Contributors, September 2009
Dan Ames has had poems recently published in Magnolia: A Florida Journal of Literary and Fine Arts, The Centrifugal Eye, Nefarious Ballerina, Flutter Poetry Journal, Opium Poetry, Bijou Poetry Review and The Inquisition. More poems are slated for 2009 publication in Edison Literary Review, Thieves Jargon, Iodine Poetry Journal, Pulsar Poetry UK and Thick with Conviction. To view links to some of his published poetry, you can visit his website: poetdanielames.com
Santiago del Dardano Turannwas born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in April of 1968 and grew-up in rural Butler county. Since beginning to submit poems for publication in August of 2007 his work has been accepted by 42 journals.
Tawnysha Greene is a PhD student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Peycho Kanev is 28 years old. He loves to listen to sad music while he drinks slowly his beer. His work has been published in Welter, Gloom Cupboard, Poetry Cemetery, Nerve Cowboy, The Chiron Review, The Guild of Outsider Writers, Mad Swirl, Side of Grits, Southern Ocean Review, The Houston Literary Review and many others. He loves to put the word down and not talking on the cell phone for days. He is nominated for Pushcart Award. He lives in Chicago. His new collaborative collection "r", containing poetry by him and Felino Soriano, as well as photography from Duane Locke and Edward Wells II is now available at Amazon.
Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, Missouri. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Commonweal, Revival (Ireland), The Christian Science Monitor, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Danse Macabre, Poetry Super Highway, Public Republic (Bulgaria) and other publications.
Rick Marlatt teaches English in Nebraska, and he is currently pursuing a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside at Palm Desert. Marlatt’s most recent publications include New York Quarterly, The Pedestal Magazine, and Plain Songs Review. Marlatt performs as an actor, poet, and writer, most recently, winning the University of Nebraska Sigma Tau Delta Short Fiction Slam.
Derek Pollard is co–author with Derek Henderson of the book Inconsequentia (BlazeVOX 2009). His poems, creative non–fiction, and reviews appear in American Book Review, Colorado Review, Diagram III, Pleiades, Six–Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, and Zoland Poetry, among other anthologies and journals. He is currently Managing Editor of Barrow Street Press and is on faculty at Le Moyne College and at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, New York.
Susan Pepper Robbins’ novel "One Way Home," Random House, was published in 1993. She has won the Virginia Prize for fiction and teaches writing at Hampden-Sydney College.
Daniel Ruefman is currently a doctoral candidate in the Composition and TESOL program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. An emerging poet, his work has appeared most recently in SLAB (Sound and Literary Arts Book).
Cliff Saunders poems have appeared recently or will soon appear in California Quarterly, Skidrow Penthouse, The Eloquent Atheist, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Tattoo Highway.
Judith Skillman’s new collection, “Prisoner of the Swifts” (2009 ISBN # 978-0-9811704-7-3) is just out from Ahadada Books (see ahadadabooks.comor amazon.com). Judith’s “Heat Lightning: New and Selected Poems 1986 – 2006“ was published by Silverfish Review Press, Eugene, Oregon, 2006. Recipient of an award from the Academy of American Poets for her book “Storm” (Blue Begonia Press, 1998), Skillman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, FIELD, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Seneca Review, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Please see www.judithskillman.comfor more information.
Poems by Richard Spuler, Ph.D have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and poetry (Memorabilia and Other Assorted Forgettables). For nearly 20 years he has served as Senior Lecturer in German at Rice University in Houston, TX. He enjoys music and reading.
Ray Succre currently lives on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and son. He has been published in Aesthetica, BlazeVOX, and Pank, as well as in numerous others across as many countries. His novel Tatterdemalion (Cauliay) was recently released in print and is available most places. A second novel, Amphisbaena, is forthcoming in Summer 2009. He tries hard. For inquiry, publication history, and information, visit him online: http://raysuccre.blogspot.com
Buff Whitman-Bradley is the author of two books of poetry, b. eagle, poet; and The Honey Philosophies. His work as appeared in numerous journals. In addition to writing, he produces documentary videos and audios, including, with his wife Cynthia, the award-winning documentary Outside In, about people who visit prisoners on San Quentin's death row. His interviews of GI war resisters can be heard at www.couragetoresist.org. He lives in northern California.
Marla Weeg is a lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She can be reached at supervirgil@aol.com.
