ABDALLAH
ZRIKA was born in Casablanca in 1953, Abdallah
Zrika grew up in the slums of Ben Msik. He self-published his first
book (Dance of the Head and the Rose)
in 1977. The book was an
immediate popular success; the many poetry readings he gave had often
audiences in the thousands. In 1978 he was arrested and jailed for two
years for supposed crimes against “the sacred values” of his country.
Since his release in 1980 he has continued his career as a writer,
becoming one of Morocco’s major voices. Of his ten or so books, three
have been translated into French.
BARRY
ALPERT has become
the Washington DC Bureau Chief for Andrei Codrescu's magazine Exquisite
Corpse. Starting this fall he will be curating literary readings
which will occur on Stanford-in-Washington's campus. After being
published in Manchester, England by Carcanet Press and in New York City
by Persea Books, his book The Poet
In The Imaginary Museum was reviewed
prominently in the London Times
Literary Supplement and the New
York
Times Book Review. He edited the literary critical magazine Vort, which
merited three grants from the National Endowment of the Arts. His
literary and art criticism has been published (or is forthcoming) in
books published by Oxford University Press, Duke University Press,
University of Maine Press / National Poetry Foundation, Four Seasons
Foundation (Donald Allen), Gale Research, O Books / Avenue B Press, and
The Galleries at Stephen F. Austin State University.
RENÉE
ASHLEY is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt (Brittingham Prize in
Poetry), The Various Reasons of Light,
and The Revisionist's Dream,
as well as a novel, Someplace Like
This, and a chapbook, The
Museum of Lost Wings. She has received fellowships from the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the
Arts. She is co-poetry editor for The Literary Review, and on the
faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency MFA Program
in Creative Writing.
DOUGLAS BARBOUR,
poet, critic, and
Professor Emeritus of English at the
University of Alberta, has published many books of criticism and
poetry, including Fragmenting Body
etc. (NeWest Press/SALT 2000), Lyric/Anti-lyric:
essays on
contemporary poetry (NeWest Press 2001), Breath Takes (Wolsak
& Wynn 2002), A Flame on the
Spanish Stairs
(greenboathouse books 2003), Continuations,
with Sheila E. Murphy
(University of Alberta Press 2006), and most recently, Wednesdays'
(above/ground press 2008). He was inaugurated into the City of Edmonton
Cultural Hall of Fame in 2003.
TINA BASS
has been writing for publication
since 2004. This
includes two pamphlets of poetry: Fat Man Dancing with
poetrymonthly in 2006; and Mechanical
Expressions with Writers Forum in
2007. She has a book of conversations with her children
(Mouthings) due for release
through Intercapillary Space in the summer
of 2008.
JIM BENNETT
lives near Liverpool in the UK
and is the managing editor
of www.poetrykit.org. His
most recent publication is a poetry
collection called The Man Who Tried
To Hug Clouds by Bluechrome
Publishing 2004 (2nd edition 2005). Jim teaches Creative Writing
at the University of Liverpool and tours throughout the year giving
readings and performances of his work.
DAVID
BIRCUMSHAW: born 1955, Coleshill,
Warwickshire. Now living in
Leicester. Edits the occasional on-line magazine A Chide's Alphabet.
Books include Painting Without
Numbers (2001) and The Animal
Subsides
(Arrowhead Press, 2004). Currently learning how to walk.
JOANNA
BOULTER grew up in Southern England
near the great stone circles
of Avebury and Stonehenge, and became deeply interested in prehistory
as a result. Poetry and music fought each other as her main interests
in her youth,
and this innate musicality has played a central role in her development
as a poet. She has three poetry pamphlets in print, and her first full
collection, Twenty Four Preludes and
Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich (Arc
Publications) was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis First Collection
prize (Forward Prizes) in 2007. She is currently collaborating with the
composer Andrew Webb-Mitchell on a major symphonic song cycle.
SHARON
BROGAN lives in Montana, USA, and
feels an abiding connection to
Southeast Alaska. Montana taught her roots; Alaska taught her light and
dark, rain and breathlessness. She has been writing, or not writing, or
resisting writing, for most of her life. She shares her home and nearby
environs with cats, dogs, parakeets, goldfish, sparrows, juncos,
chickadees, flickers, crows, magpies, osprey, squirrels; the occasional
heron, eagle and raccoon; a singular fox; and, now and then, other
human animals. Her website is Watermark.
