Judy Kronenfeld
Judy Kronenfeld's poems have appeared in many journals including The Portland Review, Passages North, Hubbub, Poetry International, Chariton Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Manhattan Poetry Review, The Evansville Review, The Mississippi Valley Review, The Louisville Review, The MacGuffin, Spillway, Pebble Lake Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Snake Nation Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Natural Bridge, The Pedestal, Barnwood, and The Women's Review of Books, as well as in anthologies including Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach, 2006), and Red, White and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America (Iowa U. P., 2004). A book of her poems, Shadow of Wings, came out in 1991 (Bellflower Press), a chapbook, Disappeared Down Dark Wells, and Still Falling (The Inevitable Press) in 2000, and another chapbook, Ghost Nurseries (Finishing Line Press) in 2005.
She has published stories, essays and reviews in The Madison Review, The North American Review, Potpourri, The Crescent Review, Under the Sun, The AWP Chronicle, Chelsea, and The Literary Magazine Review, as well as criticism and scholarly reviews in many journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly and ELH. A critical study, KING LEAR and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance was published by Duke University Press in 1998. She teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside.
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 opera with composer William Banfield and Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes, premiered in New York City in June 2005. Forthcoming in the fall of 2007 is The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas, her collection of essays about creating opera in America and the libretto Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On.
Gary Beck
Gary Beck's poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His recent fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines. His chapbook, The Conquest of Somalia, will be published by Cervena Barva Press. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.
Bob Boston
Bob Boston, a poet residing on the East Coast, is indigent and moves constantly from shelter to shelter at this time. Although he has been writing for many years, these are his first published poems.
Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri was given the key to the city of Greenville, South Carolina, and February 16 was proclaimed "Grace Cavalieri Day" by the Mayor of Greenville for the play "Quilting the Sun" that brought the black and white cultural communities together. She was featured in the February/March 2007 issue of Writers' Digest. She has 14 books and 21 produced plays to her credit. Grace is the Book Review Editor of The Montserrat Review, and the producer/host of "The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress" for public radio. Audio columns "INNUENDOES" and "ON LOCATION" are presented by MiPOradio, on line.
Barbara Lefcowitz
Barbara F. Lefcowitz has published nine poetry collections. Her latest
collection, The Blue Train to America," appeared in January 2007. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been
published in over 500 journals, and she has won writing fellowships and prizes
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller
Foundation, and several individual journals.
A native New Yorker, Lefcowitz has lived most of her life in Bethesda,
Maryland.
Ernie Wormwood
Ernie Wormwood, a native Washingtonian, lives in Leonardtown, Maryland. She recently appeared on Grace Cavalieri's The Poet and the Poem for the Library of Congress and has new work coming out in an anthology on Walt Whitman and in the book Poem, Revised, Marion Street Press, September 2007.
Leo Yankevich
Leo Yankevich's poetry has appeared in scores of magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, among humbler titles in American Jones, ArtWord Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Cedar Hill Review, Chronicles, Envoi, The MacGuffin, Poetry Notingham, Staple, Sulphur River Literary Review, The Tennessee Review, Visions International, and The Windsor Review. He lives with his wife and three sons in Gliwice, Poland, where he works as a translator and serves as the poetry editor for The New Formalist (formalpoetry.com).
John Surowiecki
John Surowiecki is the author of Watching Cartoons before Attending a Funeral (White Pine Press, 2003) and The Hat City after Men Stopped Wearing Hats, (The Word Works, 2006 Washington Prize). He has also published five chapbooks: Bolivia Street (Burnside Review Press, 2006), Further Adventures of My Nose: 24 Caprices (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005), Dennis Is Transformed into a Thrush (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 2004), Five-hundred Widowers in a Field of Chamomile (Portlandia Group, 2002) and Caliban Poems (West Town Press, 2001). In 2006, Surowiecki won the Pablo Neruda Prize sponsored by Nimrod International Journal
and finished second in the 2006 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival National
Competition. He was a featured reader at Cafe Muse in April 2007.
The three poems in this selection are part of a long poem, "American
Stroke," which is recently finished and looking for a publisher.
Publications include: Alaska
Quarterly Review, Antietam Review, Briar Cliff Review, Columbia, Cream
City Review, Folio, Gargoyle, GW Review, Indiana Review, Kimera,
MacGuffin, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Poetry,
Prairie Schooner, Rhino, West Branch, and Xanadu.
Laura Fargas
Laura Fargas is Washington DC poet who practiced occupational safety and health law for 27 years. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry and the Paris Review; her most recent book is An Animal of the Sixth Day (Texas Tech University Press). She currently teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda.
Kathi Wolfe
Kathi Wolfe is a poet and writer in Falls Church, VA. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Potomac Review, Gargoyle, Passager Magazine, Breath & Shadow and other publications. She has appeared on the public radio show The Poet and the Poem and read in the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series. Wolfe has received grants for poetry residencies at Vermont Studio Center, an artist community in Johnson, VT. She was awarded a Puffin Foundation grant for her work on her chapbook of poems on Helen Keller.
