Elaine Bentley Baughn is a (pick one) Feng Shui practitioner, psychotherapist, poet, gospel singer, survivor of the 60’s. Her first published poem was “Radicalization” printed in a paper called High Street in Oxford, OH, near where she grew up. She lived and worked in seven states and is now into her third career. Most recently, her poems have appeared in Bone (volumes 1 and 2) and Through Spider;s Eyes. She is the author of four chapbooks, the latest of which, Portraits and Landscapes, will be published shortly after she enters the 21st century.Her chapbook, “This Language River” was recently published by Ballard Street Press.
Julie Bolitho-Lee is from northern Michigan in the United States and she uses her hand as a map when pointing to her hometown. She currently lives in Oxford, England with her husband, Kwok, and their two dogs, Janie and Elu. She enjoys reading, writing, running and painting. She aspires to teach creative writing at the university level after receiving her graduate degrees.
Maryelizabeth Christine is a poet living in Kentucky with her daughter Lydia and husband Oz. She teaches writing part-time at Spalding University and Jefferson Community and Technical College. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Skinny Dipping, in 2009.
Mark DeCarterets’poems have appeared in AGNI, Caliban, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Hotel Amerika, Killing the Buddha, Mudfish, New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry East, Salt Hill, and Third Coast as well as the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader (Black Sparrow Press, 1999) and Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press) which I also co-edited. Work is also forthcoming in Boston Review, Coconut, failbetter and Salamander.
Richard Donnelly publishes poetry and fiction in a variety of venues including Apalachee Review, Queen's Quarterly, The Dos Passos Review, and others. He works as a financial manager in Minneapolis.
Kristina England lives in Worcester. She works as a Communications Specialist and enjoys running a local poetry workshop during the weekends. Ms. England received an M.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2005. Her poetry has appeared in Ballard Street Poetry Journal and The Dirty Napkin. She is also the new Assistant Editor to BSPJ.
Barry Hellman is a clinical psychologist and poet. His poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, broadsides, and as prize winners in poetry contests. He has founded and led writer's groups, currently hosts apoetry open mic at Eastham's Chapel In The Pines, is a featured reader at poetry venues, and is on the organizing committee of the Provincetown Poetry & Literary Arts Festival. He's a member of several writing groups on the outer Cape, and maintains a poetry website at http://home.comcast.net/~bmhellman .
Lesley Kimball is the recipient of an award for the collaborative project “Borderlands” in the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program’s “Voice and Vision “ public art project. The interactive poetry sculpture is permanently installed at the Portsmouth Public Library. She has also had poems appear in The Café Review, the anthologies The Other Side of Sorrow and The Longest Day, and the Spotlight Magazine. Lesley lives and writes in Portsmouth and is the Director of the Wiggin Memorial Library in Stratham, where “free poems” are handed out to the public every day.
Tom Þorgautr, originally from Worcester (the city inEngland) but has been living in Wales for the past few years. Most of his life he has been scribbling thoughts down and in recent years they have taken the shape of poems. Having recently had two poems accepted for publication in The Tipton Poetry Journal. Every few days he is inspired enough to grab a notepad and pen and either climb a hill to escape the mist, or sit on the harbour wall to wallow in the thick of it.
Pamela Starr grew up in New Jersey and has lived and worked in Massachusetts for the last 35 years. She’s been an editor, technical writer, as well as a project manager while raising a family, and is currently enrolled in the graduate program in English at University of Massachusetts in Boston. She attends a poetry workshop in Worcester and is a member of the Concord Poetry Center. She has published previously in small magazines, including Negative Capability.
JodiAnn Stevenson is the founder and editor of Binge Press and Productions. Her work has appeared in various journals including Silverfish Review, Mangrove, and many others.
Josh Thompson is a poet and short story writer from New York City. His work has appeared in The Coe Review, The Ugly Tree, Thick With Conviciton and Poetry Superhighway, among others. He is twenty-eight and is still trying to perfect the short poem and make Richard Brautigan proud.
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