Oliver Rice
Oliver Rice has received the Theodore Roethke Prize and twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies in the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Austria, Turkey, and India. His book, On Consenting to Be a Man, introduced by Cyberwit, a diversified publishing house in the cultural capital Allahabad, India, is available on Amazon. His poems have appeared in other issues of Innisfree: http://www.authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree_6_21/OLIVER_RICE.shtml
Therese Broderick
Therese L. Broderick is a freelance poet and teacher residing in Albany, NY, with her husband and daughter. Her publication credits include Poet Lore (forthcoming), Spoon River Poetry Review, Puerto Del Sol, The Louisville Review, and elsewhere. Visit her “Ekphrasis” blog at poetryaboutart.wordpress.com.
Lyn Lifshin
Lifshin's Another Woman Who Looks like Me was just published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006. It has been selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for literary excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize (order@godine.com). Also out in 2006 is her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian from Texas Review Press. Others of Lifshin's recent prizewinning books include Before It's Light published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997. Other recently published books and chapbooks include In Mirrors from Presa Press and Upstate: An Unfinished Story from Foot Hills and The Daughter I Don't Have from Plan B Press. Other new books include When a Cat Dies, Another Woman's Story, Barbie Poems, She Was Last Seen Treading Water, and Mad Girl Poems, New Film about a Woman in Love with the Dead, came from March Street Press in 2003. She has published more than 120 books of poetry, including Marilyn Monroe, Blue Tattoo; won awards for her nonfiction and edited four anthologies of women’s writing, including Tangled Vines, Ariadne’s Thread and Lips Unsealed. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines, and she is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, "Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass," available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing@" has been called among the most impressive documents of the women’s poetry movement by Alicia Ostriker. An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, On the Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace, was published spring 2003. What Matters Most and August Wind were recently published. Tsunami is forthcoming from Blue Unicorn. Arielle Press will publish Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies summer of 2006. Texas Review Press will publish Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness in March 2008 and World Parade Books will publish Desire in March 2008. Red Hen will publish Persephone in March 2008. Coatalism Press is publishing 92 Rapple Drive and Goose River Press will publish Nutley Pond. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com.
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson's poetry has appeared in three collections, most recently in Come Looking (WWPH), and in a variety of journals, including Rattle, West Branch, Gargoyle, Delmarva Quarterly, and Poet Lore. His poems have also been anthologized in 31 Arlington Poets (CD, Paycock Press), Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England), Hungry As We Are (WWPH), and A Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press). He is public information representative for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), and lives in Chevy Chase, MD.
Elisavietta Ritchie
Elisavietta Ritchie's 15 books include Real Toads; Awaiting Permission to Land; Spirit of the Walrus; Arc of the Storm; Elegy for the Other Woman; Tightening The Circle Over Eel Country; Raking The Snow; In Haste I Write You This Note; Flying Time. Editor, The Dolphin's Arc: Endangered Creatures of the Sea, and others, her work is widely published, translated and anthologized. Ex-president for poetry, then fiction, Washington Writers' Publishing House.
Roger Fogelman
Roger Fogelman was born in New York City in 1940. From an early age, he wrote poetry and for the next 45 odd years, he has continued to produce poems on various subjects, such as nature and the human condition. He won the Morrison Poetry Prize at Cornell University and the American Academy of Poets Award at the University of Virginia. His work has been published in the American Academy of Poets' Commemorative Volume, 1965; the Cornell Writer; and the Nassau Review. Dr. Fogelman graduated from Cornell University in 1960 and received an MA and PhD in English from the University of Virginia. He also holds an MS in TESL from Queens College. He currently resides in New York City.
Robert Farnsworth
Recent poems of Robert Farnsworth's have appeared in The Southern Review, Antioch Review, Smiths Knoll (U.K.), Malahat Review (Canada), Triquarterly, and Ploughsares. Wesleyan University Press brought out his two collections, Three Or Four Hills And A Cloud, and Honest Water. He teaches at Bates College in Lewiston, ME, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Diane Lockward reviews Barbara Crooker.
Diane Lockward's collection, Eve's Red Dress, was published by Wind Publications in 2003. Her second collection, What Feeds Us, appeared in 2006, also from Wind. Recent work appears in Poet Lore, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner, as well as in the Poetry Daily anthology and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times. Diane works as a poet-in-the schools for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her poems appeared in Innisfree 2.
Liz Abrams-Morley
Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of Necessary Turns, forthcoming in 2010 from Word Press, Learning to Calculate the Half Life (Zinka Press, 2001,) and What Winter Reveals (Plan B Press, 2005.) Her poems and stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Co-founder of Around the Block Writing Collaborative, (www.writearoundtheblock.org), mother, wife, and lapsed family therapist, Liz wades knee-deep in the flow of everyday life from which she draws her inspiration. She lives and writes in Philadelphia, PA, and is on the MFA in Writing faculty of Rosemont College.
