 2009, 2010 and 2011, ChannelAustin, TX. Carson’s first volume of poetry “Just A Few Feathers” was published by PlainView Press in April 2011. An Advanced Certified Clinical Hypnotist, Ute Carson resides in Austin, Texas with her husband. They have three daughters, five grandchildren, a horse and a number of cats.
Edward Eberle ("A WINTER DAY and STARRY NIGHT", poetry) is a graduate of Columbia University (cum laude) and Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of Northwestern Law Review. He has taught or lectured at schools around the world including the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Heildlberg, the University of Munster, and the University of Konstanz. Professor Eberle however, remains grounded in the United States. As a U.S. Constitutional Law professor, he has focused on free speech and press issues. Academics consider his book Dignity and Liberty: Constitutional Visions in Germany in the United States as required reading for those interested in German-American Comparative Law. Actively involved in the American Society of Comparative law, Professor Eberle recently served as a visiting professor at Boston University Law School teaching International Business Transactions and Comparative constitutional Law.
Joachim Frank, ("MYOPIA, OR THE CHEST OF DRAWERS", prose) a German-born scientist and writer, moved in 1975 to Albany, New York and recently (2008) relocated to New York City. He took writing classes with William Kennedy, Steven Millhauser, Eugene Garber, and Jayne Ann Philipps. He has published several short stories and prose poems in Lost and Found Times, The Agent, Inkblot, Heidelberg Review, Groundswell, Peer Glass, and Open Mic, all print. He wrote three novels, still unpublished. Several pieces of short fiction and poetry were published online, by elimae, 3711 Atlantic, Cezanne's Carrot, Brilliant, Eclectica, Offcourse, The Noneuclidean Cafe, Ghoti Magazine, Duck and Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide, Hamilton Stone Review, and Raving Dove. Bartleby Snopes just accepted one of his short stories for their new project on Post-Experimentalism, to come out this summer. His work as a scientist (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University) has been published in over 200 peer-reviewed articles and six books.
Rich Ives ("A HANDFUL OF GREEN BERRIES", chapbook) 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, Fiction Daily and many more. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. His story collection, The Balloon Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking, was one of five finalists for the 2009 Starcherone Innovative Fiction Prize. In 2010 he has been a finalist in fiction at Black Warrior Review and Mississippi Review and in poetry at Mississippi Review. In both 2011 and 2012 he is again a finalist in poetry at Mississippi Review, as well as receiving a nomination for The Best of the Web and two nominations for both the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. He is the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. The Spring 2011 Bitter Oleander contains a feature including an interview and 18 of his hybrid works. *A few of the poems in “A Handful of Green Berries”have been previously published: “A Handful of Green Berries” (Pink Eye Lemonade) and “Aging, Pale and Unattractive Ode” (Tampa Review).
Doug Johnson ("PEDALING BLIND", chapbook) is the founding editor of Cave Moon Press. A member of Mensa, he loves to collaborate with other artists. He explores the cross linguistic nature of poetry. His other works have appeared in various journals domestically and abroad. His debut novel appears in the fall of 2013. He rides his bicycle to work every day and lives in rural Washington on a small farm with his wife and youngest son. Feel free to contact him at cavemoonpress@gmail.com.
Jim Lawry ("FOR ZOE", poetry) is a seventy two, retired doc and scientist living in Inverness, California. After a full life of university teaching and caring for patients and helping folks learn how exciting doing science can be, he continues his lifelong interests in playing cello, painting and writing plays and other things. He learns daily how to endure life as it is and how he must let it shape herself according to her own laws.
J. Patrick Lewis ("WHAT WON’T COME BACK", poetry) has work that has appeared in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, New Letters, Southern Humanities Review, new renaissance, Kansas Quarterly, Fine Madness, Light Quarterly, and many others. His first book of poems--Gulls Hold Up the Sky—was published in October 2010 by Laughing Fire Press.
Austin McCarron ("I LIVE IN A MARKET OF WAVES", chapbook) is from New Zealand but has lived in London for many years. Poems appeared in various magazines in the U.K., France, Canada and the United States, such as Great Works, Visionary Tongue, Neon Highway, Message in a Bottle, Red Ceilings Press, The Recusant, Van Gogh’s Ear, After Tournier, California Quarterly, Word Salad, Camel Saloon, Yes Poetry and others.
Catherine Simpson ("GRAY", poetry) is a poet from Santa Barbara. She has been previously published in Big River Poetry Review and Right Hand Pointing.
Laurence W. Thomas ("THE COMING OF BLIZZARDS", prose) is founder and editor of Third Wednesday, a literary arts journal. He also has been lecturing on poetry and giving workshops at the Lucidity Poets' Retreat in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, for twenty years. His published books include Songs Sacred and Profane, Man's Wolf to Man, Three Autobiographies, If Somebody Laughs, It Must Be Funny, plus many chapbooks.
Wendi White ("BENEDICTION", chapbook) comes to Norfolk, Virginia by way of Austin, Guatemala, Mexico, Vermont, Boston, The Philippines and originally, the Adirondack Mountains of New York. She is a MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University and the astonished recipient of the 2011 ODU Graduate Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets. At home she keeps one husband, two sons, countless books and a dog named Charley.
Ute Carson, ("TOWARD EVENING", chapbook) a German-born writer had her first story published in 1977. Her story “The Fall” won the Grand Prize for Prose and was published in the short story and poetry anthology, A Walk Through My Garden, Outrider Press, Chicago 2007. Her novel “Colt Tailing” was published in September 2004 and was a Finalist for the Peter Taylor Book Award Prize for the Novel. Her second novel “In Transit” was published in 2008. Her poems have appeared in Arts & Letters Magazine, The Barricade, The Texas Observer, TheWriterWithin, The Jimson Journal, Secret Attic, The Inkpot Press, The Blind Press, Timbuktu(UK), Decanto (UK), EarthLove Magazine (UK), AWEN, Atlantean Publishing (UK), Lyricalpassion Poetry, Literary Magic, FreeXpression, (AU), Shots (UK), and Dreamcatcher. Carson’s poetry was featured on the televised Spoken Word Showcase 2009, 2010 and 2011, ChannelAustin, TX. Carson’s first volume of poetry “Just A Few Feathers” was published by PlainView Press in April 2011. An Advanced Certified Clinical Hypnotist, Ute Carson resides in Austin, Texas with her husband. They have three daughters, five grandchildren, a horse and a number of cats.
Edward Eberle ("A WINTER DAY and STARRY NIGHT", poetry) is a graduate of Columbia University (cum laude) and Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of Northwestern Law Review. He has taught or lectured at schools around the world including the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Heildlberg, the University of Munster, and the University of Konstanz. Professor Eberle however, remains grounded in the United States. As a U.S. Constitutional Law professor, he has focused on free speech and press issues. Academics consider his book Dignity and Liberty: Constitutional Visions in Germany in the United States as required reading for those interested in German-American Comparative Law. Actively involved in the American Society of Comparative law, Professor Eberle recently served as a visiting professor at Boston University Law School teaching International Business Transactions and Comparative constitutional Law.
Joachim Frank, ("MYOPIA, OR THE CHEST OF DRAWERS", prose) a German-born scientist and writer, moved in 1975 to Albany, New York and recently (2008) relocated to New York City. He took writing classes with William Kennedy, Steven Millhauser, Eugene Garber, and Jayne Ann Philipps. He has published several short stories and prose poems in Lost and Found Times, The Agent, Inkblot, Heidelberg Review, Groundswell, Peer Glass, and Open Mic, all print. He wrote three novels, still unpublished. Several pieces of short fiction and poetry were published online, by elimae, 3711 Atlantic, Cezanne's Carrot, Brilliant, Eclectica, Offcourse, The Noneuclidean Cafe, Ghoti Magazine, Duck and Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide, Hamilton Stone Review, and Raving Dove. Bartleby Snopes just accepted one of his short stories for their new project on Post-Experimentalism, to come out this summer. His work as a scientist (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University) has been published in over 200 peer-reviewed articles and six books.
Rich Ives ("A HANDFUL OF GREEN BERRIES", chapbook) 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, Fiction Daily and many more. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. His story collection, The Balloon Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking, was one of five finalists for the 2009 Starcherone Innovative Fiction Prize. In 2010 he has been a finalist in fiction at Black Warrior Review and Mississippi Review and in poetry at Mississippi Review. In both 2011 and 2012 he is again a finalist in poetry at Mississippi Review, as well as receiving a nomination for The Best of the Web and two nominations for both the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. He is the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. The Spring 2011 Bitter Oleander contains a feature including an interview and 18 of his hybrid works. *A few of the poems in “A Handful of Green Berries”have been previously published: “A Handful of Green Berries” (Pink Eye Lemonade) and “Aging, Pale and Unattractive Ode” (Tampa Review).
Doug Johnson ("PEDALING BLIND", chapbook) is the founding editor of Cave Moon Press. A member of Mensa, he loves to collaborate with other artists. He explores the cross linguistic nature of poetry. His other works have appeared in various journals domestically and abroad. His debut novel appears in the fall of 2013. He rides his bicycle to work every day and lives in rural Washington on a small farm with his wife and youngest son. Feel free to contact him at cavemoonpress@gmail.com.
Jim Lawry ("FOR ZOE", poetry) is a seventy two, retired doc and scientist living in Inverness, California. After a full life of university teaching and caring for patients and helping folks learn how exciting doing science can be, he continues his lifelong interests in playing cello, painting and writing plays and other things. He learns daily how to endure life as it is and how he must let it shape herself according to her own laws.
J. Patrick Lewis ("WHAT WON’T COME BACK", poetry) has work that has appeared in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, New Letters, Southern Humanities Review, new renaissance, Kansas Quarterly, Fine Madness, Light Quarterly, and many others. His first book of poems--Gulls Hold Up the Sky—was published in October 2010 by Laughing Fire Press.
Austin McCarron ("I LIVE IN A MARKET OF WAVES", chapbook) is from New Zealand but has lived in London for many years. Poems appeared in various magazines in the U.K., France, Canada and the United States, such as Great Works, Visionary Tongue, Neon Highway, Message in a Bottle, Red Ceilings Press, The Recusant, Van Gogh’s Ear, After Tournier, California Quarterly, Word Salad, Camel Saloon, Yes Poetry and others.
