Gold Wake Press

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, 2008) 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.

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks; a conversation

Julia Klatt Singer is a co-author of Twelve Branches: Stories From St. Paul, Coffee House Press, 2003. She works as a visiting writer in the schools through COMPAS. Ms. Singer has been a part of the Loft Mentor Series in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry. Her stories and poems have appeared in over three dozen journals and anthologies. She lives in Minneapolis, MN.

Alex Stolis lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. His sixth chapbook, small confessions & pebbles of regret, was recently released by Rubicon Press. It was a collaborative effort with the Austrian poet Michaela Gabriel. A book length collection of poems, A Wilderness Arcade, is forthcoming from Bewrite Press (UK). Another chapbook Li Po Comes to America is forthcoming from Parallel Press (2010). He has been the recipient of three Pushcart Nominations.

Shanghai (has more capital)

Elizabeth Kate Switaj (www.elizabethkateswitaj.net) graduated from the now-defunct New College of California Poetics MFA program in 2004. She has two books of poetry forthcoming: How to Drink a Floral Moon from Blue Lion Books and Magdalene & the Mermaids from Paper Kite Press. Her chapbook, The Broken Sanctuary, is available from Ypolita Press. She edits CRIT Journal and is assistant editor of Inertia Magazine.

from Fate-Inked Papyrus

Jeanette Marie Sayers is a medical writer & poetry editor for The Furnace Review. Her poem L,O,V,E & the other 22, was a monthy feature on Poetry Daily (www.poems.com).

J. Michael Wahlgren has work in Beauty/Truth & is a regular contributor to elimae. He is author of Silent Actor (Bewrite, 2008).

ANTI

Rachel Mallino’s work has appeared in various online and print journals including 42opus, Boxcar Poetry Review, Pebble Lake Review, Stirring, Wicked Alice, Blue Fifth Review, and others. Her poem, Knucklebone, placed in Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net 2006 Anthology. She is the founding editor for Tilt Press and lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter, and various lovable animals.

Mother’s Tongue

Lori Desrosiers grew up on the banks of the Hudson River in NY, but now calls Westfield, Massachusetts her home. She has written three chapbooks of poetry and her work has been published in many literary journals. She is the Editor of Naugatuck River Review, a new poetry journal, and also publishes Poetry News, an online newsletter of poetry-related events in the CT/Mass. region. When she is not writing or going to poetry events, she is an Assitant Professor of English Composition at Westfield State College. Mother’s Tongue is part of a manuscript of poetry about three generations of women in her family. She holds an MFA from New England College in Creative Writing/Poetry.

Exhibition

Donora Hillard is the author of Romance (Maverick Duck Press, 2008), Bone Cages (BlazeVox [books], 2007), and Parapherna (dancing girl press, 2006). Her fiction, lyric memoir, and poetry have appeared in NANO Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, Segue, and elsewhere. She has been an instructor of writing at Harrisburg Area Community College and King’s College, and she presently teaches in southern Pennsylvania. This e-chap is a branch to Theology of the Body.

Praise for Pondo: The Series

Lisa Feinstein is currently the head of the English Department at Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York. She received her BS in English and finished Masters work at SUNY Brockport.

Her work has appeared in the online journals Poetry Midwest and Flutter Poetry Journal, and has been printed in Jigsaw, Hazmat Review, and Vincent Brothers Review. Lisa was also awarded first prize over-all in the Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest.

Last Words

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of five poetry chapbooks: Death of the Frog Prince (2004), Heartland (2007), and Apocalypse Mambo (forthcoming), from FootHills Publishing; Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications; and the e-chapbook, Police & Questions (2008), available at http://www.righthandpointing.com/howiegood/ from Right Hand Pointing. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals as well as in several anthologies. He has been nominated for the Best of the Web anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize.

Dead Zones

Adrienne J. Odasso is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the University of York (UK) Department of English & Related Literature. Her poetry has appeared in Strong Verse, Aesthetica, hum-drum, Eight Octaves Review, Succour, Sybil’s Garage, and Farrago’s Wainscot. New pieces are forthcoming in the second issue of Taiga and in the Little Red Riding Hood anthology from Drollerie Press. Her short fiction has been published in Behind the Wainscot and in the Ruins Terra anthology from Hadley Rille Books. A previously-published piece will also be appearing in the upcoming Crawlspace: Selections from the 2007 Farrago’s Wainscot Exhibition anthology.

Murmuration

Cheryl Snell has a novel, Shiva’s Arms (Writer’s Lair Books) and four collections of poetry: Flower Half Blown, Epithalamion, Samsara, and the forthcoming Prisoner’s Dilemma. Snell is a 2008 Best of the Net nominee, and has had several Pushcart Prize nominations. She serves as book reviews editor for Alsop Review.

Purview to Undoing

Nicole Cartwright Denison lives on a trout farm in the mountains of western North Carolina, is the author of Recovering the Body (dancing girl press, 2007) and a Best of the Net 2008 nominee. Work is forthcoming in WOMB and has appeared in blossombones, Blue Fifth Review, ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, tattoo highway, Poetry Midwest, Alba, eight-octaves magazine, elimae, The CommonLine Project, The Pedestal Magazine, 2River View and others. Photography has appeared in Stirring, Digital Paper and Lily. You can find her on the web and driving through the mountains.