Bruce Bennett is the author of nine books of poetry and more
than twenty poetry chapbooks. His most recent books are Something Like Karma (Clandestine Press, 2009) and Subway
Figure (Orchises Press, 2009). A chapbook, Visitation:
A Sequence of Sonnets (FootHills
Publishing) came out in Spring 2009, and a new chapbook, The Holding
Stone, will appear from Finishing Line
Press in March 2010. His New and Selected Poems, Navigating The
Distances (Orchises Press), was chosen by
Booklist as "One Of The Top Ten Poetry Books Of 1999." Bennett
co-founded and served as an editor of two poetry magazines, Field:
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and Ploughshares, and, during the 1980's and 90's, served as an
Associate Editor for State Street Press. He has reviewed contemporary poetry
books in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative
writing at Wells College, where he is Professor and Chair of English and
Director of Creative Writing.
Jane Blue's poems have been published
recently in Convergence and
Caesura, and earlier in
such magazines as Avatar, Poetry International, The Chattahoochee Review, The
Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Louisville Review, Antigonish, and Spoon River Poetry Review.She was born and raised in Berkeley, California, and now lives near the
Sacramento River.
Debra Bruce's poems have been published in The Atlantic, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. New work is in The Cincinnati Review and the forthcoming issue of Mezzo Cammin: An Online Journal of Formal Poetry By Women.
Phillip Calderwood's poems have appeared in The Chabot
Review, The Berkeley Text, and A Magazine of Paragraphs.He is
originally from Northern California, where he received undergraduate degrees in
English and history from UC Berkeley.He moved to Maryland in 2004, completed a master's program in
history at American University, and now works as an editor and content manager
in the District of Columbia.
After a long hiatus working as a journalist, Ann Meredith Cale is writing poetry again. In the 1980s her poems appeared in US1: An Anthology: Contemporary Writing from New Jersey, the U.S. 1# Worksheet, and the Berkeley Poet's Co-op Worksheets. In 1980, she received a grant from the New Jersey Council of the Arts for a poetry manuscript.
Michael Catherwood's poetry has appeared in many magazines,
including Agni, Black Warrior Review, Borderlands, Briar Cliff Review,
Ecletica, Georgetown Review, Hawai'i Review, Kansas Quarterly, Laurel Review,
Louisiana Literature, Mankato Poetry Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Midwest
Quarterly, Nebraska Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Red River Review, South
Dakota Review. His first book of
poems, Dare, was published by
Backwaters Press in 2006.
Christina Daub's recent work is included in the anthologies, Full Moon on K Street, edited by Kim Roberts, The Poet's Cookbook, edited by Grace Cavalieri, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins. She teaches creative writing at George Washington University.
Nancy Devine teaches
high school English in Grand Forks, North Dakota where she lives. She
co-directs the Red River Valley Writing Project, a local site of the
National
Writing Project. Her poetry, short fiction and essays have appeared in
online
and print journals.
Paul Fisher's first book, Rumors
of Shore, won the 2009 Blue Light
Book Award, and is forthcoming in 2010.Recent poems appear in Cave Wall, Centrifugal Eye, DMQ Review,
Pedestal, Umbrella, Waccamaw, and
various other publications. Paul is the recipient of an Individual Artist's
Fellowship in Poetry from the Oregon Arts Commission, and a graduate of the MFA
program at New England College. He lives in Bellingham, WA, with his wife, two
cats and a dog.
E. Laura Golberg E. Laura Golberg's work
has been published in The Externalist, Main Channel Voices, Perigee: Publication for the Arts,Pedestal Magazine, and www.LanguageandCulture.net, among
other publications.She has studied at both the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers'
Conferences, and has held a fellowship to the Jenny McKean Moore workshop of
George Washington University.
Erica Goss is a writer from Los Gatos, CA. Her poems, reviews, and essays appear or are forthcoming in Caveat Lector, Zoland Poetry, Main Street Rag, and Pearl, among others. She has won a number of prizes for her writing and been nominated for a Pushcart prize. She teaches poetry and art in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the South Bay Arts Reporter for Examiner.com.