Catherine Simpson ("GRAY", poetry) is a poet from Santa Barbara. She has been previously published in Big River Poetry Review and Right Hand Pointing.
Laurence W. Thomas ("THE COMING OF BLIZZARDS", prose) is founder and editor of Third Wednesday, a literary arts journal. He also has been lecturing on poetry and giving workshops at the Lucidity Poets' Retreat in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, for twenty years. His published books include Songs Sacred and Profane, Man's Wolf to Man, Three Autobiographies, If Somebody Laughs, It Must Be Funny, plus many chapbooks.
Wendi White ("BENEDICTION", chapbook) comes to Norfolk, Virginia by way of Austin, Guatemala, Mexico, Vermont, Boston, The Philippines and originally, the Adirondack Mountains of New York. She is a MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University and the astonished recipient of the 2011 ODU Graduate Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets. At home she keeps one husband, two sons, countless books and a dog named Charley.
FALL 2012 VOLUME 2 NUMBER 3
Kim Farleigh ("The Still Point of a Turning World", Prose) has worked for aid agencies in three conflicts: Kosovo, Iraq and Palestine. He takes risks to get the experience required for writing. 65 of his stories have been accepted by 69 different magazines.
Cornelius Fortune ("Lack of Sole: A St. John's Bay Appreciation", Prose) is an award-winning journalist, whose work has appeared in iPhone Life magazine, The Advocate, Metro Times, Chess Life, Yahoo News, Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, Tales of the Unanticipated, Illumen, and others. He is currently a featured writer for Yahoo TV, and an editor for a local weekly newspaper. Upcoming works include “The Misadventures of Mr. Stiffens” serialized comic strip, an anthology, “Writings on the Wall,” and two books from the Detroit Ink Publishing, LLC (DIP) line. He is also a Rhysling-nominated poet and the author of Stories from Arlington. Visit his website at www.corneliusfortune.com
Grove Koger ("Wrecking Ball", Prose) is the author of a guide to travel narrative, When the Going Was Good (2002), and has published more than one thousand articles, reviews, stories, and poems. He currently works as an adjunct reference librarian at Albertsons Library, Boise State University, Idaho.
Charles S. Kraszewski ("Piers", Poetry), poet and translator. His works have appeared in many literary magazines, from The New Yorker and The Antaeus through the California Quarterly, Poetry South, and Illya's Honey. His most recent book of criticism is Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, published in May, 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Press (UK). A collection of his poems entitled Diet of Nails will be published in 2013 by Cervena Barva Press.
Nylah Lyman ("Feeding the Dead", Poetry) holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Creative Writing program. She serves as poetry editor at Chocorua Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cider Press Review, Arcadia Magazine, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Cartographer: A Literary Review and Bellevue Literary Review. She currently resides in York County, Maine.
Joan McNerney ("I Believe in Trees", Poetry) has had poetry included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Camel Saloon Books on Blog, Blueline, Vine Leaves, Spectrum, and three Bright Spring Press Anthologies. She has been nominated three times for Best of the Net. Four of her books have been published by fine literary presses. She has recited her work at the National Arts Club, New York City, State University of New York, Oneonta, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio and other distinguished venues. A recent reading was sponsored by the American Academy of Poetry. Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky, A.P.D. Press, Albany, New York.
Franco Pagnucci "Imprints of Your Tires on Damp Sand", Chapbook) taught for many years in the English Dept. of UW-Platteville and has published educational books and books of poems. Some of his poems are included in such anthologies as News of the Universe, American Voices, and The Best American Poetry 1999.
Simon Rhee ("Moonlight Sonata", Chapbook) is a college student majoring in Nanotechnologies Engineering at the University of California at San Diego, a surfer, a fraternity man, a writer, a pianist, and a part time employee of the university business center trying to do everything all at once. He likes to write to Yann Tiersen, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov and if he could choose a career he would be an author without question.
William Snyder, Jr. ("Cops Comes to Fargo and Busts a Prof" and "My Heart", Poetry) has poems published in Folio, The Southern Review, The Sun, Northwest Review, Louisiana Literature, Cimarron Review, and Cottonwood among others. He was the co-winner of the 2001 Grolier Poetry Prize and winner of the 2002 Kinloch Rivers Chapbook competition. He teaches writing and literature at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.
Christine Waresak ("Azaleas", Prose) is a Seattle-based freelance writer and editor.
John Sibley Williams ("Breathings" and "Celan", Poetry) is the author of six chapbooks, winner of the HEART Poetry Award, and finalist for the Pushcart, Rumi, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. He has served as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and publicist for various presses and authors, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Book Publishing. A few previous publishing credits include: Inkwell, Bryant Literary Review, Cream City Review, The Chaffin Journal, The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, and various fiction and poetry anthologies.
SUMMER 2012 VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2
Janet Butler ("Love Songs", Chapbook) relocated to the Bay Area in 2005 after many years in central Italy. She teaches Test Prep to foreign students in San Francisco, and lives in Alameda with Fulmi, a lovely Spaniel mix she rescued in Italy and brought back with her. Some current or forthcoming publications are Mason’s Road, Assisi, Caduceus, and The Quotable. Her poems have placed for the third consecutive year in the Bay Area Poetry Coalition’s annual contest. Her most recent chapbook is “Searching for Eden” from Finishing Line Press.
Dustin Junkert ("Waving", Poetry) started writing in order to impress girls. Most girls aren’t all that impressed by writing, he has found. But here’s hoping. Dustin lives in Portland, OR. He recently had an essay published in the New York Times, and poems in The Journal, South Carolina Review, the minnesota review, Weber, Georgetown Review, GW Review, and New Delta Review.
Christopher Francis Kaplan ("Poetry and True Existence", Essay), poet and essayist, grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and is now attending the University of Arizona for undergraduate studies in English. Writing since the age of 12, when the deaths of his grandparents inspired his creativity, Kaplan now possesses a collection of poems and critical essays which he intends to publish. “Poetry and True Existence” is his first published work.
Mark Murphy ("Arrival and Reunion", Chapbook) was born in the UK in 1969. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate and poetry as a postgraduate. His first full length collection, “Night Watch Man & Muse” is due out in 2012 from Salmon Poetry (Eire). His poems have appeared in several journals and reviews all over the world, including publications in Austria, Turkey, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, Canada, and Romania. Look for recent works in The Warwick Review (UK), Paris Atlantic Journal (France), Taj Mahal Review (India), The American Dissident (US), The Houston Literary Review (US), The Tampa Review (US), Forge (US), Albatross (US), Dance Macabre (US), Scholars and Rogues (US), Contemporary World Poetry Journal (US), among others.
Richard Peabody ("Last Call in Mohican Hills", Fiction) is a French toast addict and native Washingtonian. He has two new books due out this fall--a book of poetry “Speed Enforced by Aircraft” (Broadkill River Press), and a book of short stories “Blue Suburban Skies” (Main Street Rag Press).
John Repp ("Hook & Release", Chapbook) has had individual poems appear in recent issues of Michigan Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others. His most recent collection is Big Conneautee (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010).
Staci R. Schoenfeld ("Outdoor Cinema", Chapbook) is an MFA candidate in poetry at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL, and a poetry editor at Revolution House. She was awarded an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women in 2010 and was recently a featured poet at the Holler Poets Series in Lexington, KY, and the Rivertown Reading Series in Paducah, KY. Her poems appear in or are forthcoming from Accents Publishing’s Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, Appalachian Heritage, Still, The Chaffey Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Boston Literary Magazine, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
Ron Singer ("from Imagined Corners", Excerpt) has had poetry appear, e.g., in alba, Arlington Literary Journal (featured poet, July, 2010), Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Evergreen Review, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, New Works Review (featured poet, Fall 2008), Third Wednesday, and Word Riot. He has just completed a book of interviews with pro-democracy activists across Africa, called “Uhuru Revisited” (Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, forthcoming).
Emily Strauss ("The Business of Ravens") lives near San Francisco, California. A former English teacher who now tutors privately, Emily’s poems have appeared in Wordletting, Snakeview, Poetry Macao, and other journals. Her work tends to focus on the natural world, on images and sense perceptions. When she’s not writing, Emily enjoys gardening, cooking, camping, and hiking.
SPRING 2012 VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1
E. Amato (“Call” and “5”, Poetry) is a traveling writer and a writing traveler. She has rocked the mic on stages from across the US to the UK. As a performer and promoter, she received 5-star reviews consecutive years at the Festival Fringe, Edinburgh – a rare honor. In 2011 she competed as a storm poet at WOWps and was a member of the Los Angeles Slam Team. Her first collection, “Swimming Through Amber”, was published by Zesty Publications in 2010. For more information come visit http://www.eamato.com.
Sirenna Blas (“The Moon Always Comes Back Around”, Fiction) has had fiction published in Rose & Thorn Journal, The Montucky Review and LITnIMAGE, and has won second place in Purdue University Calumet’s Stark-Tinkham Writing Contest. Her poetry has been published in Burning Word and Red Fez, and has won first place in the Stark-Tinkham. She is a tutor, teacher, workshop leader, freelance writer, and student of English Literature.
Colin McClees (“Not Even Light Escapes”, Poetry) live in Richmond, Virginia. This is his first publication.
Carlos Hiraldo (“Blind”, Poetry) was born in New York City in 1971, though he is often asked where he is from. Including sojourns in the Dominican Republic, Boston, and Long Island, he has spent most of his life in the city. His poetry has been accepted by The New York Quarterly, Arizona State University’s Bilingual Review, Struggle, Latino Stuff Review, The View from Here, and the British journals Other Poetry and Fire. He is currently a Professor of English at the City University of New York, and lives in Queens with his wife and child.
Gedda Ilves (“Elegy”, Poetry) was born in Harbin, North China of Russian parents. During WWII, she lived in Shanghai and came to Los Angeles in 1951. Her first book of poems “grains of life” was published in 2005, while her
second, “a view from within,” debuted in 2008 and the third, “interval” in 2011. Her poems appear in several literary journals and three anthologies. She is the recipient of London Book Festival award (Honorary Mention) and the Los Angeles Book Festival award (Runner-Up) for “interval.”
