FALL 2009 CONTRIBUTORS
Gary Beck is author of chapbooks including Remembrance and The
Conquest of Somalia. He also has a collection of poetry, Days of Destruction. Beck’s
original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have
been produced Off Broadway and in colleges and outdoor venues. His poems and
short stories have appeared in numerous print and online journals. He lives in
New York City, where he's busy writing.
Janelle
Brin’s
work has appeared in several literary magazines, including Cypress Dome,
Glossolalia, Jewish Spectator, Phoenix, Poetica Magazine, The
Florida Review, The Southeast Review and The Tipton Poetry Journal.
Tobi
Cogswell
is a recipient of the first annual Lois and Marine Robert Warden Poetry Award
from Bellowing Ark Press. Her work has been published in numerous
journals and magazines, most recently in Spoon River Poetry Review, KNOCK Journal, Transcurrent, Sugar House Review,Illya’s Honey
and Ginosko.
She has three chapbooks and her book Poste Restante is forthcoming from
Bellowing Ark Press. You can find her at the San Pedro River Review www.sprreview.com where she is an editor.
Wende Crow lives in Tennessee. Her work can be seen in Ploughshares and LIT.
Catherine Curan is a journalist and fiction writer. Her work can be found in the New York Post, Crain's New York Business, Newsday, WWD, Worth,
among others. Her honors include the 2004 Newswomen's Club of New
York's Front Page Award. Her creative writing has been published in Fiction, Many Mountains Moving, the SalonZine, Sleet Magazine and The Reader (forthcoming). She is the Associate Publisher of Anderbo.com and a volunteer mentor with Girls Write Now. Curan lives in New York.
György Faludy (1910-2006) Hungarian poet and
aesthete was born and died in Budapest but spent much of his long life
in exile, first during WWII for being Jewish and a socialist, and later
for his unwillingness to support the Communist regime. For someone who
enjoyed nothing more than the peace of a library he had a very
adventurous life; in his first exile he traveled though France to North
Africa and from there to the US where he enlisted and served until the
end of the war, mostly in the Pacific theater. Back in Hungary after
the war he was arrested as a spy. The revolution in 1956 opened the way
for his second exile to England and Canada until 1989, his triumphant
return home. By the late 1930's he had enough momentum and popular
acclaim to sustain him as a poet even in exile.
Jenna Giannasio is a talented writer of work that revolves around queer landscapes and remembrance. After many years working in New York City's music industry & nightlife, where she DJ'd drum and bass nights (as DJ101), did radio shows, and wrote lyrics, she turned to academia. Currently Giannasio is finishing her degree in Gender Studies and English Literature at Hunter College.
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Hannah Greenberg's work has recently appeared in Poetry Super Highway, The Mother Magazine, The New Absurdist, The New Vilna Review, and The Shine Journal. Greenberg is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. She has given up all manner of academic hoopla to chase a hibernaculum of imaginary hedgehogs and raise children.
Christine Hamm is the author of the poetry collection The Transparent Dinner; she has also written four chapbooks, Children Having Trouble with Meat; The Animal Husband; The Salt Daughter; and Dampen.
Hamm’s writing has been featured in numerous literary
journals and has also been anthologized in Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader; and The Murdering of Our Years:
Artists and Activists on Making Ends Meet. Her honors include being named runner-up as Queens Poet Laureate, two nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and a "Best of the Web" award. She is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University, and teaches English at York College.
Roger
W. Hecht
is author to two poetry collections including Lunch at the Table of
Opposites,
a poetry chapbook; and The Erie Canal Reader. His poems have
appeared most recently in Elimae, Mudlark, and Diagram. Hecht lives in
Ithaca, NY and teaches creative writing and literature at SUNY, Oneonta.
Paul
Hostovsky's
poems have won a Pushcart Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from The
Comstock Review, and
chapbook contests from Grayson Books, Riverstone Press, and the Frank Cat
Press. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's
Almanac, and
Best of the Net. His
newest collection of poems, Dear Truth, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag.
Visit his website at: www.paulhostovsky.com
Henry Israeli is the author of New Messiahs; the editor and co-translator of Fresco: Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanku; and Child of Nature.
