Fall 2005 Contributors

Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, published by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. Nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, due out in 2005 from Livingston. His latest three poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark on Purpose (2004) and Short Story and Other Short Stories (2006). He also claims to have written, "Your Auntie Grizelda." Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband.

Duane Locke
E mail: duanelocke@netzero.net
Biographical Note:
Doctor of Philosophy, English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years.

Locke has thousands of poems published in print and on-line as well as 14 print booksand 4 E books of Poetry, including,The Squids Dark Ink, From a Tiny Room and The Death of Daphne and Observations, from Poetic Inhalation.

He is also a painter, having many exhibitions. A recent book, Extraordinary Interpretations by Gary Monroe, published by University of Florida Press, has a discussion of Duane Locke's paintings.

Also, a photographer, now has over 237 photos in e zines. He does close-ups of trash tossed away in alleys and on sidewalks. Now, he is doing a series called "mystic vegetation."
He once lived in an old decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums, populated largely by drug dealers and the homeless. The house was condemned so Locke left Tampa to relocate in Lakeland, Florida. He lives by a lake with swans and many wild birds. The only disadvantage is that he can find no trash to photograph, no broken beer bottles on sidewalk, no litter as it was in Tampa.

James Quinton 26 years old, lives in the UK and is editor of Open Wide Magazine

Jeff Foster influenced by Gustav Klimdt and Jan Saudek, Foster tries to create nebulous pictures of spirituality with my photos. He has work coming out in Tarwolf review. Foster lives in NW Missouri with my wife and daughter where he runs his owncleaning business.

Joel Van Noord is a labour consultant in Washington DC and drives a truck through otherwise barricaded regions of the government. Find him at places
like unlikelystories.org and crybloxsome.com

John L. Campbell Self-employed for most of his life as a manufacturers’ agent selling and marketing engineered components, Campbell retired in 1995. Since then, he has spent most of his time improving his writing skills. In the past ten years he has self-published three paperbacks, four chapbooks (one of short stories) and well over a hundred non-fiction articles for magazines and newspapers. He has been writing free verse ever since he discovered narrative poetry is an acceptable form despite whispers from greeting-card-readers who say his stuff doesn’t rhyme.

His poetry has appeared in several annual issues of the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, Free Verse, Ray Foreman’s The Clark Street Review, The Backstreet Poets’ Quarterly, and the 2005 writers’ anthology to be published by Goose River Press. On the Internet his poetry has made the cut for issues of Foreman’s The Midnight Diner, Wordriot, The Muses Review and Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry. He resides with his wife of fifty-four years in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

John Dorsey is 28 yrs old, and currently resides in Toledo, OH 43620. He is the author of "Little Boy Beat: Selected Poems" Paladin M & E, Inc., 2004, "The Price of Sunshine" With Iris Berry, Feel Free Press, 2005, and "Harvey Kietel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel" by S.A. Griffin, Scott Wannberg, and Dorsey... Butchershop Press, 2005 "Moshing With The Cosmos" Iris Berry and Dorsey. Available in some stores or from John Dorsey 2413 Collingwood Blvd.b225 Toledo, OH 43620 archerevans@yahoo.com

John Grey Australian born poet, playwright, musician. Latest book is “What Else Is There” from Main Street Rag. Recently in Hubbub South Carolina Review and Journal Of The American MedicalAssociation.

John Sweet b. 1968, married, father of 2, living in the wastelands of rural upstate new york been publishing for 18 years now, a big believer in writing as catharsis, opposed to all “schools” of poetry and all attempts to label and classify approaches to writing. full length collection, Human Cathedrals, is available from www.ravennapress.com

Laura Stamps is an award-winning poet and novelist.  Over six hundred of her poems, short stories, and poetry book reviews have appeared in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and broadsides, including the Louisiana Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Big City Lit, Poesy Magazine, American Writing, and the Chiron Review.  She is the author of more than twenty-five books and chapbooks, including "Cat Daze (Kittyfeather Press, 2004) and "In the Garden" (The Moon Publishing, 2004).  Her latest collection of poetry, "The Year of the Cat" (Artemesia Publishing, 2005), has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  Several of her poems are included in the celebrity anthology "Open My Eyes, Open My Soul" (McGraw-Hill Books, 2003) and "Women of the Web Anthology of Poems" (Little Poems Press, 2005).  More information about books by Laura Stamps can be found at www.kittyfeatherpress.blogspot.com.

Lori Romero is a published poet and fiction writer, and served as Artistic Director of Friends & Artists Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ms. Romero’s first chapbook, Wall to Wall, was recently published by Finishing Line Press (finishinglinepress.com). Her short story, Strange Saints, was a semifinalist in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and her recent screenplay was a finalist in the Hollywood Symposium. Her poetry and short stories have been published in journals which include Copper Nickel, Citizen32, Ibbetson St., Poetry Motel, Quercus Review, Monkeybicycle, Plum Biscuit, James River Poetry Review, and Pebble Lake Review. Her website is tarecords.com/loriromero.html email: lori@tarecords.com

Luann Womach 's poetry has appeared in Coffee! and Nowadays. Prose selections have been published in several anthologies. LuAnn is the former editor of InPosse Review at http://webdelsol.com. She resides in the rural solitude of Nebraska.

Site link - www.luannwomach.com

Marie Lascu is currently a student at Oakland University in Michigan. She has recently been published in such online zines as Children, Churches and Daddies, Zygoteinmycoffee, and Thieves Jargon.