Tanya Jacob, PhD. (“Strangers”, Fiction) is a clinical psychologist who enjoys fiction writing and stand up comedy. Her work has appeared or is scheduled to appear in Red Wheelbarrow, The Raleigh Review, Primal Urge Magazine, 5X5, and Red Ochre LiT. She lives in California.
Jacqueline Marcus (“The Long Summer Rains”, Chapbook) has poems that have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Ohio Review, The Antioch Review, The Journal, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry International, Hotel Amerika, The Delta Review, The American Poetry Journal, the Laurel Review, and recently, the North American Review and eight poems were selected for publication in the North Dakota Quarterly. Her book of poems, “Close to the Shore”, was published by Michigan State University Press. She taught philosophy at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California, and is the editor of http://www.ForPoetry.com.
Keith Moul (“Spring Purple”, from Chapbook Beautiful Agitation) developed a fascination for schooling: U. of Missouri, AB, 1967; Western Washington U., MA, 1971; U. of Iowa, hat in hand, no degree, 1972; and U. of South Carolilna, PhD, 1974. In this endeavor he crossed and re-crossed the country developing a boundless appreciation for place, which became obvious in his poetry. He’s now retired, enjoying fully his time with his wife, Sylvia, and his daughter, Ianthe.
Shitsugane Olembo (“Sunday”, Poetry) is a 42 year old Gay Kenyan Film Director who has been writing poetry for ten years. He is part of the New Poetry coming from the Literary Collective, Kwani (http://kwani.org) in Kenya. For Shitsugane, the personal is political. We are who we imagine ourselves to be and must use imagination to create the world. He believes that people’s experiences matter. Shitsugane holds a B.Sc. Pharm/MFA Film, and can be found at http://kolembo.wordpress.com.
Patty Somlo (“Apples”, Fiction) has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist in the Tom Howard Short Story Contest. Her debut collection, From Here to There and Other Stories, was published in November 2010 by Paraguas Books. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, the Santa Clara Review, the Jackson Hole Review, Guernica, Slow Trains and Fringe Magazine, among others, and in several anthologies. She has pieces forthcoming in WomenArts Quarterly, the Evening Street Review, Shaking Magazine, Cirque, and in the anthology, Human Nature: Call of the Wild.
Catherine S. Webster, PhD. (French Translations of E. Amato’s “Call” and “5”, Poetry) is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Central Oklahoma. She has lived, studied, and taught French Literature in New York City, Paris, and Asheville, NC.
Kami Westhoff (“Other Signs of Life”, Fiction) has work in several journals including Carve, Meridian, River City, Phoebe, and Third Coast. She teaches fiction writing at Western Washington University.
Martin Willitts Jr. (“After Winter”, Poetry) has poems that have recently appeared in Naugatuck River Review, MiPOesias, Flutter, Atticusbooks.net, Muse Café, and Caper Journal. He was recently nominated for two Best of The Net awards and his 5th Pushcart award. He has four new chapbooks: “The Girl Who Sang Forth Horses” (Pudding House Publications, 2010), “Van Gogh’s Sunflowers for Cezanne” (Finishing Line Press, 2010), “True Simplicity” (Poets Wear Prada Press, 2011), and “My Heart Is Seven Wild Swans Lifting” (Slow Trains, 2011).
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2011 CONTRIBUTORS
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December 2011
Creative Non-Fiction
Mary Leonard (“A Process in the Weater of the Heart”) is an associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College where she leads writing workshops for teachers and for students. She has published in small journals like Hubbub and The Naugatuck Review and has three chapbooks of poetry. The latest is “The Sweet and Low Down” from Antrim Press. She lives in the Hudson Valley.
Fiction
Mario J. Gonzales ("A Negative is a Positive") lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. A cultural anthropologist he writes fiction short stories and essays with themes that deal in alienation, injustice and awkward attempts at understanding oneself and others. Feel free to contact him: e-mail:mjgonzales@nmhu.edu.
Michael M. Pacheco ("Killer In Black") is a former attorney-turned-author. His debut novel, “The Guadalupe Saints”, was published by Paraguas Books in April 2011 and his novella titled, “Seeking Tierra Santa”, was released in May 2011. He has been published in The Gold Man Review, The Acentos Review, Label Me Latina, Boxfire Press and AirplaneReading (twice). Having earned both his BA in Political Science (1975) and his Juris Doctorate (1990), Michael is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Oregon. His is a USMC veteran.
Frank Scozzari ("The Shaman's Eye") has had fiction previously appeared in various literary magazines, including The Kenyon Review, South Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, Pacific Review, Skylark Literary Magazine, Reed Magazine, Eureka Literary Magazine, Spindrift - Artand Literary Journal, The Licking River Review, Limestone - A Literary Journal, Sulphur River Literary Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Thema, and many others. Writing awards include Winner of the National Writer’s Association Short Story Contest and two publisher nominations for the Pushcart Prize of Short Stories. His fiction has also been featured in Speaking of Stories, Santa Barbara’s preeminent literary theater.
Thomas Thulman ("Going Through the Motions") has a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from Florida State University. His story “Hurricane” appeared in espresso ink. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Flash-Fiction
Scott Carpenter ("The Phrasebook") was raised in the US and the UK, and he now teaches literature and literary theory at Carleton College (MN). A writer of both fiction and non-fiction, he has published extensively on such topics as literary hoaxes and cultural studies, and his short fiction has appeared (or is about to) in such venues as Ducts, Prime Number, Spilling Ink, Every Writer Resource, Red Ochre Press, Midwestern Gothic, Subtle Fiction, Anomalous, Short Fiction Collective, Lit-Cast and The Carleton Voice. His website is located at: http://apps.carleton.edu/people/scarpent/.
Kirby Wright ("Wetlands") was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE THE CITY, his first book of poetry, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA’I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He is the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.
Excerpts
Mateo Amaral ("The Darkness Inside Me is Sparkling" is a writer and high school English teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of California at Davis, his teaching credential at CSU EastBay, and an MFA in Creative Writing from National University. He is also the founder of www.teach4real.com, a blog dedicated to Real Teachers in our Toughest Schools. He is a columnist at Education Views and a contributor to New America Media, the nation’s largest ethnic news organization.His work has recently appeared in TeachHub, EmPower Magazine, The Dirty Napkin, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Eclectic Flash, Bird's Eye ReView, Undernews, TravelMag, Escape From America Magazine, and InTravel Magazine.
Jasmine Mélahn Silver ("A Memphis Sunrise") is an author, artist, and photographer. Her work has been featured in a number of venues, with most recent acceptances to Assisi, Black Magnolias Literary Journal and African American Review. She is the founder of RED OCHRE PRESS.
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November 2011
Chapbook
Nathaniel Hunt ("Runaways") grew up on a family farm near Eugene, Oregon. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Writing and Literature (with a minor in Spanish language) from George Fox University in the fall of 2009. His poems have been published in The Iconoclast, Mudfish, Perceptions, and The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review.
David James ("Only One Way Out") authored “She Dances Like Mussolini”, his most recent book, which won the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. His one-act plays have been produced from New York to California. He teaches for Oakland Community College.
Patricia Smith Ranzoni ("WHEREing"), a mixed-blood Yankee, writes from one of the subsistence farms of her youth in mid-Maine. Her unschooled poetry has been published across the U.S. and abroad, most recently in Scythe and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics/New Europes. Her eighth book, BEDDING VOWS: Love Poems from Outback Maine is forthcoming from North Country Press. She loves reciting wherever she finds herself, however she is dressed. Links: www.poetryinmaine.org and Poets & Writers Directory Ranzoni.
Barry Spacks ("This, Plus That"), known mainly as a poet/teacher, has brought out various novels, stories, three poetry-reading CDs and ten poetry collections while teaching literature and writing at M.I.T. & U C Santa Barbara. His most recent book of poems, “Food For The Journey”, appeared from Cherry Grove in August, 2008. Over the years his poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and hundreds of other journals.
Poetry
Olga Abella ("Poor Cow") teaches creative writing and literature at Eastern Illinois University. Her poems have appeared in black dirt, CALYX, Urban Spaghetti, Natural Bridge, The MacGuffin, poetrybay.com, poetpourri, Long Island Quarterly, Ginosko, Kalliope, The Mom Egg and others. She has published two chapbooks, “Grasping to What Is” (A Short Book Press, 1993) and “What It Takes “(Birnham Wood Graphics, 2000), and a recent book of poems “Watching the Wind” (Writers Ink Press 2008). She is editor of the literary journal Bluestem.
Matt Basheda ("Diffuse Reflections") recently graduated from George Mason University’s creative writing program. He has lived in the Northern Virginia suburbs his entire life. However, unlike most of his peers, he prefers to embrace rather than condemn said suburbs.
Daniel Davis ("Moondial") recently received his M.A. from Eastern Illinois University. His work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him at www.dumpsterchickenmusic.blogspot.com.
George Korolog ("From Tending Sheep to Confusion on the Amtrak 10:50") is a member of The Stanford Writers Studio and has had his poems published in The Monarch Review, Willows Wept Review, Red River Review, Poets & Artists Magazine, Seventh Circle Press, The Right Eyed Deer, Symmetry Pebbles, The Recusant and Contemporary Haibu. A number of his poems will appear in The Whittaker Prize Anthology, which will be published in December. When not writing on planes, trains, taxi’s, hotels and on the backs of napkins in restaurants, he is an SVP of a Fortune 500 technology company in San Jose, California.
Charles S. Kraszewski ("Juniper Bushes") (b. 1962) Poet and translator. His original verses and translations from the Polish and the Czech have appeared in, among others, The New Yorker, Antaeus, Chaparral, Poetry South, Valley Voices, and on the boards of the Chicago Actors Ensemble Theater.
Nanette Rayman-Rivera ("The Ice Cup"), author of the memoir, “to live on the wind”– on Amazon, is winner of the first Glass Woman Prize for non-fiction. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. A chapter of her memoir was published in DZANC Best of the Web 2010. Publications include: Oranges & Sardines, MiPOEsias, Berkeley Fiction Review, Wicked Alice, Carve Magazine, The Worcester Review, Carousel, carte blanche, Pebble Lake Review, Magnolia – Florida Journal of the Arts, Prick of the Spindle, deComp, The Smoking Poet, Contemporary American Voices, Arsenic Lobster, Dragonfire, , Moveable Feast and Stirring’s Steamiest Six, bolts of silk, Sugarhouse Review, Gargoyle, Blue Fifth Review, Chaparral, Red River Review, Pedestal, The Blue Fifth Review and Monongahela Review.