ANDREW BURKE
has been writing and publishing
poetry in Australia since
the 1960s. He has published six collections, with a seventh in hands of
a publisher now (mid-2008). To feed and clothe a wife and three
children, Burke worked in advertising until his mid-forties, then
switched to lecturing and tutoring at various universities. In recent
years, he has taught in a remote community school in far north Western
Australia, and lectured at Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, PR China.
He lives in Perth, Western Australia.
PETER
CICCARIELLO is an
interdisciplinary poet, artist, and
photographer, whose current interests are in experimenting with the
fusion of text and images in 3-D computer graphics environments, and
exploring the possibilities of collage to describe cultural
landscape. His visual poems erode context, foster ambiguity, and
find identity as poetic objects. His work has been exhibited at Harvard
University, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Recent work
has appeared both in print & online in, amongst other places, New
River Journal, dbqp: visualizing poetics, Oregon Literary Review, The
Long Island Quarterly, MOCA The Museum of Computer Art, Otoliths,
and Word For/ Word.
CALEB CLUFF
lives in the small,
ironically-named, central Victorian
town of Majorca. He is an honours graduate of the University of Sydney
and of the Victorian College of the Arts. An active participant in the
"FuturFall" conference of 1984, his thesis on the archetype of the
Wandering Jew in the works of Saul Bellow and Patrick White was
regarded as 'dense', 'impenetrable', 'dubious', and was famously
described by a professor as "scarcely less readable if it were written
in hieroglyphics." As such it was a triumph of the postmodern. He is
poetry editor of a new academic journal, Second Nature: The
International Journal of Creative Media. This is an open-access,
peer-reviewed online journal auspiced by RMIT's School of Creative
Media. He regards himself as possibly the only poet to have both been
expelled from school three days into Kindergarten and to have made a
significant contribution to the entomology collection of the Australian
Museum.
ROGER
COLLETT – owner and editor of
Arrowhead Press. Has a family
of five children and eight grandchildren scattered around the world
from Dubai to Maine, USA but mainly in UK. No longer writes as his time
is taken up with the press and a full-time day job as a computer
systems engineer.
ALISON
CROGGON lives in Melbourne,
Australia. She has published several
books of poems which have won or been shortlisted for several literary
prizes. Her most recent poetry collection is Theatre, out from Salt
Publishing in 2008. She has written nine plays and opera libretti which
have been produced around Australia and broadcast on ABC Radio and is
the author of the fantasy quartet The
Books of Pellinor, which has been
published in Australia, the UK, the US and Germany to popular and
critical acclaim. She is Melbourne theatre critic for the national
daily newspaper The Australian,
and runs a respected review blog called Theatre Notes. She
is the founding
editor of Masthead. alisoncroggon.com
MARTIN DOLAN
is from Canberra, where he
moonlights as a bureaucrat. He
returned to poetry when recovering from an operation in 1996. His first
collection, Clouds and Edges,
was published in 1999. His second, The
Idea of Busan, will be published in 2008.
SALLY EVANS,
poet and editor of
the
broadsheet Poetry Scotland, lives
in Callander, Scotland. The latest of her several books is The Bees, a
Satirical Fantasy of The Bees and An Elephant Artist in the Highlands,
a long poem in terza rima illustrated by Reinhard Behrens. She is
currently writing a series of Unpoems, or intertextual self
translations, of which At the
Antonine Wall is one. Her website is groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
ROBIN HAMILTON
was born
in 1947. He went to school and university at Glasgow, going on to
do graduate work at York before finally teaching English at
Loughborough University for twenty years before retiring. Hamilton is
the author of two major collections of poems, The Lost Jockey (Bran's
Head Books) and Pacts and
Conjurations (Arrowhead Press), and is
currently working on a study of cant in English writing from 1500 to
1900.
RANDOLPH HEALY
was born in Scotland in 1956,
moving to Ireland in 1958.
He lives near the village of Enniskerry with his wife, Louise, and
their five children. In 1997 he founded Wild Honey Press which has
published over fifty titles by authors from Ireland, England, Australia
and the United States. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Other ed. Caddel and
Quatermain, Wesleyan, 1999 and Anthology
of
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry, ed. Tuma, Oxford
2001. His
collection Green 532 was
published by Salt in 2002.
