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PETER AUSTIN lives in Toronto, with his wife, 3 daughters and too many pets, where he teaches English at Seneca College. In his spare time, he writes poetry and plays. JIM BARTON is a story-teller who writes poetry. Some of his work has appeared in such fine journals as Dana Literary Society, Snowy Egret, Off the Coast, Louisiana Literature, Mississippi Review and others. He is currently sending out manuscripts in hopes of publishing his first book. He lives and writes from south Arkansas. GUY BELLERANTI writes short stories, poetry, humor, puzzles and articles. His work has appeared in over 100 different publications for both adults and children. His homepage on the web is: http://www.authorsden.com/guybelleranti. BRUCE BOSTON has received the Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's Readers' Award, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He is the author of forty books and chapbooks, including the novel Stained Glass Rain and the recent collection Shades Fantastic (Gromagon Press, 2006). Bruce lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon. For more information, please visit his website: http://hometown.aol.com/bruboston. MILLICENT BROWER is an actress, novelist, poet and journalist. After graduating from Rutgers University, she acted on over one thousand radio and TV shows in New York City. She is the author of a novel, Ingenue, a book of poetry for children, I Am Going Nowhere, and two other books. Her poetry and articles have appeared nationwide in various magazines and newspapers. Currently, she is a theatre critic for Town & Village, a New York City weekly. She is completing a book of limericks for children. CLAUDIA BURBANK has received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Borderlands, and New Letters. BRENDAN CLARK is currently a graduate student in clinical psychology studying linguistics and verbal behavior amongst other topics at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has focused mainly on aspects of motivation leading to expression through language, as well as language-based rules with an emphasis on poetics and emotion. He enjoys the philosophical orientations expressed in various traditions of classical as well as contemporary poetry. A public-interest attorney who runs a foundation for environmental and social justice, ELIZABETH J. COLEMAN has had poetry published in the Phoenicia Times, and has read from her memoir at KGB Bar. She is the co-author of Commercial and Consumer Warranties: Drafting, Performing and Litigating (New York: Matthew Bender & Co., 1987). Elizabeth is also a semi-professional guitarist. KEVIN IAN DUTTON was born in 1975, in Manchester, a city in the northwest of England, where he still lives now. He started writing poetry at college, and continued through university and afterwards until the present day, his poems being a vast array of shot in the dark ideas on a great variety of subjects, some personal, some political, some controversial. He describes his work as a reflection of the life experiences gained during some very turbulent and eventful times, both for the world and for himself. PHILLIP A. ELLIS edits the e-journal Calenture: A Journal of Studies in Speculative Verse. It's over at http://calenture.fcpages.com/. LEE EVANS was born in 1950 in Annapolis, Maryland, and has resided in that state all his life. He has been married for twenty one years, and is employed at the Maryland State Archives. Besides the writing of poetry, his interests include the American Transcendentalists, the English Romantics, philosophy and Eastern Religion. He has had poems published in Romantics Quarterly, Blind Man's Rainbow, Lucid Moon and on the Poetseers and Ellopos web sites. The Maryland State Archives has published several of his poems in its monthly newsletter, The Archivist's Bulldog. MICHAEL FANTINA has had dozens of poems published over the past two decades both here in the US and in the UK. His verse has appeared in The Lyric, Candelabrum, Romantics Quarterly, The Book of Eibon and many others. JAMES FEICHTHALER is a poet with a love for nature, Celtic Literature and the Classics, and his work has recently appeared in magazines and journals such as Romantics Quarterly and the Eclectic Muse. He also recently received honorable mention in the "World Order of Narrative Poets Contest" for the Coleridge Award. PENELOPE GALLOGLY, from St. Louis, MO, has been plying the craft of poetry for several years now with a decided fondness for rhyme and meter. So far, a few of her works can be found online at poetryrenewal.com under the pen name, Pen Allard. PHILIP HIGSON lectured in history at Chester (England) for almost twenty years, his speciality being the Renaissance. He has published eight collections of original poetry, including his prize-winning Sonnets to My Goddess in this Life and the Next, as well as books of verse translations from Baudelaire, Rollinat and D'Annunzio, and he was a contributor to the anthologies Making Love: The Picador Book of Erotic Verse, The Red Candle Treasury, and The Chester Poets Anthologies. Poems by him have appeared in magazines, including A Bard Hair Day, Critical Quarterly, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, The Eclectic Muse, Lexikon, Mandrake Poetry Review, Metverse Muse, Poet Tree and Rubies In The Darkness. He was leader and anthologist of The Chester Poets group for twenty years. He is a member of the Rollinat Society, and since 1992 he has been President of the Baudelaire Society. He is engaged at present on a prose work, the history of a family of Lancashire Dissenters, which is a more accessible version of his doctoral thesis. While a student at the University of Arizona, STEFFEN HORSTMANN was recipient of the Brooklyn Poetry Circle's National Student Award. He has been writing essays and book reviews for the new Canadian journal Contemporary Ghazals. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Baltimore Review, Blue Unicorn, Meridian, Oyez Review, Pebble Lake Review and Texas Poetry Journal. LELAND JAMIESON (East Hampton, CT) has gathered a number of his published formal poems under the title Needles in a Pinewood at www.geocities.com/lelandjamieson. (He is hawking a longer book manuscript by the same name.) He has recent or forthcoming work in Bellowing Ark, Blue Unicorn, Littoral and Raintown Review. OKE MBACHU writes and schools in Chicago, Illinois. His recent poems appear in Astropoetica, Barbaric Yawp, Caveat Lector, DMQ Review, Red River Review and others. Two constants in his daily life rhyme: poetry, oxygen. (Close enough.) M.L. MCCARTHY is a formalist poet who was born in Liverpool. He comes from an Irish immigrant family. He read Latin at Liverpool, lived by doing various manual jobs for about ten years, and then became a back-room journalist. He is the editor of Candelabrum (f. 1970), Britain's longest established formalist fringe poetry magazine. His interests include English, French, Latin and German literature, theatre, cinema, classical music, fell-walking and animals' rights. HANNAH MILLER is studying psychology, sociology, English literature and art history at the Sixth Form College in Colchester, UK. MICHAEL NEAL MORRIS attended East Texas State University (now Texas A&M in Commerce) where he earned a B.A. in 1985 and an M.A. in 1995. He teaches English at Eastfield College in Mesquite. He has published a number of pieces both online and in print journals, and is currently seeking a publisher for his volume Wrestling Light. He lives with his wife and children in North Texas. THOMAS ORSZÁG-LAND is a poet and foreign correspondent. His rhyming poetry has been published by The New York Times and The Formalist in New York and his book reviews by The Times Literary Supplement and Poetry Review in London. JACK PEACHUM is (mostly) an elliptical poet—lyrical, not fashionable, poison to editors everywhere. He is beginning to write again after a 40 yr/ stint in which he did almost nothing. He's an actor & playwright also. His most recent publication was in Lucidity Magazine in the Dec. issue. A poem called "Spellmemory." Over the last few years he's also published prose pieces in Urban Hiker in Durham, N.C. He has one poem which has been accepted at Neovictorian/cochlea. JULIA PEACHUM is an actor, producer, director and model, and has written for magazines and newspapers. She has finally reached the place in life where her creativity is not demanded by others and can be channeled into where it was originally intended to be. MARK RHOADS is a professor of music at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a hymnwriter and is interested in early American hymnody. His Anthology of the American Hymn-Tune Repertory: The Colonial Era to the Civil War and several of his hymns can be seen at http://www.bethel.edu/~rhomar. Mark and his wife live in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. GERALD SO is a freelance writer from New York. He has published poetry and short stories and is working on a novel this summer. Visit his blog at http://geraldso.blogspot.com. ROBERT JOHN SKLENAR is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His translations from ancient and modern poets have appeared in The Formalist and small craft warnings. LEE SLONIMSKY'S poems are recent or forthcoming in Blue Unicorn, The Classical Outlook, Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Hurricane Review, Iambs & Trochees, River Oak Review and Sulphur River Literary Review. He is the manager of a hedge fund, Ocean Partners LP, and also teaches poetry writing at The Writer's Voice of the West Side Y. GARLAND STROTHER is a native of Louisiana and a retired public librarian. He lives in River Ridge, LA, with his wife just outside New Orleans. He's published poems most recently in Plainsongs, The Lyric, Common Ground Review, Texas Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and Arkansas Review. He also has a chapbook titled Picking Rocks (Red Gate Press.) BARBARA A. TAYLOR writes, "Each day demands that I write and that my fingers touch and feel the earth." Nature, politics, peace and women's issues are her main themes. Barbara's poems are published in print, on radio and in various literary e-zines including Flashquake, Folly, Triplopia, Cezanne's Carrot and the Salt River Review. She writes from the sub-tropics of northern NSW, Australia, where inspiration, peace and freedom to create come from the serenity and beauty of this special area. Samples of her diverse poetry with audio are at: http://batsword.tripod.com. FRANCINE L. TREVENS has been writing—and selling—poetry for over 50 years. Most recently her poems have appeared in Futures, Bibliophilos, Dovetail, Sensations and online at Dana Literary. She is a native New Yorker who suffered transplantation to “Messy Choose-its” in her childhood and didn't blossom again until her return to New York. Having developed an appreciation of history, she can now call her adoptive state Massachusetts, and even like parts of it. But her nature, temperament and interests are as much a part of NYC as the throb of its subways. After years as a theatre critic, director, publicist and playwright, she has “retired” to write poems and stories. JOHN VIECZOREK is a retired registered nurse who worked primarily with acutely psychotic patients. He has been a soldier, small business owner, iron worker, musician, heavy equipment operator, landlord and other occupations he has all but forgotten about. He enjoys writing poetry and fiction, usually cross-genre fantasy or supernatural horror. After a long sojourn he now resides in wonderful New England. WILLIAM WALDEN worked in the editorial department of The New Yorker for many years, and left it to free-lance. He has lived all his life in New York City, except for a 2 1/2-year stint in the Army and a 7-year residence on Long Island, from both of which he has fully recovered. Back Home |