2008Contributors

Contributors

William Aarnes lives in Clemson, SC, and teaches at Furman University. His two poetry collections of poetry are Learning to Dance and Predicaments.

Anne Abad, an Ateneo de Manila University student, works as an on-line editor for Korean English students. Her “Report on Philippine Poetry” is her first publication.

Robert Abbate teaches English composition and philosophy at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Concord, NC. His full-length poetry manuscript has nearly earned several prestigious national awards.

Lavonne J Adams, teaching at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, has published two chapbooks of poems. Her recent work has appeared in Briar Cliff Review and Missouri Review.

Kristine Rae Anderson teaches English at Riverside Community College. A recipient of Tomales Bay and Fishtrap fellowships, her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies.

Anonymous stole this Amherst anecdote from a New England poet and raconteur. Based on all objective reports, it was much funnier when originally told.

Lea Assenmacher lives with her family and assorted pets in Rochester, MN. She prefers her oyseters fried with a dollop of cocktail sauce.

FJ Bergmann lives in Wisconsin and boasts no claim of literary academic qualifica- tions. Even so, her poems have appeared in Cannibal and nth position.

Philip Brady, author of three books of poetry and a memoir, teaches at Youngstown State University, where he directs the Poetry Center and Etruscan Press.

Patricia Budd, having retired to Maine, went back to school, got her MFA at Stone- coast, and recently started revising and submitting. “Countermeasures” is her second published poem.

Billy Collins served as US Poet Laureate from 2001-2003. His most recent collection is The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems.

Robert W Crawford’s poems have appeared in First Things, Dark Horse, Measure and The Formalist, which selected his work for the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award.

Tom Daley teaches at the Online School of Poetry and the Boston Center for Adult Education. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner and Harvard Review.

Kerre Davison, with an MA from Northwest Missouri State, lives and writes in Kansas City, where she bakes and reads for fun. “Perennials” is her first published poem.

Stephan Delbos, a New England-born poet living in Prague, is the managing editor of The Prague Review. His work appears in Bordercrossing Berlin and Prague Tales.

Erich Erving, a poet and printmaker, is a graduate of Columbia University. His poetry has appeared in Flash!Point and Rambunctious Review. He lives in New York City.

Kate Evans spent time living in Seattle and Japan before settling in San Jose, where she now teaches creative writing. Her books include Like All We Love.

John Findura, a New School MFA, has poetry and criticism appearing in Mid-American Review, Verse, and Fugue. He lives and teaches in Northern New Jersey.

Michael Fisher, a recent newlywed, was born, raised, and still resides in Massachu- setts. He hold an MFA from New England College.

Lanette Fisher-Hertz is a former teacher, journalist, and not-for-profit executive currently selling real estate in New York’s Hudson Valley. “Econolodge Vacation” is her first published poem.

Jennifer Foerster is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Okalahoma and lives in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and Atlantis Women’s Studies Journal.

Jeff Friedman teaches poetry in southern New Hampshire, at both Keene State and New England College. His newest collection of poetry is Black Threads.

Laverne Frith’s award-winning poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including California Quarterly, Permafrost, Kimera, and The Peralta Press. He co-edits Ekphrasis from Sacramento, CA.

Regie O’Hare Gibson, a Cave Canem member, has read, taught and lectured at uni- versities and other institutions. His poetry has appeared in Poetry and The Iowa Review.

Midge Goldberg’s first book is Flume Ride (2006). Her poems have recently appeared in Measure, First Things, and Rhyming Poems. She lives in Derry, NH, with her family.

Miguel Gonzalez lives and writes in southeast Arizona. His chapbooks include Bisbee Starscape and Woman Walking Barking Dog.

Kate Emily Harris is a working writer living in New Haven, CT. She has her MFA in Poetry and has previously published in Thema and Alehouse.

Maggie Hess writes poetry, fiction and essays from Bristol, TN. A full-time volunteer and activist, she cries when mountaintops are removed for coal.

Margaret J Hoehn has published four chapbooks and one full poetry collection, The Trajectory of Sunflowers. Her work has appeared in Margie, Nimrod, and The Peralta Press.

John Hoppenthaler’s poetry collections are Lives of Water and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. He teaches at East Carolina University.

Lynna Prue Howard is a founding member of Great Rift Writers. Her many published poems have appeared within her travel essays. Her travel books include Utah’s Wilder- ness Areas: The Complete Guide.

Tim Hunt was raised in small towns north of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Epoch, Ironweed, Montana Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review.

Christina Hutchins is completing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies. Recent poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review.

Alice Jay’s work is forthcoming in Paterson Literary Review and The New Renaissance. Her chapbook Watermelon Moon was published by Pudding House Press.

Courtney Jo is a Wisconsin poet who teaches photojournalism in the summer. She is currently working on a collection of poetry.

Ingrid Keriotis loves all of nature, wild and urban, from the Sierra to the backyard. She teaches English in Modesto, CA, where she lives with her daughter and Pooch.

Kristin Kuczenski is obsessed with etymology and loves foreign languages, especially Spanish and Norwegian. She also enjoys listening to writers read their work aloud.

