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Han
Aidi-Dongxian was born in Dunhuang, China. He has edited
several books and is presently working on some Southern Gothic
written up as a slave narrative, revolving around Ganymede
and the Jesus Sutras. Han writes under various pseudonyms
and hopes one day to collect as many as Fernando Pessoa. He
has work in Breadcrumb Scabs and Sein und Werden.
Jim
Benz
lives
in Minneapolis with his wife and two cats. His poems
have appeared in various print and online publications, including
Haggard and Halloo, Unlikely Stories, Pralaton, Letter X,
unarmed, Sein und Werden, and DISPATCH.
Gary
Bloom is a published writer with credits in American
Visions, The Educated Traveler, Milwaukee Magazine,The Buffalo
News, The Grand Rapids Press, Grit, Cappers, Oasis, Players,
Clockwatch Review, Black Diaspora, Mankato Poetry Review,
and other magazines and newspapers.
Robert
Bohm is a poet and culture writer. He was born in Queens,
New York. His 2007 Uz Um War Moan Ode is available
from Pudding House Press. Other credits include two other
books, a chapbook and work published in a variety of print
and online publications. More information on Bohm's work can
be found at his blog, Lethal
Injections for the Conditioned Mind, and his website,
Unburials:
The Writer as Graverobber.
Danielle
Boodoo-Fortune is twenty two years old, and lives in
Trinidad, West Indies. She is a poet and artist. Her work
was recently published in the Caribbean literary magazine
"Bim: Arts for the 21st Century" as well as in an
anthology published by the University of the West Indies entitled
"Heart to Verse: Wordlines from UWI."
Christopher
Butters is the author of two books, The Propaganda
of a Seed (Cardinal Press, 1990) and Americas (Vietnam
Generation, 1998).   His work has most recently appeared
in Blue Collar Review, Pemmican and Cedar Hill Review.  
A court reporter in New York City, his recent campaign for
president of his AFSCME local won 32% of the vote.   He
has also been the poetry editor of Political Affairs: A Journal
of Marxist Thought. His most recent publication is The
Algebra of Doing It, published by Partisan Press.
Jared
Carter is a Midwesterner from Indiana. He has published
three books of poems. A fourth, Cross this Bridge at a
Walk, was recently issued by Wind Publications in Kentucky.
The book consists of a series of narrative poems dealing with
incidents in American history from the Revolution to the present.
For more information please visit Jared Carter's web site
at http://www.jaredcarter.com.
Mia
Cartmill was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lived
in Freeport, Maine for twenty five years. She has written
essays for the Christian Science Monitor, and The Boston Globe.
Her poetry and fiction has appeared in the Aurorean, Boston
Literary Magazine, Main Channel Voices and is forthcoming
in Journeys/ Eden Waters Press. She currently lives and writes
in the small southwestern town of Casco, Maine.
David
Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in England, and
spent several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in1978.
His newest published books reflect this concern for the natural
world. They are Waiting for the Quetzal, from March Street
Press, and The Porous Desert, from Future Cycle Press. He
recently had a poem included in the anthology, BIRDS, from
the British Museum, and won the Ronald Wardall Poetry Prize
for his chapbook The Lost River, from Rain Mountain Press.
Leonard
J. Cirino is the author of 16
chapbooks and 13 full-length collections of poems from numerous
presses since 1987. He lives in Springfield, Oregon, where
he does home care for his 94-year-old mother. His collection,
Ululations: Poems 2006, was published in 2008. His 104 page
collection, Omphalos: Poems 2007 has been selected by Cervena
Barva Press for 2009. Recent publications and acceptances
include America (NYC), Osiris, Blue Collar Review, Pemmican,
thepedestalmagazine.com, The Iconoclast, Barnwood, Grasslimb,
Poesia, and others.
William
Clunie is a writer living in Portland, Oregon.
Tony
Christini is the author of Political Fiction: Ganoga,
Homefront, YouthTopia and Other Works. He is the creator of
the websites Political Novel and Imaginative Literature and
Social Change. With Mike Palecek and Andre Vltchek, he is
the cofounder of Mainstay Press.
