Volume I, Number 1, Summer 2005

CONTRIBUTORS

L.N ALLEN's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cream City Review, The Southern Review, Tundra, Tar River Poetry, The Madison Review, and The Mississippi Review, among others. She is currently preparing her first collection of poems, tentatively titled Small Pictures, for publication.

AARON ANSTETT's first collection, Sustenance, appeared in 1997, and
his second, No Accident, was selected by Philip Levine for the 2005 Backwaters Press Prize. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, and online at Softblow.

ERIC ARMUSIK received his degree in Fine Arts from Pennsylvania State University. A former student of Robert Yarber and Julie Heffernan, he has published artwork in The William & Mary Review, Art Matters, The Monthly Art Newspaper, and elsewhere. His work has been exhibited in such venues as Madison Square Garden, Franklin & Marshall College, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the National Academy of Fine Arts (Brazil). In 2004, he won the Allied Artists of America Award; in 2003, he won the Kara Art Silver Award in Geneva, Switzerland.

DAN BEACHY-QUICK received his master’s degree in 2000 from the University of Iowa. The author of two books, Spell (Ahsahta Press, 2004) and North True, South Bright (Alice James Books, 2003), he currently teaches in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry, essays, and criticism have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Paris Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and The Southern Review.

DAVID BIESPIEL has published two books of poetry, Wild Civility (University of Washington Press, 2003) and Shattering Air (BOA Editions, 1996). He has received an NEA Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. He is currently Director & Writer-in-Residence at The Attic in Portland, Oregon.

PAULA BOHINCE's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, Sou'wester and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

PETER CAMPION's first book of poems, Other People, is forthcoming this September from The University of Chicago Press. His monograph on the painter Mitchell Johnson has been published by Terrence Rogers Fine Arts.

NAOMI FEIGELSON CHASE's latest poetry book is Gittel: The Would Be Messiah (Turning Point Books, 2005), a novel in verse. Others include Waiting for the Messiah in Somerville, Mass. (Garden Street Press, 1993) and The Judge's Daughter (Garden Street Press, 1995).

JULIA COLE's poems have been published or are forthcoming in
Diner, Rattapallax, 7 Carmine, Poetry Motel, and the Women's Review of
Books. She received an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.

JON DAVIS is Chair of the Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. His most recent book is Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron Press, 1996). His poems have appeared in recent issues of Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Ontario Review, American Letters & Commentary, and Iowa Review. He received a 1998 Lannan Literary Award and a 2005 NEA Fellowship.

JONATHAN FINK's poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Poetry, New England Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Southwest Review, among other publications. From 2005 to 2006 he will be a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Emory.

PHILIP FRIED has published two volumes of poetry, Quantum Genesis (Zohar, 1997) and Mutual Trespasses (Ion, 1988). Salmon Poetry (Ireland) will be bringing out his third volume, Big Men Speaking to Little Men, in the spring of 2006. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Tin House, Partisan Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Poetry London. His work has also been published in such anthologies as Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets, And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century, and In the Criminal’s Cabinet, among others.

ELLEN GOLDSTEIN grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, The Formalist, pettycoat relaxer, Junctions, and Streetlight. She lives in Boston.

CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. “Our Father” and “Bride of the Barbiturate” are from a work in progress entitled MEDS. Her latest book, The Radiant, won the Levis Prize from Four Way Books and was published in 2003. She has recent poems in TriQuarterly, and forthcoming in The Connecticut Review and The Marlboro Review.

LAYNE JACKSON has been a fine arts painter for more than twenty years. She has published her artwork in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Austin Chronicle, Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere, and has exhibited her pieces in such venues as Sotheby’s, the Illinois Institute of Art, and the D.H. Mattix Gallery in Chicago. Former clients include Michael and Susan Dell, J.P. Morgan, Northwestern University, and Former President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton. Born in Texas and educated in Canada and France, she currently lives and works in the East Village in Chicago.

ELIZABETH KENNEDY lives in Oakland, CA. She holds an MFA in Fiction & Nonfiction from the Bennington College Writing Seminars and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. Her most recent work appears in Kitchen Sink Magazine.

MICHAEL LEONG holds an A.B. in English from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Rutgers University. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, Cranky, Seattle Review, Snow Monkey, and Tin House.  He lives in New York City.

LESLE LEWIS's book, Small Boat, winner of the University of Iowa Poetry Prize was released in March, 2003. Her next book, Landscapes I & II, will be released by Alice James Books in March 2006. Poems and short fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Poets On, American Writing, Pig Iron Press, Pleiades, American Letters and Commentary, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street, Slope, and others.

