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CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 18, FALL 2007) Andrea Bates’ poetry has appeared in Colere, The Asheville Poetry Review, The Comstock Review, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2006 Joy Harjo Poetry Award sponsored by Cutthroat magazine. Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) considered his famed Les Fleur du Mal sinister, beautiful, composed in a fury, and deserving the derision of its critics; he was tried for obscenity, yet also considered a modern Dante. His translations of Poe in 1855 helped to create the Decadent and Symbolist movements. Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, four books of stories, and several critical books, most recently, Beyond Plot (Graywolf Press). His novel, The Feast of Love, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota. Celia Bland teaches at Bard College. She has articles about poetry upcoming in The Boston Review and the Valparaiso Review, and recently published poetry in Defeffable Review. Barbara Siegel Carlson’s poetry has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poetry East, Ashville Poetry Review, and Artisan, among others. Recent translations have appeared in Hunger Mountain, The Literary Review, Poetry Miscellany, and International Poetry Review. Debbie Danielpour Chapel’s work has appeared in AGNI, Salamander, Women’s Words, The Anthology of New England Writers, and elsewhere. She recently completed her first novel, Fugitive Colors, and sixth motion picture screenplay, Between a Rock and a Romance. Amy M. Clark is a graduate of Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing program. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poet Lore, 32 Poems, and the Cincinnati Review. David Clewell is the author of seven collections of poetry and two book length poems. He teaches literature and writing at Webster University. The excerpts published in this issue are part of his book length poem-in-progress. Ron Collings lives in Milwaukee, WI and is married with five children and six grandchildren. He’s worked in a battery plant for the last thirty-four years. Grace Danborn’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Weber Studies, and Blue Earth Review, among others. She recently received The Florida Review’s 2007 Editors’ Award for poetry. Amy S. Debrecht’s work has appeared in Sou’wester, Poet Lore, and Flint Hills Review. She received her MFA form the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and she serves as a poetry editor and summer reading series coordinator for River Styx. Matt Dennison’s poem, “Scrofula,” appeared in Natural Bridge no. 12. He placed third in the Southern Literary Festival for fiction and won the National Sigma Tau Delta essay competition (judged by X. J. Kennedy). Dale Denny was born and raised in Missouri, receiving his M.A. from the University of Missouri–Columbia and his MFA from the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where he was Director of the Writing Lab from 1995 until his retirement due to illness in 2002. He was accomplished as a poet and a story writer, though his work, while appearing in Delmar, Litmag, and a few other journals, remained largely unpublished at the time of his death in 2006. Barbara Duffey is a Ph. D student in poetry at the University of Utah. Her poems have appeared in Barrelhouse, Blue Mesa Review, Epicenter, Faultline, and the Indiana Review and are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner. Denise Duhamel’s most recent book Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005) is winner of Binghamton University’s Milt Kessler Book Award. She is an associate professor of English at Florida International University in Miami. John Estes has poems published in Circumference, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, and Literary Imagination. A chapbook, Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön, is due this fall from Finishing Line Press. Kerri M. French’s poems have appeared in Agenda, Brooklyn Review, Fugue, FOURSQUARE, and The Blotter. She lives in Boston, MA and teaches at Mount Ida College. Carey Fries received her MFA in poetry from New England College in 2006. Her work has previously appeared in Rattle. She works and lives in Boston, MA. Stephanie Gray studied poetry writing under Seamus Heaney and Josephine Miles. She is the author of two books on teaching poetry in high school. She is an attorney in the Bay Area. George Held’s translations of Martial’s epigrams have appeared in numerous journals and in Martial Artist (Toad Press, 2005). He has published ten collections of poems, including The Art of Writing and Others (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Bob Hicok’s latest book is This Clumsy Living (Pittsburgh, 2007). Karen Holmberg is the author of The Perseids, and her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, Slate, Quarterly West, and Southern Poetry Review. She lives and teaches in Corvallis, OR. Ruth Holzer is the author of two chapbooks, The First Hundred Years and The Solitude of Cities (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Red Wheelbarrow, and The Cape Rock. Ana Jelnikar’s most recent translations of poetry collections include Iztok Geister’s Hymn to the Bush Tree and Taja Kramberger’s Mobilization. She is completing her Ph. D at the University of London. R. Dean Johnson’s essays have appeared in Ascent and The Southern Review, and an excerpt from his novel manuscript, Californium, appears in Tribute to Orpheus (Kearney Street Books). Srecko