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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
--Gilbert K. Chesterson
 

Contributors

Arlene Ang lives in Spinea, Italy. Her poetry has appeared in Caffeine Destiny, Diagram, In Posse Review and Unpleasant Event Schedule. She received the 2006 Frogmore Poetry Prize (UK) and serves as a poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. More of her writing may be viewed at www.leafscape.org.

Molly Schoemann grew up in New York City and moved to Boston by way of Honolulu.  She works for a braille publishing company and writes humor and fiction at night.  She enjoys cooking, writing, and living cheaply in expensive cities.

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.

Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio.  He is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry www.joebalaz.com  He is also coauthor of JOMA‚Äîonline, an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis  www.jomaonline.com  His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Icon, Oregon Literary Review, AdmitTwo and Eleventh Transmission.

Brian Foley has been a narc for the governor's office going on twelve years now. He enjoys the idea of relocation but abhors the sound of suitcases on wheels. Under various pseudonyms he received his BA from Emerson College and has published work in Juked, Quick Fiction, Night Train, and Otoliths.

Christopher Major lives in Stoke On Trent , England; where he is currently training as a Psychiatric Nurse. Over the last 20 years poetry has been placed in many print literary magazines . Poetry in many Ezines including: High Horse, Snakeskin, Poetry Kit, Birmingham Words, Lit Kos, Underground Voices, The Hold, Straight From The Fridge, Laura Hird Showcase, Winamop, Shampoo, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Smokebox, Tryst, Dirt, Bolts Of Silk, Word Riot, Thieves Jargon, 3rd Muse, Orange Room Review, Coupremine, Pemmican.  His work has appeared previously in RHP.

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.

Doug  Draime lives in a Yellow Submarine, where they say he writes with Ringo Starr's old drum sticks.

Michael  Frissore drives elderly women crazy with his olive oil voice and guinea charm. (And, if you know what movie the latter part of that is from, you can be his very best friend.)

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. His email address is seaquaker (at) gmail.com.

Helen R. Peterson , managing editor of Chopper Poetry Journal, also co-editing a special New London issue of Fell Swoop with Tom Weigel, due out next year. Hopefully. Also published in Poetrybay, Pedestal Magazine, and the now defunct Images Inscript.

Michael Ogletree is the poetry editor for SUB-LIT Literary Journal. He just wrapped up a ten-year stint as an undergraduate. Michael recently defected to Germany with a graduate fellowship at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz to study English literature. Weird, huh? His new work recently appeared or is forthcoming in BlazeVOX, Poetry Midwest, Lily Literary Review, and Death Metal Poetry, among others. His mother says his poems sound pretty, but she doesn't always know what they mean.

Ron Singer (www.ronsinger.net) trawls the genres, switching among them as the currents of imagination eddy and whirl. Singer's thirty-year tenure at a Quaker school may ultimately be owed to fortunes made in the Nantucket whaling industry. He lives on an island (Manhattan), his wife's studio overlooks one river (The East), and from their window they can see a sliver of another (the Hudson). His indifference to aquatic sports has never dampened his love of nautical metaphors.

When not writing the best damn poetry her gray matter can whip up, Victoria Clayton Munn is also known for having a morbid sense of humor, finding ways to work the word "defenestration" into everyday conversation and thinking puns are funny. She has been published in in such poetic places as Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), Boston Literary Magazine, Edifice WRECKED and Zygote in My Coffee, and others. You can find more of Victoria's brain dribbles at writinggirl.com

Howie Good  thinks he's pretty funny, but he's not funny enough to write a funny bio.

Dr. Andrei Smyslov is a retired astrophysicist from Russia.  His recent visual art focuses on show business celebrities and podiatry.

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