Susan Sonde ("Under Unsupervised Skies") is the author of “Inland is Parenthetical” (Dryad Press), “In the Longboats with Others” (New Rivers Press) and “The Chalk Line”, which was a finalist in The National Poetry Series. She has received several honors, including the Maryland State Arts Council Grant in both poetry and fiction and the Gordon Barber Memorial Award. She was awarded The Capricorn Book Award for “In the Longboats with Others”. Her work has been published in The Chicago Review, Quarterly West, Southern Humanities Review, Northwest Review, and many others.
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October 2011
Chapbook
Lorraine Caputo ("Venesuela Vignettes") has literary pieces in over 70 journals in Canada, the US and Latin America, such as Drumvoices Revue, Canadian Dimension and ENcontrARTE. Other publications are seven poetry chapbooks and three audio recordings, including “Latina Nights / Noches Latinas” (Dimby, 2000). She also pens travel pieces, with works appearing in the anthologies “Drive: Women's True Stories from the Open Road” (Seal Press, 2002) and “V!VA List Latin America” (V!va Travel Guides, 2007). In March 2011, the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada chose her work “Snow Dreams” as the poem of the month. She has done more than 200 readings from Alaska to Patagonia, and is an award-winning slam poet. She continues journeying through the southern reaches of the hemisphere, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Fiction
James Buchanan ("To the Swimming Hole") is lucky enough to earn his living as a writer, however he is unlucky enough to earn his living writing website content for veterinary hospitals. In his dream life he is a moderately successful (perhaps even talented) fiction writer and pursues this dream every so often by writing a short story every now and again.
Toni Coral ("Tea With a Friend") represents our novice author of the month. This is her first publication. She is mom to a beautiful seven-year-old son adopted from China and a veteran high school American Literature teacher. For more on her, check out her website: http://tunneltraveller.blogspot.com/ and befriend her on Facebook.
Gregory J. Wolos ("Carcass") has fiction recently appearing or forthcoming in PANK Magazine, Waccamaw Journal, FRiGG, Storyglossia, Prime Number, elimae, Apple Valley Review, Underground Voices, Prick of the Spindle, Gulf Stream Magazine, the anthology “Surreal South”, and other journals. In the last year his stories have earned recognition in several competitions, including a 2012 Pushcart Prize nomination. One of his stories was selected as winner of the 2011 Gulf Stream Award for fiction, and another won the 2011 New South Writing Contest. He lives and writes on the northern bank of the Mohawk River in upstate New York.
Poetry
Peter Branson ("The Boat House") has had poetry published or accepted for publication by journals in Britain, USA, Canada, EIRE, Australia and New Zealand, including Acumen, Ambit, Envoi, Magma, The London Magazine, Iota, Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter’s House, Poetry Nottingham, Pulsar, Red Ink, The Recusant, South, The New Writer, Crannog, Raintown Review, The Huston Poetry Review, Barnwood, The Able Muse and Other Poetry. His first collection, “The Accidental Tourist”, was published in May 2008. A second collection was published at the beginning of last year by Caparison Press for “The Recusant”. More recently a pamphlet has been issued by “Silkworms Ink”. A third collection has been accepted for publication by Salmon Press, “EIRE”. He has won prizes and been placed in a number of poetry competitions over recent years, including firsts in the Grace Dieu and the Envoi International.
Carlos Hiraldo ("125th") is currently a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. While receiving his Ph.D. in English Literature from Stony Brook University, he was co-editor for four years of the school literary magazine, Snark: A Journal of Poetry & Translations. His poems have been accepted by The New York Quarterly, Arizona State University’s Bilingual Review, Struggle, Latino Stuff Review, The View from Here, and the British journals Other Poetry and Fire.
Howie Good ("The Yellow House" & "Stormy Monday"), 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 chapbooks. He has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net and Web anthologies. He is a contributing editor to the online literary journal Common-Line, co-editor of the online nonfiction journal Left Hand Waving, and co-founder and -editor (with Dale Wisely) of the digital chapbook publisher White Knuckle Press. Visit the following website for more information: http://www.whiteknucklepress.com.
Sandra Kolankiewicz ("The Acrobat") has had stories and poems appear, or are forthcoming in, North American Review, Gargoyle, Chicago Review, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Shark Reef, Confrontation, among others, and in the anthology “Sudden Fiction”. Her chapbook “Turning Inside Out” won the Black River Competition, and her novel “Blue Eyes Don’t Cry” won the Hackney Award for the Novel.
Dr. Sonnet Mondal ("My Chained Faith") is the author of six books of poetry including a poetry bestseller and is the pioneer of the 21 line fusion sonnet form of poetry. His works have been published in several International literary magazines and have been translated into Macedonian, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Telugu and Bengali. He was awarded Poet Laureate from Bombadil Publishing in 2009, Doctor of Literature from United Writers’ Association in 2010, Azsacra International Poetry award in 2011 and was inducted in the prestigious Significant Achievements Plaque in the museum of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. He has also been a featured poet at World Poetry Reading Series, Canada and Asian American Poetry project, U.S.A. At present he is the managing editor of The Enchanting Verses journal of poetry.
Anca Vlasopolos ("Under The Wrecking Ball") published the award-winning novel "The New Bedford Samurai", the award-winning memoir "No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement", a collection of poems, "Penguins in a Warming World", three poetry chapbooks, a detective novel, "Missing Members", and over two hundred poems and short stories. She was nominated for the Pulitzer for The New Bedford Samurai and was nominated several times for the Pushcart Award in poetry and fiction. She is associate editor of Corridors Magazine.
Lorraine Caputo ("Venesuela Vignettes") has literary pieces in over 70 journals in Canada, the US and Latin America, such as Drumvoices Revue, Canadian Dimension and ENcontrARTE. Other publications are seven poetry chapbooks and three audio recordings, including “Latina Nights / Noches Latinas” (Dimby, 2000). She also pens travel pieces, with works appearing in the anthologies “Drive: Women's True Stories from the Open Road” (Seal Press, 2002) and “V!VA List Latin America” (V!va Travel Guides, 2007). In March 2011, the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada chose her work “Snow Dreams” as the poem of the month. She has done more than 200 readings from Alaska to Patagonia, and is an award-winning slam poet. She continues journeying through the southern reaches of the hemisphere, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Fiction
James Buchanan ("To the Swimming Hole") is lucky enough to earn his living as a writer, however he is unlucky enough to earn his living writing website content for veterinary hospitals. In his dream life he is a moderately successful (perhaps even talented) fiction writer and pursues this dream every so often by writing a short story every now and again.
Toni Coral ("Tea With a Friend") represents our novice author of the month. This is her first publication. She is mom to a beautiful seven-year-old son adopted from China and a veteran high school American Literature teacher. For more on her, check out her website: http://tunneltraveller.blogspot.com/ and befriend her on Facebook.
Gregory J. Wolos ("Carcass") has fiction recently appearing or forthcoming in PANK Magazine, Waccamaw Journal, FRiGG, Storyglossia, Prime Number, elimae, Apple Valley Review, Underground Voices, Prick of the Spindle, Gulf Stream Magazine, the anthology “Surreal South”, and other journals. In the last year his stories have earned recognition in several competitions, including a 2012 Pushcart Prize nomination. One of his stories was selected as winner of the 2011 Gulf Stream Award for fiction, and another won the 2011 New South Writing Contest. He lives and writes on the northern bank of the Mohawk River in upstate New York.
Poetry
Peter Branson ("The Boat House") has had poetry published or accepted for publication by journals in Britain, USA, Canada, EIRE, Australia and New Zealand, including Acumen, Ambit, Envoi, Magma, The London Magazine, Iota, Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter’s House, Poetry Nottingham, Pulsar, Red Ink, The Recusant, South, The New Writer, Crannog, Raintown Review, The Huston Poetry Review, Barnwood, The Able Muse and Other Poetry. His first collection, “The Accidental Tourist”, was published in May 2008. A second collection was published at the beginning of last year by Caparison Press for “The Recusant”. More recently a pamphlet has been issued by “Silkworms Ink”. A third collection has been accepted for publication by Salmon Press, “EIRE”. He has won prizes and been placed in a number of poetry competitions over recent years, including firsts in the Grace Dieu and the Envoi International.
Carlos Hiraldo ("125th") is currently a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. While receiving his Ph.D. in English Literature from Stony Brook University, he was co-editor for four years of the school literary magazine, Snark: A Journal of Poetry & Translations. His poems have been accepted by The New York Quarterly, Arizona State University’s Bilingual Review, Struggle, Latino Stuff Review, The View from Here, and the British journals Other Poetry and Fire.
Howie Good ("The Yellow House" & "Stormy Monday"), 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 chapbooks. He has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net and Web anthologies. He is a contributing editor to the online literary journal Common-Line, co-editor of the online nonfiction journal Left Hand Waving, and co-founder and -editor (with Dale Wisely) of the digital chapbook publisher White Knuckle Press. Visit the following website for more information: http://www.whiteknucklepress.com.
Sandra Kolankiewicz ("The Acrobat") has had stories and poems appear, or are forthcoming in, North American Review, Gargoyle, Chicago Review, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Shark Reef, Confrontation, among others, and in the anthology “Sudden Fiction”. Her chapbook “Turning Inside Out” won the Black River Competition, and her novel “Blue Eyes Don’t Cry” won the Hackney Award for the Novel.
Dr. Sonnet Mondal ("My Chained Faith") is the author of six books of poetry including a poetry bestseller and is the pioneer of the 21 line fusion sonnet form of poetry. His works have been published in several International literary magazines and have been translated into Macedonian, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Telugu and Bengali. He was awarded Poet Laureate from Bombadil Publishing in 2009, Doctor of Literature from United Writers’ Association in 2010, Azsacra International Poetry award in 2011 and was inducted in the prestigious Significant Achievements Plaque in the museum of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. He has also been a featured poet at World Poetry Reading Series, Canada and Asian American Poetry project, U.S.A. At present he is the managing editor of The Enchanting Verses journal of poetry.
