MARK PAWLAK was born and raised in Buffalo and has lived in the Boston area for most of the past 40 years. He is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, Official Versions(2006). His poetry and prose has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2006 (Billy Collins, ed.), New American Writing, Exquisite Corpse, Mother Jones, The Saint Ann's Review, Terra Incognito and The World, among other places. In addition, he is editor of four anthologies, most recently, Present/Tense: Poets in the World, an anthology of contemporary American political poetry. He also co-edited Shooting the Rat: Outstanding Poems and Stories by High School Writers, the third in a series of anthologies drawn from the celebrated high school section of Hanging Loose magazine, of which he has been an editor since 1980. He has been the recipient of two Massachusetts Artist Fellowship awards. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, writer Mary Bonina, and his teenage son. Pawlak is Director of Academic Support Programs at UMass Boston, where he teaches mathematics.
RIC ROYER lives in Baltimore. where he is an organizer of the Transmodern Performance Festival. He is also a performer with the Performance Thanatology Research Society, whose theatre piece, "Hystery of Heat", played at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in New York, The D.C. Arts Center in Washtington D.C, and the Maryland Institue for Contemporary Art. An upcoming performance recording and book will be released by Narrow House Recordings in November 2006.
JAMES COOK lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts with Amanda, Abigail, Samuel and Gata. Excerpts of his manuscript Arguments & Letters have been published by Openmouth Press and Pressed Wafer. A draft of his most recent work-in-progress can be found in The New Cartographers, a zine produced for the 2006 Gloucester New Arts Festival. The zine also includes work by Christina Strong, Nicole Peyrafitte, Amanda Cook, and John Landry. The forthcoming web version will include prose by Ben Webster as well.
ULLA E. DYDO began work on Gertrude Stein in 1976, hoping to write an essay or monograph on the unexplored "Stanzas In Meditation." By 1979, at Yale's Beinecke Library, she started to study the manuscript of "Stanzas" and soon others, most unexamined. This work changed her direction. First, the discovery of serious textual errors throughout the printed texts (often the result of punning and word play, poorly proofread) necessitated checking every work against manuscript. It also led to the preparation of A Stein Reader, the first selection of complete, accurate texts, and the hope, still unrealized, of a complete, correct Works. Second, the manuscripts revealed not only what Stein wrote but how she wrote--the creative process. What had begun as a study of one work became a book about Stein's writing from 1923 (when she first wrote about her method) to 1934 (when, with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, she went public). Dydo's book, The Language That Rises: The Voice of Gertrude Stein 1923-1934, appeared early fall 2003 from Northwestern University Press. Dydo has taught for years, mainly at C. U. N. Y., but is now free of teaching and delighted to explore new paths that Stein has opened.
CACONRAD's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got, where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poets (www.PhillySound.blogspot.com
GERRIT LANSING was born in Albany, New York in 1928. He grew up on farm in northern Ohio and was schooled in Ohio, Massachusetts and New York and now lives in Gloucester, Mass. His poetry publications include Heavenly Tree / Soluble Forest (Talisman, 1995) and A February Sheaf (selected poetry and prose, Pressed Wafer, 2003). He edited SET, a poetry magazine with History and Magic as its axes. His interests include playing classical music on the piano, walking the woods, herbalism, Nath Yoga, qigong, mathesis, astrosophy. With Neptune in Leo on my midheaven am shy of renown.
SUSAN LANDERS is the author of 248 mgs., a panic picnic and co-editor of POM2, a journal of poetic polylogue that publishes poems which directly engage or respond to work published in previous issues, with the aim of making the magazine's contents the "property of many." Her recent work has appeared in 26 Magazine, Magazine Cypress, Aufgabe, and Chicago Review. She lives in Brooklyn.
SEAN COLE is a reporter for public radio. His poems have appeared in the magazines Pavement Saw, Pom Pom, Magazine Cypress, Carve, Torch and others and on-line at canwehaveourballback.com and shampoopoetry.com. He's published two chapbooks, By the Author (Boog City) and Itty City (Pressed Wafer), and a full-length collection of postcard poems called The December Project (Boog). He is also the author of this bio and others like it.
ALAN DAVIES is the author of many books of poetry, including Name (This), Signage (Roof), Candor (O Books) and Rave (Roof), as well as an untitled collaboraiton with photographer Mark Winterford published by Zasterle. He has written many critical articles and book reviews, and has lectured here and abroad. He was twice a recipient of Canada Council Grants for the Arts. His big book called Life is forthcoming from O Books. He is at work on a lifelong project consisting of individual books, a couple of which have been published as chap books.
