Grant Bailie lives in Cleveland with his wife, two children and several animals. His first novel, Cloud 8, was released in 2003 to critical praise and mediocre sales. His second book remains unsold. He is working on a third one anyway.

Barry Ballard's poetry has most recently appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Review, The Apalachee Review, and Puerto del Sol. His most recent collection is Plowing To The End of the Road (Finishing Line Press) which was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He writes from Burleson, Texas.
Brandyn Balmos an English major at the University of Texas at Austin, en route to graduate school to become a Professor of Creative Writing somewhere in the eastern United States. He lives with his typewriter in Austin. This is his first periodical publication.
J. T. Barbarese's first two books were Under the Blue Moon (1985) and New Science (1989), both published in the Contemporary Authors Series of University of Georgia Press. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, The Georgia Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Cortland Review, and Poetry, and in the anthology, The Italian-American Reader (Morrow, 2003) and his trans¬lations in The Denver Quarterly, Boulevard, and Luna. He also writes fiction, and his literary journal¬ism has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Studies in English Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, The New York Times, and The Columbia History of American Poetry.

Coleman Barks is the principal American translator of the thirteenth century Sufi mystic poet, Jelaluddin Rumi. To date, he has published sixteen volumes of Rumi's poetry, including The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting (1999) and The Essential Rumi (1995). A poet in his own right, a publisher, and teacher of contemporary American poetry, he taught for thirty-four years at the University of Georgia, Athens, where he was named Poet and Professor Emeritus of English. www.colemanbarks.com
Lisa Bellamy graduated from Princeton and studies poetry with Philip Schultz at the Writers Studio. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Manzanita Quarterly, Ibbetson Street Press, Arsenic Lobster, and other magazines. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband Peter Bellamy, a photographer, with whom she is collaborating on a book of wilderness photography & text.
Karen Benke is the author of a chapbook, SISTER (Conflu:X Press, 2004). Her poems have been published in various literary magazines and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Hawaii Pacific Review, HeartLodge, Runes, Poetry East, and Woman Prayers: Prayers by Women from Throughout History and Around the World. A poet-teacher for 15 years with the California Poets in the Schools program, as well as a writing coach, she lives with her family in Mill Valley, California and can be reached at karen@storyhawk.com

Jeff W. Bens is the author of the novel, Albert, Himself. "Votive" is part of a just-finished story collection, Fireflies.

Mary Berg is a translator from the Spanish and a professor of Spanish at Harvard University. She is the translator of many works including Open Your Eyes and Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now and the recently released I've Forgotten Your Name by Martha Rivera.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry London, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Rattapallax, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. She teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and lives in Armonk, New York with her husband, John with whom she shares four children, Ben, Angie, Kaitlin and Fiona. Website:http://www.sallybliumisdunn.com

Robert Bly is a poet, storyteller, translator, and worldwide lecturer. His poetry has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. His first full-length book of prose, Iron John, was number one on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for ten weeks, remaining on the list itself for more than a year. With his wife, Ruth, he lives on a lake in Minnesota.
Elsie Catlett Boehm having retired from a career in Physical Therapy and Hospital Management, turned to her other passions of visual art and poetry writing. Her art work has appeared in a number of local venues, and she has done cover designs for Goldfinch Literary Journal and Dream Paintings from the Heaven of Obscurity by Joe Salerno. She has had poems published in the Golfinch Literay Journal and New Jersey Audubon.
Paula Bohince received an MFA from New York University's graduate creative writing program and recently completed a residency at the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Southern Poetry Review and others. She lives and teaches in New York City.
Lenore Bohm is a rabbi who serves the San Diego Jewish Healing Center. She also cofounded and codirects Soulstice Retreats through which she leads monthly spiritual growth groups, day-long and weekend retreats focusing on a Jewish approach to contemplative practice. She was ordained from Hebrew Union College in 1982 and studied feminist theology at Claremont Graduate School.
Diane Bonavist founded Resourceful Woman, a community resource publication during the feminist scare of the seventies. She is a technical writer and indexer and has written historical novels about the Albigensian Crusade, Classical Greece, and 1920s New York. She teaches novel-writing techniques to adults and works in academic admissions.

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Marguerite Bouvard is the author of 5 books of poetry, several books on human rights, literary topics and on grief. Her poems and articles have been widely anthologized. Her latest book is Prayers for Comfort in Difficult Times, Wind Publications. She has a book forthcoming next spring, Healing; Rebuilding a Life With Chronic Illness. She is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.

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Ronda Broatch is the author of Some Other Eden, (Finishing Line Press, August 2005) which includes the poem "Woman Dreams of Being Within.” Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Journal, Dogwood, Diner, and Pebble Lake Review. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Ronda is the recipient of the 2005 Kay Snow Poetry Award. She recently attended a residency at Soapstone: A Writing Retreat for Women where she could be seen walking the creek, speaking to salmon.

Christopher Buckley ’s recent publications include Star Apocrypha (Northwestern University Press), Appreciations (Millie Grazie Press), Closer to Home: Selected Poems of Santa Barbara (Fountain Mountain Press) and a new chapbook of poems, Cloud Journal (Aureole Press, 2003). “Mediterranean Clouds” is from his book, Sky, which will be published in the fall of 2004 by Sheep Meadow Press. He is currently the co-director fo the MFA program at the University of California, Riverside.

Scott Cairns is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Philokalia: New & Selected Poems. His poetry has been included in Best Spiritual Writing, 1998, 2000 & 2004, The Pushcart Prize, and Upholding Mystery, among other anthologies. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, The New Republic, Image, Spiritus, Poetry, and many other journals. He is professor of English at University of Missouri. His collec-tion-in-progress is titled Slow Pilgrim.
Rafael Campo teaches and practices internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His most recent books include Diva (Duke University Press, 2000), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
Joan Cantwell RN, MA, CJEA is principal of Mindful Living Productions a three year old company provid¬ing expressive art therapy services. She teaches art therapy at several Chicago-land Universities and provides expressive art services for community groups including, hospice, at-risk youth, and women's organizations. Prior to founding MLP, Joan was Director of Health and Wellness for a fortune 500 corporation. She has 25 years experience in comprehensive health care management as well as international and domestic nursing.

Kevin Carey lives in Beverly, Mass, where he writes, edits film and video, and coaches seventh grade basket¬ball. He also teaches Literature and Composition at Salem State College. He received and MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2004. Recent publications inclucde: RipTide: An Anthology of Crime Fiction, Paterson Literary Review, Red Mountain Reveiw, and The Literary Review.
Helen Marie Casey's poetry has been published in several journals and anthologies and her columns appeared in various venues. Helen won the 2001 Boyle/Farber Award, the 2001 Erika Mumford Award and the 1998 Barbara Bradley Award from the New England Poetry Club and was a finalist for numerous other prestigious awards. Finishing Line Press published her first chapbook entitled Fragrance Upon His Lips in 2005.

Helen Marie Casey's chapbook, Inconsiderate Madness, a narrative sequence of poems about the Quaker martyr Mary Dyer was selected the winner of the Black River chapbook competition and will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2007. Seven of the poems from this series premiered as a commissioned piano/voice performance in Missoula, Montana, in November 2006. The music was composed and played by Lynn Petersen and sung by mezzo-soprano Kimberly James. Three of Helen's poems appeared in the anthology Regrets Only (Little Pear Press 2006) and three poems will appear in the anthology The Why and Later (deep Cleveland press 2007). Helen was a semifinalist in the 2006 The Southeast Review poetry competition and an Honorable Mention in the 2006 Worcester County Poetry Association poetry competition.

Srinjay Chakravarti is a journalist, economist, and poet based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications all over the world, including Electica Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, The Avatar Review, The Bathyspheric Review, Voices of Israel, The Poetry Kit, Poems Niederngasse, Deep South (University of Otago), and Poetry Salzburg Review (University of Salzburg). He also had a piece forthcoming in Euphony (University of Chicago). His first book of poems entitled Occam's Razor received the SALT literary award from John Kinsella and an Australian Literary Trust in 1995.

