Information on the Poets Hiker and musician -- he lives in Baton Rouge. He has published in several small magazines, and his work can be seen online in the e-zines AUGHT and A Writer’s Choice. He has pieces coming out soon in Forum Italicum and Notes on Contemporary Literature.
Aric Allen is a poet raised in the suburbs of NYC and DC. He has spent the last decade floating between California, Arizona, Louisiana, and Oregon. Along the way he has used Kinko’s Xerox machines to mix his typewritten text with found images. Having recently acquired a PC with a scanner and Photoshop, he has begun publishing his work on the web. Currently he is living in Boulder, Colorado where he is working the graveyard shift at an Amoco gas station. His home page is at http://members.xoom.com/unagriot.
Ivan Argüelles is the author of numerous works of poetry. He received the 1989 William Carlos Williams Award for his book LOOKING FOR MARY LOU:ILLEGAL SYNTAX. His most recent works include: MADONNA:A POEM (Runaway Spoon, 1998); CITY OF ANGELS (Potes & Poets press, 1999) and DAYA KARO! TWO SONGS (Luna Bisonte, 1999). He has also published on-line and has done collaborations with Sheila E Murphy, Peter Ganick, and John M Bennett. When not composing for the Muse, he works as a cataloger at the Library, Univ of California, Berkeley.
Claire Cowan-Barbetti received her BA in English from the University of Dallas. Her interests in the field of literature include the Southern literary renaissance, studies in feminist and comparative literatures, and what is termed "magical realism;" the works of such authors as Gabiel Garcia- Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and Patrick Chamoiseau. She is currently the poetry editor for Janus Head, a journal of interdisciplinary studies in continental philosophy, phenomenological psychology, literature, and the arts.
A physicist by two degrees, though I never could follow the equations enough to make it a vocation. Between watching the prairie and working off bills with technical phrases, this is my first submission and first publication.
Janet Buck teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her poetry, humor, and essays have appeared in The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Melic Review, Sapphire Magazine, The Recursive Angel, Southern Ocean Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Apples & Oranges, Oranges & Apples, The Rose & Thorn, San Francisco Salvo, Poetry Super Highway, Poetik License, Mind Fire, Astrophysicist’s Tango Partner Speaks, Perihelion, Oracle, Poetry Motel, Feminista!, Calliope, The Beaded Strand, New Thought Journal, Medicinal Purposes, 2River View, Kimera, Free Cuisinart, In Motion, Athens City Times, Conspire, Idling, remark, BeeHive, Gravity, AfterNoon, A Writer’s Choice, Niederngasse, Shades of December, Maelstrom, The Oracular Tree, Red Booth Review, Poetry Heaven, Tintern Abbey, Arkham, hoursbecomedays, The Artful Mind, Oatmeal & Poetry, Black Rose Blooming, Apollo Online, Masquerade, Pigs 'n Poets, Savoy, The Poet's Edge, Allegory, GreenCross, Online Writer, Poetry Cafe, Oblique, Locust Magazine, The Poetry Kit, Pyrowords, Vortex, Ceteris Paribus, The Suisun Valley Review, Illya's Honey, Fires of Autumn, Orbital Revolution, A Little Poetry, Dead Letters, King Log, Peshekee Review, The Green Tricycle, Pogonip, Chimeric, Poetry Repair Shop, 3:00 AM Magazine, Wired Art from Wired Hearts, and hundreds of print journals and e-zines world-wide. A book-length collection of Janet’s poetry is forth-coming from Newton’s Baby Press.
24 or so, BS in psychology, currently living in Lancaster (PA) & working in a hospital.
Irene Duyen is a novelist/writer living on a small inheritance and tomato soup in the Greenlake district of Seattle. She co-habitates with a budgerigar named "Fred." She gardens and makes wine in her spare time.
I teach literature and composition and coach debate in Georgia. I am married and have a three year old daughter, who aspires to be an accomplished painter. I enjoy the outdoors, especially fishing and can't wait to take Elizabeth, my daughter, with me on fishing trips.
Melissa is a 26-year old San Francisco transplant trying to roost in a Mission nest. She enjoys watching other people shop and living paycheck to paycheck. And oh yeah, she got her MFA from Mills college and another part of this poem can be seen at the e-zine AUGHT. She loves referring to herself in third person and would love to hear from you.
Peter Ganick's most recent books are 'Agoraphobia' and 'no soap radio' both from Drogue Press, forthcoming is < a ' s a t t v > from Chax Press. He runs Potes & Poets Press which also publishes A.BACUS and a new chapbook series of younger writers. He believes that syntax is the key to con- sciousness.
Tim Gaze lives in Adelaide, Australia. He is an experimental writer, exploring what it is to be a writer, what is writing, and what is language. His work has been published in the Paroxysm anthology (Paroxysm Press, Adelaide), ToenDra (Amsterdam, Netherlands) in Dutch translation, Juxta (Charlottesville, Va) and the Lost & Found Times (Columbus, Oh), among others. In May 1999, he formed a spoken word performance group, Kaptain Quack, which is currently gigging in Adelaide.
