Author index
Michael T. Young
Some travel moments that remain with Michael T. Young are enjoying a bottle of wine with friends in Luxembourg Gardens, sipping scotch on a balcony overlooking The French Quarter in New Orleans, and placing a pen at Joseph Brodsky’s grave in Venice’s San Michele. He has received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a William Stafford Award and the Chaffin Poetry Award, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Barrow Street, Iodine Poetry Review, The Potomac Review, and The Same.
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Renewing My Passport • Issue 13 | September 2011Lisa Marie Basile
Lisa Marie Basile, a Brooklyn-based poet and writer, is the founding editor and publisher of Patasola Press. She reads poetry for Weave Magazine, performs with the Poetry Brothel as Luna Liprari, is an M.F.A. candidate at The New School, and is in love with the sea. You can find her work at elimae, Moon Milk Review, and Pear Noir! Lisa is currently writing a collection based on her experiences in Barcelona, which she visited for the first time in July 2011.
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Barcelona • Issue 13 | September 2011Paige Riehl
Paige Riehl is accident prone, having accidentally boiled all her whites with one black sock in Ireland, swam above a shark in the Great Barrier Reef, consumed tap water in Morocco, and backpacked around seventeen countries. You can find her poetry now or forthcoming in publications such as Avatar Review, Blood Orange Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, and Word Riot, to name a few.
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Meeting An Old Lover • Issue 13 | September 2011Holly Case
Holly Case teaches history at Cornell University. Her first book, Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II, was published in 2009 and has over three and a half times as many endnotes (1,192) as it has pages (324). This ratio has absolutely no bearing on the quality of the work.
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From the Great Plains to the Bosporus: How Two Private Libraries Converged • Issue 13 | September 2011Samantha Hall
Born in New York City, Samantha Hall moved to Australia when she was two, and back to the USA when she was seven. She studies currently at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, but has also studied at the Universite d’Avignon in southern France, and has spent an extensive amount of time travelling through other parts of Europe. Among her favorite destinations are the French Alps, where she went sledding, and Italy, where she was kicked out of a number of Catholic churches for daring to wear shorts.
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Avignonnaïse • Issue 13 | September 2011Casey Thayer
Casey Thayer has done stints all over the Upper Midwest—Fargo, Madison, Chicago, tucked in an inlet in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula—and hopped overseas a few times. But he dreams to someday return to Denmark to spend more time exploring Copenhagen. He has published poems in American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. He teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Rock County.
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Félicitations • Issue 13 | September 2011Rachel Bunting
Rachel Bunting was born and raised in Southern New Jersey, but has slept next to a fountain in Bruges, on the lawn of a castle in Heidelberg, under the span of a bridge in Amsterdam, and in a very comfortable chair in Norman Mailer’s living room. Her next travel adventure will include not sleeping at Taqueria Cancun in San Francisco. Her poems can be found in Boxcar Poetry Review, Muzzle Magazine and Weave.
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Suppose You Were a Clone • Issue 13 | September 2011Laura Sobbott Ross
Laura Sobbott Ross was born in Mississippi by way of Venezuela. She lives on a peninsula, but loves islands, including St. Lucia, Grenada, and Bora Bora, where she got married. She hopes one day to visit Greece and Patagonia. Her poetry appears in Calyx, Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Tar River Poetry, and The Valparaiso Review, among others. Read her chapbook, A Tiny Hunger by Yellow Jacket Press.
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Two Poems by Laura Sobbott Ross • Issue 13 | September 2011Suzanne Marie Hopcroft
Suzanne Marie Hopcroft is a PhD student in Comparative Literature who writes from New York City. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in elimae, Everyday Genius > kill author, PANK, and Right Hand Pointing. She teaches developmental reading at a community college in the Bronx and wants very badly to get back to Paris, where people are kind enough to put up with her mediocre French.
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Turnover • Issue 13 | September 2011Richard Schiffman
A writer and former journalist for National Public Radio, Richard Schiffman is based in New York. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, The North American Review, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and many others. Read his Spiritual Poetry Portal.
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Prayer Boats • Issue 13 | September 2011Sonya Bilocerkowycz
Sonya is an ethnic Ukrainian, originally from the Black Hills of South Dakota, with a B.A. in English from the University of Dayton, Ohio. She has a special affinity for the cities of Eastern Europe and beets.
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One Night on Lake Bled • Issue 13 | September 2011Sarah J. Sloat
Sarah J. Sloat remembers collecting stamps before the days of e-. She remembers being allowed to smoke in the office, the back rows of the cinema, and on airplanes. If she could, she’d choose Philadelphia over New York, but for a long time she’s lived across the Atlantic perfecting her German grammar. Sarah’s poems have appeared in Court Green, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and RHINO. Her chapbook, “Excuse me while I wring this long swim out of my hair,” is due in 2011 from Dancing Girl Press.
