Contemporary Rhyme | Summer 2007 | Contributors
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.
STEPHEN BAILY once edited a literary magazine but has since found more lucrative employment—just barely—on the copy desk of a daily newspaper. A one-act play he wrote in rhymed verse had a staged public reading in May at the National Comedy Theatre in Manhattan.
GARY BECK’S poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His recent fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines. His chapbook, The Conquest of Somalia, will be published by Cervena Barva Press. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.
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. 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.
BRYCE CHRISTENSEN, who teaches writing and literature at Southern
Utah University, received his Ph.D. in English literature from
Marquette University. Author of Utopia Against the Family
(Ignatius) and Divided We Fall (Transaction), Dr. Christensen
has published poetry in The Formalist, Christianity and
Literature, Modern Age and other journals and has had
poetry anthologized in Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets
(University of Evansville Press, 2005) and The Conservative Poets:
A Contemporary Anthology (University of Evansville Press, 2006).
He was a finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award in 2000. His
novel Winning is forthcoming in June from Whiskey Creek Press.
Possessing a Bachelor’s in History from Fordham University, NY, a Master’s in Education from CCNY, a Master’s in English/Creative Writing from Queens College, NY and the experience of an adulthood coming to terms with a neuro-muscular disease, JOHN THOMAS CLARK'S poems have been/will be published in The Recorder–Journal of the American-Irish Society by Derek Mahon and again by Eamonn Grennan, Mediphors, Celtic Fringe, Exit 13, The Innisfree Poetry Journal and Lachryma: Modern Songs Of Lament. His other writing accomplishments include Othering–an unpublished manuscript of 150 sonnets which addresses the journey of a person who others, who becomes “an other” as he faces a burgeoning bodily breakdown because of a physical disability; The Joy of Lex–an unpublished light-heated, upbeat romp of sixty-seven sonnets and a crown which tells the story of life with his black lab Lex, the best service dog in the world as it takes the reader through their training, their graduation, their home life and life in the outside world; and The Captivity of St. Patrick–a 700 page novel which provides a window on fifth-century Ireland.
ELIZABETH J. COLEMAN'S poetry has been accepted for publication in The Lyric. Her poems have also been published in The Phoenicia Times and Newstar Philippines. She is the co-author of Commercial and Consumer Warranties: Drafting, Performing and Litigating (New York: Matthew Bender & Co., 1987). A public interest attorney with over thirty years’ experience in litigation and legal management, Elizabeth is the founder and president of Professional Stress Management Solutions, Ltd., and president of the Beatrice R. and Joseph A. Coleman Foundation for environmental and social justice.
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 Maryland. After college, he held a variety of jobs, including those of landscape laborer, floral delivery man, collection attendant for Goodwill Industries and clerk at the Maryland State Archives. He has published poems in such magazines as Romantic’s Quarterly, Carnelian, Waterways, The Golden Lantern and PW Review. He is currently living in Bath, Maine with his wife.
MARC FORSTER is a librarian at a large English university where he teaches nurses and midwives to use the Internet.
MARK FRANCIS publishes translations of classical Chinese verse as well as original poems in university publications and the small press. He holds a Ph.D. in Chinese from Stanford University, and has taught Chinese language and literary culture in the U.S. and abroad for the last 12 years.
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.
MARCIA GOLUB is the author of two novels, Wishbone (a
Discover Great New Writers selection) and Secret Correspondence,
as well as a book on writing, I'd Rather Be Writing. Her
story "The Child Downstairs" received an Open Voice Award and was
later anthologized in Narrative Design: A Writer's Guide to
Structure. Her unpublished novel Tale of the Forgotten Woman was a finalist for
the PEN/Nelson Algren Award and was twice nominated for the
Editor's Book Award/Pushcart Press. She has written book reviews
for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun, and has
taught at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She now teaches at
Writer's Voice in Manhattan.
