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Dan Masterson

The titles of Dan Masterson's books come from his early days:  On Earth As It Is, Those Who Trespass, World Without End, All Things, Seen and Unseen.  And so do the poems, if you scratch your way inside. The complete texts of his first two books, On Earth as It Is and Those Who Trespass (now out of print), are online in the permanent collection of The Contemporary American Poetry Archives (http://capa.conncoll.edu/).  His third collection, World Without End, is still available.  His next collection, ten years in the making, is entitled That Which Is Seen, a gathering of 35 poems based exclusively on artwork.

Anthologies containing his work include The Random House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry; Holt Language Arts; Poets Against the War; Caught in the Net;  A New Geography of Poetry;  Heart to Heart; Inkwell; Analecta; and Perfect in Their Art.
 
Roots run deep for Masterson, and he credits the boxing bag for much of the acceptance his work has received, explaining how he pummels the bag with the sounds of the 26 poetic meters he has posted on the cellar wall, allowing his body and mind to absorb the scrambling rhythms that find their way into his writing during the rest of the day.

He was elected to membership in Pen International in 1986, and is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Bullis, Borestone, and The CCLM Fels awards, and is an AWP Award Series honoree, as well as the founding editor of the internet’s Enskyment Poetry Anthology.
 
Professor Masterson remains grateful to fellow poets who have been good to him from the beginning, including two legendary poets who jump-started his career back in the late sixties: Rockland County's internationally revered late, great poets, Marya Zaturenska and her husband, Horace Gregory.  Others include Richard Eberhart, Anne Sexton, James Dickey, Miller Williams, Donald Hall, and John Allman, who also has poems in this issue of Innisfree.

In 2006, Syracuse University's Bird Library assumed stewardship of "The Dan Masterson Papers" for its Special Collections Research Center, an honor the poet never expected, convinced as he was that his "scribblings" would eventually make their way to the curb to be hauled away to a recycling plant where they would be transformed into Bounty kitchen wipes. 

He and his wife, Janet, a psychotherapist, divide their time between their home in Pearl River and their getaway cabin, where they welcome their daughter and her family, from nearby Harrington Park, and their son and his family, from far off Los Angeles, to the high-peaks region of the Adirondacks.

Brienne Katherine Adams

Brienne Katherine Adams' poetry has appeared, or will soon appear, in Westward Quarterly, The Storyteller, Beyond Centauri, Love's Chance Magazine, Rocky Mountain Rider, and The Shepherd Magazine.

John Allman

The poems included in Innisfree 8 will be collected in Allman’s eighth book of poems, Older Than Our Fathers.  A selection of 25 poems from that collection has been arranged as an electronic chapbook published by the online journal Mudlark, #37 http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/   Other poems from Older Than Our Fathers have appeared in Hotel Amerika, New York Quarterly and The Asheville Poetry Review.  Allman’s previous books of poetry include Loew’s Triboro (2004) and Lowcountry (2007), published by New Directions, which has done most of his books, including the short–story collection, Descending Fire & Other Stories. Allman is a two-time recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize winner in Poetry.  His first book, Walking Four Ways in the Wind, appeared in the Princeton Contemporary Poets Series.  His work has appeared in many journals, from the American Poetry Review to The Yale Review.  His Inhabited World: New & Selected Poems 1970-1995 was published by The Wallace Stevens Society Press.  Retired from teaching, John Allman lives in Katonah, NY and Hilton Head Island, SC.

Bruce Bennett

These poems will appear in a new collection by Bruce Bennett, entitled
Something Like Karma, to be published by Clandestine Press in late Spring.
Another new collection, Subway Figure, will be published by Orchises Press in
September. Bruce Bennett is the author of eight books of poetry and numerous
poetry chapbooks. He teaches English and Creative Writing and directs the
Visiting Writers Series at Wells College in Aurora, New York.

P.D. Bresnahan

Peg Bresnahan has one book of poetry, Chasing Light, and her work is published in journals, such as Wisconsin Review, Kansas Quarterly, Kakalak, Cream City Review, and Nebraska Review. She lives in Cedar Mountain, NC.

