Contributors

BOB ARNOLD'S poems come out of the Green Mountains of Vermont where he has long made his living as a stonemason, builder, and bookseller. Some of his other books of poetry and prose include Where Rivers Meet, Once In Vermont, On Stone, By Heart and Invent A World.

A gay, light-hearted bastard, KEN BOLTON cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary scene, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1958 Jaguar sports car, El Cid. Born in Sydney in 1949 he works at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, South Australia, & edits Little Esther books. "Double Trouble," which takes its name from an Otis Rush song, was first published in Otis Rush magazine.

DANIEL BOUCHARD’S books include Diminutive Revolutions (2000), Some Mountains Removed (2005) and, new from Zasterle Press, The Filaments (2006). Editor of The Poker, and employed by The MIT Press, he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.

PAM BROWN has published fourteen books and five chapbooks of poetry and prose including Text thing (Little Esther Books, 2002) and Dear Deliria (Salt Publishing, 2003). She is the associate editor of Jacket magazine, a contributing editor for Fulcrum and a member of the editorial advisory board for HOW2. She lives in Sydney, Australia. “One Day in Auckland” first appeared online in nzepc (New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre) in May 2006. “Peel Me A Zibibbo” is the title poem from a chapbook published by Never-Never Books, Sydney, 2006.

THOMAS A. CLARK lives in a small fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. His latest collection is The Path To The Sea (Arc Publications, Yorkshire 2005).

JACK COLLOM, born in Chicago, became a birder at eleven, moved to Colorado as a teenager. Studied Forestry. Later spent time in New York City. His latest books is Exchanges of Earth and Sky (Fish Drum 2006). He teaches at Naropa University and works/plays various places as poet-in-the-schools.

WILLIAM CORBETT is a poet who lives in Boston, teaches writing at MIT and is director of the small press, Pressed Wafer. Corbett also directs literary programming for Manhattan’s Cue Art Foundation. He edited The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (Turtle Point Press, 2006).

LAURIE DUGGAN grew up in Melbourne and has lived for various periods in Sydney, Manchester, Washington DC and Brisbane. Currently, he is living in Kent, UK. His most recent books are Compared To What: Selected Poems 1971-2003 and The Ash Range (both Shearsman Press, 2005) and The Passenger (University of Queensland Press, 2006).

MARCELLA DURAND is the author of The Anatomy of Oil (Belladonna Books, 2005) and Western Capital Rhapsodies (Faux Press, 2001), among other publications. Her piece "Traffic & Weather" was written as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's spring residency.

RYAN GALLAGHER lives in Lowell, MA with his wife and daughter. He is the author of Plum Smash and Other Flashbulbs (Bootstrap Press, 2005). Ryan has finished translating The Complete Works of Gaius Valerius Catullus, a project he began at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where he completed his MFA, and where he was the recipient of the William Burroughs scholarship. He received his B.A. in Literature from Boston College. He also studied Thangka painting—traditional Tibetan Buddha painting—for two years and is an accomplished oil painter. He runs Bootstrap Productions with Derek Fenner.

JONATHAN GREENE is the author of 25 books, most recently Fault Lines (Broadstone Books); On the Banks of Monks Pond, The Thomas Merton / Jonathan Greene Correspondence (Broadstone Books); The Death of a Kentucky Coffee-Tree & other Poems (Longhouse). Forthcoming books include Gists, Orts, Shards: A Commonplace Book (Broadstone Books) and Hut Poems (Mountains and Rivers Press). He lives on a farm on the Kentucky River with his wife, the weaver and photographer Dobree Adams

JOANNE KYGER, author of some 26 books of poetry, lives north of San Francisco on the Coast. She is often associated with the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain writers, and the Beat Generation. She will be teaching at the New College of San Francisco, Spring 2007. Her collected poems, About Now, will be published in February of 2007 by the National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Maine. Other recent publications include As Ever: Selected Poems (both Penguin 2002); Again (La Alameda Press, 2001); The Disstressed Look (Coyote Press, 2004); and Not Veracruz, (Libellum Press) coming soon.

