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Sam Abrams is currently Professor of Language and Literature
in the College of Liberal Arts of the Rochester Institute of
Technology, has smoked doobie{*} for 45 years. At various times:
Fulbright Professor of American Literature in the University
of Athens; Senior Member of the American School of Classical
Studies, Athens; Workshop Leader, St. Mark's Poetry Project;
Member, Stone Academy, Organic Farming Commune, Enfield, New
Hampshire; Coordinator, Poets' Caravan of Angry Arts Against
the War in Vietnam; jailed (with Dr. Benjamin Spock, Grace Paley
et al.) for civil disobedience. His publications include: The
Post American Cultural Congress, Bobbs-Merrill, 1974; Barbara,
Olympia Press, 1968; The Neglected Walt Whitman, Four Walls
Eight Windows, 1993; The Old Pothead Poems (chaplet),
Backwoods Broadsides 1999. |
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Stephen
Bett
has had two books of poetry published--Cruise Control
(Ekstasis Editions, 1996) and Lucy Kent and other poems
(Longspoon Press, 1983)--and his work has also appeared in over
60 journals in Canada, the US, England, Australia, and Finland,
as well as in two anthologies, and on radio. He teaches English
at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C. |
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Hal
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Ira Cohen |
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Todd
Colby
is a poet, lyricist, vocalist and actor. He has published three
books of poetry Ripsnort (1994), Cush (1995), and
Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings (2000)
all published by Soft Skull Press (Softskull.com.). His poetry
has appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently: Verses
that Hurt (St. Martin's Press, 1997). Todd has performed
his poetry on PBS, MTV and Canada's Much Music Network. He has
produced many collaborative books and paintings with the artist
David Lantow. A limited edition book of lithographs and poems
titled Blown (Evil Clown Books), which they collaborated
on, can be seen in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum
of Modern Art special collections libraries. Their serialized
graphic novel The Action Adventure Series (Evil Clown
Books) is available by request. Todd has taught poetry workshops
and co-coordinated the Wednesday Night Reading Series with Jo
Ann Wasserman at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New
York City. He was the lyricist and vocalist for the little known
but legendary New York band Drunken Boat. He is the cofounder
with Jordan Trachtenberg of the Poemfone (212-631-4234). He is
a founding member (with Marianne Vitale and Michael Portnoy)
of the performance group The Yogurt Boys. Currently he is the
poetry editor for Food and Water Journal. |
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Nancy
Victoria Davis |
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Maggie Dubris is the author of the long poem, WillieWorld
(Cuz Editions, 1998), which will be coming out as a short film
directed by Scott Saunders in the fall of 2000. She is a guitarist/songwriter
for the NYC band Homer Erotic, and is currently working on a
full length screenplay, The First
Strange Adventure of the Bird, with her writing partner Felicity
Seidel. |
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Steve Evans teaches poetry, poetics, and critical theory at
the University of Maine. Recent criticism has appeared in Aerial,
Poetry Project Newsletter, Crayon, Poetics Journal,
Shark and in his e-mail review column Notes to Poetry,
archived on the ARRAS web-site. |
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David Gitin wrote poetry in
the early sixties encouraged by Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg,
and John Wieners. Equally attracted to music, he wrote jazz criticism,
and participated in concerts by John Cage, David Tudor, among
others. In San Francisco, later in the sixties, he cofounded
Poets Theatre which specialized in multimedia presentations (and
began poetry programs on KPFA in Berkeley). After moving to Monterey,
he spent 19 years as a jazz disc jockey at KAZU. His books include
This Once: New & Selected Poems 1965-1978 and Fire
Dance (1989), both from Blue Wind Press. Recently, his work
was featured on MSNBC online and in Poets & Writers Of
Monterey Bay, an anthology from Quarry West. |
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Amy Hollowell is an American poet and journalist who has lived
in Paris for nearly two decades. Her writing has appeared in
a variety of publications, including Miscellaneous Breakfast,
Pharos, Shambhala Sun, Tricycle: The Buddhist
Review, Bearing Witness and the International Herald
Tribune, where she works as an editor. |
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RhondaK writes from
the ruins of previous lives in NYC, Philly, North Carolina, and
various Florida incarnations and unfortunately does not suffer
from performance anxiety in area of her life. In NYC she was
known as the literary librarian. In Tampa Bay she is frighteningly
notorious for using literature and poetry in well-attended and
talked about events. She lives with Oskar the Luv Pug who has
been admonished to believe nothing he hears about her. It is
all fiction. She has published a variety of odd things under
a plethora of even odder names. Currently she is the co-editrix
of NakedPoetry.com. |
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Ward Kelley
Nominated for the 1999 Pushcart; completed
an interview with Israeli poet Elisha Porat (1996 winner of the
Prime Minister Prize for Literature) for ACM, Another
Chicago Magazine; poems have appeared in Rattle, Sunstone,
Spillway, Porcupine Literary Magazine, Pif,
Big Bridge, 2River View, Oblique, Offcourse,
Potpourri, and Skylark. Featured poet in the e-zines
Seeker, England's Poetry Life & Times, and
Canada's Pyrowords. |
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A. R. Lamb lives in Cornwall, U.K. Writes as trancedly as
possible, with practical help from various carbon compounds.
