Featured Writers
For Vincent John Ancona, writing was never a choice, but more a way of life. Ever since he published his first poem at the age of 13, he knew that poetry was his calling. Oftentimes misunderstood by his peers, family and classmates, he found poetry a rock in a world built on quicksand, a way to make sense of messy human existence: "I felt and still do feel like an anthropologist of sorts. I was always on the outside looking in...trying to understand human behavior from a distance...I never felt like I fit in anywhere." Poetry has played a seminal role in his life, pulsates through his roots and has an undeniable place in his future. Ancona has published a collection of poems, "Introspection" (Amazon, LuLu Press) which recently was rated #22 by the publisher, out of thousands, in the category "Top 100 Poetry Books". He has garnered the attention of such renowned artists and writers as David LaChapelle, Susaye Green, Bryant McGill and CA Conrad, to name a few. He was one of four poets nationwide to receive an honorable mention for the esteemed McGill Poetry Award and has been published in various magazines and journals nationwide, such as The American Review Literary Journal, The Bicycle Review, Web Digest Weekly, The Fox Chase Review and Wilhelm Magazine, among others.
Eric Basso was born in Baltimore in 1947. His work has appeared in the Chicago Review, Fiction International, Exquisite Corpse, and many other publications. His most recent books are Decompositions: Essays on Art & Literature 1973-1989 and Revagations: A Book of Dreams 1966-1974 (Asylum Arts Press). Six Gallery Press published Earthworks, his seventh collection of poems, in 2008. Asylum Arts Press published his early collection of poems, Umbra, in 2010.
Adam Henry Carrière is a poet, teacher, and former NPR broadcaster. His writing has recently appeared in Not from Here, Are You?, Gloom Cupboard, Mad Swirl, decomP, Alternative Reel, Apparatus, The Smoking Book, Tattoo Highway, Juked, Zygote in My Coffee, and Tonopah Review; his erzählungen, photography, and poetry also appear in Bicycle Review. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Adam now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has won the Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry and publishes Danse Macabre, Nevada’s first online literary magazine. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Popular Culture Review.
Christopher Coleman lives and writes in Long Beach, California. He edits the online magazine, Pigeon Words, www.pigeonwords.weebly.com
Sarah Daugherty, MFA writes to be happy. This has worked out fairly well: she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for fiction in 2009 and was guest editor for Chiron Review #89. She has published short fiction and poetry in a number of.magazines, including Pearl, The Bicycle Review, Poets Against War, RipRap, & Chiron Review. She lives in Seal Beach and works as an adjunct English instructor in Southern California.
J de Salvo edits, curates, and publishes something called the Bicycle Review. His poetry and fiction has appeared in a zillion little magazines, including Leaf Garden Press, New Fiction Journal, and Danse Macabre. He also writes articles for Independent Newspapers in the Los Angeles area. He lives in Koreatown, Los Angeles, from where he bikes and busses to work and play.
Robert Louis Henry lives in Tennessee. He's in college for something and is an editor at Leaf Garden Press (http://leafgardenpress.com). His poetry has appeared in The CommonLine Project, Unlikely 2.0, The Delinquent and other online and print magazines. His book of prose and poetry, “God loves rich kids and we smoke off the same cigarette” was recently published by Bygawd Books.
Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz's work in several fields appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, Wikipedia.com, and Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, unemployed and thus overworked.
Marie Lecrivain is the executive editor and publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, and is a writer in residence at her apartment. Her prose and poetry have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Aesthetica, Askew Poetry Journal, Luces y Sombras, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (copyright 2009 Gival Press), The Poetry Salzburg Review, Re)verb, The Los Angeles Review, The Toronto Quarterly, and is forthcoming in Spillway, and Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry (World Parade Books, Spring 2010). Marie's new poetry collection, Antebellum Messiah, (copyright 2009 Sybaritic Press), is available through Amazon.com.
Just out from Lyn Lifshin: THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MYYEAR WITH RUFFIAN, Texas Review Press. Also just out: ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME from Black Sparrow at Godine.. She has over 120 books & edited 4 anthologies. Her website: www.lynlifshin.com .Her last two Black Sparrow books, COLD COMFORT and BEFORE IT’S LIGHT won Paterson Review Awards. New also: IN MIRRORS, AN UNFINISHED STORY, THE DAUGHTER I DON’T HAVE, SHE WAS FOUND TREADING WATER, DESIRE, 92 RAPPLE and BARBARO:BEYOND BROKENNESS, PERSEPHONE, TSUNAMI, LOST IN THE FOG, DRIFTING, ALL THE POETS WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME (LIVING AND DEAD) ALL TRUE: ESPECIALLY THE LIES , PERSEPHONE, LIGHT AT THE END. DESIRE
Puma Perl’s poetry and fiction have been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, published in 2008, was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009 Poetry Award in a field of over 1400 applicants; a full length collection, knuckle tattoos, was published in early 2010. She performs her work in many venues, in and out of New York City. She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a member of Harmattan Theater, a performance group dedicated to environmental and socially engaging theater.
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Suzanne Roberts' books include Shameless, Nothing to You, and Plotting Temporality (forthcoming from Red Hen Press). She teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College. For more information, please visit her website at www.suzanneroberts.org
Sue Kreke Rumbaugh’s writing has appeared in the Bicycle Review, Travel Writing Handbook, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Steubenville Herald-Star. She has participated in public readings in western Pennsylvania and Carlow, Ireland. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Sue is Assistant Professor of English at Carlow University where she teaches creative nonfiction courses including memoir, travel writing and personal essay. She holds several degrees including: Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism (West Virginia University, 1979), Master of Public Management (Carnegie Mellon University, 2000) and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Carlow University, 2009). In addition to writing short pieces of creative nonfiction, Sue has written a book-length memoir for which she is currently seeking a home. When not sailing or traveling, Sue and her husband, Larry, reside in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania.
Jayne Lyn Stahl has been publishing poetry for decades in such prestigious little magazines as The New York Quarterly, City Lights Review, Beatitudes: 33, Exquisite Corpse. She is also a widely published essayist, Huffington Post blogger, regular contributor to Counterpunch, as well as a playwright, screenwriter, and member of PEN American Center. Her new book of poetry, Riding with Destiny, from NYQ Books, is available at http://www.nyqbooks.org/title/ridingwithdestiny
Levi Wagenmaker (1944 - ) is a retired journalist, living in the Netherlands for most of the year, and in France for some of it, with three bitches, two of whom are dogs. Enamored life-long with language (and languages), for reasons immaterial to the act he writes poetry in English only, even if he could most likely manage it in a few other tongues. His poems have been published on line more than in print, and Google will tell the curious what, where, and when.
Allison Wilkins is a graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas International MFA program. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming with STILL, The Bicycle Review, Broken Bridge Review, The Georgetown Review,Tiger’s Eye, hotmetalpress and others. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband and two dogs. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Lynchburg College.
Francine Witte is a poet and fiction writer living in New York City. Her flash fiction chapbook, "The Wind Twirls Everything" was published by MuscleHead Press. Her poetry chapbook, "First Rain" was published by Pecan Grove Press. She is a high school English teacher. Please visit her website at www.franigirl.com.