ADAM BENFORADO is a Frank Knox Fellow at Cambridge University.
His poetry and prose appear in the current issues of alice
blue, Boston Review, The Café Irreal, The
Circle, and Cricket Online Review.
MARK P. BOWEN, a former poetry editor for
Columbia,
is the recipient of several fellowships from the Graduate
Creative Writing Program at Columbia University.
He currently divides his time between New York City and Vermont.
PATRICK CARRINGTON teaches literature and creative
writing in New Jersey,
where he also serves as the poetry editor for Mannequin Envy.
His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals,
including Red Rock Review, Clark Street Review, Caveat Lector,
Wavelength, and DMQ Review.
HILDRED CRILL, a 2004 graduate of the MFA Program at
New England College,
lives in
Stockholm, Sweden. Her poetry has been published in such
journals as Poetry, Colorado Review, The
Literary Review, and Cream City Review. In 1999, she
co-edited the anthology, Under the Legislature of Stars: 62
New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press).
PHIL CRIPPEN is a graduate of the University of Arizona
and Oxford University (UK). His work has recently or will soon
appear in Shampoo, The Argotist, and the anthology
Enopoetica (Story Line Press, forthcoming).
RUTH
DANON is the author of
Triangulation From a Known
Point (Blue Moon Books, 1990). Her work has
appeared in numerous journals, including Best American Poetry
2002, The Paris
Review,
Fence,
The New England Review,
The Gettysburg Review, 3rd Bed, Moria, and
The
Ontario
Review.
She is presently a full-time faculty member at New
York University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program
for the University’s McGhee Division.
JEHANNE DUBROW holds an MFA in Poetry from the University
of Maryland, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative
Writing at the University of Nebraska. Recent poems have
appeared in Poetry, Hudson Review, Tikkun, and
The New
England Review.
MELISSA JONES FIORI is a professional translator.
In addition to an MA in Translation and Interpretation, she
holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. Her chapbook, The Language of Exile,
has just been published by Main Street Rag.
IRA JOE FISHER is a correspondent for CBS, appearing on
the network’s Saturday Early Show. His poems have
appeared in New York Quarterly, Poetry New York,
Diner, The Alembic, and elsewhere. A graduate of
the MFA Program at New England College, he currently teaches at
the University of Connecticut at Stamford.
MAUREEN TOLMAN FLANNERY is the author of four books of
poetry, including A Fine Line (Fractal Edge Press, 2004)
and Ancestors in the Landscape (John Gordon Burke, 2004),
which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her poems have been
published in such journals as Midwest Quarterly, Atlanta Review,
Amherst Review,
Meridian,
Calyx, Evansville Review, Slant, and Margin.
JENNIFER S. FLESCHER is currently a student in the MFA
Program at Lesley University. Her poems have appeared in
The
Boston Globe and are forthcoming in The Harvard Review.
RICH FURMAN is an Associate Professor of Social Work
at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His poems
have appeared in such venues as Hawaii Review, Free
Lunch,
Pearl,
Red Rock Review, and Penn Review. He is also the
author of two chapbooks, Of Only Average Intent (Snorting
Dog Press, 2002) and Gleaming and Faded (Snorting Dog
Press, 2003).
PATRICIA GIRAGOSIAN is the author of two collections of
poetry, and is currently working on a third. She has taught
writing at several New England colleges, and has a poem
appearing this winter in The Classical Outlook.
REBECCA GIVENS lives in Athens, Greece, where she teaches
literature. She has new work out or forthcoming in Gettysburg Review,
Meridian,
32 Poems, Puerto del Sol, and Hollins Critic.
LIZZIE HUTTON is a graduate of the MFA Program at the
University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award and a
Meader Award. Her poetry and prose has appeared in Yale
Review, The New England Review, and
Gulf Coast.
CHARLES JENSEN is the author of the chapbook Little
Burning Edens, which was awarded the Red Mountain Review
Chapbook Award in 2005. His poems are forthcoming from or have
appeared in New England Review,
Washington
Square,
The Journal, Quarterly West, West Branch,
No Tell Motel, and elsewhere. An editor for the literary
journal three candles and a freelance writer for Outlook Arizona, he presently works for the Virginia G.
Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
DANIEL KHALASTCHI received his B.A. in English at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, and his MFA in Poetry from
the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. His poems have
appeared in Octopus Magazine and can be found in the
forthcoming issue of Pebble Lake Review. He
currently lives in Iowa City, teaching freshman composition (and
low-level Hebrew) to anyone who’ll listen.
DAVID KOEHN has published in a wide range of journals,
including New England Review, New York Quarterly,
ZYZZYVA, Alaska Quarterly Review, Third Coast,
Delmar, REAL, Illuminations, and The Bitter Oleander.
A graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Florida and a
former Fellow at the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury
College, he is a past winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook
Contest, sponsored by the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
KENNEY MENCHER received an MA in Art History from the
University of California at Davis, and an MFA in Painting from
the University of Cincinnati. He has taught at several colleges
and universities, including the University of Chicago, Texas A&M
University, and Ohlone College (CA). He is the author of the
textbook Liasons:
Readings in
Art, Literature and Philosophy.
His artwork has appeared in numerous solo, joint, and group
exhibitions across the country, including the Mountain View
Center for the Performing Arts (CA), the Elliot Fouts Gallery
(CA), the Laredo Center for the Arts (TX), the Brody Gallery
(OH), the Period Gallery (NE), the Bryant Gallery (MI), the
Hanson Gallery (TN), and The National Arts Club in New York
City.
ROBERT NAZARENE is the founding editor of MARGIE
and the author of CHURCH (IntuiT House Poetry Series,
2006). His work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares,
Beloit Poetry Journal, North
American Review, Arts & Letters, Boulevard,
New York Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Crazyhorse.
SIMON PERCHIK is an attorney and author who has published
nineteen books of poetry, including Hands Collected
(Pavement Saw Press, 2000), Touching the Headstone
(Stride Publications, 2000), and Letters to the Dead
(Saint Andrews College Press, 1993). His poems have appeared in
numerous journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry,
The Nation, Colorado Review, Beloit Poetry
Journal, The North American Review, and Partisan
Review.
EMILY PÉREZ is a student in the MFA Program at the
University of Houston, where she is a poetry editor for Gulf
Coast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Many Mountains Moving,
Bat City Review, The
Kennesaw Review, and Touchstone.
FREDERICK POLLACK is the author of two book-length
narrative poems, Adventure (Story Line Press, 1986) and
Happiness (Story Line Press, 1998). His poems and essays
have appeared in such venues as Hudson Review, Southern Review,
Poetry Salzburg Review, Fulcrum, Die Gazette (Munich), and elsewhere.
KATHLEEN ROONEY has new work appearing or forthcoming in
Crab Orchard Review, Smartish Pace, Passages
North, and Phoebe. Her first book is Reading With
Oprah (University of Arkansas Press, 2005).
DAN ROSENBERG is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’
Workshop. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming
from POOL, Mustachioed, KultureVulture, Mid-American Review, and
Iodine.
CHRISTOPHER SALERNO is the author of
Whirligig (Spuyten
Duyvil, 2006), which was short-listed for the 2005 Walt Whiman
Award from the Academy of American Poets. His chapbook, Waving Something White was published the University Book
Exchange’s Independent Press in 2003. Recently named a finalist
for the Emerging Writers Award from Swink, his poetry has
appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Colorado
Review, Barrow Street, jubilat, LIT, River City,
North Carolina Literary Review, 5AM,
and the online edition of AGNI. He currently teaches
Poetry and American Literature at North Carolina State
University.
JENEVA STONE holds a doctorate in Renaissance Literature
from Columbia University, and is currently enrolled in the MFA
Program at Warren Wilson College. She has poems forthcoming
in Colorado Review and Tigertail: A South Florida
Annual.
JAY SURDUKOWSKI
is a law student at the University of
Michigan, where he is the Managing Editor of the Michigan
Journal of International Law and recently published a note
entitled, Is Poetry a War Crime? Reckoning for Radovan
Karadzic the Poet Warrior. He has published his work in
several journals, including Poet Lore, The Iconoclast,
and
Diagram. His recent summers
have been spent at the International Criminal Tribunal for
Yugoslavia in the Hague.
TODD SWIFT is the author of three collections of poems,
most recently Rue du Regard (DC Books, 2004). The
editor of six poetry anthologies, including 100 Poets Against the
War (Salt, 2003), he is also the poetry editor of Nthposition. His poems have recently appeared in
The
Manhattan Review, Poetry London, London Magazine,
and Gargoyle. In 2005, he guest-edited a feature on new
Canadian poetry for New American Writing. He is
presently a Tutor at The Poetry School in London, England.
BARRY WALLENSTEIN is the author of five books of poetry,
most recently A Measure of Conduct (Ridgeway Press,
1999). Pandemoium, a CD fusing his poetry with jazz, was
released by Cadence Jazz Records in 2005. His work has appeared
in such magazines as Ploughshares, The Nation, The Laurel Review, and
Centennial Review.
FREDRICK ZYDEK, a former teacher of creative writing and
theology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the College of
Saint Mary, is the author of eight collections of poetry,
including the forthcoming T’Kopachuk: The Buckley Poems (Winthrup
Press). A recipient of both the Hart Crane Poetry Award and the
Sarah Foley O’Loughlen Award, his work has appeared in numerous
journals, including Poetry, New England Review, The Antioch Review,
Prairie Schooner, Nimrod,
and The Seattle Review. He is currently the Editor of
the Lone Willow Press Chapbook Series.
