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Howie Good: Pornocopia

Posted on February 5th, 2012

Pornocopia Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the new poetry collection, Dreaming in Red, from Right Hand Pointing. All proceeds from the sale of the book go to a crisis center, which you can read about here: https://sites.google.com/site/rhplanding/howie-good-dreaming-in-red. He is also the author of numerous chapbooks, including most recently The Devil’s Fuzzy Slippers from Flutter Press. Artwork by Thomas Hawk

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E. Marie Bertram: Close Your Eyes, Look at Me

Posted on December 20th, 2011

Close Your Eyes, Look at Me E. Marie Bertram completed her MFA in poetry, along with a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a fellow. The author of eight chapbooks, including The Vanishing of Camille Claudel (Seven Kitchens Press, forthcoming) and Inland Sea, which received the 2009 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, she is currently a Fellowship Instructor in English at Augustana College. She has lead creative writing workshops for homeless individuals in transition, a prisoner, and students at the elementary, high school, and college level. Cover art by Kelvin Mason

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Ryan Collins: Handshake Trouble

Posted on October 5th, 2011

Handshake Trouble Ryan Collins is the author of a chapbook, Complicated Weather. Some of his recent work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Leveler, Spittoon, Ping Pong, Knock, Handsome, Diagram and H_NGM_N. He lives in the Illinois Quad Cities. He can be reached at ryanrichardcollins@gmail.com. Cover image by Joshua Ford | www.joshuaford.com

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Howie Good: To Shadowy Blue

Posted on August 27th, 2011

To Shadowy Blue Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as numerous print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently Love in a Time of Paranoia from Diamond Point Press, Inspired Remnants from Red Ceilings Press and The Penalty for Trying from Ten Pages Press.

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MeLaina Elise Evans: Before Doubt

Posted on August 21st, 2011

Before Doubt MeLaina Elise Evans is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, most recently published in elimae, Anti-, and The Whistling Fire, among others. She is a contributor to The Hipster Book Club and lives in Virginia. Photo by J Hackett (http://www.flickr.com/photos/completedrivel/).

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David Tomaloff: Exit Strategies

Posted on June 1st, 2011

Exit Strategies David Tomaloff (b. 1972) | is a writer, photographer, musician, and all around bad influence | likes: jazz | hates: jazz | photography: yes | his work has appeared in fine publications such as Mud Luscious, Thunderclap!, HOUSEFIRE, Prick of the Spindle, DOGZPLOT, elimae, and many more | he has an e-chap, MESCAL NON-PALINDROME CINEMA (Ten Pages Press, 2011) and another forthcoming with NAP Literary Magazine | David Tomaloff resides in the form of ones and zeros at: davidtomaloff.com

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Joshua Young: Psalms of the Wreckage

Posted on April 9th, 2011

Psalms of the Wreckage Joshua Young holds an MA in English from Western Washington University, and begins an MFA in Poetry at Columbia College Chicago in fall of 2011. Information about his writing, films, and other projects can be found at http://thestorythief.tumblr.com

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Helen Vitoria: Random Cartography Notes

Posted on March 19th, 2011

Random Cartography Notes Helen Vitoria lives and writes in Effort PA. Her work can be found and is forthcoming in many journals including: elimae, PANK, Commonline, Mud Luscious Press, >kill author, Poets & Artists Magazine and Dark Sky Magazine. She has been thrice nominated for Best New Poets Anthology 2010. She is completing her first full length collection: Corn Exchange, with an expected release Fall, 2011. Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com/ Art by David Ohlerking

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Michael Bernstein: 8BitSkulls

Posted on March 8th, 2011

8bitskulls Michael Bernstein is the author of 10 chapbooks, including Well (Splitleaves Press), the Fire District (Differentia Press), and nanostars (greying ghost press). His work has appeared in publications such as New American Writing, Columbia Poetry Review, Puppy Flowers, and BlazeVOX. With Michael Crake, he edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora, and sometimes writes book reviews for other publications. Michael lives and writes in Cleveland Heights, OH.

