Contributors
Jeffrey C Alfier lives in Schwedelbach, Germany. His writing has appeared in num-erous journals; and his poetry chapbook, Strangers Within the Gate, 2005, is available through Moon Publishing.
Robert Allen, Jr’s first published poem, “To The Highest Power,” was written for an AA meeting. He lives and writes in Wisconsin.
JP Anderson’s essays have appeared in Backpacker and The James Dickey Newsletter. His poetry will soon appear in Pearl and Red Owl. He currently lives in New Hampshire.
Matthew James Babcock, born San Francisco but raised in Idaho, is a PhD candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and teaches writing at BYU-Idaho. His writing has been widely published.
Jota Boombaba lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry has recently appeared in Natural Bridge, The Mochilla Review, and Reed.
Albert Capovilla, a retired high-school and college teacher, lives in northern California. He began writing poetry only two years ago. “City Ode” is his first published poem.
Carli Carrara, a retired teacher from Rhode Island College, has published dozens of poems in journals and anthologies. When not writing, she enjoys tai chi and kayaking.
Susan Cohen is a journalist in Berkeley, CA. Her first chapbook, Backstroking (Unfinished Monument Press, 2005), won the Acorn-Rukeyser Award. Her poems have been widely published.
MR Cohn, a closet poet since age six, has raised two kids and a small San Francisco consulting firm. “Art on BART” is her first published poem.
Billy Collins served as US Poet Laureate from 2001-2003. His most recent collection is The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Random House, 2005).
JP Dancing Bear’s books are Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004) and Conflicted Light(Salmon Poetry, 2007). He hosts “Out of Our Minds,” a weekly public-radio program.
Stephan Delbos, now living in Prague, is currently compiling a collection of trans-lations from Czech. His own poetry has recently appeared in The Los Angeles Journal.
Carol Dine received the Frances Locke Memorial Award for a poem based on the art of Van Gogh. She teaches at Suffolk University and lives in Boston.
Jeannine Dobbs’ writing has been recently accepted in The Comstock Review, Free Lunch, Margie, The Southern Poetry Review, Quercus, and many others.
Edward A Dougherty was poetry editor of Mid-American Review before serving as a peace volunteer in Hiroshima. His Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree will be published in 2008.
Stephen Dunn is the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently Everything Else in the World (Norton, 2006). His Different Hours was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Eastwood retired from business in 1990, then taught high school and began writing poetry. A Pushcart nominee, his two chapbooks are available through Small Poetry Press.
Lynnell Edwards reviews books for Pleiades and The Georgia Review. Her poetry collections, The Farmer’s Daughter (2003) and The Highwayman’s Wife (2007), are available through Red Hen Press.
Barbara Elovic is a founding editor of Heliotrope, a New York-based poetry journal. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Marlboro Review, Threepenny Reivew, and recently in To Genesis.
Dave Engeldrum, winner of Inkwell’s Fiction Prize, teaches at Suffolk Community College. Widely published, he’s been a journalist, copywriter, book editor, ESL instructor, and chef.
Gail Rudd Entrekin teaches at Sierra College in Grass Valley, CA. Her latest poetry collection Change (Will Do You Good) was published in 2005 by Poetic Matrix Press.
Leah Epstein, a College of Alameda student, lives in Oakland, CA. “Morning” is her first published poem.
Erich Erving is a poet and printmaker. His poems have appeared in Flash! Point, Rambunctious Review, and Earth Beneath, Sky Beyond. One print recently appeared in Quarto.
Karin Evans is a journalist and MFA candidate from Berkeley, CA. Her book, The Lost Daughters of China (Penguin Putnam 2000), chronicles the adoption of her daughter.
RG Evans, a Pushcart Prize nominee, has appeared in The Literary Review, Comstock Review, and Margie, among others. He teaches and writes in southern New Jersey.
Howie Faerstein, a Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize finalist, has published poetry in Nimrod, Cutthroat, and Mudfish. He teaches literature at Westfield State College in Western Massachusetts.
Catherine Fraga teaches writing at Sacramento State University. Her recent collection, Running Away with Gary the Mattress Salesman, was published by Poet’s Corner Press.
Ross Gay, author of Against Which (CavanKerry 2006), is a Cave Canem fellow and a faculty member at both Montclair State University and New England College.
Elton Glaser edits the Akron Poetry Series in Poetry. He has published six full-length collections of his own poems, most recently Here and Hereafter (Arkansas, 2005).
Alisa Gordaneer is an award-winning Canadian poet and journalist who lives and writes on an urban homestead in Victoria, British Columbia.
Leo Haber is editor of Midstream, a bi-monthly American/Jewish journal. His first novel, The Red Heifer (Syracuse, 2001), is now available in paperback. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Steve Halle is a poet, teacher, football coach, and editor of Seven Corners, a blog for “innovative” Chicago-area poets. His own poems have appeared in various journals.
Kate Emily Harris is currently a student earning her MFA, as well as a working writer in New Haven, CT. Her work has been previously published in Thema.
Joseph Hart is a playwright and teacher at the Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University. He has recently returned to poetry after a long hiatus.
Rebecca L Hilliker, a senior editor for Abbeywood Press, lives and writes in Boston, MA. She has recently been published in English Journal and Chaffin Journal.
Margaret J Hoehn is the author of four chapbooks and a book, The Trajectory of Sunflowers (Backwaters Press). Her work has appeared in Margie, Nimrod, and The Peralta Press.
Glenna Holloway, winner of a 2001 Pushcart Prize, has appeared in North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Formalist, The Georgia Review, and The Saturday Evening Post.