Anca Vlasopolos ("Under The Wrecking Ball") published the award-winning novel "The New Bedford Samurai", the award-winning memoir "No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement", a collection of poems, "Penguins in a Warming World", three poetry chapbooks, a detective novel, "Missing Members", and over two hundred poems and short stories. She was nominated for the Pulitzer for The New Bedford Samurai and was nominated several times for the Pushcart Award in poetry and fiction. She is associate editor of Corridors Magazine.
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September 2011
Chapbook
Helen Vitoria ("Blackwater: A Pneumatic Disturbance") lives and writes in Effort, PA. Her work can be found and is forthcoming in over fifty online and print journals including, elimae, PANK, MudLuscious Press, >kill author, Poets & Artists Magazine, FRIGG Magazine, and Dark Sky Magazine. Her chapbooks: “The Sights & Sounds of Arctic Birds” and “Random Cartography Notes” ) are both available as e-chaps from Gold Wake Press, 2011. Her first full length poetry collection: “Corn Exchange,” is forthcoming from Scrambler Books, Winter 2011. She is working on a chapbook: “1611” and a novel(la) in verse: “Amsterdam.” Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com.
Fiction
Joseph Grant ("Accident") has had short stories published in over 200 literary reviews such as Byline, New Authors Journal, Underground Voices, Midwest Literary Magazine, Inwood Indiana Literary Review, Hack Writers, Six Sentences, Literary Mary, NexGenPulp, Is This Reality Zine, Darkest Before Dawn, strangeroad.com, FarAway Journal, Full of Crow, Heroin Love Songs, Bewildering Stories, Writing Raw, Unheard Magazine, and Absent Willow Literary Review. He is currently writing a novel.
A. Molotkov ("Falling in Love") is am a writer, composer, filmmaker and visual artist, and a co-founder of the Inflectionist poetry movement (Inflectionism.com). Born in Russia, he moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. He is the author of several novels, short story, and poetry collections. A Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the 2010 New Millennium Writings and the 2008 E. M. Koeppel fiction contests. His other fiction and poetry has appeared in over 20 print and online publications. In February 2010, he spearheaded a one-hour poetry and music performance “Love Outlives Us” presented by the Show and Tell Gallery in Portland, OR and repeated on KBOO in June. Feel free to visit: www.AMolotkov.com.
Meg Tuite ("Noising Your Smile") has published work in numerous journals. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press. Her novel “Domestic Apparition” (2011) is now available through San Francisco Bay Press (www.sanfrancisobaypress.com). She has a monthly column “Exquisite Quartet” up at Used Furniture Review. Her blog: http://megtuite.wordpress.com.
Creative Non-Fiction
Matthew Zanoni Müller ("Nassau Harbor") was born in Bochum, Germany and grew up in Eugene, Oregon and Upstate New York. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers and he teaches at his local Community College. His work has appeared in various magazines and journals. To learn more about his writing, please visit: www.matthewzononimuller.com.
Poetry
JW Drake ("Seaside September") lives and writes in North Carolina. A few of his poems have been published, and he would always appreciate more.
Shirley Kobar ("How Many Stroke of Cloth") is a retired registered nurse with a BSN from the University of Illinois Chicago living in Loveland CO. She has been published in Improv, Between the Heartbeats, Poets On, and Array. Last year Green Fuse Press released her chapbook “To Tango with the Dead”.
Carol Levin ("Destiny Watches With His Shoulder Back and Head Craned Forward") is an accomplished poet. Pecan Grove Press released her chapbook, “Red Rooms and Others” in 2009 and will publish her full volume “Stunned By the Velocity” in 2012. “Sea Lions Sing Scat” was published by Finishing Line Press, 2007. Work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Louisville Review, The New York Quarterly, Avatar Review, Raven Chronicles, The Massachusetts Review, Verse Wisconsin, The Seattle Review, among others. Poems were set as a choral work by composer Carol Sams and have been performed by various choirs. She collaborated with a Russian theater director and his translator in translating Anton Chekhov’s four major plays and worked as the dramaturge on the subsequent productions. Together, they also wrote a dictionary of Stanislavski terms for theater artists. She is an Editorial Assistant for the Crab Creek Review and teaches the Alexander Technique in Seattle.
Joan McNerney ("Last Summer" & "Live Oak Boughs") has had poetry published in numerous literary magazines such as Boston Review of the Arts, Kalliope, Mudfish, Spectrum, and Word Thursdays. Four of her books have been published by fine literary presses. She has performed at the National Arts Club, Borders Bookstore, McNay Art Institute, and other distinguished venues. A recent reading was sponsored by the American Academy of Poetry. Her latest title is “Having Lunch with the Sky”, A.P.D., Albany, New York.
Christina Murphy ("Caesura: A Love Poem") lives and writes in a 100 year-old Arts and Crafts style house along the Ohio River. She continues to be amazed at how the Arts and Crafts movement--like the artist Piet Mondrian--found such artistic integrity (and solace) in straight lines and simple (yet complex) forms. Her writing appears in a number of anthologies and journals including, most recently, ABJECTIVE, MiPOesias, A cappella Zoo, PANK, Word Riot, Splash of Red, Blue Fifth Review, POOL: A Journal of Poetry, Boston Literary Magazine, and Counterexample Poetics. Her work has received two Editor’s Choice Awards and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize.
Simon Perchick ("Untitled") is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker 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.
James G. Piatt ("The Iron Horse") earned both his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from Brigham Young University. James is retired and spends his time in the summer sitting along side a river penning poetry and listening to Jazz. He has had over 135 poems published in poetry anthologies, magazines, and journals.
Helen Vitoria ("Blackwater: A Pneumatic Disturbance") lives and writes in Effort, PA. Her work can be found and is forthcoming in over fifty online and print journals including, elimae, PANK, MudLuscious Press, >kill author, Poets & Artists Magazine, FRIGG Magazine, and Dark Sky Magazine. Her chapbooks: “The Sights & Sounds of Arctic Birds” and “Random Cartography Notes” ) are both available as e-chaps from Gold Wake Press, 2011. Her first full length poetry collection: “Corn Exchange,” is forthcoming from Scrambler Books, Winter 2011. She is working on a chapbook: “1611” and a novel(la) in verse: “Amsterdam.” Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com.
Fiction
Joseph Grant ("Accident") has had short stories published in over 200 literary reviews such as Byline, New Authors Journal, Underground Voices, Midwest Literary Magazine, Inwood Indiana Literary Review, Hack Writers, Six Sentences, Literary Mary, NexGenPulp, Is This Reality Zine, Darkest Before Dawn, strangeroad.com, FarAway Journal, Full of Crow, Heroin Love Songs, Bewildering Stories, Writing Raw, Unheard Magazine, and Absent Willow Literary Review. He is currently writing a novel.
A. Molotkov ("Falling in Love") is am a writer, composer, filmmaker and visual artist, and a co-founder of the Inflectionist poetry movement (Inflectionism.com). Born in Russia, he moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. He is the author of several novels, short story, and poetry collections. A Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the 2010 New Millennium Writings and the 2008 E. M. Koeppel fiction contests. His other fiction and poetry has appeared in over 20 print and online publications. In February 2010, he spearheaded a one-hour poetry and music performance “Love Outlives Us” presented by the Show and Tell Gallery in Portland, OR and repeated on KBOO in June. Feel free to visit: www.AMolotkov.com.
Meg Tuite ("Noising Your Smile") has published work in numerous journals. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press. Her novel “Domestic Apparition” (2011) is now available through San Francisco Bay Press (www.sanfrancisobaypress.com). She has a monthly column “Exquisite Quartet” up at Used Furniture Review. Her blog: http://megtuite.wordpress.com.
Creative Non-Fiction
Matthew Zanoni Müller ("Nassau Harbor") was born in Bochum, Germany and grew up in Eugene, Oregon and Upstate New York. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers and he teaches at his local Community College. His work has appeared in various magazines and journals. To learn more about his writing, please visit: www.matthewzononimuller.com.
Poetry
JW Drake ("Seaside September") lives and writes in North Carolina. A few of his poems have been published, and he would always appreciate more.
Shirley Kobar ("How Many Stroke of Cloth") is a retired registered nurse with a BSN from the University of Illinois Chicago living in Loveland CO. She has been published in Improv, Between the Heartbeats, Poets On, and Array. Last year Green Fuse Press released her chapbook “To Tango with the Dead”.
Carol Levin ("Destiny Watches With His Shoulder Back and Head Craned Forward") is an accomplished poet. Pecan Grove Press released her chapbook, “Red Rooms and Others” in 2009 and will publish her full volume “Stunned By the Velocity” in 2012. “Sea Lions Sing Scat” was published by Finishing Line Press, 2007. Work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Louisville Review, The New York Quarterly, Avatar Review, Raven Chronicles, The Massachusetts Review, Verse Wisconsin, The Seattle Review, among others. Poems were set as a choral work by composer Carol Sams and have been performed by various choirs. She collaborated with a Russian theater director and his translator in translating Anton Chekhov’s four major plays and worked as the dramaturge on the subsequent productions. Together, they also wrote a dictionary of Stanislavski terms for theater artists. She is an Editorial Assistant for the Crab Creek Review and teaches the Alexander Technique in Seattle.
Joan McNerney ("Last Summer" & "Live Oak Boughs") has had poetry published in numerous literary magazines such as Boston Review of the Arts, Kalliope, Mudfish, Spectrum, and Word Thursdays. Four of her books have been published by fine literary presses. She has performed at the National Arts Club, Borders Bookstore, McNay Art Institute, and other distinguished venues. A recent reading was sponsored by the American Academy of Poetry. Her latest title is “Having Lunch with the Sky”, A.P.D., Albany, New York.
Christina Murphy ("Caesura: A Love Poem") lives and writes in a 100 year-old Arts and Crafts style house along the Ohio River. She continues to be amazed at how the Arts and Crafts movement--like the artist Piet Mondrian--found such artistic integrity (and solace) in straight lines and simple (yet complex) forms. Her writing appears in a number of anthologies and journals including, most recently, ABJECTIVE, MiPOesias, A cappella Zoo, PANK, Word Riot, Splash of Red, Blue Fifth Review, POOL: A Journal of Poetry, Boston Literary Magazine, and Counterexample Poetics. Her work has received two Editor’s Choice Awards and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize.
