#26: Broken Glass
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
--Dan Quayle
contributors
Mike Berger was a practicing psychotherapist for 30 years and is fully retired. He has authored two books of short stories and has published in numerous professional journals. His humor pieces "Clyde and Goliath," "Good Grief Columbus," and "If Noah Built the Ark Today," have won awards. He now writes poetry full-time and pursues sculpting, painting, gardening, and baking bread. His forcaccia is to die for.
Donald Dunbar keeps a blog.
Michael Estabrook says "Over the years I have published 15 chapbooks and appeared in some terrific poetry magazines, but you are only as good as your next poem and like a surfer searching for that perfect wave, I am a poet prowling for that perfect poem. Right now I am looking for that perfect poem in my wife, who just happens to be the most beautiful woman (and person) I have ever known. If I find it anywhere I’ll find it in her." Michael had work in Issue 22 of Right Hand Pointing.
J. A. Tyler is the author of the forthcoming novellas SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (ghost road press) and IN LOVE WITH A GHOST (willows wept press) as well as the chapbooks THE GIRL IN THE BLACK SWEATER (Trainwreck Press) and EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH (Achilles Chapbook Series). He is also founding editor of mud luscious / ml press. Visit: www.aboutjatyler.blogspot.com.
Josh Thompson is a poet and short story writer from New York City. His work has appeared in The Coe Review, The Ugly Tree, Thick With Conviction and Poetry Superhighway, among others. He is awaiting the resurrection of Charles Bukowski. He has some questions that desperately need answering.
Donal Mahoney has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press, McDonnell Douglas Corp. (now the Boeing Corp.) and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor, Revival (Ireland), The Beloit Poetry Journal, U.S. Catholic, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), The National Catholic Reporter, Public Republic (Bulgaria) and other publications.
Have you ever swallowed a mad potion and become somebody else? Move over Mr. Hyde, here comes Bob Eager. According to legend, Bob Eager is in fact local Phoenix actor-writer Edgar Rider but nobody knows for sure. This step-by-step guide is written by Bob Eager but sponsored by Edgar Rider. Edgar Rider was a script supervisor for a feature film in Zambia, South Africa called Bad Timing.
Janice D. Soderling's fiction, poetry and translations appear regularly online and in print. She won a 2006 Glimmer Train Stories short fiction competition (#64) and was a runner-up in a 2007 Emerging Writer contest at Our Stories, soon forthcoming in an anthology. Her work is included in other anthologies in Swedish and English. Recent publication includes a sonnet at 14 by 14, free verse at Umbrella, Shit Creek Review, and Centrifugal Eye, surrealist poetry at ditch, translation at Frostwriting, prose at Literary Bohemian and Soundzine. Janice hails from the United States, but lives in a small village in Sweden where cheesemaking, ironworking, and a sawmill are the main trades.
Originally from the Mid-West, Francis Masat is Professor Emeritus, Rowan University, New Jersey. He lives in Key West with his wife Carol. He has had over 800 poems published in 70+ journals. Recent chapbooks are A Taste of Key West (Pudding House Press, 2008) and Lilacs After Winter (MET Press, 2008).
Thomas (Tom) Gribble earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University in 1999. While in the MFA program, he was awarded the Associated Writing Programs Intro to Journals Award for poetry and the Kansas State University Graduate Poetry Award. He received the Artist Thrust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship for Literature. His work has appeared in one hundred plus journals including Puerto Del Sol, Chattahoocee Review, and Hawaii Review. Tom produced a collection poetry, Interest Free Karma. He’s the past publisher and editor of the literary journal Heliotrope (the one in the west), and he is the current managing editor of Gribble Press. Tom is also a visual artist with several solo exhibits, collaborative exhibits, and a permanent exhibit at the Hagan Center for the Humanities, Spokane, WA. In 2008, Tom received a diversity grant from Spokane Community College for the exhibit, Graphic Diversity. His art has appeared on numerous book covers.
Hoa Ngo is a graduate of the University of Missouri's Ph.D. program and the recipient of an NEH Fellowship. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Tuesday Shorts and Mud Luscious. Hoa lives in central New York where he teaches Karate to exactly one student. His website is located at hoango.com.
Robin Storey's large body of work includes painting, video art, and dozens of music CDs released under the name Rapoon. The most recent Rapoon CD is "Dark Rivers." Robin was a founding member of the musical group zoviet france. He also makes music with the group Reformed Faction. Their recent triple CD is entitled "I Am The Source of Light, I Am Not a Mirror." For more about Robin's work, including his paintings: www.rapoon.net .
Lee Stern lives in Los Angeles, the gateway to all of the other dimensions.
Jarrid Deaton lives and writes in eastern Kentucky. He received his MFA in Writing from Spalding University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Zygote in my Coffee, The Cut-Thru Review, The Beat, and others.
M.K. Meder's poems have appeared in numerous publications, NEW LETTERS, KARAMU, THE RAVEN CHRONICLES, THE AMERICAN POETRY JOURNAL, PINYON, MUDFISH, RATTLE, the AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW, RIVERSEDGE, THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW, PEREGRINE, and OYEZ among them. l
Sally Molini is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in various magazines, including LIT, Beloit Poetry Journal, elimae, qarrtsiluni, Gargoyle, and Hanging Loose. A grad of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program, she lives in Nebraska where she is currently swimming the vast and choppy inland waters of putting together a first book. She is also one of the editors of Cerise Press.
Nathan Ingham has been writing poetry and short fiction since third grade, when his first poetic metaphor portrayed the brisk winds of fall as velociraptors. He's lived most of his life in Vermont & Wisconsin, and can't swallow cheese. He thinks it's psychological.
Phoebe Wilcox is a lifelong resident of Eastern Pennsylvania. The first chapter of her novel, Angels Carry the Sun, has been published in Wild River Review and an excerpt from a second novel in progress, The Use of Flower Symbolism in Feminist Art and Literature, has been published in Wild Violet. Her story, “Carp with Water in Their Ears,” published in River Poets Journal has been nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Recent poetry may be found in Blue Collar Review and Word Riot, and is forthcoming in Fiction at Work and in a chapbook of the River Poets. She has also been the recipient of a James Michener Scholarship award.
Ray Templeton is a Scottish writer and musician, living in England. His poetry, short fiction and writings on music have appeared widely on the web and in print, and sometimes even other people sing his songs.
A midwestern girl at heart, Carly Kus currently lives and writes in Paris, France.
C L Bledsoe has two collections, Anthem and_____(Want/Need). He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine. He's an RHP regular.
Catherine Zickgraf is a former American Northerner excited about growing her roots into the red Georgia clay. Her most recent credits include a forthcoming poem in Journal of the American Medical Association’s “Poetry and Medicine” section.
Stephanie Anderson has been published in such places as The Rose and Thorn, The Wilderness House Literary Review, Flutter Poetry Journal and Eclectica. She co-edits the online literary journal, Up the Staircase, and is the mother of two boys.
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