David Salner
David Salner worked at manual labor for twenty-five years as an iron ore miner, steelworker, furnace tender, and machinist; his fourth collection of poems, John Henry's Partner Speaks, is now available from Word Tech at www.wordtechweb.com/salner.html. His work has appeared in Threepenny Review and Prairie Schooner, and new poems are in current or forthcoming issues of Atlanta Review, Southern Humanities Review, High Desert Journal, and Elixir.
Mary Buchinger
Mary Buchinger’s poems have appeared in AGNI Online, RUNES, The Massachusetts Review, Versal (Netherlands), and other journals; she was the recipient of New England Poetry Club’s Daniel Varoujan Award, judged by Marge Piercy. Her collection, Roomful of Sparrows, (Finishing Line Press, 2008) was a semi-finalist in the New Women’s Voices Series. She holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and teaches writing at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.
Mayuku Omeresanine
Mayuku Omeresanine is 25 years old and has just graduated from the University of Nigeria where he studied Economics. He lives with his Mom and siblings in Warri, Nigeria. He likes reading novels and history books. When he is free he watches Football matches.
Jenn Blair Campbell
Jenn Blair Campbell is from Yakima, WA. She received her PHD in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia in Athens where she currently teaches. She has published in The Tusculum Review, Copper Nickel, MELUS, SNR Review, and the Hamilton Stone Review. Her research interests include Victorian and Romantic Literature.
Judith McCombs
Judith McCombs grew up in almost all the continental states, in a geodetic surveyor's family. Her work appears in Calyx, Nimrod (a Neruda Award), Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, Potomac Review (Poetry Prize), Prairie Schooner, Prism, Sisters of the Earth, and online in Beltway, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Not Just Air. She has held NEH and Canadian Senior Embassy Fellowships, and Michigan and Maryland Arts Awards. The poems appearing here are from her Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New, a 2006 finalist for the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. She teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, edits for Word Works, and arranges the Kensington Row Bookshop Poetry Readings.
Michael F. Hogan
Michael Hogan is the author of fourteen books, including Making Our Own Rules and The Irish Soldiers of Mexico. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review and the Colorado Review. He currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
E.C. Belli
E.C. Belli studied creative writing at Columbia University in the City of New York with Sophie Cabot Black, Mark Strand, and Emily Fragos. She was selected to participate in Columbia's Honors Poetry Workshop along with six other students and received Writing Departmental Honors upon graduation. Her work can be read in Spoon River Poetry Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, Poetry Salzburg, The Columbia Review, Absinthe: New European Writing, and International Poetry Review; it is also upcoming in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
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, Enskyment, 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. Susan is also the author of two textbooks arising from her years of teaching students and teachers the wonders of poetry: In both Working the Word, Language, Music and Movement (Prentice Hall) and The Word in Play (Paul H. Brookes Publishing), she argues that poetry and the art of language are the keys to all learning and so encourages the integration of the arts into school curricula. She lives and works out of her home in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut.
Bettie Mikosinski
Bettie Mikosinski lives in Annandale, Virginia, with her husband Casey. Bettie writes, publishes poetry, and gives poetry readings in the Washington, DC, area. She has studied in various University poetry workshops with Roland Flint, William Stafford, Lucille Clifton, and Margaret Atwood. She won a prize for fiction. And won a prize: a place in The Writer's Center book, "Center Pieces", for a poem. She has been published in Rustlings, Phoebe, Center Pieces, NotJustAir.org, and Potomac Review. Bettie has been a featured reader at: the Town Hall in Leesburg, Virginia; the Potomac Review Reading Series at St. Elmo's Coffee Pub in Virginia; Barnes & Noble-Bowie, Maryland; IOTA, in Arlington Virginia; "Poets on Poetry" dialogue reading at the Arts Club of Washington; Kensington Row Book Shop; Poesis in Arlington Virginia; Kensington Day of the Book; and The Writer's Center, The Friends of William Stafford birthday reading.
Catherine Harnett
Catherine Harnett is the author of two volumes of poetry, Evidence and Still Life, both published by the Washington Writers Publishing House. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Chattahoochie Review, Fine Madness and numerous other journals. She also writes fiction; her short story "Her Gorgeous Grief" originally appeared in the Hudson Review and is included in the anthology Writes of Passage, a collection of coming of age stories published in the Hudson Review during the last fifty years. She lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her daughter.
C.B. Anderson
C.B. Anderson was the longtime gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals over the past five years. One of his poems, published in The Raintown Review, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His e-chapbook, A Walk in the Dark, is posted on the website of The New Formalist.
Marc Harshman
Raised in rural Indiana, Marc Harshman has lived his adult life in West Virginia where, for many years, he was a grade school teacher. Periodical publication of his poems and essays include The Georgia Review, Wilderness, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, and The Progressive. He is the author of three chapbooks of poetry including most recently Local Journeys (Finishing Line, 2004). He is also the author of eleven children's picture books including The Storm, a Smithsonian Notable Book for Children.
