Elaine Bentley Baughn, a Kentucky-born poet living in Norwich, CT, is a psychotherapist, Feng Shui consultant, and believer in magic. She has read her work at Arts Cafe ~ Mystic, the Poet's Asylum, and the Green Mill as well as sundry other art galleries, back rooms, and street corners. She has been published in several journals, among them are Coal: a poetry anthology, High Street, Gone, Thru Spider’s Eyes, Moon Journal, and the Ballard Street Poetry Journal and has had the joy of facilitating poetry workshops for BSPJ. She has no sense of humor whatsoever.
Samuel Biagetti grew up in Maryland. He studied poetry with Peter Gale Nelson and Robert Creeley at Brown University, where he graduated with a degree in history. He currently lives in Providence and is applying to graduate schools.
Martha Christina lives in Bristol, Rhode Island, where she previously taught at Roger Williams University. Her work appeared recently or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Tar River Poetry, Brevities, and Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine.
Michael Fisher was born in Agawam, MA. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College and a BA in English from Anna Maria College. His poems have appeared in Alehouse, Common Ground Review, and 5 A.M. He lives in Worcester with his wife Brenda.
The work of Marguerite Keil Flanders has appeared in The Boston Review, Comstock Review, Yankee Magazine, Nimrod, and Margie: The American Journal of Poetry.
R. Joyce Heon chases poems amongst the dust kitties when she isn't rafting the snow melt in her cellar.
Carle Johnson is treasurer of the Worcester County Poetry Association and hosts the Worcester Barnes & Noble Bookstore Open Mic. He also facilitates the Sugden Writers Workshop in Spencer, Massachusetts. His poetry has appeared in Concrete Wolf, Sahara, and The Worcester Review, among others.
Dave Keali’i is a Springfield, MA, born poet who now resides in Worcester, MA. He has been published in The November 3rd Club, Ashe, and Look Up In The Sky!- An Anthology Of Comic Book Poems( Ryk McIntyre and Melissa Guillet editors. 2007). He attends various readings and poetry slams in the New England region and is rumored to possibly have dominion over the island of Rapa Nui.
Priscilla Long was honored with a 2006 National Magazine Award for best feature writing for “Genome Tome,” which appeared in The American Scholar. Her work also appears in Ontario Review, Under the Sun, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Seattle Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Raven Chronicles, Passages North, The Chattahoochee Review, First Intensity, Michigan Quarterly Review, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. She is author of Where the Sun Never Shines: a History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry (Paragon House, 1989). Other awards include The Journal’s Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Richard Hugo House Founder’s Award, awards from the Seattle and Los Angeles arts commissions, and the Mary Roberts Reinhart Fund poetry award. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington, teaches writing, and serves as Senior Editor of the online encyclopedia of Washington state history, www.historylink.org .
Anesa Miller is a student in the creative writing program at the University of Idaho. Her prior education is in Russian language and literature. Her poems have appeared in The Texas Review, IRIS, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and The Connecticut River Review. She has work forthcoming in Margie, Nimrod, California Quarterly, and the Southern Humanities Review. In past years she studied with Amherst Writers & Artists and received a creative writing fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council.
Carolee Sherwood has a degree in journalism, and is currently enrolled in an expressive arts training program. She lives in a rural community in Upstate New York with several pets, three kids and only one husband. Managing to write in the midst of that chaos, her essays have appeared in local publications and on local public radio, and her poetry has been published in regional outlets, including “other: ______” (a production of the Albany Poets) and an online zine womensynergy. She does a small amount of freelance writing and authors the blog “Polka-Dot Witch.” (www.polkadotwitch.wordpress.com).
Michael Spring is a British writer who works in a small corporate design agency in west London. Just recently, he's had more time to write, something he promised himself he would do years ago, but never got around to it. He’s had fiction and poetry published in small press magazines in the UK, USA and Canada..
The poetry of Monique Surdyka has appeared in Sahara as well as these Polish-American newspapers: White Eagle, Nowy Dziennik, Polished News, and the Canadian GazetaGazeta. She was a recipient of the Annual Golden Pen Contest.
Laurence W. Thomas has published books of poetry, humor, and creative nonfiction. He lectures annually at the Lucidity Poetry Retreat in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and conducts a poetry critiquing group at Borders Books in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He edits the literary arts journal, Third Wednesday.
Davide Trame lives in Venice, Italy and is an Italian teacher of English. His poetry collection “Re-emerging” is published as en e-mail book by www.gattopublishing.com. He has been writing exclusively in English since 1993.
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