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Helen Vitoria: The Sights & Sounds of Arctic Birds

Posted on February 4th, 2011

The Sights & Sounds of Arctic Birds Helen Vitoria lives and writes in Effort, PA. Her work can be found and is forthcoming in: PANK, wicked alice, The Orange Room Review, The Dirty Napkin, Gigantic Sequins, The Scrambler, The Cartier Street Review, Sunfish Poetry Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Tiger’s Eye: A Journal of Poetry, Dogzplot, Spooky Boyfriend, Spilt Milk, Thirteen Myna Birds, Right Hand Pointing, >kill author, Phantom Kangaroo, The Literary Bohemian, MiPOesias, elimae, Metazen, The Literary Burlesque, and others. She has been thrice nominated for Best New Poets 2010 Anthology. She is working on her first full length collection: Corn Exchange, expected to be released Fall 2011. Image: Anthropology by Peter Schwartz

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rob mclennan: Your torn, infectious bliss

Posted on November 18th, 2010

Your torn, inflectious bliss Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Glengarry (2011), wild horses (2010) and kate street (2010) and a second novel, missing persons (2009), An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (ottwater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

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Nathaniel Allister: The Galapagos Nocturns

Posted on November 5th, 2010

The Galapagos Nocturns Nathaniel Allister from Northfield, MN is a recent graduate of Vassar College with degrees in both Film and Creative Writing. He is currently shooting a long-term project that blends poetry and photography within a fictional travel documentary, taking him from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego over the next several years. On the way he’ll be writing, farming, filming, rambling, and performing the lost art of minstrelsy. This is his first poetry publication, but hopefully not his last.

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Nicholas Michael Ravnikar: Luxury Pocket Slide Rules

Posted on October 7th, 2010

Luxury Pocket Slide Rules Nicholas Michael Ravnikar teaches undergraduate composition, reading and communication courses as an adjunct instructor in Southeast Wisconsin. As publisher/editor/designer of The Bathroom (http://bathroommagazine.wordpress.com), he helped organize the Racquetball Chapbook Tournament (http://racquetballchapbooktournament.wordpress.com) with Nick Demske. Both venues offer their publications as free (as in beer) PDFs. His poems have appeared in West Wind Review, Cannot Exist, BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Monkey Puzzle Magazine, InStereoPress.com, and Swap/Concessions, among other places.

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Howie Good: NOW THAT THE BUFFALO ARE GONE

Posted on September 20th, 2010

NOW THAT THE BUFFALO ARE GONE Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 21 previous print and digital poetry chapbooks. He is also the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Lovesick, published in 2009 by Press Americana, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, forthcoming from BeWrite Books, and Everything Reminds Me of Me, recently accepted by Desperanto. He has been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net anthology. With Dale Wisely, he is the co-founder of White Knuckle Press, www.whiteknucklepress.com. Art by Dale Wisely.

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Lisa Marie Basile: White Spiders

Posted on September 14th, 2010

White Spiders Lisa Marie Basile is the author of A Decent Voodoo – a full-length book of poetry to be released by Cervena Barva Press. She is the founding editor of Caper Literary Journal and has been published in many journals, including The Moon Milk Review, Word Riot, The View from Here Magazine, CommonLine, Poets & Artists Magazine, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and Feile-Festa, among others. She currently works with PEN American Center’s Prison Writing Program and is an M.F.A. candidate at The New School. She’s earned 1st place in both poetry and fiction from Pace University’s annual writing contest. She also has performed under the name Luna Liprari with The Poetry Brothel of New York. Visit www.lisamariebasile.com

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Vanessa Johnson: The Relationship Eclogue

Posted on September 12th, 2010

The Relationship Eclogue Vanessa Johnson recently earned her B.A. in English and Philosophy from Rice University in Houston, TX. As a recipient of the Minter summer scholarship from the English department, she was funded to attend the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop in ’08.  She won the George Williams prize in poetry from Rice for a poem that appeared in R2 the Rice Review. The Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop ’10 was a pleasure to attend. She has dual citizenship (American and Brazilian) and once studied abroad in Berlin.

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Megan Friddle: Wind-up

Posted on August 13th, 2010

Wind-up Megan Friddle holds an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. She lives in Atlanta, where she is working to become the reigning scholarly expert on Young Adult Fiction. She dances at all appropriate occasions and occasionally wrangles with digital media projects. Her poems, fiction, and book reviews have appeared in Grasslimb, GLR, Coldfront Magazine, Literary Tonic, and elsewhere.

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Carrie Murphy: Stick Pink

Posted on July 20th, 2010

Stick Pink Carrie Murphy is a student in the MFA program at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. She grew up in Baltimore, MD and holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work has previously been published in PANK, Everyday Genius, and Keyhole.

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Sarah Ahmad: Inception

Posted on July 10th, 2010

Inception Sarah Ahmad was born in India and lives in Pakistan. She has been lucky enough to have work published in some amazing places online as well as in print. Also her visual poetry work has recently been added to the Avant Writing Collection at the Ohio State University Rare Books & MSS Library.

