Nancy Naomi Carlson's work
has appeared in Innisfree, as well
as such journals as Chelsea, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly,
The Greensboro Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. She is an associate editor for Tupelo Press and an
instructor at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Nominated five times
for a Pushcart prize, she was the winner of the 2005 Tennessee Chapbook Prize,
as well as the Texas Review Press' Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
(2002). Her full-length collection of poetry, Kings Highway, won the 1996 Washington Writers' Publishing House
competition. Stone Lyre, a
collection of translations of the French poet René Char, is forthcoming from Tupelo
Press in January 2010.
René Char (1907–1988), French
poet, was influenced by the surrealists, his love of his native Provence, and
his social activism. He was an active participant in the French Resistance
movement, as well as an outspoken critic of nuclear missile silos in France. He
is known for his economy of style, including his aphorisms and his short bursts
of prose.
Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom, forthcoming from WordTech Editions, and the chapbook, Election Day (Finishing Line Press). Nominated in 2008 for a Pushcart Prize, Moore has contributed poetry to Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Briar Cliff Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Cider Press Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Cimarron Review, Dogwood, Free Lunch, The MacGuffin, Sou'wester, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and many others. Moore directs the Writing Center at Cedarville University in Ohio. Her website is http://www.julielmoore.com.
Laura Manuelidis is a physician and scientist who has delved
into the shapes of chromosomes and their repeated DNAs as well as the causes of
dementia. She has begun to publish some of her poems, written over many years,
in various journals, including The Nation, Connecticut Review, and Oxford Poetry, has been
nominated twice for a Pushcart prize, and has read in European and American
university and other venues. Her book of poems, Out of Order, is available online
from popular book sites, and samples of her written and spoken poetry
(accompanied with music by Paul Jordan) (in addition to other linked
published work) can be accessed at http://info.med.yale.edu/neurosci/faculty/manuelidis_poetry.html.
Judith Offer has two daughters, four books of poetry, and
dozens of plays. (Sixteen of the latter, including five musicals, have been
produced.)Her writing reflects
her childhood in a large Catholic family—with some Jewish roots—her experience
as teacher, community organizer, musician, historian, gardener, as well as her
special fascination with her roles of wife and mother.She is a member of a poetics seminar, a
local band, the Institute for Historical Study, and a garden club; she studies
Yiddish, Spanish, and yoga; plants vegetables; walks a lot; and tries to avoid
second-hand book stores.More information
is available at www.JudithOffer.com.
Jacqueline Jules
Jacqueline
Jules is an elementary school librarian
who writes for children and adults. Her children’s books include No English,
Unite or Die, and Sarah Laughs. She won the Arlington Arts Moving Words Contest
in 2007, Best Original Poetry from the Catholic Press Association in 2008, and
the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Poetry in 2009.Her work has appeared in more than sixty publications
including Verse Daily, Christian Science Monitor,America, Sow's Ear PoetryReview, Sunstone, and Potomac Review. Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin has published more than 120 books of poetry, including, most recently, Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness (Texas Review Press), Desire (World Parade Books), Persephone (Red Hen Press),Another Woman Who Looks like Me (Black Sparrow Press at David Godine), The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (Texas Review Press), and Before It's Light (Black Sparrow Press).
Brent Fisk
Brent Fisk is a writer from Bowling Green, Kentucky who has had work in recent
issues of Rattle, Prairie Schooner, and Cincinnati Review among other journals.
He is currently working on his MA in creative writing at Western Kentucky
University.
Martin
Galvin's work has won numerous awards, including First Prize for "Hilda
and Me and Hazel" in Poet Lore's narrative poetry contest in 1992, First Prize in Potomac
Review's Best
Poem Competition in 1999 for "Freight Yard at Night," and First Prize
from Sow's Ear Poetry Journal for "Cream" in a 2007 national
competition. He was awarded a writer's residency at Yaddo for August of
2007. Recent work has appeared in The New Republic, Sub-Tropics,argestes, The New Republic, Vulgata, the Delmarva Review, as well as in Innisfree. In addition to his
2007 chapbook Circling Out and his book Wild Card, he has two other chapbooks: Making
Beds (Sedwick
Books) and Appetites (Bogg Publications).
Nellie Hill’s work has appeared in various journals including Poetry East, American Writing, American Poetry Review, with an introduction of her by Denise Levertov, Harvard Magazine, Commonweal, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Snowy Egret, The Naugatuk River Review, and in three chapbooks, the most recent of which is My Daily Walk (Pudding House). Poems online have appeared in Innisfree and New Millenium.
Lynda Self’s poems have appeared (some under the name "Lynda
Yates") in Threepenny Review, Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review,
Southern Poetry Review, New England Review, Georgia Review, and Confrontation and in the Yearbook of American Poetry (1981, 1984,
1985). A number of poems also appeared
in a regional anthology entitled The Poet’s Domain (volumes two, seven, and nine).