NATHAN
HONDROS has just returned to Perth,
Australia after living in Europe. His collaborative book of short
fiction written with
playwright Damon Lockwood is called Man
and Beast and will be published
in September. The King's Road,
a novella he wrote in France and Italy,
is contending The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
PETER
HOWARD read Physics and Philosophy at
Oxford, and works as a
Telecommunications Systems Design Consultant. He has been widely
published in magazines and anthologies, including The Faber Book of
Christmas, and the Oxford Poets 2001 anthology. His pamphlet Low
Probability of Racoons appeared in 1994 and Game Theory in 2005. He won
second prize in the 2000 Arvon competition. For five years he wrote a
quarterly Internet column for Poetry
Review. He taught Animated Poetry
in Flash for the trAce Writing School. He's a member of the live poetry
group The Joy of Six. His collection Weighing
the Air was published in
2008 by Arrowhead Press.
ÁRNI
IBSEN (1948 - 2007). Author of
four collections of poetry
and a dozen plays which are translated into ten languages and performed
in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, The Faroe Islands, Estonia,
Hungary, Germany, Ireland, England and the USA, as well as his native
Iceland. A bi-lingual selected poems, A
Different Silence, won The
American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize in 1999 and was
published by Harwood Academic Publishers in 2000. In 1996 he was
nominated for the Nordic Playwrights Prize for Heaven - A Schizophrenic
Comedy (1995). His debut play was The Turtle Gets There Too (1984), a
two-hander about William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Subsequent
plays include Elin Helena
(1993), Fish Out of Water
(1993), I Wish I
Was a Goldfish (1996), the disjointed, cinematic satire entitled
For
Ever (1997), named play of the year in 1997, and Man Alive (1999), an
opera libretto inspired by Everyman, as well as several plays for radio
and tv. Numerous translation credits include a selected poems by
William Carlos Williams (1997) and an anthology of plays, prose and
poetry by Samuel Beckett (1987).
JANET JACKSON,
poet of page, screen and microphone, featured at the
2006 and 2007 WA Spring Poetry Festivals and at the 2007 Melbourne
Overload Poetry Festival. Her poems have been published in many print
and online magazines and anthologies and she has self-published three
chapbooks and her own website Proximity.
HALVARD
JOHNSON was born in Newburgh, New
York, and grew up
in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Among his collections of poetry
are Transparencies and Projections,
The Dance of the Red Swan, Eclipse,
and Winter Journey--all from
New Rivers Press and, now out of print,
archived at the Contemporary
American Poetry Archives. Recent
collections include Rapsodie
espagnole, G(e)nome, The Sonnet Project, Theory of Harmony--all
from www.xpressed.org -- and The English Lesson, from Unicorn
Press.
Hamilton Stone Editions has published two collections: Guide to the
Tokyo Subway and Organ
Harvest with Entrance of Clones.
JILL JONES
won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor
Poetry Prize for Screens, Jets,
Heaven: New and Selected Poems and the 1993 Mary Gilmore Award
for her
first book of poetry, The Mask and
the Jagged Star. Her latest
full-length book, Broken/Open,
was short-listed for The Age Book of the
Year 2005 and the 2006 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. In 2007 she took
part in the 23rd Festival International de la Poésie in
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. Her work has been translated
into Chinese, Dutch, Polish, French, Italian and Spanish. She has
collaborated with photographer Annette Willis on a number of
cross-artform projects.
PIERRE JORIS
is a poet, translator, essayist
& anthologist. He has
published over forty books, most recently Aljibar II (poems, a
bilingual edition with French translations by Eric Sarner) and Justifying the Margins: Essays
1990-2006 (SALT Publishing, forthcoming
fall 08). His 2007 publications include the CD Routes, not Roots;
Aljibar and Meditations
on the Stations of Mansour
Al-Hallaj 1-21. Recent translations include Paul Celan: Selections,
and Lightduress by Paul
Celan, which received the 2005 PEN Poetry
Translation Award. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the award-winning
anthologies Poems for the Millennium
(volumes I & II) and most
recently, Pablo Picasso, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other
Poems. Check out his website
& his Nomadics blog.
TREVOR JOYCE
is an Irish poet whose most
recent books are with the
first dream of fire they hunt the cold (2001) and What's in Store
(2007). He is a co-founder and director of SoundEye (soundeye.org) and
co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin with Michael Smith. He is a
Fulbright Scholar and a member of Aosdána.
