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Contributors Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal Dr.Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal is a Lecturer in English at a P.G.College of India, and translates English works into Hindi and Hindi works into English. Featured work: Godhara, Tempest of Passion Magdalena Alagna Magdalena Alagna is an editor and a freelance writer who lives and works in New York City. Featured work: How I Became a Single Woman Tracy C. Alston Tracy C. Alston is a passionate writer and compassionate lawyer living in Washington, D.C. with her daughter. Her poetic works have appeared in various publications. Featured work: Everything Blue Richard Ammon For more information, see Richard Ammon's Web site, GlobalGayz.com, a Webplace of Worldwide Gay Life, Sites and Insights for Curious Minds and Thoughtful Voyagers. Featured work: Gay Shanghai                       Gay Switzerland Arlene Ang Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy, as a freelance translator, volunteer Web designer, part-time poet, and occasional writer. She is also the editor of the Italian Niederngasse. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals, including Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online, Rattle, and Oyster Boy Review. Featured work: Morning After, Black Cat Snow White and the Seventh Dwarf, se solamente ti ripenso Kate Baldus Kate Baldus is a writer, lexicographer, and teacher, who lives in New York City. Her travel essays have been published in Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, and on www.far-and-near.com. She also has had short fiction published in the Peralta Art and Literary Journal. Featured work: Eat, Eat, Eat Claire Barbetti Claire Barbetti is a co-editor of the journal Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts. Her work has appeared in American Journal of Print, Slow Trains Literary Journal, Eclectica, and is forthcoming in Cimarron Review. Featured work: Day 7 (Special September 11 section) David-Matthew Barnes David-Matthew Barnes' fiction and poetry have appeared in anthologies and literary journals, nationwide, including California Quarterly, Poetic Voices, Oasis Magazine and Down In The Dirt. His stage plays have appeared in several anthologies, including The Best Stage Scenes of 2000 and The Comfusion Review. Barnes wrote and directed the coming-of-age film, Frozen Stars. He is represented by All Star Management Group. Featured work: Kitchen Stacie Barry Stacie Barry currently lives in Missoula, Montana. More of her work can be found in 2 River View, Circle Magazine, Gumball Poetry, Grey Matter Tapestry and RealPoetik. Featured work: Tail Lights, Big Sky Dorothy Bates Dorothy Bates is a magazine editor, lyricist, and writer of special material for cabaret performers. She has been published many times, including Crone Chronicles, Sedona Journal of Emergence, ZeBooksZine, Realizations, and poetz.com. Poems in Off the Cuffs (anthology; Soft Skull Press 2003) and The Pagan's Muse: Poems of Ritual and Inspiration (anthology; Kensington Publishing Corp 2003). Featured work: Aubade, In Memoriam Stephen Beal Stephen Beal was born and for the most part raised in Evanston, Illinois. During World War II he lived with his family in Pittsburgh, a city that serves as the setting for many of his poems. A 1960 graduate of Williams College who did graduate work at Oxford, Beal is the author of five nonfiction books. His needlepoint canvases have been exhibited around the world and figure in many private collections. Featured work: The Very Stuff Lytton Bell Lytton Bell graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1993. Her poetry has appeared in Outsider Ink, Poems-for-All, and is scheduled for publication in Still, Poetry Now, Poetic Voices, and Clean Sheets. Her latest chapbook, The Book of Chaps, will be available in early 2002. Featured work: Falling Back Jeff Beresford-Howe Jeff Beresford-Howe is a writer living in Oakland. Featured work: Bob Dylan: An Appreciation of How He Is Now Bob Dylan's Love and Theft Standing Up Against the Yankees Trading Ethics Lewis in the Bush League Good Morning Aztlán: Music Reviews Baseball as the Antidote On Cancelling Japan Music Reviews Jon Blackstock Jon Blackstock has published short stories and poems with Internet and print journals, manages the Teaching Theatre column at Suite101.com, and has published a book, The Down River Prophet, with Greatunpublished.com. He is a graduate of the College of Charleston (SC), and is currently enrolled in graduate school at Georgia Southern. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Poverty, My Friend Karen Louise Boothe Karen Louise Boothe is a writer living in Kyrgyzstan. She is a veteran journalist. She worked for Minnesota Public Radio, with works airing on NPR, BBC, The Stanley Foundations' Common Ground program, and other broadcasting outlets. Her written work has appeared in many publications, including: Minnesota Monthly, Lavender Magazine, The Advocate Traveler Magazine, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dust and Fire Journal, and others. Boothe currently is living and working in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. She holds a B.S. degree in Journalism, an M.A. Degree in International Affairs, and was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Featured work: Before You Love Me Kristy Bowen Kristy Bowen's work has appeared in a number of journals, including Blue Fifth Review, Verse Libre Quarterly, and Stirring. She lives and writes in Chicago, where she edits the online journal Wicked Alice. Her chapbook, The Archaeologist's Daughter, is forthcoming in spring 2004 from Moon Journal Press. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: You Talk to Me About Italy Theresa Boyar Theresa Boyar's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Rattle, The Adirondack Review, Samsara Quarterly, The Paumanok Review, and Pierian Springs. She currently lives with her husband and two sons in Helena, Montana, where she is working on a collection of short stories. Featured work: In Defense of Chaos Theory When Woolworth's Sold Lives Michael L. Braverman As a consequence of growing up in Indiana, Michael L. Braverman lives in Los Angeles and works in the entertainment industry. He is still trying to figure out the difference between "vocation" and "avocation." Featured work: Paraphernalia Arthur Davis Broughton Arthur Davis Broughton is an Ohio artist and amateur musician who often portrays the figure in motion. He has a masters degree in fine arts, and played guitar in a bar in Spain once for some San Gria (you see, the musicians were also the bartenders and when new people would come in, well...). Much of his recent work has focused on musicians, and and the psychological portrayal of the artist (musician) at work. He is also interested in the intermingling of personalities, the "conversation" so important to the improvisational musical art forms such as jazz and the blues. This is represented by a search for sizes, frequencies, and colors of marks/brushstrokes to identify the various sounds/personalities involved in the full musical/visual experience of live music. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Ben Allison (art) Tiffany Lee Brown Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. Editor of the forthcoming Northwest arts, culture, & literature magazine 2 Gyrlz Quarterly, she also edits the webzine Signum. Her fiction and poetry appear or will soon appear in Bust's Guide to the New Girl Order (Penguin), In Our Own Words (MWE), How To Mutate & Take Over the World (Ballantine), and the Clear Cut Press anthology, as well as Bust, The Jitter Review, Sauce*Box, and Pulp. She's been a regular contributor to Bookforum, Venus, and Wired, among other magazines. Featured work: Recipe for Success Alfred Bruey Alfred J Bruey is retired from a career in the computer field. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications. His two chapbooks, Practicing Insanity and Greatest Hits are available from Pudding House Publishers in Johnstown, Ohio. Featured work: The Man With A Bag, His Domestic Friend, A Glass Poem That Avoids Sentimentality While Teaching You Many Facts Janet I. Buck Janet I. Buck is a two-time Pushcart Nominee and the author of four collections of poetry, including Calamity's Quilt. Her work has appeared in hundreds of anthologies and journals world-wide. She is a recent winner of the Kota Press Anthology Contest, and her poem " Acrylic Thighs" was featured at The United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: Selected Poems                       Nervous Doorknobs (Special September 11 section)                       Grandfather's Chair                       Street of Flags R.J. Bullock R.J. Bullock lives with his beloved and their children in Cincinnati. Sorely separated from his natural habitat, he is nonetheless grateful for his daily reprieve. There is still time Featured work: Bob Frog Judy Bunce Judy Bunce is a zen monk currently living at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the training monastery of San Francisco Zen Center. Featured work: Entering the Monastery: An Ongoing Journal Ptim Callan Ptim Callan's fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Poetry Midwest, Eyeshot, and others. He's written and produced independent films that have screened at San Francisco International Film Festival, The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, and other festivals. He studied English at UCLA, and his first name is pronounced "Tim." See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Flip Pasquale Capocasa Pasquale Capocasa is the editor of Poems Niederngasse. Featured work: The Clown Trilogy Who's the Ju-Ju Man? Writers on the Creative Life Joseph Carcell Joseph Carcel is an attorney residing in New York. His work has most recently appeared in Dallhousie Review. The winner of several IBPC prizes, he is currently working on a libretto for an opera about the boxer Sonny Liston. He is also finishing a chapbook called A Theory in the Bone. When not writing poetry or practicing law, he enjoys rockclimbing and reading remaindered college texts. "You'd be surprised what you can learn for a buck," he says. Featured work: Crispin and Cricket, Funambulist Seduction, Fourth of July Farewell Isabelle Carruthers Isabelle Carruthers' short fiction has appeared in print in Prometheus, Best Women's Erotica, Mammoth Book of Best Erotica, and The Mainline, and also in various Internet magazines. She is a fiction editor with Clean Sheets Magazine. She lives in New Orleans. Featured work: The Path of Marigolds Robert R. Cobb Robert R. Cobb retired as a high school art teacher two years ago, culminating thirty-five years of teaching experience with Maine Township High School District #207 in Park Ridge and Des Plaines, Illinois. He lives with his wife of forty years, Lorna, in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. They have three grown sons and five grandchildren. Robert is a professional artist as well as a sometime poet. His works of art, largely drawings, paintings, and prints may be found in over 150 collections. His poetry may be found in recent issues of Snakeskin Webzine, Basket Case Magazine, The Southern Ocean Review, The Free Cuisenart, The Nexus, The Paradigm Press Zine, and BeFreeZine. Robert's poem "Sestina Senses and Nonsense" won second place in The Black Swan Review's national poetry contest. Robert was also the featured poet of the month in The Nepenthe Journal in June 1999. Featured work: Internet Heaven Destiny Train/New Millenium 2000 Michael Cocchiarale Michael Cocchiarale is an Assistant Professor of English at Widener University (Chester, PA), where he teaches American literature and writing courses. "Someday Morning" is part of a story collection (in progress) about a small, midwestern college town. Featured work: Someday Morning Amy K. Cogswell Amy K. Cogswell is a 2-time winner of the Nancy Potter Fiction prize. She is currently at work on a novella. She is also a student at the University of Rhode Island, after traveling around through North and South America for several years. Featured work: Africa Marguerite Colson Marguerite Colson is an English teacher in Australia who writes short stories to escape from the literary boundaries that stifle education systems. She has previously been published at Literotica and Clean Sheets Magazine. Featured work: Story From a Quilt Nina Simone Michael J. Compton Michael J. Compton is a writer and filmmaker who teaches African American Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Memphis. Featured work: The Invisible Hand Brendan Connell Brendan Connell has fiction either forthcoming, or already published, in numerous places, including RE:AL, Tabu, Heist, Penny Dreadful, Fishdrum, The Dream Zone, Darkness Rising 3 (Cosmos Books 2001), Redsine (Cosmos Books 2002), The Best of Devil BlossomsAsterius Press 2002), and Leviathan 3 (Ministry of Whimsy Press 2002). Featured work: School Day Jack Conway Jack Conway's novel, The Road To Ruin, was published in 2003. Life Sentences, his third collection of poetry, was published in 2002. His work has appeared in: The Antioch Review, The Columbia Review, The Land-Grant College Review, RALPH, The Peregrine Review, Rattle, The Paumanok Review, Yankee, Eclipse, and The Norton Anthology. Featured work: My Picnic with Lolita The Curator Rebecca Cook Rebecca Cook writes poetry and prose, and has published her work on the Web and in print journals and magazines. Current work can be online found at The Adirondack Review, and is forthcoming in print at The Comstock Review, The Baltimore Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Northwest Review. Her essay, "Soaping the Stream," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2002. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: What You Want K.R. Copeland K.R. Copeland is a prolific poet residing in Chicago, Illinois. Her work has been featured in such publications as, Artvilla, Atomicpetals, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Comfusion, Glass Tesseract, Locust, Miller's Pond, Mipo, Niederngasse, Pig Iron Malt, Snakeskin, Snow Monkey, The American Muse, Unlikely Stories, and others. Featured work: I Wonder, When I am Dead Mustansir Dalvi Mustansir Dalvi teaches architecture in New Bombay, India. He is Poetry Monitor at the Desert Moon Review. His poem "Peabody" was awarded 1st Place in the InterBoard Poetry Competition, December 2002. He is published in Snakeskin, Octavo, Writer's Hood, Pierian Springs, Crescent Moon Journal, The Brown Critique, Poetry India and Poiesis. Featured work: hardback awakening Deirdre Day-MacLeod Deirdre Day-MacLeod achieved early success in the Family Circle National Children's Poetry Contest with her entry "Butterflies," a poignant evocation of insect life. After decades of literary silence, where she wrote about everything from laundry on nuclear submarines to hair care products and salty snacks, she is nearing the completion of a collection of short stories, and is also working on a novel. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: Your Name Here William Dean William Dean writes erotica under his own name and pen name Count of Shadows, including monthly columns, and is the Associate Editor of Clean Sheets Magazine. Featured work: What Was I When?                      