Rose Kelleher’s poems
have appeared in Anon, The Shit Creek Review, Snakeskin, and other venues. Her first book, Bundle o'Tinder, was published by Waywiser Press in 2008. Clarinda Harriss
Clarinda Harriss teaches poetry and editing at Towson University (near Baltimore, Maryland), where she chaired the English Department for a decade. Her most recent poetry collections are Mortmain, Dirty Blue Voice, and Air Travel, all from Half Moon Editions, Atlanta, GA. Her collection entitled The Night Parrot was published by Salmon Publishing, Galway, Ireland, and a number of her poems are anthologized in the recently published volume Salmon: A Journey in Poetry Her poems and short fiction have won numerous awards. Professor Harriss is the longtime editor/director of BrickHouse Books, Inc., Maryland's oldest literary press. She has worked with prison writers for many years Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Kristin Berkey-Abbott has published widely in literary journals, but her happiest publication moment came in 2004, when Pudding House Press published her chapbook, Whistling Past the Graveyard. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, where she also serves as Assistant Chair of General Education. Additional information can be found at her website at www.kristinberkey-abbott.com.
Oliver Rice has received the Theodore Roethke Prize and
thrice 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 of poems, On Consenting to Be a Man, has been introduced by Cyberwit, a diversified publishing house in the cultural capital Allahabad, India,
and is available on Amazon.
Ann Knox's two new chapbooks, Reading the Tao at Eighty and The Dark Edge, were recently published by Finishing Line Press and Pudding House Press, respectively. She also has two full-length collections: 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.
John Grey, an Australian-born poet and U.S. resident
since the late seventies, works as a financial systems analyst. His poems have appeared recently in
Connecticut Review, Georgetown Review and REAL with work upcoming in Poetry
East, Cape Rock, and Pinch.
Ellen Steinbaum is the author of two poetry collections, Afterwords and Container Gardening, and a former literary columnist for The Boston Globe. She writes a blog, Reading and Writing and the Occasional Recipe, which can be found at her web site, www.ellensteinbaum.com.
Taylor Graham is a
volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada. Her poems have
appeared in American Literary Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly,
Notre Dame Review, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, and
elsewhere, and she's included in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold
Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her chapbook, The Downstairs
Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006) was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry
Chapbook Prize.
Karen J. Weyant's first chapbook, Stealing Dust, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Recent work is in 5 AM, Anti-, Barn Owl Review, Coal Hill Review, Slipstream, and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. In 2007, she was awarded a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Jamestown Community College in Western New York.
Elvira Bennet is an archivist living north of Boston.She has published fiction and poems in
a variety of journals as well as an essay called "Kafka and Girls."
Diane Lockward's second collection, What Feeds Us (Wind Publications), received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times and in such journals as Harvard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac. A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools.
Robert S. King has been writing and publishing since the
1970s. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines, including The Kenyon
Review, Southern Poetry Review, Lullwater Review, Chariton Review, Main Street
Rag, and others. He is currently Director of FutureCycle Poetry, www.futurecycle.org.
Donal Mahoney has worked as an editor for The
Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press,
and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or
accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The
South Carolina Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Orbis(England), Commonweal, The Christian
Science Monitor, Revival (Ireland), The
Beloit Poetry Journal, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), The National Catholic Reporter,
Poetry Super Highway, Public Republic (Bulgaria),
and other publications.
The wife of a Vietnam War veteran, Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely
says she's getting the hang of retirement after twenty gratifying/distressing
years with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and happy adventures along
earlier career paths. Among other wonderfully small-town volunteer activities,
she chairs the Guilford Poets Guild and serves as its representative to the
Connecticut Poetry Society.
Judy Kronenfeld is the author of two books and two
chapbooks of poetry, the most recent being Light Lowering in Diminished
Sevenths, winner of the 2007 Litchfield
Review Poetry Book Prize, which was
published in summer 2008. Her poems, as well as the occasional short story and
personal essay, have appeared in numerous print and online journals. Recent
poem credits include Cimarron Review, Natural Bridge, The American
Poetry Journal, Calyx, The Hiram Poetry Review, The Pedestal, as well as a number of anthologies, including Bear Flag
Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young(Greenhouse Review Press/Alcatraz Editions, 2008) and
Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, edited by Holly Hughes (Kent State University
Press, 2009). She is also the author of a critical study: KING
LEAR and the Naked Truth (Duke U.P., 1998).
Roger Pfingston’s poems have appeared recently in Dos
Passos Review, Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Sylvan Echo, Poetry
Midwest, DMQ Review, and Mannequin Envy. As a photographer, he has photographs in recent
issues of The Sun and Tattoo
Highway.
Michael
C. Davis is
the author of Upon Waking, a chapbook published in 1999 by Mica Press. His
work has appeared in Innisfree, Lip Service, Poet Lore, and the anthologies Open
Door, Cabin Fever,
and Winners.
He has read his work extensively in the Washington, D.C., area and participates
in the Arlington County Pick-a-Poet program, teaching poetry in county schools.
Cliff Bernier's chapbook Earth Suite is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. A second chapbook, Dark Berries, is forthcoming from Pudding
House Publications.
He has appeared in Potomac Review,Baltimore Review, the online journals Notjustair and Innisfree, and elsewhere, and is featured on a CD of poetry duets, Poetry in Black and White, as well as on two Jazzpoetry CDs, Live at IOTA Club and Cafe and Live at Bistro Europa. In addition, Mr. Bernier has been featured in readings and jazz poetry performances in San Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and around the Washington, DC area, including the Library of Congress, the Arts Club of Washington, The George Washington University (where he is a member of the Washington Writer's Collection), and The Writer's Center. He has been a reader for the Washington Prize and a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts' Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. Founder and former host of the POESIS reading series, Mr. Bernier has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Award.