Norma Chapman

Norma Chapman lives in Brunswick, a small town in Western Maryland. She started writing poetry after turning sixty. Her poems have appeared in Passager, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Iris, The Sow’s Ear, and River Styx. She received a 2003 Maryland State Arts Council Grant.

Joanne Rocky Delaplaine

Joanne Rocky Delaplaine lives and writes in Bethesda, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore; Beltway: A Poetry Quarterly, (Walt Whitman & Wartime Issues); Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, 1984-2001; WordWrights; Other Testaments, Volume 1; The Old Testament; Friends Journal;  and elsewhere.  She teaches  a workshop called Expressing The Sacred: Yoga, Poetry and Prayer. A short story of hers won first prize in the Bethesda Literary Festival.

Carol Frith

Carol Frith is co-editor of Ekphrasis, a poetry journal. She has been published in Seattle Review, Cutbank, MacGuffin, Switched-on Gutenberg, Asheville Poetry Review and others.  Her chapbooks are from Medicinal Purposes, Palanquin, Bacchae Press and Finishing Line.  Her full-length collection is due out in 2010 from David Robert Books.

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Innisfree 8
Dan Masterson
Brienne Katherine Adams
John Allman
Bruce Bennett
P.D. Bresnahan
Norma Chapman
Joanne Rocky Delaplaine
Carol Frith
Bridget Gage-Dixon
Sarah Estes Graham
John Grey
Gabe Heilig
Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
Rod Jellema
Jennifer Juneau
Claire Keyes
Jacqueline Lapidus
Hiram Larew
Barbara F. Lefcowitz
Donal Mahoney
Laura Manuelidis
Nancy Meneely
Lisa Mullenneaux
Sherry O'Keefe
Scott Owens
Patric Pepper
Allan Peterson
Oliver Rice
Craig van Rooyen
Maggie Schwed
Janice D. Soderling
Paul Stevens
Jeanine Stevens
Garland Strother
Naomi Thiers
Ernie Wormwood
Bill Wunder


Innisfree 7
Marianne Boruch
Liz Abrams-Morley
C.B. Anderson
E.C. Belli
Therese Broderick
Mary Buchinger
Edward Byrne
Jenn Blair Campbell
Norma Chapman
Antonia Clark
Robert Farnsworth
Roger Fogelman
James Grabill
Catherine Harnett
Marc Harshman
Michael F. Hogan
Kathryn Jacobs
Dan Johnson
Susan A. Katz
Judy Kronenfeld
Lyn Lifshin
Diane Lockward reviews Barbara Crooker.
Judith McCombs
Bettie Mikosinski
Mayuku Omeresanine
Scott Owens
Roger Pfingston
Les Prescott
Oliver Rice
Elisavietta Ritchie
David Salner


Innisfree 5
A CLOSER LOOK: Terence Winch
Karren Alenier
Gary Beck
Bob Boston
Grace Cavalieri
Norma Chapman
Lydia R. Cooper
Niamh Corcoran
Laura Fargas
Simki Ghebremichael
GTimothy Gordon
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
Ron Goudreau
Taylor Graham
Jonathan Highfield
Susan A. Katz
Ann Knox
Judy Kronenfeld
Barbara Lefcowitz
Israel Lewis
Caroline McNeil
Susan Meehan
Mary Morris
Beth Paulson
Roger Pfingston
Shep Ranbom
Heddy Reid
Elisavietta Ritchie
Noel Smith
John Surowiecki
Steven Trebellas
Patrick Uanseru
Pamela Murray Winters
Kathi Wolfe
Ernie Wormwood
Leo Yankevich
Katherine E. Young