JOHN
KINSELLA'S most recent volumes of
poetry are Shades of the Sublime
& Beautiful (Fremantle Press, 2008; Picador UK, 2008) and Divine
Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography (WW Norton,
September
2008; University of Queensland Press, September 2008). His other recent
titles include Disclosed Poetics:
beyond landscape and lyricism
(Manchester University Press, 2007), and Contrary Rhetoric: lectures on
landscape and language (Fremantle Press, 2008). Arc (UK) will
publish
his version of Comus in
October, 2008. He is a Fellow of Churchill
College, Cambridge University and a Research Fellow at the University
of Western Australia.
S. K. KELEN is an
Australian poet.
His
most recent books are Goddess of Mercy (Brandl &
Schlesinger, 2002), and Earthly Delights (Pandanus, 2006).
LIZ KIRBY
is officially a bitch! (Bitchlit:
Crocus Books). She works as
a poet and writer of prose and reviews, teacher of writing, literature
and linguistics, and organiser of 5 Rhythms Dance events. Recent poetry
can be found in Skald Issue
24, review of Lee Harwood in Chroma
7.
PETER LARKIN
is the author of Terrain Seed
Scarcity, (Salt, 2001), and Leaves
of Field
(Shearsman, 2006). A new collection Lessways
Least Scarce Among is forthcoming from The Gig. Recent
work has
appeared in fragmente, Free Verse,
Salt Magazine and Stride
Magazine. An interview with Edmund Hardy is available at
Intercapillary Space.
CINDY LEE is
a London-escapee, living on the
weird and wonderful Isle
of Wight (UK) with her two young children. Always fascinated by
the compression of meaning into image, and of image into language, she
began to write seriously as a poet in her mid forties, following the
death of her husband in 2004. The work contained here represents
her response to that event. Her new work is moving beyond
it. None of this work, new or old, would have been possible
without the poets who inhabit Poetryetc: a wonderful and inexhaustible
source of advice, expansion, inspiration, and occasional indignation.
RACHEL LODEN
is the author of Hotel Imperium (Georgia),
which was
named
one of the ten best poetry books of the year by the San Francisco
Chronicle, and Dick of the
Dead, which Ahsahta Press will publish in
2009. Honors include two appearances in the Best American Poetry
series, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the California Arts
Council, and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.
S.J.
LITHERLAND lives in Durham City and
is a member of her County
Cricket Club. Her most recent poetry collections illustrate her divided
interest between cricket and the rest of life: The Homage (Iron Press
2006) follows the fortunes of former England cricket captain Nasser
Hussain in his final season 2003-4; The
Work of the Wind (Flambard
Press 2006) is a journal of her tumultuous years with fellow poet Barry
MacSweeney. She has just completed a sixth poetry collection, The
Absolute Bonus of Rain, and is working on a new book of cricket
poems.
Her dream: to see England at the Gabba.
BOB MARCACCI,
a high school English
teacher, lives in Vacaville,
California with his wife and son. Bob's poetry has appeared in numerous
online and print publications around the world. Read more about him on
his blog: marcacci.blogspot.com.
PATRICK MCMANUS
-- of Raynes Park, London – pensioner – ex
following - architect
– potter - volunteer mental health worker – running writing workshops
– Survivor Poet - kept sanish by Poetryetc - published in 50 odd places
including Beyond Bedlam – Magma – Cement and Water –You Tube
not least
Merton Allotments Association and Humanist
magazines - does readings -
has wonderful Partner Janet – cat Vile Boris – kids step kids grand
kids and an allotment.
SHEILA E.
MURPHY’S most recent full-length
books of poetry include The
Case of the Lost Objective (Case) from Otoliths Press, 2007, and
Continuations (with
Douglas Barbour) from The University of Alberta
Press, 2006. Forthcoming are the Visio-Textual collection, Permutoria
(with K.S. Ernst) from Luna Bisonte Prods, and Collected Chapbooks,
from Blue Lion Books.
GLEN
PHILLIPS has taught innovative
English and Writing programs for
over forty years in the tertiary sector. Currently he is an Associate
Professor and Director of the International Centre for Landscape and
Language at Edith Cowan University, Perth. His most recent books in
2008 are the co-edited: Contrary
Rhetoric (John Kinsella's lectures)
and Lines in the Sand (new WA
poetry and prose). Glen's poetic works
include Spring Burning: New and
Selected Poems (1999), Sacrificing
the
Leaves (1988) and Lovesongs,
Lovescenes (1991). Poems and stories have
been translated into several languages and also appeared in fifty
anthologies, journals and newspapers in nine countries. His new
collection of poetry, Land
Whisperings, comes out in Britain with Salt
Publishing.