Philip
Dacey's most recent full-length book, his eighth, is
THE MYSTERY OF MAX SCHMITT: POEMS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF
THOMAS EAKINS (Turning Point, 2004). Two recent chapbooks
are THE ADVENTURES OF ALIXA DOOM AND OTHER LOVE POEMS (Snark,
2003) and MR. FIVE-BY-FIVE (Pudding House, 2005). He recently
moved from Minnesota, his base for 35 years, to Manhattan's
Upper West Side. His website is: www.philipdacey.com.
Lyle
Daggett's books of poems include If There Is A Song
and What Is Buried Here, both published Red Dragonfly
Press, and The Idea of Legacy, published by Musical
Comedy Editions. A new collection, The First Light Touches
Me, is forthcoming from Red Dragonfly Press, tentatively
due out in fall 2008. His poems, translations, essays and
book reviews have appeared in Blue Collar Review, Main Street
Rag, Free Verse, previously in Pemmican, and in other publications.
His blog is A Burning Patience, http://aburningpatience.blogspot.com.
He lives in Minneapolis.
Kristina
Marie Darling is a graduate of Washington University
in St. Louis, where she is currently pursuing a master's degree.
She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry and nonfiction.
Her criticism has appeared or will appear in New Letters,
The Mid-American Review, CutBank, The Warwick Review, Redactions,
and other journals. Recent awards include residencies from
the Centrum Foundation and the Mary Anderson Center for the
Arts.
Lena
Judith Drake is a 19-year-old writer and student at
Grand Valley State University. She is the editor of Breadcrumb
Scabs magazine (http://www.breadcrumbscabs.com).
Eric
Evans is a writer and musician from Buffalo, New York
with stops in Portland, Oregon and Rochester, New York where
he currently resides with his wife, Diane, and son, Henry.
His work has appeared in Artvoice, Blind Man's Rainbow, Posey,
Lucid Moon, Poetry Motel, Hazmat, Remark and many other publications
as well as a few anthologies. He has published six collections.
He has also published a broadside through Lucid Moon Press.
Larry
Gavin is the author of two books Necessities, published
in 2005 and Least Resistance published in 2007. Both books
from Red Dragon Fly press in Red Wing, Minnesota. His poems
have been published widely. Hes also editor of a postcard
haiku magazine called Tumbling Crane published on an irregular
basis. He is also is
a field editor for Midwest Fly Fishing Magazine where he writes
about environmental issues. He lives in Faribault, Minnesota.
Howard
Good, a journalism professor at the State University
of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks,
most recently Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks.
He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and
twice for the Best of the Net anthology.
Patricia
Goodwin grew up in an Italian-American neighborhood
outside of Boston. She was the first in her family to finish
high school and go on to college. She graduated cum laude
from Salem State College, Salem, MA where she earned a BA
in English Literature. In the early days of the natural foods
movement, she created and taught macrobiotic educational programs
for the East West Foundation, Brookline, MA (now the Kushi
Institute, Becket, MA). She has practiced the macrobiotic
discipline for 34 years. She also teaches brown rice cooking
classes to continue this work. As a publicity agent for artists
and independents, Patricia has her own public relations firm,
PGPR. She was Public Relations Coordinator for the Marblehead
Historical Society. She co-produced and promoted Women in
the Arts 2003, which raised funds for H.A.W.C. (Help for Abused
Women and Children). As a writer, Patricia has written many
articles of non-fiction, which have appeared in publications
such as The Boston Herald, The Record American (human interest
reporter and movie critic for two years), American Express
OnTime (business/travel fax newsletter, writer for two years),
AAA Horizons, The Marblehead Reporter and The North Shore
Sunday. She created her own independent imprint, Plum Press
and published three books of poetry: Marblehead Moon (Plum
Press, 1993), Java Love (Plum Press, 1997), and Atlantis (Plum
Press, 2006). Her historical novella, When Two Women Die was
published in the muse-apprentice-guild.com literary ezine.
"A Child's Christmas in Revere", a chapter from
her novel, Holy Days was published in the anthology, Under
Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America (Seal Press,
2004). She produced "American Race", a four-poet
event in conjunction with the publication of Under Her Skin.
She appeared in a PBS Forum, March 10, 2005 reading for Under
Her Skin filmed at The Center for New Words, Cambridge, MA.
Her poetry has been published in Marblehead Magazine, IndeArts,
muse-apprentice-guild.com, Runes, Gone Soft (now Soundings
East), and nthposition.com. She has more than ten years experience
reading and speaking in public. She is currently working on
another book of poetry, The Phenomenon of Day, and a novel,
Oxygen. Patricia lives with her husband and daughter in an
historic seacoast town in Massachusetts.