In 2001, he received a grant for poetry translation from the National
Endowment for the Arts. He serves as the published for Saturnalia Books
and teaches in the English and Honors Departments at Drexel University.
Luljeta Lleshanaku
is an Albanian poet born in Elbasan, Albania in 1968. She was educated
in literature at the University of Tirana and was editor in chief of
the weekly magazine Zeri i rinise (The Voice of Youth). She then worked for the literary newspaper Drita. Lleshanaku is the author of four collections of poetry, Fresco,
is the only collection that has been translated into English. She is
the recipient of the 2009 Vilenice Kristal prize for world poetry, and
is the winner of the best book of the year award from the Eurorilindja
Publishing House.
M (Constance Hall) has appeared in a number of journals including Pedestal,
Babelfruit, Word Riot, Prick of the Spindle, The Dirty Napkin, The Rose
& Thorn, and Juked. She has been the Associate Poetry
Editor for the online magazine, Stirring: A Literary Collection since 1999. She also serves as an Administrator of on online poetry workshop called
Wild Poetry Forum, and as Co-Chair of the Portland Unit of the Oregon
State Poetry Association. In addition, she has recently taken on the
post of Managing Editor for VoiceCatcher, a non-profit
collective that produces an annual anthology of Portland area women’s
poems and prose.
Peter Magliocco is author of the novel The
Burgher of Virtual Eden; and transeXotica, which was
nominated for a Pushcart prize. He writes from Las Vegas, Nevada, and his
poetry has appeared in small press and online publications including The
Smoking Poet; A Hudson View Poetry Digest; The Beat; Opium
Poetry and Heeltap.
Matthew McGevna received his MFA in Creative Writing from Southampton College in 2002, where he was awarded the John Steinbeck Prize for Best Graduate Writing. His most recent publications are forthcoming in Karamu and Confrontation Magazine. His piece included in Ozone Park
is part of a collection based on his experience growing up on Mastic
Beach, Long Island. He currently lives in Jackson Heights where he's
working on his first novel.
Matt Morello is a teacher and writer. He enjoys writing about strange people from Long Island and New York City. He has recently published an article about former President Bush in Clamor Magazine and an article about the Amityville horror house in Hitch Magazine. Other work has been published in Pindeldyboyz and American Feed Magazine.
Peter E. Murphy is the author of Stubborn
Child,
a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Thorough & Efficient. He is the recipient of
a Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Murphy
currently teaches at the Richard Stockton College where he directs the Winter
Poetry & Prose Getaway in Cape May as well as other programs for poets,
writers and teachers.
Alison
Roh Park
is a writer, performer and activist from Queens, New York. She is a Kundiman
fellow and former artist-in-residence of the Asian Arts Initiative, where she
performed her solo show, A Magpie Sang on the 7-Train. Her work has appeared
in The NuyorAsian Anthology, Asian Pacific American Journal and Yellow Medicine
Review
and she has performed and educated across the U.S. Alison is an MFA student at
New York University.
Roger
Singer
has had over 300 poems published multi-nationally in small presses and online
sources including Pens on Fire; Northern Star; Black Book Press; Underground
Voices; Subtle Tea; Ocean and Big Muddy.
He lives in Glenville, New York where he has kept a private practice as
a chiropractor for 33 years.
Lynne Shaprio‘s work has appeared in various
literary magazines in the United States and England, including Myslexia,
Trespass, Hiss Quarterly, Qarrtsiluni, Switchback,
and Umbrella. Her poetry has been anthologized in Eating Her
Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems; and Decomposition: An
Anthology of Fungi Poetry. She lives in New Jersey, where she teaches at
Hudson County Community College.
Paul Sohar is the author of eight collections of translation including Dancing Embers. He has also published his own work including the poetry collection, Homing Poems; a prose book, True Tales of a Fictitious Spy; and two children's books. He has numerous magazine credits including work in Aurorean, Chelsea, Chiron, Grain, Kenyon Review, Poem, Seneca Review, and Rattle.
J.
