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"POETRY, ECOLOGY, AND
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by Lucille Lang Day |
 Charles Adés Fishman
is a
consultant in poetry to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington, D.C., and poetry editor of Prism:
An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators.
His books include The Death Mazurka, a 1989 American
Library Association Outstanding Book of the Year that
was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry;
Country of Memory (2004); and Chopin’s Piano
(2006), which received the 2007 Paterson Award
for Literary Excellence.
Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, was
published by Time Being Books in October, 2007, and a new
collection of poems, Water under Water, will be
released by Casa De Snapdragon soon. |
 Steven
Schmelz
is a graduate of Bates College of Lewiston,
Maine.
He has been writing poetry for many years and is
the President of Sea View Chrysler Jeep and Sea
Breeze Ford in Monmouth County NJ. |
 Susan Terris' books include CONTRARIWISE (Time Being Books),
NATURAL DEFENSES (Marsh Hawk Press), FIRE IS FAVORABLE TO
THE DREAMER (Arctos Press), POETIC LIC. She appears
in The Iowa Review, Field, The Journal, Colorado Review,
Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Volt, Denver Quarterly,
and Ploughshares. She
edited RUNES, A Review Of Poetry. She edits for
Pedestal Magazine She won PUSHCART PRIZE XXXI. |
 Timothy
Pilgrim
has poems published in literary journals such as
Seattle Review
(University of Washington), Sqajet (Skagit Valley College),
Quaint Canoe (Seattle), The Curious Record (Australia),
Words-Myth (UK), Bathyspheric Review, Trestle Creek Review
(North Idaho College), and Jeopardy and Labyrinth (Western
Washington University), |
 Taylor
Grahams's
book The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review
Press, 2006) won the Robert Phillips
Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her current project is
Walking with Elihu, poems on the
American peace activist Elihu Burritt, the Learned
Blacksmith (1810-1879). |
Summer 2009
 Elisha Porat
Hebrew poet and writer, has published 21
volumes of
fiction and poetry, in Hebrew, since
1973.His latest Hebrew poems book, "My
Reprive is Still Valid", was
published in Israel, 2005. |
 Julie Suk is the
author of four volumes of poetry, and co-editor of Bear
Crossings, an Anthology of North American Poets. Her
collection, The Angel of Obsession, was a winner of the
University of Arkansas
Poetry Competition, and also won The North
CarolinaRoanoke-Chowan Award.Her most recent book, The
Dark Takes Aim, winner of the Brockman Award, was
published by Autumn House Press.Suk’s work has appeared
in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The
POETRY Anthology, 1912-2002. She is also a winner of
the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine. |
 Salvatore Buttaci has been published in
The Writer, Inscriptions,
Plainsongs, Poet Magazine, Cat Fancy, Cats Magazine, The
Christian Science Monitor, PoetryMagazine.com, New York
Times, Newsday, and many other publications
here and overseas.From 1974 to 1988, he was the Editor of
New Worlds Unlimited,
an annual poetry anthology that showcased the poems of
aspiring and professional poets from here and abroad. |
 Richard
Bausch is
the author of 18 volumes of fiction, including
11 novels and eight collections of stories. The
most recent novel is PEACE, from Knopf in 2008.
The most recent book of stories is WIVES &
LOVERS: 3 SHORT NOVELS, from Harper Collins in
2004All of the poems, with the exception of FOR HER, SLEEPING,
are from my first book of poems, entitled THESE EXTREMES,
that LSU Press will publish in the fall. |
 Satish
Verma in 1980 his
first collection of English poems called Inward
Journey was published. his work of the
last two years was published as Beyond and Betwēon & launched by leading poet
of India Jayanta Mahapatra. His third collection of new
collected poems VIA & V/S was published in July 2008. A new
collection Obiter dictum UMBRA – PENUMBRA is in
press, to be out in Jan09. |
Spring 2009
 C.E. Chaffin, M.D., FAAFP, edited
The Melic Review
www.melicreview.com
for eight years prior to its hiatus. Widely
published, he has written literary criticism,
fiction, personal essays, and has been the
featured poet in over twenty magazines. |
 David Bullen
makes his living as a free-lance book designer, after
spending 11 years as the designer and art director for
North Point Press. He was once active in San Francisco
Bay Area small press publishing as an editor and
publisher of Cloud Marauder Press and Magazine. He was
recipient of the Eisner Poetry Award from UC Berkeley |
 Joelle Walmsley
has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and
religious studies and earned in M.A. in theology
in 2005.A former teacher, she now dedicates her
time to being taught by the mystery and
surprises of life. |
 Lynne
Knight’s fourth collection, Again, will be published
by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009. She has also
published three award-winning chapbooks.Her
awards include a Theodore Roethke Award from Poetry
Northwest, a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from
the Poetry Society of America, and an NEA poetry
grant. |
Winter 2008-2009
 Ellen Bass' fourth book of poems, "The Human Line," will be
published by Copper Canyon Press in June 2007. She co-edited
(with Florence Howe) the groundbreaking "No More Masks! An
Anthology of Poems by Women" (Doubleday, 1973), has
published several volumes of poetry, including "Mules of
Love" (BOA, 2002) which won the Lambda Literary Award. Go to Her |
Kathleen
Kenny lives and writes in Newcastle upon
Tyne, on the north east coast of England.
She works as a part-time lecturer in
creative writing at the Centre for Lifelong
Learning, Sunderland University. She also
works in the community to promote new
writing, both on the page and on the stage, organising live poetry and prose readings.