John
Grey's latest book is "What Else Is There"
from Main Street Rag. He has been published recently in Agni,
Worcester Review, South Carolina Review and The Pedestal.
Kenneth
P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM. His latest published
collection, Writers' Block, is available through amazon. To
learn more about Kenneth, visit www.kpgurney.me
Alba
Cruz-Hacker straddles borders as a Dominican-American.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, she was awarded the 2007 UCR Poet
Laureate and the 2007 Tomas Rivera Endowment Poetry Selection.
Her poetry collection No Honey for Wild Beasts is forthcoming
October 2008 from Plain View Press. Alba's creative and critical
work has been published throughout the Caribbean, Canada and
the United States, including Poetry Magazine (Senior Editor?s
Choice), The Caribbean Writer, Canadian Woman Studies, Spillway
Review, Pacific Review, Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and
Poetics from California, an anthology edited by Gary Young,
and the Hispanic volume of the American Encyclopedia of Ethnic
Literature, among others. She teaches creative writing at
the University of California Riverside.
Michael
Henson is the author of Ransack (a novel), A
Small Room with Trouble on My Mind (stories), and The
Tao of Longing (poems). HIs most recent work is Crow
Call, an extended elegy for the homeless activist Buddy
Gray. His column, "Hammered: Essays on Poverty and Addiction,"
appears monthly in StreetVibes, the newspaper of the Greater
Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless. He is a member of the
Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative.
Lisa
Hickey
is an author, poet and entrepreneur. She owns an advertising
agency, where she has written countless ads, commercials,
radio spots and brochures. She is also the author of two non-fiction
books on advertising's creative process. Her poems have been
published in Slipstream, Prose/Axe, Nerve Cowboy, Pemmican,
Curbside Review and Branches Quarterly. The walls of her house
are wallpapered with her favorite poems.
Juleigh
Howard-Hobson
has appeared in The Barefoot Muse, The Raintown Review, Contemporary
Rhyme, The Quarterly Journal of Food and Car Poems, Shit Creek
Review, Mezzo Cammin, The Hypertexts, Odin's Gift, Idunna,
Shatter Colors Literary Review, Appalling Limericks, Arabesques
Print Review, Workers Write, Flipside and HipMama Magazine.
Oritsegbemi
Emmanuel Jakpa lives in Ireland. His poetry has been
published in a number of online and print journals including
the African American Review, and an Irish-Canadian anthology.
He is a Yeats' Pierce Loughran Scholar.
Persis
M. Karim is a poet and teacher living in the San Francisco
Bay Area. Her poetry has been published in a number of online
and print journals. She teaches literature and creative writing
at San Jose State University. She finds solace (from a lot
of the ugliness in the world) by gardening and playing with
her son, Niko. She can be reached at http://www.persiskarim.com.
Hossein
Mostafavi Kashani is an Iranian poet and novelist.
His sister is the poet and painter, Soufi Mostafavi Kashani.
Scott
King grew up on a small farm in western Minnesota not
far from Fargo-Moorhead in Pelican Rapids near Maplewood State
Park. After a substantial education in chemical engineering
and environmental engineering he turned to poetry. He has
also studied Spanish and continues to study Modern Greek,
translating work by Jorge Carrera Andrade, Pablo Neruda, Yannis
Ritsos, and Persian poet Fereydoun Faryad. Daily postings
of his Ritsos translations can be viewed at yannisritsos.blogspot.com
He is the author of Leftover Ordinary (Thistlewords
Press, 2006), A Ring of Runes (Thistlewords Press,
2006), and Where The Water Falls (Verna Press, 2008)
a letterpress-printed chapbook of seven largely alliterative
poems.
He is also the founder, editor, and printer of Red Dragonfly
Press, a small press that publishes modern poetry and poetry
in translation as limited-edition, letterpress-printed chapbooks
as well as trade paper editions.
Cleo
Fellers Kocol has been writing and publishing prose
for years. Although she didn't start writing poetry until
the age of 74, six years later she is proud to be among those
keeping the writing soup stirred. She has been published in
a variety of journals, including Mobius, Querqus Review, Poetry
Depth Quarterly, Song of the San Joaquin, Blue Collar Review
and California Quarterly. She was Grand Prize Winner of the
Artists' Embassy International Contest in 2003 and first place
winner in 2006. Her poetry was choreographed to music and
danced at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
in 2003.