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Two poems by Sarah J. Sloat • Issue 4 | April 2009Two Poems by Sarah J. Sloat • Issue 12 | June 2011
South Africa • Issue 7 | November 2009
Attending the Tasting • Issue 5 | June 2009
Janice D. Soderling
Janice D. Soderling time travels in a Swedish landscape replete with leavings from the Ice Age, the agrarian Stone Age, the Iron Age of the Vikings and medieval times. A former contributor to the Literary Bohemian, her work has appeared most recently at dotdotdash (Australia) and Studio (Canada). She has received Blue Unicorn‘s Harold Witt Memorial Award.
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Two Poems by Janice D. Soderling • Issue 12 | June 2011Nashville • Issue 11 | January 2011
Wanderlust • Issue 3 | February 2009
Vanitas • Issue 1 | November 2008
On Naxos • Issue 5 | June 2009
Andrew Kuhn
In his knockaround days, Andy Kuhn fixed up an abandoned building, ran a firewood business, worked as a tutor and a journalist, and traveled in Africa and India. Now a psychologist, he lives with his family in the New York area, and enjoys exploring with them.You can find his work in The Chimaera.
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Two Poems by Andrew Kuhn • Issue 12 | June 2011Carol Light
Carol Light has sliced and transected the U.S. in station wagons, from Texas to North Dakota, from Tampa to Seattle, and from Port Townsend to Vermont. Whenever she can, she spends summers writing in Italy, and aspires to further adventures in Ireland and India. You can find her work in Mare Nostrum, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner.
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Prairie Sure • Issue 12 | June 2011Megan Falley
Megan Falley once lived in New Zealand for six months. Her work has been published by Danse Macabre, The Legendary, and PANK, but you can usually find her subjecting her art to numerical judgment at poetry slams in NYC. She currently bags groceries and works as the “floral section leader” at a trendy supermarket, and is actively looking to create a synonym for the word “dream.”
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new york craigslist > personals > missed connections> • Issue 12 | June 2011Kendall L. witherspoon
Kendall L. Witherspoon has never won a Pushcart but once pushed one in Nosara, Costa Rica, where he searched for the great American short story and the elusive jaguarundi. A creative director and graduate of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, his design work has appeared in Communication Arts Magazine and has sold everything from piston rings to magicians. He’s a self-taught writer and this is his first publication.
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Two Poems by Kendall L. Witherspoon • Issue 12 | June 2011Edmond Menchavez
Edmond Menchavez, born in the Philippines, is the son of a gamecock farmer. He used to breakdance at Coney Island for rent, and now scooters through nor’easters to attend Boston College Law. Recently, he and his buddies eluded a knife-wielding gang in Negril, Jamaica. He has released one chapbook titled Still, Weightless, an Outlaw Star.
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Hot, or Why I Boogie • Issue 12 | June 2011Jean L. Kreiling
Jean L. Kreiling’s poems have appeared in 14 by 14, The Evansville Review, The Formalist, Mezzo Cammin, Think, and elsewhere; she herself has appeared in fewer countries than she would like. A Professor of Music at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, she frequently travels to conferences, family reunions, and beaches.
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Key West or Bust • Issue 12 | June 2011Michele Lesko
Michele Lesko has travelled to many of the world’s most well-known cities (London, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, Honolulu & Manhattan) but found her trip to Tokyo with her sons, ages two & sixteen, to visit her eldest son, age seventeen, to be the most profound travel experience of her life. Her poetry & short stories have been published in The Avatar Review, Pedestal Magazine, Soundzine, The Southern California Review, and The Yalobousha Review.
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A Tufted Titmouse • Issue 12 | June 2011Melissa Carroll
Melissa Carroll learned samba from a gorgeous Brazilian bartender in his Buzios apartment, slept in an Australian cattle field, and once found a $50 bill in Brooklyn after slipping on a patch of New Years Eve ice. Her chapbook The Karma Machine won the Peter Meinke Prize and has been published by YellowJacket Press. She has been published in Barely South Review, Blood Lotus Journal, The Splinter Generation, and others. She is currently a poetry editor for Sweet: a Literary Confection and a nonfiction editor for Saw Palm Journal.
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Cantina • Issue 12 | June 2011Donna Vorreyer
Donna Vorreyer has traveled with her family to every continent except Antarctica and boasts an impressive collection of memories, including an excellent scar from a mountain bike crash in the Himalayas. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Cider Press Review, New York Quarterly, qarrtsiluni, and Rhino. Her first chapbook, Womb/Seed/Fruit, debuted from Finishing Line Press in 2010.
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Navigation • Issue 11 | January 2011Sarah Kay
Sarah Kay is a NYC-based poet whose work has taken her uptown, downtown, and out of town. Her work has been published in DamselfFly Press, decomP, Foundling Review, and others. She has performed poetry in the UK, the Czech Republic, India, and South Africa, as well as all over the U.S. Sarah is the Founder and Director of Project V.O.I.C.E. which promotes creative self-expression among high school and college students through writing and Spoken Word workshops.