Issa M Lewis teaches English at Davenport University. Her recent poetry has appeared in Switched-On Gutenberg. She lives with her husband in Portage, MI.

Daniel Lusk’s books include Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems. His poems have appeared in Poetry and The Iowa Review. He teaches at the University of Vermont.

Amy Miller, winner of the Whiskey Island Poetry Prize and the Kay Snow Award, works as a trivia-book editor in Ashland, OR. Her chapbooks include The Stablehand’s Report.

Derek Mong was the 2006-2007 Jay C and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. His new work appears in Pleiades, TriQuarterly, and The Kenyon Review.

Berwyn Moore’s poem “After the Light” won the 2007 Magliocco Poetry Prize from the Bellevue Literary Review. She teaches at Gannon University in Erie, PA.

Mimi Moriarty lives on an escarpment overlooking Albany, NY, where she teaches creative writing to adults and teens. Her chapbook War Psalm was published last year.

Francie Noyes is a poet and writer in Phoenix, AZ. Formerly a political reporter and film critic, her poetry appears in The Anthology of New England Writers.

Korkut Onaran, originally from Turkey, practices architecture and teaches at the University of Colorado. His prize-winning poetry has appeared in many journals.

Candace Pearson grew up in the “other” California—farm country. She now lives in Los Angeles and has been published in many fine venues.

Inès Pujos, originally from Lyon, France, is a high school student in Northern Mich- igan. Her writing has been published in Dunes Review and The Bitter Oleander Press.

Jim Quixote bangs nails, paints boards, works in a group home, teaches in a community college, charges windmills, and leaps tall buildings—all in Goshen, CT.

Andrea Reed is, and always has been, a poet. Intermittently, she enjoys traveling and purchasing large pieces of furniture. “Tail” is her first published poem.

Ziggy Rendler-Bregman lives in Santa Cruz, CA, where she and her husband raised three kids. Her poem “The Mangoes are Ripe” appeared in the Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets.

Jay Rubin teaches writing at the College of Alameda, across the bay from San Francis- co, where he lives with his wife and son.

Susan Shaw Sailer’s work has appeared in Poetry International, Wild Sweet Notes II, and Appalachian Heritage. New poems will appear in Kestral, Pearl, and Cascade.

Stephanie Sauer, a Northern-California native, was recipient of the 2006 Sundance Bookstore Poetry Scholarship. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Michael A Sickler is a professor of Art & Art History at Syracuse University. An associate editor of The Comstock Review, his own work has been widely published.

Gregory K Shipman, though born and raised in Baltimore, MD, now lives in Anchorage, AK, where he works as an engineer. “Corner Boy” is his first published poem.

Tim Skeen, an MFA faculty member at Cal State Fresno, won the 2001 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry for his book Kentucky Swami. Past poems have appeared in Rattle and Southern Review.

Cheryl Slobod teaches composition at Cal State Northridge and literature at Santa Monica College. Her poems have appeared in The Peralta Press.

Paul Sohar’s work has appeared in Rattle, The Kenyon Review, and other publications. His seven books of translations include Dancing Embers, the collected poems of Sándor Kányádi.

Matthew J Spireng’s book Out of Body won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award. His chapbooks include Young Farmer, Encounters, and Inspiration Point.

Jeff Streeby grew up in Sioux City, IA. A former amateur bull-rider, he’s worked as a cowboy and race-horse trainer. He teaches high-school English in Southern California.

LJ Sysko is a part-time medical writer living in Delaware with her husband and their two children. “Pregnancy, Week 14” is her first published poem.

Marianne Taylor is a recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Award. Her manuscript, Salt Water, Iowa, has been a finalist for many national awards, including the John Ciardi Prize.

Toni Van Deusen’s poems have appeared in Margie and West Wind Review. Living in Eugene, OR, she’s a member of the Lane Literary Guild’s Red Sofa Poets.

Wendy Videlock eats, breathes, comes, goes, and writes poems in Grand Junction, CO.

Julie Marie Wade has received the Chicago Literary Award in Poetry, the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize, and other honors. “Rosary” is for Angie, with love.

Michael Waters teaches at Salisbury University and New England College. His recent books include Darling Vulgarity and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems.

Charles Harper Webb’s award-winning poetry collections include Liver and Amplified Dog. won Saltman Prize for Poetry. He directs the Creative Writing Program at Cal State Long Beach.

Tana Jean Welch was born and raised in Fresno, CA, and is currently working toward a PhD in Literature at Florida State University.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, a Liberian civil-war survivor, is author of The River is Rising, Becoming Ebony and Palm Could Bloom. She teaches Creative writing at Penn State Altoona.

Harrison Wilkes, a recent graduate from the University of Redlands, wants to thank his mom for thinking he’s cool. He now lives in Alameda, CA.

ML Williams has published in many journals and anthologies. He currently teaches creative writing at Valdosta State University in Georgia.

Irene Willis’ poetry collections include They Tell Me You Danced and At the Fortune Café, the latter awarded the 2005 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize.

Joel Clifton Yaney recently received his MFA and is seeking full-time employment as a poet in Michigan. His poetry has appeared in Blind Man's Rainbow and Creative Juices.