ALLEN BRAMHALL has lived in Massachusetts all his life. He attended microscopic Franconia College, where Robert Grenier taught him for a year and published his work in This 3. He next published 27 years later. He has one book published, the highly collectible Simple Theory (Potes & Poets Press), and another due out this winter from Meritage Press. He ruminates, asseverate, lollygag and flicker on his awesome blog Tributary. He also paints.
DOUG NUFER writes fiction and poetry that seems to follow odd procedures, even when it doesn't. His novels include Never Again, where no word appears more than once, and Negativeland, where each sentence contains a negative. His most recent novels are The Mudflat Man/ The River Boys, published in the old Ace Doubles flip-over format. His fiction and/or poetry has appeared in Fence, Chain, Bird Dog, Monkey Puzzle, and Monkey Bicycle, and in performances with a modern dance troupe led by choreographer Erin Mitchell. A chapbook of his is forthcoming from Make Now, Other Poems and The Land Waste, which features The Waste Land written backwards.
RUTH LEPSON is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music & has been collaborating w/ musicians lately, in fact, has been collaborating w/ visual artists & other poets in recent yrs. Her bk of poems is Dreaming in Color (Alice James Books) and U of Illinois published her anthology of poetry from the feminist mag Sojourner in 2004. She & photographer Rusty Crump collaborated on a bk of her synaesthetic dream prose poems, his photographs incl some w/ her words superimposed on them, and her photographs. She has had poems in Carve, The Wandering Hermit, Shuffle Boil & many other mags. She has written abt Steve Lacy's musical settings of Creeley's poems for Jacket.
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MICHAEL CARR's chapbook of poems and collages, Platinum Blonde, was published by Fewer & Further Press (2006). Recent magazine appearances include Mirage #4/Period(ical), CARVE, & string of small machines. He co-edits Katalanche Press, co-curates the Plough & Stars Reading Series, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
CHRISTINA STRONG is a poet and designer. Her chapbook, [Anti-Erato] was published by Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs in 2005. Her e-book Utopian Politics was published by Faux Press in 2004. Her poems have appeared in CyPress Magazine, Jacket, POM2, Shampoo, Boog City and a number of other journals. She is also the editor of Openmouth Press (recent titles include: Accede, Some Arguments, Pardon Our Progress, and The Sunday Morning Anthology). Currently, she is the Politics Editor of Boog City and also manages the websites xtina.org and bookwhore.com. She lives in Brooklyn.
PETER GANICK was publisher of Potes & Poets Press, a major influence introducing Language poetry into the poetic field from 1980-2000. He has published 17 books, including Hyperspace Cantatas, Rectangular Morning Poem, no soap radio, podiums: autobiographical café fictions, tend. field., (a philosophy), and tarsals. His new publishing venture is small chapbook project. He lives and teaches piano to young children in the West Hartford CT area. His wife, Carol, is a painter who teaches at the West Hartford Art League.
ROBERT FITTERMAN born in St. Louis in 1959, is the author of eight books of poetry, including three installments of his ongoing poem Metropolis: Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000, Metropolis 16-29 (Coach House Books, 2002), and his latest collection Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edge Books, 2004). Earlier titles include Leases (Periphery Press), among the cynics (Singing Horse Press) and Ameresque (Buck Downs Books). With novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa, he co-wrote the feature film What Sebastian Dreamt, which was selected, in 2004, for the Sundance Film Festival and the Lincoln Center Film Festival-LatinBeat. He teaches at New York University.