Elisavietta Ritchie
Elisavietta Ritchie's books include: Awaiting Permission to
Land, (Anamnesis Award); The Spirit of the Walrus; The Arc of the Storm;
Elegy for the Other Woman; Tightening The Circle Over Eel Country (Great Lakes
Colleges Association's "New Writer's Award"); Raking The Snow;
chapbooks Timbot; Wild Garlic: The Journal of Maria X. Fiction collections: In Haste I Write You
This Note; Flying Time (four PEN Syndicated Fiction winners); Edited The
Dolphin's Arc: Endangered Creatures of the Sea and others. She teaches creative
writing to adults and students. Current president, Fiction division, Washington
Writers' Publishing House. Several awards and Pushcart Prize nominations.
Mary Morris
Mary Morris is the winner of the 2007 Rita Dove Award. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Blue Mesa Review, Red Rock Review, Nimrod, The Sun and many others. To solicit further work, contact WATER400@aol.com.
Niamh Corcoran
Niamh Corcoran earned a B.A. in English from Yale University and an M.F.A. from American University, where she was poetry editor of Folio. Her manuscript was a semifinalist for the 2006 Discovery/The Nation Prize. Most recently she was the recipient of an Individual Artist Award in Poetry in 2007 from the Maryland State Arts Council. She works at a school for the learning disabled.
Norma Chapman
Norma Chapman lives in Brunswick, a small town in Western Maryland. She started writing poetry after turning sixty. Her poems have been published in Passager, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Iris, The Sow's Ear, River Styx, and elsewhere. In 2003, she received a Maryland State Arts Council Grant.
Jonathan Highfield
Jonathan Highfield is an Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches a wide range of courses in colonial and postcolonial literatures. His poems have appeared in The New Review. He lives in North Scituate, Rhode Island, and likes to cook with the vegetables from his garden.
Simki Ghebremichael
Simki Ghebremichael has been a featured reader in the Washington area at Poesis, Miller Cabin, Nora School, and Artomatic. Her poem, "For Coretta," appears in the 2006 Beltway Quarterly DC Places Issue. She is in the MFA Program at American University.
GTimothy Gordon
GTimothy Gordon has recent fiction and poetry in Dos Passos Review, Evansville Review, Saltzburg Poetry Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. A poem has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Israel Lewis
After a career as an engineer, Israel Lewis took up prose and poetry and has been writing stories and poems for twenty years. A short story received Honorable Mention in a national competition for community college students. He has studied poetry in workshop courses at the University of Maryland under Phyllis Levin and Michael Collier, the Jenny McKean Moore program at George Washington University under Linda McCarriston, and more recently at OLLI (formerly the Institute for Learning in Retirement) at American University under Jennifer M. Pierson. His work has appeared in Aurorean and Wordwrights! A "science" poem in an anthology of poems on "Love and Mathematics" will be published next year.
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller has been published in Prairie Margins and Avatar. He was the winner of the 2004 Bethesda Youth Poetry Slam. He is now the poetry editor for Avatar,
St. Mary's College of Maryland's literary magazine. He is a member of
the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Joshua lives in Silver Spring,
Maryland.
Taylor Graham
Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada. Her
poems have appeared in International Poetry Review, The Iowa Review,
The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, and elsewhere. Her work also appears in the anthology, California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the
Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her latest book, The Downstairs
Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006), is winner of the Robert
Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.
Susan A. Katz
Susan A. Katz is the author of three poetry collections, The Separate Sides of Need, Two Halves of the Same Silence, and An Eye for Resemblances. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, Negative Capability, The Kansas Quarterly, Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple and numerous other literary magazines and anthologies. She lives and works out of her home in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut.
Beth Paulson
Beth Paulson taught college writing
for over twenty years at California State University Los Angeles and
now lives near Ouray, Colorado where she teaches writing workshops,
directs local poetry events, and writes a popular column for the Ouray Plaindealer. Her
poems have been widely published in literary magazines and her work is
included in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin and University of
Texas Press. She has two published collections of poems, The Truth About Thunder (2001) and The Company of Trees (2004) as well as a CD of nature poetry, By Stone By Water. Beth's poem, "Hollyhocks," was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize.
Roger Pfingston
Roger Pfingston is a retired teacher of English and photography.
His poems have appeared recently in Kaleidowhirl, Mannequin Envy, and
two anthologies from Iowa Press: Say This of Horses and 75 Poems on Retirement. Another horse poem is scheduled to appear in Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses from Yarroway Mountain Press. His most recent chapbooks are Singing to the Garden from Parallel Press and Earthbound from Pudding House Publications.
Shep Ranbom
Shep Ranbom recently completed a collection of poems called The Infinity of Small Places
from which these pieces are drawn. Newly published work includes poems
in tribute to the late Irish novelist John McGahern, which appear in Leitrim Guardian 2007, and selections from "King Philip's War," appearing in Independent Scholar. He is the co-founder and president of CommunicationWorks, LLC, a national public affairs firm focused on education, social policy, and cultural issues.