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Peacocks (excerpt) • Issue 12 | June 2011Brooks Rexroat
Brooks Rexroat lives and teaches writing in Cincinnati, Ohio, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He spent the early months of 2010 learning why backpackers carry backpacks—not oversized suitcase, laptop satchel, and guitar—during a twenty-three country circuit of Europe that stretched from Ireland to Estonia and from Ukraine to Sweden. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Cleveland Review, The Montreal Review, and Weave Magazine.
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Legacy • Issue 13 | September 2011Jessica Adams
Several years ago, Jessica Adams left San Francisco Bay aboard a small engineless sailboat bound for Mexico. She received her PhD in English from Tulane University and has written and co-edited a number of books and essays on the literature and culture of the U.S. South.
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Hotel • Issue 11 | January 2011Matthew Zanoni Muller
Matthew Zanoni Muller was born in Bochum, Germany, but grew up mostly in the US. His travels have taken him to Europe, South America, and the Caribbean, but he now calls upstate New York home. You can find his work at The Legendary, Orion Headless, Spilling Ink Review, or visit him here.
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Midnight Voices • Issue 11 | January 2011Stephen Harvey
Stephen Harvey explores the overlap of poetry and medicine as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University (getting sleepy yet?). He travels with his wife every chance he gets.
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Market in Marseilles • Issue 11 | January 2011Lisa Allen Ortiz
Lisa Allen Ortiz has been shot at on the mountains of Peru and held by INTERPOL on suspicion of drug smuggling in Columbia, but all the good times have been in Paris. Her work has appeared on Verse Daily or in the Comstock Review, Crab Creek Review, Zyzzyva and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Turns Out, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Press (2011).
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Manifest • Issue 11 | January 2011Helen Vitoria
Helen Vitoria, born in Greece, raised in NYC, visited Paris six times, lived there for a year and believes Bassett Hounds come from a planet yet undiscovered. She now lives and writes in Effort, Pennsylvania, and her work can be found in The Dirty Napkin, Gigantic Sequins, Monkeybicycle, PANK, wicked alice and many others.
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[PostScript] • Issue 11 | January 2011Ian Khadan
Ian Khadan was born in Georgetown, Guyana. His poetry has been featured in The Eudaimonia Poetry Review, The Foundling Review, and SUSS. In his spare time he bathes with manatees and likes to pretend he’s a lion.
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Raising the Dead • Issue 11 | January 2011Daniel Aristi
Born in Spain in 1971, Daniel moved overseas in 1997. He’s usually involved in do-goodery of different types in places such as the Balkans, Bolivia, Darfur, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Lesotho, etc. You can find his work at Black Cat Poems.
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The White Village • Issue 11 | January 2011Ani Gjika
Born and raised in Albania and married to an Indian poet, Ani Gjika transfered to the U.S. at 18 and is currently a teaching fellow at Boston University, pursuing an MFA in poetry. She is the recipient of a 2010 Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and a 2010 Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize for her translations from the Albanian of poems by Luljeta Lleshanaku. Gjika’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in MIPOesias, Salamander, Seneca Review, Stirring: A Literary Collection and elsewhere.
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Two Poems by Ani Gjika • Issue 11 | January 2011Allan Johnston
Allan Johnston’s recent trips have taken him to southern California (where he grew up—his wife and he hiked to Skull Rock), Vermont (where they tried to get to the top of mountains, but always got rained out), and Montpellier, France. You can find his work in Poetry, Poetry East, Rattle and Rhino.
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Grape Cluster • Issue 10 | September 2010Joshua Michael Stewart
Joshua Michael Stewart was born in Sandusky, Ohio, but has lived in western Massachusetts since 1998. He likes to drive throughout New England, where he has (almost) struck a bear, many deer, and a famous folk singer. Joshua’s poems have been published in Georgetown Review, Massachusetts Review, Rattle, William and Mary Review, and Worcester Review. Visit him here.
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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis • Issue 11 | January 2011Adam Falkner
Adam Falkner is a poet, musician, high school English/Creative Writing teacher and former Michael Jackson dance-off champion – although he will probably deny the latter of those if asked. Published in anthologies and journals including decomP Magazine, The Esu Review, The Other Journal, Adam’s poems have been featured on HBO, BET, Michigan and New York Public Radio and in Time Out New York. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Macy’s, 2007 • Issue 10 | September 2010Caroline Klocksiem
Caroline Klocksiem has been consumed by shrimp, grits, and biscuits in her home state of South Carolina, Atlanta’s Krispy Kreme donut milkshake, Seattle’s Thanksgiving pumpkin cheesecake, cannolis from Ferrara’s in NYC, lobster rolls from the Williamsburg Snack Shack, eggplant parm at this little place in Boston’s North End that’s now closed, fresh tomatoes in Venice, gnocchi with walnut cream sauce in Florence, farm fresh Slovenian eggs, avocados and blue potatoes from the Guadalupe Market in Arizona, seafood stew on her honeymoon in Cancun, and her husband’s mint juleps in steamy Alabama, where she lives now.
