Gold Wake Press

People I Haven’t Seen in Years That I Will Attempt to Eat Lunch with Next Week

Andrew Borgstrom lives a $6.70 ferry ride from Seattle. His fiction lives a few months from Lamination Colony, Caketrain, Wigleaf, and This PDF Chapbook. His other publications are linked at www.20eth.blogspot.com.

Imitation Animals

Julie Platt is the author of the poetry chapbook In the Kingdom of My Familiar (Tilt Press, 2008). She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and now lives in Michigan, where she studies rhetoric and composition at Michigan State University.

Something middle class

Jeff Crouch is a writer in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google him.

Water Lust

Lori Desrosiers grew up on the banks of the Hudson River in NY, but now calls Westfield, Massachusetts her home. A chapbook of poetry, “Three Vanities”, was recently released by Pudding House Press. Her poetry has been published in BigCityLit, The Equinox, Blue Fifth Review, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, November 3rd Club, Common Ground Review, Gold Wake Press’ five-poem mini-chapbook series (“Mother’s Tongue”) and Silkworm. She is the Editor of Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry, and also publishes Poetry News, an online newsletter of poetry-related events in the CT/Mass. region. She teaches English at Westfield State College. Lori earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry at New England College.

Channeling Isadora Duncan

Heather Ann Schmidt is an adjunct at Oakland Community College and edits tinfoildresses poetry journal and Quiddities Journal. Her poems can be found in various online and print journals such as Pennsylvania English, Pirene’s Fountain and The Orange Room Review. Her first full collection of poems, Chasing Lou Hoover, is forthcoming from Village Green Press. She received her MFA from National University and is pursuing her Phd at Union Institute.

When the Height of You Outreaches Me

J. A. Tyler is the author of SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (ghost road press, 2009) and IN LOVE WITH A GHOST (willows wept press, 2010) as well as the chapbooks THE TROPIC HOUSE (sunnyoutside, 2009), EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH (achilles, 2008), and THE GIRL IN THE BLACK SWEATER (trainwreck press, 2008) . He is also founding editor of mud luscious / ml press. Visit: www.aboutjatyler.com.

The Conductor [excerpt]

J Michael Wahlgren co-edits Gold Wake Press. He is author of Silent Actor (Bewrite, 2008). The Conductor is part of a larger manuscript currently in the works.

Afterthought

Billy Swift holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, is currently studying to receive his M.S.Ed. from Simmons College, and currently teaches at Landmark School in Prides Crossing, MA. He lives in Somerville, MA.

Between Cardboard Mountains

Kimberly Ruth is a recent graduate from SUNY New Paltz where she received a BFA in photography and a BA in journalism. She plans to attend graduate school in the fall, where she will work towards an MFA in fine art. She has been published in a number of online journals including Bijou Poetry, Ditch Poetry, elimae, and Shoots and Vines. You can view samples of her work at kimberlyruth.blogspot.com.

Zephyrs

Jeanette Marie Sayers is a medical writer & poetry editor for The Furnace Review. Her poem, “L,O,V,E & the Other Twenty-Two,” was featured on Poetry Daily (www.poems.com). Her work has appeared in elimae, California Quarterly, Cosmopsis Quarterly, and Beauty/Truth.

Of Creatures

Eric Beeny, 28, is the author of several unpublished novels, including “Broken Antennas,” “Lepers and Mannequins,” and “The Immortals Act Their Age,” a novel of stories, portions of which are forthcoming in The 2nd Hand, Big Bridge and The Blotter Magazine. His poems and stories have appeared and/or are forthcoming in 5AM, 32 Poems, Abjective, Dogmatika, Elimae, HazMat Review, Main Street Rag, Nuvein, Quercus Review, Shampoo, Snow Monkey, Thieves Jargon, and others. Two other e-chaps of his poetry, “Satin Anvils” and “Wounded Rainbows,” were also published by Gold Wake Press. He lives in Buffalo, NY.

