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Contributors Ray Succre has been writing for twelve years and has begun publishing his poetry while trying to broaden himself as a poet and parent. He is now beginning to send his work out at a more social level. He currently lives on the southern Oregon coast with his wife, Maisy, and baby boy, Painter. He has been published in Aesthetica, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Poetry Nottingham, as well as in many others both in the U.S. and abroad. J. A. Tyler has published lately in Not Just Air, Ramble Underground,and Inscribed and has work upcoming in Sein und Werden, The Houston Literary Review, Blue Print Review, and 34^th Parallel. He is founding editor of Mud Luscious and recently received several editorial nominations for the 2007 StorySouth Million Writers Award. Find out more at: www.aboutjatyler.com. Justin J. Murphy is a 27-year-old alumnus of UC Santa Barbara where he spent most of his time in a psychedelic rock n’ roll band, traveling California, and discussing the evolution of The Byrds. His first novel, Lorraine, was published two months ago by a small press in Los Angeles. Poems have recently been published in The Café Review and will soon be published in Epicenter: A Literary Periodical.   Darren C. Demaree is in some sort of Ohio & is quite accepting of tomorrow's snow &/or heatwave. His poems have appeared or are scheduled to appear in Good Foot, Karamu, SubtleTea, Wild Violet, HazMat Review, Goliard, Nuthin Zine, The Avatar Review, Offerings, Lily, and on www.poetz.com.   Buxton Wells (art) was born in Iowa, raised in Virginia, and has been a long-time resident of Memphis, TN. He was an art major once; most of the effects have worn off. Some poems have been (or will be) published by Winning Writers, Umbrella, Wandering Army. He is currently employed as a physical therapist.   John Thomas Clark lives in Scarsdale NY with his wife Ginny, daughter Chris and black lab, Lex – the best service dog in the world. A retired NYC teacher, his poetry has appeared in The Recorder when edited by Derek Mahon and again when edited by Eamonn Grennan. Some of his poems now appear in/will appear in issues of Exit 13, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Hidden Oak, Lachryma, The Boston Literary Magazine, Contemporary Rhyme, Mobius, Hospital Drive and Cynic.   Timothy Gager is the author of four books of fiction and poetry. He is published often in print and on the web, has been runner-up for many awards but has never won anything. He lives at www.timothygager.com. Larry D. Thomas, a previous contributor to Right Hand Pointing, has published seven collections of poems. He has two additional collections currently in press: The Fraternity of Oblivion (Timberline Press, Fall 2007) and New and Selected Poems (TCU Press, Spring 2008). Among the major prizes and awards he has received for his poetry are the 2004 Violet Crown Award (Writers’ League of Texas), 2003 Western Heritage Award (Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma), and two Texas Review Poetry Prizes (2004 and 2001). His poetry has also received nominations for the 2007 Poet’s Prize (Nicholas Roerich Museum) and two Pushcart Prizes. On April 19, 2007, Mr. Thomas was appointed by the Texas Legislature as the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate. Karl Koweski is a displaced Chicagoan now living on top of a mountain in Alabama. His poems have been published all over. He co-aedits www.zygoteinmycoffee.com with Brian Fugett. His latest chapbook, Diminishing Returns, is now available for preorder from www.sunnyoutside.com.   Jenn Koiter lives in Wyoming, where she recently leapt out of the frying pan of academia into the fire of nonprofit work. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Grasslimb, Fickle Muses, Relief, Ruminate, and The Eleventh Muse, and she is a winner of the 2006 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize.   After almost a decade of working as a freelance photographer in Europe, Maurice Oliver returned to America in 1990. Then, in 1995, he made a life-long dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months. But instead of taking pictures, he recorded the experience in a journal which eventually became poems. And so began his desire to be a poet. His poetry has appeared in numerous national and international publications and literary websites including Potomac Journal, Pebble Lake Review, Taj Mahal Review (India), Dandelion Magazine (Canada), Stride Magazine (UK), and online at thievesjargon.com, interpoetry.com (UK), kritya.com (India), and blueprintreview.de (Germany). His fourth chapbook, One Remedy Is Travel is published at Origami Condom. He is the editor of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (www.concelebratory.blogspot.com). He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a private tutor.  Michael Ogletree is the poetry editor for SUB-LIT Literary Journal. He just wrapped up a ten-year stint as an undergraduate. Michael is leaving these United States to study literature and write poems in Germany with a graduate fellowship at the University of Mainz. He has new work forthcoming in Lily Literary Review and Identity Theory. His mother says his poems sound pretty, but she doesn't always know what they mean.  Daniel Wilcox earned his degree in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach. He is a former activist, former literature teacher, former wanderer who has farmed in the Middle East and ranched for a short time in Montana. His writing has appeared in The Other Side Magazine, various poetry journals such as The Centrifugal Eye, Sentinel Poetry Online, The November 3rd Club, Words-Myth, The Greensilk Journal, The Write Side Up, and Rogue Poetry Review. He has a forthcoming short story about the Middle East in the September issue of The Danforth Review and has published prose in other publications. He currently resides on the California coast with his mysterious wife and youngest gaming son.  After 36 years as a Professor in the Midwest and Northeast, Francis Masat lives in Key West with his wife Carol and their cats. His work appears in over 70 literary publications worldwide.   Ken Jones has been a published poet for over 20 years in academic and underground journals, magazines, anthologies, websites and other forums. He earned an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a full-time faculty member at the Art Institute of Houston. He has also given readings of his original work since college at innumerable bookstores, bars, conferences, coffeehouses, and other venues. His collection of previously published poems Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters was released in 2006 by PlainView Press.
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