Issue 64, Spring 2003
Michael Bowden lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona. His prose poems have appeared in the anthologies Best of the Prose Poem and The Party Train. His work also has appeared recently in Verse.
Edward Butscher is the first biographer of Sylvia Plath and Conrad Aiken. He recently completed And Thus Spake Godfrey, an anti-epic poetic sequence.
E.R. Carlin grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. He has been published recently in The Heartland’s Today, Chiron Review, Urban Spaghetti, and Poems & Plays.
Judith Chalmer is the author of a book of poems, Out of History’s Junk Jar (Time Being Books, 1995) and teaches creative writing at Vermont College. She is also the creator of performances including “Don’t Go In There!,” a one-woman comedy with social commentary and “Cruzando Fronteras/Preselenje/Clearing Customs,” a dance/narrative on immigration.
Leonard J. Cirino has been reading, writing, editing, and publishing poetry for over three decades. He has 23 books and chapbooks from 13 different publishers since 1987. His recent chapbooks are The Widow Poems from Lone Willow Press (Omaha, NE) and Poems of the Royal Concubine L.X. (Lummox Press, San Pedro, CA). He lives and works in pringfield, Oregon.
Daniel Gallik has had poetry and short stories published by A.I.M. (America’s Intercultural Magazine), Parabola (A Magazine of Myth and Tradition) , Nimrod, Limestone (University of Kentucky), Hiram Poetry Review, Aura (University of Alabama), and Whiskey Island (Cleveland State University). Currently, Daniel is working on three novels. One of his plays may go off-Broadway in the near future.
Louis Gallo teaches at Radford University in Virginia. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Greensboro Review, New Orleans Review, American Literary Review, Glimmer Train and many others.
Gail Hosking Gilberg’s poems and essays have appeared in such places as The Texas Observer, The Florida Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Cream City Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Fourth Genre. She has an M.F.A. from Bennington College and lives in upstate New York. She’s working on a memoir about her mother.
Jack Granath’s writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Pangolin Paper among other journals. He works in a library in Kansas City.
Willard Greenwood is the editor of the Hiram Poetry Review .
Bill Griffin is married to a Hiram College graduate (Linda French ’75), whom he enticed to small town life in rural North Carolina. Bill serves on the board of the North Carolina Poetry Society and organizes the annual Foothills Favorite Poem Project. His poems have appeared most recently in Main Street Rag, Tar River Poetry, POEM, and Southern Poetry Review.
Henry Hughes’s poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and Carolina Quarterly. He teaches at Western Oregon University.
Marilyn E. Johnston’s poetry has received awards from the Connecticut River Review and Midwest Poetry Review. Her numerous publishing credits include: Worcester Review, Atlanta Review, South Carolina Review, and Poet Lore. She has received two recent Pushcart Prize nominations. Her chapbook, Against Disappearance, was published by Redgreene Press as finalist for its 2001 poetry prize. Formerly in corporate communications, she’s now a full-time poet. She works part-time in the Bloomfield Libraries and directs a poetry reading series for Connecticut poets.
Erren Geraud Kelly recently began his 15th year as a writer. He is currently published in Beyond the Frontier and The San Francisco Reader. He has a B.A. in English, creative writing from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. Mr. Kelly lives in San Francisco.
Rich Kenefic teaches engineering at Indiana Tech in Ft. Wayne. His poems have recently appeared in Crab Creek Review, Poet Lore, and Whiskey Island and are forthcoming in Blue Mesa Review.
Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of five books including the novel The Museum of Happiness and the writing text Building Fiction. Her second poetry collection, Dog Angel, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs both the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and their new M.F.A. program.
Iris Litt is the author of a book of poetry, Word Love, published by Cosmic Trend Publications. She has had poems published in many literary magazines including Onthebus, Confrontation, Caprice, Poetry Now, Central Park, Icarus, The Rambunctious Review, Lactuca, Pearl, Verve, The Ledge, Earth’s Daughter’s, Poet Lore, West End, Scholastic, Atlantic Monthly (special college edition), and many others. She has had short stories in Travellers Tales, Prima Materia, Out of the Catskills, The Second ‘Word Thursday’ Anthology, Kaleidoscope, Cronos, etc., and articles in Pacific Coast Journal, New York Poetry Calendar, Writer’s Digest, The Writer, and others. She has won many awards, including the Atlantic Monthly Award for College Writing, first prize in The Virtual Press short story contest, French Brad poetry award from Pacific Coast Journal, and others. She teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Woodstock, NY, and has taught at SUNY/Ulster, Writers in the Mountains, Educational Alliance, New York Public Library, Marble Collegiate Church, and many other venues in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She earned her B.A. in English at Ohio State University and was an exchange student at Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City. She lives in New York’s Greenwich Village and in Woodstock, New York.
