#24: Hospital for Ghosts

What good is a poet who cannot dig a ditch?

--Doug Draime

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Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal works in the mental health field.  His latest chapbooks are Still Human (Kendra Steiner Editions) and Before And Well After Midnight (Deadbeat Press).  Recent poetry has appeared in The Stray Branch, Unlikely Stories, Ya' Sou!, Yellow Mama, and Zygote In My Coffee.

C L Bledsoe has two collections, Anthem and _____(Want/Need). He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine  Lots of credits he's never even heard of before.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in Texas.  She is the author of two books, Reading Berryman to the Dog (2000) and Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press, 2008) and two chapbooks, After Happily Ever, (2River Chapbook Series) The Storage of Angels (Slow Water Press).  Notes about her poems on line and in print appear on her website.

Doug Draime is a regular with us. Sometimes we try to turn down his work and we can't  Doug  emerged as a presence in the 'underground' literary movement in Los Angeles in the late 1960's. Most recent book publications: Bones (Kendra Steiner Editions), Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980 (Covert Press), and Speed of Light an online chap at Right Hand Pointing. Forthcoming: Knox County (Kendra Steiner Editions) and a large collected volume from d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press, Transmissions From The Underground. He moved to Oregon in 1981, where he still resides.

Nicolle Elizabeth is pleased to be a part of Right Hand Pointing. Thrilled, Baby, Thrilled. She has worked in a hula hoop factory, hardware store and other places, right now she slays Brooklyn." 

David Erlewine lives outside Annapolis with his wife and children.  He works in DC and writes little stories at night and on the train.  Some of these stories have been published in Titular, Pedestal, Keyhole (web), 971 Menu, Elimae, Monkeybicycle, and other places.  His sad little blog is http://www.whizbyfiction.blogspot.com/

Brent Fisk's work has appeared in a lot of places.  Some recent mags he likes are
Debris, and Clapboard House.  He has also had work in Rattle, Fugue,
Cincinnati Review and Prairie Schooner.  He did NOT win the Rattle Prize
this year so my bathroom remodel will have to wait.

Jeff Fleming has been writing poetry since he weighed less than 100 pounds. He weighs more than than now, but is still writing poetry when no one is looking. He draws great inspiration from his children, but tries really hard not to write about them. Occasionally, however, they do sneak in. Kids are like that.

Kristin Fouquet, a fine art photographer and writer, is a native of New Orleans. Fortunately for her, she lives in a city which provides many intriguing subjects. Samples of her street photography, unique portraiture, and still life can be seen at Le Salon: http://kristin.fouquet.cc .

Regular contributor Howie Good has a new chapbook, Tomorrowland.  Grab it up, yo.

Catherine Harnett is a poet and author of short fiction. She has published two poetry books, and her fiction has appeared in the Hudson Review and its anthology of Coming of Age stories (Writes of Passage). Recently, her poems appeared in Innisfree, an online poetry journal. She lives in Virginia with her daughter and a needy Bichon Frise who seems know exactly when to interrupt the writing process with demands for food and attention. 

Hosho McCreesh hails from the deep, vast gypsum and caliche deserts of the American Southwest. He maintains his sanity by writing poems and prose, and by smearing paint on canvas. Books available through Bottle of Smoke Press, and Sunnyoutside; a broadside via 10pt press.

Tara McDaniel works at a rare books and manuscripts archive specializing in Western Americana. It is here, among the dusty books and straggles of researchers, that she writes her poems and stories. Her previous work has been published in Bellowing Ark, Words-Myth, and WOMB Poetry, and is forthcoming in Marginalia.

Carah A. Naseem is a young'n, a frolicker, and a lolligagger. But above all these things, she is a girl who, one day, paraded through the thoughts in her head, and rained on the parades in other people's heads, and found it amusing to document her travels. Nothing more, nothing less.

Lee Passarella acts as senior literary editor for Atlanta Review magazine and as editor-in-chief for the new literary journal FutureCycle Poetry. His work has appeared in Chelsea, Cream City Review, Louisville Review, The Formalist, Antietam Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Literary Review, Edge City Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Snake Nation Review, Umbrella, Slant, Cortland Review, and many other periodicals and ezines. Recent publications include ShatterColors and Shit Creek Review. Poetry is forthcoming in Poemeleon and Terrain.org.  Swallowed up in Victory, Passarella's long narrative poem based on the American Civil War, was published by White Mane Books in 2002. It has been praised by poet Andrew Hudgins as a work that is "compelling and engrossing as a novel." A poetry chapbook entitled Sight-Reading Schumann was published by Pudding House Publications in summer of 2007.

Gordon Purkis is the publisher of Nefarious Ballerina, and Mastodon Dentist, two damn fine poetry sites on the world wide web. He also paints, draws, plays the clarinet, bowls, and smokes not-so-fine cigars.

After years of writing and painting, Peter Schwartz has moved to another medium: photography. In the past his work's been featured in many prestigious print and online journals including: Existere,Failbetter, Hobart, International Poetry Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed, and Willard & Maple. Doing interviews, collaborating with other artists, and pushing the borders of creativity, his mission is to broaden the ways the world sees art. Visit his online gallery at: www.sitrahahra.com.

Some of R Jay Slais’ most recent and forthcoming publications include poems at Barnwood,  Every Day Poets, Flutter Poetry Journal, Literary Tonic, MiPOesias, Neon, and Sub Lit. A single father raising his two children, he makes a living as an engineer/inventor in Metro Detroit Michigan.

Dr. Andrei Smyslov is a retired astrophysicist and faith-based podiatrist.  He currently divides his time between homes in Arkansas and Norway.  His art recently appeared in the literary/arts magazine Wayne.

Zachary Stafford writes:  I was born in the 1900’s. ‘76 to be exact.  I don’t remember, but my mother sure does. It was late, her dinner was large and Italian.  Lasagna.  Meatballs.  A shot of tequila and a Camel to calm the indigestion.  After several hours of restless tossing in bed, I broke her water with my elbow. She was thankful I didn’t have 6 toes per foot and born breech, like my older brother. Fast forward. I can finally stomach garlic, live in St. Paul having moved here from Chicago, Kenosha, Madison, Cleveland, Columbus, where I was born under a starless sky. Oh, and I write for Northography.com and publish on mnartists.org when I am not working in a business that isn’t honorable. Not pornography or publishing or law, but Public Relations.

Christian Ward is a 28 year old London based poet currently moonlighting as a freelance journalist. His poetry has appeared in Diagram, The Kenyon Review and Thieves Jargon. His chapbook, Bone Transmissions, will be released in March courtesy of Maverick Duck Press.

Changming Yuan grew up in rural China, authored three books before moving to Canada, holds a PhD, and currently teaches writing in Vancouver, with recent and forthcoming work in Barnwood, CanLit, Drunken Boat, Iodine, Istanbul Literary Review, New Quarterly, Nthposition, Salzburg Review, Saranac Review, Sentence, Taj Mahal Review and Windsor Review.

 

 

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