Letters to a Love

Alice Bolstridge has stories, poems, and essays in many magazines and anthologies including Cimarron Review (Oklahoma State University Short Fiction Award and American Academy of Poets Prize); Intricate Weave (Iris Editions); Passager (1995 Passager Poet Award); Nimrod (finalist, 1998 Pablo Neruda Poetry Award); Maine in Print (2005 MWPA Poetry Award); Out of Line; Wolfmoon Journal. More information at www.alicebolstridge.com

Believing is art

Alex lives in Minneapolis, MN. His full length collection, A Wilderness Arcade is now available from Bewrite Books. A chapbook, How to Drink Yourself Sober is forthcoming from Amsterdam Press.

Wounded Rainbows

Eric Beeny, 28, is the author of several unpublished novels, including “Broken Antennas,” “Lepers and Mannequins,” and “The Immortals Act Their Age,” a novel of stories, portions of which are forthcoming in The 2nd Hand, Big Bridge and The Blotter Magazine. His poems and stories have appeared and/or are forthcoming in 5AM, 32 Poems, Abjective, Dogmatika, Elimae, HazMat Review, Main Street Rag, Nuvein, Quercus Review, Shampoo, Snow Monkey, Thieves Jargon, and others. Another e-chap of his poetry, “Satin Anvils,” was also published by Gold Wake Press. He lives in Buffalo, NY.

We’ve hardly slept or At Least not all at once

Genevieve Kaplan’s poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Copper Nickel, Mrs. Maybe, Gulf Coast, Alba, and Jubilat.

Nosecone Made of Pine

Jeff Crouch is a writer in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google him.

Opera: Prose Poems

Kristina Marie Darling has written on contemporary literature for The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, New Letters, The Mid-American Review, Third Coast, and other journals. Her most recent book is Strange Gospels (Maverick Duck Press, 2008).

An Introduction to Hunger

Zachary C. Bush, 25, is a writer of poetry and prose. He is the author of five chapbooks, and three collections of poetry– two are forthcoming in 2009: AT SWAN DECAPITATION [Vox Press], and ANGLES OF DISORDER [BlazeVOX Books]. He currently has work published in Lamination Colony, elimae, Calliope Nerve, and Poetic Diversity, with more work forthcoming in Word Riot, decomP, and others. ZCB is pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, and is the editor of KORA.

Intonations Heard in the Desert

CS Reid holds a MFA in Writing & Critical Theory from Otis College of Art & Design. Her work has been featured and is forthcoming in Poems-For-All, The Truth About the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction Anthology, Monkeybicycle, 1097 Magazine, Blue Fifth Review, Shadowtrain, Word Salad, Apt, and Raven Poetry: Online Poetry Journal; and a poetry chapbook, Walking Near the Precipice, published Lily Press (2007). She is a freelance writer, educator, and musician in Los Angeles, CA.

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J. A. Tyler is the author of THE GIRL IN THE BLACK SWEATER (Trainwreck Press), EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING ABOUT DEATH (Achilles Chapbook Series), SAMSARA (Paperhero Press), & SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (Ghost Road Press). He is also founding editor of MUD LUSCIOUS and ML PRESS and was recently nominated for a Pushcart. Visit www.aboutjatyler.blogspot.com for more info.

Silent Pulse

Natalie Lorenzo is a 27 year old poet born in Washington, DC, raised in New Jersey and now living in California. A few of the online journals Natalie was most recently in are Baker’s Dozen Literary Review, Sunken Lines and Drown In My Own Fears. She also enjoys music, rollerblading, photography, drawing, the beach and hiking. She has an unhealthy attachment to Panera Bread, but has not been escorted out of the store yet. Her website is http://nmlorenzo.googlepages.com/

Satin Anvils

Eric Beeny, 27, is the author of several unpublished novels, including “Broken Antennas,” “Lepers and Mannequins,” and “The Immortals Act Their Age,” a novel of stories, portions of which are forthcoming in Big Bridge and The Blotter Magazine. His work has appeared in 5AM, 32 Poems, elimae, Quercus Review, Shampoo, Thieves Jargon, and others. He lives in Buffalo , NY .