Elizabeth Biller Chapman's Creekwalker, a limited edition chapbook, was published by Mother Tongue Press. In 1999, Bellowing Ark Press published her first full-length collection, First Orchard. (Robert Creeley selected her poem "On the Screened Porch" which originally presented in Poetry magazine, for inclusion in Best American Poetry, 2002). Candlefish, her second collection, was chosen as one of four books to inaugurate The University of Arkansas Press's new poetry series; it appeared in spring, 2004.
Raelee Chapman is a writer who resides in Melbourne Australia. She has been studying professional writing at university for two years and is a member of The Society of Women Writers Victoria. She writes short stories, haiku, travel articles, reviews and creative non-fiction. She has been published in literary magazines in Australia and overseas and is working on her first novel.
Shai Cherry is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought at Vanderbilt University. His academic research is on the nexus betweenJudaism and science, and he is currently working on a book tracing the history of Jewish interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. He lives in Nashville with his wife and daughter.
Jaimee Colbert is the author of Climbing the God Tree, Helicon Nine Editions, which won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and Sex, Salvation and the Automobile, which won the Zephyr Prize. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including TriQuarterly, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Connecticut Review, and Tampa Review, along with several anthologies and NPR's Selected Shorts. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Greg Cook is a native of northern New York state. He studied geography at Syracuse University and holds degrees in English and History from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. His writing has appeared most recently in In Communion and Parabola. Cook lives in Washington state with his wife and their three cats and works in a library.
Rob Cook lives in New York City where he co-edits Skidrow Penthouse. Work has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, New Orleans Review, Harvard Review, Pleiades, LIT, Lungfull, The Canary, Third Coast, Ur-Vox, etc. He is the author of three poetry collections — all finalists in national contests, but each of which remains an orphan nonetheless.
Peter Cooley is Professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans where he teaches creative writing. He has published seven books of poetry: The Company of Strangers (University of Missouri Press, 1975), which has been re-issued by Coyne & Chenoweth, and The Room Where Summer Ends (1979), Night Seasons (1983), The Van Gogh Notebook (1987), The Astonished Hours (1992), Sacred Conversations (1998), and A Place Made Of Starlight (2003) — all of which were published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His newest volume, Divine Margins, will be published in 2007.

McCabe Coolidge throws pots and write essays and poems from his cabin aside the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. When spring arrives, he and his sweetheart Karen drive to their trailer on Atlantic Beach for some clamming, crabbing and sailing.

Ann Copeland is the author of six collections of short fiction, including The Golden Thread (Viking), Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore, and Seasons of Apples (both from Goose Lane, Canada). Her awards for fiction include two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Award, and several Canada Council Awards. Once retired, she held the Hallie Ford Chair in Writing at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. "Reunion" is part of a book of essays she is currently working on entitled "Musicking — A Memoir of Musical Time."
Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published four collections of poems: Life-list, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal award, in l987; What Binds Us To This World (Copper Beech Press, l991); Heavy Grace, (Alice James, l996); and Against Consolation (CavanKerry Press, 2002). He has received two grants in poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts and two from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. In 1992, he was poet-in-residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in the Nation, Image, AGNI, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, DoubleTake, Orion, Paris Review, New Yorker and many other magazines. He lives in Woodstock, Connecticut with his wife and three children.
Joshua Corey is the author of Selah (Barrow Street Press, 2003) and his manuscript Fourier Series won the Fitzpatrick-O’Dinn Award judged by Christian Bok and is forthcoming from Spineless Books. He lives in Ithaca, New York and keeps a blog at http://joshcorey.blogspot.com.
Lisa Couturier’s essays have appeared in literary anothologies, including the well-regarded American Nature Writing series, and in National Geographic's Heart of a Nation. She writes and teaches in the Washington, DC, area, where she lives along the Potomac River.

Elizabeth Cox has completed three novels: Familiar Ground, The Ragged Way People Fall Out Of Love and Night Talks (which won the Lillian Smith Award), and a collection of short stories, Bargains in the Real World. Cox taught creative writing at Duke University for seventeen years and has also taught at the University of Michigan, Tufts University, Boston University, and the University of North Carolina. Last year, she taught at MIT and was chosen as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in Residence at UMass-Lowell. She is currently core faculty in the Low Residency Graduate Writers Program at Bennington College.
Barbara Crooker has published in magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, and The Denver Quarterly, anthologies, including Worlds in their Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers, and eleven chapbooks. She has won the Word Press First Book award for her first full-length book, Radiance, three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and the WB Yeats Society of NY Poetry Prize. http://www.barbaracrooker.com/
Lorna Crozier has published twelve books of poetry, most recently The Apocrypha of Light and Bones in Their Wings: Ghazals. Her books have received Canada's top literary awards, including the prestigious Governor-General Award for Poetry in 1992. Her poems have been translated into several languages and she has read worldwide at international literary festivals. Presently she is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island.
Walter Cummins has published approximately 100 stories in such literary magazines and on the Internet. His story collections are titled Witness and Where We Live. Early in his career, he published two novels, A Stranger to the Deed and Into Temptation. He also has published memoirs, essays, articles, and reviews and edited anthologies. From 1984 to 2002, Cummins served as editor-in-chief of The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing and is now Editor Emeritus. He received the Council of Editors of Learned Journal's 2002 Distinguished Retiring Editor Award. He serves on the editorial board of Web Del Sol and is prose editor of Tiferet.
Silvia Curbelo is the author of two poetry collections: The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press) and The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press). Recent poems appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and Notre Dame Review, and in the anthologies Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets (Anhinga Press), Never Before (Four Way Books) and Norton's Anthology of Latino Literature. Silvia lives in Tampa, Florida, and is the editor of Organica magazine.
Adam Czerniawski was born in Warsaw in 1934 and now lives in Wales. His publications in Polish include poetry, essays and short stories. His English publications include a memoir Scenes from a Disturbed Childhood, selected poems, The Invention of Poetry, essays on poetry and philosophy, and translations of poetry by Jan Kochanowski, Cyprian Norwid, Leopold Staff, Wislawa Szymborska and Tadeusz Rózewicz.

J.P. Dancing Bear's first book of poems is Billy Last Crow (Turning Point Books, 2004), his second book of poems, Conflicted Light, will be published in 2007 by Salmon Poetry. He is the host of Out of Our Minds a week¬ly poetry program on public radio station KKUP, the editor of The American Poetry Journal and the independent literary press, Dream Horse Press. His poems have appeared in the National Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Mississippi Review and New Orleans Review.
Barbara Daniels' chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, won the Quentin R. Howard Prize. She received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (the most recent in 2005), com¬pleted an MFA in poetry at Vermont College, and teaches writing and literature at Camden County College.
John F. Deane founded Poetry Island- the National Poetry Society, and The Poetry Island Review, 1979. He has published several collections of poetry and some fiction books; poetry includes Christ, with Urban Fox, a collection translated into several languages. He has won numerous awards and prizes. His latest collection of poetry is entitled Toccata and Fugue, New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2000). http://www.johnfdeane.com/
NoorAllah Jan De Pinto is a cum laude graduate of Herbert H. Lehman College in New York City. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, she helped pioneer classes in alternative healthcare in civic, community and corporate institutions in New Jersey. An ordained minister, a spiritual teacher and healer in the Sufi tradition in New Jersey, she is at work on publishing her first book of poetry. She is married, has two children and a grandson.

Stephanie Dickinson’s poetry has appeared in Mudfish, Cream City Review, Chelsea, Fourteen Hills, Washington Square, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, among others. Along with Rob Cook, she edits the new print literary journal Skidrow Penthouse. Her first novel, Half Girl recently won the Hackney Award for best unpublished novel of 2002.
Laura Didyk's work has been published in Fence, Puerto del Sol, and Hayden’s Ferry Review among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alabama. She now lives and works in the Hudson Valley.

Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and also a book of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003). His work is anthologized in Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present (Scribner 2003), as well as elsewhere. He is living in Certaldo, Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers

Stephen Dixon has published 23 books of fiction, 13 story collections, and 10 novels. His most recent novel I, the first in a trio, was published by McSweeney’s Books in June 2002. He is currently working on a novel called Phone Rings (of which this story is a part.) Dixon lives in Towson, Maryland.
Lynn Domina is the author of a collection of poetry, Corporal Works, as well as two reference books. Her recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Marlboro Review, Christianity and Literature, The Florida Review, and many other periodicals. She currently lives in the western Catskill region of New York.
Catherine Doty is the recipient of the 2003 Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Award, and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was born and raised near Garrett Mountain in Paterson, New Jersey and has taught thereabouts for many years. Momentum, her first book of poems, was published in 2004 by CavanKerry Press.
Stephen Dunn is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, including the recently published Everything Else in the World (Norton, 2006). His Different Hours was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize.

Owen Egerton is a British-born writer Owen Egerton who lives in Austin, Texas. He is the author of the novel Marshall Hollenzer is Driving and is currently working to complete his second novel. During the week, Owen studies in the MFA program at Texas State University and on weekends he performs with Austin’s award-winning comedy troupe, Mr. Sinus.