Tarwood
has published in magazines ranging from American Poetry Review to Visions and has published two
books, The Cats in Zanzibar, and Grand Detour. His poem, "Ben Franklin
Needed Bifocals To Speak French," was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize in 2003. He has lived most of his adult life in East Africa, South
America, and the Middle East.
SPRING 2009 CONTRIBUTORS
Wesley Biddy is currently a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies at Marquette University. His poems have appeared most recently in The Comstock Review, Fickle Muses, The New Pantagruel, Lunarosity, and Communiqué.
J. Bradley is a poet based out of Orlando, FL. Previous work has
appeared in decomP, Word Riot, November 3rd Club, Gloom Cupboard, and
Prick of the Spindle and will appear in upcoming issues of Poetry
Midwest and The Monongahela Review.
Annie Cardi will receive her MFA at Emerson College in May 2009. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Vestal Review, The Georgetown Review, Juked, TBR Tallboy, The Shine Journal, and 21 Stars Review. She is currently at work on a novel.
Maryelizabeth Christine
lives in Louisville, KY with her daughter Lydia and her husband Oz. She
teaches writing part-time at Spalding University and Jefferson
Community and Technical College. In May 2009, Finishing Line Press
released her first chapbook entitled Skinny Dipping. Skinny Dipping
was featured as a finalist in the 2008 New Women’s Voices Chapbook
Competition. She was also featured in Kentucky Monthly as one of
Kentucky’s next generation of writers in November 2008.
William Doreski has work which has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently Another Ice Age (AA Books, 2007).
Drew has
been in love many times and has danced on many dance floors. She is one
of the original Clueless Collective members and has even appeared in
print on a few occasions. When not scribbling poetry she can be found
at: www.cluelesscollective.co.uk.
Carmen Firan, a poet and fiction writer, has published twenty books of
poetry, novels, essays and short stories in her native Romania. Since
2000, Firan has lived in New York, first as part of Romania’s cultural
diplomatic service. Her writings have appeared in translation in
numerous literary magazines and anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden,
Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, the U.K., as well as the U.S. Recent
books and publications here include The Second Life (short
stories—Columbia University Press, 2005), The Farce (novel—Spuyten
Duyvil, 2003), In The Most Beautiful Life (poems with
photographs—Umbrage Editions, New York, 2002), and three other books of
poetry published in New York, Afternoon With An Angel, The First Moment
After Death, and Accomplished Error. The poem included here is from Firan’s new collection, Rock and Dew, to be published by Sheep Meadow Press later in 2009. Poems from this book have been published in Talisman, Asheville Poetry Review, The Light Millennium, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Miscellany, The Broome Review, Barrow Street and (forthcoming) Osiris.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks, most recently Tomorrowland (2008)
from Achilles Chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a
Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.
Donald Illich has published work in LIT, Passages North, Nimrod, The
South Carolina Review, and several
other journals. He was awarded
Honorable Mention for the Washington Book Prize, and he was a
semifinalist for the Discovery Prize. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.
Michael Lee Johnson
lives in the Itasca, Illinois area, after spending 10 years in
Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance
writer and poet, heavily influenced by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost,
William Carlos Williams, Irving Layton, and Leonard Cohen. To date he
has over 348 poems published in over 280 journals and online
publications. He has been published in the United States, Canada,
Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria, India, and the United
Kingdom. He is the author of the poetry paperback book The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom. His website can be found at: http://poetryman.mysite.com/.
Laura LeHew is an award winning poet whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Alehouse Press, Battered Suitcase, Her Mark Calendar ’07 & ’09, HeartLodge, Pank, PMS, and Untamed In.
The chapbook Beauty is due out in May ’09 from Altered Crow Press. She
received her MFA in writing from the California College of The Arts, a
writing residency from Soapstone, interned for CALYX Journal, and has just been nominated for a Pushcart. In her spare time she is busy spinning up a new press: Uttered Chaos www.utteredchaos.org.
Francine Rubin
is a graduate student at Columbia University, working towards becoming
a certified high school English teacher. She holds an MFA in Creative
Writing from Emerson College and a BA in Theater from Dartmouth
College. Her poetry has been published in Fringe Magazine and the Long Island Pulse. She has also previously worked as a ballet teacher.