RA Lopez is from Edinburg, Texas. He now lives in San Antonio, Texas. He works in a bookstore. His girlfriend’s name is Rachel. They have two cats, Nico and Frida. They probably smoke too much and play too many video games. She’s an English major. He used to be an English major. He went to UT-Pan Am for six years. He still hasn’t graduated. He’s twenty-six years old.
John N. Miller was born in Van Wert, Ohio, and grew up in Hawai’i (1937-1951) but has been a Buckeye since 1962. Though his poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals, this is his first publication in the Hiram Poetry Review.
Jean Owen was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1944. She is the mother of three grown daughters and continues to call Memphis home-base. Living in unfamiliar places generates growth and stirs creative energy for her. In the last three or four years she has lived in Key West and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In the fall of 2001, she lived in Taos in an adobe house which had been updated but which retained much of the original architecture and was fronted by an old fortification used for protection by the early residents. Her friend and fellow-poet, John Martin, and she recently have returned from Paris where they spent a rainy November. She has been published in Chiron Review, International Poetry Review, and a few other small presses.
Natalie Peeterse’s poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Analecta 27, and CutBank. She is an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship recipient.
Helen Ruggieri teaches at the University of Pittsburgh in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She recently has had work published in Rain Taxi and Relative Links (both online), and Poetry Midwest, Adirondack Review, Poetry Magazine, and in Japan at the Mainichi Daily News (English version). Her haibun collection, The Character of Women, is available at http://www.foothillspublications.com/.
Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962. At the age of twelve he arrived in the United States. He received an M.F.A. from Louisiana State University in 1987. He is the author of two new poetry collections, Palm Crows (University of Arizona Press) and Banyan (LSU Press). This year, Guide to the Blue Tongue, his sixth collection of poetry, will be published by the University of Illinois Press. He is the co-editor of the anthologies American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, both published by the University of Iowa Press. He is the recipient of an NEA grant for poetry. His work continues to be featured in international and national literary magazines and journals. He divides his time between Key Biscayne and Tallahassee where he lives with his wife and daughters and teaches as a full professor at The Florida State University.
Bill Sweeney’s two-year-old daughter decided to dress up “as himself” for Halloween this year. Bill intends to follow his example as closely as possible. Recently, Bill’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and twice in Ploughshares (Paul Muldoon and C.D. Wright issues). The New Yorker maintains a parental silence. His first book, entitled The Minor Poet, has returned from its submission to Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and once more demurely awaits a publisher.
Rawdon Tomlinson’s last book of poetry, Deep Red (Univ. Press of Florida, 1995), won the 1996 Colorado Book Award for poetry. LSU will publish his next book, If You Could Lick My Heart: Geronimo After Kas-Ki-Yeh, in 2005. The winter issue of Sewanee Review contains four poems from the book. He’s working on Letters of the Surgeon’s Son, 1862-1865. He’s an adjunct professor at Arapahoe Community College.
Eric Trethewey is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Long Road Home. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, among them the Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia, and teaches at Hollins University.
Charles Valle was born in Manila, raised in Orange County, received his B.A. from UCI and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. at Notre Dame. Recent works have appeared, or will appear, in: Flyways, 42Opus, bluesky review, Quirk, and Goodfoot. Read his online journal at http://thschrmngboy.diaryland.com/
Marlys West received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers in Texas and an M.A. in literature from the University of Virginia. Her work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and newspapers. The University of Akron Press published her book of poems, Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr, in 1999. This year she is a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She is a National Endowment for the Art grant recipient in poetry for 2003.
Dylan Willoughby lives in the East Village of New York City. Recent poems have appeared in Cutbank, Spinning Jenny, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Pom2, and Taverner’s Koans.