FREDERICK
POLLACK was born in Chicago. He
is the author of two
book-length narrative poems, The
Adventure and Happiness, both
published by Story Line Press. Other poems and essays have appeared in Fulcrum, Hudson Review,
Representations, Poetry Salzburg Review, Die
Gazette (Munich), Gladhat,
Malleable Jangle, Famous Reporter and
elsewhere. He is adjunct professor of creative writing at George
Washington University, Washington, DC.
MAX
RICHARDS was born (1937) and educated
in Auckland. After postgrad
time in Edinburgh he taught English at La Trobe University Melbourne
for many years, publishing articles and reviews on the poetry of Thomas
Hardy, Allen Curnow, Judith Wright, William Hart-Smith, Peter Porter,
Seamus Heaney, Les Murray, and others. His books are Under Mount Egmont
and Other Poems and Catch of
the Day. He lives in Doncaster, an eastern
suburb of Melbourne. cooee@netspace.net.au
TAD RICHARDS’
credits include poetry, fiction, song lyrics.
screenplays, nonfiction, journalism, art and drama. The poetry includes
four books – The Gravel Business,
The Map of the Bear, My Night with
the Language Thieves, and Situations,
a novel in verse. His most recent collection is Take Five: Poems in 5/4 Time. The
fiction
consists of an assortment of paperback originals under various names,
including his own. The songs have been recorded by Orleans, John Hall,
and Fred Koller. He’s also written on poets and poetry, on sports, on
trivia, and extensively on music, including The New Country Music
Encyclopedia. Struggle and Lose, Struggle and Win: The Story of the
United Mine Workers Union, cowritten with Elizabeth Levy was
listed as
one of the best young adult books of the year by the New York Times. www.opus40.org
PETER RILEY’S
selected poems, Passing
Measures, was published in 2000,
and Alstonefield, a long
poem, in 2003, both from Carcanet. Since then
a book of Transylvanian travel sketches, The Dance at Mociu, has
appeared from Shearsman Books, and a books of three poem sequences, A
Map of Faring, from Parlor Press (USA). Shearsman has also
published
two books of uncollected poetry and prose, The Days Final Balance, and The Llyn Writings. The
most recent publication is Best at
Night Alone,
a booklet from Oystercatcher Press. His webite address is www.aprileye.co.uk. He
lives in retirement in Cambridge, U.K.
KASPER SALONEN
needs trees around him or he would lose his mind. He writes about the
locales, phenomena and denizens of his daily life with a focus on the
way the weather, the seasons and his own states of mind transmute them.
He lives, writes and studies in Helsinki (in that order) and is also
co-author of a self-published anthology, the No House Collective vol.1,
forthcoming in 2008..
GERALD SCHWARTZ
was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1958 and lives
in West Irondequoit, New York. He is one of the founding members of the
performance ensemble Solomons Ramada as well as an ongoing member of
Faking Trains. He has collaborated with the Choreographer's Asylum and
multimedia artist Damian Catera. In 2001 he was the recipient of the
William Bronk Foundation Scholarship. His first collection of poems, Only Others Are (Legible
Books) was released in 2003.
LARISSA
SHMAILO’S new poetry CD is Exorcism
(SongCrew 2008), available
from CDBaby.com, iTunes, and Amazon; her new chapbook is A Cure for
Suicide (Cervena Barva Press 2008). Larissa has been published in Barrow Street, Fulcrum,
Rattapallax, Drunken Boat, and many other
publications. Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory
over the Sun by A. Kruchenych; a DVD of the original
English-language
production is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern
Art. Her first poetry CD, The No-Net
World (SongCrew 2006) is
frequently heard on radio and Internet broadcasts. Larissa is listed in
the Poetry Kit Who’s Who in poetry. Visit Larissa at www.myspace.com/larissashmailoexorcism
HEATHER TAYLOR
iis a Canadian writer, performer & educator, whose work has been
published and produced throughout Europe, Asia & North America. She
recently graduated with an MA in Plays and Scripts from City University
and her first feature film, The Last
Thakur, premiered at the London Film Festival, 2008. Her
first poetry collection, Horizon
& Back, was published by Tall Lighthouse Books & she is
currently completing a second collection to be published in 2009.