Ellen teaches creative writing for Emeritus College, a division of Santa Monica College. She has had hundreds of poems and stories published nationally. She has won writing awards from Blue Unicorn, Verve, Z Miscellaneous, Cape Cod Times, and others. Her work has been included in a number of anthologies, most recently, So Luminous the Wildflowers. A collection of her poetry along with three other poets has just been published, entitled 4 los angeles poets. ellen is also an artist and has had her work in museums and galleries.

John Esperian is an accomplished author. He is also currently a faculty member in the Deptartment of English at the Community College of Southern Nevada, Charelstown Campus.

R.G. Evans poems and prose have appeared in Margie, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Literary Review, Comstock Review and Weird Tales, among others. His poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Evans holds an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University and teaches high school English in southern New Jersey. He sings whenever he can.

Martin Jude Farawell is the author of a chapbook, Genesis: A Sequence of Poems (New Spirit Press), and his work has been widely published in journals and in the anthologies Outsiders (Milkweed Editions), Prayers to Protest (Pudding House Press), Under a Gull’s Wing (Down the Shore Publishing), and Writing Our Way Out of the Dark (Queen of Swords Press). A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, and recipient of a writing fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the arts, he is currently Associate Director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.
Corie Feiner is a poet, performer, and freelance educator in New York City. She was a 2004 Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the 2000 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Kalliope, Caylx, Runes, 5 AM, and Phoebe, among other journals. She is the author of Radishes into Roses (Linear Arts Press, 1997) and is currently pursuing publication of her poetry collection, Maw-Maw. She is a Contributing Editor to Tiferet.

Joshua Gage is the author of Deep Cleveland Lenten Blues a forty-part mystical poem chapbook available on Deep Cleveland Press. He is currently a student in Naropa University’s Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. He can be found, stomping around Cleveland in a purple bathrobe, howling down the stars with hymns and vesper psalms. Buy him a drink, if you can, and share a prayer; all things revolve back to the source, with time.

Rabbi Marc Gafni is the founder and head of Bayit Chadash, an international spiritual community and retreat center. He also holds the Chair of Integral Judaism and Integral Kabbalah at Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute. Rabbi Gafni’s five published books include Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment and The Mystery of Love. Soul Prints is accompanied by a PBS special of the same title and is an award-winning best seller that has been translated into numerous languages.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ She is also a Professor and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University-State University of New York .She has published eight books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons(Cross-Cultural Communications, 1988), Where I Come From(1995) and Things My Mother Told Me(Guernica Editions,1998). Her latest book is Italian Women in Black Dresses(Guernica,2002). She is the editor of the award-winning Paterson Literary Review.
Kathy Graber is a faculty instructor In the Expository Writing Program at New York University. She is also has an MFA in poetry from NYU's Creative Writing Program. She was a recipient of fellowships in 2003 from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Most recently her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Green Mountains Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly.
Beth Graham has published short fiction in religious publications such as The Other Side and St. Anthony Messenger, as well as in Redbook Magazine. Her novel manuscript, Pure Blood, is currently being represented by an agent.
John Grey an Australian born poet, is also a playwright, musician. Latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. Recently, his writing has been featured in Hubbub, South Carolina Review and Journal Of The American Medical Association.

Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. The most recent of her more than a dozen books of poetry, essays, and translations is a collection of poems,THE RIVER OF FORGETFULNESS (David Robert Books 2006). Laws (Zoo Press, 2004). Her honors include a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry and the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Kerry Hardie was born in 1951. Her first collection, A Furious Place, was published in 1996 by Gallery Press. Cry for the Hot Belly was published Gallery Press in 2000. Her first novel, A Winter Marriage, was published by Little, Brown in 2002 and her third collection, The Sky Didn't Fall, by Gallery Press in 2003. Second novel is due from Little, Brown in 2005. She has won many prizes and awards including The National Poetry Prize and was twice-winner of the Women's National Poetry Prize.
Lois Marie Harrod won a 2003 fellowship, her third, from the New Jersey Council on the Arts for her poetry. Her sixth book of poetry Spelling the World Backward was published by Palanquin Press (2000), University of South Carolina Aiken, which also published her chapbook This Is a Story You Already Know (l999) and her book Part of the Deeper Sea (l997). Her poems have appeared in journals from A-Z, American Poetry Review to Zone 3.
Penny Harter has been widely published in journals and anthologies. Her most recent books are Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth and Buried in the Sky. Her literary autobiography appears as an extended essay in Contemporary Authors, and she has won awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America. She works as a teaching poet for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Arts-in-Education program. She is also very busy as a "teaching artist," visiting a number of elementary schools for the New Jersey Writers Project (NJSCA), and high schools for "Poetry Out Loud," a recent initiative sponsored by the NEA and the Poetry Foundation. More information on it can be found at www.poetryoutloud.org. Both the NJWP and POL programs are administered by Playwrights Theater of New Jersey.  Penny's websitehttp://penhart.home.att.net

Ava Leavell Haymon writes poems and plays. She teaches poetry writing during school semesters in Louisiana and directs a writers/artists retreat in New Mexico in summer. Poetry, The Southern Review, Northwest Review, Image, and other journals have published her poems. LSU Press published two full-length collections of her poems, “The Strict Economy of Fire” (2004) and “Kitchen Heat” (2006). She was awarded the Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize for 2003. http://pennyterk.com/Haymon.html

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Mary Hays’ first novel, Learning to Drive, was published last year and will be released as an Anchor paperback in October 2004. A short story, "Day Ten," recently appeared in Hunger Mountain review. She received a grant from the Vermont Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts for work on a second novel. She lives in Corinth, Vermont, with her husband, Stephen Long.

Michael Hettich has published 10 books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Behind Our Memories (Adastra '03). His work has appeard in many journals, among them Witness, TriQuarterly, Poetry East, The Sun and The Literary Review.
Martha Heyneman is the author of The Breathing Cathedral. Over the years she has written many essays for PARABOLA, most of which are collected in The Productions of Time. In recent years she has concentrated on writing poetry with Gurdjieff groups in New York, Toronto, and Rochester.

Meghan Hickey’s poems are published or forthcoming in The Cream City Review, Harvard Review, The Larcom Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and The Saint Ann’s Review. She lives and works in New Jersey.

David Brendan Hopes is the author of The Glacier's Daughters, Blood Rose, The Penitent Magdalene, and, forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press, A Dream of Adonis. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Steffen Horstmann While a student at the University of Arizona, Steffen Horstmann was recipient of the Brooklyn Poetry Circle's National Student Award. The two poems in this issue are part of a sequence of sixty ghazals dedicated to the memory of the late Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). He was taught the ghazal form by the late Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali. To date Steffen has written more than 80 ghazals in English. His poetry has recently been published in Baltimore Review, Banyan Review, Common Ground Review, The Lyric, Lily Literary Review, Oyez Review, Pebble Lake Review and Texas Poetry Journal. He lives in Holyoke MA.

Gray Jacobik’s book, The Double Task, University of Massachusetts Press (1998), received The Juniper Prize and was nominated for The James Laughlin Award and The Poet’s Prize. The Surface of Last Scattering, published by Texas Review Press (1999), was selected by X. J. Kennedy as the winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Brave Disguises won the AWP Poetry Series Award for 2001 (University of Pittsburgh Press 2002).

Kathleen Jesme is the author of two books of poetry: Motherhouse (2005), winner of the 2004 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize from Pleiades Press, and Fire Eater (2003), published by University of Tampa Press.
Ethan Joella writes fiction, poetry, and essays. He is assistant professor and director of English as a Second Language at Albright College, where he teaches creative writing among other courses. His work has appeared in various journals including International Fiction Review. He lives with his wife Rebecca and daughter Gianna. They divide their time between Pennsylvania and the Delaware coast.

Charles H. Johnson's second poetry collection, "Sam's
Place," was published in September 2006. A two-time
Pushcart Prize nominee, he is a 2004 Paterson Poetry
Prize finalist for his book, "Tunnel Vision." A 1998
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards first-place winner, he is
a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet, and reviews
poetry and is Night Editor for the Home News Tribune
in East Brunswick, N.J. He is poetry instructor for
the Middlesex (N.J.) and Monmouth (N.J.) arts high
schools, the Middlesex County (N.J.) Youth Shelter and
the Hunterdon County (N.J.) Youth Facility.
Website: www.charleshjohnsonpoet.com

Mohja Kahf has published poetry in The Paris Review, The Atlanta Review, The Paterson Review, Mizna, Banipal, and translations in Grand Street and The Cumberland Review. Emails from Scheherazad, her first poetry book (University Press of Florida 2003) was a finalist in the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her first novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Caroll & Graf) is due in spring/summer 06. She teaches at the University of Arkansas and lives in the Ozarks with her husband and three children.