Judy Kronenfeld
Judy Kronenfeld's poems have appeared in many journals including The Portland Review, Poetry International, The Cimarron Review, The Evansville Review, Natural Bridge, The Louisville Review, Spillway, Pebble Lake Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, 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. Her collection, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, won The Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize for 2007 and was published by The Litchfield Review Press, in summer 2008. She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing, UC Riverside.
Roger Pfingston
Roger Pfingston's work has appeared recently in Poetry Midwest, U.S. 1 Worksheets, and DMQ Review.
James Grabill
James Grabill’s poems have appeared in numerous periodicals such as Willow Springs, Poetry East, Ur Vox, Field, East West Journal, and The Common Review. His recent books of poems are October Wind (Sage Hill Press, 2006) and An Indigo Scent after the Rain (Lynx House Press, 2003), and he has two collections of creative nonfiction, Finding the Top of the Sky (Lost Horse Press, 2005) and Through the Green Fire (Holy Cow! Press, 1995). He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches writing, literature (Beat Lit, Creative Nonfiction, & Shakespeare), and sustainability.
Kathryn Jacobs
Kathryn Jacobs is a poet and medievalist at Texas A&M University. Her chapbook of poetry, Advice Column, appears from Finishing Line Press in November, and she has an e-chapbook sponsored by Poetry Midwest (The Boy Who Loved Pigeons). Her poems have appeared widely in such journals as New Formalist, Measure, Washington Literary Review, Acumen (UK), Pulse, Slant, Candelabrum (UK), DeCanto, Quantum Leap (UK), Mezzo Cammin, Deronda Review, The Same, Contemporary Rhyme, Ship of Fools, Eclectic Muse, Barefoot Muse, Mobius, Chimaera, Toasted Cheese, 14 by 14, Wordgathering, and The Interpreter’s House (UK), and Road Not Taken. She has also published a scholarly book on literary marriage contracts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University Press of Florida) and sixteen articles in periodicals. She has two daughters. She lost her 18-year old son, Ray, in 2005.
Marianne Boruch
Read more about Marianne Boruch online:
http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/keyesessayboruch.html
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-review-of-marianne-boruch.html
http://www.ronslate.com/twenty_poets_name_some_new_favorites_celebrate_national_poetry_month
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7883-2005Apr21.html
Antonia Clark
Antonia Clark works for a medical software company in Burlington, Vermont, and is co-administrator of an online poetry forum, The Waters. Her poems have appeared in Loch Raven Review, Mannequin Envy, The Pedestal Magazine, Rattle, Stirring, The 2River View, and elsewhere. She loves French food and wine, and plays French café music on a sparkly purple accordion.
Les Prescott
Les Prescott is a Scotsman Glaswegian living and performing in Berlin. He spends a lot of time in a cottage on a tiny island on the outskirts of the city where he writes or conceives most of his work.
Edward Byrne
Edward Byrne is a professor of American literature and creative writing in the English Department at Valparaiso University, where he serves as the editor of Valparaiso Poetry Review. His first full-length collection of poetry, Along the Dark Shore (BOA Editions), was a finalist for the Elliston Book Award. A chapbook-length collection of poems contained in The Return to Black and White (Tidy-Up Press) was selected by Library Journal as among "The Best of the Small Press Publications." Work in his third book of poems, Words Spoken, Words Unspoken (Chimney Hill Press), was awarded the Cape Rock Prize for Poetry in 1995. His fourth book of poems, East of Omaha, was nominated for a Midland Authors Award in 1999. His fifth collection of poems, Tidal Air, appeared from Pecan Grove Press in 2002. A sixth book of poetry, Seeded Light, is forthcoming from Turning Point Books. He has won a number of awards and fellowships, including an Academy of American Poets Award, the Donald G. Whiteside Award for Poetry, and a Utah Arts Council Award for Poetry. His poems and articles of literary criticism also have been published in numerous literary journals or anthologies, including American Literary Review, American Scholar, Ascent, Crab Orchard Review, Greensboro Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Poetry Review. In addition, he has written many film essays or movie reviews for newspapers and magazines.
Norma Chapman
Norma Chapman's poems have appeared in Passager, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Iris, The Sow’s Ear, and River Styx. She began writing poetry after turning sixty. A recipient of a 2003 Maryland State Arts Council Grant, she lives in Brunswick, a small town in Western Maryland.
Scott Owens
Scott Owens is the author of The Fractured World (Main Street Rag, 2008), Deceptively Like a Sound (Dead Mule, 2008), The Moon His Only Companion (CPR, 1994), The Persistence of Faith (Sandstone, 1993), and the upcoming Book of Days (Dead Mule, 2009). He is co-editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, coordinator of the Poetry Hickory reading series, and 2008 Visiting Writer at Catawba Valley Community College. His poems have appeared in Georgia Review, North American Review, Poetry East, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, Chattahoochee Review, Cream City Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Cottonwood, among others. Born in Greenwood, SC, he is a graduate of the UNCG MFA program and now lives in Hickory, NC.
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