CATHY PARK HONG FORTHCOMING
CHARLEY SHIVLEY FORTHCOMING
TOM BECKETT is the author of Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems 1978~2006 (Meritage Press) and curator of E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews (Otoliths). From 1980-1990, he edited and published The Difficulties. He blogs interviews at http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com
NICK MONTFORT's recent projects include Currency, a series of four collaborations with video artist Roderick Coover, and Ream, a 500-page poem written in one day. He has also collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novel Implementation, and 2002: A Palindrome Story, which was acknowledged by the Oulipo as the world's longest literary palindrome. He has written and programmed several interactive fiction pieces, including Ad Verbum and Book and Volume. Montfort studied poetry in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University and is now working on a book of poems, Riddle & Bind. He lives in Cambridge and teaches at MIT.
MAIRÉAD BYRNE’s poetry collections include Talk Poetry (Miami University Press 2007), SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions 2007), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press 2003); also three chapbooks, An Educated Heart (Palm Press 2005), Vivas (Wild Honey Press 2005), and Kalends (Belladonna* 2005). She is an Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence . With Ian Davidson, she is the co-manager of the listserv British & Irish Poets. Before immigrating to the United States in 1994, she was a journalist, playwright, arts centre director, and teacher in Ireland.
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS FORTHCOMING
ANN KILLOUGH's work has appeared in Fence, Field, Mudfish, Poetry Ireland, Salamander, Sentence, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Sinners in the Hands: Selections from the Catalog received the 2003 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press. A new book, Beloved Idea, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in November 2007. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she is one of the coordinators of the Brookline Poetry Series, as well as of the Mouthful reading series in Cambridge.
TINA DARRAGH has been writing poetry in & around Washington, DC for over 35 years. Currently, she has her hand in the “opposable dumbs” project, an exploration of the different ways human and non-human animals don’t have language. Her play “Bad I.O.U.”, a lament for universal health care, was performed in May, 2007, at the Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival (Alexandria, VA). Darragh earns her keep as a reference librarian at Georgetown University.
P. INMAN grew up on Long Island off the coast of "America," 6-7 miles away from the Atlantic. His publications include Ocker (Tuumba, 1982), Red shift (Roof, 1988), criss cross (Roof, 1994), Vel (O Books, 1995), at. least. (Krupskaya, 1999), amounts. to. (Potes & Poets, 2000) and now/time (Bronze Skull, 2006); other pubs: He is a retired Federal employee, currently works as a labor rep for AFSCME Council 26, three blocks away from the White House.
JOHANNA DRUCKER is currently the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and Professor in the Department of English. In 2000, she helped establish the Speculative Computing Laboratory, a research group dedicated to exploring experimental projects in Humanities Computing. Her recent work focuses on aesthetics and digital media, particularly graphical communication and the expressive character of visual form. She is well known for her publications on the history of written forms, typography, design, and visual poetics. Her critical study, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity was published by the University of Chicago Press in Spring 2005. She is completing the draft of a critical history of graphic design in collaboration with Emily McVarish to be published by Prentice Hall in January 2008. In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Her work has been exhibited and collected in special collections in libraries and museums including the Getty Center for the Humanities and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. A Girl's Life, a collaboration with painter Susan Bee, appeared from Granary Books in Spring 2002., and Damaged Spring (Druckwerk) appeared in Summer 2004. Her most recent letterpress book, Testament of Women, was produced at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center in 2006. A work of critical visual poetry, From Now, was published by Cuneiform Press in 2005. Her other project is the development of a networked resource for the study of artists’ books, ABsOnline (www.artistsbooksonline.org
JARROD FOWLER is a conceptual sound artist living and working in Boston, MA. His work reflexively questions the ontology of rhythm and percussion through solo and collaborative works. He has collaborated with Bruce Andrews, Kenneth Goldsmith, Seth Kim-Cohen, Brandon LaBelle, John Mowitt, Liz Tonne and James "JLIAT" Whitehead. His music has been published on Errant Bodies, UbuWeb, Oph Sound, and JMF. For information and downloads visit:
http://www.jarrodfowler.com
KRISTIN PREVALLET is the author of I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press, 2007). She recently edited The Helen Adam Reader (National Poetry Foundation, 2007). She lives in Brooklyn and received a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry.
CHRIS TONELLI lives in Cambridge, MA where he runs The So and So Series. He has work forthcoming in Cannibal, H_NGM_N, Drunken Boat , and Good Foot, and poems of his will be included in the anthologies The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel–Second Floor and Outside Voices' The 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. His cha, WIDE TREE: Short Poems, is available from Kitchen Press, and A Mule-Shaped Cloud, a collaborative chapbook written with Sarah Bartlett, is due out from horse less press in January.
MADELINE GINS' eleven books include What the President Will Say and Do!, Helen Keller or Arakawa, Making Dying Illegal (co-authored with Arakawa). Among her built works with Arakawa are Bioscleave House – East Hampton , Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro, Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka.
BRIAN KIM STEFANS FORTHCOMING