Uneasy Kesey                      The Dictionary of Youthful Lies                      Edward Teller Diane E. Dees Diane E. Dees is a psychotherapist and writer in Covington, Louisiana. Her short stories, essays and commentaries have appeared in many publications. Diane and her husband, Orvin, are the webmasters of princesscafe.com, a virtual rock and roll restaurant. Diane's recent misfortune at a Shell station plummeted her across the boundaries of genre. See more of her work at DED Space. Featured work: Talkin' Freewrite Flammable Blues The Smoke Clears Richard Denner Richard Denner is a Berkeley street poet of the 60s, self-exiled to the Alaska outback, printer of dPress chapbooks, cowpoke, treeplanter on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens after the blast, longtime bookseller. He is currently living with his elderly mother in North Bay suburbia, gaining a little weight, getting a little grayer, and still reading his poems in coffeehouses. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Mimics in the Mist Joanne Detore-Nakamura Joanne Detore-Nakamura, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her creative work has appeared in publications such as Purdue's VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, York University's The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and will be anthologized in the forthcoming Sicilian Voices. Featured work: Ice Princess c nolan deweese c. nolan deweese is 22 years old and graduated in 2001 from Oberlin College with a degree in creative writing. His first book was called Cowboy Atlas, and was published in 2000. His new book, His Buck Passed, His Gulch Robbed, His Horn Tooted and Done, from which these poems are taken, is looking for a publisher. In August he will move from Philadelphia to his home town, Port Townsend, Washington. Featured work: Turncoat Appliances and The Bike Ride Megan Doney Megan Doney is a teacher and writer who lives in New Hampshire. She has previously been published in the Nieve Roja Review and Old Crow. Featured work: Night Terrors Chris Duncan Chris Duncan lives in the hills of southwest Virginia. He is enrolled in the low-resident MFA/ Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. His most recent publications can be found in Small Spiral Notebook, Intertext, Carve, Boomerang UK, Southern Ocean Review,and 3 A.M. Magazine. Featured work: Sikes Hebert: Triangle Player John Eivaz John Eivaz was born in New York and now lives in California. His writing has been featured in a few small press publications, and also online at various Web sites. He was a staff member of Haiku Headlines (aka The Full Deck) for over a year, contributing news haikus, limericks and funny topical songs. Writing as "john e," his erotica has appeared online at Erotica Readers Association, Clean Sheets, Mind Caviar, Ophelia's Muse and other Web sites. He works at a winery. Featured work: The Cover Cascades and is Purple (and) Time Machine rossellini shooting while the seamstress ceases copying life Soup Sonnets (an online chapbook) helpless before her Gilroy for Garlic James V. Emanuel James V. Emanuel, also known as Rod Harden, lives in Ohio with his wife, two sons, and three cats. He began writing on a whim in 1998, concentrating on erotica. His stories have appeared on the Web at Erotica Readers Association, Mind Caviar, and others, including his own Web site. Two collections of his short stories have been published by Renaissance E-Books. Featured work: Duck, Duck, Goose Marc Estrin Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, Vermont. His debut novel, Insect Dreams, the Half Life of Gregor Samsa, was published in February, 2002, by BlueHen Books (Penguin-Putnam), to critical acclaim. He was a Fellow in Fiction at both the Wesleyan and Bread Loaf Writer's Conferences, 2002. See more of his work at Web Del Sol and Exquisite Corpse. Featured work: Offense in Black and White Jerry G. Erwin Jerry G.Erwin has written six utterly charming novels, as yet unpublished. He also has sold film scripts that were never made, to people he'd only feel creatively involved with if he had strangled them to death in their sleep. However, not one to complain, he continues to pursue his resiliant literary dream (as delusional psychotics tend to do). See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Cow Girl and Pig Heaven Richard Evans Richard Evans is a writer, visual artist and occasional performer, based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to collecting a not unrespectable list of the kinds of jobs cited in artist's bios, he is also co-host of the Art Conference on the the WeLL, one of the oldest online communities. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Art, Hope                       Requiem Gerald Forshey Gerald Forshey has mowed lawns in Nevada, California and Illinois. He taught ethics and world religions in the City Colleges of Chicago, and he has written about movies in various venues. Featured work: The Lawn Poems Phoebe Kate Foster Phoebe Kate Foster is an associate editor for two online journals, PopMatters and The Dead Mule. Her short fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Eclectica, Electric Acorn, Emrys Journal, The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South, The Dead Mule, Starry Night Review, Megaera, Tattoo Highway and Barbaric Yawp, among others. Featured work: Mazzonelli's Masterpiece                      Goo Cares Thaisa Frank The fiction of Thaisa Frank, according to the New York Times, works "by a tantalizing sense of indirection." She is a two-time PEN Award winner. Sleeping In Velvet (1998) and A Brief History of Camouflage (1992) have both been BABRA nominees. She has served as a judge for the Djerassi Colony and the Oregon Council for the Arts. For more information see her Web site. Featured work: Traveling Clothes Writers on the Creative Life Emmitt Maxwell Furner, II Emmitt Maxwell Furner II is an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at the Grand River Academy, where he lives on campus with his wife and three children. Emmitt's first novel, Forgotten, will be published in the summer of 2002. Emmitt is also a member of the U.S. Army reserves, where he serves as an Engineer officer. Featured work: The Horse-Fly Watcher Jamie Joy Gatto Jamie Joy Gatto is a writer, editor, columnist and bisexual activist from New Orleans. She is editor-in-chief of Mind Caviar. Her work has and will appear in numerous projects, including The Unmade Bed, Best Bisexual Erotica 2000 and 2001, Best SM Erotica, Unlimited Desires, and Black Sheets. Her first collection of short fiction, Sex Noir: Stories of Sex, Death and Loss, will be published in 2002 by Circlet Press. Featured work: Read My Mind Drinking in Hurricanes Michael K. Gause Michael K. Gause currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. His works have been published in The Venerable Seed, ArtWord Quarterly, Karawane, Rape of Narcissus, Poetry Motel, Unarmed, BigCityLit, Red River Review, and Half Drunk Muse. Minnesota Web site publications include Minneapolis Underground and mental contagion. Featured work: Satori in the Fifth Jennifer Gibbons Jennifer Gibbons lives in Pleasant Hill, California. She has been known to watch As The World Turns every other day. Featured work: Mary Stuart Robert Gibbons Robert Gibbons currently has work in: Conspire; The Drunken Boat ; Linnaean Street; Niederngasse; pith; Recursive Angel; & Tatlin's Tower. Work is forthcoming in Cauldron & Net; Evergreen Review; Gargoyle ; Janus Head ; & In Posse Review. His sixth chapbook of poems, This Vanishing Architecture, has just been published by Innerer Klang Press . A collection of prose poems, Brief History of Erotic Gesture, will be the first of a chapbook series published online by Linnaean Street. Featured work: Nature or Civilization The Confusion, The Slender Path, and She Wanted to Go to Pere Lachaise An Echo of the Silence of the Dead (Special September 11 section) The Best Two Things About Verlaine Miracles of Art Streets for Two Dancers The Slow Trains Ten: Writers on the Creative Life (short interview) Ode to New York City Gold December