He has authored 8 poetry books. His last one, Places (Sterling House P, 1995), was nominated for the 1996 Pulitzer. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines in 26 countries and 5 languages, including journals, such as The Minnesota Review, Hawaii Review, Wisconsin Review, Chiron Review, Long Shot, Exquisite Corpse, Textual Studies in Canada, Pacific Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arkansas Review, and Southern Review. He has 4 more books coming out this year.
I am a part-time poet and full-time mom living in the Napa Valley Ca. My poetry appears in print and on-line in such as Cerberus, Papyrus, Mind Fire Poetry Journal, Pink Cadillac, Lucid Moon, Red Crow Review, Medicinal Purposes and Disquieting Muses. I am the editor of the electronic poetry magazine ~Some Words: A Place for Poetry~.
Pretending to be an advertising copywriter all day, I slide into my poems only after nightfall. Therefore they are dark -- or at least they seem so to me. My words have won awards for years, and are currently included in a traveling exhibition of award-winning Scholastic writings, including early works by such greats as Truman Capote and Andy Warhol.
My formative years included communes and Christian tent revivals, a boarding school suspension and an MBA. Life has been an adventure beyond the boundaries of a brief bio.
Sheila E. Murphy's book manuscript Letters to Unfinished J. was selected in last year's open poetry competition sponsored by Sun & Moon Press, and will be published by Sun & Moon. Dennis Phillips was the judge. A Sound the Mobile Makes in Wind: 50 American Haibun was just released from Mudlark (1998). The chapbook "Leaflets" from Instress (edited by Leonard Brink) was also recently released. Falling in Love Falling in Love With You Syntax: Selected and New Poems appeared from Potes & Poets Press in 1997. Additional recent works include A Clove of Gender (Stride Press, 1995), Pure Mental Breath (Gesture Press, 1994), and Tommy and Neil (SUN/gemini Press, 1993). Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Danger: Poets at Play (International Friends of Transformative Art, 1998), Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry (The University of Arizona Press, 1997), The Gertrude Stein Awards in Contemporary Poetry (Sun & Moon Press, 1994, 1995), Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Talisman House Press, 1996), and The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets (Potes & Poets Press, 1994). Twelve years ago, she founded and continues to coordindate with Beverly Carver the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series Her home is in Phoenix.
costas nakassis is a 19 year old student in philadelphia, PA raised in gaithersburg, MD a suburb of washington d.c.
walt phillips has been publishing poems and line drawings throughout the small press world since '59. a massachusetts native and retired journalist, amusement park roustabout and detective, he has several times been termed "a legend" in litmag circles. he currently has work online at gravity, afternoon, zero city, duct tape and many others. paper places which have him slated include cerberus, lost & found times, hellp, ugly duckling, etcetera, caffeine destiny and tight. he has published "quite a bunch" of experimental works over the decades, in such as hugh fox's ghost dance.
I am a student at Evergreen State College studying the philosophy of language and science. Presently I am working for The Missouri Charter Schools Information Center and trying to learn about education.
Ben Steiner is a sociologist, freelance writer, and poet living in Boston, Massachusetts. Earlier poems appear in various underground pamphlets and mags. When not finishing a phd in sociology, he works on an ongoing (perhaps interminable) manuscript of untitled "pieces" of a serial poem entitled "The Day."
Heidi Sulzdorf is a poet who lives in the great and eccentric state of Montana (known for such great things as: the first female representative to Congress, the Unabomber, copper mining, and the Freemen). She enjoys reading classical novels or just good books, reading and critiquing poetry, painting, drawing, listening to music of all types including jazz, classical, soft and contemporary alternative rock (go figure), and athletics. At the moment she's working on getting a reputation for something, in what and whether good or bad is yet to be decided. Previous publications include the e-zines: "Thoughtmonkeys", "The Gray Matter Tapestry", "Signpost Free E-Zine"; and 2 upcoming publications in the hard-copy journals of The Violet Isis and Maelstrom.
Recent pieces of David Sutherland have appeared in The Hollins Critic, The Northern Michigan Journal, The American Literary Review and The Reader (Oxford University). He serves as lead editor for a publication called Recursive Angel and has a recent collection entitled "Between Absolutes" available by illiterati of Alexandria, VA.
Amy Trussell has been published in many literary publications, including POETRY FLASH, THE PRAGUE REVUE, JUXTA, KICK IT OVER, LOST AND FOUND TIMES, TIGHT, THE NEW ORLEANS REVIEW,and YELLOW SILK. She has choregraphed dance to poetry and performed it in San Diego, Nashville, New Orleans,and throughout the Bay Area, including The Dancing Poetry Festival in San Francisco.
We're pushing 6 billion poets on this planet. I am just one that stops enacting the poems of life long enough to take notes. go back to the main page