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The book John Updike should have read before writing Terrorist

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

By Mohja Kahf
Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tight-knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets, exploring the fault-lines between “Muslim” and “American,” and butting into Muslim-on-Muslim racism and Sunni-Shia tension as well as the bigotry directed at the Muslim community by “reg’lar Americans.” How do Muslims fit in alongside Catholics, Quakers, Mormons, Jews, and other religious American communities? And why does Indiana smell funny?

While she goes through phases of militancy, neo-classicism, and various other transformations familiar to many Muslim youths today, Khadra follows the good Muslim girl script and marries early. When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour (not for lack of good sex), Khadra flees to her grandmother in Syria and learns how to pray again—from the inside out, this time. On returning to America she becomes a photographer in Philadelphia—taking care to stay away from Indiana, where the murder of her friend Tayiba’s sister by Klan violence years before still haunts her. Khadra discovers secular Muslims, explores interfaith friendships and Hindu epics, gives a lesbian Muslim friend a shoulder to cry on, dabbles in Sufism, and experiments with what she hopes is Islamic dating. But when her job sends her to cover a national Islamic conference in Indianapolis, she’s back on familiar ground: attending a concert by her brother’s interfaith band The Clash of Civilizations, dodging questions from well-meaning “aunties” and “uncles,” and running into the recently divorced Hakim everywhere.

Featuring exuberant characters, with narrative nods to Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, Alex Haley, Allegra Goodman, and other influences, this novel gives you Muslim Americans as you’ve never seen them before (the kind you sure won’t find in Updike’s latest)—three-dimensional, likeable, infuriating, funny, real. It’s a novel about friendships, racism, prayer, and life in hopelessly flat Indiana, which anyone would need faith to survive.

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car race finale.

“Khadra is a compelling protagonist, and the supporting cast is varied and believable,” says Publisher’s Weekly.

Author Information
Born in Damascus, Syria, Mohja Kahf came to the U.S. as a child, became a Jersey girl, and later morphed into a professor of comparative literature at the University of Arkansas. Her book, E-mails from Sheherazad (University Press of Florida 2003), was a finalist in the Paterson Poetry Prize.
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
by Mohja Kahf
0-78671-519-7, $15.95
September 19th 2006
Available at:

http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-0786715197-0

Thomas E. Kennedy’s books include seven volumes of fiction, an essay collection, four of literary criticism and several anthologies. His most recent novel appeared in fall 2003 entitled Bluett’s Blue Hours. It is the second volume in his Copenhagen Quartet. The three other volumes in the Quartet are Kerrigan’s Copenhagen, A Love Story (2002), Greene’s Summer (2004), and Breathwaite’s Fall (in progress, scheduled for 2005 publication). His book of essays on writing, Realism & Other Illusions, appeared in 2002 (Wordcraft of Oregon).
Adele Kenny is the new poetry editor of Tiferet. She is the author of 21 books (poetry and non fiction) and is the recipient of numerous awards, including NJ State Arts Council poetry fellowships, Merit Book Awards, Pushcart Prize nominations and, most recently, mention in the Allen Ginsberg and Paumanok Poetry Awards. She has been featured in the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival’s “Poets Among Us” and is founder and director of the Carriage House Poetry Series. http://home.att.net/~yorkshirehouse/.
David Keplinger's new books include The Prayers of Others (New Issues Press, 2006) and The Clearing (2005). Forthcoming in 2007 are his translations of Danish author Carsten Rene Nielsen, World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors. A recipient of a 2003 NEA fellowship, he directs the creative writing program at Colorado State University – Pueblo.

On Saturday, March 3 at 4 pm, at AWP's Atlanta gathering he'll be reading from the three books.

Keplinger can be contacted via his website at http://faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu/david.keplinger/.
Marjorie Keyishian
Reeves Keyworth is the recipient of a Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts; she has recently published in Chelsea, Nimrod, and online at mississippireview.com. She and her husband, Jim Weston, lived in New York for many years and now reside in Tucson, Arizona.
Anil Khan is a poet who would like to explore his poetic self in the light of The Gurdjieff Teaching.  He is associated with the Gurdjieff Foundation of India.
Joan Kip a Hospice counselor for many years, writes about aging and matters of the heart and is currently finishing a memoir. Her work has been published in the San Jose Mercury News, the Bellevue Literary Review, Rockhurst Review, among other journals and anthologies. She is eighty-eight years old and makes her home in Berkeley, California.
Pamela Kircher’s poetry has garnered many awards, including four Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships, a residency at the MacDowell Colony, and publication in Best American Poetry 1993. Her full-length collection of poems, Whole Sky, was published by Four Way Books in 1996.
Laura Klein's chapbook, Bodies of Water, Bodies of Flesh, won the 2004 Predator Press competition. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Atlanta Review, New Letters, Mid-American Review, Potomac Review, Commonweal, and numerous anthologies. She works as consulting editor at Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith and is completing a collection of essays.
Jan Lee Koenen
Jacqueline Kolosov's first full length collection, VAGO, is just out from Lewis-Clark Press. The Red Queens Daughter, a young adult novel, is forthcoming from Hyperion in autumn 2007. New poetry and prose appear in Shenandoah, Lifewriting Annual, Ascent, and Orion. She directs the graduate creative writing program at Texas Tech University. She is expecting her first child, Sophie, in January.

Deborah Kossman received a 2004 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship. She has published poetry in Iris: A Journal about Women, Conscience-Catholics for a Free Choice, The Mad Poets Review, and Philadelphia Poets. Her essays have appeared in journals and magazines including Psychotherapy Networker, and Families, Systems, & Health. She is a clinical psychologist in private practice outside Philadelphia.

Laurie Lamon is an Associate professor of English at Whitworth College, in Spokane, Washington. Her first collection was published by CavanKerry. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Colorado Review, Cream City Review, Ploughshares, The New Criterion, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Cultures, and many others.
Patrick Lane is considered by most writers and critics to be one of Canada's finest poets. He has worked at a variety of jobs from labourer to industrial accountant, but much of his life has been spent as a poet, having produced twenty-two books of poetry to date. He is also the father of five children and grandfather of five. He has won every literary prize in Canada, from the Governor General's Award to the BC Book Prize. His poetry and fiction have been widely anthologized and have been translated into many languages.
Linda Lappin is the author of The Etruscan (Wynkin deWorde, 2004), a gothic tale of spiritual search.

She co directs the Centro Pokkoli Creative Writing Center in Vitorchiano, Italy and teaches literary travel writing at Feltrinelli International in Rome. She was recently in Paris to read at Shakespeare & Company. A section of her new novel Katherine’s Wish dealing with Katherine Mansfield’s inner search and her relationship with P.D. Ouspensky has just appeared in The Southern Indiana Review. See her websites www.theetruscan.com and www.lindalappin.net  For an update on workshops at Centro Pokkoli, see www.pokkoli.org

Jeanne Larsen is a novelist, poet, and translator who lives in southwest Virginia. This essay is one of a series written after six months of travel on a Japan/US Friendship Commission Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Current work appears in Fourth Genre, Circumference, and The Georgia Review, and on-line in Blackbird. Her most recent novel is Manchu Palaces. Her latest book is: Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang China (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2005).

http://www1.hollins.edu/homepages/larsenj/homepage.htm
Deborah LaVeglia has been published in poetry journals such as Negative Capability, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13, Big Hammer, Edison Literary Review and College English Notes. Her first chapbook, The Vigil, was published in 2000. She has featured in readings in New Jersey, New York and Pa. Deborah is co-director of PoetsWednesday which operates out of the Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge, NJ. She is poetry editor of Black Swan Review.
Eric Gabriel Lehman
Michele Lesko is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University's MFA program. Ms. Lesko lives and writes in upstate New York. Her work includes poetry published in journals such as Tiferet, Salvage, Literary Mama, & MotherVerse as well as fiction soon appearing in Storyglossia.
Lynn Levin is the author of two poetry collections, Imaginarium (2005) and A Few Questions About Paradise (2000), both published by Loonfeather Press. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and at Drexel University, where she is also executive producer of the cable TV show, The Drexel InterView.
Jeffrey Levine's first book, Mortal, Everlasting, won the 2000 Transcontinental Poetry Award from Pavement Saw Press. A new book, Rumor of Cortez, will be out in April from Red Hen Press. He is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press.
Deena Linett is Professor of English at Montclair State University. The poem ‘World’ that appears in this issue is part of a collection of poetry entitled, Woman Crossing a Field, published in April of 2006 by BOA Editions.