Simon Perchick ("Untitled") is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker 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.
James G. Piatt ("The Iron Horse") earned both his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from Brigham Young University. James is retired and spends his time in the summer sitting along side a river penning poetry and listening to Jazz. He has had over 135 poems published in poetry anthologies, magazines, and journals.
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August 2011
Fiction
Guy Cranswick (“Written”) lives in Sydney, Australia. He has written screenplays, a novel, My Wife, My Job, My Shoes, and a collection of stories, Corporate. His short fiction has been published in Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, Israel, Singapore and Australia. His second anthology,” How it all Began How it all Ended” will be published next year. Apart from English he speaks, French and Italian -- and survival German.
Aaron Sarka (“Just Ourselves”) is a theatre student at Northern Michigan University. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Seward, Alaska. He is passionate about writing and uses it to detox from work and stress. This is his first publication.
Creative Non-Fiction
Sandy McIntosh (“A Lecture From the Bartender at Grand Hotel, Oslo”) has a number of poetry collections, including Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco, (with Denise Duhamel), 237 More Reasons to Have Sex(Otoliths),Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways To Escape Death, The After-Death History of My Mother, Between Earth and Sky(Marsh Hawk Press),Endless Staircase(Street Press),Earth Works(Long Island University), Which Way to the Egress? (Garfield Publishers), andMonsters of the Antipodes(Survivors Manual Books). His contribution to the screenplay for the short filmIreland: The People and the Caringwon the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. Samples of his work are available online atThe New York TimesandThe Best American Poetry. He was Managing Editor of Confrontation, the national literary magazine published by Long Island University. He is publisher of Marsh Hawk Press in New York.
Tom Molanphy (“Coach Buddy’s Circle of Silence”) received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. His essays have appeared in Pilgrimage, Desert Call, Blood Orange Review and The Fiddleback. His lesson plan on creative nonfiction was included in the 826 Valencia anthology “Don’t Forget To Write.” Tom teaches undergraduate and graduate writing and literature at the Academy of Art University. He also taught composition at the University of San Francisco, and he occasionally tutors at 826 Valencia in San Francisco.
Poetry
Brenda Bishop Blakey (“Pen and Ink on Paper”) is a native of Atlanta. She finds magic and music in words. Her work may be found at With Painted Words, The Camel Saloon, and elsewhere at fine literary establishments.
David Lee Garrison (“Brine”) has been published in Connecticut Review, The Laurel Review, and RATTLE, among other publications. Garrison Keillor read two poems from his book, Sweeping the Cemetery (Browser Books), on The Writer’s Almanac, and last fall Ted Kooser featured one of his newer poems on the website, American Life in Poetry. He is a retired professor of Spanish and Portuguese and has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American poets. He also co-edited a volume of poems about food, O Taste and See (Bottom Dog Press).
Dane Karnick (“Poetic License”) grew up by the Colorado “Rockies” and lives in Seattle. His poetry has recently appeared in Spindrift, Drash and Cirque. Visit him at www.danekarnick.com.
J. Patrick Lewis (“What John Clare Never Knew”) lives in Ohio. His first book of poems, Gulls Hold Up the Sky, was published in October 2010 by Laughing Fire Press. His poems have appeared in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, New Letters, Southern Humanities Review, new renaissance, Kansas Quarterly, Fine Madness, and many others.
Ben Nardolilli (“Canopic Jars”) is a twenty five year old writer currently living in Arlington, Virginia. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, One Ghana One Voice, Caper Literary Journal, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, Super Arrow, Grey Sparrow Journal, A Hudson View, The Toucan, Contemporary American Voices, the Eudaimonia Poetry Review, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Gloom Cupboard, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. He is looking to publish his first novel and maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
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July 2011
Chapbook
Robert Lietz ("Group 16") has completed several print and hypertext (hypermedia) collections of poems for publication, including Character in the Works: Twentieth-Century Lives, West of Luna Pier, Spooking in the Ruins, Keeping Touch, and Eating Asiago & Drinking Beer. Over 700 of his poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals in the U.S. and Canada, in Sweden and U.K, including Agni Review, Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, The Ontario Review, Poetry, and Shenandoah. Seven collections of poems have been published, including Running in Place (L’Epervier Press,). At Park and East Division (L’Epervier Press,) The Lindbergh Half-century (L’Epervier Press,) The Inheritance (Sandhills Press,) and Storm Service (Basfal Books). Basfal also published After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems.
Fiction
Roland Goity (" Y.O. Ming") edits fiction for the online journal LITnIMAGE, and is co-editor of EXPERIENCED: Rock Music Tales of Fact & Fiction. Recent stories appear in Fiction International, Montreal Review, Stymie Magazine, Monkeybicycle, and Raleigh Review.
Abigail Hammond ("A Lunar Holiday") is a student at Fairfield University's Master of Fine Arts program. Her short story "Another for the Masses" appeared in The View From Here literary journal. Abigail lives in Albany, New York with a handsome poet and a shitzu poodle.
Donovan Mixon ("Buona Sera Tutti") received his M.M. in 1985 from Manhattan School of Music in Jazz/Commercial Music. He is currently adjunct faculty at Harold Washington College. He has written several short stories, a bit of poetry and is currently finishing a YA novella. Buona Sera Tutti is his first published literary work.
***Read Donovan's ROLiT NEWS Interview: July 2011, Vol 1.7
Graham Tugwell ("Pageant") is a PhD student with the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches Popular and Modernist Fiction. The recipient of the College Green Literary Prize 2010, he has been published by Write From Wrong and has work forthcoming in Kerouac’s Dog Magazine, THIS Literary Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, Anemone Sidecar, Plain Spoke, Sein und Werden, Pyrta, The Quotable, Battered Suitcase, Thoughtsmith, Anobium, Lost Souls, Rotten Leaves and Red Lightbulbs. His website is grahamtugwell.com.
Poetry
Charles Clifford Brooks III ("blackberries & blue morpho didius") has been published in The Dead Mule, Eclectica, Gloom Cupboard, The Smoking Poet, Red Fez, vox poetica, Asylum, Zygote in My Coffee, Contemporary American Voices, Scythe, Hobo Camp Review and Journal of Liberal Arts and Education. His poetry has been featured on the Joe Milford Poetry Show and vox poetica’s 15 Minutes of Poetry. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
Alessandro Cusimano ("Amsterdam Wide Dreams" & "Queen of All Flowers") was born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on July 2, 1967. He lives in Rome, where he is a jewelry designer, writer, poet, translator. Son of a painter and a teacher, his life was marked, very young, by recurrent and painful bouts of depression. Nevertheless, this does not detract him from research and study of narrative techniques, his poetic style. With a special focus on visual arts, from painting to cinema, from photography to theatre, Alessandro lives with deep introspection.
Carol Lynn Grellas ("Hearken Back") is a five-time Pushcart nominee and a 2010 Best of the Net nominee. She is the author of seven chapbooks with her latest collection of poems: Epistemology of an Odd Girl, forthcoming from March Street Press.
Leah C. Stetson ("Asrai") is a poet, writer, editor and human ecologist from the coast of Maine. She's on the adjunct faculty at Southern Maine Community College and is a member of the Lakes Region Writers Guild in southern Maine. Her work has appeared in New Maine Times, Words & Images, Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal, Wolf Moon Press Journal, Not Just Air. Panamowa: A New Lit Order and Geek Monthly. View her "Strange Wetlands" blog at aswm.org/wordpress.
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June 2011
Chapbook
Mallory Bass ("Geophagy: A Hunger for Place") is a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California. She is a proud native of Mississippi, where she received her B.A. at The University of Mississippi. She lives in Oakland with three other poets and her dog, Hoka. Other publications include selections in Amphibius, Four Paper Letters, and Corium Magazine.
Creative Non Fiction
Mary Leonard ("South Seas-Sirens") is an Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College where she leads workshops for teachers and students. She has published three chapbooks of poetry at 2River and Pudding House and most recently at Antrim House Press. Her poems have appeared in many small journals like the Naugatuck Review and Hubbub. In addition to poetry, she regularly writes humorous articles and restaurant reviews for a local Dutchess County paper and hopes to find an agent soon for her novel Italian Ice.
Poetry
Joe Amaral ("Dyshythmia of Hearts Gone Bad & The Street Preacher") spends most of his time spelunking around the central coast of California. He is a paramedic by trade but a world traveler at heart. Joe’s work has appeared in A Handful of Dust, Carcinogenic Poetry, Certain Circuits, Eclectic Flash, Paradigm, Underground Voices and in an anthology by Pill Hill Press. He has work forthcoming via Wicked East Press.
Kathy Boles-Turner (Upon Wakening) is called a poet by some generous friends, but she claims only to be a keen listener and observer who often feels compelled to write. The ambition to pursue writing is her motivation for enrolling in college courses at the ripe old age of 39 - almost three years later, she couldn't be happier with that decision. This is her first publication.
***Read Kathy's ROLiT NEWS Interview: June 2011, Vol 1.6
Tatjana Debeljački ("On The Way To Japan") was born on 23.04.1967 in Užice, Serbia. She has been a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia UKS since 2004 and is active in the Haiku Society of Serbia HDS Montenegro-HUSCG&HDPR,Croatia, the Writers’ Association Poeta, Belgrade (since 2008) and the Croatian Writers’ Association – CWA (since 2009). She has published three collections of poetry: A HOUSE MADE OF GLASS, published by ART – Užice; YOURS, published by NARODNA KNJIGA Belgrade and VULCANO by Haiku Lotos, Valjevo.
Olga Dugan ("A Truth the Hand Can Touch") is a 2011 Cave Canem Fellow. Her award-winning poems appear, or are forthcoming, in evolution: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2010(RMP 2011), Hudson View International Poetry Digest (Winter 2011), Tipton Poetry Journal, Scribble, The Orange Room Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education,Obscurity Zine, Euphoria, and other journals and magazines. Most recently, Olga served as pre-selector for the innovative category of the Haiku Foundation’s International Haiku Now! Contest 2011. Her haiku, “what we say,” received first prize in the innovative category of THF's International Haiku Now! Contest 2010. Olga’s chapbook of lyric narratives, In My Mother’s House, and other poems of resilience (Creative Endeavors Press), commemorates the 180-year old history of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. Holding a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester, Olga is a Lindback Professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia.
