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C.B. ANDERSON began writing poems in 2003, at age 54. His work has appeared in The Lyric, Iambs & Trochees, Sahara, The Chaffin Journal, Romantics Quarterly and other journals. For twenty years he has been the gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden. 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. 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. MICHAEL R. BURCH is the editor of The HyperTexts, on-line at www.thehypertexts.com, where he has published the work of three Pulitzer Prize nominees and recent winners of the T.S. Eliot, Richard Wilbur and Howard Nemerov awards. He has three Pushcart nominations, and his poetry has been translated into Farsi (Iranian) and Gjuha Shqipe (Albanian) by Farideh Hassanzadeh Mostafavi, Dr. Mahnaz Badihian, Rahel Yahia and Majlinda Bashllari. His work has appeared in literary journals and sundry publications which include Light Quarterly, The Lyric, Poet Lore, The Chariton Review, Piedmont Literary Review, The New Formalist, Writer’s Digest–The Year’s Best Writing, The Neovictorian/Cochlea, Mandrake Poetry Review, The Best of the Eclectic Muse 1989-2003 and Iambs & Trochees. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, JANET BUTLER relocated to the Bay Area after living in central Italy for many years. She arrived in lovely San Francisco with her suitcase in one hand and Fulmi-dog in the other, a beautiful Springer Spaniel “mix” she rescued from an Italian dog pound. While enjoying the many beauties of Italy, she managed to find time to be serious: she collaborated with a local poet, Romeo Giuli, in the translation of his poetry from 1997 to 2003, and a selection of these poems was published by Solveig Publishing, Sienna, Italy. Ms. Butler then decided it was time to dedicate herself to her own creative writing. Her poems have since been published in Scrivener’s Pen, ken*again, Underground Voices, Mannequin Envy, ForPoetry, Flutter, The Green Muse, Wild Violet, Slow Trains and others. Future publications will include Erosha, The California Quarterly, and The Indented Pillow, 2008. Ms. Butler’s poetry and watercolors may be seen at http://www.janetleebutler.com. Born where vampires are rumored to exist, COMATETA (Co-ma-tea-tah) M. CLIFTON lives among the bayous where mosquitoes can be saddled and Spanish moss droops from oak trees. From the cypress swamps of Louisiana, she enjoys reading and writing speculative and crime fiction, mostly. Her recent fiction has appeared in the Twisted Cat Tales anthology. She invites you to visit her online at www.geocities.com/black_ink_tales. ELIZABETH J. COLEMAN'S poetry has been published in the Phoenicia Times, and Newstar Philippines, and she has read from her memoir at KGB Bar. She is co-author of Commercial and Consumer Warranties: Drafting, Performing and Litigating (New York: Matthew Bender & Co., 1987). Ms. Coleman is an attorney, president of Professional Stress Management Solutions, Ltd., and President of the Beatrice R. and Joseph A. Coleman Foundation for environmental and social justice. She has served as Vice-Chair of President Clinton’s Export Council, national civil rights director at the Anti-Defamation League, and Executive Director of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a recipient of the New York Women’s Agenda 2004 Star Award and NOW New York’s Woman of Power & Influence Award. FRANK DE CANIO has been published in more than 30 magazines (and/or e-zines); Danger, Pleiades, Red Owl, Nuthouse, Love's Chance, Words of Wisdom, Rook publishing; with Hazmat, Medicinal Purposes, Blue Unicorn and Ship of Fools pending. He is on the web at POETZ and Thick with Conviction. 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 most recently appeared in magazines and journals such as The Raintown Review, Candelabrum, and The Eclectic Muse. MARC FORSTER is a librarian at a large English university where he teaches nurses and midwives to use the Internet. 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. JULEIGH HOWARD-HOBSON'S rhymed poetry has appeared in The Raintown Review, The Hypertexts, The Old Heathen's Almanac 2006, Flipside, On The Wing, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Seven Cups of Coffee, The Girls Book of Success [a child's poem] (Little Brown), Bewildering Stories, Macquarie University Arena (Australia), Odin's Gift, Focus, Saczine, 9 to 5, Idunna, The Voice, and Shatter Colors Literary Review. Along with other awards, she's won the prestigious Australian Returned Serviceman's League's ANZAC Day Award for poetry. She holds a gold medal for poetry, as well as a silver for short fiction, from the MacArthur Arts Festival (Australia). A curtailed sonnet of hers recently took second place in the Formal Poetry section of the Illinois State Poetry Society 2006 Contest. She is the co-editor of, and contributor to, the Arets Vakreste Boker 2004 award-winning Norwegian-press literary collection Undertow. Other writing of hers has recently appeared in Practice Apartment, Low Hug, Dead Letters, The Australian Reader, Writer2writer.com, The Willamette Writer, Aesthetica Magazine, R-KV-RY Journal, The Arabesques Print Review (Algiers), and The Non-Euclidean Cafe Journal among other places. She has rhymes forthcoming in Strong Verse, Mezzo Cammin, Workers Write!, Champagne Shivers 2007, Appalling Limericks, and Poem, Revised. Prose work of hers is scheduled to appear in Going Down Swinging (Australia), Dead Can Dance, Loving The Undead, Her Circle Ezine, and War Journal: Dispatch One. 