JOEL SLOMAN was born in Brooklyn in 1943. In the 1960s and 1970s his poems appeared in a number of journals, including Poetry and Chelsea, and in the anthology, The Voice that Is Great Within Us (1971). In 1966, he became the first assistant director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, under its first director, Joel Oppenheimer, and was the first editor of its journal, The World . His books are Virgil's Machines, (Norton, 1966), Bus Poems, (self-published, 1992), Stops (Zoland Books, 1997) and Cuban Journal (Zoland, 2000). Since 1969, he has lived near Boston, presently in Medford. He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
LEE ANN BROWN, a poet, performer and filmmaker, has published two books of poetry, The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan, 2003) and Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1999) which won the New American Poetry Series Award. Her poetry has been included in anthologies, pamphlets, broadsides and chapbooks, and has been translated into French, Swedish, Danish, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian. She has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Fund for Poetry, The A & A Fund for Arts & Education, and The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, and held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artists Residency, Foundation Royaumont, the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute, Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Brown earned her B.A. and M.F.A. at Brown University. She was born in Saitama-ken, Japan, raised in Charlotte, N.C., and now divides her time between the mountains of North Carolina and New York City, where she is Assistant Professor of English at St. John’s University in Queens. Brown is also founding editor and publisher of Tender Buttons Press, as well as a curator of readings and poetry events, and performs her work internationally. She has also been visiting poet and professor at many institutions in past years, including The New School for Social Research, Lesley University, Naropa University, Bard College, and Barnard College.
This event is co-curated by Demolicious and Openmouth Press!
KARI EDWARDS received one of Small Press Traffic's books of the year (2004), New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002); and is author of obedience, Factory School (2005); iduna, O Books (2003), a day in the life of p. , subpress collective (2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press (2000). edwards' work can also be found in Scribner's The Best American Poetry (2004), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, Coffee House Press, (2004), Biting the Error: writers explore narrative, Coach House, Toronto, (2004), Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others, Hawoth Press, Inc. (2004), Experimental Theology, Public Text 0.2., Seattle Research Institute (2003), Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted Leaf Press (2000), Aufgabe, Tinfish, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Amerikan Hotel, Boog City, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Narrativity, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Pom2, Shearsman, and Submodern Fiction. kari can always be contacted at: k.e.terra1@gmail.com
MICHAEL GIZZI is the author of 15 volumes of poetry, most recently NO BOTH and MY TERZA RIMA, both from The Figures. He was the editor of Hard Press and Lingo magazine. He now edits, with Craig Watson, Qua Books. With Mike Magee he coordinates the popular Downcity Poetry Series at Tazza in Providence. He currently teaches in the Literary Arts Dept. at Brown.
HEIDI LYNN STAPLES was born in Dade County, Florida in 1971 and received a BA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Syracuse University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AUGHT, Best American Poetry 2004, Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Gut Cult, HOW2, La Petite Zine, LIT, No Tell Motel, Poetry Daily, 3rd bed, Slope, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. A founding and acting editor of the literary magazine Parakeet, she has served as an assistant editor on Salt Hill and Verse, and worked as an editorial assistant at The Georgia Review. Her first collection, Guess Can Gallop, was selected by Brenda Hillman as a winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her chapbook Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake is due out this fall from 3rd bed, and Caryolyn Forche has chosen dog girl, Staples' second book, for publication by Ahsahta press. Staples has read in festivals and as the featured poet in reading series, with appearances forthcoming in Atlanta, Cambridge, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere. Currently, she is a part-time faculty member at Syracuse University.
MICHAEL BASINSKI is the Curator of The Poetry Collection State University of New York at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are Heka (Factory School); Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (Burning Press); The Idyllic Book (Michel Letko, Houston, Texas); Mool, Mool3Ghosts and Shards of Shampoo (Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum); Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies (Meow Press); By and The Doors (House Press); Un-Nome, Red Rain Two, Abzu and Flight to the Moon (Run Away Spoon Press): Poemeserss (Structum Press). His poems and other works have appeared in Dandelion, BoxKite, Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter, Torque, Leopold Bloom, Wooden Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, First Offense, Terrible Work, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Kenning, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity, House Organ, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, and many others.
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JENA OSMAN's most recent book of poems is An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004). Her book The Character (Beacon Press, 1999) was the winner of the 1998 Barnard New Woman Poets Prize. Other publications include Jury (Meow Press), Amblyopia (Avenue B), and Twelve Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press). Her poems have appeared in Big Allis, Conjunctions, Hambone, O-blek, Verse and elsewhere. She is the editor of the literary magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. Osman received an M.A. in poetry and playwriting from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She teaches in the English Department at Temple University, where she is currently the Director of the graduate Creative Writing Program.
Jena Osman on the EPC web site
NADA GORDON is the author of V. Imp., Swoon (with Gary Sullivan), and Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?. She lives in Brooklyn.
