Stewart lives with his young bride on the Eastern Shore of Virginia where he is growing fruit trees, tending to beehives, and guinea fowl. Most recently he’s been killing foxes. He is a pacifist and an anarchist. Without him, this website would be impossible. He is basically buddhist.
Joe Weil is a lecturer at SUNY Binghmaton and has several collections of poetry out there, A Portable Winter (with an introduction by Harvey Pekar), The Pursuit of Happiness, What Remains, Painting the Christmas Trees, and, most recently, The Plumber’s Apprentice, published by New York Quarterly Press. He makes his home in Vestal, New York.
Micah Towery has his MFA from Hunter College. He teaches English at Trinity Western University. His writing has appeared (or will) in AWP Chronicle, Mantis, Slant Magazine, and his poetry and translations have appeared in magazines like Cimarron Review, Paterson Literary Review, Ragazine.cc, Loaded Bicycle, Gulf Stream, and [Spaces]. In the past, he’s worked as a Coca-Cola delivery driver, bus driver, baker, and church organist. His manuscript is likely coming to a slush pile near you.
Adam Fitzgerald holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University. His poems have appeared in Chortle Bread, Contemporary Phallacies, Slave Grime and Igloo Dust. Rumors have it that he edits Maggy. His manuscript was recently rejected from The Alaskan Retirement Home Quarterly Press. He is presently at work on no collaborations. He lives with his wife and two children in the East Village.
Bianca is a poet and artist, and is the author of the chapbook Someone Else’s Wedding Vows from Argos Books. She has been published in such magazines as Best American Poetry 2011, Conduit, and American Poetry Review. She is the cofounder and editor of Monk Books. Her next book, Antigonick, a new kind of comic book, and collaboration with Anne Carson, will be out in 2012 from New Directions. She lives in Brooklyn with the poet Ben Pease and their cat Commander Riker.
Stuart Krimko recently published The Sweetness of Herbert, a collection of poems issued by Key West-based Sand Paper Press. He received a grant from the Fund for Poetry 2006. Krimko lives in Los Angeles, where he works on a novel tentatively titled I Died So Far East It Was West, along with translations of the works of Argentinian writers Osvaldo Lamborghini and Hector Viel Temperley. He has worked in the contemporary art world for many years, and serves as Director of Communications for Max Protetch Gallery in New York. In addition to writing about art, Krimko is food and wine editor for the website Embury Cocktails.
Ben Pease is the creator and host of Scattered Rhymes, the featured podcast of The The Poetry Blog. His poetry has appeared in MAGGY, Paperbag, and SUPERMACHINE, among others. A selection of his Blockbuster in Verse,
Wichman Cometh, is available from Monk Books
here. His collages can be found
here and as poetry comics with Bianca Stone
here and
here .
Zachary Pace lives in Brooklyn, works at Akashic Books, curates the
Projection reading series, co-edits Bridge collaboration journal, and teaches at Mercy College.
Alina Gregorian holds an M.F.A. from The New School. Her poems have appeared in various publications including, Caketrain, Fou, Juked, Elimae, The Best American Poetry Blog, and Pax Americana. She is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets College Prize and is an editor of the poetry magazine Maggy. This is her blog: alinagregorian.blogspot.com.
Allison Power edits books at Rizzoli Publications and writes poems that are sometimes published places. Her friends call her Ali.
SARAH V. SCHWEIG’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review and Verse Daily. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, and is also a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist. Her chapbook S is forthcoming through Dancing Girl Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Alfred Corn is the author of nine books of poetry, a novel, and two collections of criticism. His play Lowell’s Bedlam premiered last spring in London, and he will be sending the first part of 2012 in Cambridge, as a Resident Fellow of Clare College, while he prepares a translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies.
Simone Kearney’s poems can be found in Post Road Magazine, Elimae, Maggy, Sal Mimeo and Supermachine. She received her MFA in poetry from Hunter College, and in 2010 she was a recipient of the Amy Awards from Poets & Writers Magazine. She works for the Thierry-Goldberg Projects gallery in the Lower East Side, and is an adjunct at Pace University. She is also a visual artist, and you can see samples of her work at http://simonekearney.blogspot.com/). She lives in Brooklyn.
Arlo Haskell is the author of Joker, publisher of Sand Paper Press, and media director for the Key West Literary Seminar. He lives in Key West, and is working on a study of Charles Olson’s time in that city, among other projects.