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, a performing arts center manager for most of his working life, now retired, lives and writes in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA. His recent and forthcoming work appears in numerous print and Internet poetry magazines. He has gathered 50 of the best of his published formal poems (texts with optional streaming audio) under the title of 21st Century Bread on a newly redesigned website at www.geocities.com/lelandjamieson. He is hawking a longer book manuscript by the same name. CLARE KIRWAN is based in Merseyside, England. Part of Liverpool's Dead Good Poets Society, she performs her poetry widely and has been published in Orbis, Iota, The Interpreter's House and MsLexia amongst others. Her web site is at www.clarekirwan.co.uk. JOSEPH V. KLEPONIS lives north of Boston and is a teacher of English and American literature. In 2005 he won second prize in the Lawrence Eagle Tribune Spring Poetry Contest sponsored by the Frost Foundation, and he will have a poem appearing in a future issue of the Boston Literary Magazine. JAY KRISHNAN has been writing since he was seven. His first work appeared in newspapers at 10. Further he was part of a poet’s international fraternity and became part of many anthologies, journals and meets (Deccan Herald, Poets International, Contemporary Poets anthology…). He loves lyrical rhyming poetry. He has compiled his first book (Nirvana Priya-The hymn of the song bird). He dreams of getting it published. 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. In a lifelong love affair with peace and obscurity, RICHARD MOORE has published a novel, a book of essays, translations of plays by Plautus and Euripides, and ten books of poetry, the first of which scared him to death by being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His web site, www.moorepoetry.com, has fresh goodies every Thursday. Richard has a new poetry book out, Sailing To Oblivion, published by Light Quarterly. Checks (drawn on a U.S. bank) should be made out to Light Quarterly, P.O. Box 7500, Chicago, IL 60680 ($12.95 Post Paid), and the book is also available by charge (toll-free, VISA/MC, 1-800-285-4448). While JAMES B. NICOLA has been published in over a dozen journals (most recently California Quarterly, Toe Tree Journal, and the Raintown Review; upcoming in Art Times, Lyric, Ancient Paths, Wisconsin Review, Iron Horse, and Nimrod), and won a Dana Literary Award, he is a stage director by profession and author of Playing the Audience (APPLAUSE BOOKS 2002), which won a CHOICE Award as one of the year's outstanding books. 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. REBECCA R. PIERCE was born in Oakland, California in 1974 but moved to Georgia in 1989. She's been writing poetry since the age of seven, and it has been her addiction ever since. Author of Waves from My Oddest Sea (published in 2004), she is currently working on an epic poem based on the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, the third in her epic poetry series. Lastly, she just started an online poetry workshop, (Turn of Verse) where poets can come together to discuss famous works (as well as not-so-famous ones) and write a poem utilizing the themes and styles of that particular discussion. MARK RHOADS teaches music at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota and has poems published or forthcoming in The Neovictorian/Cochlea and Snakeskin. A selection of his poetry and links to some of his scholarly work including his Anthology of the American Hymn-Tune Repertory: The Colonial Era to the Civil War can be found at http://www.markrhoads.com. Mark and his wife live in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. GERALD SO'S recent poetry has or will appear in Lunatic Chameleon, Mouth Full of Bullets, and Cherry Bleeds. CARRIEANN THUNELL edits the Nisqually Delta Review. She has been published in over 75 journals, including Bellowing Ark, Raintown Review, Centrifugal Eye, The Aurorean, Penwood Review, etc. Her work has been published in 7 countries. She has been a guest editor of the Santa Fe Broadsides. She will be judging the long poetry division of the 2007 Frontiers in Writing contest. 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. SIOVAHN AMANDA WALKER is a British writer and historian who lives in New York City. She specializes in writing historical fiction that is infused with modern themes. Specifically, she composes lesbian and women's literature in increasingly neglected genres, such as the Italian sonnet or Arthurian verse epic, and is currently completing her Ph.D. in medieval history from Stanford University. GRACE E. WELCH, a Canadian, was educated at University of Waterloo, where she received an honors degree in Rhetoric and Professional Writing in 1992. She lives and works in Bermuda where she is a project manager for a multi-national corporation. Several of her poems appear in the 2006 Bermuda Anthology of Poetry (edited by Mervyn Morris). She recently won first place and "best in show" in the 2006 David Raine Memorial Poetry Competition, for her poem "Return of the Turtle." GAIL WHITE has been active in the Formalist Poetry movement from its early days. She appeared in 2006 in the anthologies Writing Metrical Poetry, Hurricane Blues, and Chance of a Ghost, and an essay on her work appeared at www.mezzocammin.com. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and can be reached at argailwhite@cox.net. Back Home |