Janis Butler Holm of Athens, OH, former editor for Wide Angle, is now working on a series of “plagiarisms,” poems made of words and phrases from other texts.
David Harrison Horton is the author of Pete Hoffman Days (Pinball, 2003). He currently lives and writes in Oakland, CA.
Kake Huck is Chair of Fine Arts & Communication, Central Oregon Community College, where she’s taught creative writing. Her poetry, published widely, won the 2K3 Peralta Press Poetry Award.
Alice Jay, a three-time Pushcart nominee, has poems forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review and The Berkshire Review. Her chapbook, Watermelon Moon, was honored by Longleaf Press.
Allison Joseph lives and writes in Carbondale, IL, where she teaches at Southern Illinois Universtiy. Her books include In Every Seam (Pittsburgh, 1997) and Imitation of Life (Carnegie-Mellon, 2003).
David Kaplan is the author of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown and Five Approaches to Acting. As a theater director, he has staged numerous plays around the world.
Rich Kenney, publicist for the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, is recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Susan Kenyon grew up in China, where her parents were journalists, and now lives in Oregon, where she writes poety and paints in watercolors.
Miriam N Kotzin, a contributing editor of Boulevard, teaches both literature and creative writing at Drexel University, where she directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing.
Andrew Kozma, a PhD candidate at the University of Houston, is a non-fiction editor for Gulf Coast. His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2005.
Maxine Kumin won the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country (Harper & Row 1972). Her most recent collection is Jack and Other New Poems (Norton, 2005). She and her husband live on a farm in New Hampshire.
Joyce E Latham, winner of several national poetry contests, has been published in the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, The Federal Poet, and My Mama Always Said.
Laura LeHew, an award-winning poet, has appeared in Denali, Tiger’s Eye, Pearl, The San Francisco Reader and The Peralta Press. She lives in Eugene, OR.
Gary Leising, assistant professor of English at Utica College, has published essays and reviews in Chicago Review and Pleiades, and poetry in River Styx and Margie.
Frederick Lord is Assisant Dean of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University. His poetry collection, What I Made Instead of a Life, was published in 1996.
Julianna McCarthy lives above the snow line in Southern California’s Los Padres National Forest. Her work has recently appeared in The Antioch Review and 51%.
Paula McLain’s second collection of poetry is Stumble, Gorgeous (New Issues, 2005). A core faculty member with New England College’s MFA program in poetry, she lives in Ohio.
Robin Metz, Director of Creative Writing at Knox College, received the Rilke International Poetry Prize for his book Unbidden Angel. His work has been widely published.
Jace Miller lives and writes near San Diego, CA. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Bathtub Gin, Oberon, The Iconoclast, and Iota Poetry Quarterly.
Mimi Moriarty is the producer/host of Write Stuff, a cable-access TV program in the Albany, NY, area. Widely published, she teaches creative writing to adults and teens.
Greg Nicholl is web manager for The Cortland Review and co-director of the Rocky Mountain Writers’ Festival. His poems have appeared in Natural Bridge, Runes, and Rattapallax.
David O Offutt works in a lumberyard. His two collections of poetry, A Perishable Good (1998) and The Byzantine Virgin (2001), are both published by Inflammable Press.
Patricia O’Hara is Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College. Her essays and poems have appeared in The Southwest Review, Harpur’s Palate, Newsweek, and others.
Mwatabu S Okantah, a musician and motivational speaker, is also an Assistant Professor and Poet in Residence in the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University.
Lisa Ortiz has published poems in Literary Mama, The Comstock Review, and Zyzzyva. She lives in La Honda, CA.
Alicia Ostriker, twice a National-Book-Award finalist, has published eleven books of poetry, most recently No Heaven (Pittsburgh, 2005) and The Volcano Sequence (Pitts-burgh, 2002).
Ellen Peckham’s poems have appeared in Rattapallax, Visions, The Literary Review and The Amhert Review. Her revision process of one poem will be documented in Poem: Revised.
Jay Rubin teaches writing at the College of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son.
Maureen A Sherbondy’s poetry has appeared in Feminist Studies, Calyx, 13th Moon, and many other national journals. She lives in Raleigh, NC, with her husband and three sons.
Floyd Skloot’s fifth poetry collection, The End of Dreams, was published by LSU Press in 2006. A poem from Approximately Paradise (Tupelo Press, 2005), won a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
Paul Sohar has been comissioned to translate several volumes of poetry and prose. His own collection, Homing Poems, was published by Iniquity Press in 2005.
Michael Steffen, a 2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellow, has published poetry in Poetry. His first book, No Good at Sea, was published in 2002.
Jeanine Stevens has published two chapbooks, The Keeping Room (Rattlesnake Press, 2006) and Boundary Waters (Indian Heritage Council, 2005). Born in Indiana, she now lives in Northern California.
Matthew Ulland, of NYC, has published poetry in numerous literary journals. His chapbook, The Sound in the Corn, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005.
Audrey VanDenberg, a graduate of Antelope Valley College, lives in Lancaster, CA. Her poems have previously appeared in The Crunge #6, Zaum, and The Peralta Press.
Jeff Walt, of Tacoma, WA, was selected as one of fifty semi-finalists in the 2006 “Discovery”/The Nation contest. His poems have appeared in Runes and Poetry International.
Michael Waters teaches at Salisbury University and New England College. His recent books include Darling Vulgarity (2006) and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001), both from BOA Editions.
Irene Willis’ collections are They Tell Me You Danced (Florida, 1995) and At the Fortune Café, Snake Nation Press’ Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize for 2005.
Zayra Yves is a spoken-word artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is published in The Zimbabwe Situation, The Panhandler Quarterly, and Voices for Africa.