Genevieve Burger-Weiser’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Boston Review, Western Humanities Review, Washington Square Review, and Juked Magazine. She was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship and shortlisted for the 2009 Times Literary Supplement poetry prize. She received her MFA in Writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and she currently teaches expository writing at Manhattanville College.
Evan Hansen lives and works in Portland, Oregon. His recent poems can be found in Maggy 1 and the imminently forthcoming Spring Issue of the South Carolina Review.
Ben Fama is the author of Aquarius Rising (forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse, Fall 2010), and the co-author, with Christie Ann Reynolds, of the chapbook Girl Boy Girl Boy (forthcoming from Correspondences, Spring 2010). He is the founder of the SUPERMACHINE Poetry Journal and reading series. Visit his world >——>www.supermachinepoetry.com
Christopher Robinson is a writer, teacher and translator living in Port Townsend, Washington. He earned his MA in poetry from Boston University, and his MFA from Hunter College where he taught creative writing. Aside from teaching, he works as a research assistant for Mary Karr. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Night Train, Chiron Review, FlatmanCrooked, and McSweeney’s Online. His agent is currently shopping his first novel.
Samantha Zighelboim is currently in the MFA program at Columbia University. She lives in New York City. Recently, she has been dubbed a “humanatee,” and the moniker is sticking.
LONELY CHRISTOPHER is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, several poetry chapbooks, and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Martin Rock is a poet, editor, and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. His poems appear or are forthcoming in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Conduit, DIAGRAM, Forklift Ohio, La Petite Zine, Mississippi Review Online, The Tampa Review, Salamander, and others. With Phillip D. Ischy he wrote the collaborative chapbook, Fish, You Bird (Pilot Books), and his full length manuscript New Country was a recent finalist for Sarabande’s Kathryn E. Morton prize for poetry. He is the graphic-designer and Editor in Chief of Loaded Bicycle, an online literary magazine of poetry, translation, and art, and he is Managing Editor of Epiphany, a literary journal. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where he was awarded a two-year fellowship and was Editor in Chief of Washington Square. Having lived for three-and-a-half years in Japan, Martin is translating a book of Japanese poet Masato Tomobe’s work into English. He teaches literature and writing at Berkeley College in Manhattan, and will be on the faculty of the 2012 Jackson Hole Writers Conference. He is a recipient of the emerging-writer scholarship at the Port Townsend Writers Conference. More information can be found at martinrockpoetry.com.
Daniel Silliman is currently writing about the biggest Bigfoot hoax of the last 100 years. He is an American Studies graduate student at the University of Tübingen in Germany, where he also teaches English grammar and academic writing. The nephew of Language poet Ron Silliman, he has a background in philosophy, worked as a crime reporter for several years, and blogs at
www.danielsilliman.blogspot.com
Brooks Lampe teaches rhetoric, composition and poetry. He has several experimental Twitter projects including
@TheOpenField,
@SurrealPoems,
@Microdream, and
@BrooksLampe. Currently, he is dissertating at the Catholic University of American in Washington D.C. on Surrealism in contemporary American poetry.
Brian Chappell, a DC native, is a lecturer and PhD student in English at The Catholic University of America. He focuses on postmodern and contemporary narratives, critical theory, and media studies.
MICHAEL KLEIN wrote “then, we were still living” (GenPop Books, 2010), “The End of Being Known” (University of Wisconsin Press), “Track Conditions” (University of Wisconsin Press) and “1990″ (Provincetown Arts Press), which won a Lambda Literary Award. He has work forthcoming in Poets & Writers, Fence and The Awl. He teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington and Plainfield, Vermont. He lives in New York City.
Colie Hoffman is a copyeditor by day and poet by night living in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sixth Finch, TYPO, Blood Orange Review, and elsewhere. Thanks to a grant from the M Literary Residency, she spent last winter working on her first book at Sangam House in Bangalore, India.
Emily Vogel’s poetry has been published in numerous journals. She is the recipient of second prize for The Academy of American Poets competition at Binghamton University, 2008. Her first chapbook, Footnotes for a Love Letter was published in August 2009, her second collection of poetry, An Intimate Acquaintance was published in November 2009, and her third collection, Elucidation Through Darkness, was published in May of 2010. She has been nominated for the AWP award in creative non-fiction, 2010, and has been nominated for a pushcart prize. She is the poetry editor of the online journal Ragazine.