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Boise City, Oklahoma • Issue 10 | September 2010Mandy Berman
Mandy Berman recently returned from teaching English and Math to AIDS orphans in Malawi, Africa. She currently writes for the online travel guide, Dguides.com, and blogs at prettierworld.blogspot.com. She is currently teaching English in the Dordogne region of France.
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Grammar Lesson • Issue 10 | September 2010Moriah Cohen
A native of New Jersey who travels less often she’d like, Moriah Cohen has a nomad’s heart, having visited Israel, Ireland, England, and Paris. She recently received her MFA from Rutgers-Newark University.
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Because He Was Driving • Issue 10 | September 2010Jennifer Moore
Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, but has lived in Colorado, California, Utah and Pennsylvania. She currently spends her time in Chicago, Illinois, where she is a PhD candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has work published or forthcoming in 14 Hills, Barrow Street, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southampton Review and elsewhere.
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[I went to the city, came back with Technicolor] • Issue 10 | September 2010Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust’s recent poetry appears widely in journals including Hudson Review, Margie, North American Review, and Spoon River Review. These poems will appear in God, Seed (Tebot Bach Press, September 2010). Visit her here.
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Two poems by Rebecca Foust • Issue 10 | September 2010Annabella Massey
Annabella Massey has spent three years of her life in China, and has traveled extensively round Europe and South-East Asia. Now in her second year reading English Literature and Creative Writing at Warwick University (UK), Annabella was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2006 and has been published in Pomegranate Poetry and Cadaverine Magazine.
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The Well • Issue 11 | January 2011Arlan Hess
Arlan Hess once took a freighter from Montreal to London—an experience she recommends to all travelers. More recently, she has taken a book binding class in Siena, seen U2 in Dublin, and gone whale watching in Bermuda. You can find her work in Connotation Press, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Thirty-First Bird Review.
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Long Distance • Issue 11 | January 2011Paul Hostovsky
Paul Hostovsky’s poems have won a Pushcart Prize, and the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from The Comstock Review. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Almanac and Best of the Net 2008 and 2009. His most recent book of poems is Dear Truth (2009, Main Street Rag). Visit him here.
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Italian Cuisine • Issue 10 | September 2010Praha • Issue 10 | September 2010
Karen Rigby
Karen Rigby was born nine degrees north of the equator, and has visited countries such as China, Hong Kong, and Costa Rica. Her sojourns have taken her to Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Arizona, where she currently resides. A recipient of an NEA literature fellowship, and co-editor of Cerise Press, Karen’s poems have been published in failbetter.com and Canteen, among other journals. Visit her here.
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Monument • Issue 10 | September 2010Jacqueline West
Jacqueline West lives amid the bluffs of eastern Minnesota. Her favorite trips involve opportunities to explore crumbly old cemeteries and drink lots of unusual coffee. Her work has appeared in places such as flashquake, Inkwell Journal, The Pedestal Magazine, and St. Ann’s Review. You can find Jacqueline here.
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Two poems by Jacqueline West • Issue 9 | May 2010Gabrielle Clover
Gabrielle Clover is a traveller by day and a writer by night. She has lived in the Mexican mountains, the Australian outback, and is currently collecting stories as she travels through Europe.
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The Death of Mr Bombastic, Borroloola, Australia • Issue 10 | September 2010Michael Morical
Michael Morical is a freelance editor in Taipei. He has lived in Taiwan for twelve of the last twenty-five years. He has also spent extended periods in India, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and China.
His poetry has appeared in The New York Quarterly, The Pedestal Magazine, Rattapallax, and other journals. His first chapbook, Sharing Solitaire, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2008.
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The Belle of Osaka • Issue 10 | September 2010Sally Molini
Sally Molini has seen parts of Asia, been south of the border, and got lost briefly in the San Gorgonio forest, but has never seen the inside of a lot of things. She is co-editor for Cerise Press, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Diagram, elimae, Rattle, and Southern Humanities Review.
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Spring squared to the small • Issue 9 | May 2010Tara Deal
Tara Deal is a writer and editor who recently returned to New York City after living in London, where one of the highlights was the fast train to Paris. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Wander Luster (Finishing Line Press) and the novella Palms Are Not Trees After All, winner of the 2007 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press. Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as failbetter.com, nthposition and West Branch. Visit her website.
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Shoulder Season • Issue 9 | May 2010Matthew James Babcock
Matthew James Babcock travels in small circles in Idaho, where he teaches writing and lives with his wife and five children. He has been stranded in Wyoming, lost in Paris, and mixed up in a stolen car chase in England. A Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award recipient in 2008, and winner of Press 53’s Open Awards, his writing has appeared in PANK, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Terrain, to name a few. His book, Private Fire: The Ecopoetry and Prose of Robert Francis, will be published by the University of Delaware Press in 2010.
