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Jeff Dutko still lives in West Hartford with his wife and son and they all still throw a red ball to their crazy dog.

Jared Booth lives in England.

Christopher Cunningham is a cheese-eating, french wine-drinking, poem-writing elitist but despite his pretentiousness he still manages to be bitter as he clings to his guns and religion. He prefers coffee to orange juice though, so that, coupled with an extra large flag lapel pin, makes him a Real American.

Greg Braquet exists in New Orleans, but like most poets lives in a world of his own schmoosing.  His poetry has appeared in such publications as The Hiss Quarterly, The New Laurel Review, Mannequin Envy Anthology, THEMA, Poems Niederngasse, The 2006 Rhysling Anthology,  Red River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Pierian Springs, Tryst, Side Reality, The Adagio Verse Quarterly, The Little Green Tricycle, The Junket, L'Intrigue, Branches Quarterly, Stylus Poetry Journal, Subtle Tea, The Exquisite Corpse, Slow Trains, Zygote In My Coffee and The Melic Review. He placed second in the 2006 Rock River Times Poetry Contest and also placed third in the 2005 Eugene Walter Writers Festival.  He and was a recipient of the Delirium Journal's 2003 Choice Award.

Helen Losse is a poet, free lance writer, and Poetry Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Her recent and forthcoming poetry publications include  Southern Hum, Adagio Verse Quarterly, The Centrifugal Eye, Ann Arbor Review, Lily, Ghoti, and Blue Fifth Review.  She has two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces, available from FootHills Publishing and Paper Snowflakes, available from Southern Hum Press. 

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of three poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing, and Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications. He was recently nominated for the second time for a Pushcart Prize.

David McLean has an e-chapbook here, and a chapbook on sale at Erbacce Press.  He has a full length poetry collection forthcoming at Whistling Shade Press very soon. There are around 500 poems now in, or forthcoming in, just over 210 mags. Details are at his blog.

Zachary Stafford has been called many things, but mostly Zac. He was born in the 1900's, and lives in St. Paul. He writes mainly for himself, but sometimes for online journals like Northography and mnartists.org.

Kenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM.  He produces the poetry website Origami Condom.  In his spare time he goes to Isotopes baseball games (Triple-A), hikes the desert and foothills trails, views movies and participates in the local poetry scene.

Kimo Pokini is a self-taught visual artist living and working in Salt Lake City, UT.  His minimalist paintings and mixed media collages combine color,texture and shape and explore the relationship between structure and improvisation.

In April, 2007, Larry D. Thomas was appointed by the Texas Legislature as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate.  He retired in 1998 from a thirty-one year career in social service and adult criminal justice, and has since that time published seven collections of poems.  Two additional collections of his poetry are currently in press: The Fraternity of Oblivion (Timberline Press, 2008) and New and Selected Poems (TCU Press, 2008).  Among the numerous 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), two Texas Review Poetry Prizes (2004 and 2001), a 2007 Poet’s Prize nomination (Nicholas Roerich Museum), two Pushcart Prize nominations, and a $2,000.00 grant from The Ron Stone Foundation (Oct. 2007).  In June 2002, he was selected by Barnes and Noble Booksellers as the Houston Area Author of the Month.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal's chapbook, Keepers Of Silence, was recently published by Kendra Steiner Editions. 

Rohith Sundararaman is a twenty-three-year-old writer based out of Bombay, India. He has blackmailed his way into magazines such as elimae, eclectica, ghoti fish, orange room review, tipton poetry journal, gud magazine, right hand pointing, word riot and other places. He honed the craft of blackballing people at a local business school. Recently, he used this craft for the benefit of a newspaper company he has begun working for.

Over the past year, writing by Ron Singer (www.ronsinger.net) has appeared in, or been accepted by, twenty publications. For instance, his Essay-Review, “O Ti Lo Wa Ju (‘You Have Gone Past All’), The Caine Prize for African Writing,” is in the Summer 2007 issue of The Georgia Review, and three poems are slated for the anthology, Poetic Voices Without Borders-2 (Gival Press). His chapbook, A Voice for My Grandmother (Ten Penny Players, Inc), went into a second printing in October 2007, and has garnered eight reviews. Singer lives in New York City. He recently retired from Friends Seminary, a K-12 Quaker school where he had taught for over thirty years. His wife, a visual artist, is also a teacher; their daughter is a food writer.

Eric Magrane recently completed a permanent mirror-poem installation at Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, Arizona. His website is www.ericmagrane.com.

Robert Tiffin is a 25 year-old filmmaker and writer currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. His first feature length film, Downtime, was recently released on DVD after two long years in production. He also has a chapbook, Flowers from The Devil, currently available on Amazon. He continues to write daily while also shooting an experimental companion piece to his poems called, Flowers for The Devil, which will be released on DVD sometime this summer.

Mark Cunningham has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Sentence, Parcel, and Practice. Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book tentatively titled Body Language, which will contain two separate collections, one titled "Body" (on parts of the body) and one titled "Primer" (on numbers and letters).  Mark's web chapbook, Second Story, appears on Right Hand Pointing and we're closing in on a second one to appear here.

David Highsmith is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco. Recent poems are forthcoming in the Antioch Review, Beatitude, foam:e, and Sawbuck. His books include Poison in the System, Fragments from Bernard, The Chatterley Stanzas, and Catalina Island.

David Jordan, who lives in Bend, OR, is a former newspaperman and teacher turned poet/fictionwriter. He has published poems and stories in more than eighty literary journals, including Nimrod, Rattle, Comstock Review, Thema, Long Shot and Ballyhoo Stories.

Rich Murphy's credits include Great Grandfather, a chapbook; poems in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, New Letters, Negative Capability, Spiral Bridge, foam:e, and Confrontation; and essays in Fulcrum, The International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture, and Fringe.

F.J. Bergmann lives in Wisconsin, for the 4th or 5th time, and at fibitz.com. While she lacks literary academic credentials, she is kind to those so encumbered. Her work has appeared in 13th Warrior Review, 21 Stars Review, Foliate Oak, Opium, Press 1, and a recent chapbook, Aqua Regia (Parallel Press 2007).

Sara Owens is founder and President of a promotion consulting firm based in Salisbury, Maryland. Sara received her Bachelors degree in Communications and her Masters degree in Advertising from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Though her poetry has been published in a few barely-known publications, she is most proud of the receipt of a hand-written (complimentary) rejection note from Alice Quinn, former Poetry Editor of The New Yorker.