Innisfree 4
Karren Alenier
Jon Ballard
Virginia Bell
Bruce Bennett
Sarah Bonifacio
Sarah Browning
Jared Carter
John Thomas Clark
Jennifer Pruden Colligan
Claire Crabtree
Yoko Danno
Anthony DiMatteo
Robert Farnsworth
Carol Frith
Martin Galvin
Jen Garfield
Do Gentry
John Grey
JoAnne Growney
Amanda Halkiotis
Kirsten Hampton
Sherry Horowitz
Reamy Jansen
Brian P. Katz
Jesse Keegan
Mary Ann Larkin
Nancy Tupper Ling
Gregory Luce
Pete Mackey
Larry Moffi
Judy Neri
Shep Ranbom
Cynthia Nitz Ris
Lori Romero
Janice D. Soderling
Sandra Staas
Paul Kareem Tayyar
Naomi Thiers
Davide Trame
Jean Tupper
R.J. Van Zandt
Sharlie West
Barbara M. White
Terence Winch
Kathi Wolfe
Ernie Wormwood
Katherine E. Young


Innisfree 3
E. Louise Beach
Anne Becker
Brad Bisio
Jane Blue
John Bush
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Grace Cavalieri
Norma Chapman
James Cihlar
Ellen Aronofsky Cole
Ruth Z. Deming
Martin Dickinson
Moira Egan
Ronda Eller
Martin Galvin
Bernard Jankowski
Hiram Larew
Lenny Lianne
Michael H. Lythgoe
Judith McCombs
Susan Bucci Mockler
Miles David Moore
Kathi Morrison-Taylor
Bonnie Naradzay
Barbara J. Orton
Steven Pelcman
Roger Pfingston
Jacqueline Powers
Julie Preis
Eve Rifkah
Kim Roberts
Teri Rosen
Helen Ruggieri
Karen Saunders
Karen Schubert
J.D. Smith
Dean Smith
Rose Solari
Margo Solod
Colette Thomas
Steven Trebellas
Rosemary Winslow
Kathi Wolfe
Anne Harding Woodworth
Ernie Wormwood
Katherine Young


Innisfree 2
Deborah Ager
Karren Alenier
John Allman
Anne Becker
Mel Belin
Bruce Bennett
Doraine Bennett
Cliff Bernier
Doris Brody
Trina Carter
Grace Cavalieri
Norma Chapman
Maritza Rivera Cohen
Yoko Danno
Barbara DeCesare
Donna Denizé
Julie Enszer
Colin Flanigan
Roger Fogelman
Martin Galvin
Barbara Goldberg
JoAnne Growney
Sarita Hartz
James C. Hopkins
John Hoppenthaler
Laurie Hurvitz
Donald Illich
W. Luther Jett
J. Ladin
Diane Lockward
Jason Maffettone
Judith McCombs
Louis McKee
Larry Moffi
Miles David Moore
Yvette Neisser
Brent Pallas
Lee Patton
Hilary Tham
Rosemary Winslow
Kathi Wolfe
Ernie Wormwood


Innisfree 1
Carol Ashworth
E. Louise Beach
Sandra Beasley
Anne Becker
Mel Belin
Rick Cannon
Nancy Naomi Carlson
Norma Chapman
Christopher Conlon
Michael Davis
Martin Dickinson
Jehanne Dubrow
Moira Egan
Sean Enright
Perry Epes
Lillian Frankel
Martin Galvin
Rachel Galvin
Bernadette Geyer
Patricia Gray
Laurie Hurvitz
Tod Ibrahim
Bernard Jankowski
Lisa Kosow
Michael Lally
Hiram Larew
Michael H. Lythgoe
Ebby Malmgren
Dan Masterson
Ryan McAllister
Judith McCombs
Miles David Moore
Daniel Abdul-Hayy Moore
Heidi Mordhorst
Yvette Neisser
Judy Neri
Bonnie Nevel
Barbara J. Orton
Eric Pankey
Jacklyn Potter
Ellen Sazzman
J.D. Smith
Rose Solari
Alan Spears
Gary Stein
Adele Steiner
Mark Tarallo
Colette Thomas
Doug Wilkinson
Rhonda Williford
Terence Winch
Rosemary Winslow
Kathi Wolfe
Anne Harding Woodworth
Bill Wunder


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