Heddy Reid
Heddy Reid's poems have been published in Alimentum Journal, Yankee Magazine, Sun and Moon, The Calvert Review, Potomac Review, The Washingtonian, Antietam Review, The Sand River Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and Passager. Her chapbook, A Far Cry:
Poems of Childhood and Psychoanalysis, was published recently by
Finishing Line Press. Her
work appears several anthologies, and she has read widely in the DC area. She has led workshops in DC and New York. Heddy has worked for many years as a freelance writer and
editor specializing in health, and has been a "book-doctor." She and her husband live in Washington, DC.
They have two grown sons and a splendid new grandson.
Noel Smith
Noel Smith's first collection of poems, titled Drifting for
a While Toward Cash and Dreams, will be published by MotesBooks early in 2008. An earlier manuscript, Twisting Sourwood, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared
in many journals including Yankee Magazine, where she received first
prize in 1996, West Branch, New Letters, and Shenandoah. She won honorable
mention in the Denny C. Plattner prize from Appalachian Heritage in
2001 and the Henry V. Larom Prize from SUNY Rockland in 2002.
She has been nominated three times
for a Pushcart Prize and lives in Pomona, New York.
Steven Trebellas
Steven Trebellas, 54 years old, recently received his MFA from Southern Illinois University. His poems previously appeared in Innisfree 3. His background is in mechanics and home repair. Raised in Illinois, he participated in strikes, riots, and protests, including, at the age of 16, the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. He was kicked out of Culver Stockton College at 19 for protesting his black roommate's expulsion for dating a white woman. He was a labor organizer while at Southern Illinois University. He loves the writings of the Beats, but also current poets, especially, Rodney Jones, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, and Kim Addonizio. He currently lives in a gas station, has no health insurance, and occasionally looks for work in Burlington, Iowa.
Patrick Uanseru
Patrick Iria Uanseru, a graduate in Theatre Arts from the University of Calabar, is from an agrarian community called Uokha, Edo State, Nigeria.
Pamela Murray Winters
Pamela Murray Winters is a lifelong resident of the Washington, D.C., area whose poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Calvert Review, JMMW, and the anthology Takoma Park Writers 1981. A former music journalist, in summer 2007 she studied poetry with her old college instructor Rod Jellema at the Writer's Center and songwriting with poet Tom Kimmel and her musical hero Sloan Wainwright at the Cedar Run Song Workshop. She learned to write four years before she learned to tie her shoes.
Ann Knox
Ann Knox's chapbook, The Dark Edge, was published last year by Pudding House Press. In addition, she has two full books of poetry: Stonecrop, winner of Washington Writers' Publishing House Prize and Staying Is Nowhere, winner of the SCOP/Writer's Center Prize. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, among them, Poetry, Blue Line, The Green Mountains Review, Atlanta Review, and Alaska Quarterly. A collection of short stories, Late Summer Break,
was published by Papier Mache Press. She received an MFA from
Goddard-Warren Wilson and has taught workshops and writing seminars in
many venues, including The Writer's Center in Washington, DC, Antioch
Writing Workshop, Aspen Summer Conference, Johns Hopkins Writing
Program, and Hagerstown Community College. For eighteen years she
served as editor of the Antietam Review.
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Katherine E. Young
Katherine E. Young's poetry is forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review and has appeared in Poet Lore, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, and many others. A chapbook, Gentling the Bones, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Lydia R. Cooper
Lydia R. Cooper will receive her Ph.D. in English Literature
from
Baylor
University.
At
Baylor
,
she has met poets from Paul Muldoon to Derek Wolcott at the annual Beall Poetry
Festival, which she helped host this last year. The festival is the highlight
of her year. She writes poetry when she is not reading it.
Caroline McNeil
Caroline McNeil writes about science and medicine, with an emphasis on cancer research, for professional audiences. Her work appears currently in several medical news publications and professional journals. She lives in Reston, Va.
Susan Meehan
Susan Meehan formerly served as the District of Columbia’s only Patient Advocate for all persons in substance abuse treatment; one of her most successful poetry readings was to 300 HIV-positive drug addicts and their families. She now devotes herself to politics and poetry. (The two combined when she was asked to write and read an inaugural poem for Marion Barry’s second term as mayor!) She and her husband have made three trips to Ireland, the first to focus on traditional music in Clare, the second to serve as peace monitors in Belfast during the summer of the 1998 Peace Accord and the murder of three little boys in a mixed Catholic-Protestant family, and the third this summer to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with their grown children.
Ron Goudreau
Ron Goudreau has been writing poetry for over 40 years, but with a 20 year hiatus from the mid 1960s through the mid 1980s when be began taking poetry workshops at the Writers' Center in Bethesda. Since then he has had two chapbooks published: "The Flagellation" and "An Audible Touch" both published by Argonne Hotel Press, and his poems have also been published in Wordwright, and Beltway. Ron has read his work at several local venues including Tacoma Public Library, The Writers Center, Bolt and Jolt, Pulp on the Hill, and Starbucks. He is employed at the Library of Congress as the Editor of Subject Headings.
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