New fiction presently at electronpress.com., Unlikely Stories,
Gravity, In Posse Review, Rose & Thorn.
Many little poems at ariga.com. Other zines (poetry) include
Disquieting Muses, Swansong, Perimeter,
Shadyvale. Early experimental fictions published by John
Calder and in anthologies and magazines; winner of a few piffling
awards. Most recent paper publication In Many Ways Frogs,
a joint poetic volume (with P. N. Newman, published by Abraxas).
Ongoing project, an unusual synthesis of music and poetry: first
recording, Bark of a Stray Dog, now available (music and
voices by Lamb, words by Newman). Sculptor by trade. |
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Norman Lock's fiction appears in major literary reviews, in
print and online, throughout North America, Europe, and Australia.
He received The Paris Review's Aga Kahn Prize in 1979. His plays
have been staged internationally. The Los Angeles Times voted
The House of Correction among the ten best plays of 1988
and (for its revival) 1994. It was called the best new play of
the 1996 Edinburgh Theatre Festival. A film adaptation was recently
completed. The Body Shop, produced by the American Film
Institute, was screened in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Toronto.
Women in Hiding, The Shining Man, The Primate
House, and Let's Make Money were broadcast by WDR,
Germany's largest national radio station. Also published in the
Czech Republic and Belgium, The City of Radiant Objects
is from a book-length collection of linked stories "A History
of the Imagination." Lock received a 1999 fellowship from
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Lock lives in the southern
tip of the New Jersey peninsula with his wife and two children. |
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Kimberly Lyons is the author of Abracadabra (Granary Books,
2000), available at SPD.
She'll be reading in the Boston Poetry Conference in July 2000. |
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Kate
Lutzner
Kate Lutzner received the Robert Frost Poetry Prize while a senior
at Kenyon College. Her poetry has appeared in The Antioch
Review, Mudlark, The Squaw Review, Disquieting Muses, PoetryMagazine.com
and Stirring, where she is guest editor for the July,
2000 edition. She has poems forthcoming at The 2RiverView
and Rattle. She received her JD from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now working at the Discovery
Channel. She lives in Washington, DC. |
Drawing courtesy of
Micah Ballard |
George Mattingly was thrust into the world in 1950 in Cape Girardeau,
Missouri. His childhood on farms and in small towns in Illinois,
Missouri, and Iowa was imprinted with toxic inks on materials
of dubious archival value, faded, fading, and many of the places
and persons already gone. He went to high school in New Hampshire
(Phillips Exeter, where the late great Fred Tremallo's love of
language and literature was shared with him). After expulsion
from prep school (what can one say, this was the 60s!), he had
the great good luck to NOT attend Harvard, Yale, Columbia, or
Stanford, instead landing at the University of Iowa, where he
studied with Ted Berrigan, Anselm Hollo and Jack Marshall (experiences
which are recommended but no longer possible). While testing
substances and avoiding any useful academic pedigree, he started
the literary magazine Search For Tomorrow, and the literary
publishing house Blue Wind Press. Briefly book designer
for Dick Higgins's Vermont-based Something Else Press,
he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the dead of night in
1974. He currently makes a living as a graphic designer in Berkeley,
where he lives with his wife of 800 years (Lucy Farber) and sons
Keith (14) and Dylan (9). He is faculty advisor for the New College
of California's Prosodia magazine, and a monthly columnist
for MSNBC. An avid tennis player, he spends whatever time his
hats and house and kids leave him listening to jazz (particularly
high-crunch-factor jazz guitar), drinking Rhône wines,
watching baseball, and wishing he were snorkeling on the Hana
coast in lieu of staring at pixels.