Frank
Krasnowsky was editor of the quarterly "Revolutionary
Age" and a political commentator, producer and performer
on KRAB-FM in Seattle for 20 years. He is active in the movement
for the revival and maintenance of the Yiddish language and
culture, and has supported the demand for Palestinian justice
for over thirty years. As vocalist with the duo "Chutzpah",
Krasnowsky has sung, translated and recorded over l50 Yiddish
and Ladino songs. He is in the process of printing his translations
which have been used by Yiddish choruses and formed the basis
for two Jewish theatrical productions in the Seattle area.
His essay "The Drafting of Karl Helper" was an award
winner for the west coast literary journal, "The Peralta
Press."
Vanessa
Marfin is the daughter of Tony and Maggie, sister of
Colby and Jamie, and mother of Amal and Joaquin. She is cousin
to coyote, crow, and dolphin, and champion of earthworm. She
lives in Seattle, Washington where she works hard to never
waste a single moment. She has never been published before.
Hilton
Mashonga lives in Cape Town with his wife, Shelley
and adopted dog, Lacey. He is an advertising copywriter, poet
and novelist. Five of his poems were published in the Buchu
Books Anthology in 1993. He has performed his works in Cape
Town, Johannesburg and at Open Mic Night at American Book
Center Treehouse in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wayne
Mason is a writer from central Florida. He has authored
four chapbooks and has been published throughout the small
press in journals both in print and online.
Shayla
Mollohan's poetry has been published in numerous publicationson-line
at Amaze: A Cinquain Journal, ken*again, and The Rose &
Thorn; in print in Poem, Slipstream, Whiskey Island, and Sun
Dog. Her work is included in a new international women's anthology,
Letters to the World (Red Hen Press) and Whatever Remembers
Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry (Negative Capability Press).
George
Moore's poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,
Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Orion, Meridian,
Chelsea, Nimrod, and he has three times been nominee for a
Pushcart Prize. He was a finalist for the Richard Snyder Memorial
Prize from Ashland Poetry Press in 2007, and earlier for The
National Poetry Series, The Brittingham Poetry Award, and
The Anhinga Poetry Prize. His most recent poetry collections
are Headhunting (Edwin Mellen, 2002), a travelogue
of ancient ritual practices of love and possession, and All
Night Card Game in the Back Room of Time (Poetschapbooks.com,
2008), an e-Book exploring quantum theory as a metaphor for
life's paradoxes. He teaches at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. His international projects include a collaboration
with the Scandinavian textile artist, Hrafnhildur Sigurðardóttir,
to be shown in the coming year in Skagaströnd, Iceland.
Shea
Donovan Mullaney is currently living in Boston while
pursuing his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts,
Boston. His first full-length collection of poems, Follow
the Wolf Moon, appeared in January 2005. His poems have appeared
and/or will appear in The New York Review, Soundings East,
and Hoi Polloi. He is a regular contributor to Pemmican.
His poetry has been featured several times as part of the
Unitarian Universalist Association's celebration of marriage
equality in Massachusetts. Other work has been featured on
WOMR 92.1 FM, Radio Provincetown and WERS 88.9 FM, Boston.
His first spoken word album, Silent Trumpeter, is available
from Brave Records at www.Braverecords.com.
Mullaney lives on his family's horse farm near Cape Cod.
Rich
Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and received
his undergraduate degree and his graduate degree in creative
writing from Boston University. He has taught writing and
literature at Bradford and Emmanuel Colleges. His credits
include a book of poems The Apple in the Monkey Tree
by Codhill Press; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding
House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line
Press, and Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press; and
essays in Fulcrum, The International Journal of the Humanities,
Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning,
Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature
and Culture, Fringe, and Big Toe Review. He now teaches
writing at VCU and lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where
he is collaborating with a video artist in a project on the
creative process.
Kristine
Ong Muslim has more than three hundred stories and
poems published/forthcoming in mostly genre professional and
small press magazines and anthologies. Her mainstream poems
have been published or will appear in Adbusters, Bleeding
Quill, FireWeed,
Free Verse, Jones Av, Megaera, The Pedestal Magazine, T-Zero:
The Writer's Ezine, and elsewhere.