Jeff Lockwood is of Metis heritage, and a member of an Anishinabe (Chippewa) tribe. He received numerous academic awards, including the Fulbright. Jeff is now working on an MFA at Goddard College.
silent lotus Descending from grandparents who traveled from homes in Hungary and Russia, silent lotus was born in America. He was raised in the small unique and historic community of Roosevelt, N.J., which was designed with a Bauhaus influence in 1936 by the architects Alfred Kastner & Louis Kahn. There he was surrounded by a kaleidoscope of renowned people in the arts. In the visual arts were Ben & Bernarda Shahn and their sculptor son Jonathan, Jacob Landau, Gregorio Prestopino, David Stone Martin and his two sons Stefan & Tony, Robert Mueller, Louise & Ed Rosskam, Sol Libsohn and Herb Steinberg. The musicians and singers included Joshua Hecht, Greg & Paul Prestopino, Mike Seeger and Laurie Altman. Among the writers were Leslie Weiner, McCrea Imbrie and Benjamin Appel.

In his mid twenties he left for the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean to give priority to his talents as a visual artist. There he began a friendship with the songwriter Doug Shawe. And after two years, as crew of a 30-meter sailboat, he ventured across the Atlantic Ocean along with the owner, film producer Saul Zaentz. From the Mediterranean he traveled overland through Europe and settled in the city of Rotterdam. He was soon befriended by the retired museum director Willem Sandberg, the lithographer Rento Brattinga, the artist George Leroy and the photographer Irwin Dermer. By the late 1970’s,under his birth name CHASAN; he began to exhibit his prints, paintings, sculptures and silk shawls in galleries and museums. In 1982 he visited South Korea & Japan where many doors were opened through his friendship with the historian Maurius B. Jansen. From 1988 through 1991 he worked with the architect Maurizio Brocato in Sicily and painted in Milan at the invitation of Alessandro Goppion. In the early ‘90s he traveled for the first time to India to visit his brother who resides in Pondicherry. The nature of Ecuador was unveiled to him in the autumn of 2000 by the countries leading ornithological painter, his cousin, Paul Greenfield. During the spring of 2001 he met the artist Nermin Kura and over the next few years she introduced him to Istanbul and the culture of Turkey. The oeuvre of his visual art is known as “Icons Of Silence”.

The flow of poetry blossomed a year after the turn of the century and in the following five years there were well over two thousand poems in his archive “Listening To Love”. They have found their way to being presented in Europe and America…some on to the stage, others in exhibitions, pages of print journals, as well as poetry websites. His poem Feel The Peace was selected for the “Other Voices Anthology” due out in print in December 2006. Interviews have been published in the journals Tiferet and Sacred Journey.

In November of 2004 in Brugge Belgium, there was an hour long performance of the poetry ‘Listening To Love’ created by the singer Lieve Blondelle together with the dancer Sabrina Spronk that was held in a cultural center that was formerly the Magdalena Church built circa 1800.

Along with the flow of art & poetry there has always been a presence that has attracted people to look for his spiritual guidance. He shares his vision individually as well as through seminars and retreats in many countries.

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky orients herself in her life and in the cosmos by writing poetry. She also loves her day job, as a Jungian Analyst with a practice in Berkeley. Her poetry has been published widely, including in Rattle (which nominated her for a Pushcart Prize), The Asheville Poetry Review, Earth's Daughters, Many Mountains Moving (Spirituality Issue) and in the anthology, Woman Prayers. Her poetry collection is called Red Clay Is Talking.
Louise Lumen ATR, is a Registered Art Therapist and an Integrated Kabbalistic Healer. Her love has always been art and she uses it to support people in their growth and healing. Louise has worked as an Art Therapist for the past 23 years. She holds a BA is Liberal Arts with an Art Major, an MFA in Painting and an MA in Art Therapy. Her work has been in the areas of sexual abuse, life threatening illness and bereavement, as well as depression and psychosis. “As I have struggled to translate words into images I have created, I am ever more aware of how much they are about life and death, the pain of this world, and the reaching out to the light of Spirit. They certainly reflect my own struggles in recent years.”

Anne Marie Macari's second book, Gloryland, was published in 2005 by Alice James Books. Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman first book prize in 2000. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines such as The Iowa Review, The American Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly. In 2005 she won the James Dickey Prize for Poetry from Five Points magazine. Macari is a member of the core faculty at the New England College low residency MFA program in poetry.

Antonio Machado is one of the greatest Spanish poets of the 20th century. These poems are from There is No Road: Proverbs of Antonio Machado published by White Pine Press (whitepine.org).

Dennis Maloney is a poet, translator, and landscape architect. His works of translation include The House in the Sand by Pablo Neruda, and the forthcoming Landscape of Castile by Antonio Machado.
Charlotte Mandel's six books of poetry include Sight Lines, The Life of Mary and The Marriages of Jacob. She edited Saturday’s Women, the Eileen W. Barnes Award anthology of women poets over 40. Her articles on the role of cinema in the life and work of poet H.D. have appeared in journals such as Women’s Studies and Literature/Film Quarterly. She teaches poetry writing at Barnard College Center for Research on Women.

Her awards include two fellowships in poetry from New Jersey State Council on the Arts and residencies at Yaddo, The Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Montalvo Center for the Arts in California.

Excerpts from SIGHT LINES are posted at this url:
http://users.tellurian.com/swaa/mandel.html
Some of her articles on H.D. available here:
http://www.imagists.org/hd/hdcmthree.html
Information on her courses at Barnard:
www.barnard.edu/crow/courses.htm
Audio of interview and reading of poems of 9/11memorial:
http://www.kean.edu/~kuradio/poets.html

John Maney, Jr. is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, where he attended Macalester College, majoring in Religious Studies, and Sociology. He also spent two years attending United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities after college. During that time in Seminary he got married, and remained happily married for 12 years, until his wife’s death in 1995. Following this he moved to New York to pursue writing. While in New York he took Poetry Workshops at the Frederick Douglas Creative Arts Center, and through Cave Canum. He is also a member of The Writer’s Room. He has had publications most recently in the Anthology: HEAL, by Clique Calm Books; and in the Anthology: Testimony, by Free Spirit Press. His poetry has appeared in Sufi Magazine, and has a chapbook entitled Nkatie Wonu, by Broken Rose Publications. He has given readings at several venues throughout New York City, and State, most recently during the July Walt Whitman Festival at the Cornelia Street Café. He is currently a practicing Sufi, and it is through the grace of God, expressed through Sufi teachings that he was inspired to write the poem “I Chew the Mishwak Stick.”
Lee Martin is the author of Turning Bones (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), Quakertown (Dutton , 2001), From Our House (Dutton, 2000), and The Least You Need to Know (Sarabande Books, 1996). His stories and essays have appeared in such places as Harper’s, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, and The Southern Review. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University. His new novel, The Bright Forever, was published by Shaye Areheart Books in May, 2005 and was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Also, here's a link to my page at The Ohio State University Department of English:

http://english.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=245

As well as a link to our MFA Faculty page:

http://english.osu.edu/programs/creativewriting/crfaculty.cfm

Valerie Martinez’s first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent (Four Way Books, 1999) won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her second book, World to World, will be published by The University of Arizona Press in 2004. Her selected translations of the poetry of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) will be published by Sutton Hoo Press, fall 2004. Martinez’s poetry, transla¬tions, and essays have appeared in many literary journals, anthologies, and magazines. She is currently Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at The College of Santa Fe.
Elinor Mattern teaches English as a Second Language / Writing at Atlantic Cape Community College. Publications include Washington Square, Without Haloes, Footwork: Paterson Literary Review, The Sow's Ear, 25 Women's Perspectives, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She received her MFA in Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and received that program's Director's Award in Poetry in 2001. Ms. Mattern has exhibited her photographs and paintings and speaks to groups on many aspects of creativity, culture and communication.
Lenore Mayhew began translating poetry in the 60s. Her translation of Anna Achmatova's Poetry “Without a Hero and Other Poems” is part of the Field translation series. Mayhew’s translations and her own poems have been published in various journals and anthologies, including Field, Atlanta Review, Beloit Quarterly, Queen's Quarterly, and the Penguin Greek Anthology.
Montana Miller is now assistant professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.She continues to do ethnographic research on youth cultures and risk-taking performances, and to perform her solo aerial acts in unexpected places.

