| NUBAR ALEXANIAN's documentary photography has regularly appeared in major magazines in the United States and Europe. For the past 25 years he has traveled to more than 30 countries focusing on long-term personal projects describing the human condition. His fourth book is Jazz (Walker Creek Press: 2002). ISSUE 1:2 |
| RALPH ANGEL is the author of four books of poetry: Anxious Latitudes; Neither World, which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets; Twice Removed; and Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006; as well as a translation of Federico García Lorca’s Poem The Deep Song. Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles. ISSUE 2:1 |
| JENNIFER ARIN is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, Chain, The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, The Paris/Atlantic Review, The AWP Writer’s Chronicle and ZYZZYVA. She teaches at San Francisco State University
and New College of California. ISSUE 1:1 |
| MEG BIRNBAUM: I have worked extensively as a graphic designer specializing in magazines, including stints as founding art director of Cook’s Illustrated and as art director during the redesign of The American Prospect. I studied at the Photography Atelier seminars at Radcliffe, Lesley University, The Maine Photographic Workshops and The New England School of Photography. I am a member of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and The Texas Photographic Society. ISSUE 2:1 |
| DAVID BLAIR 's first book Ascension Days was published by Del Sol Press in the fall of 2007. He’s an associate professor at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts.ISSUE 2:1 |
| CHRIS BOCK holds an MFA from Lesley University. He served as Graduate Assistant at the George Edward Woodbury Poetry Room. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Harvard Review, Haikusun, The Noise Boston and Frigid Ember Magazine. He teaches at Lesley College in Cambridge and lives in South Boston. ISSUE 1:1 |
| TERESA CADER is the author of two collections of poetry, Guests (Ohio State University Press, 1991) and The Paper Wasp (TriQuarterly Press, 1999). She has just completed a third collection of poems, The History of Hurricanes. She is on the core poetry faculty of the Lesley University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. ISSUE 1:1 |
| JOHN CASERTA received an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2004. He received a J. William Fulbright Fellowship in Art in 2004 to create a time capsule project for a dying village in southern Italy. As a professional designer, John has produced interactive and print projects with major media. As an artist, his chief interest is to capture the infinite detail and complexity within our analog world while embracing the potential of current technology. These forms include experimental books, interactive installations, large format photographs, and mapping projects. He is on the adjunct faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design in the graphic design department. He lives and works in Providence. ISSUE 1:2 |
| SUE COHEN: I continue to be a daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, hospice worker, and birth doula as I make my way with advanced ovarian cancer.ISSUE 2:1 |
| STEVEN CRAMER is the author of four poetry collections: The Eye That Desires to Look Upward (1987), The World Book (1992), Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (1997), and Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books: 2004), named a Massachusetts Honor Book in Poetry for 2005 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Mass. Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He directs the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge. ISSUE 1:2 |
| NEHASSAIU DEGANNES has work appearing or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poem/Memoir/Story, Encyclopedia Project, Quotes Community: Notes For Black Poets and Painted Bride Quarterly. Awards include the Philbrick Prize and the 2008 Poetry Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She is a Cave Canem Fellow. ISSUE 2:1 |
| GREG DELANTY is the Artist in Residence at St. Michael's College. He became a US citizen in 1994, is politically active and ran for The Green Party in the US elections. His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is recently out from the Oxford Poets series of Carcanet Press. His other more recent books are The Ship of Birth (Carcanet Press: 2003, Louisiana State University Press: 2007), The Blind Stitch (Carcanet Press: 2001, Louisiana State University Press: 2002), and The Hellbox (Oxford University Press: 1998). He has received numerous awards and has just been granted a Guggenheim for Poetry. ISSUE 1:2 |
ELSA DORFMAN: A session with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky on February 8, 1980 was the first time Elsa Dorfman used the Polaroid 20x24. She has three books, Elsa’s Housebook: A Woman’s Photojournal (1974), En Famille with Robert Creeley (1999) and NoHairDay (2003) and over 200 different photo postcards. Her website is her obsession:
www.elsadorfman.com. ISSUE 2:1 |
| JILLY DYBKA lives in Tennessee, is married to a jazz musician, & works with computers at a university. ISSUE 1:2 |
| JUDSON EVANS is Director of Liberal Arts at The Boston Conservatory. He has been chosen as an “emerging poet” for the Association of American Poets by John Yau. His work appears in The Haiku Anthology (Norton, 1999), Journeys to the Interior (Tuttle, 1998) and in a newly published first chapbook, a sequence of haibun called Mortal Coil (Leap Press, 2005). ISSUE 2:1 |
| THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS is a poet and photographer. The Maverick Room (Graywolf Press: 2005) was awarded The John C. Zacharis First Book Award. He is also the author of "The Good Junk," published in Take Three #1 (Graywolf: 1996), The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press: 2001), and the chaplet Song On (WinteRed Press: 2005). An Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of the Lesley University low-residency MFA program, his Breakfast and Blackfist: Notes for Black Poets is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press. ISSUE 1:2 |
| FORKSCREW GRAPHICS is a design group committed to social awareness projects. We are two Los Angeles residents in our 30’s who started Forkscrew in 2004. ISSUE 2:1 |
| DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES is the author of Maroon, a collection of poems (Curbstone Press, 2001). Her poems have appeared in journals including Agni, Callaloo, Poeisis, and Black/Renaissance/Noire and in numerous anthologies. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division at Lesley University. ISSUE 2:1 |
| BILL GALLERY is a renowned commercial/documentary photographer living in Boston. His work has appeared in all the important creative journals and is widely recognized in the field of corporate photography. ISSUE 1:2 |
| EMILY HIESTAND’s third book is Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels (Beacon Press, 1998). Hiestand’s photographs are collected, exhibited and published. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Salon. Honors include The Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, Case Award, National Poetry Award, and the National Magazine Award. ISSUE 1:1 |
| JOHN HODGEN teaches creative writing at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He was winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press: 2006). His work has recently appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and APR. ISSUE 1:2 |
| JOAN HOULIHAN is author of Hand-Held Executions, Poems & Essays (Del Sol Press) and of The Mending Worm, winner of the 2005 Green Rose Award from New Issues Press. She is founder and director of the Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts. ISSUE 1:2 |
| MAJOR JACKSON's second book of poetry is Hoops (Norton, 2006). His awards include the Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Pew and Witter Bynner Foundations. Jackson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the Bennington Writing Seminars. Currently he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. ISSUE 1:1 |
| NOELLE KOCOT is the author of three books of poetry: 4, The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books: 2001 and 2004, respectively), and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books: 2006). Her honors include awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The American Poetry Review, and The Fund for Poetry, as well as inclusion in Best American Poetry 2001. She is widow of composer Damon Tomblin. She lives in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised. ISSUE 1:2 |
| FRANNIE LINDSAY is the author of Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press: 2004) and Lamb (Perugia Press: 2006), runner-up for the Laughlin Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Black Warrior Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include the May Swenson Award, the Perugia Press Intro Award, an NEA Fellowship, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Grant. ISSUE 1:2 |
| DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is the author of A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (U of Georgia P), which was selected by Carl Phillips for the 2006 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She lives in Pittsburgh were she works as an assistant professor. ISSUE 2:1 |
| WINSLOW MARTIN has won many newspaper industry awards during his 20 years as a professional photographer. He was named New England Press photographer of the year in 2000. He is currently working on a book-length documentary project on life in the Republic of Armenia. ISSUE 1:1 |
| CATE MARVIN's second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2007. She lives in Staten Island, NY. ISSUE 1:1 |
| JEFFREY MCDANIEL's third book of poetry is The Splinter Factory (Manic D. Press: 2000). He is a professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. ISSUE 1:2 |
| MARY TAUTIN MOLONEY holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in Lumina and Big City Lit, and she was selected as a semi-finalist in the 2007 Discovery/The Nation poetry contest. ISSUE 1:2 |
| NADIA NURHUSSEIN was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Staten Island. She earned her PhD in English from UC Berkeley, where her poetry received the Eisner Prize. Her work has appeared in The Harvard Review, 580 Split, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, and Good Foot. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. ISSUE 1:1 |
| CALEY O'DWYER's first book is Full Nova (Orchises Press, 2001). His publications include Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and Hayden's Ferry Review . He teaches writing at the University of Southern California. ISSUE 1:1 |