Christina
Pacosz most recent book is Greatest Hits, 1975
2001, Pudding House, 2002. Her chapbook, Notes from
the Red Zone, originally published in 1983 by Seal Press has
been selected by Ron Mohring of Seven Kitchens Press, as the
inaugural chapbook to be reprinted in his ReBound Series.
It will be available autumn, 2009. Born and raised in Detroit,
she has lived in New York City, the Pacific Northwest, North
Dakota, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Alaska. She has been
a poet-in-the-schools and a North Carolina Visiting Artist.
For a dozen years Christina has been living in Kansas City
with her husband and teaching at-risk youth both sides of
the Kansas-Missouri state line for most of that time.
Mark
Pawlak grew up in Buffalo, New York, and has lived
in the Boston area for almost forty years. He has taught writing,
science and mathematics at various levels and is presently
Director of Academic Support Programs at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston, where he teaches mathematics. Pawlak's
original poems, and his translations from the German of Bertolt
Brecht and others, have appeared widely in magazines, journals,
and anthologies. SPECIAL HANDLING: Newspaper Poems New and
Selected is the latest of his four poetry collections. He
has received awards from the Massachusetts Artist Fellowship
Program and from the Fund for Poetry. He is co-editor of Hanging
Loose Press based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1966,
Hanging Loose is arguably the oldest, continuously running,
independent, literary magazine and press in the country. Hanging
Loose counts among its stable of notable poets Sherman Alexie,
Ha Jin, Jayne Cortez, and Hettie Jones. Last year Pawlak edited
Shooting the Rat: Outstanding Poems and Stories by High School
Writers, the third in a series of his anthologies drawn from
the celebrated high school section of Hanging Loose magazine.
Shooting the Rat is a collection of extraordinary poems and
stories by 93 of the nation's most outstanding high school
writers and it was recently name a 2003 top young adult non-fiction
title by both VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) and by the Association
of Pennsylvania School Librarians. All the work first appeared
in the special high school section of Hanging Loose magazine,
the standard for cutting-edge work by teenage writers since
1968. Pawlak has given hundreds of readings and performances
of his work locally, across the nation, and overseas.
Simon
Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in
Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Rafts (Parsifal
Editions) is his most recent collection. Family of Man (Pavement
Saw Press) is scheduled for Fall 2009. For more information,
including his essay Magic, Illusion and Other Realities
and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet.
David
Pointer is a frequent contributor to Pemmican. We're
pretty sure we owe him a 1947 Studebaker pickup truck.
Verandah
Porche works as a poet in residence and writing partner
in a variety of settings, schools, hospitals, nursing homes,factories,
literacy and art centers around New England. Her two published
books are The Bodys Symmetry (Harper and Row) and Glancing
Off (See Through Books). Feminist Studies published On
N-V. Two of her poems were included in Contemporary
Poetry of New England, ed. Robert Pack and Jay Parini. She
worked for a year in a rural industrial town for Artists and
Communities: America Creates for the Millennium. The Vermont
Arts Council has given her a grant and an award honoring her
contribution to the states cultural life.
Ren
Powell is the author of two books of poetry (bilingual
editions: Fairy Tales and Soil, 1999; mixed states,
2004. Wigestrand Press) and ten books of translations. Thanks
for the Cornflakes, her third collection, is forthcoming
in 2009. Her poetry has been translated and published in several
languages, and has appeared in journals such as International
PEN's Magazine, Segue, Beacons, and Ice Flow. She is the founding
editor of Babel Fruit: Writing Under the Influence.