Article in latest issue of Harvard Magazine:

http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/110659.html

Here is the link to my web page at Bowling Green State
University's Dep't of Popular Culture.

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/page16741.html

Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2002) which was a finalist for the PEN American Center Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She has received four Pushcart Prizes, and her essays have appeared in such periodicals as The Sun, Shenandoah, The Journal, Creative Nonfiction, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and Yoga Journal. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Brenda is Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Bellingham Review.
Tara Moghadam's poetry has been published in Kailope, Ruah, The Southern Poetry Review and other journals. Tara won the 2004 Edda Poetry Chapbook Competition for Women, resulting in the publication of her chapbook One Room Over by Sarasota Poetry Theater Press. Tara holds an MFA in poetry. She currently lives, teaches, and writes in the Puget Sound where she welcomes inquiries and comments at taram@interisland.net.

Sally Molini
Dinty Moore is the author of The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, among other books. He is currently working on a memoir, Between Panic and Desire: Notes of a Serial Projectionist, and is finishing a creative non-fiction textbook. Moore's essays have appeared in Harper's, Utne Reader, salon.com, The New York Times Magazine; his short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere.
Elisabeth Murawski’s work has appeared in The Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, Field, American Voice, Grand Street, et al. Her first book, Moon and Mercury, was published in 1990 by Washington Writers’ Publishing House; a chapbook, Troubled by an Angel, was published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1997. This year her poem “LulIaby of the Train” was award¬ed third prize in the Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition; the winning poem appeared in the fall issue of Dubliner. She also won the 2006 Ann Stanford Prize (USC) for her poem "Abu Ghraib Suggests the Isenheim Altarpiece."
Peter Murphy's poems and essays have appeared in The American Book Review, The Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Cortland Review, The Shakespeare Quarterly, Witness, World Order, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships for writing and teaching from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Yaddo, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. He is the founder/director of the ‘Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway’ held annually in Cape May.
Madeleine Mysko is a registered nurse whose poetry and prose has appeared in The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, River Styx, American Journal of Nursing, and elsewhere. She has recently completed a novel based on her experiences as an Army nurse during the Vietnam era. Her first book of poetry, Crucial Blue, will be published by Rager Media in 2007.

Caleb Neelon (known better as “Sonik”) is an artist based in Massachusetts who has been painting outdoors since about 1992, at first via graffiti. Although he’s kept his graffiti name, he has expanded his art to include street installations, public sculptures, childrens' books, and art for galleries. As a writer, he has worked with a number of publications on subjects ranging from street art to themes of wider cultural interest. He is a 1999 graduate of Brown University and currently graduate student at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. www.theartwheredreamscometrue.com

Michael Nelson a Unitarian Universalist minister, is an avid gardener, naturalist, and student of world religions. His poems have appeared in the James White Review, Foothills Review, Poets at Large, and Writing Poems, fourth and fifth editions.
Trisha Nelson is a former educator who is now both a poet and spiritual director — enjoying the way these passions dove-tail in her life. Trisha has made her home in Denver, Colorado, and Kailua, Hawaii. She now resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her husband and devoted yellow lab. Her poems have appeared in Mediphors, Buckle &, ByLine, a national magazine for writers, and several regional journals.

Camille Norton’s recent work has appeared in Field: Journal of Poetry and Poetics, IRIS: A Journal of Women, and The White Pelican Review. She was a NEA Fellow in Poetry at the MacDowell Art Colony in 2002, and a poetry fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2002 and 2003. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
Peter Noterman is a Washington D.C. poet who spends a lot of time in Baltimore’s classic diners. Kaleidoscopic Images of God is an excerpt from his manuscript in progress: Diner Mystic: A Poet’s Path To God which will address the challenges facing post-Christians – those who, having departed Christianity, are still wildly in love with God (and Jesus) and are searching for a new paradigm, revelation or unified theory embracing God, the universe and all the lost and found human beings in the world.
D. Nurske the author of eight books of poetry, including The Fall (Knopf, 2002) and Burnt Island (Knopf, forthcoming). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly.

Benjamin Paloff’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Fulcrum, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere, and he is a frequent contributor to Boston Review and The Nation. Grove Press will publish his translation of Dorota Maslowska’s Snow White and Russian Red in 2005.
Susan Firghil Park's poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Spoon River Poetry Review, The Comstock Review, Tiger's Eye, and Branches Quarterly. Her first chapbook, Estuary Light, was published in June 2005 by Finishing Line Press. She will begin the low-residency MFA program through the Ranier Writing Workshop of Pacific Lutheran University in August 2005.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Readers interested in more are invited to read his essay Magic, Illusion and Other Realities at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet which has a complete bibliography.
Anna Perleberg a self-described Zen Buddhist Catholic, has half an MFA from Wichita State University and works at an organic grocery store. She lives and writes in Wichita.
Phil Phillips is co-editor of Singing Dust Press, contributing to its first volume, Wool Gatherers. Phil is a graduate of the Creative Writing School of San Francisco Sate University with an MA in Creative Writing and a Secondary Teacher’s credential. He is retired after many years of teaching, most recently in Special Education. Phil lives with his painter-poet wife Nadya Rose in Walnut Creek, California, where he entertains his grandchildren and co-facilitates a bi-monthly poetry group.
Ronald Pies, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine; and formerly, Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pies was graduated from Cornell University and SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY. He is the author of several textbooks, including Clinical Manual of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment, and Handbook of Essential Psychopharmacology (both with American Psychiatric Press). He is also author of a collection of poems (Creeping Thyme, Brandylane Publishers); a book on comparative religious ethics Ethics of the Sages, Rowman & Littlefield, and a collection of short stories Zimmerman's Tefillin, PublishAmerica. Dr. Pies lives with his wife, Nancy Butters, near Boston.

Here are some links to books I have written. Thanks very much. --Ron Pies
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1413720641/qid=1129458891/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5394676-1444129?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765761033/ref=sib_rdr_dp/104-5790419-2662340?_encoding=UTF8&no=283155&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&st=books

http://www.brandylanepublishers.com/creeping.htm
Rev. Alex D. Pinto comes from the island of Goa. Ordained in 1969, he holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in psychology from the University of Bombay and Seton Hall. A member of the Third Order of St. Francis, his poems and nonfiction have been widely published here and abroad. He has been assigned to parishes in India and in the US as a parochial vicar, college chaplain, teacher, and pastoral counselor. He has also served as a grants review panelist and guest artist presenting writing workshops and critiquing seminars for various arts and educational agencies.
Sonya B. Posmentier lives in New York City, where she is an English teacher and Director of Multicultural Affairs at Trinity School. She is the recipient of a Brio Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and her poems have appeared in Phoebe, Seneca Review, Lyric, and Perihelion
Lynn Powell’s second book of poems, The Zones of Paradise, was published by the University of Akron Press in November 2003. Her first book, Old and New Testaments, won the 1995 Brittingham Prize and the 1996 Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award. A native of East Tennessee, she lives in Oberlin, Ohio.
Jodi Shams Prinzivalli is a transpersonal psychotherapist and a conflict resolution specialist. She is the author of the book How To Be A Mystic In A Traffic Jam, and the New York Coordinator for the Interfaith Encounter Association. Combining a unique approach to personal growth, Dr. Prinzivalli teaches a 3–weekend workshop entitled The School of Psychospiritual Healing.

Nahid Rachlin has taught at Yale (where she is a fellow) and currently teaches creative writing at the New York School University, at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and a variety of summer writers' conferences, including ones at Centrum, Hofstra University, Aspen, Taos, Southampton College, Iowa University and Marymount Manhattan College. She has published three novels and a short story collection, Veils (City Lights), and currently has another novel in press.

PERSIAN GIRLS, a memoir by Nahid Rachlin, published by Tarcher/Penguin, on October 2006, hardcover, $22.95
From Dust jacket description: This beautifully written memoir by esteemed novelist Nahid Rachlin parts the curtain on one Iranian household—delving into the complex and fascinating dynamics of growing up female in a paternalistic society—as Nahid tells of the different paths taken by her and her sisters. Persian Girls traces not only Nahid’s life, but also the interconnected lives of her aunt, mother, and sisters, in a tale of crushing sorrow, sisterhood, and ultimately, hope.