Paul Grayson A prominent, longtime member of the Washington, D.C., literary community, Paul Grayson served as a weather observer in World War II in
the U.S. Air Force for four years, including two years in mainland Alaska and the
Aleutian Islands.He has a B.S. in
botany and an M.S. and Ph.D. in agricultural economics.Prior to retirement, he worked as a
statistician and economist for the Census Bureau, Social Security Administration, and the
IRS.His poems have appeared in
Mercury, Comment, Phoenix, Quirks, and the Statistical Reporter.He has published research papers in the
Journal of Farm Economics, Statistics of Income Bulletin, and elsewhere.He has been a featured reader of his
poetry on satellite radio and at Mariposa, the Kensington Library, and other D.C.
venues. Gabe Heilig
Gabe Heilig has twice been a featured poet on Grace Cavalieri’s "The Poet and The Poem." He was "script doctor" for "A Step Away From War," narrated by Paul Newman, and has had essays published by St. Martin's Press and Tarcher/Putnam. He founded the only resume service ever given a lease to do business in the Pentagon and lives in Takoma Park, MD. He can be reached at gabe@ideadesign-dc.com.
Heather Hughes has been
published in Cream City Review, Grain, Prick of the Spindle, Saw Palm, and Stirring. She keeps busy as curator of the Imagined Therefore Limitless
Readers' Series, editorial assistant at a scholarly publisher, dedicated yogi, and
language learner. She would like to live in a lighthouse.
Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National
Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction,
editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse,
North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West,
Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many more. He published a three-volume series of
the best of Northwest writing as well as an anthology of contemporary German
poetry titled Evidence of Fire.
He has published a limited edition collection of his own poetry and translated "Yesterday
I Was Leaving" by Johannes Bobrowski. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis
Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. His story collection, The Balloon
Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking, was one of five finalists for the 2009 Starcherone
Innovative Fiction Prize.
Rose Kelleher 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.
Douglas Korb's poems have appeared in RHINO,5AM, Poet Lore, Mannequin Envy, and elsewhere. He has held previous posts in
poetry as
National Poetry Month coordinator for the Academy of American Poets and
as
critic for GrowlerPoetry.org, a website dedicated to the reviewing of
debut poetry
collections. He holds a MFA in creative writing from Bennington College
and his
chapbook, The Cut Worm, won
Bright Hill
Press's 2006 chapbook award.
Mary Ann Larkin is a poet, writer, teacher, and former
fund-raising and publications consultant. The Coil of the Skin, a book of poems, was published by Washington
Writers' Publishing House in 1982. Publications also include four
chapbooks: White Clapboard,
by Carol Allen of Philadelphia; The DNA of the Heart, with Patric Pepper, by Pond Road Press; A
Shimmering That Goes with Us by Finishing
Line Press; and gods & flesh,
by Plan B Press in early 2007. Her poems have appeared in Poetry
Ireland Review, New Letters,Poetry Greece and other magazines, as well as in more than twenty local and national
anthologies, including America in Poetry, Ireland in Poetry, and Loving, a poetry and art series published by Harry Abrams of New York.
She has taught writing and literature in a number of colleges and universities,
most recently at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Her involvement with
poetry includes co-founding the Big Mama Poetry Troupe, a group of feminist
poets, who gave sixty performances from New York to Chicago in the seventies;
giving numerous workshops and readings in schools, churches, jails and saloons;
and writing for Foundation News, National
Public Radio, and The Watershed Foundation, producers of literary radio
programming. In 2003, she and her husband, Patric Pepper, founded
Pond Road Press, which published its third book in 2006: Tough
Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh by Jack
Gilbert. Larkin grew up in Pittsburgh and now lives in Washington, D.C.,
and North Truro, Massachusetts.
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).
Doris Lynch's work appears in Bitter Oleander,
Commonweal, and Tattoo Highway.New
work is forthcoming in Adirondack Review and Xanadu.Her chapbook, Praising
Invisible Birds, appeared from Finishing
Line Press in November 2008. The Indiana Arts Commission has awarded her three
individual artist's grants: two for poetry and one for fiction.She works as a reference librarian.
Katie Manning
Katie Manning's poetry and book reviews have been published or are
forthcoming in Ancient Paths, Bare
Root Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, New Letters, ONTHEBUS, Poet Lore, Relief, So to Speak, Trivia, and Word Riot, among
others, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She and her
husband recently moved from San Diego to Lafayette, Louisiana, where they're
learning many new uses for the word y'all.
Laura Manuelidis is a physician/scientist who has
investigated the shape of chromosomes and the causes of dementia. She has
published poetry in various journals, including The Nation, Connecticut
Review, Oxford Poetry, Innisfree Poetry and
Reflections (Yale journal), has
been nominated twice for a Pushcart prize, and has read in European and
American universities and other venues. Her book of poems, Out of
Order, is available online; additional
links (and readings with music by P. Jordan) are at: http://info.med.yale.edu/neurosci/faculty/manuelidis_poetry.html.