Doren
Robbins has published poetry in over seventy literary
journals, including The American Poetry Review, North Dakota
Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, International
Poetry, Hawaii Review, Paterson Literary Review, Sulfur, New
Letters, 5 AM, Exquisite Corpse, Willow Springs, Bombay Gin
and Hayden's Ferry Review. Essays and book reviews have appeared
in Sagetreib, Contact II, Onthebus, and The Daily Iowan. From
1975-82, he was co-editor for the Los Angeles-based journal
Third Rail. In 1994 he served as a contributing editor to
the Japanese-based literary journal Electric Rexroth. Robbins
has received a state fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts,
as well as prizes, grants, and awards from The Indiana Review,
River Styx, Literal Latte, Passaic Poetry Center, the Loft
Foundation, The Centrum Residency Program, The Judah Magnes
Museum (first prize for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Jewish
Poetry Award), The Chester H. Jones Foundation (commendation
prizes in '93, '96 and '97), The Lane Literary Guild (first
prize), The Seattle Arts Commission and, as an editor, from
the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and The California
Arts Council. His four previous collections are Driving Face
Down, winner of The Blue Lynx Prize, Lynx House Press, 2001;
The Donkey's Tale (Red Wind Press, 1998); Sympathetic Manifesto
(Perivale Press, 1987); and The Roots and the Towers (Third
Rail Press, 1980). His chapbooks are Dignity in Naples and
North Hollywood, introduction by Philip Levine (Pennywhistle
Press, 1996), Under the Black Moth's Wings (Ameroot, 1987);
Seduction of the Groom (Loom press, 1982). In 2006, Eastern
Washington University Press will publish a new book of poems,
My Piece of the Puzzle. A mixed media artist as well as a
writer, two of his works are currently on exhibit at the Crossing
Boundaries: Visual Art by Writers exhibit, held at the Paterson
Museum in New Jersey. Currently, he teaches creative writing
and literature at Foothill College where he is director of
the Foothill Writers' Conference.Currently, he is Professor
of Creative Writing/Literature at Foothill College, where
he is coordinator for The Foothill Writers' Conference.
Edward
Schelb's Dogbelly poems explore the psyche of a rhythm
guitarist for a Texas swing band. He grew up in a working
class family in Oklahoma, and his poems explore the sensibility
and the language of Tulsa and the surrounding areas. He has
published a number of critical essays on contemporary poetry,
including recent essays on Robert Kelly and John Yau, as well
as many poems. Currently he lives and works in Rochester,
New York.
Thomas
R. Smith is a writer and teacher living in western
Wisconsin. He is a Master Track instructor at the Loft Literary
Center in Minneapolis. His most recent poetry collections
are WAKING BEFORE DAWN (Red Dragonfly Press) and KINNICKINNIC
(Parallel Press). He now has a web site at www.ThomasRSmithpoet.com.
Theresa
Swanson works as a legal secretary in Omaha, Nebraska.
Having raised her three children, she is pursuing a master's
degree in writing and English at the University of Nebraska
at Omaha. She lives, proudly, in the same working class neighborhood
in South Omaha where she grew up.
Tobin
F. Terry, 25, grew up around smokestacks and farmland
near Warren, OH. He currently resides in Akron, OH, where
he is in his final year of the NEOMFA program.
Rob
Whitbeck is
a farmer and timber thinner living in eastern Oregon. A full-length
collection, Oregon Sojourn, is available from Pygmy
Forest Press. A second collection, The Taproot Confessions,
also from Pygmy Forest Press, was released in the summer of
2003.
Larina
Warnock works for a nonprofit organization in Corvallis,
Oregon. In her spare time, she volunteers for a variety of
social and literary organizations and edits The Externalist,
an online literary journal focused on significant social issues.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Oregonian,
Eight Octaves Review, Hanging Moss Journal, Space & Time
Magazine, among others. Her essay, 'You Are Here: Activism
from the Edge of the World' will appear later this year in
an anthology of work by presenters at PRESS: a cross-cultural
literary conference, where she presented on disability rights
in literature.
Joanna
M. Weston M.A. has had poetry, reviews, and short stories
published in anthologies and journals for twenty years. Has
two middle-readers, The Willow Tree Girl and Those
Blue Shoes;
also A Summer Father, poetry, published by Frontenac
House of Calgary, all in print.
William
Witherup has poems in two recent anthologies, Eating
the Pure Light, and Seeds of Fire. He has another
poem, "Death of Newspapers" and a book review forthcoming
in the spring issue of the Secular Humanist Press.
Marilyn
Zuckerman
has published four books of poetry: Personal Effects
(Alice James Books, Cambridge, 1976), Monday Morning Movie
(Street Editions, N.Y, 1981), Poems of the Sixth Decade
(Garden Street Press, 1993), and from Cedar Hill Publications,
Amerika/America, 2002, as well as a chapbook from The
Greatest Hits series, Pudding House Publications, 2001.
Her many poem publications include magazines such as New
York Quarterly, The Little Magazine, Nimrod, Pig Iron, Mystic
River Review and Pemmican (last two online) She
has also received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and an Allen
Ginsberg Poetry Award.
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