Blurb: “Through the touching, tragic story of two sisters, Persian Girls unfolds the entire drama of modern Iran. It’s a beautiful, harrowing memoir of the cruelty of men toward women, and it paints the exotic scents and traditions of Tehran with the delicacy of a great novel. If you want to understand Iran, read Nahid Rachlin.”
—Matt Beynon Rees, author of The Collaborator of Bethlehem and contributing editor, Time

Nahid Rachlin's website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com/
Frances Richey is the author of The Burning Point, winner of the 9th White Pine Press Poetry Prize, published Spring, 2004. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Georgia Review, River Styx, Salmagundi, Bellevue Literary Review, Notre Dame Review, Gulf Coast and Cream City Review
among others. She teaches yoga, meditation, and poetry workshops in New York City.
Jude Rittenhouse Along with freelance writing, editing, and Integrated Kabbalistic Healing (IKH), Jude Rittenhouse teaches at holistic education centers, hospitals, domestic violence shelters, conferences and retreats. In March of 2005, she completed an editing project for Moon Journal Press: a chapbook of poems by two metastatic breast cancer survivors. She received a Writer's Grant from the Vermont Studio Center, a poetry award from Glimmer Train Press, Inc., was a finalist for the 2003 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and an honorable mention in the 2002 Emily Dickinson Awards. Ms. Rittenhouse's poems have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Nimrod, Whetstone, River Oak Review, Her Mark 2005 (Woman Made Gallery, 2005) and The Kali Guide: A Directory of Resources for Women (Zenprint, 2002), among others.
Edwin Romond is the recipient of fellowships from both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Arts Councils and from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet, and the author of Home Fire (Belle Mead Press, 1993) and Dream Teaching (Grayson Books, 2005), as well as two chapbooks: Macaroons (1997) and Blue Mountain Time: New and Selected Poems about Baseball (2002.) His poems have been widely published in a range of journals, including The Sun, Rockhurst Review, Poet Lore, English Journal, Barrow Street, Spitball, Lake Effect, Zone 3, New Letters, Coal City Review and many others.
Liz Rosenberg has published fiction in The Atlantic Monthly, Quarterly Review, Bellvue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She has published two novels and three books of poems. A fourth book, Demon Love, is forthcoming from Mammoth Press. She teaches English at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where she lives with her husband, son, daughter and dogs.
Mark Rosenblum is a native of New York but now lives in Southern California with his lovely wife and crazy dog (although his wife will tell you she lives with a lovely dog and a crazy husband). He has taken writing classes at UCLA and Pasadena City College. He was most recently published in Thirteen Magazine, a British horror and sci-fi/fantasy publication.

Molly Salans is a psychotherapist, poet, storyteller, author and Kabbalistic healer. She co-owns Transistions Counseling Center in Littleton Ma., and incorporates poetry, story and healings in her work with children, families, and adults. Molly gives poetry performances, and offers workshops in poetry writing. She is the author of Storytelling With Children in Crisis, Take Just One Star, How Impoverished Children Heal Through Story.
Sherod Santos is a poet, essayist and the author of five books of poetry, Accidental Weather, The Southern Reaches, The City of Women, The Pilot Star Elegies (winner of the 2002 Theodore Roethke Memorial Award, a National Book Award Finalist and one of five nomi¬nees for The New Yorker Book Award), and, most recently ,The Perishing. He is also the author of a book of literary essays, A Poetry of Two Minds, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. His has received many prestigious awards, prizes, and fel¬lowships including an Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999). He is currently Curators' Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri - Columbia, where he is the Director of the Center for the Literary Arts.

J.P. Seaton is Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The first of his several books of Chinese poetry in translation, The Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, (Ardis, 1978, White Pine, 1985,1991) is celebrating its twentieth year in print. His most recent is I Don't Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei (Copper canyon, 1997). His work has been recently anthologized in A Book of Luminous Things, in the Norton Anthology World Poetry, and in The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry.
Peter Selgin's stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have been widely pub¬lished in such journals as Glimmer Train, The Missouri Review, South Dakota Review, Salon.com, Oasis, Chicago Sun-Times, and Newsday Sunday Magazine. His book, S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic, (Simon & Shuster) won the Lemme Award for Best Children’s Book of 2000.
Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the novel, The Road to Fez. The recipient of literary fel¬lowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, PEN, she has published fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction in many anthologies and journals. She is Writer-in-Residence for the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University and Fiction Editor of Arts & Letters.
Florence Shelso is a Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Omaha, Nebraska. She is also a Kabbalistic Healer. The poem appearing in Tiferet was written for the occasion of her graduation from Jason Shulman's school of Integrated Kabbalistic Healing. Florence is also a Certified Seminar Leader for the Spiritual Eldering Institute and a member of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.
Steven Sher presently davens in a Hasidic shtibel and teaches at Yeshiva University and at The Luz Academy for Jewish Writing, all in NYC, after many years in Oregon. He is the author of ten books including At The Willamette (Solo Press), Thirty-Six (Creative Arts Book Co.) and Flying Through Glass (Red Hill/Outloudbooks). New poems are forthcoming in 2007 from Red Heifer Press. Recent work appears in Alimentum, Animus, Bridges, Confrontation, Prairie Schooner, Solo, Talking River Review, Witness, etc.
Maxim D. Shrayer is Professor of Russian and English at Boston College. Among his books are The World of Nabokov's Stories (1998) and Russian Poet/Soviet Jew (2000). In 2003 he edited and cotranslated Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America, by David Shrayer-Petrov. Shrayer's Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, 1800-2000, is forthcoming in 2005.

Maxim D. Shrayer's home page:

http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html
Rabbi Dennis G. Shulman PhD is a rabbi and a psychoanalyst. He is on the Kollel faculty of the Hebrew Union College; and a member of the senior faculty at psychoanalytic institutes in New York, Minnesota and Missouri. The Genius of Genesis: A Psychoanalyst and Rabbi Examines the First Book of the Bible was published last year. Dennis Shulman serves as the rabbi in Alpine, NJ.
Hal Sirowitz was the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He has a poem in both of Garrison Keillor’s poetry anthologies. He was awarded a National Jewish Foundation grant for the words to the music for the Alla Borzova’s ‘Mother Said’.

J.B. Sisson has published poems, short stories, and translations in many anthologies and journals such as AGNI, Poetry and The Paris Review. His poems are collected in Dim Lake and Where Silkwood Walks. He lives in Eastport, Maine.
Floyd Skloot won the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction for his memoir, In the Shadow of Memory (Nebraska). His fourth collection of poems is The End of Dreams, (LSU Press, 2005), and his fifth is Approximately Paradise forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1947, he has lived in western Oregon for the last twenty years.
Ralph Sneeden's book, Off Little Misery Island, is forthcoming from San Francisco letterpress printer Julie Holcomb’s new Il Merlo Press. Some of the poems in it have appeared in The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, POETRY, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Witness, other magazine and anthologies. His poem Evidence of the Journey received POETRY mag-azine’s 2004 Friends of Literature Prize. Ralph lives and teaches in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Neal Sokol served as a Senior Researcher at Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. He is also the author of several works on Jewish culture and the Holocaust. His latest work, Eight Conversations: Ilan Stavans will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in April 2004. His writing has appeared in The Literary Review, Forward, and Jewish Quarterly, among other publications.
Katherine Soniat's The Fire Setters is available through Web Del Sol: On-line Chapbook Series. Her fourth collection, Alluvial, was published by Bucknell University Press, and A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Work is forthcoming in Willow Springs, Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Virginia Quarterly Review and Arts and Letters. She teaches in the MFA Program at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Her on-line chapbook, the Fire Setters: www.theliteraryreview.org/chaps.html

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Adam Sorkin's twentieth book of poetry translation, The Bridge by Marin Sorescu was just published by Bloodaxe. Other recent volumes of translation include Medea and Her War Machines by Ioan Flora (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2002) and three books in 2003, Diary of a Clone by Saviana Stanescu (Spuyten Duyvil / Meeting Eyes Bindery), Singular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia (Chisinau, Moldova), and 41 by Ioana Ieronim (Bucharest). Adam’s work has appeared in more than 250 literary magazines, and he was awarded a NEA Fellowship in Poetry Translation for 2005-06.
Judith Sornberger is the author of four collections of poetry. Her poems and essays appear regularly in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Calyx, Puerto del Sol, and Comstock Review. She is director of Women’s Studies and professor of English at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.
Richard Spilman has been widely published — appearing in over thirty journals, including recent publications in Poem, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Two Rivers Review, and Flyway. He is a faculty member of the Department of English at Wichita State University in Kansas.
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College 40th Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. His books include The Hispanic Condition (1995), The Riddle of Cantinflas (1997), On Borrowed Words (2001), Spanglish (2003), Dictionary Days (2005), and The Disappearance (2006). He is the editor of, among other work, The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays (1998), The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003), the 4-volume Encyclopedia Latina (2005), and Lengua Fresca (2006). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Hall of Fame Award, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the Rubén Darío Medal, and the National Jewish Book Award. Routledge published The Essential Ilan Stavans in 2000 and University of Wisconsin Press brought out Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations, by Neal Sokol, in 2004. His oeuvre has been translated into a dozen languages.
Martin Steingesser's poems articulate the many seasons of the heart - joy, outrage, longing, whimsy, sadness,”Maine’s Poet Laureate, Baron Wormser, said of Brothers of Morning, his first collection. He says writing and presenting poems is a way he courts a sense of grace he wants in his life. “There are moments I love in poems I have made -when they are given, when windows, doors, walls blow off, and I am in a warm, boundless space with whoever is listening,” he says. New poems are appearing in The Progressive, The American Scholar and Poetry International. New poems have been published recently in Inkwell (finalist) and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and will be appearing in future issues of The Sun Magazine and Monkey's Fist. Website: www.martinsteingesser.com