Columns on MSNBC:
http://msnbc.com/news/370841.asp
http://msnbc.com/news/375596.asp.
Poetry:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/392489.asp
http://www.mbay.net/~faparker/george3.htm.
George Mattingly's books include Darling
Bender (1971), Breathing Space (1975), and the forthcoming
Driven. |
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Murat Nemet-Nejat came to the United States from Turkey in 1959.
He is a poet, essayist, translator of Turkish poetry and antique
oriental carpet dealer. He lives in Hoboken, N.J. with his wife
and two children. Murat Nemet-Nejat's poetry and essays have
appeared in magazines, including World, The Exquisite Corpse,
Talisman, and Little Magazine. His book publications
include: Questions of Accent, in Thus Spake The Corpse
(An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1999), Black Sparrow Press
(Santa Rosa, 1999); The Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies,
Sun & Moon Press (Los Angeles, 1997); I, Orhan Veli,
Hanging Loose Press (New York, 1989); The Bridge, Martin
Brian & OíKeeffe (London, 1977. His essay, The
Peripheral Space of Photography, will be published by the
Green Integer Series of Sun & Moon Press this year. He is
also preparing a 20th century anthology of Turkish poetry to
be published by Talisman Press in 2001. |
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Pat Nolan, born in Montreal, Quebec near the mid-point of
the last century, resides along the Russian River in the redwood
wilds of North California. Writing and reading poetry are his
primary literary occupations. His poems, and translations from
the French, have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies,
including Thus Spake The Corpse, Vol. I and Poems For
The Millenium, Vol. I. Recent favorite reading: Modern
Japanese Tanka and The Clouds Should Know Me By Now,
Poems by Chinese Hermit Monks. He has recently privately
published a very limited edition four-volume work of poetry,
prose, journals, and interviews titled Made In The Shade. |
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Frank Parker is a printer and poet who lives in Monterey, CA.
He maintains a growing anthology of poetry at Frank's Home, and enjoys hiking and backpacking
the High Sierra. |
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Wanda
Phipps |
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Janine Pommy Vega is the author of fifteen books. Mad Dogs of
Trieste has just been published by Black Sparrow. Her travel
book, Tracking the Serpent, is available from City Lights.
This summer she will be teaching at Naropa, and performing her
poetry on tour in Italy. |
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Michael
Rothenberg |
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Lina ramona Vitkauskas has received an Honorable Mention for STORY
Magazine's Carson McCullers Prize for the Short Story
(1999), placed as a quarterfinalist in the New Century Writer's
Short Story and Novel Excerpts Awards (1999), and first in the
DES Journal Competition (1996-Fiction). Her fiction has been
placed upon ShortStory.org,
and will be featured as an Editor's Pick on Web Del Sol.
Fiction in The Wisconsin Review is also forthcoming. Her
poetry has been published in The Poet (at age 11), The
Outlet, milk, Mudlark, and now Big Bridge. More poetry
forthcoming in Posse Review, JACK Magazine, and the RAINN
(Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network) supported anthology,
Survivor Poetry. She is a Chicago native, Lithuanian-bred,
and now playing in theatres near you. |
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Eddie Watkins: Born and raised in a small Delaware town, I have
now, after numerous stops across the country, settled in Philadelphia,
PA, a confirmed urbanite continuously tugged by nature. Academically
trained as an engineer, I soon abandoned that track for a more
unorthodox and precarious, yet stable, path. My primary poetic
obsessions and inspirations are spiritual immanence, sheer aesthetic
beauty, the conjunction of opposites, vegetal and animal birth
and growth, and digestion. |
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