Contemporary Rhyme | Winter 2008 | Contributors
C.B. ANDERSON was the gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden, for more than twenty years. His poems have been published in numerous print and online journals. Recently, one of these, which appeared in The Raintown Review, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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.
RUMJHUM BISWAS'S prose and poetry have previously appeared in Etchings (Australia), The Little Magazine (India), Eclectica, Nth Position (UK), The King's English, Halfway down the Stairs, Arabesques Review, Crannog (Ireland), Clockwise Cat, Chanterelle's Notebook, A Hudson View (SA), Lily Literary Review, The Paumanok Review, Poems Niederngasse (Switzerland), Unlikely Stories, Cerebration (UK), Amarillo Bay, Gowanus, Loch Raven Review and Southern Ocean Review (New Zealand). Recent publications include two poems in Bare Root Review and Poems Niederngasse respectively and two short stories in The Nth Position and Muse India respectively. Her poem "Cleavage" was in the longlist of the Bridport Poetry Competition 2006. Three of her poems have been published by Unisun Publishers in their 2007 anthology "The Silken Web". Two poems are forthcoming in separate anthologies by Forward Press of UK. Her short story for The Verb Magazine's "Looking at You Contest" won honorable mention and an excerpt was posted in the October 2007 issue. At present she lives in Chennai.
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.
SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI is a 34-year-old journalist, economist and poet based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications in nearly 30 countries. In North America, these include Euphony, The Melic Review, Eclectica Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, The Foliate Oak, Poetry Super Highway, The Bathyspheric Review, The Avatar Review, Ginosko, Carnelian and Ygdrasil. His first book of poems has received an award in Australia.
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 just out from Whiskey
Creek Press.
FRANK DE CANIO was born & bred in New Jersey, and works in New York. He loves music of all kinds, from Bach to Dory Previn, World Music, Latin, opera. Shakespeare is his consolation, writing his hobby. He likes Dylan Thomas, Keats, Wallace Stevens, Frost, Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath as poets. He has been published in more than 30 magazines and/or e-zines, including Danger, Pleiades, Genie, Write On!!, Red Owl, Nuthouse, Love‘s Chance, Words of Wisdom, Illogical Muse, The Lyric, Free Lunch, Art Times, Pearl; with Hazmat, Medicinal Purposes, Blue Unicorn, Ship of Fools and Raintown Review.
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. Lee's second poetry collection, Maryland Weather, is now available at lulu.com. He is currently living in Bath, Maine with his wife.
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. His new chapbook, Sirens & Silver, is available from Rainfall Books.
PAUL FRALEIGH was born in London, Ontario; holds a B. A. in English from the University of Waterloo; and presently resides in Montreal, having lived on both east and west coasts of the continent. His poetry has appeared in The Storyteller, Offerings, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, and The Raintown Review.
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.
B.L. GIFFORD has written news releases for a university public affairs office, sports and features stories for a weekly town newspaper, and articles for a now defunct golf magazine.
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.
E. PORTER GRAHAM has published a good number of poems in Light Quarterly and elsewhere.
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. Copies of Rollinat: Poems from Les Néuroses, Sonnets to My Goddess, Pictorial Poems and D'Annunzio: Translations Selected and Introduced are available from the author for £5 (or the U.S. dollar equivalent) each. Orders should be mailed to Philip Higson/1 Westlands Avenue/Newcastle-under-Lyme/Staffordshire/ST5 2PU/England.
MELANIE HOULE is a physician and former jeweler. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and The Raintown Review's first featured poet. Her poetry also appears in The Lyric, California Quarterly, The Aurorean, Neovictorian/ Cochlea, Mobius, Pearl, The Barefoot Muse, The HyperTexts, ShatterColors, Journal of the American Medical Association and others.
ALLEN LEE IRELAND'S poetry has appeared in The Raintown Review, Blue Unicorn, The Lyric, and Candelabrum. He received a Master of Education in English from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and now works for Levolor-Kirsch Window Fashions in High Point, which he touts as "the furniture capital of the world!"
THOMAS LAND is a poet and foreign correspondent. His poetry has been published by The New York Times, his book reviews by Poetry Review and The Times Literary Supplement.
ERIC MARTIN'S poems and translations have appeared in nearly forty print and online journals throughout the United States and Great Britain, including Pivot, Blue Unicorn, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, The Eclectic Muse, Edge City Review, The Barefoot Muse, Contemporary Rhyme, The Neovictorian, Lilliput Review and The Iconoclast. He began writing poetry in 1994, but has only recently returned to it after a hiatus of seven years. He is a formalist poet, with a particular interest in American and European Romantic poetry, especially that of Lord Byron and Edgar Allan Poe. In 2005, he received an M.A. degree in ancient and medieval history from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (USA), with a specialization in late Greco-Roman patristic and theater history. He is currently completing a verse translation of the French libretto to Hector Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust (1846). Presently, he resides in northern Maine, with his wife and family, where he enjoys fishing and listening to classical music. Complimentary copies of Eric's new poetry collection, The Death of Orpheus, and Other Poems, Original and Translated are available directly from the author. You may contact him at 42 Winter Street/Presque Isle, Maine 04769 or by e-mail at emart40x@yahoo.com.
CHRIS MCNAB is a scientist & the father of two daughters, living in Glasgow, Scotland. His work has appeared previously in anthologies from Dogma Publications, England: his interest in poetry is in using the craft of rhyme as a vessel for subjectivity, obliqueness and suggestiveness.
WALTER NASH, 81, a UK citizen now living in Tenerife, is an emeritus professor of English. He writes poems on themes variously spiritual, lyrical or satirical, has no rooted objection to free verse but prefers to work and innovate within traditional forms. An online collection, Of Time and Small Islands, was published in 2004 by Island Hills Books, and has recently been reissued, in print, in the UK (Beyond the Cloister Publications). A collection of devotional and other poems, In Good Faith, was published in 2007 (UK, Feather Books).
JACK PEACHUM-an actor & playwright also-lives in a drafty old manse called Venable House in southside Virginia. He contributes videos to YouTube & is a lyrical & narrative poet-not fashionable. He has published poems in Lucidity Magazine, Powhatan Review, NeoVictorian /Cochlea, & Off-the-Coast, & has work currently appearing in Clark Street 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.
GERALD SO'S recent poems have appeared in Word Riot, The Orange Room Review and Yellow Mama.
MICHELLE TANDOC-PICHEREAU was born and raised in Manila, greased elbows in Los Angeles and is currently honing her craft in Bretagne. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in elimae, WORD RIOT and Heights.
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.
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. William's poetry collection, Withdrawal Symptoms, is available from Amazon.
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