Tom Sheehan’s most recent books are Brief Cases, Short Spans, and From
the Quickening. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ocean
Magazine, Perigee, Rope and Wire Magazine, Qarrtsiluni, Green Silk
Journal, Halfway down the Stairs, Ad Hoc Monadnock, Hawk &
Whippoorwill, Eden Waters Press, Milspeak Memo, Ensorcelled, Canopic
Jar, SFWP, Eskimo Pie, Lyrical Ballads, Lock Raven Review, Indite
Circle, Northville Review, Pine Tree Mysteries, and in forthcoming
anthologies including Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform, and
Milspeak Anthology. He has received ten Pushcart Prize nominations, a
Noted Story of 2007 nomination, the Georges Simenon Award, and will
appear in the Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009.
Adam J. Sorkin, regional editor for Romania/Moldova of New European
Poets (Graywolf). He recently published Memory Glyphs, a collection of
three Romanian prose poets, Cristian Popescu, Iustin Panta and Radu
Andriescu (Twisted Spoon, 2009) and Ruxandra Cesereanu’s
Crusader-Woman, translated with Cesereanu (Black Widow, 2008). His
awards include the Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation of
The Poetry Society (U.K.), International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries
Award, and Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, as well as NEA,
Rockefeller Foundation, Academy of American Poets, Arts Council of
England, Fulbright, Soros, and Witter Bynner Foundation support for
translation activities. Sorkin is Distinguished Professor of English,
Penn State Brandywine.
Lena Sze is a graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA Program. Her work has appeared in A/P/A Journal, The Brooklyn Review, and Skidrow Penthouse, and the volume The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City. Poetry awards include the John Russell Hayes Poetry Prize at Swarthmore College and First Place in the 2005 CUNY Arts Gala Poetry Contest.
J. A. Tyler is the author of the forthcoming novella Someone, Somewhere
(ghost road press) and the chapbooks The Girl In The Black Sweater
(Trainwreck Press) and Everyone In This Is Either Dying Or Will Die Or
Is Thinking Of Death (Achilles Chapbook Series). He is also founding
editor of mud luscious / ml press and was recently nominated for a
Pushcart. Find more info here: www.aboutjatyler.blogspot.com.
Bonnie Yarry grew up in Jackson Heights and is a graduate of the
competition: City College with a BA in history. She writes for trade
publications, freelances for the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, and is
thrilled that several literary magazines have accepted her work
recently. Her career began at age nine as an artist’s model and she’s
had jobs ranging from funeral home secretary, tour guide, and flight
attendant, to editor of a federal newspaper, tutor, teacher, and
graphologist. She’s in her 50th year of writing in her diary every day.
Her novel is based upon those journal entries and she is seeking a
publisher. Her bag is always packed for the next adventure.
Barbara Zaragoza lives in Naples, Italy where she roams the ancient
Greek and Roman ruins when she's not writing. She holds a Master's
degree in Russian and East European Studies from Stanford University
and is currently writing a novel set in 1946 Eastern Europe. You can
find her at www.barbarazaragozaauthor.com.
FALL 2008 CONTRIBUTORS
Oscar Bermeo was born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx. He now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poet Barbara Jane Reyes.
Donna Brook, author of four books of poetry, has recently had poems in The Brooklyn Rail, The Recluse and Hanging Loose #93.
Robert Calero graduated from Queens College with a BA
in English. He is currently employed as perhaps Manhattan's tiniest
bouncer at a jazz bar in the West Village.
Christie Casher is a teacher and writer from Brooklyn, NY. She has been published in Fair Use and the Pipe Dream and edited an anthology of poetry, Ugly Poets, Beautiful Poems (Lagoon
Drive Press, 2004). She received her MFA from Emerson College in 2006
and an MS in Education from Pace in 2008. She is currently working on a
new book and teaching English Language Arts in East New York.
Cyrus Cassells is the author of four acclaimed books of poetry: The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, More Than Peace and Cypresses. Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award. He is a Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos.