Bonnie Maurer earned an MFA in poetry from Indiana
University. She is the author of four small-press chapbooks: Reconfigured (Finishing Line Press, 2009); Ms. Lily Jane
Babbitt Before the Ten O'clock Bus from Memphis Ran Over Her (Raintree Press and Ink Press, 2nd edition); Old
37: The Mason Cows (Barnwood Press); and Bloodletting:
A Ritual Poem for Women's Voices (Ink Press).She has poems forthcoming in War
Literature & the Arts, and in an
anthology: And Know This
Place: Poetry of Indiana.
Maurer has conducted creative writing/healing workshops for
the homeless in recovery, for the HIV+/AIDS affected/infected population and
for cancer patients at The Wellness Center.She grew up in Indianapolis where she continues to live and
work as a poet for Young Audiences of Indiana, as a copy editor for the
Indianapolis Business Journal, and as an Ai Chi (aquatic flowing energy)
instructor.
Joan Mazza
Joan Mazza has
worked as a medical microbiologist, psychotherapist, certified sex therapist,
writing coach, and seminar leader. She is the author of six books, including Dreaming
Your Real Self (Penguin/Putnam 1998), and her work has appeared in Potomac
Review, Mobius, Permafrost, Slipstream, Timber Creek Review, Writer's Digest,
The Fourth River, the minnesota review, Personal Journaling, and Playgirl. Her chapbook, Mom's Little Destruction Book, was runner-up in the
Permafrost Contest, and her poem, "When We Were Students" won the 1st
Skyline Magazine Summer Poetry Contest, 2007, and was published in A
Hudson View Poetry Digest, fall 2007. She
now writes poetry full-time in rural central Virginia. www.JoanMazza.com
Judith McCombs Judith
McCombs' poems appear in Calyx, Hunger Mountain, Poet Lore, Potomac Review (Poetry Prize), Prairie
Schooner, Red Cedar Review, Sisters of the Earth, and Sow's Ear; Beltway Poetry Quarterly,
Innisfree Poetry Journal; Feminist Studies, Nimrod (Neruda Award), Poetry,
Poetry Northwest, River Styx, and her fifth book, The Habit of Fire:
Poems Selected & New. She received the Maryland State Arts Council's highest
2009 award in Poetry. She teaches writing workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and arranges a
poetry series at Kensington Row Bookshop.
Claire McGoff lives in Silver
Spring with her husband and six children. She has been a member of the Writer's
Center for several years, participating in a number of workshops, including
personal essay, memoir, and poetry.
Joe Mills A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joe Mills has published three volumes of poetry--Somewhere During the Spin Cycle; Angels,
Thieves, and Winemakers; and Love and Other Collisions, just out in February 2010--as well as numerous works of fiction, non-fiction and criticism.
Jean Nordhaus' fourth volume of poetry, Innocence, won the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and was published by The Ohio State University Press in November 2006.
Scott Owens
Graduate of the UNCG MFA program, co-editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, Chair of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize for the Poetry Council of NC, and author of "Musings," a weekly poetry column in Outlook, Scott Owens' books include The Fractured World (2008) and The Persistence of Faith (1993). He is also author of two chapbooks, Deceptively Like a Sound (2008), and The Book of Days (2009), and over 400 poems published in various journals. He has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net Prize this year. His poem, "On the Days I Am Not My Father," was featured on Garrison Keillor's NPR show The Writer's Almanac. Born in Greenwood, SC, he now lives in Hickory, NC, where he teaches and coordinates the Poetry Hickory reading series.
William Page's poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, The North American Review, Southwest Review, Nimrod, Wisconsin Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, Mississippi Review, Cimarron Review, The Chariton Review, Southern Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, Tar River Poetry, Ploughshares, The Pedestal, and in over a hundred and thirty other reviews, and in a number of anthologies. His third collection of poems, Bodies Not Our Own, received a Walter R. Smith Distinguished Book Award. He is Founding Editor of The Pinch and a retired professor of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Memphis.
Some of Rhodora Penaranda's poems have appeared in Cutthroat: Journal of the Arts, Westerly Magazine, The Penwood Review, and Diverse Voices Quarterly among others. Rhodora is presently at work on a libretto in collaboration with music composer Bayani Mendoza de Leon. She lives in the Hudson Valley in New York.