LOUISE LANDES LEVI was born in New York City in 1944, grew up in Russell Gardens, near Great Neck, graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley, and has lived in the Netherlands, Italy, India and the USA. She has published over 13 books & chapbook, including recent works, Guru Punk and CHORMA. Her other books include The Water Mirror, Departure, Concerto, and The Tower. She is also the translator of Rasa by Rene Daumal, Vers La Completude by Henri Michaux, and Dedicato allo Scuro, Love Poetry by Mira Bhai.

JOSEPH MASSEY lives in Arcata, California. He is the author of Minima St. (Range, 2003), Eureka Slough (Effing Press, 2005), Bramble (Hot Whiskey Press, 2005) and Property Line (Fewer & Further Press, 2006).

RACHEL MCKEEN teaches high school in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has also taught secondary education in Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel, and Brooklyn, New York. "12 June 2005" and "13 June 2005" were published in 2006 by Curmudgeonly Press as part of the chapbook Right Angle Life.

HOA NGUYEN lives in Austin, Texas with the poet Dale Smith. Together they operate Skanky Possum, a book imprint and journal, and curate a reading series. Her books include Your Ancient See Through (Sub Press, 2002) and Red Juice (Effing, 2005).

SHIN YU PAI is the author of Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed)), Equivalence (La Alameda Press) and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books). Poems have appeared in Eye-Rhyme, Boog City, 580 Split, Mungo vs. Ranger, and other independent publications.

MARK PAWLAK is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, Official Versions (2006). His poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2006 (Billy Collins, ed.), New American Writing, Exquisite Corpse, and The World, among other places. He lives in Cambridge, teaches mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and co-edits Hanging Loose.

MICHELLE NAKA PIERCE is the author of 48 Minutes Left and co-author of Tri / Via with Veronica Corpuz. Associate Professor at Naropa University, she has taught at Sakuragaoka koko in Yokohama, the University of New Mexico, and the Workshop for Language and Thinking at Bard College. She is also the director of the Naropa Writing Center and lives in Colorado with her husband, the poet Chris Pusateri.

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE’S most recent books of poetry are Portraits & Repetition (Post-Apollo, 2002) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002). REAL is forthcoming from Avenue B in fall 2006. Listening to Reading, a collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY in 2000. He lives in Bolinas, CA where he surfs every day, edits Avenue B, and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.

MICHAEL ROTHENBERG has been an active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 25 years. His books of poems include The Paris Journals (Fish Drum), Monk Daddy (Blue Press) and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda Press). Rothenberg is editor and publisher of Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org. He is also editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin), As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin) and David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer. He is presently working on Way More West, Selected Poems of Edward Dorn (Penguin, 2007) and the Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan University Press, 2007).

ANDREW SCHELLING: Books include TWO ELK: A High Country Notebook; Wild Form, Savage Grammar (essays); The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry (editor). Naropa University since 1990, poetry & Sanskrit. Winter 2007 pilgrimage to sites of classical Indian poetry; on return to North America, book on renegade linguist & poet Jaime de Angulo.

JOEL SLOMAN was born in Brooklyn in 1943. He was the first assistant director of The Poetry Project (1966) and was the first editor of its journal, The World. His books are Virgil's Machines (1966), Stops (1997) and Cuban Journal (2000). Since 1969, he has lived near Boston.

DALE SMITH edits Skanky Possum Books with Hoa Nguyen. His essay, reviews, and poems have appeared in the Chicago Review, Damn The Caesars, First Intensity, and other journals in print and online. Poems from American Rambler (2000) were published in Best American Poetry 2002 and Black Stone will be published later this year by Effing Press. The Flood & The Garden (2002) and other books are available through Small Press Distribution.

STACY SZYMASZEK is the Program Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press) as well as several chap books. Sections from her long poem "hyperglossia" are forthcoming from Hot Whiskey Press. She is a coeditor with Instance Press and lives in Brooklyn.

AARON TIEGER’S latest chapbooks are February and, with Jess Mynes, Coltsfoot Insularity (both from Fewer & Further Press), Upcoming: After Rilke (Anchorite Press) and Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press). He lives in Ithaca, NY, where he is the editor of CARVE Poems and a co-curator of the SOON Productions reading series.

JOSEPH TORRA is a novelist, poet and editor. His books include the My Ground Trilogy and Keep Watching the Sky. He published lift magazine and serves on Pressed Wafer’s editorial board. He makes his home in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife Molly and daughters Julia Gan and Celeste Dan.