Horizons, Dual Gifts of Strength & Patience Another Kind Light, Nativity With Dance It Snows a Bit Differently in New York City Slitting: Planned Improvisations The Outskirts of New Haven Matthew R. Gleckman Matthew Gleckman has worked as a journalist throughout the western United States. His fiction and poetry have been published in magazines and anthologies including: Telluride Magazine (winner, summer 2000 poetry contest), Continuum, Windfall, and Kota Press. A poem is forthcoming in Dazzling Mica. He is currently living in Issaquah, WA. Featured work: Places You've Been, Places You'd Like to Go Poem Ascending, Glass Life as a Raindrop, Memory of Love Making jj goss jj goss resides with her husband in central Massachusetts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Happy, The New England Writers Journal, The Beltane Papers, Net Authors E2K, Babel, Branches Quarterly, Amarillo Bay, Copious and Lightening Bell. Her short story, “Missing a Beat,” was nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize. Featured work: waiting for the change, Window Disturbances John Gould John Gould is an undergraduate English major at the College of New Jersey, where he enjoys doing vile things, such as writing fiction. Featured work: Jane Winterbottom, Jane Winterbottom! Candy M. Gourlay Candy M. Gourlay was born on a windy day during autumn 1973 in South Africa, where she still works, writes and lives with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared in WideThinker, Extraverse, Beatnik Journal, Platinum Poetry, Reflections Anthology, and elsewhere. Her debut work of creative non-fiction, Story of a Girl, is scheduled for publication late 2002. Featured work: Level 4 West, Time Merlin E. Greaves Merlin E. Greaves is a freelance writer and poet. He is a Dallas resident and a Colorado native. Other works of his can be seen on www.SpokenWar.com, www.Kotapress.com, and www.Niedergasse.com. Featured work: lamborghini smiles, infinite sadness walking Dave Gregg Dave Gregg currently resides in Missouri, as a born-again Midwest male transplanted from California. He has been writing for nearly thirty years. He has two sons, Ian and Craig, and he works for the state. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Hartsburg Kathryn Gresham-Lancaster Kathryn Gresham-Lancaster is a writer, art teacher, and performer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published in the online journal, Recursive Angel. She has been, in various incarnations: a theatre director (Hundreth Monkey Productions), actor, and performance artist. Featured work: War and the Wordless (Special September 11 section) Michael Gruber Michael Gruber's first novel, Tropic of Night, has received unanimous rave reviews across the board. For more information, see his Web site at Harper Collins. Featured work: The Slow Trains Ten (mini-interview) Tony Gruenewald Tony Gruenewald earns his keep as an Assistant Studio Director and Communications Coordinator for the New Jersey Unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. In previous lives he has worked in radio journalism and advertising and, if all else fails, still has his Teamsters card. His work has been seen in The New York Times, Caffeine, U.S. 1, Adbusters and other mostly defunct publications. Featured work: Route 1 Free Association (To the Guy in the Black Lincoln Riding My Bumper) and Red Light District New Jersey's Poet Problem Ashok Gupta Ashok Gupta is an Indian who works in Jakarta, Indonesia, as a chemical engineer, and started writing poetry at the age of fifty. A few poems have been published in e-zines like FZQuarterly, and in print in Reflections and Times of India. Featured work: Don't Make Mistakes Christine Hamm Christine Hamm has a Master's in Creative Writing. Her work has been published in 3am Magazine, Stirring, Diagram, Shampoo Poetry and Poetry Midwest. She recently was the inaugural poet of the summer reading series at The Read Cafe in Brooklyn. In October she will be teaching a poetry writing workshop through the Women's Studio Center in Astoria. Christine is the literary editor of the new magazine, Wide Angle. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: The Curse, Woman in Search of Her Sex J.D. Heskin J.D. Heskin resides in a northern Minnesota city. His work can be found in such diverse places as Red Lamp, Southern Ocean Review, Snakeskin, ArtWord Quarterly, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Poetry and American Outback Journal. Featured work: All Things Considered Michael A. Hoerman Michael Hoerman's poetry has appeared in The Rockhurst Review, WordWrights, The Heartlands Today, Prison Life Magazine, Freshwater 2002, and Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, with poems forthcoming in Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press) and Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press). Featured work: Another Boring Academic Poem William G. Hutchings William G. Hutchings is an ex-skier, ex-tech writer, and current fly fisherman. He bums around in his fifth-wheel trailer, following the sun from Idaho to Mexico, with his co-pilot, Max -- a small Swiss herding dog. Bill is in his thirteenth printing of Radio on the Road: The Traveler's Companion, the fourth printing of the NPR Station Directory, and struggling to get Max to type his new novel, Gold of Guadalupe. Featured work: The Kid, the Aliens, and Uncle Charlie Susannah Indigo Susannah Indigo is the editor and founder of Slow Trains. She is also the editor-in-chief of Clean Sheets, a Web zine devoted to sexuality. She is the author of Oysters Among Us: erotic tales of wonder and the co-editor of the anthology From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Erotica 2000, Herotica , and Best Women's Erotica. She is also a contributor to Salon Magazine (salon.com). See her Web site for more information. Featured work: Dancing With the Streets                       God@heaven.com                       Better Angels (Special September 11 section)                       bluebells & eucalyptus trailing like kindness                       Tiger Stadium: October, 1968                       The Ten Mike Ingles Mike Ingles is a freelance writer living in Ohio. He holds a degree in American Literature from Franklin University. His stories have appeared in several magazines, including the Southern Cross Review. The anthology, Laughing and Learning, featuring his story, "Dog Days," will be published in November 2003. Featured work: Colorado in June Harold Janzen Harold Janzen says that composition using word-medium, rhythm, and rhyme has been his exercise for equilibrium and his vehicle to reach the underlying properties of reality. So he writes. Featured work: Grapevine Dream Supply (and) Last Night You Said Tommorrow                       Elizabeth Was a Bonfire of a Cat Person                       Wonderland Derek Jenkins Derek Jenkins is editor of The Foliate Oak Online. He spends most of his time listening to music, talking about music, camping, and falling down in public. Featured work: The King Biscuit Blues Brently Johnson Brently Johnson is an MFA student studying poetry at the University of Idaho. Originally raised in East Tennessee, he followed his wife west, losing his accent in the process. Now they live in the small town of Moscow, Idaho, where they can hear the trains hauling grain from their apartment's window. Other publications include Yale Anglers' Journal, Gray's Sporting Journal, Riverteeth, and Ascent Literary Journal. Featured work: Traveling Through America's Backyard Tom Johnson Tom Johnson teaches writing at The American University of Cairo, Egypt, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He is a recent graduate of Columbia University's School of the Arts. Featured work: Conversion and Gambler's Logic Blue Wind Kami Blue Wind Kami lives in Colorado with her husband, a redneck cat and 6 horses. She loves weather, animals of all ilk, and fine words well used. Featured work: For The Birds Ward Kelley Ward Kelley has seen more than 1300 of his poems appear in journals worldwide. He is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee whose publication credits include: Another Chicago Magazine, Rattle, Midstream, Zuzu's Petals, Ginger Hill, Sunstone, Spillway, Pif, Whetstone, 2River View, Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Animist, Offcourse, Potpourri and Skylark. He was the recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Award for 2001. Kelley is the author of two books: histories of souls, a poetry collection, and Divine Murder, a novel; he also has an epic poem, comedy incarnate on CD and CD ROM. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: I Gave You My Watch Rebecca Lu Kiernan Rebecca Lu Kiernan's fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magasine, Ms. Magazine, North American Review, Space and Time, Gargoyle, and other magazines and books in the United States and Australia. Her collection of poetry, Sex With Trees and Other Things Equally Responsive was published by 2 River Press. Canada's Ygdrasil will soon dedicate an issue to the presentation of her new collection, The Man Who Remembered Too Much. She edits the print literary, Gecko, and lives on the Gulf Coast with her spunky chocolate labrador, Rocky. Featured work: A Kiss in Dreams                       Escape Artist                        Afterglow Derek Kittle Derek Kittle is twenty-nine and lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife, who is a veterinary student. In past lives, he has been a lawyer, soldier, singer and cook. Besides poetry, he also writes children's books, including The Adventures of Travel Tiger and Kittens in the Wild, both out this year. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Exile of the Sun Mark Kline Mark Kline left the Flint Hills prairie of Kansas for wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen twenty-one years ago. He is a bluegrass musician and songwriter, and plays regularly for square dances in Denmark. His time is split between family, his fiction, music, and in-between he tends a mean garden. Featured work: Maniac Island Karl Krausbart Under his real name, Karl Krausbart publishes fiction, poetry, humor, and literary and technical essays in mainstream periodicals, "little" literary magazines, and computing and scientific journals. He has read at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, the International Monetary Fund Visitors' Center, GRACE (Greater Reston Virginia Arts Center), The MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary) Theatre in Dallas, and elsewhere, and has survived interviews by The New York Times and USA Today. He has held too many responsible positions, and has been awarded too many academic degrees. Featured work: Thirteen Channels Susanna Laaksonen Susanna Laaksonen is a writer from Finland. She recently spent two months in Lapland researching her TV drama series, to be aired on Finnish television in 2004, and learned that she is probably more of a city person. Susanna received her undergraduate degree in the U.S, and has been writing in English off and on ever since. Her credits include writing for TV, a play, some theater translations and journalism, and a short film. She is starting her own e-zine because she likes Slow Trains so much. Featured work: The Angel in the Municipal Pool Tony Leather Tony Leather is a writer from the U.K. who loves to put pen to paper, then hear from readers how they feel about his work. He's not a full-time writer, but has been published about 150 times around the world since he started writing seriously three years ago. He just wants to feel that he has something to say that people will enjoy reading, and if he achieves that, he's a happy man. Featured work: Pictures That Became Words Seonaid Lennox Seonaid Lennox lives in Toronto and is an Assistant Editor at Slow Trains. Featured work: Mad Ida Loved the Wind Karin Lin-Greenberg Karin Lin-Greenberg is currently a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches composition, and is on the staff of nidus, the University of Pittsburgh's literary magazine. Featured work: Big Brother Marc Levy Marc Levy served with the First Cavalry Division as an infantry medic in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970. His work has appeared in various publications, including Skid Row Penthouse, PLACES Magazine, Slant, Rattapallax, Suspect Thoughts , BlueFood, Slow Trains, The Best American Erotica 2000, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol. 2, Stories From the Infirmary, and Will Work For Peace. In 2001 he was selected to attend an ACA residence with Spalding Gray. A video of his war related prose and photographs, The Real Deal, has received critical acclaim, and is distributed by The Cinema Guild. See more of his work at www.voicesofevillage.com. Featured work: The Exit Stage Vietnam Journal: Willimantic -- 11.10.00 Christopher Locke Christopher Locke's poetry has appeared widely in magazines and e-zines across North America, including The Literary Review, Exquisite Corpse, Descant(Canada), Connecticut Review, The MacGuffin, and recently on National Public Radio. His second book, Slipping Under Diamond Light, is forthcoming this summer from Clamp Down Press. Chris is a staff writer for Red Herring Magazine. Featured work: Selected Poems Charles Lowe Charles Lowe lives in Alfred, New York. His work has appeared in The Hardy Review and is forthcoming in print in Poetry Motel. The prose poems in Slow Trains are a part of a work, in progress, entitled A Blind City. Featured work: Prose Poems from The Blind City Dennis Mahagin Dennis Mahagin is a musician and writer currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. His work has recently appeared online in Stirring, Twelfth Planet, and Alchemy, as well as the print journal, The Temple. He is currently at work on a chapbook of poems. Featured work: Crazy-Ass Grackles Prasenjit Maiti Prasenjit Maiti is a political scientist by occupation and a writer by compulsion. His print credits include 2River View, Blue Collar Review, Brittle Star, Brobdingnagian Times, Carillon, Circle, Concrete Wolf, Diner, Famous Reporter, Green Queen, GW Review, Harlequin, Hermes, Homestead Review, Konfluence, Micropress Oz, Monkey Kettle, Nightingale, Nomad, Paper Wasp, Parting Gifts, Peeks & Valleys, Phoenix, Poetic Licence, Poetry Church, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Poetry Greece, Poetry Scotland, Promise, Pulsar, Quercus Review, Rattle, Red Lamp, Reflections, Skald, Skyline, South, Spinnings, The Journal, WinterSPIN and Xtant. He has been widely published in electronic journals as well in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. His CD-ROM credit to date is Heist. Featured work: Calcutta Poems Karen Mandell Karen Mandell has lived in the Midwest and on the East Coast, and she's hopelessly torn between both parts of the country. Right now she's in Boston, where she teaches writing at Mount Ida College. She recently completed a novel, Repairs and Alterations, about an elderly tailor's secrets and revelations. Featured work: Chaos Theory Walter L. Maroney Walter L. Maroney is a lawyer who lives in New Hampshire. He is married and has two children, named Eli and Zeke, who are the reason he believes that the Holy One just might be a child. Featured work: God and Baseball on the Roofs of Brooklyn Marlene Mason Marlene Mason's work has appeared in numerous literary journals and film magazines. She resides in the UK, and is currently at work on a literary thriller and a book of short stories based on her travels. Featured work: Captive Laura McCullough Laura McCullough is on the writing faculty at Brookdale Community College, where she is the Chair of the Visiting Writers and Lecturer Series. She holds an MFA from Goddard College, won a NJ State Arts Council Fellowship in 1995, and has had poetry, prose, or essays appear or forthcoming in Lucid Stone, Poetry Motel, The Coastal Forest Review, Slant, Whimperbang, Pierian Springs, Faultline, The Paterson Literary Review, and In Posse. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: Of Cuckolds and Crucifixions, Pump Your Own Gas Patricia Ann McNair Patricia Ann McNair teaches fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been published in American Fiction, Other Voices, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and other journals and magazines. Her honors include Illinois Arts Council Awards and Pushcart Prize nominations in both fiction and creative nonfiction. Featured work: The Temple of Air J.B. Mulligan J.B. Mulligan is married, with three grown children, and has published poems and stories in dozens of magazines, including Outpost Entropy, Curbside Review, Steel Point Quarterly, White Pelican Review, Bayou and Numbat, along with two chapbooks: The Stations of the Cross, and This Way To the Egress (Samisdat Press). Featured work: ideas are things some of us like water sports P.J. Nights P.J. Nights lives in coastal Maine with her family and various pound pets. She teaches physics and astronomy. Her poetry and stories have been or will be published online at Erotica Readers Association, Clean Sheets, Erosha, Erotic Epistle, Adult Story Corner, Mind Caviar, Amoret, the Emerald Collection and MiPoesias. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: Hangover Sestina rossellini shooting while the seamstress ceases copying life to hell in a handbag Soup Sonnets (an online chapbook) So Much in Five Worlds and Five Suns all their characters reflected in my face Slumming, Songs of the City in the wee hours the mock turtle’s tears for lobster quadrilles smoking bravado, burning opposition Jennie Orvino Performance poet Jennie Orvino's CD, Make Love Not War, explores the body erotic and the body politic in collaboration with some of the San Francisco Bay Area's most accomplished musicians. Hear sound clips from the CD and read reviews at CdBaby. More of Jennie's work can be seen at her Web site, and an interview with her can be found at Clean Sheets Magazine. Featured work: Speak and Doublespeak (Special September 11 section) Main Squeeze Blues (audio) Carol Papenhausen Carol Papenhausen is a Chicago native, and graduated Northwestern University. She is the author of two dozen-plus stories and poems in literary journals (Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Literary Review), and has had two stories cited in Best American Short Stories. This will be her fourth story online. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Featured work: Rockin' Robin Aaron Paulson Aaron Paulson currently divides his time between Tokyo and rural Hokkaido, where he teaches English and writes freelance articles and stories for online and print journals. Recent travelogues and stories have appeared in Kyoto Journal and the Blue Moon Review. Currently he is at work on a book about living and working in rural Hokkaido. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: The Ugly Gaijin: Love and Lust in the Land of Princess Disease You Speak Good English In the Inaka Diane Payne Diane Payne lives in a small town with her daughter and her dogs, and she teaches writing at the University of Arkansas-Monticello. Her first novel, Burning Tulips, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2002. Featured work: On Track                       The Hospice Garden                       Maps & Detours Robert Pesich Robert Pesich's recent work has appeared in The Montserrat Review, ALBATROSS, and The Bitter Oleander. His book, Burned Kilim was published by Dragonfly Press in 2001. He is the secretary for Poetry Center San Jose. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Featured work: Break Brian Peters Brian Peters lives precariously between a river and the great midwestern prairie on the low-rent side of a limestone bluff. He is the Managing Editor for Clean Sheets Magazine, and also the Web designer for Slow Trains. Featured work: The Theater of Time                       The Persistence of Memory                       The Fritz Chapel                       The Zen of Lawn Care                       Dred Scott                       Surveying the Koran Phillip Poff Phillip Poff is an elementary school principal, former theater owner, and a keeper of the flame. Featured work: In Memory: John Lee Hooker Scott Poole Scott Poole is the Assistant Director of EWU Press. His first book of poetry, The Cheap Seats (Lost Horse 1999) was a finalist for Foreword Magazine's book of the year awards. He reads his work every Monday morning at 7:50 a.m. on KPBX, Spokane Public Radio, which can also be heard live at KPBX Listen Online. His second book of poetry, Hiding From Salesmen, is forthcoming from Lost Horse Press in 2002. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured Work: Selected Poems Sincerity (Special September 11 section) For Alcaeus The Slow Trains Ten (short interview) Hiding From Salesmen (excerpt) Ron Porter Ron Porter lives in Florida and swims in the ocean most days. He works at his life-ambition, to ply his trade as a carpenter, and is passionate about Henry Miller, classical music, and his three children. He traveled across Europe for two years, and has crossed the U.S at least six times. Featured Work: Mari                         Got Silk? Anthony Puccinelli An independent filmmaker in love with all genres, Anthony Puccinelli hopes to make every imaginable type of movie. His current motto: "Follow your desire as long as you live; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit." Ptahhotpe, Egpyt, 24th century B.C. Featured work: In the Beginning There Was Theda David Quinn David Quinn lives in Illinois and is a retired professor of Spanish literature. His stories have appeared in The Fiction Primer, Downstate Story, Eureka Literary Magazine, and www.amarillobay.org. His story "To See Right," was nominated for an Illinois Arts Council Award. Featured work: Cecilia's Rosary Jessy Randall Jessy Randall is Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Her poems have appeared in Antietam Review, Mudfish, and Pif, and she writes regularly for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. See an online illustrated collection of her poems at The 2River View. Featured work: Selected Poems Kathyrn Rantala The founder and co-editor of Snow Monkey magazine, Kathyrn Rantala has recent work in (or upcoming) in 3rd Bed, Tatlin's Tower, Spinning Jenny, La Petite Zine, Niederngasse, Pig Iron Malt, elimae, Notre Dame Review, and others. Featured work: Unintentional Provinces Benjamin Reed Benjamin Reed is twenty-four and lives in Austin, having recently graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in English. He is currently seeking publication for his first novel, "The Bow Tie Gang," a story about working-class, teenage hot-rodders in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1961. Featured work: See a Match Burn Twice Stephen Roxborough Stephen Roxborough (aka "roxword") is an award-winning performance poet, illustrator, and author of two chapbooks Making Love in the War Zone and All the Very Important Subversive Mind-expanding Long Ones). His spoken word CD, "spiritual demons" is available at Amazon.com and CDBaby.com. Featured work: Drinking with Dylan Thomas another roadside attraction Arthur Saltzman Arthur Saltzman is a professor of English at Missouri Southern, and the author of seven books, including Objects and Empathy, which won the First Series Creative Nonfiction Award from Mid-List Press. His essays have appeared in such journals as Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Cream City Review, Black Warrior Review, Florida Review, and Southeast Review, and awards from his writing include the 2002 Nebraska Review Creative Nonfiction Award and the 2003 Victor J. Emmett Prize (Midwest Quarterly). Featured work: Time Out Eduardo Santiago Eduardo Santiago's "Tia Norma's Wig" is one of eleven short stories that comprise a book about Cubans in America, called The Sex Lives of the Saints. Stories from this collection can be found in the award winning journals Zyzzyva and The Caribbean Writer. Currently, Eduardo is putting the final touches on his first novel, Intermission. Featured work: Tia Norma's Wig Lisabet Sarai Lisabet Sarai has been writing forever. She has produced poetry, fiction, marketing literature, technical specifications, and a dissertation, and is author of two published novels, Raw Silk and Incognito. Ms. Sarai has traveled widely, but currently resides with her husband and pampered felines in western Massachusetts. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: Providence, July, 1974 Lawrence Schimel Lawrence Schimel, born 16 Oct 1971 in New York City, is a full-time author and anthologist who currently lives in Madrid, Spain. He has published over 40 books, including His Tongue, The Drag Queen of Elfland, Kosher Meat, Things Invisible to See, PoMoSexuals, Two Hearts Desire, and numerous others, in a wide variety of genres. Featured work: Free Books                     Long Distance Love Tom Sheehan Tom Sheehan's fourth poetry book, This Rare Earth & Other Flights, was recently released by Lit Pot Press in July. His third novel, Death for the Phantom Receiver, an NFL mystery, was just released by Publish America, to go along with Vigilantes East, issued last year. 3amMagazine.com is currently serializing another novel, An Accountable Death. Wind River Press will issue his chapbook this year, The Westering. He has received four Pushcart nominations (prose/poetry), two other nominations for excellence for prose work, a Silver Rose Award from American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) for short story excellence, and was last year's non-fiction competition winner of London's Eastoftheweb site. More than 500 pieces of his work have appeared in print and Internet sites, including 3amMagazine, Three Candles, Story South, Slow Trains, Clackamas Review, Tryst, Eclectica, Nuvein, Fiction Warehouse, Pierian Springs, Pindeldyboz, Small Spiral Notebook, Paumanock Review, Stirring, Electric Acorn, Summerset Review, Megaera, Kudzu Monthly, and others. Featured work: The Final Summer Those Old Suntanners The Bill Collector Leonard the Blind Man A Small Red Star for Me and My Father Marcy Sheiner Marcy Sheiner is a writer, editor and teacher. For more information, see her Web site. Featured work: How Baseball Changed My Life                      Lo Siento Oona Short Oona Short writes frequently on sports, the arts, and a wide range of other topics. She has published fiction and non-fiction in numerous national magazines, written documentaries for PBS and Lifetime Television, and has had two works produced off-off-Broadway. She is currently at work on a novel. Featured work: The Truth About Paradise Steve Silberman Steve Silberman is a contributing editor at Wired magazine. His articles have appeared in Wired, The New Yorker, Time, and many other national publications, and he is the co-author of Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads. "The Drum Circle," written in 1989, is published here for the first time. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: The Drum Circle In Memory: Philip Whalen Nicola Evans Skidmore Nicola Evans Skidmore lives in San Francisco. Featured work: Dive William Sovern William Sovern has promoted over 200 poetry readings in the last fifteen years in the Evansville, Indiana area. He is currently the host of the Tuesday Night Reading Series at the Jungle Restaurant & Fat Cats Bar in Evansville, which includes local, regional & national poets. He is the founder of the poetry performance group, Shakespeare's Monkey. which has performed in New York this year at CBGB's, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, and at the Nuyorican Poetry café. Featured work: Blue Highways Pop Poetry 101 The Salvador Dali Blues David Steinberg David Steinberg's columns are available at the Society for Human Sexuality's David Steinberg Archives . He is the editor of two books -- Erotic by Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies and The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self. To receive his monthly "Comes Naturally" column and other writings via email (free and confidential), send name and email address to David. Featured work: Scattered Thoughts in a Scattered Time (Special September 11 section) Robert Stinson Robert Stinson lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared both online and in print. Recent publications include Stirring, Snow Monkey, Grasslimbs, and Can We Have Our Ball Back? Featured work: Drowning in the Sun Alex Stolis Alex Stolis has been a janitor, a counselor, a waiter, a bartender, a housekeeper, a salesman, a cook, a criminal, a has-been and a never-was. He loves his wife, his dog, his kids, The Replacements, The Pixies, Smarties, and Paris. Featured work: Still Life With Bullets, Scratching the Surface of the Sun Daniel Sumrall Daniel Sumrall is currently completing a MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame. His poems and reviews can be found in the the journals Rain Taxi, 42 Opus, Locust Magazine, The Hyde Park Review of Books, Lightning Bell, The Literary Review, and Pierian Springs. Featured work: When does it happen? , Songs to an unseen film David Surface David Surface is a writer, teacher and musician living in Brooklyn. His fiction and essays have appeared in Doubletake, Crazyhorse, From Porn to Poetry, and Fiction. His story, "Tuesdays When It's a Full Moon," appears online in Marlboro Review. He also records some deeply disturbed music with his partner Mik under the monicker Silas Barnaby. Featured work: Going Out With Angela Carmen Who Lives By the Lake john sweet john sweet has been writing for 20 years, and appearing in the small press for 14. He lives with his wife and son in a hideously depressing town in upstate New York, which serves as the backdrop for much of his work. Featured work: triptych, right panel: scenes from the book of wasted days you read about these things, trinity poem Lorelei Tabor Lorelei Tabor holds a Bachelor's degree with majors in public relations and English. She is currently pursuing her master's in communication. Her hobbies include baseball, writing, and classic movies. She resides in Kentucky. Featured work: Being a Baseball Chick Lisa Taddeo Lisa Taddeo is a graduating college senior, and works as a Content Editorial Specialist at Dow Jones in Princeton. She enjoys writing literary fiction with quasi-supernatural twists. she read avidly and is currently working on putting together a short story collection. . Featured work: The Blue Room Cecilia Tan Cecilia Tan writes about her many passions (baseball included) from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been a contributor to Yankees Magazine, Isaac Asmiov's Science Fiction Magazine, Ms., Penthouse, and Best American Erotica, among others. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: Fan at Work Bruce Taylor Bruce Taylor's poetry has appeared in such places as The Chicago Review, Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Light, The Literary Review, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, and Poetry. Taylor has won awards from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fulbright-Hayes, the NEA, NEH, and the Bush Artist Foundation. