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.
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.
from Attention Deficit Letters Nicelle Davis lives in Southern California with her husband James and their son J.J. Her poems are forthcoming in FuseLit, Illya’s Honey, Moulin, The New York Quarterly, Transcurrent and Two Review. She’d like to acknowledge her poetry family at the University of California, Riverside and Antelope Valley Community College. She runs a free online poetry workshop at: http://nicelledavis.wordpress.com/. Image by Alexis Vergalla
The rot to light Michael Bernstein is the author of the chapbooks cinderbook (Gold Wake Press, 2009), 8s (Scantily Clad Press, forthcoming 2009), imaginary grace (Recycled Karma Press, forthcoming 2009) from “a heap of swords and mirrors” (Bedouin Books, forthcoming 2010), the transit illuminate (mudluscious press, forthcoming 2010), nanostars (greying ghost press, forthcoming 2010), and the Fire District (Differentia Press, forthcoming 2010) . His poems have appeared in magazines such as Puppy Flowers, milk, Moria, BlazeVOX, and New American Writing. He currently co-edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora. Michael lives and writes in Wisconsin.
Pig / Iron Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 15 poetry chapbooks and the full-length book of poetry, Lovesick (2009). His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books. Photo by Kimberly Ruth
The Standing J. Michael Wahlgren co-edits Gold Wake Press. Credo, a chapbook of 23 poems is forthcoming from The Greying Ghost Press.
click click Donald Dunbar lives in Portland, Oregon. Other work of his can be found at http://sparethe.blogspot.com Cover design by Joel Brock (http://designslife.com) with a texture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/calebkimbrough/
How This Man Breaks Zachary C. Bush, 26, is a poet and part-time English instructor at the City College of New York, where he’s in the final stages of earning an MFA in Creative Writing. His writing has appeared in many print and electronic small press publications. He is the author of two books: Angles of Disorder (BlazeVOX books, 2009), At Swan Decapitation (VOX PRESS, 2010), as well as nine chapbooks of poetry. How This Man Breaks is his second e-chap with Gold Wake Press. His tenth chap is forthcoming through Kendra Steiner Editions in early 2010. Bush and his partner, Krista Schlueter, live happily in Jersey City, NJ.
what do i wear to the funeral sarah k bell lives in Melbourne, Australia. She currently earns a meager wage selling bad music whilst working towards a postgraduate qualification. Recent work has appeared in elimae, Moria, Cordite, Otoliths and Black Inc’s Best Australian Poems 2009.
cinderbook Michael Bernstein is the author of the chapbooks 8s (Scantily Clad Press, forthcoming 2009), from “a heap of swords and mirrors” (Bedouin Books, forthcoming 2010), the transit illuminate (mudluscious press, forthcoming 2010), and the Fire District (Differentia Press, forthcoming 2010) . His poems have appeared in magazines such as Puppy Flowers, Conundrum, Moria, BlazeVOX, and New American Writing. He currently co-edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora. Michael lives and writes in Wisconsin.
Conceptual Hankering of Devotional Understanding Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974, California), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 14 collections of poetry, including “Apperceptions of Reinterpretations” (Calliope Nerve Media, 2009), “r” (please press, 2009), “Search among the Absent Found” (Recycled Karma Press, 2009), and “Among the Interrogated” (BlazeVOX [books], 2008). He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, www.differentiapress.com, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. He is also a contributing editor for Sugar Mule, www.sugarmule.com. Philosophical studies collocated with his love of classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinosoriano.com.
(B)URN Juliet Cook’s poetry has recently been published or is forthcoming in Action Yes, Diagram, Diode, Dusie, Oranges & Sardines, Robot Melon and many more online and print sources. She is editor and publisher of Blood Pudding Press. She is author of numerous chapbooks, most recently including MONDO CRAMPO (dusie kollektiv 3), PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR (Spooky Girlfriend Press), and Tongue Like a Stinger (Wheelhouse). Her first full-length poetry collection, ‘Horrific Confection’ was published by BlazeVOX in 2008. For more information, feel free to visit her website at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
Kississippi Kat Dixon is poetry editor of Divine Dirt Quarterly; she also gardens short-cuts in Atlanta and may be occasionally found blinking at http://katdixon.blogspot.com. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in blossombones, Indefinite Space, Clockwise Cat, Madswirl, and elsewhere.
Within the Open Eyes Aristotle Sinclair is a poet of neoteric contemplation. He reads Duane Locke and Constance Stadler to ascertain excellent poetry. He wrote his first poem on 8/13/09, and has received acceptances to Writers’ Bloc, The Catalonian Review, Writing Raw, The Legendary, and several other kind places. In the rarity of spare time, he reads various texts and quotations from philosophers, and thinks Thelonious Monk is the epitome of a jazz genius. He records occurrences at http://aristotlesinclair.blogspot.com/.
10 specimens Mark Cunningham has three books out: 80 Beetles from Otoliths; Body Language from Tarpaulin Sky; and 71 Leaves, an ebook from BlazeVox.
Strange Machine Kristina Marie Darling is a graduate of Washington University, where she received both an undergraduate degree in English and a master’s degree in American Culture Studies. Eight chapbooks of her work have been published, among them Fevers and Clocks (March Street Press, 2006), The Traffic in Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2006), and Night Music (BlazeVox Books, 2008). A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems appear in such journals as Gargoyle, Miller’s Pond, Illya’s Honey, Big City Lit, and Janus Head: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Recent criticism has also been published in issues of The Boston Review, Modern Language Studies, New Letters, The Colorado Review, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, and other periodicals. Additional awards include residencies at the Vermont…
speak easy symmetry Audri Sousa has appeared in fine places like Word Riot, Abjective, Pank, Keyhole and Robot Melon. Her chapbook Caspian Quilt is forthcoming from Bedouin Books. She lives in California and can otherwise be found at audrisousa.blogspot.com.
Wanting Holly Woodward is an artist and writer. These short poems were written by cutting and pasting words from her journals with scissors and glue. “Carapace Debris” came from photos of nebulae and their ‘star nurseries’ in the Hubble gallery. Other works by Holly appeared recently in Mezzo Cammin and the 92nd Street Y’s literary magazine.
Severed, Asleep Kate Wyer is a mental health interviewer for the public health system in Baltimore. Her writing has recently been featured or is forthcoming in, abjective, decomP, pindeldyboz, DOGZPLOT and other experimental journals.
Water on the Window Jeffrey Kahrs was born in the Hague, Netherlands and was raised in California not far from San Francisco. He received a B.A. in Dramatic Literature from U.C. Santa Cruz and an M.A. from Boston University, where he studied with Derek Walcott and Leslie Epstein. In 1988 he helped found a reading series in Seattle called Radio Free Leroy’s, which ran for six years. He worked as a union laborer, longshoreman, cannery worker, and for many years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. Since 1993 he has lived in Istanbul where he has worked primarily as a teacher. Over the last few years he has co-edited an issue of the Atlanta Review on poetry in Turkey, been published in Subtropics, and…
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 professor at Oakland Community College. She edits tinfoildresses poetry journal . Her poems can be found in various online and print journals. Her chapbook, Channeling Isadora Duncan, was recently released from Gold Wake Press and her first full collection of poems, Chasing Lou Hoover, is forthcoming from Village Green Press. She received her MFA from National University and hopes to begin pursuing her PhD at Union Institute in 2010.
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.