Kosovel (1904–1926) left over 1000 poems upon his death. His poems range from the late-impressionist and symbolist Karst landscape, to the avant-garde, which came to identify him as Slovenia’s first modernist. His Complete Works was published in 1977. Marilyn Kriegel’s poetry has appeared in Mothering Magazine, RUAH, and Wellsprings for the Mind. This marks her first publication in a literary journal. She lives in San Francisco where she writes and teaches TriYoga. Judy Kronenfeld is the author of Ghost Nurseries (Finishing Line, 2005) and critical work on Shakespeare, King Lear and the Naked Truth (Duke, 1998). Her recent poem credits include Spoon River Poetry Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Poetry International. Tim Leach, a retired PR consultant and journalist, has recent poems in Natural Bridge, Sou’wester, Southern Poetry Review, Kaleidoscope, and Epicenter. He has been a finalist in contests by River Styx and New Letters. Raina J. León, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, is a doctoral candidate at University of North Carolina. She has work in MiPoesias, Black Arts Quarterly, and elsewhere. Marcus Valerius Martialis (A.D. 40–104), or Martial, was born in Spain and flourished in Rome. His greatest achievement remains his 1500 epigrams, which has influenced the work of virtually every epigrammatist since. Carol McCarthy is a poetry candidate in the MFA program at The University of New Orleans. Mary McLaughlin Slechta has written a collection of poems about grief, Wreckage on a Watery Moon (Foothills), and two chapbooks. An editor for The Comstock Review, she resides in Syracuse, NY. James Thomas Miller is an MFA student at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, but was raised on a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta. His work appears in The Antioch Review, Arkansas Review, and storySouth. Lauren Mitchell, born in Washington D.C., ran away to Los Angeles at 14 and is working on a collection of poems recalling her experiences. Her poetry has appeared in Salamander, Folio, Failbetter, and elsewhere. Roy Nathanson is a musician, poet, and teacher residing in Brooklyn with his wife and son. His writing has appeared in Maggid, The Brooklyn Rail, and on the NPR show “The Next Big Thing.” His most recent CD is called “Sotto Voce.” Eric Pankey is Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University. He is the author of seven collections of poems, and the forthcoming new and selected poems, The Pear as One Example (Ausable Press, 2008). Chad Parmenter is a doctoral student at the University of Missouri–Columbia. His work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Harvard Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2007. Candace Pearson’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Los Angeles hills. Matthew M. Quick’s first novel, The Silver Linings Playbook (Sarah Crichton Books at Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is forthcoming. His shorter works have appeared in The Sun, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Tony Reevy serves as associate director of the Institute for the Environment at UNC–Chapel Hill. His books are Ghost Train!, A Directory of North Carolina’s Railroad Structures, Green Cove Stop, and Magdalena. Sankar Roy, originally from India, is a poet, translator, activist, and multimedia artist living near Pittsburgh, PA. He is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, a Rosenthal Fellow, and author of three chapbooks of poetry. Heather Sellers is the author of a collection of short fiction, Georgia Under Water (Sarabande), and two volumes of poetry, most recently, Drinking Girls and Their Dresses (Ahsahta). She has won an NEA fellowship for fiction. Hilary Sideris has poems appearing in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Salamander, and elsewhere. Her work will appear in the forthcoming Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek American Poetry, edited by Dean Kostos. Dan Stryk is the author of five collections of poems and prose parables. Solace of the Aging Mare (The Mid-America Press, 2007) and Dimming Radiance (Wind Publications, 2008) are forthcoming. He has held an NEA Poetry Fellowship. Mark Taksa’s poems are appearing in Rattle, Santa Clara Review, and Salt Hill. He is the author of six chapbooks; The Biography Thief is forthcoming from Pudding House. Debbie Urbanski’s fiction and poetry have been published in Gulf Coast, The Sun, Verse, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, and Lyric. She is co-owner of Boxcar Press, a commercial letterpress print shop in Syracuse, NY. James Vescovi lives in New York with his wife and children. Will Wells has published translations widely. His first book of poetry received the 1987 Anhinga Award. He has had recent work (original poems) in Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Field, and elsewhere. Patty Wirth is a freelance writer. She lives in St. Louis, MO. Emma Wunsch has recently published fiction in The Bellevue Review, Lit, Fugue, The Brooklyn Review, and Passages North. She lives in Brooklyn. Ryo Yamaguchi is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, where he is the poetry editor for Dislocate. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from Hayden’s Ferry Review, Faultline, Sycamore Review, threecandles, and Watershed. Jon Kelly Yenser’s poems and prose have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, Elysian Fields, and elsewhere. He lives in northern Idaho with his wife. |
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