Nola Accili is a self-taught painter. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Manoa, Room of One's Own, and Elimae. She has written reviews for the Pacific Rim Review of Books.
Michael Aird has appeared or is fortchcoming in Lungfull!, Elimae, Glitterpony, Horse Less Review, Gestalten and Lit.
Cynthia Arrieu-King is the author of The Small Anything City (Dream Horse Press). Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, No Tell Motel, Pilot Poetry, Hotel Amerika, Court Green, and elsewhere.
Emily Anderson's work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Caketrain, Parcel, Indelible Kitchen and Sawbuck.
Hanna Andrews is the author of a/ long/ division , forthcoming from Tilt Press. She is a co-founder of the feminist press Switchback Books and teaches poetry and first-year writing at Columbia College Chicago. Recent poems have appeared in Caketrain, CutBank and Foursquare.
Cristiana Baik is an MFA candidate at th University of Alabama and a letterpress printer. She has been published by RealPoetik and Spinning Jenny.
Elizabeth H. Barbato is an English teacher born and raised through her college years in New England, then ended up in New Jersey, where for fourteen years she has taught writing, drama and music to every age from kindergarteners to high school seniors. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apple Valley Review, Poetrybay, The Litchfield Review, and Foliate Oak. The Kennesaw Review awarded her their Don Russ poetry prize for 2008. Her poems in this issue of Word For/Word are from her book Elpenor Falls, which will be published by Dancing Girl Press in 2009.
Mike Cannell is an intermedia poly-poet from The UK who works in visual, textual and sound poetry of various types. He is dedicated to the exploration of the materiality and emotional power of language. He hosts the semi-regular podcast/audiomagazine K=O=L=L=A=P=S which is dedicated to promoting sound poetry in all its forms..
Allison Carter lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches a workshop in hybrid forms at CalArts and designs websites. She is the author of A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues, 2008) and a chapbook, Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press 2008). Her work has otherwise appeared in Fence, 5_Trope, P-Queue and others journals. She currently co-edits the Particle Series with Joe Potts (psbooks.org).
Autumn Carter lives in Los Angeles and is a graduate student in Antioch University's MFA Program.
Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. His graphic work has appeared in The Blue Smoke Band, Poems Niederngasse, ardent, moria, eratio postmodern poetry, Ancient Heart Magazine, Speculative Fiction Centre, JMWW, Quill and Ink, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Spoiled Ink, Lunatic Chameleon, Triplopia, Events Quarterly, Skive Magazine, Subtle Tea, Literary Vision Magazine (LitVision), Prose Toad, Lily, Ink Pot, and elsewhere.
Ian Davisson's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in elimae, the Denver Quarterly, and Opium.
Andy Frazee's reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Verse, Jacket, Boston Review, Galatea Resurrects, and CutBank Reviews. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in 1913, and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Bath House, Sycamore Review, Rhino, Faultline, and was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize. He is a PhD student in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.
Matt Gagnon grew up in northeastern Massachusetts and has since lived in Vermont, Colorado, and western Massachusetts. His reviews can be found at Octopus Magazine, CutBank Reviews, and Jacket. Poems are forthcoming in Model Homes, and his essay on Robin Blaser will be appearing in The Poker.
Tom Hibbard's reviews have appeared in numberous journals, including Big Bridge, Sidereality, Poetic Inhalation, Milk, Jacket, and elsewhere. His poetry collections include Nonexistence, Gessom, Delancey Street, Human Powers, Nocturnes, Songs of Divine Love, Enchanted Streets, and Assembly.
W. Scott Howard received his Ph.D. in English and Critical Theory from the University of Washington . His essays in Anglo-American poetics and cultural theory have appeared in many journals and books, including: The McNeese Review, Milton Quarterly, Early Modern Literary Studies , Denver Quarterly, and The Comparatist ; Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning (Susquehanna), Reading the Middle Generation Anew (Iowa), Studying Cultural Landscapes (Arnold & Oxford), Grief and Gender, 700-1700 (Palgrave), and Printed Voices (Toronto). Scott serves on the editorial board for Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture; and also edits and publishes two electronic, annual, peer-reviewed journals: Appositions, Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture; and Reconfigurations, A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture.
