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Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas' Before I Go To Sleep
Gayla Mill's Finite
Keith Moul's Beautiful Agitation
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SUMMER 2012
Janet Butler ("Love Songs") 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.
David Fraser ("Rattle in the Wind") lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, www.ascentaspirations.ca since 1997. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including “Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry”. He has published four collections of poetry, “Going to the Well” (2004), “Running Down the Wind” (2007) and “No Way Easy”, (2010), “Caught in My Throat”, (2011) and a collection of short fiction, “Dark Side of the Billboard” (2006). To keep out of trouble he helps develop Nanaimo’s spoken-word series, WordStorm. www.wordstorm.ca. David is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has performed his poetry in British Columbia, Ontario and Switzerland.
Dustin Junkert ("A Quiet Lunch") 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.
Tyrel Kessinger ("An Absence of Scientific Nomenclature") lives, works and writes in Louisville, Kentucky. There’s the wife, two dogs, cat and all the other trappings of a fairly normal life. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in 3:AM Magazine, Red Fez, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Burning Word, among many others. In early 2011, he won the Literary LEO Magazine award for fiction. Recently, he’s found a home as a Contributing Editor for Black Heart Magazine and Naissance Chapbooks has published his chapbook “when the river is hungry, the river eats.”
Mark Murphy ("Arrival and Reunion") 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.
John Repp ("Hook & Release") 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") 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.
C.L. Sostarich ("Our Patches are Stitched with Wire") is a forty-something freelance writer and poet who lives in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Though her various odd jobs, four children and husband keep her fairly busy, she is also a not-so-much in the closet video game freak, World of Warcraft guild master, amateur photographer, and purveyor of fine sarcasm.
David Fraser ("Rattle in the Wind") lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, www.ascentaspirations.ca since 1997. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including “Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry”. He has published four collections of poetry, “Going to the Well” (2004), “Running Down the Wind” (2007) and “No Way Easy”, (2010), “Caught in My Throat”, (2011) and a collection of short fiction, “Dark Side of the Billboard” (2006). To keep out of trouble he helps develop Nanaimo’s spoken-word series, WordStorm. www.wordstorm.ca. David is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has performed his poetry in British Columbia, Ontario and Switzerland.
Dustin Junkert ("A Quiet Lunch") 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.
Tyrel Kessinger ("An Absence of Scientific Nomenclature") lives, works and writes in Louisville, Kentucky. There’s the wife, two dogs, cat and all the other trappings of a fairly normal life. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in 3:AM Magazine, Red Fez, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Burning Word, among many others. In early 2011, he won the Literary LEO Magazine award for fiction. Recently, he’s found a home as a Contributing Editor for Black Heart Magazine and Naissance Chapbooks has published his chapbook “when the river is hungry, the river eats.”
Mark Murphy ("Arrival and Reunion") 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.
John Repp ("Hook & Release") 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") 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.
C.L. Sostarich ("Our Patches are Stitched with Wire") is a forty-something freelance writer and poet who lives in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Though her various odd jobs, four children and husband keep her fairly busy, she is also a not-so-much in the closet video game freak, World of Warcraft guild master, amateur photographer, and purveyor of fine sarcasm.
SPRING 2012
CL Bledsoe ("Hard Work and Clean Living") is the author of the young adult novel Sunlight; three poetry collections, _____(Want/Need),Anthem, andLeap Year; and a short story collection called Naming the Animals. A poetry chapbook, Goodbye to Noise, is available online at http://www.righthandpointing.com/bledsoe. Another one of his chapbooks, The Man Who Killed Himself in My Bathroom, is currently available at http://tenpagespress.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/the-man-who-killed-himself-in-my-bathroom-by-cl-bledsoe/. His story, "Leaving the Garden," was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South's Million Writer's Award. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 5 times. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings, http://clbledsoe.blogspot.com. Bledsoe has written reviews for The Hollins Critic, The Arkansas Review, American Book Review, Prick of the Spindle, New York Quarterly, Ampersand Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere. Bledsoe lives with his wife and daughter in Maryland.
Jacqueline Marcus (“The Long Summer Rains”) 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.
Austin McCarron ("Visionary Cities") 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.
Jacqueline Marcus (“The Long Summer Rains”) 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.
Austin McCarron ("Visionary Cities") 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.
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Nov 2011
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") wrote “She Dances Like Mussolini”, 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.
David James ("Only One Way Out") wrote “She Dances Like Mussolini”, 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.
Oct 2011
Lorraine Caputo ("Venezuela 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.
Sep 2011
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.
Jul 2011
| 'Group 16' |
Robert Lietz 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.
Jun 2011
| 'Geophagy: A Hunger for Place' |
Mallory Bass 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.
May 2011
| 'Sacred Embers and Ebullient Flames' by Amy L. George |
Amy L. George 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.
Apr 2011
| 'Door, Door' by John Sibley Williams |
John Sibley Williams 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.
Mar 2011
| (s)he dead by Lars Palm |
Lars Palm lives with his wife, currently in Malmö, Sweden. He is the author of a handful of chapbooks, including: ho(s)tel window (with photos by Petra Palm) (PoFot, 2011), for good behaviour (Differentia Press, 2010), and whomeanswhat (Sacrifice Press, 2010). His chapbook what's in a, to be published by The Red Ceilings Press is forthcoming. He also translates and runs a small ungovernable press. In addition to that, Lars states, his "favourite colour is red and his blog is called mischievoice".
Jan 2011
| 'Reactions' by Felino A. Soriano |
Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974) 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 38 print and electronic collections of poetry, over 2,400 published poems, interviews, and editorships, please visit his website: www.felinoasoriano.info.
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