TIMOTHY LIU is the author of five books of poems, most recently Of Thee I Sing (University of Georgia Press, 2004). A new book of poems, For Dust Thou Art, is forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press. His poems have recently been translated into Chinese, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish.   His first book, Vox Angelica, appeared last summer in a Slovene translation. He is an Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University and makes his home in Hoboken, NJ.

CLAY MATTHEWS's work was published recently or is forthcoming in Unpleasant Event Schedule, H_NGM_N, Poet Lore, Spork, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Muffler, is due out from H_NGM_N B_ _KS in the fall of 2005. Currently he serves as associate editor of the Cimarron Review while pursuing a Ph.D. at Oklahoma State.

STEVE MUESKE holds an MFA in Writing from Hamline University and has published poems recently in The Massachusetts Review, Water-Stone, The American Poetry Journal, Northeast Review, 88, Fulcrum, and others. Editor of the literary arts journal three candles, his chapbook, Whatever the Story Requires, was published by Pudding House Press in 2004. His first full-length collection, A Mnemonic for Desire, will be published by Ghost Road Press in April 2006.

CRAWDAD NELSON is a journalist and writer based in Sacramento, CA. Recent publications include Susurrus, Failed Seeker Magazine, Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review, and Kerf. He has received two Pushcart nominations, and is a frequent speaker at college creative writing classes.

MICHAEL J. OPPERMAN works as an interactive producer for a Minneapolis advertising agency. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. Michael was awarded the Academy of American Poets James Wright Award for Poetry in 2000, and his work has appeared in Maverick Magazine, Dislocate, Lumen, Aisle Say, Rain Taxi, Borealis Magazine, and The City Pages.

ELIZABETH PERCER's poetry appears in recent issues of American Literary Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Runes: A Review of Poetry. She is currently preparing her first manuscript for publication.

ROBERT PHILLIPS is the author of three collections of short stories and six collections of poetry. A seventh, Circumstances Beyond Our Control, will appear from Johns Hopkins University Press next year. He is the poetry editor of The Texas Review.

JOHN PURSLEY III teaches poetry and literature at the University of Alabama, where he is also the poetry editor for The Black Warrior Review. He was awarded a fellowship from Fence to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Literary Review, Chelsea, Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, Mid-American Review, and The National Poetry Review, among others.

KATHLEEN ROONEY's first book is Reading With Oprah (University of Arkansas Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared recently in 32 Poems, Coe Review, and Comstock Review.

F. DANIEL RZICZNEK is currently completing his MFA in Poetry at Bowling Green State University, where he also serves as the poetry editor for Mid-American Review. His chapbook of prose poems, Cloud Tablets, recently won the Wick Poetry Program Chapbook Competition and will be published by Kent State University Press in 2006. New poems appear or are forthcoming in Fugue, Blackbird, Notre Dame Review, Flyway: a Literary Review, Phoebe, and Elixir.

STEVEN D. SCHROEDER edits The Eleventh Muse, the literary journal of the Poetry West organization, and works as a Certified Professional Résumé Writer. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Diner, Cranky, and three candles.

RAVI SHANKAR's first collection, Instrumentality, was published by Cherry Grove Collections. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Descant, The Mississippi Review, The Indiana Review, Lit, Crowd, 88, and Western Humanities Review. His critical prose has appeared in Poets & Writers, Time Out New York, The Iowa Review, Big City Lit, and The Writer's Chronicle. He is the founding editor of the online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat.

PETER JAY SHIPPY, author of Thieves’ Latin (University of Iowa Press, 2003) has new work forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Field, Jacket, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He teaches at Emerson College.

KATHERINE SONIAT's The Fire Setters is available through Web Del Sol Online Chapbook Series. Her fourth collection, Alluvial, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2000, and A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Virginia Prize for Poetry in 1993. Her work can be found in recent issues of The Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, and Hotel Amerika. She teaches in the MFA Program at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg, VA.

MATTHEW SPERLING's poetry has been published in book form in Tower Poets (ed. Peter McDonald, 2005). A collaborative poem-print with artist Elizabeth Hancock is forthcoming from Tradeskin Press. He lives in Oxford, England.

ROBERT STARK is a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, dissertating on jargon (that is, birdsong) as a poetic and metapoetic symbol in Modern poetry. Recent publications include poetry in the Irish American Post, and "Correspondence, Vision, and the Pursuit of a Viable Symbolism," Yeats Eliot Review, 20.2 (Summer 2003).

JEN TYNES lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she edits horse less press. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, GutCult, Indiana Review, jubilat, H_NGM_N, and Factorial.

C. DALE YOUNG practices medicine full-time, edits poetry for the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A recipient of the Grolier Prize, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, he is the author of The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern 2001). His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere.