CONTRIBUTORS

Originally from Nebraska, SCOTT ABELS has an MFA from Boise State University. More of his work can be found online and in print with Word for/Word, Lungfull!, Sixth Finch, No Tell Motel, Past Simple, Juked, Hawai‘ì Review, Sawbuck, and many others. Lately, he has been alternating years living and teaching on the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, and Honolulu. He has a little blog at scottabels.blogspot.com/

 

 

NIAMH BAGNELL is a member of Lucan Writers’ Group, and has had poems published in Dermot Bolger’s Night & Day anthology as well as Revival Poetry Review. She hosts a weekly writing based radio show on Liffey sound, and has read her poetry at Castlepalooza, Electric Picnic and soon to read as part of the Glór sessions presentation at Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures.

 

 

SUSAN POWERS BOURNE writes and rewrites in a Vermont village where the Saxtons River flows.  In 2006, Bourne earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vermont College; in 2009, she completed graduate coursework in professional writing with Chatham University; in 2010, she enrolls in an online Master of Humanities program with Tiffin.  Susan Bourne continues her intuitive work exploring words and extrapolating meaning. 

 

 

RIC CARFAGNA was born and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Symphony No.1 by Chalk Editions and Symphony No.2 by Argotist Press. His poetry has evolved from the early radical experimentation of his first two books, Confluential Trajectories and Porchcat Nadir, to the unsettling existential mosaics of his multi-volume collection Notes On NonExistence.

Ric now makes his home in rural Central Massachusetts with his wife, cellist Mary Carfagna and daughter Emilia.

 

 

JAN CARSON is a writer and community arts development officer currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has previously lived and worked in Oregon, Colorado and most recently London. She has had several short stories published in journals on both sides of the Atlantic and is currently working on her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears.

 

 

JOEL CHACE has published poetry and prose poetry in print and electronic magazines such as 6ix, Tomorrow, Lost and Found Times, Coracle, xStream, and  Jacket.  He has published more than a dozen print and electronic collections. BlazeVox Books published his Cleaning the Mirror: New and Selected Poems, and from Paper Kite Press is Matter No Matter, another full-length collection. Recently out from Country Valley Press is Scaffold, the first part of an ongoing poetic sequence, “(b)its,” from Meritage Press, and A Script, from Otoliths Books. For many years, Chace has been Poetry Editor for the experimental electronic magazine 5_Trope.

 

 

ARKAVA DAS lives in Kolkata, India. Some of his recent work has appeared in Blackbox Manifold, Otoliths, ditch, Moria, BlazeVOX, 2kX, &c., and is forthcoming in Little Red Leaves, LIES/ISLE, &c. His blog is at www.asmotheringrock.blogspot.com.

 

 

MARK DuCHARME’s print books include The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVox, 2007), Infinity Subsections (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004) and Cosmopolitan Tremble (Pavement Saw Press, 2002). The Found Titles Project was published electronically in 2009 by Ahadada (www.ahadadabooks.com). The latest of his many print chapbooks is The Crowd Poems (Potato Clock Editions, 2007).  Other parts of The Unfinished have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Eleven Eleven, New American Writing, Poets for Living Waters, Or, Otoliths, Pinstripe Fedora and Word for/Word.  Still other work is recent in Vanitas and PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry). DuCharme lives, works in and teaches near Boulder, Colorado.

 

 

IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE currently lives and works in Northern California. She received her M.F.A. from New York University and her Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University in 2010.  Her chapbook Inheritance was published by Finishing Line Press in June 2010.  Her work has also appeared in numerous publications including: Fence, Boxcar Poetry Review, Kaleidowhirl, SNReview, Thin Air, Eaden Water’s Press Home Anthology, Hessler 2006 Poetry & Prose Annual, Cleveland in Prose and Poetry, and The Squaw Valley Writers Review. Her chapter on the cultural context of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar will be published by Salem Press in 2011.

 

 

BONNIE EMERICK lives in Fort Collins, CO, and teaches at Colorado State University. Her poetry has been published in both online and print journals. These print journals include Caketrain, Cannibal, Diner, Interim, Quarter After Eight, and the tiny (among others); online journals include Fogged Clarity, How2, Little Red Leaves, and WOMB.

 

 

MICHAEL FARRELL lives in Fitzroy, in the only Green electorate in Australia. His books include ode ode, a raiders guide, BREAK ME OUCH, and the co-edited anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets. He is trying to write a PhD on 19th century Australian poetics.