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Sarah Cavallaro: still searching

Posted on June 18th, 2010

still searching Sarah Lee Cavallaro was the founder and President of Emerald Films an award winning production company in NYC and for twenty years she established a reputation as a executive producer with a keen eye for developing talent and projects. She completed writing two stage plays, Ruby Films, Chocolate Jesus and a novel, You Don’t Need A Spaceship To Get To The Moon. Her Screenplay Keeping Athenia was a finalist in three national film festivals. Her poetry and short stories have been published in many anthologies, Spring street press, Lipstick pages, Mom Egg, Sage trail press. She is a former member of the Actors studio writers directors lab and the directors guild of America.

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Jonathan Dubow: The Idea of Eternity

Posted on June 16th, 2010

The Idea of Eternity Jonathan Dubow is a recent graduate of Oberlin College, where he studied English and creative writing. His work has appeared in a number of literary magazines, both online and in print. He currently teaches English in Chile.

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Cheyenne Nimes: Coming Apocalypse Attractions.

Posted on May 20th, 2010

Coming Apocalypse Attractions. Cheyenne Nimes currently resides in Iowa City & just completed a hybrid manuscript on American rivers & the world water crisis, as well as an MFA at Iowa. An NEA recipient & writer in residence at the Iowa Art Museum, she was the 2009 winner of DIAGRAM’s hybrid essay contest. Work has appeared in Sonora Review, Convergence Review, Ninth Letter, Green Mountains Review and other places, & is forthcoming in Kenyon Review & J Journal. She recently completed a novel & a book of prose poems. Strangeh2os.wordpress.org

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Micheal Sean Bolton: A Passion

Posted on May 16th, 2010

A Passion Micheal Sean Bolton received an M.F.A. in poetry in 1993 and a Ph.D. in American literature in 2009, both from Arizona State University. He currently works as a Faculty Associate in ASU’s Department of English. He has previously published poetry in journals such as Prism International, Sage of Consciousness, and Thought Crime. A Passion is drawn from his book of poems, God Junkies, which was awarded an honorable mention in the 2008 Coatlism Press Book Length Contest.

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Mark Cunningham: Leftovers

Posted on May 1st, 2010

Leftovers Mark Cunningham has three books out: 80 Beetles from Otoliths; Body Language from Tarpaulin Sky; and 71 Leaves, an ebook from BlazeVOX. His most recent chapbook is Georgic, with Eclogues for Interrogators from Lamination Colony. Gold Wake Press published a chapbook of his titled 10 specimens last August.

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Jennifer Hollie Bowles: Every Moment, Breakdown

Posted on April 6th, 2010

Every Moment, Breakdown Jennifer Hollie Bowles writes to prolong breathing. She is the editor of The Medulla Review (www.themedullareview.com), a venue that caters to edgy, surreal, slip-stream writing. As of April, 2010, her poetry and prose has been accepted for publication in twenty-eight literary journals, including Thieves Jargon, blossombones, Counterexample Poetics, Word Riot, and The Ampersand Review. Her work is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Echo Ink Review, Caper Literary Journal, DecomP, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, among others. She is also seeking a home for her first novel, Surreal Self. Jennifer’s spirit screams in minor keys louder than train whistles.

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j/j hastain: the felts

Posted on March 25th, 2010

the felts j/j hastain is currently living and writing in Colorado, USA. j/j is the author of the two full-length books asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents (BlazeVox Books) and our bodies as beauty inducers (Rebel Satori Press) as well as chapbooks how nerve-yen became the new yew tree (erbacce-press UK), .compilate. (Livestock Editions), we are learning to evolve our wombs (Dusie Press), cock-burn (Cy Press), newest bountiful verb (ypolita), shade-tacit (Ahadada) and the let me letters (soon to come out with Pudding House Publications). j/j’s writing has appeared in numerous journals including MiPoesias, Fact-Simile, Eleven Eleven queer poetry magazine (SF, USA), featured essays in Sextures (E-journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics). j/j received the hotmetalpress Poetry prize of 2008, as well as being a…

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Jennifer Greidus: Sit Smoke Mope Broken

Posted on March 14th, 2010

Sit Smoke Mope Broken Jennifer Greidus lives and writes in Bucks County, PA. She has fiction and poetry featured or forthcoming at 322Review, VelvetMafia, Eclectica, Storyglossia, Two Hawks Quarterly, and others. Her story, “The Six Hillocks of Hiss,” was a finalist in the 2009 RRofihe Trophy.

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Felino Soriano: Devotional Understanding

Posted on March 2nd, 2010

Devotional Understanding Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974, California), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 22 collections of poetry, including “Altered Aesthetics” (ungovernable press, 2009), and “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Full of Crow, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Heavy Bear, and elsewhere. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. He is also a contributing editor for Sugar Mule, and consulting editor for Post: A Journal of Thought and Feeling. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: Poet of Philosophy and Jazz Coöccurrence.

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