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Sapphics for Brugge • Issue 10 | September 2010Cindy Hunter Morgan
Cindy Hunter Morgan loves topo maps, compasses, old boots, and clean socks. She has traveled in Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and Scotland, and once spent the night on a rocky cliff above the Mediterranean Sea, outside a village in the Peloponnese. In the morning, she rode to the train station in the back of an unmarked taxi, next to several chickens. At night, she sometimes runs her son’s model train to hear the rhythmic click of wheels on track, to see the lights glow in the cars, and to pretend she is tucked inside with her head pressed to the window, looking out at the dark landscape of her home. Her poems have appeared in Bateau,The Christian Science Monitor, The Driftwood Review, Tar River Poetry, and West Branch.
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Three poems by Cindy Hunter Morgan • Issue 9 | May 2010Kayla Washko
Kayla Washko has lived in the mountains her entire life: as a child growing up in west central Pennsylvania, as a student studying abroad in Cuzco, Peru, and now as a graduate student living in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh. She studies creative nonfiction at Chatham University. Her work has been published in the Road Less Traveled.
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Dragon Deluxe: Pre-Departure Tips • Issue 9 | May 2010E.S. Fletcher
E.S. Fletcher has been carrying on a torrid love affair with Guatemala for five years. She recently cheated on her beloved by visiting Panama, and she plans to cheat again by visiting Paris in the springtime. She will return to Guatemala, contrite, later this year. Despite her two-timing ways, E.S. is completing a book-length love letter to Guatemala. She earned her MFA in Writing at Hamline University in 2007.
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How to Lose Ten Pounds in Ten Days or Less • Issue 9 | May 2010Sue Burge
Sue Burge’s house is packed with exotica. She has immersed herself in hot springs on three continents, ridden horses, mules, camels, elephants and bicycles, and attended more wild and wonderful religious ceremonies than she can count. You can find Sue Burge’s poetry in Mslexia, Poetry in the Waiting Room, and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), as well as in two anthologies: Tales of Eastern Promise and Up to our Necks in it.
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Two poems by Sue Burge • Issue 8 | February 2010Cora Greenhill
Widely travelled in Europe, Africa and USA, Cora Greenhill constantly returns to inspirational Crete. Her poems have appeared in The Interpreters House, Staple, and Tears in the Fence, as well as anthologies. Read her book, Deep in Time (Dreadful Work Press, 1999).
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Summer is • Issue 8 | February 2010Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards’ memoir, Breaking into the Backcountry, chronicles the seven months he lived in the Oregon wilderness alone in 2001 and is due out in October, 2010. Steve has published poetry and fiction in The Cream City Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Passages North, and Sou’wester. Having just recently become a father, most of his travels right now are back through time—to his own childhood.
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Honeymoon • Issue 8 | February 2010Sheila Wild
Sheila Wild, an unashamed but ethical tourist, has come nose-to-nose with Bandhavgarh’s biggest tiger and interviewed the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. She has also travelled to Indiana, Johannesburg and the entire east coast of Australia. She has had works published in Obsessed with Pipework, The Rialto, and Writers Inc.
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Two poems by Sheila Wild • Issue 8 | February 2010Susanna Rich
Susanna Rich is a bilingual Hungarian-American, a Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing to Hungary, a Collegium Budapest fellow and a Professor of English at Kean University, New Jersey. An Emmy Award nominee for her baseball poetry in Craig Linvahl’s documentary, Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark, Susanna is on tour with two poetry performances, Television Daddy and The Drive Home, both directed by Kennedy-Center-Award-winning Ernest Wiggins. Susanna is author of two poetry collections, Television Daddy and The Drive Home.
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Two poems by Susanna Rich • Issue 8 | February 2010Margaret Foley
Margaret Foley tries to pack light when she travels, but she always ends up bringing one too many pairs of shoes. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is an editor at Oregon Home Magazine. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, Ilya’s Honey, and Opium Magazine. She would like to go back to India someday, but doesn’t feel the need to repeat a train trip she took in 1991 from Warsaw to Moscow in February in an unheated train compartment.
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Getting Away With It • Issue 9 | May 2010Neil McCarthy
Neil McCarthy has been on the run from Ireland for the best part of a decade, writing and reading, flirting and boozing in places as tourist-friendly as Bolivia, Mongolia, and Russia. He has lived in Australia, China and Finland and has had poems published in the The Dalhousie Review, New York Quarterly, and Poetry Salzburg Review, to name a few. He is currently in financial exile in Vienna, Austria, waiting to meet a rich woman with a bad cough.
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Two poems by Neil McCarthy • Issue 8 | February 2010Natalie Parker-Lawrence
Natalie Parker-Lawrence’s is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. She lives in midtown Memphis in a 100-year-old house. Natalie’s new full-length play is a collection of non-fiction monologues about insomnia, Cover Me at Dawn. Her essays have been published in The Commercial Appeal, The Pinch ,Tata Nacho Press, and World History Bulletin.