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: What They Can and Cannot Fake and Poetry Sex Love Music Booze & Death: A "Lite" Sestina David A. Taylor David A. Taylor travels often with his wife, Lisa Smith. His fiction has appeared in Main Street Journal, The Baltimore Review, Fodderwing, Eclectica and elsewhere, and he received a Literary Arts Film Award from Web Del Sol. His nonfiction has appeared in DoubleTake, Smithsonian and The Atlantic Online, among others. Featured work: Turning Green in Ecuador Djamming Traffic in a Thai Forest Itir Toksoz Itir Toksoz was born on the Aegean coast of Turkey in 1975. She left Turkey upon graduation from college to pursue graduate studies abroad, first in France, then in the USA. For the last 3 years, she's been a Ph.D candidate specializing in International Security, at the Political Science Department of Northeastern University in Boston. This is her first poem written in English, rather than her native Turkish Featured work: Girls Named After Flowers Chris Tolian Chris Tolian is looking for the quiet place that is Serendipity, halfway between the City and where the wild things are. espirito rebelde, amigo. Featured work:Dancar Tempestuoso Anne Tourney Anne Tourney's fiction has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Best American Erotica and Best Women's Erotica series, Zaftig: Well-Rounded Erotica, Embraces: Dark Erotica, and the online magazines Clean Sheets and Scarlet Letters. Featured work: Pink Oleander Bill Trudo Bill Trudo lives in Chicago, Illinois. His work has appeared in print in Signal, and in several online publications, including The Poet's Canvas, Melic Review, The Adirondack Review, Prairie Poetry, and Poems Niederngasse. Featured work: Northern Night And a thousand questions Brian Turner Brian Turner is a poet living in the Pacific Northwest. He's lived in Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Russia. He has poems forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, L'Intrigue, Clean Sheets, and the Black Bear Review. The poems in Slow Trains are from his collection,How We The Damaged Touch. Featured work: CitizenX and Silk Michael J. Vaughn Michael J. Vaughn is the author of The Legendary Barons, and two other novels from Dead End Street LLC. He lives in San Jose, California, where he is fiction editor of The Montserrat Review and left fielder for a coed softball team, the WYSIWYGs. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Barry Bonds, Dodger Blue and the Deaths of Mothers Break Marc Vender Mark Vender is an Australian living in Bogota Colombia, putting the finishing touches on his first novel. Featured work: I Don't Know Where It Comes From Jamieson Wolf Villeneuve Jamieson Wolf Villeneuve is a young writer who has had his work published in a variety of magazines. These include: Mytholog Magazine, Clean Sheets, Green Man Review, Slow Trains, Muse It and the Everymans Journal. He also runs a Web site for writers called Reflections of the Muse. Featured work: Magic Man Alana Noel Voth Alana Noel Voth is earning her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon beginning September 2002. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in Metrosphere and Element Magazine. Her alter ego, Lana Gail Taylor, is doing better writing erotica. Featured work: Where's My Brown? Marnie Webb Marnie Webb lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been published in various online and print publications and is currently working on a collection of short fiction. See more of her work at her Web site. Featured work: Names, On His Body J. Marcus Weekley J. Marcus Weekley has just graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with his Master's degree in English. He lives with four roommates and their cat, Oliver, and will be moving to Beloit, Wisconsin in a month, then to Texas Tech in Lubbock for the doctoral program. He is also a visual artist. His work(poetry and/or photography) is forthcoming in Aileron, Snow Monkey, and Tundra, and he has had work in Fourth River and Modern Haiku. See more of his work at his Web site. Featured work: Discombobulating, Before I Stopped Clubbing, Modern Brian Weiss Brian Weiss is a sixteen year resident of Planet Vegas, a freelance Web developer (visit his Web site), a part-time daddy, a musician, a writer, and a recovering compulsive gambler. He appreciates email, but assures incorrect answers to any stupid tourist questions. Featured work: Confessions of a Compulsive Gambler Tim Wenzell Tim Wenzell teaches English at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He has published a novel, Absent Children, as well as a number of short stories, poems, and essays in various literary magazines. Featured work: Idiot Boy Greg Wharton Greg Wharton is the author of the collection Johnny Was and Other Tall Tales. He's the publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press, co-coordinator for Project: QueerLit, and an editor for two Web magazines, suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing, and Velvet Mafia. He's also the editor of numerous smutty anthologies, including The Best of the Best Meat Erotica, The Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories, Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and Obsession (with Ian Philips), The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Essays on Queer Sexuality and Desire, Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet (with M. Christian), Men of Mystery: Tales of Intrigue and Suspense (with Sean Meriwether), Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction, and Out of Control: Erotic Wild Rides. He lives in San Francisco with his honey Ian, a cat named Chloe, and a lot of books. Featured work: Slow Trains Ten (mini-interview) James R. Whitley James R. Whitley currently lives in Boston, MA. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in several journals, including Coal City Review, HEArt, Peregrine, and Xavier Review. His first book, Immersion, was selected by Lucille Clifton as the winner of the 2001 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Featured work: Jumping Bean and Champagne for One Emanuel Xavier Emanuel Xavier is the author of Americano, Pier Queen, and the Lambda Literary Award nominated debut novel, Christ-Like. He has performed at venues as diverse as Washington Square Park, American Crafts Museum, Barnes & Noble, Queensborough Public Library, Dixon Place, Columbia University, DePaul University, St. Mark's Poetry Project, Irving Plaza, The Henry Miller Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Le Petit Theatre and Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where he became a two-time Grand Slam winner. He has produced several spoken word events, including the Realness & Rhythms poetry series, the annual Glam Slam and the Words To Comfort benefit for the World Trade Center Relief Fund. Emanuel Xavier is the recipient of a Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award for his contributions to gay and Latino culture, and has been selected as Poet Laureate of the 2002 Brooklyn Pride celebration. Featured work: Born This Way Darlene Zagata Darlene Zagata is a freelance writer and poet. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Ascent, Spirithunter, Some Words, Verse Libre, Reading Divas, Lingerings, Dayspring Contemporary Christian Poetry, and forthcoming in All Things Girl and The Writer's Hood. She is the editor of the poetry ezine Thought Fragments. Featured work: Remembering The End Melanie Burke Zetzer Melanie Burke Zetzer is originally from Louisiana, but is currently happily nestled into the wooded and scenic hills of Hot Springs, Arkansas in a rustic cabin with her teenage son and her new puppy, Scrappy Doo. She is a home health care nurse, and is attending UALR college part-time, where she enjoys their excellent Creative Writing Program. Featured work: Ritalin, Hitting on Buddha

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