She is widely published across the UK small
press poetry network. Individual collections
include Sex & Death (Diamond Twig
Press), Keening ( Sand Press),
Goose Tales and other Flights
(Koo Press). She also has three forthcoming
collecions: Firesprung (Red
Squirrel), Sandblasting the Cave (Flarestack),
and Hole (Smokdestack).
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 Donal Mahoney
has worked as an editor for The
Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press,
McDonnell Douglas Corporation (now Boeing) and
Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems
published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review,
Revival (Ireland), The Kansas Quarterly, The South
Carolina Review, Commonweal, The Beloit Poetry
Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Davidson
Miscellany, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The
Goddard Journal,
The Pembroke
Magazine, The Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine,
The Road Apple Review
and other publications. |
 Maggie
Bloomfield
is a psychotherapist and substance abuse
counselor in NY. She has been writing
poetry in the form of song lyrics for 25 years ,
both for the musical theatre and for Sesame
Street.. For many years she was an actress
and singer in NYC, appearing on and off
Broadway. |
Fall 2008
 Frank X.
Gaspar is the author of four books of poetry: The Holyoke
(winner of the Morse Poetry Prize); Mass for the Grace of
a Happy Death (Anhinga Poetry Prize); A Field Guide
to the Heavens (Brittingham Prize for Poetry); and
Night of a Thousand Blossoms (listed by Library
Journal as one of the twelve best books of poetry for
2004). In addition he is the author of a novel, Leaving
Pico, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Award
winner, a Borders Book of Distinction, and
recipient of a California Book Award.
Other awards include a National Endowment for
Arts Fellowship, A California Arts Council
Fellowship, Three Pushcart Prizes, and multiple
inclusions in Best American Poetry.
|
 Jane Hirshfield has received the 2004 Fellowship for
Distinguished Achievement from the Academy of American Poets
(an honor previously held by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound,
William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers, and Elizabeth
Bishop), as well as poetry fellowships from the Guggenheim
and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for
the Arts. Other honors include the Poetry Center Book Award,
the Commonwealth Club’s California Book Award, the Bay Area
Book Reviewers’ Award, and finalist selection for both the
National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot
Prize. |
 Jeanne
Wagner
is the winner of several national awards,
including Writers-at-Work, NFSPS Founders Award, The Francis
Locke Award, The Macguffin Poet Hunt and The Ann Stanford
Prize. Her poems have previously appeared in Quarterly
Review, The Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod and The Atlanta
Anniversary |
 Gary Margolis is Director of the
Center for Counseling and Human Relations and Associate Professor
of English at Middlebury College. His most recent book of poems is
"Fire in the Orchard"(Autumn House Press) |
 Theodor Alexandru Voiosu writes
in both Romanian and English. He has published several
poems (in Romanian) in different poetry magazines (Luceafarul, Viata
Romaneasca, Logos, Viata Medicala, Poezia). He also
won second prize in the Cezar Baltag National Poetry
Contest in the 2003 edition. |
SUMMER 2008
 Judith
Barrington
is the author of three poetry collections, a
prizewinning memoir, and a text on writing
literary memoir. The poetry books are: Horses and the
Human Soul, History and Geography, and Trying to be an
Honest Woman. She has also recorded a CD of selected poems
titled Harvest. |
 Anita
Gevaudan Byerly is a
Fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Writing
Project, through which she taught at the
Young Writer’s Institute at the University
of Pittsburgh, and served on the editorial
staff of Riverspeak.
She is also a member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, &
the Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania Poetry
Societies. |
 David
Barnes became an
active full-time writer poet in 1996 and has
been an active Internet poet, publishing
around Australia & at many online poetry
venues in America, England, and France. |
 Sukrita
Paul Kumar
was born and brought up
in Kenya and at present she lives in Delhi,
writing poetry, researching and publishing
on Indian literature and teaching “world
literature”. Her positions include Unesco &
invited poet in residence at Hong Kong
Baptist University. She has published five
collections of poems in English: Rowing Together,
Without Margins, Oscillations, Apurna, and
Folds of Silence. |
SPRING 2008
 Alba Cruz-Hacker
straddles borders. She was awarded the 2007 UCR Poet's
Laureate, the 2007 Tomas Rivera Endowment Poetry
Selection, and has been previously nominated for
a Pushcart Prize |
 Dimitris P. Kraniotis
is an award-winning
Greek poet and the author of 4 poetry books: "Traces" 1985, "Clay Faces" 1992 , "Fictitious Line" 2005 and "Dunes" 2007. |
 Elizabeth
Kirschner,
poet, lyricist, has published three volumes of
poetry all with Carnegie-Mellon University. She
has two books forthcoming. "My Life as a Doll"
will be released by Autumn House Press in July
’08 and "Surrender to Light" will appear in
August ’09 (Cherry Grove Editions). |
 Fady Joudah's first book, The
Earth in the Attic has received the Yale Series award from
Judge Louise Gluck. His poetry and translation have appeared in
The New Yorker, POETRY, the Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, The
Nation, among others and also in several anthologies. His
translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s most recent poetry is collected in
The Butterfly’s Burden from Copper Canyon
Press.
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 Joan
Gelfand was
the recipient of the Chaffin Fiction Award for
2005. Her letters, articles, reviews and poetry
have appeared in numerous national magazines
including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity
Fair and Poets & Writers. |
 Pia
Taavila teaches literature and creative writing at Gallaudet
University. The GU Press will publish a collection of 128 poems
(spanning thirty years' work) this spring entitled
Moon on the Meadow.
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Dorian Laux Interview
Review of Lucille Lang Day's
God of the Jellyfish
Winter 2007-2008 |
Dorianne
Laux
Keith
Althaus
Mahmoud
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