David Groulx ("Jack Wilson Will Not Teach Me To Dance") was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Native roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. After receiving his BA from Lakehead University where he won the Munro Poetry Prize. David studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C. where he won the Simon J Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. He has written four poetry books – Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications, 1997); and The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press, 2000).Under God’s Pale Bones (Kegedonce Press, 2010), A Difficult Beauty is due out in autumn 2011 (Wosak & Wynn). David is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, as well as a member of The Ontario Poetry Society. David recently won the 3rd annual PoetryNOW Battle of the Bards.David’s poetry has appeared in over a 100 publications in England, Australia, Germany, Austria, Turkey and the USA. He lives in a log home near Ottawa, Canada.
Jane Rosenberg LaForge ("Avian Summer") lives in New York with her husband and daughter, and she is the author of two chapbooks, "After Voices'' from Burning River in Cleveland and "Half-Life" from Big Table Publishing Co. in Boston. She has also published short fiction, critical, and personal essays online and in print.
Elizabeth Swados ("Mirage & My Tent") is an award winning author and composer; she is a Tony nominated, Obie award winning theater artist, Guggenheim and Ford Foundation recipient, as well as a Pen/Faulkner citation. Her latest book, At Play – Teaching Teenagers Theater was published by Faber and Faber. Her other recent publications include: My Depression (Hyperion), and The Animal Rescue Store (Scholastic). Her theatrical credits span from Broadway, to off-Broadway, to around the world including Runaways, Missionaries, and Jabu. Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as Meridian Anthology, New American Writing, New York Quarterly, Emory's Journal, Confrontation, Paterson Literary Review, Speakeasy, Barrow Street, Runes and Home Planet. Her first book of poetry, The One and Only Human Galaxy, was released in April 2009.
Review
C. Liegh McInnis ("Who or What Does The Help Help: A Brief Review") has published poetry, fiction, and essays in several journals, magazines, and newspapers, is the author of seven books, the editor and publisher of Black Magnolias Literary Journal, and he teaches creative writing and world literature at Jackson State University. Contact him at at www.psychedelicliterature.com or psychedeliclit@bellsouth.net.
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May 2011
Chapbook
Amy L. George ("Sacred Embers and Ebullient Flames") loves words. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from National University. Her poetry has been published in various journals, such as WestWard Quarterly, The Foliate Oak Online, Toronto Quarterly, and others. Her book reviews have been published by 360MainStreet.com and Perpetual Folly. Her chapbook, The Fragrance of Memory, was published in 2010 by Amsterdam Press. She is the editor/publisher of Bird's Eye reView. She currently lives in Texas where she enjoys teaching English at a private university and moderating a weekly poetry workshop for her community.
Fiction
Mike Miller ("The Man Who Paid In Tears") has been studying theatre most of his life, mostly directing, but has written some plays. He has received one production of his writing in London, England, where he is currently based, and was involved in an award nominated play back in his hometown of Cincinnati, OH. In the past couple of years, he began writing prose. This is his first prose publication.
***Read Mike's ROLiT NEWS Interview: May 2011, Vol 1.5
Tom Peters ("A Sweeter Kind of Rhythm") lives in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a lawyer, who currently has a novel under contract with Untreed Reads Press.
Robert Wexelblatt ("Helmet") is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a wide variety of journals, two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, a book of essays, Professors at Play; his recent novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction.
Non-Fiction
Gayla Mills ("The Bouquet") teaches writing at Randolph Macon College and directs its writing center. She also publishes personal essays, features, reviews, profiles, and flash fiction.
Eric G. Müller ("Misbehavior") was born in Durban, South Africa, and studied literature and history at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After a few years working at a variety of jobs, playing and performing music, and traveling around Europe, he continued his studies in England and Germany, where he specialized in drama and music education. Currently he is living in upstate New York, teaching music, drama, English literature and creative writing. He has written two novels, Rites of Rock(Adonis Press 2005) and Meet Me at the Met (Plain View Press, 2010), as well as a collection of poetry, Coffee on the Piano for You (Adonis Press, 2008). Articles, short stories and poetry have appeared in various journals and magazines. www.ericgmuller.com.
Poetry
George Bishop ("Gifts") lives in Kissimmee, Florida. Recent work of his has appeared in Melusine & Prick Of The Spindle. Forthcoming work will be featured in Pirene’s Fountain & Burnt Bridge. His chapbook, Love Scenes, is available from Finishing Line Press & new chapbook, Marriage Vows and Other Lies, has been released by Flutter Press. Originally from the Jersey Shore, Bishop resides in Florida where he lives and writes.
Michael Lee Johnson ("South Chicago Night") is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. . He is heavily influenced by: Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and Allen Ginsberg. He has been published in over 23 countries. His new poetry chapbook with pictures, titled From Which Place the Morning Rises, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. The original version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, can be found at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. Michael is also the editor/publisher of four poetry sites, which can be found at his Web site: http://poetryman.mysite.com.
Jennifer Lynn Krohn ("Cain Cries Out") was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she currently lives with her husband. She's earning her MFA at the University of New Mexico. Jennifer has published in the Weekly Alibi, The Saranac Review and Adobe Walls.
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April 2011
Chapbook
John Sibley Williams ("Door, Door") is a poet and book publicist residing in Portland, OR. He has a previous MA in Writing and presently studies Book Publishing at Portland State University, where he serves as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and publicist for Three Muses Press. His poetry was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize and won the 2011 Heart Poetry Award. His debut chapbook, A Pure River, was published in 2010 by The Last Automat Press. Some of his over 100 previous or upcoming publications include: The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, Euphony, Open Letters, Cadillac Cicatrix, Juked, The Journal, Hawaii Review, Cutthroat, The Furnace Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Aries, and River Oak Review.
Fiction
L.S. Bassen ("WHAT'S IN A NAME") won the 2009 ATLANTIC PACIFIC PRESS DRAMA PRIZE. She has won awards also for poetry and has been published in John Gardner's MSS, Kenyon Review, American Scholar, etc. and online (Minnetonka, Conteonline, The Externalist, Persimmontree,etc.). She is a reader/reviewer for electricliterature.com. A Vassar grad, 6 years ago moved from NYC to RI. A prizewinning, produced, and published playwright (Samuel French, MONTH BEFORE THE MOON, NEXT OF KIN at New York's ATA, 2 other plays in Ohio, one in NC), and commissioned (co-author of a WWII memoir by the young Scottish bride of Baron Hajime Kawasaki, THISTLE& CHRYSANTHEMUM). Currently, three novels are serialized online at troubadour21.com and an alternative historical's first 5000 words are excerpted in episodes at friedfiction.com/.
Judah Skoff ("YAMM") graduated from Brown University where he studied fiction writing and received a degree in English. He won the National Playwriting Competition, and two New Jersey Governor's Awards in the Arts for creative writing and Playwriting. His writing has been previously published in Red River Review. His plays have been performed in theatres and festivals around the country, including the Abgindon Theatre, the State Theatre of New Jersey, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and Playwright's Theatre of New Jersey.
Poetry
Lisa Marie Basile ("Red") is an MFA candidate at The New School. She has been published in several literary journals, including Word Riot, Moon Milk Review, Willows Wept Review, elimae, and others. She will have her full-length poetry book released by Cervena Barva Press in 2012. Her chapbook, White Spiders, was released by Gold Wake Press. She currently works with PEN American Center's Prison Writing Program. She's earned 1st place in both poetry and fiction from Pace University's annual writing contest. She is also a member of the NY Poetry Brothel. She is the founding editor of Caper Literary Journal.
***Read Lisa's ROLiT NEWS Interview: July 2011, Vol 1.7
Patricia Hanahoe-Dosch ("The Art of Lonely") lives in Lancaster, PA. Her educational background includes an MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and she is currently an Associate Professor of English at Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster campus. Her poems have been published in other publications such as The Poetry Super Highway, Confrontation, San Pedro River Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, The Paterson Literary Review, Abalone Moon, and Switched-on Gutenberg, among others.
Elise Gregory ("The Words Beneath") lives in and has been previously published in Ascent Aspirations, Hubbub, Fine Madness, and Strange Fruit.
John Grey ("How The Duties Are Divided") is an Australian born poet, who has been a Providence, RI resident since the late seventies. He works as financial systems analyst. He has been published in Talking River, South Carolina Review, Karamu, Prism International, Poem and Evansville Review. He was most recently published in Xavier Review, White Wall Review and Writer’s Bloc with work upcoming work Cider Press Review.
Whitney Scott ("Full and Empty") is an amateur poet from Rocky Mount, Virginia. She is an undergraduate at Ferrum College and hopes to pursue a career in teaching and writing. This is her first publication.
***Read Whitney's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Apr 2011, Vol 1.4
James Valvis ("Luxury of Failure") lives in Issaquah, Washington. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in well over a hundred venues, such as Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, Blip, Corium, Eclectica, 5 AM, Gargoyle, Hanging Loose, New York Quarterly, Nimrod, Los Angeles Review, Pank, Pirene's Fountain, Rattle, River Styx, Red Fez, Slipstream, and South Carolina Review. He is a two-time 2010 Best of the Web nominee, a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, and a novella was a Notable Story in storySouth's Million Writers Award. A collection of his poems is due from Aortic Books next year.
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MARCH 2011
Chapbook
Lars Palm (“(s)he dead”) lives with his wife, currently in Malmö, Sweden. He is the author of a handful of chapbooks, including: what's in a (The Red Ceilings Press, 2011), ho(s)tel window (with photos by Petra Palm) (PoFot, 2011), for good behaviour (Differentia Press, 2010), and whomeanswhat (Sacrifice Press, 2010). He also translates and runs a small ungovernable press. In addition to that, Palm states, his favourite colour is red and his blog is called mischievoice”.
Fiction
Kim Farleigh (“Wouldn’t it be Nice”) has a taste for the exotic and has worked for aid agencies in three conflicts: Kosovo, Iraq and Palestine. His stories have been published in several magazines in Australia, the United States, and Europe, including Whiskey Island, Island and Southerly. He likes exquisite food and wine, beautiful architecture and bullfighting, which might explain why this Australian lives in Europe.