IRENE KORONAS is a multimedia artist who works with paint, paper collage, mono-printing, artists books and words. Her work consists of deconstructing and manipulating a given word by dissecting the implication of meaning, its historical interpretation and words' transitions throughout time. Her poetry has been published in haiku hut, Arcanum café, boston poet, Spreadhead, index poetry, unblog, lynx, lummox journal and free verse journal. She won the 2003 Cambridge Poetry Award for experimental work. She has three chapbooks: work among friends, where words drip, perception and tongue on everyday.
JENNY LAWTON GRASSL's poems have appeared in LIT, Bennington Review, Pierogi, The Grolier Prize and Euphony. She was a Grolier Prize Finalist in the National Poetry Series book contest 2003. Her photographs were featured in a one-person show at JANAPA gallery in New York. She has exhibited and read at Finned and Feathered at The Essex Arts Center, exhibited "Poems on the Wall" at Fort Point Channel Open Studios, and will be featured in an upcoming juried group exhibition, Winged and Whispered 2006, at the Fort Point Community Gallery.
KATHLEEN FRASER's has published sixteen books of poems, most recently DISCRETE CATEGORIES FORCED INTO COUPLING (2004). Apogee Press, Berkeley, and hi dde violeth i dde violet (2004). Nomados Press, Vancouver). A book of essays, Translating the Unspeakable, Poetryand the Innovative Necessity (1999), was published in the Contemporary Poetics Series, Univ. of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Fraser's Selected Poems, 1970-1995, il cuore : the heart (2000) , is available from Wesleyan University Press.
In 1973, Fraser founded The American Poetry Archives, during her tenure as Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University where she taught as Professor of Creative Writing from 1972-1992. Between 1983 and 1992, she published and edited HOW(ever), a journal for poets and scholars interested in modernist/ innovative directions in writing by 20th century women...continued as the electronic journal How2 <http://www.How2journal.com>
Fraser is winner of both Guggenheim and N.E.A. Fellowships in Poetry, as well as the Frank O'Hara Award (given by The New School (NYC), for innovative achievement in poetry. Fraser currently teaches a graduate seminar at CCA in the Fall and lives for five months of each year in Rome, Italy, lecturing on American poetry and translating the work of Italian poets.
BEN MCCOY BIO FORTHCOMING
WILLIAM HOWE BIO FORTHCOMING
SAWAKO NAKAYASU was born in Yokohama, Japan, and has lived mostly in the US since the age of six. Her first book, So we have been given time Or (Verse, 2004) was selected for the 2003 Verse Prize, and her hockey love poems have been collected in Clutch (Tinfish, 2002). Online publications include Balconic (Duration, 2003), and Nothing fictional but accuracy or arrangement (she (Faux, 2003). She edits Factorial, as well as the Translation section for HOW2. She is a 2003 recipient of the US-Japan Creative Artists Program Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
T-GINA KAMENTSKY: After receiving a BSID. from Philadelphia College of Art where I developed a line of innovative infant toys for my Senior Thesis, I began working as a designer for Fisher Price Toys in Buffalo New York. During my tenure there I produced a number of award winning toys for preschool children. In 1985, feeling limited by the corporate world and the art scene in Western New York I moved to Boston’s vibrant Fort Point art community where I set up shop as an independent Toy and Game inventor.
http://www.ginakamentsky.com/
MADDIE BLAUSTEIN BIO'S forthcoming.
JACKSON MAC LOW was the winner of many awards, including the Wallace Stevens. He was a poet; a composer; a writer of performance pieces, essays, plays, and radio works; and a painter and multimedia performance artist. He read, exhibited, performed and has been broadcast in North America, Europe, and New Zealand. ANNE TARDOS is a poet, a visual artist and a composer. Her books of multilingual poems and graphics include The Dik-dik's Solitude and A Noisy Nightingale Understands the Tiger's Camouflage Totally. She has lectured and performed widely in the U.S. and Europe. She met Jackson Mac Low in 1975; the two lived and worked together from 1978 until his death in 2004.
Jackson Mac Low's web site
Anne Tardos's web site
JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ has made over forty short experimental films, and numerous film installation pieces. He has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, and at various festivals including the London Film Festival, the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Denver Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, and elsewhere. His short film Reverie was shown on the Sundance Channel in November 2002. Another short work, Moving Images - the Film-Makers’ Cooperative relocates, received Honorable Mentions from the Thaw02 Film & Video Festival and NY Short Film Expo, and was awarded a silver plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival. He teaches filmmaking at the New School.
www.joelschlemowitz.com
Brooklyn's LOUDMOUTH COLLECTIVE bio forthcoming