Jacklyn
Potter's poetry and translations appeared in The Hollins Critic, The
MacGuffin, Poets On, Plainsong, Poet Lore, The Washington Review, Stone Country, and Jazz a Go-Go (Warsaw, Poland). Her work was
anthologized in Weavings 2000, Maryland Millenial Anthology; Hungry as We
Are: An Anthology of Washington Area Poets (Washington Writers' Publishing House); Quiet
Music: A Plainsong Reader's Anthology; If I Had My Life to Live Over, I'd Pick More
Daisies, If
I Had a Hammer: Women's Work in Poetry, Fiction and Photographs (Papier-Mache Press); the WPFW-FM
Anthology
(Bunny and Crocodile Press); and in The Stones Remember, Native Israeli
Poetry (The
Word Works). She was lead editor of Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's
Cabin, 1984-2001
(The Word Works, 2003). In 1994, Delos, a journal of translations, featured her
interview with Richard Harteis and William Meredith. In 1994-95, District
Lines
included her Spanish translations in a children's literary poster series on
Washington Metro buses. Journey Proud: Southern Women's Writings (Carolina Wren Press)
included her chapter about living on the Virginia Eastern Shore. For 22 years,
she directed the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series, readings under the stars
in Rock Creek Park. She received several fellowships from the D.C. Commission
on the Arts. As a child, she performed as a singer on radio, television, and
stage.
Oliver Rice's poems have appeared widely in journals and
anthologies in the United States, as well as Canada, Argentina, England, The
Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, and India. His book of Poems, On Consenting to be a Man, is offered by Cyberwit, a diversified publishing house in the cultural capital Allahabad, India,
and is available on Amazon. He was recently featured in Best
of the Literary Journals. Go to escene.webdelsol.com.
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.
A new collection will be out from Cherry Grove Collections in 2011. 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.
A.L.Rodenberg is a writer working in both poetry and
fiction. She graduated with a MA in Creative Writing from the University
of Lancaster. Ms. Rodenberg's first published poem, "Apocrypha," appeared in Smiths Knoll in 2006 and will be included in an upcoming collaboration of poetry and art at the Tate Museum in
London. Her most recent adventures in prose include completing National
Novel Writing Month and a digital fiction work-in-progress located
at http://sites.google.com/site/shorehwy/apartment.
Ms. Rodenberg lives in a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Marybeth Rua-Larsen lives,
teaches and writes on the South Coast of Massachusetts.Her poems have appeared in Measure,
The Raintown Review, The Barefoot Muse and Two Review, among
others.
Tania
Runyan's poems have appeared in Poetry,
Atlanta Review, Indiana Review, The Christian Century, Willow Springs, Southern
Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to
Shakespeare.Her chapbook, Delicious Air, was awarded the 2007 Book of the Year Citation by the Conference on Christianity
and Literature. Her first full-length collection of poetry will be published by
WordFarm in 2011. When not writing, Tania spends her days tutoring high school
students, playing various instruments, and chasing three kids around the house.
Find Tania online at www.TaniaRunyan.com.
David Salner worked as an
iron ore miner, steelworker, and machinist for 25 years.His fourth collection of poetry, John
Henry's Partner Speaks, appeared
last spring.His work appears
in recent or forthcoming issues of The Iowa Review, Isotope, and Southern Humanities Review.His
first published short fiction was nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize.He has been awarded grants from
the Maryland State Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation and is currently
working on a novel about the lives of hard-rock miners in the Old West.
E.M. Schorb's work has appeared in The American Scholar,
The Formalist, The Dark Horse, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review,The Yale Review, The Chicago Review,
Carolina Quarterly, The Antioch Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Stand and Agenda in England,
among others. His collection of poems, Time and Fevers won the latest "Writer's Digest" Award for
Self-Published Books in Poetry and received an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence
in Independent Publishing.Another
collection, Murderer's Day, was
awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University
Press.
Retired after a career of teaching high school and college
in Norfolk, Virginia, Lynda Self now resides in the mountains of Western North
Carolina.Her poems have appeared
in The Southern Review, The Georgia
Review, The New England Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Threepenny Review, and Innisfree Poetry Journal.Recent
poems will appear in forthcoming issues of The Sow's Ear Poetry
Review, Confrontation, and North
Carolina Literary Review.
Janice D. Soderling is a former contributor to Innisfree. Her current and scheduled work appears in
The Pedestal, Blue Unicorn, New Verse News, Soundzine, Concise Delight,
Literary Mama, Left Hand Waving, Loch Raven Review, Lucid Rhythms, Unsplendid (USA),
Anon, Lyric Poetry Magazine (Scotland), The Centrifugal Eye (Canada)
Horizon Review, Borealis (England), The Flea, The Chimaera (Australia),
and the recently released Best of Our Stories anthology. Her
poetry was nominated by the Australia-based Shit Creek Review in 2009
for Dzanc Best of the Web, Sundance Best of the Net, and Pushcart.
She lives in a small Swedish village.
Jim Solomone's poem in this issue of Innisfree is from his unpublished collection titled All this Living. He has also written comedic fiction, one unpublished novel, Gunning's Yaw, and numerous short stories.