672 Hours

Andrew Demcak is an award-winning poet who has been widely published and anthologized both in print and on-line. His new book, Zero Summer, is available from BlazeVOX [books]. His book of poetry, Catching Tigers in Red Weather (Three Candles Press, 2007), won the Three Candles Press Open Book Award. His poems, including Young Man With iPod (Poetry Midwest, #13), are taught at Ohio State University as part of both its English 110.02 class, “The Genius and the Madman,” and in its “American Poetry Since 1945″ class. His work has appeared recently in The Pebble Lake Review, Court Green, the American Poetry Journal, Juked!, and Pearl Magazine. Visit Andrew at: www.andrewdemcak.com.

An Abridged Version for the Modern Reader

Kristina Marie Darling is a graduate of Washington University, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree. She is the author of six chapbooks of poetry and nonfiction. Her poems and criticism have 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 Rockmirth and the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts.

Raw Poems

Susan Maurer’s By the Blue Light of the Morning Glory was published by Linear Arts, in2, with Mark Sonnenfeld by Marymark Press, and Dream Addict by Backwood Broadsides. Raptor Rhapsody was published in ’07 by Poets Wear Prada, Maerchen in ’08 by Maverick Duck. Letterpress broadsides were done by Clamshell Press and The Center for Book Arts. Her poetry has been nominated three times for Pushcart.

Edge

Dawn Leas is the director of admission at Wyoming Seminary Lower School in Forty Fort, PA. In her past life she was an advertising copywriter and freelancer whose articles, profiles and reviews appeared in newspapers and journals. She is currently a student in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University. Edge is part of I Know When to Keep Quiet, a manuscript about growing up while moving into and through the unique landscapes of the United States.

Turnpike North

Kendall A. Bell is a native of Bergen County, NJ who transplanted to Burlington County in early 2001. His poetry deals with the frustration of everyday life, teetering dangerously on sanity’s edge and the hope of better days. His work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, most recently Drown In My Own Fears and Zygote In My Coffee. He was nominated for Sundress Publications’ 2007 Best of the Net collection. He has self published eleven chapbooks of poems. He has also recorded two spoken word cd’s. He is a co-founding member of the Quick And Dirty Poets, Co-editor of the online journal Chantarelle’s Notebook and the publisher/editor of Maverick Duck Press. He is a football and music fanatic and resident codger.

Well Enough

Daniel Sumrall, 32, lives in New Haven, CT. His most recent publications include poems in Tattoo Highway, Right Hand Pointing, Ditch, and Autumn Sky. Currently, he is the editor of Gently Read Literature, an online journal devoted to criticism of contemporary poetry and literary fiction, and an adjunct English instructor. Daniel can be reached at danielsumrall@yahoo.com.

Modern Candy

J. Michael Wahlgren is author of Silent Actor (Bewrite) Chariots of Flame (Maverick Duck, 2007) & Pre-Elixir (forthcoming, Maverick Duck, 2008).

Memphis

Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. His novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue, was released in 2002. His second novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, came out in January 2006. He has also published numerous chapbooks and one full-length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems. His collection of dialogue narratives, Listen, is due out in March 2009. He has been nominated for a Pushcart numerous times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.

Desired Things

Carol Lynn Grellas is a Northern California-based writer. She attended Santa Clara University where she was an English and Art major. Her Chapbook: Litany of Finger Prayers will be released in 2008 from Pudding House Press and her second chapbook Object of Desire will be released this October from Finishing Line Press. She has had dozens of poems appear in magazines and online journals, including most recently, MSU Great Falls Literary Guild: Writings from the River, The Storyteller Magazine, Ken*again, Chanterelle’s Notebook and Flutter, with poems forthcoming in The Lyric and Lucid Rhythms and many more.

Apropos of Nothing

Jason Fraley works as an investment advisor and compliance officer in Columbus, OH. In his spare time, he is an argyle sock. His work has appeared in Forklift Ohio, 42opus, The Hat, Pebble Lake Review, Caketrain, and Fifth Wednesday Journal.