Blog: www.windspooning.com

Francine Sterle is the author of The White Bridge (Poetry Harbor, 1999), Every Bird is One Bird (Tupelo Press, 2001) and Nude in Winter (forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2006). Awards include a Loft-McKnight Foundation Award, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, four Pushcart Prize nominations, a Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board as well as residencies at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1925. He is the author of 14 books of poetry, including, most recently, Everything is Burning (Norton, 2005), American Sonnets (Norton, 2002) and This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award; and a book of personal essays titled What I Can’t Bear Losing. He was awarded the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets and is currently a Chancellor of the Academy. He is retired from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Carole Stone is a professor of English at Montclair State University where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her poems appear in numerous anthologies from Doubleday, Feminist Press, and St. Martin’s, a collection from Carriage House Press, three chapbooks, and many journals. She has received three Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Sergey Stratanovsky (b. 1944) is a well-known contemporary Russian poet living in St. Petersburg. Stratanovsky's collections of poetry include Stikhi (Poems, St. Petersburg, 1993), in which "Hadisism" appeared in the original Russian.
Virginia Chase Sutton's first book of poems is Embellishments (Chatoyant 2003).Widely published in literary journals; been a finalist for National Poetry Series, Whitman, Morse, Brittingham, Akron prizes, and many others. Nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize, she's won the Allen Ginsberg Award, Paumanock Visiting Writer's Award, and been the Louis Untermeyer Scholar at Bread Loaf. She has completed poetry manuscripts What Brings You to Del Amo, Reading Electra to Sleep and Madame X. She is working on a memoir titled Love Knots.
Terese Svoboda's fourth book of poetry is Treason. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Grand Street, Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Slate and elsewhere. Her opera, WET, premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall in 2005. www.teresesvoboda.com
Gladys Swan is a writer and visual artist. She has published five collections of short fiction and two novels - Carnival for the Gods and Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices. Her most recent book, a novella and stories under the title News from the Volcano, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Linda Sweet teaches creative writing at University of New Mexico-Los Alamos. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she has published in many journals and magazines such as New Mexico Magazine, The North American Review, and most recently The Sun. She is also a ceramic artist and runs a studio and gallery in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
David Swerdlow’s first book of poems, Small Holes in the Universe (WordTech Editions) was published in 2003. Recently, his poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and West Branch. He teaches English and creative writing at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA.

Pia Tafdrup's first nine volumes of poetry have been recently collected in three hardcover volumes in Danish. Her 1998 collection received Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award, The Nordic Council Literature Prize. The poem here is translated from her newest collection, Whales in Paris (Gyldendal, 2002). In 2003 her work was the subject of an acclaimed documentary film.

Philip Terman's collections of poems include The House of Sages (Mammoth books, 1998; second edition, 2005), Book of the Unbroken Days (Mammoth Books, 2004) and Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, Tikkun, and other journals. He teaches at Clarion University and co-directs the Chautauqua Writers' Festival at the Chautauqua Institute.
Elaine Terranova’s collections of poems include Damages and most recently The Dog’s Heart (Orchises Press, 2002). She has received the Walt Whitman Award and an NEA Fellowship and teaches writing at the Community College of Philadelphia.

Elaine Terranova was named a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2006. Her most recent book of poems, NOT TO: New and Selected Poems, was nominated for a Pulitzer. Other books of poems include The Cult of the Right Hand, for which she won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, Damages (Copper Canyon Press, 1996), and The Dog's Heart (Orchises Press, 2002). Her translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama Series and was produced at the University of Kansas in 2002. She has received an NEA fellowship and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships for her poetry She has been Banister Writer in Residence at Sweet Briar College, a Fellow at Bread Loaf and a winner of the Judah Magnus Museum’s Anna Davidson Rosenberg prize. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Goddard College and her B.A. from Temple University. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review and other magazines and appear in various anthologies including Sixty Years of American Poetry, The Gift of Tongues, and Blood to Remember: American Poets Write About the Holocaust.

Comments on Elaine Terranova's work:

"Elaine Terranova's streamlined poems belie their unsettling power. There is no gratuitous adornment here--instead, we find the moment apprehended purely....Elaine Terranova unreels the irresistible thread of her telling: she guides us through the complicated waters of our lives with compassion and an unerring eye."--Rita Dove

"To follow the path from her early work to her most recent collection is to discover the deepening powers of this poet of the real beyond the material, of acceptance beyond resignation, and of elegy beyond mourning."--Susan Stewart

"Ever aware of the variety of human experience--and able to capture it in vividly rendered poems that show a fine ear for language at its most musical--Terranova has been building a reputation in the literary world since the publication of her first book, THE CULT OF THE RIGHT HAND."--Library Journal

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Toni Thomas is a poet and sculptor. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology. She resides in Oregon with her husband and two young children. Toni has worked as a college instructor, children’s art teacher, sales clerk, child and family counselor, factory worker, and in marketing for a major U.S. Corporation. Her poems and figurative sculptures seek to explore the struggles of beauty, spirit, and femininity to find solace in the modern world.

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Matthew Thorburn is the author of Subject to Change (New Issues, 2004) and the recipient of a 2003 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems also appear in recent or upcoming issues of Pool, Indiana Review and Gulf Coast.
Madeline Tiger's poetry appears regularly in journals and anthologies. The eighth collection of her work is Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000, Marsh Hawk Press, 2003.
She has been a teaching artist in AIE programs since 1974, and has been a “Dodge Poet” since 1986. Her reviews appear in The Journal of NJ Poets, Home Planet News, Paterson Literary Review, Jacket (online from Australia.) and American Book Review. She has five children and six grandchildren, and lives in Bloomfield, NJ under a weeping cherry tree.   She gives readings regularly, and currently teaches two adult courses: one, a private writing workshop, and the other in Memoir Writing at the Montclair Adult School. She will also be on the staff at the Cape May Poetry Getaway in January 2007, Currently, her poems and reviews appear in The Journal of NJ Poets, Home Planet News, and in various online venues.
Daniel Tobin’s first book of poems, Where the World is Made, won the 1998 Bakeless Prize. His second book of poems, Double Life, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press (2004). Winner of many awards, his poems and essays have appeared in numerous other journals as well as The Norton Introduction to Poetry. He is also the author of Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. He is currently chair of the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.
J.C. Todd's poems and translations have appeared in the anthology Shade, as well as in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Crab Orchard Review and other journals. Her most recent chapbook is Nightshade. She is a contributing editor for the on-line poetry journal, The Drunken Boat where she has edited a feature on contemporary Lithuanian poetry in translation.

Jay E. Valusek is a self-employed writer living in the mountains southwest of Denver. He is a graduate of The Shalem Institute's training program for contemplative group leaders and has taught meditative practices of various kinds for more than a decade. He is the author of Museum of Voices: An Autobiographical Miscellany (2004), and Darkness & Dreams: A Spiritual Journey Through Separation and Divorce (under the pseudonym Stephen A. Laucik, 2001).
Laura Van Prooyen's poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Cimarron Review, The Christian Century, and 32 Poems among others. Her first book of poetry, Inkblot and Altar, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press http://library.stmarytx.edu/pgpress/ (San Antonio, TX) in December 2006. Books can be ordered directly from the publisher or also on Amazon.  She lives in Illinois with her husband and three young daughters.

Ellen Visson was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize in fiction. Stories have appeared in The Literary Review and ByLine, and are forthcoming in descant, The Chattahoochee Review, Tiferet and Ascent. Ellen arrived in Switzerland in 1983 with her husband, an artist, with little money and no permits but have nevertheless lived there only from his art, which is shown extensively in museums and galleries. Six thousand paintings and a working studio are housed in The Montreux Palace.