Aby Kaupang's workhas appeared or is forthcoming in Verse, Denver Quarterly, Caketrain, Shampoo, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, and others. Her chapbook, Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable, was listed as a finalist for the Laurel Review/Greentower Press Midwest Chapbook Competition in 2007 & 2008 as well as the 2007 CRANKY chapbook competition.
Karl Kempton visual poems have been nationally and internationally published and exhibited since 1974. His work has evolved from typewriter to computer b&w to color and now mixed media works with the use of a SLR digital camera. weaving 108 is from photos taken in San Luis Obispo's Gum Alley. Karl edited and published Kaldron between 1976-1990 and is co-editor of an on-line edition published by Karl Young at . Some of his works can be seen at Logolia, Unlikely Stories, eratio, and Blackbox. Also see his article on Chumash solstice alignments.
Lisa Lightsey currently resides in Portland, Oregon where she is the editor of Four Types, a quarterly chapbook of collaborative typewritings. Her work has appeared many places, most recently in CapGun2.
Chad Lietz lives in Oakland, CA where he co-edits Cricket Online Review.
A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz is an adjunct professor and student in the University at Buffalo's Department of Media Study. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Cranky, DIAGRAM, The Eleventh Muse, and the Zaoem Festival of Contemporary Poetry in Ghent, Belgium. He is the Assistant Editor of Digital, Visual, & Sound Poetry for the journal Anti-.
Diana Magallón is an Mexican experimental artist whose work has been published in: Eratio, Greatworks, The Argotist, Shampoo, MAG, Hutt, the Blackboard Project, La Tzará, te_a_tro, Tin Lustre Mobile, Kulture Volture, Starfish, Surfaceonline, Niedergasse, Papertiger, and elsewhere.
Chris Major lives in Stoke, England. His poetry appears in many print/online mags. His chapbook CONCRETE & CALLIGRAM is available as a free download at www.whyvandalism.com.
Teresa K. Miller is the author of Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008). She received her MFA from Mills College, and her work has appeared in Coconut, ZYZZYVA , MiPOesias, Columbia Poetry Review, and others. Nod to poet Jessi Lee Gaylord, whose imagery inspired parts of "Half the table" years ago.
Michael Rerick works at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and his work has appearedin Exquisite Corpse, Shampoo, Diagram, Fence, Bathhouse, Cue, No Tell Motel , Order+Decorum, Words on Walls, and elsewhere.
Michael Rothenberg has been an active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 25 years. His books of poems include The Paris Journals (Fish Drum), Monk Daddy (Blue Press) and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda Press). Rothenberg is editor and publisher of Big Bridge. He is also editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin), As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin), David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer, Way More Out, Selected Poems of Edward Dorn (Penguin, 2007), and the Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan University Press, 2007).
Matthew Savoca is 26 years old. When he was 24 years old he moved to italy to be with a girl who he is currently wandering around Europe being confused about life with. Read his other stuff here, and email him if you want a print of the Mussolini thing.
Felicia Shenker is a visual artist and writer living in Montreal. She worked for several years in broadsheets, artists books and text-installations before coming to focus on literature. Her poetry has appeared in Vallum.
Lynn Strongin, a native New Yorker, has published fourteen books. Her memoir INDIGO will be publised by Throp Springs Press in late winter, 2009. She has been nominated for the Griffin Award for Excellence in poetry for CAPE SEVENTY. Two of her books will be showcased in the Franfurt International Book Fair, 2008. Cassandra Robison is working on a biography of the poet called “Elegant Necessities: The Life and work of Poet Lynn Strongin.”
Amish Trivedi lives in Iowa City. His poems are available in La Petite Zine, the Backwards City Review and are available/forthcoming in RealPoetik, Cannibal, along with an e-chap from Absent Magazine. The Trivedi Chronicles (http://trivedichronic.blogspot.com) are a source of cheap and easy entertainment.
Tim Willette writes in Chicago. His work has appeared at Nokturno, dbqp, Dirt: A Journal of Minimalism, and po-X-cetera. Contact: tmwillette at yahoo dot com.
Ryo Yamaguchi is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he is also the Assistant Editor for Dislocate. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Hayden's Ferry Review, Tin House, The Cincinnati Review, The Notre Dame Review, DIAGRAM, New Delta Review, Natural Bridge, Faultline, The Sycamore Review, and threecandles.
Mark Young's Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959-2008 was recently published by Meritage Press. He is the editor of Otoliths. |