| BENJAMIN PALOFF is a poetry editor for Boston Review. His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Fulcrum, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and he is the translator, most recently, of Dorota Maslowska's Snow White and Russian Red (Grove Press, 2005). ISSUE 1:1 |
| MARGOT PAPPAS lives in Gloucester MA. She is currently working on a chapbook collection Easy, Marshmallow. This is her first published poem. ISSUE 1:1 |
| JEFFREY PERKINS is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. This is his first published poem. ISSUE 1:2 |
| MIKE PERROW’s poetry has appeared in Shenandoah, Volt, The Hollins Critic, Willow Springs Review, Del Sol Review, and Perihelion, as featured poet for Issue #9. He was winner of The Boston Review 8th Annual Poetry Contest. ISSUE 1:2 |
| JOYCE PESEROFF's recent books are Eastern Mountain Time and Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon. She directs the creative writing and MFA program at UMass Boston. ISSUE 2:1 |
| ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS teaches poetry at SUNY, Stony Brook. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Harvard Review, No: A Journal of the Arts, Seneca Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. ISSUE 1:1 | ISSUE 2:1 |
| JACQUELYN POPE is the author of Watermark (Marsh Hawk Press) and a regular contributor to Harvard Review and Callaloo. ISSUE 2:1 |
| ADRIENNE RICHARD grew up in the Chicago area with important periods spent in California, Arizona and New Mexico. She returned to Chicago to attend the University of Chicago where she graduated in 1943. Her published work includes novels for older children, short stories, magazine and newspaper features, a book on epilepsy, and poems. ISSUE 2:1 |
| DAVID RIVARD's most recent book is Sugartown (Graywolf, 2005). In 2006 he was awarded the Folger Shakespeare Library's O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize for his writing and teaching. He teaches at Tufts University. ISSUE 1:1 |
| ELÉNA RIVERA is the author of Mistakes, Accidents and a Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions At Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2006), Unknown Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000) and a recent pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005). She currently lives in New York City. ISSUE 1:1 |
| LISA M. ROBINSON's photographic project, "Snowbound," is appearing in galleries internationally. Her awards include a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and a Fulbright scholarship. She lives and works in New York. ISSUE 1:1 |
| RAVI SHANKAR is poet-in-residence at CCSU. He is founding editor of Drunken Boat. His first book Instrumentality (Cherry Grove Press: 2004) was finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, LIT and The Iowa Review. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Together with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, Shankar is currently editing an anthology of South Asian, East Asian, and Middle Eastern poetry, due out with W.W. Norton & Co. in 2007. ISSUE 1:2 |
| DON SHARE is Senior Editor at Poetry Magazine. His most recent book is Squandermania (Salt Publishing: 2007). Other books include Union (Zoo Press); Seneca in English (Penguin Classics: 1998); I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández (Bloodaxe Books: 1997), which received the Times Literary Supplement/Society of Authors Translation Prize; and a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s work, forthcoming from Faber and Faber. ISSUE 1:2 |
| PETER JAY SHIPPY's most recent book is the verse novella How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press). For more poems, try www.peterjayshippy.com. ISSUE 2:1 |
| SEAN SINGER 's first book Discography won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the recipient of an artists’ grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2005 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISSUE 2:1 |
| ANNE TAIT grew up in Akron, Ohio. In 1997 She received her MFA in painting from American University in Washington, DC. She is presently an Assistant Professor of Art at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, and the resident artist in a Providence cemetery. ISSUE 1:1 |
| ROSMARIE WALDROP 's trilogy (The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, and Reluctant Gravities) has just been reprinted by New Directions under the title Curves to the Apple. Other recent books of poetry are Splitting Image (Zasterle), Blindsight (New Directions), Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn), and Dissonance (if you are interested): Collected Essays (University of Alabama Press: Fall, 2005). ISSUE 1:2 |
| JONATHAN WEINERT's first book, In the Mode of Disappearance, was selected by Brenda Hillman for the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize, and will be published by Nightboat Books in 2008. His poetry and review publications include American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, LIT, and 32 Poems. ISSUE 1:2 |
| LESLIE WILLIAMS' poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Slate, The Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, North American Review and many other magazines. She’s been a finalist in the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the National Poetry Series and won an Illinois Artist Grant in Poetry. ISSUE 2:1 |
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