Margaret Evans is a native of the Washington, DC, area, and a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Business Administration. Her short stories and humorous philosophical essays are published in such literary magazines as Fullosia Press, Prose Toad, Palabras Press, ken*again, The Literary Brothel, NuPenz, and A Darker Vision. She is also the author of a full-length novel, The Sixth World. A synopsis and sample chapter of the novel, as well as ordering information, can be found on Evans's Web site, margaretevans.com  margaret_evans@mindspring.com


mark s kuhar is a cleveland, ohio-based writer, poet, editor & publisher. his work has appeared in many on-line publications including sidereality, litvert, eratio, muse apprentice guild, getunderground, & northern ohio live, as well as in the anthologies “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind: poets on 9/11” (regent press) & “the long march of cleveland,” “ornamental iron,” “mac’s turns a new trick” & “anthologese the next” (green panda press); america zen (bottom dog press) & “action poetry (a LitKicks publication). his chapbook – “acrobats in catapult twist” -- was published in June 2003 by seven beers and a hedgehogpress, of pepper pike, ohio, and his work has been published by 24th st. irregular press as part of the “poems-for-all” series. his ebook, “fractured rapture” was published on poeticinhalation.com. he has read his work on national public radio’s local affiliate, & is the host of the deep cleveland poetry hour, a live monthly spoken-word event. he is also the proprietor of deep cleveland llc, www.deepcleveland.com, which includes deep cleveland press, a small-press publishing company, & deep cleveland junkmail oracle, a literary e-zine dedicated to the spirit of legendary cleveland outlaw poet, artist & underground publisher d.a levy. he is the editor of ohio writer magazine. he is a graduate of ohio university (BA 1980), athens, ohio, with a degree in english/creative writing.

Maureen Tolman Flannery Ancestors in the Landscape: Poems of a Rancher’s Daughter was nominated for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Although she grew up in a Wyoming sheep ranch family, Maureen and her actor husband Dan have raised their four children in Chicago. A Fine Line was also published this year and produced as musical theatre. Her other books are Secret of the Rising Up: Poems of Mexico; Remembered Into Life; and the anthology Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places. Her work has appeared in forty anthologies and over a hundred literary reviews, recently including Midwest Quarterly Review, Amherst Review, Calyx, Atlanta Review, North American Review. Check out tmpoetry.com to see a chapbook and review of her latest book.

Maurice Oliver spent almost a decade working as a freelance photographer in Europe. Then, in 1995, he made a lifelong dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months, recording his experiences in a journal instead of photographs. And so began his desire to be a poet. His poetry has appeared in The Potomac Journal, Circle Magazine, Bullfight Review, Tryst3 Journal, The MAG, Eye-Shot, The Surface, One Forty Two Magazine, Word Riot, Retort Magazine(Australia), Taj Mahal Review(India), Stride Magazine(UK),& online at ink-mag.com, friggmagazine.com, dash30dash.com & tmpoetry.com. He lives in Portland, Oregon where he is a tutor.

Scott Malby Scott Malby lives in self imposed exile in Coos Bay, on the Pacific Coast of Oregon. He is not a balanced person. He lies to himself. He gives bad advice. New work out soon in Eclectica, Elimae, Circle Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee and other places.

Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper is an active member of the Friends Of The Oregon Symphony, Words Of a Woman Net Society and very much a today's woman. An astrological Leo, this lady thrives on poetry and music.

She has been published in dozens of on-line journals including 'lingerings', Ophelia's Muse, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Niederngasse, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetr, Verse Libre, Ascent Magazine. The SP Quill Quarterly, In The Eyes Of The Wild, Emerging from Twilight - Vol. 2, Before the Last Shadow Fades, Vol. 3, Panda Poetry Magazine, Battle Stars', Backstreet Poets Quarterly, Providers in Partnership for Kids, MiPo~Print, WRITE ON!!, Book of Remembrance Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2 and Peshekee River Poetry. Two e-chapbooks of her poetry, Mood Magic and A Slice Of Life were hosted by Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry in 2004 and MAG Press will be publishing her book Reach Beyond as the winner of the 2005 International Chapbook competition the end of this year.

s.n. jacobson was born March of 1955, in Manhattan, NY of Polish/ Jewish/ Survivors. My parents followed the borsch belt to Miami where my Father became an itinerant photographer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area where he is working on a number of projects as well as doing commissions.E-mail : snjacobson@aol.com Website: snjacobson.com

W. S. Cross Photos and the text are excerpted from the novel Beyond You & Me, by Based on a journal written in 1975, and loaned to the author on the condition that the identity of the journal writer remain a secret. The resulting novel chronicles a 24 year-old married woman's journey of self-discovery as she struggles with the temptations of the Sexual Revolution.Excerpts from the book, background material, sources from the cultural touchstones of the period and even samples of music can be found at the novel's web site:
http://beyondyouandme.blogspot.com/

William James (B.A, Creative Writing, specializing in poetry) Colorado State University 1990; poetry and prose published on both sides of the Atlantic, some newspaper and other opinion columns, edited and published two semi-annual print poetry magazines, Zang Spur Review and Dreamboat. Had an article in Alpacas Magazine and, under my pen name, Jean de Cherie, one erotic romance currently available in ebook from HeatWaveRomance.com (and soon to be in a print anthology presently titled Private Escapades) another ebook, also from HeatWave will release 7/1/05. Live in Colorado, where I grew up, having moved back from Cornwall after my divorce.