Eric Darton’s novel Free City (WW Norton 1996) was subsequently published in German and Spanish translations. His cultural history of the World Trade Center, Divided We Stand (Basic
Books, 1999) became a New York Times bestseller. He is currently
writing and publishing, via weekly email installments, an ongoing
journal of our strange times called Born Witness. His most recent book
is Beaky Chronicles, twelve animal tales for adults, with
illustrations by Katie Kehrig. Other of Darton's writings may be found
at www.ericdarton.net.
Mary Christine Delea is the author of The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky (Main Street Press, NC), two chapbooks, and over 200 published poems. Upcoming publications include Eclipse and Cider Press Review. Originally from Long Island, she now lives in Oregon with her husband and their five cats.
Deborah Di Bari grew up in East Harlem. After
graduation from FIT, she pursued a career in textile and fashion
design. She plans to continue nourishing her passion for narrative and
writing in an MFA program after completion of the Goddard College BFA
in Creative Writing, where she is a founding editor of Guideword.
Judy Gerbin is a graduate of Pratt University and
works as a graphic designer. She is currently writing short stories and
poetry. She lives in Yonkers with her husband.
Robert Hershon has published 12 poetry collections, most recently Calls from the Outside World. He is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press and executive director of The Print Center. He has won two NEA Fellowships and three from New York State.
Ry Kincaid’s poems appear in recent or upcoming issues of Tipton Poetry Journal, The Honey Land Review, Poetry Flyer, and The Battered Suitcase. His historical baseball play, The Rajah of Saint Louis, debuted last year. Kincaid lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
Cathy McArthur’s poetry has appeared in Jacket, Lumina, The Melic Review, Xconnect. Shampoo, The Memphis State Review, Blue Fifth Review, sonaweb, and other presses. Her work was selected for
CUNYArtsGala, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2006 she received an MFA in
Poetry from The City College of New York, and was also awarded The
Malanche Prize for her translations of Contemporary Latin American
Poets. She currently teaches Literature and English Composition at
CCNY. She is also Program Coordinator for the Readings On the Bowery
series, sponsored by Four Way Books.
Lynne Martens is a New Yorker who now lives in Vermont
to be near her family. She owns her own business, a Pilates exercise
studio. She loves flash impressions of startling beauty--an inspiration
for the poem "A Potted Plant In June."
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Michael Morical’s work has appeared in various journals including The New York Quarterly, Rattapallax, Frogpond and The Pedestal Magazine. His first chapbook, Sharing Solitaire, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Mihaela Moscaliuc’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit, New Letters, Connecticut Review, Meridians, Crab Orchard Review, and Poetry International. She has published reviews, translations, and articles in Arts & Letters, Mississippi Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Soundings, and elsewhere.
Rena J. Mosteirin is a poet and fiction writer.
She is the winner of the 2008 Kore Press Fiction Chapbook award for her
story "Nick Trail's Thumb." She blogs poetry at White Whale Crossing.
Rena has also won the Sydney Cox Memorial Award (2005, 2007), the
Grimes Prize (2007), and the Class of 1954 Award (2007). She is a
graduate of Dartmouth College and currently lives in Thetford, VT.
Susan O'Doherty is the author of Getting Unstuck without Coming Unglued: A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity (Seal Press, 2007). Her work has appeared in Eureka
Literary Magazine, Northwest Review, Ballyhoo Stories, Apalachee
Review, Eclectica, and Literary Mama, and the anthologies Sex for
America: Politically Inspired Erotica (HarperPerennial, 2008), Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008), About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope (Penguin, 2007), and It’s a Boy! (Seal Press, 2005). New work is scheduled to appear in Ars Medica,and Feed Me! Writers Dish about Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image (Random House, 2009). Her popular advice column for writers, "The Doctor Is In," appears each Friday on the publishing blog Buzz, Balls & Hype.
Lisa Romeo, a New Jersey resident, writes essays and other nonfiction for a broad range of media, including The New York Times, magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. She is at work on a memoir and recently completed an MFA in nonfiction.
Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse.
Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. He
teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA and
lives with his wife and daughter in Manhattan.
Diane Shakar is a Reiki Master and instructor.
She is currently writing short stories and poetry. She lives in
Brooklyn, New York with her husband.