 

 

ADAM FIELED is a poet based in Philadelphia. He has released four print books: Opera Bufa (Otoliths, 2007), When You Bit... (Otoliths, 2008), Chimes (Blazevox, 2009), and Apparition Poems (Blazevox, 2010), as well as numerous chaps, e-chaps, and e-books, including Posit (Dusie Press, 2007), Beams (Blazevox, 2007), and The White Album (ungovernable press, 2009). He has work in journals like Tears in the Fence, Great Works, The Argotist, Upstairs at Duroc, Jacket, on PennSound, in the &Now Awards Anthology from Lake Forest College Press, and an essay forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg Review from University of Salzburg Press. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also holds an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University, where he is completing his PhD.

 

 

THOMAS FINK’s fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008, and with Maya Diablo Mason, he co-authored Autopsy Turvy (Meritage, 2010). A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. His work appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner’s). Fink’s paintings hang in various collections.

 

 

VERNON FRAZER has published twelve books of poetry, including the longpoem IMPROVISATIONS, and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Otoliths and many other literary magazines. His most recent books are the longpoems EMBLEMATIC MOON, RANDOM AXIS, and the visual poetry collection, Panels from IMPROVISATIONS (Series B). His web site is http://vernonfrazer.net. Bellicose Warbling, the blog that updates his web page, can be read at http://bellicosewarbling.blogspot.com/. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida.

 

 

R. JESS LAVOLETTE is a student in the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program in Creative Writing. His work has previously appeared in Witness, including his story “Yasukuni Incident,” which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

 

 

DAVID MOHAN is a poet and short story writer based in Ireland. He has won the 2008 Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer Award. He has been published in Revival, The Stony Thursday Book, The Sunday Tribune, and the 2007 anthology Night and Day.

 

 

DEBRAH MORKUN’s first full-length book of poetry, Projection Machine, was published in April 2010 by BlazeVox Books. Some of her poems have been published in Moria, Parcel, Venereal Kittens, Phoebe, and other journals. In October 2007, Morkun started The New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for poetry in Philadelphia.

 

 

PAUL NELSON is a Chicago native, founder of SPLAB (SPokenword LAB), author of a book of essays on poetics, Organic Poetry (Oct. ’08, VDM Verlag, Germany) & author of a serial poem re-enacting the history of Auburn, Washington, A Time Before Slaughter (Oct. ’09, Apprentice House.) He worked in radio for 26 years, interviewing Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Sam Hamill, Robin Blaser, Wanda Coleman, Eileen Myles, Jerome Rothenberg, George Bowering & others. Publication credits include: Golden Handcuffs Review, The Argotist, Raven Chronicles, Blackbox, Big Bridge, Fulcrum, Rattapallax & others. He earned his M.A. from Lesley University in Organic Poetry, a study of North American poets writing (to different degrees) spontaneously, writes one American Sentence every day & lives in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood with his wife, Meredith.

 

 

FRANCIS RAVEN’s books include the volumes of poetry, Provisions (Interbirth, 2009), Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007) and Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005) as well as the novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005).  His poems have been published in Bath House, Chain, Big Bridge, Bird Dog, Mudlark, Caffeine Destiny, and Spindrift, among others. His critical work can be found in Jacket, Logos, Clamor, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Electronic Book Review, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, 5 Trope, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, and Flak.

 

 

CHAD SCHEEL lives in Scottsbluff, NE, with his wife and son. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in freefall, Poetry East, elimae, Arch, Anemone Sidecar, and Indefinite Space.

 

 

SAM SCHILD is a writer and social activist who calls Chicago home. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in EOAGH, Upstairs At Duroc, Unlikely 2.0, BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Alice Blue, There, Pinstripe Fedora, Anything Anymore Anywhere, Moria, Psychic Meatloaf  and Poets for Living Waters. Schild is a creative writing MFA candidate at Temple University.

 

 

BRIAN SEABOLT edits Raft Magazine.

 

 

ADAM STRAUSS has published poems in Fence, Switchback, the  Colorado Review, and Interim, among other venues.

 

 

MARK STRICKER edits nanomajority. His chapbook There are language in my sleep again, filling up my body. was published by Auxilium Press. His poems have appeared in Otoliths, Word/For Word, Counterpath Online, Fell Swoop, and Perihelion. He lives in Hamden, CT.

 

 

SAMUEL DAY WHARTON has poems published or forthcoming in anti-, Horse Less Review, Pinstripe Fedora, Thirteen Myna Birds, Versal, & Word Riot. He is the editor of the online poetry journal Sawbuck.

 

 

KARENA YOUTZ is a poet who lives and works in Boise, Idaho.