Jared Carter
Jared Carter's fourth book of poems, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, was published in 2006 by Wind Publications in Kentucky. A Midwesterner from Indiana, he has published poems in such literary journals as Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, and a number of online journals.
Larry Moffi
Larry Moffi is the author of three collections of poems, most recently A Citizen's Handbook, and three nonfiction books on baseball, The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig; This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s; and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947–1959. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry, The Ohio Review, TriQuarterly, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, and California Quarterly.
Karren Alenier
Karren LaLonde Alenier is author of five collections of poetry, including Looking for Divine Transportation (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press), winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature. Her poetry and fiction have been published in such magazines as: the Mississippi Review, Jewish Currents, and Poet Lore. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her experimental, jazz opera with composer William Banfield premiered June 2005 in New York City by Encompass New Opera Theatre under the direction of Nancy Rhodes. She is president of The Word Works, a Washington, DC literary organization. For Scene4.com, she writes a monthly column on the process of developing contemporary opera entitled Bumper Cars: The Steiny Road To Operadom. Forthcoming in 2007 is The Steiny Road To Operadom: The Making Of American Operas.
Jon Ballard
Jon Ballard is a poet as well as an occasional literature instructor for Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, Michigan. Currently he lives in Mexico City, Mexico. His poems have previously appeared in Soundings East, Riverrun,The Old Red Kimono, SP Quill, The MacGuffin,The Dande Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Poetry Midwest, and The Centrifugal Eye. His work is forthcoming in The Rock Salt Plum Review, Subtletea, and The Valparaiso Poetry Review. His first chapbook, Lonesome, from Pudding House Publications, is due out this year.
Virginia Bell
Virginia Bell's poem "No Pope" appeared in the Spring 2006 Wartime issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. On March 6, 2007, she was a featured reader in the Takoma DC library Poetry Series. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and frequently teaches as an adjunct professor with the English Department at Georgetown University. She has published scholarly articles on such writers as Eduardo Galeano and Leslie Marmon Silko. She also is a stay-at-home parent of two young children. She lives in Takoma Park.
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