James Stark (“Wild Caught”) lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest, which serves as the setting and backdrop for many of his stories. He is a retired academic whose stories have appeared in various print and electronic media in the US, New Zealand, the UK and Austria. His website is www.starkstories.com.
Jason Isaac Ulrich (“Silenced for the Deserved”), 24, is an author, independent filmmaker, voracious reader and, above all, a student and teacher of life. Having grown up in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, he attended George Mason University, majoring in English Literature, later transferring to Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, where he currently resides. Jason is currently working on several pieces of writing, including two books and a play. This is Jason’s first publication; however, do look for his second piece, a nonfiction story called “Generation Rx” in Mobius Literary Magazine for Social Change: http://www.mobiusmagazine.com/. Jason can be contacted on Facebook.
***Read Jason's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Mar 2011, Vol 1.3
Poetry
Howie Good (“Cloudy All Day”) of Highland, NY, 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 26 print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recent Disaster Mode from Medulla Publishing and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre from Gold Wake Press.
RL Greenfield (“Blue Bayou”) was born in Wisconsin, but moved to Los Angeles in 1962 and immediately L.A. became his home. His poems have been in several magazines, including The New York Quarterly, The Minnesota Review, Poetry/LA, Tsunami, OnTheBus, Bachy, Electrum, Meat & others. Recent work by RLG has been posted online by Stride Magazine (Aug. 2010), Gently Read Literature January 2009 & December 2009). Look for his forthcoming poems in the Denver Quarterly, Chiron Review, Nether, and Eunoia Review.
A. Molotkov (“Expansion”) is a writer, composer, filmmaker and visual artist, and a co-founder of the Inflectionist poetry movement (Inflectionism.com). Born in Russia, he moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. His fiction and poetry has appeared in over 20 publications, both in print and online. He won both the 2010 New Millennium Writings and the 2008 E. M. Koeppel fiction contests and has been nominated for a Pushcart.
Satish Pendharkar (“Woman of the Mountains”) lives in the state of Kerala in India and writes her spare time. She has had some of her short stories and articles published in Indian magazines like Savvy and Alive. One of her one-act plays titled The Homecoming won the Social Issues Scripts recognition award of the 2007 Theatre in the Raw, Canada Playwriting Competition. Look for recently published work in Maverick.
James Piatt (“The Homeless Man”) earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and a doctorate from Brigham Young University. He founded and was the principal of an alternative high school for at risk youth for seventeen years. He is retired and is an education and poet activist. Many of his poems reflect his feelings about the injustices in our society. The Taj Mahal Review, Tower Journal, Contemporary American Voices, Word Catalyst Magazine, Apollo’s Lyre, WestWard Quarterly, Caper Journal, among others, have published or will be publishing his poetry this year.
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February 2011
Fiction
Dan Davis (“30 Seconds Before the Explosion”) was born and raised in Central Illinois. His work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him at www.dumpsterchickenmusic.blogspot.com.
Faye Snowden (“Keepsakes”) lives in Modesto California and has a Masters in English Literature. Her previous writing credit includes three published novels, Spiral of Guilt (Kensington, 1999), The Savior (Kensington, 2003, 2004) and Fatal Justice (Kensington 2005, 2006). She also has had a short story and several poems published in various literary journals, and have received three writing fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Djerassi in Santa Cruz, California.
Meg Tuite (“Congealed Solitude in Blue”) lives in Cerrillos, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in 34th Parallel, Calliope, San Francisco Bay Press, The Santa Fe Literary Review, One, the Journal, Fast Forward Press, Artistically Declined Press, Spilt Milk, Monkeybicycle, Boston Literary Magazine and elsewhere. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review. Her fiction collection "Domestic Apparition" is forthcoming in early 2011 through San Francisco Bay Press. She has a new column “Exquisite Quartet” for Used Furniture Review. Her blog: megtuite.wordpress.com.
Nonfiction
Pierce Tyler (“Wild Parrots”) lives in Portsmouth, Virginia. He holds an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. His stories have appeared in The Powhatan Review and Trillium Literary Journal.
Poetry
Jennifer Lynn Graham (The Inner Workings of Our Blue-Green Marble Called Earth) is a full-time student in Old Dominion University’s M.F.A. Creative Writing Program. Currently residing in Virginia Beach, Virginia, she wishes to finish her M.F.A. and possibly start studying in a bibliotherapy or poetry therapy program. This is her first publication.
***Read Jennifers's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Feb 2011, Vol 1.2
J.S. MacLean (“Other Worlds”) is a Canadian of Celtic extraction. He has been published in a variety of poetry publications in Canada, USA, UK, and Australia. He tries to write poems that are at once accessible but that will continue to reveal themselves over time.
***Read MacLean's ROLiT NEWS Interview: May 2011, Vol 1.5
Mark Murphy (“Requiem For A Kiss”) was born in the UK in 1969. He studied philosophy as an under-graduate and poetry as a post-graduate. His first full length collection, Night Watch Man & Muse is pending from Salmon Poetry (Eire) early in 2012. Most recently his poems have appeared in Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Scotland, Quarterly Literary Review (Singapore), The Warwick Review (UK), Istanbul Literature Review (Turkey), Paris Atlantic Journal (France), Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), Litspeak (Germany), Contemporary Literary Horizons (Romania), Munyori (India), Taj Mahal Review (India), The Tampa Review (US), Del Sol Review (US), Left Curve (US), The American Dissident (US), The Stinging Fly (Eire), Crannog Magazine (Eire) and on the deaddrunkdublin website.
David Sutherland (“A Final Forecast”) lives in Hopewell Junction, New York. His work has appeared in The Hollin’s Critic, The Midwest Quarterly, The Reader (Oxford University Press) and many others. He has reviewed a Rhysling Award, a Small Press Writer’s Award and a recent Pushcart Nomination. His first collection, Between Absolutes, was featured at the 26th Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s “Meet The Authors” conference in Washington, D.C. David is also the founder and managing editor of Recursive Angel, an internet publication.
***Read David's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Apr 2011, Vol
Thomas Zimmerman (“In Unset Amber of Another Mother”) teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits three literary magazines at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, MI. Around 300 of his poems have appeared in small publications over the past 20 years. He has recent work in Rhythm Poetry Magazine, Red Fez, and Paper Crow. His latest chapbook is entitled Nights Your Wife Is Gone.
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January 2011
Chapbook
Felino A. Soriano (“Reactions”) is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein “rose” prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. For information, including his 39 print and electronic collections of poetry, over 2,500 published poems, interviews, and editorships, please visit his website: www.felinoasoriano.info.
Fiction
Casey Clabough (“Confederado at Sea”) is the author of the travel memoir “The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route”, a finalist for both the 2008 Appalachian Book of the Year and the 2008 Library of Virginia Book of the Year, as well as four scholarly books. He is a regular contributor to the Sewanee Review and serves as a contributing editor to the Hollins Critic and Stymie: A Magazine of Sport. He serves as literature editor of Encyclopedia Virginia (http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/) and as general editor of the James Dickey Review (http://www.lynchburg.edu/x27499.xml). He is both English Department Chair and Graduate Director at Lynchburg College in Virginia. His first novel, Confederado, will be published in 2012.
***Read Casey's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Feb 2011, Vol 1.2
Richard Payne (“The Man With Elastic Band Hands”) is a British born teacher and writer. He has contributed articles to many magazines and websites including: Yoga and Health Magazine, Puffin Circus and Child Education. Richard now lives and works in Italy and continues to lecture in the United Kingdom. You can find him on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/paynerichard.
Mark R. Stevens (“The Seagull”) lives and writes in the city of Union Gap in Washington State. His recent published titles include The Mermaids of Mukilteo, The Vintage Chamber and The Naked Bull. He is currently hard at work translating a new short story into a full length screenplay.
Poetry
Nancy Devine (“Preservations”) teaches high school English in Grand Forks, North Dakota where she lives. She co-directs the Red River Valley Writing Project, a local site of the National Writing Project. Her poetry, short fiction and essays have appeared in online and print journals.
Marie Lecrivain (“Astrum Oriens For the Working Girl”) is the executive editor and publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a writer in residence in her apartment. Her work has appeared in Askew Poetry Journal, Eclectic Flash, Leaf Garden Press, The Poetry Salzburg Review, RKYV, Spillway, The Bicycle Review, The Los Angeles Review, and is forthcoming inHaibun Today, Sex and Murder Magazine, and Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry (World Parade Books, 2010). Marie's poetry collection, Antebellum Messiah, (copyright 2009 Sybaritic Press), is available through Amazon.com.
Erica Minton (“Hazel”) lives, works and loves in Cincinnati, Ohio. She holds a BA in Creative Writing: Poetry from Miami University, and can be contacted at ericaminton@gmail.com. This is her first publication.
***Read Erica's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Jan 2011, Vol 1.1
Freke Räihä (“Three Stages of Mankind: an ageling”) is a Stockholm-born poet, now living in Degeberga Sweden. He studied at Skurups Writing for two years and is completeing his education at Lunds University. Swedish Trees is his third book of poetry, also representing his third translation from Swedish to English. He has been published the following Swedish magazines: Serum, FEL, Språka and OEI; the Catalonian S'Eclop and Moria, Komma and Ordkonst.
***Read Freke's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Mar 2011, Vol 1.3
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (“siderism is a senryu's straightened elbow” & “pathos is the skyward tanka) has edited more than 10 books and co-produced 3 audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. Trained in book publishing at Stanford, with a theology masters in world religions from Harvard and fine arts masters in creative writing from Notre Dame, Desmond is a recipient of the Singapore Internationale Grant and Dr Hiew Siew Nam Academic Award. He has recent or forthcoming work in Ceriph, Eighty Percent, Escape Into Life, Floorboard Review, Legendary, Magnolia’s Press, Oral Tradition, Smoking Poet, Straylight, and Whale Sound. Also working in clay, Desmond sculpts commemorative ceramic pieces for his Potter Poetics Collection. These works are housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US.
***Read Desmond's ROLiT NEWS Interview: Jan 2011, Vol 1.1
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