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Channeling Ferlinghetti’s ‘Autobiography’ • Issue 8 | February 2010Judy Swann
Judy Swann is a born-again Venetian presently living in gorgeous Ithaca, NY. A working-class dancer, Judy’s poetry has been published in Lilliput Review, Thema, and elsewhere.
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Postcard from Texas • Issue 8 | February 2010T (Teresa) Stores
On sabbatical from her faculty position at the University of Hartford, T (Teresa) Stores currently lives in southern France with her partner and children and chronicles their life in a blog. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and has been supported by grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Fund. Stores won the 2009 Kore Press Short Fiction Award for her novel, Frost Heaves.
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The Mayor Meets an American Princess • Issue 9 | May 2010Benjamin C. Krause
Benjamin C. Krause has consorted with hippies in Goa, chatted with call center cubicle workers in Bengaluru, and been thrown out of a discotheque in Puducherry. He speaks enough Kannada to buy ten packets of gutkha, a pack of Classics, or one of three types of paan. He’s been published in Boston Literary Magazine, Calliope Nerve, Counterexample Poetics, Foundling Review, and Tipton Poetry Journal.
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All Indians Love Gandhi • Issue 8 | February 2010Haley Larson
When Haley Larson was twenty, she backpacked alone through eleven countries, where she hiked up (and fell down) the bulbous slopes of Montserrat, slept on frosty ship decks from Croatia to Italy to Greece, and got reprimanded by Bosnian border guards about her age, gender and general aloneness. Her reviews and interviews appear in Rattle and Superstition Review. Her father speaks to her in German, and she currently pursues her MFA in poetry at Colorado State University.
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Lisbon Holds a Prisoner One Night • Issue 8 | February 2010Mahogany L. Browne
Mahogany Browne, host and curator at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, is a Cave Canem Fellow who facilitates performance poetry and writing workshops throughout the country. She owns an on-line marketing and distribution company for poets. Mahogany is editor of His Rib: Stories, Poems & Essays by HER and author of Destroy Rebuild & Other Reconstructions of the Human Muscle. She has released five LPs, including the live album, Sheroshima. These Brooklyn Tongue poems are from the forthcoming collection, SWAG (Penmanship Books).
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Four poems by Mahogany L. Browne • Issue 8 | February 2010Aditya Shankar
Aditya Shankar is originally from Kerala, India, and is a bi-lingual writer and film-maker whose short films have garnered him nominations for animation awards. His first book, After Seeing, is a series of poems based on cinema. Currently, he lives and works in Cochin as the Creative Director of D3V Games, a game and animation development studio. He writes in English and Malayalam, and has published poetry and articles in numerous places, including The Little Magazine.
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Travelling Long to Inform a Friend’s Death • Issue 8 | February 2010Jennifer Abbott
Jennifer Abbott lives in New Orleans and has an MFA in poetry from the University of Arkansas. Her poems have been published in Babel Fruit and elsewhere.
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Gavage (and the Stress of Flying These Days) • Issue 8 | February 2010Cristina Querrer
Cristina Querrer has traveled far and wide but never enough. She is working towards her MFA in Creative Writing while living in a bungalow in Palm Harbor, Florida with her children and Athena, an Australian Shepard mix. Her works have appeared in literary magazines such as The Adirondack Review, The Fairfield Review, The Mom Egg, and in Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Home Front, and Field of Mirrors:A New Anthology of Philippine American Writers.
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Advice to a Friend • Issue 9 | May 2010Hugh Fox
Hugh Fox has been everywhere and done everything, and he’s not finished. Born in Chicago in1932, he contracted polio at age 5 but was cured with pre-Saulk experimental medicine. He’s published more than 100 books and his bibliography runs more than 100 pages. Fox was a founding board member of the Pushcart Prize, editor of avant-garde literary magazine, Ghost Dance, and founder of an organization for little magazines and small presses ,COSMEP. He has reviewed thousands of chapbooks, magazines and books, and is the author of the first critical study of Charles Bukowski. He has a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a professor at Michigan State University in the Department of American Thought and Language from 1968 until his retirement in 1999.
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Then • Issue 8 | February 2010Ksenia Rychtycka
Ksenia Rychtycka has backpacked through twelve countries in Europe, rescued a wayward parakeet on a winter morning in Ukraine, and received a private viewing of the Dafni Monastery mosaics thanks to a very kind Greek caretaker. Ksenia’s work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Dalhousie Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Wisconsin Review and Yellow Medicine Review. She has recently completed Crossing The Border, a collection of short stories.
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Train Ride to Zagreb • Issue 8 | February 2010John Buckley & Martin Ott
John is a relative newcomer, having been published in about a half-dozen periodicals. Martin has been published all over and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. John has traveled to Italy, Panama, Thailand, and multiple times to Manila, proud capital of the Philippines. As a head of global marketing, Martin has taken business trips all over the planet. Both of them would like to publish and travel more.
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The Wave of the Wichita Wedding • Issue 13 | September 2011Bridget Gage-Dixon
Bridget Gage-Dixon is a frustrated traveler who longs to explore more but is limited by lack of funds. Four years ago she made a New Year’s resolution to see a new place every year. Thus far she has been to Baltimore, Camden, Cooperstown, Las Vegas, and Shenandoah National Park.
