Issue 63, Spring 2002
Kathleen M. Allen is a peer writing tutor in a college bound program. Her favorite poet is Percy Bysshe Shelley and her favorite book is Beowulf.
Mairead Byrne immigrated from Ireland in 1994. She was a journalist for eight years in Ireland and the United States and has had two plays produced and four short books published in Ireland. Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies in Ireland, northern Ireland, Britain, the United States and on the Web, most recently in the Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Poetry Ireland, readme and A Fine Excess: 50 Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal. Her book Nelson & the Huruburu Bird will be published by Wild Honey Press in 2002. She was awarded a writing residency by the Saltonstall Foundation in 2000. A graduate of University College, Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin and Purdue University, she was a visiting fellow to the Institute of European Studies at Cornell University, 1999-2001, and is now Assistant Professor of Poetry in the new MFA program at the University of Mississippi.
Michael Casey’s book Obscenities was recently reprinted by Carnegie-Mellon University Press.
Michael Fournier lives, learns and loves in Atlanta, Georgia. Last weekend aside, he is rated PG-13. He awakens daily with a glad cry, craving meat and clean raiment with which to greet the burgeoning dawn. And coffee. He also craves coffee.
Henry Hughes’ poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, The Beloit Poetry Journal and Carolina Quarterly.
Gabriel Gudding’s first book, A Dangerous Volume, is entitled A Defense of Poetry (Pittsburgh UP, 2002). “Memoirs of the Backhoe” from A Defense of Poetry, by Gabriel Gudding, copyright 2002. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Emily Koehn lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Her poems have previously appeared in Seneca Review and Greensboro Review.
Chad Davidson's poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, Passages North, Pequod, Poet Lore and others. He lives in Binghamton, New York.
John Jenkinson earned his PhD at the University of North Texas and his MFA at Wichita State University. Author of two chapbooks, John recently served as Milton Center Fellow in Poetry at Newman University. John, winner of an AWP Intro/Journals Award has had poems appear in, a wide variety of journals, including American Literary Review, The Georgia Review, Green Mountains Review, Passages North, Portland Review, Quarterly West, and Visions. A new collection, The History of Sleep, is available from Basilisk Press. Married to fiction writer Catherine Dryden, John currently teaches literature and creative writing at Butler College in El Dorado, Kansas.
Mary Kane’s poems have appeared in The Onset Review and most recently Beloit Poetry Journal. Her chapbook, She Didn’t Float, was published by Harlequin Ink in 1995. She lives in Cape Cod where she works as a tutor.
Joanne Lowery’s poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Spoon River Poetry Review, Laurel Review, Birmingham Poetry Review and River Styx. Her most recent collection is Double Feature from Pygmy Forest Press. She lives in Michigan.
Ricardo Pau-Llosa’s fifth book of poems is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press, which published his two previous titles: Cuba and Vereda Tropical.
Ron Rash’s third book of poems, Raising the Dead, has recently been published by Ivis Press. He has new work in Poetry, Sewanee Review and Southern Review.
Russell Thornburn lives in Marquette, Michigan with his three sons and wife. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1999. His first book of poetry, Approximate Desire, was published that same year by New Issues Press. Currently, he is being funded by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs as an artist-in-residence in the Father Marquette School System.
Rodney Torreson’s first book of poems,The Ripening of Pinstripes: Called Shots on the New York Yankees, was published by Story Line Press in 1998. His second book, A Breathable Light, will be issued by New Issues Press in September of 2002.
Matthew Vollmer teaches writing at Purdue University. His work has appeared in New Letters, and is forthcoming in Prism International and Tin House.