GEORGE GOOD has taught English at the University of Kentucky and the University of Akron. He has published poems recently in The Evansville Review, Iambs & Trochees and Light. 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.
JEFF HOLT has previously published poetry in William Baer’s Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets, Measure, The Evansville Review, Rattapallax and Iambs & Trochees, The Formalist, The Texas Review, Pivot, Cumberland Poetry Review, Sparrow, and other journals.
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.
MARTINS IYOBOYI was born in 1972 in Nigeria and educated at the Bayero University, Kano. His poems have appeared in Zone, The Flask Review, 63 Channels, The Bending Spoons and International Zeitschrift.
LELAND JAMIESON lives and writes in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA. Recent and forthcoming work appears in numerous print and Internet poetry magazines. His first book, 21st Century Bread, can be previewed and is available at http://www.lulu.com/lelandjamieson.
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.
WESLEY LAMBERT lives and works in the Great Smoky Mountains foothills of east Tennessee. His poetry or prose has appeared in numerous online and print publications, including: Distant Passages, Paradox, Book of Dark Wisdom, Amazing Journeys, The Sword Review, Abyss & Apex, Tales of the Talisman and many others. He welcomes visits to his blog at: http://staroad.blogspot.com, or comments at: socialcons1@aol.com. RICK LIME'S poems have appeared in Light Quarterly. Under other names, he has published in more than three dozen periodicals. OKE MBACHU'S poems and book reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Astropoetica, Barbaric Yawp, Boxcar Poetry Review, Caveat Lector, DMQ Review, Red River Review and elsewhere.
NICHOLAS MESSENGER had his first poems published in New Zealand as a
schoolboy. He won the Glover Poetry award in New Zealand in the
1970’s. In 2006 he has had poems published in About The Arts,
Blackmail, Boloji, Coffee Press Journal, High Altitude Poetry,
Identity Theory, Jacket, Monkey Kettle, Off Course, Pulsar, Taj
Mahal Review, Web Poetry Corner and WOW. He has had a
few small one-man shows of his paintings. He was born in 1945, and
after completing a degree at Auckland University, travelled
extensively in South America, and lived in Europe for several years.
For a long time he made his living as a teacher, of science, art,
and languages, in High Schools in New Zealand, where he was a
long-standing member of mountain Search and Rescue organisation.
Now, after nine years in Japan teaching English, he is running a
small home-stay business in Hokitika, New Zealand, with his Japanese
wife. He has two grown-up children from a previous marriage.
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). Another new volume, Buttoned Into History, is
available from Pivot Press.
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—an actor & playwright also—is an elliptical poet—lyrical, not fashionable, poison to editors everywhere. He has published poems in Lucidity Magazine, Clark Street Review, NeoVictorian Cochlea, & has work soon to appear in Off-the-Coast & The Powhatan Review.
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. Lee's new book of poetry is Pythagoras in Love (Orchises Press, 2007), and copies are available through Amazon.
CARRIEANN THUNELL is an ecology and peace activist, backpacker, nature photographer, artist, poet, and amateur landscape artist/gardener. She edited the Nisqually Delta Review from February of 2005 through September of 2007. She has appeared in over 82 journals. CAT has been published in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, Romania, and the USA. She was proud to serve as the finalist judge for 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. Francine's recent poetry
collection A Patio of Poems for Grown-ups is available from
TnTClassicBooks.com.
ROBERT VILLANUEVA is an award-winning Kentucky author and former
award-winning journalist. His poems, short stories, essays and
articles have been featured in several print and online publications
including The Summerset Review, The Square Table, C/Oasis,
AbsoluteWrite.com, The Heartland Review, The Louisville Eccentric
Observer, Snitch and the disaster-relief anthology Stories of
Strength, among other places. Additionally, Villanueva's story
"A Scent Like Daphne," which originally appeared in the online
publication The Summerset Review, was included in that
publication's recently-released first-ever print issue and has been
nominated for the Million Writers Award.
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.
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