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Touring Shenandoah with My Husband • Issue 7 | November 2009John Byrne
John Byrne is an American-Irish citizen, and currently lives in Oregon. His short stories and poems have been published most recently in Centrifugal Eye, Naugutuck River Review, and Umbrella Journal. This piece is a product of two recent trips to France and his last extended stay in Ireland.
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This Map • Issue 7 | November 2009Jon Sands
Jon Sands never runs into the animals he’s scared of, but the list includes grizzly bears, hornets, scorpions, and bull sharks. He landed in New York City a few years ago; the animals there aren’t nearly as frightening as they seem. He is director of poetry and arts education programming at the Positive Health Project, a needle exchange center in Midtown Manhattan.
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Two Poems by Jon Sands • Issue 8 | February 2010MaryAnn Franta Moenck
MaryAnn Franta Moenck has raised dust all over the American west, on the Greek Isles, and around the Great Lakes. Most recently, MaryAnn took a swim at the beach just outside the monastic grounds at Sagatagan Lake. Clouds gathered above, along with some large, dark birds. Before long, she was swimming beneath a circling kettle of twenty seven turkey vultures. As of this writing, she is still alive. Her recent or forthcoming poems can be found in Cimarron Review, Natural Bridge, and forthcoming in Water~Stone Review.
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Two poems by MaryAnn Franta Moenck • Issue 7 | November 2009Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Saunders is an American living in Bern, Switzerland, with her Swiss husband and their two Swiss-American sons. Even after ten years, the sight of the Eiger on a clear day can stop her in her tracks. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Asphalt Sky, Literary Mama, ouroboros review, and Umbrella Journal, and she still can’t believe she gets to write poems at the foot of the Swiss Alps.
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At a Poetry Reading in the Swiss Alps, Joachim Sartorius Speaks of Tunis • Issue 7 | November 2009Jeffrey C. Alfier
Jeffrey Alfier lives in Tucson, Arizona. His recent and forthcoming publication credits include New Madrid, Rattle, and Silk Road. He is co-editor of the San Pedro River Review.
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Any Ghost Town West of Omaha • Issue 7 | November 2009Wally Swist
Wally Swist’s recent poems appear in From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright (Lost Hills Books, 2007), and Puckerbrush Review, among others. A recipient of poetry fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Wally Swist has recently published Mount Toby Poems (Timberline Press, 2009).
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My Friends, the Bees • Issue 7 | November 2009Maryann Corbett
Maryann Corbett’s poems, essays, and translations can be found in Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, River Styx, and others. Lately she’s traveled a lot for family reasons both happy and sad, between her upper midwest home and destinations on the east coast.
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A Song for Departures • Issue 7 | November 2009Greta Bolger
Greta Bolger is a writer and photographer making the most of life in Michigan. Her recent publications include photography in The Raven Chronicles and Blue Print Review, and poetry in Contemporary Haibun Journal, Eclectica, and Juice Box.
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Senora Filo’s Washing Machine • Issue 7 | November 2009Arlene Ang
Arlene Ang is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being a collaborative work with Valerie Fox, Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (Texture Press, 2008). She lives in Spinea, Italy where she serves as staff editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. See more of her work here.
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The Lean Season • Issue 7 | November 2009Mary Langer Thompson
Born in Chicago, Mary Langer Thompson has traveled Route 66 to California where she lives today. She’s been to several countries in Europe and states in the U.S., including the real and the Las Vegas Venice and Paris. Her poetry appears in various journals and anthologies, most recently, Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009), J Journal, and Off the Coast.
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Allensworth, California • Issue 7 | November 2009Dalel Serda
Dalel Serda is an American renegade who made her way to Cuba over ten years ago to get lost in the backstreets of La Havana, to Norway to feel short among giants, to Turkey to be asked hundreds of times if she is Turkish because of the color of her skin and the thickness of her eyebrows. She’s an MFA candidate at the University of Texas-Pan American.
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Cambodia: How I Failed to be Good • Issue 7 | November 2009James S. Wilk
James S. Wilk is a physician in Denver, Colorado, specializing in medical disorders complicating pregnancy. His poems have recently appeared in 42 Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine, Measure, Pearl, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and others. His 2007 chapbook, Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies is available through Pudding House Press.
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Railroad Museum • Issue 6 | August 2009Mike Herndon
Mike Herndon has frequented, and been occasionally kicked out of many of the finest taverns and beer halls of Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, and, so he’s told, Mallorca. Now living in Mobile, Alabama, he has resolved to explore more of his own country and to be kicked out of fewer taverns. His fiction has been published in Aura, among other venues.
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Spring Break in Split, 1988 • Issue 7 | November 2009Fredrick Zydek
Fredrick Zydek is the author of eight collections of poetry and editor for Lone Willow Press. Formerly a professor of creative writing and theology at the University of Nebraska and later at the College of Saint Mary, his work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Cimarron Review, Nimrod, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. When he’s not writing or editing, he’s a gentleman farmer.
