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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