"Heather Taylor maps an image-rich world
with a voice that is fresh, tough & hard to ignore with strong,
brazen writing that lives on & off the page." (Todd Swift)
For more, visit her website heathertaylor.co.uk.
JOHN TRANTER
has published more than twenty
collections of verse. His
collection of new and selected poems, Urban
Myths: 210 Poems: New and
Selected (University of Queensland Press, and Salt Publishing,
Cambridge UK) won the 2006 Victorian state award for poetry, the 2007
New South Wales state award for poetry, the 2008 South Australian state
award for poetry, and the 2008 South Australian Premier’s Prize for the
best book overall in 2006 and 2007. In 1992 he edited (with Philip
Mead) the Penguin Book of Modern
Australian Poetry. He has lived at
various times in Melbourne, Singapore, Brisbane and London, and now
lives in Sydney, where he is a company director. He is the editor of
the free Internet magazine Jacket
and in 2004 he
initiated the Australian Poetry
Resources Internet Library.
LAWRENCE UPTON:
Poet;
sound and graphic artist; performer; based in Cornwall and S.E.
England. Directed Sub Voicive Poetry from 1994 for ten years.
Co-convenor of Writers Forum Workshop and co-director of Writers Forum
press since 2002. BOOKS: Wire
Sculptures (2003); Snapshots
(2008). Co-editor: Word Score
Utterance: Choreography in verbal and visual poetry (1998).
STEPHEN
VINCENT - poet, photographer, artist, and director of Book
Studio - lives in San Francisco where he also leads walking and writing
workshops. Recent and forthcoming poems and reviews appear in New American Poetry (2008), Vanitas, Jacket, Kadar Koli, Mimeo Mimeo,
Big Bridge, and Galatea
Resurrects. Recent poetry volumes include Triggers (Shearsman ebook), Sleeping with Sappho, (faux ebook),
and Walking Theory (Junction
Press). An exhibit of his haptic drawings is scheduled for February at
the Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco. His popular blog of poems,
photographs, haptics and commentary is found at stephenvincent.net/blog/
MARTIN J. WALKER
is an occasional poet,
translator and language teacher
now retired living in Lagorce (Fr-07) and Berlin. He attended
Southampton and Hamburg universities in the '60s (when he wrote poetry
in German for a short time), then lived and worked in Frankfurt for
some 30 years. As he is rather a loner by disposition, Poetryetc,
which he participated in for 7 years and may return to, was the
most significant group experience he has known (excluding teaching) and
he is very grateful for it.
CANDICE WARD'S
chapbook, The Moon Sees the
One, was published by Wild
Honey Press (Ireland) in 2006.
MARK WEISS’S
most recent poetry collections
are Fieldnotes (1995) and Figures: 32 Poems (Chax
Press, 2001). Different Birds
appeared as an
ebook in 2004 (www.shearsman.com). He edited, with Harry Polkinhorn, Across the Line / Al otro lado:
The Poetry of Baja California (2002).
Among his translations are Stet:
Selected Poems of José Kozer
(2006) and Cuaderno de San Antonio /
The San Antonio Notebook, by
Javier Manríquez (2004). His anthology The Whole Island: Six
Decades of Cuban Poetry is forthcoming in 2009 from University
of
California Press. A new collection, As
Landscape, is due from Chax
Press in October of this year.
KENNETH
WOLMAN is from one of the New York
outer boroughs (you can hear
it when he tawks). He has all these academic degrees and a
profound grudge that, through his own errors, he never got to use them.
However, he won a New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship in
poetry back in 1995, and has lived on the memory ever since. He has
published in a raft of places, some online, some in printed. Remaining
a child of movable type (not the program), he has only recently
accepted online publication as real.
HARRIET ZINNES'S
many books include Drawing
On The Wall (poems, a book
that was named "a notable book of 2002" by the National Book Critics
Circle), Whither Nonstoppping
(poems), The Radiant Absurdity Of
Desire
(short stories), Lover (short
stories), Ezra Pound And The Visual
Arts
(criticism), Blood And Feathers
(translations of the French poetry of
Jacques Prevert). She is a contributing writer of art criticism
for New York Arts Magazine
and a contributing editor of The
Hollins
Critic. Marsh Hawk Press will be publishing a new book titled Light
Light Or The Curvature Of The Earth in the spring of 2009.
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