Levi is a poet from Wyoming who got his MFA at NYU and has spent time
as a teaching artist in the Bronx and Manhattan. He is a co-founder of
the online literary journal Paperbag magazine, and has made himself
useful to Ugly Duckling Presse and Brooklyn Rail/Black Square
Editions. He is currently employed in the Journals division at MIT
Press and can be found squatting online at
http://www.dangerhazzard.com
Sarah Eggers is a poet, visual artist and teacher currently living in Los Angeles.
Adam Pellegrini is currently finishing his MFA in poetry at UMD, College Park, where he also teaches freshman composition. He lives in Washington, DC.
Michael Foldes is the Poem of the Week editor for January 2011. He is founder and managing editor of Ragazine.CC, the online magazine of art, information & entertainment. He has a degree in anthropology from The Ohio State University, worked as an editor, columnist and publisher of magazines, newspapers and chapbooks, and currently works in the electronics industry. He commutes between metro New York and a home upstate.
Eric Kocher lives in Houston, TX where he is–any day now–going to finish his MFA. He has work forthcoming in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Catch Up, The Offending Adam, Octopus, and Toad. Starting in June, he will be the writer-in-residence for Hub-Bub in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
M G Stephens is the author of eighteen books, including The Brooklyn Book of the Dead and the essay collection Green Dreams, which Joyce Carol Oates picked as one of the notable nonfiction books of the 20th century in Best American Essays of the Century. Besides creative writing and plays, he is also a theatre historian and has taught at the University of London and elsewhere. He has a doctorate from the University of Essex (UK) in literature and an MFA in drama from Yale University. Recent writings on poetry have appeared in PN Review (UK) and Jacket (online).
John McCullough’s poetry has appeared in publications including London Magazine, The Guardian, The Rialto, Poetry London, The Wolf and Chroma. He teaches creative writing for the University of Sussex, the Poetry School and the Arvon Foundation, and has a Ph.d from Sussex on queer history and the rhetoric of friendship in English Renaissance writing. His first collection is The Frost Fairs (Salt, 2011), a book of love poems that shifts between gay, transgender and intersex voices in the present day and the nineteenth century.
Gene Tanta was born in Timisoara, Romania and lived there until 1984, when his family immigrated to the United States. Since then, he has lived in DeKalb, Iowa City, New York, Oaxaca City, Iasi, Milwaukee, and Chicago. He is a poet, visual artist, and translator of contemporary Romanian poetry. His two poetry books are Unusual Woods (BlazeVOX 2010) and Pastoral Emergency. Tanta earned his MFA in Poetry from the Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop in 2000 and his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2009 with literary specialization in twentieth-century American poetry and the European avant-garde. His journal publications include: EPOCH, Ploughshares, Circumference Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Watchword, Columbia Poetry Review, The Laurel Review, and Drunken Boat. Currently, he is editing two poetry anthologies while writing a book of prose poems.
Daniel is an activist and philosopher focusing on continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and a blogger for the Huffington Post religion section. You can learn more about his work at http://danieltutt.com.
Christopher Phelps studied science and philosophy. Then he fell in love with the messenger. His poems appear or are forthcoming in periodicals including The Awl, Boston Review, Meridian, and The New Republic.
SPLAB founder Paul Nelson wrote Organic Poetry (VDM Verlag, Germany, 2008) as well as a serial poem re-enacting the history of Auburn, Washington, A Time Before Slaughter (Apprentice House, 2010). In 26 years of radio he interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Sam Hamill, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, Eileen Myles, Wanda Coleman, George Bowering, Joanne Kyger, Jerome Rothenberg & others, including many Northwest poets. Recent publications on and off-line include: Pageboy, Menacing Hedge, Fieralingue, Rain Taxi, Solitary Plover, the Soul of the Earth anthology, Along the Rim: The Best of the Pacific Rim Review (Vol 2), Inactual, Raft magazine and Golden Handcuffs Review. He lives in Seattle and writes at least one American Sentence every day.
Sam Riedel is a freelance writer of poetry and fiction. He is currently a student at Binghamton University studying English and creative writing. Sam’s first chapbook, The Shapeshifter, is forthcoming; selections and new writing can be found on his blog at samriedel.tumblr.com.