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Letter to Karla in Seattle • Issue 6 | August 2009Greetings from Fredrick • Issue 6 | August 2009
Peter Waldor
Peter Waldor’s Poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The Iowa Review and Mothering Magazine, among others. Over the years, he has spent many summers wandering around the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Open his Door to a Noisy Room (Alice James, 2008).
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Three Poems by Peter Waldor • Issue 6 | August 2009Jack Swenson
Jack Swenson’s travels have taken him to Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. He also spent a week one night in Perham, Minnesota. His scribblings have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Literary Magazine, Fiction at Work, Grey Sparrow, Pindeldyboz, and Weave.
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The Star of David • Issue 7 | November 2009W.F. Lantry
W. F. Lantry fought fire in California, nearly caused an avalanche at Isola 2000, and woke up to reindeer outside Kiruna. He put up stiff resistance against Texas fire ants, and killed the largest rattlesnake that ever lived, with his garden spade, just west of Mobile Bay. But he never faced actual danger until he moved inside the beltway. And you thought you had it rough!
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Metamorphoses • Issue 6 | August 2009Adam Shechter
Adam Shechter is from Unbrooklyn, the imperceptible imperialist brownstone aesthetic of 1989, Prospect Park West benches by Carroll Street. He is also the editor of the online journal, The Blue Jew Yorker. Recent publications include Exquisite Corpse and Ashe Journal. More at Adam’s personal site.
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From Paris, A Travel Misguide • Issue 6 | August 2009Sherry O’Keefe
Sherry O’Keefe, a descendant of one of the first Montana pioneers, a mother of two, sister to four, cousin to dozens, credits/blames her Irish upbringing for her story-telling ways and her collection of pocket rocks from all her back road and alley travels. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Avatar Review, Barnwood Poetry Review, Two Review, Soundzine and Main Street Rag. Her chapbook, Making Good Use of August, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She likes peanut butter/dill pickle sandwiches.
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Yellowtail Canyon • Issue 2 | December 2008Between Daisy and Lulu Pass • Issue 6 | August 2009
Deborah Diemont
For most of Deborah Diemont’s adult life, the word “traveled” and “lived” have coincided, her maximum stay in any location being three years. She has recently settled in Syracuse, New York, after three years living in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Her poems have appeared in The Evansville Review, Lucid Rhythms, The Texas Review, and other journals.
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Before You Go • Issue 12 | June 2011Getting Rich • Issue 6 | August 2009
Stephen Lefebure
Stephen Lefebure has been published mostly west of the Mississippi, and in places that leave more than one color of mud on your boots. His passion is for the stories told by the face of the earth. For that one need not always go far; it is perhaps more important to go deep.
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Shiprock • Issue 5 | June 2009Rachel Hoffman
Rachel Hoffman is a semi-recluse who, during an earlier incarnation, published a dozen articles in academic journals and one short story in Left Bank. A few trips to Africa, China, Japan, Central America, Europe, an Oregon Literary Arts fellowship for a novel-in-progress, and a couple of residencies later, she still itches for literary notoriety. She dreams of more travel.
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North to Burkina • Issue 6 | August 2009Rebecca Newton
Rebecca Newton has been a writer from a very young age. Her earliest attempts with the pen appeared in her grandparents’ mailbox in the form of illegible scrawl on scrap paper. In recent times, her writing has endured the scrutiny of a more critical audience among the faculty at College of the Ozarks where she is finishing her B.A. in English.
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An American in Athens, or In Ambelokipi, I Pretend I’m Greek • Issue 6 | August 2009Richard Spuler
Spuler’s poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines. For nearly twenty years he has served as Senior Lecturer in German at Rice University in Houston, TX. He enjoys music and reading.
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Getting There • Issue 6 | August 2009Lee Goodman
Lee Goodman attended Sarah Lawrence College, and received her MA and MFA from The University of Chicago and CSU Long Beach, respectively. Her work is forthcoming in PANK. She lives in California.
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The History of Western Medicine • Issue 6 | August 2009Ingrid Steblea
Long before Ingrid Steblea settled in the beautiful Happy Valley area of western Massachusetts, she and her husband and son traveled across the continental US by car. Ingrid’s poetry has appeared in Poem, Rattle, The Seattle Review, The Southern Anthology, and other journals, and she was the featured poet in the December 2008 edition of ouroboros review. She leads an online writers group and is currently working on a novel.
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Two poems by Ingrid Steblea • Issue 6 | August 2009Susan Koefod
Susan Koefod’s essays and poems have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines such as Midway Journal, Minnetonka Review, Snakeskin, The Talking Stick, and Tattoo Highway. While she is pleased report she has traveled widely to Europe, Scandinavia, and various parts of the U.S., she is proudest of her ability to pack everything she needs in a doubled Safeway bag.