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ken*again
CONTRIBUTORS
Eileen Green Alexander
(photography) grew up on Long Island, with a photographer Dad, lives now in
Maryland, since about 1980. She is a school teacher and a mom
with a passion for photography, especially of people and animals. eileenmikirose@gmail.com
Mikayla Rose Alexander (art) is a college student who has always
loved art. She has studied water colors and oil painting, sketching,
fashion design, ceramics, and costume design. Mikayla graduated with
an IB {International Baccalaureate}Art, English and French certificate from
her high school in Maryland. Mikayla has already been asked to do lighting
and stage managing for Theater students at her college next fall.
She continues to be active in art, dance and theater. eileenmikirose@gmail.com
George Anderson (poetry) grew up in
Montreal and now lives in Wollongong, Australia. He has published hundreds
of poems in mainstream and alternative magazines over the last six years.
He teaches high school English at a large government school and sometimes blogs
at http://georgedanderson.blogspot.com. georgedanderson8@gmail.com
K. R. Copeland and Jeff Crouch (art) mix the tangible with the
intangible, conjoining unlike elements in order to achieve multi-dimensional and
unexpected digital visuals. For this set, Crouch supplied the digital
version of psychedelic tie-dye to Copeland, who dipped her birds and words in
it. The end effect is not quite collage, not quite digital synthesis, but
a kind of over-coated/overcoded real. Indeed, with their mix of photo
know-how and the wow-ful abstract, Copeland and Crouch hope to achieve a
stimulating balancing act through the colorful chaos of their richly saturated
images. Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google
him. K. R. Copeland is a widely published poet slash occasional
digital artist. Google her when you finish with Jeff. andre-kim1@comcast.net
Robert Cullen (poetry) is a treasure hunter on the run in a city
of shadows, stumbling from time to time over the odd curiosity and things
of Beauty. willoughbyarts@hotmail.com
Doug Draime (poetry) has been a presence in the underground and
small press scene since the formative 1960's. His diverse range of
writing, including poems, short stories and plays continue to appear in
publications worldwide. He lives in southern Oregon, with his wife, Carol
and family. His latest books are "Los Angeles Terminal: Poems
1971-1980" (Covert Poetics Press) and "Last May" (Kendra Steiner
Editions). Forthcoming from Tainted Coffee Press is "Dancing
On The Skids". cddraime@charter.net
Sue Ellis (prose) is a retired postmaster
who lives with her husband in Spokane, Washington. She has been previously
published in Flash Me Magazine, Wild Violet, Camproc Press
and Dead Mule, all online publications. She was a Pushcart Prize
nominee in 2008. wasuee@netzero.com
David Erlewine (prose) His stories appear or soon will in
approximately 50 journals, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Insolent
Rudder, Rumble, 971 Menu,
Elimae, Word Riot, and Dogmatika. He edits fiction for DOGZPLOT.
daveerlewine@yahoo.com
Kane X. Faucher (serial)
is a
doctoral candidate and an emerging/mid-career author at the University of
Western Ontario’s Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism in London,
Canada. He has published in several academic and literary journals both
online and in print. He also has published three novels, Urdoxa
(2004), Codex Obscura (2005), and Fort & Da (2006). A
few of his pieces have appeared in the following online and print journals: 3711
Atlantic, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, The Argotist
Online, Copious Magazine, Culture Theory & Critique, The Danforth Review,
Defenestration, Eratio, Exquisite Corpse, Fascist Panties, Jack Magazine, Moria,
Nthposition, Nebula, Oversion, Paradoxism (anthology), Propaganda: A
Journal of Arts & Literature, Quill and Ink, Rain Taxi, Raging Face, Ten
Thousand Monkeys, Verb, Uber, Variaciones Borges, Y?, Your Black Eye, and
many others. jonkilcalembour@yahoo.com
August Franza (poetry),
novelist, poet, and playwright lives on the south shore of Long Island with his
wife, Amy. He is 76 and has three very grown kids. He is the author of The Events at Vista Bay (optioned for film
development) and The Murder of Hitler as well as numerous novels,
plays and books of poetry. He earned a Ph.D. in English in 1981 from Stony
Brook University. Mr. Franza was chairman of the English Department at Syosset
High School, Long Island, in the 1960s. gusami7@optonline.net
D. E. Fredd (prose) has had fiction and poetry published in over one
hundred literary journals and reviews. He received the Theodore Hoepfner
Award given by the Southern Humanities
Review for the best short fiction of 2005 and was a 2006 Ontario
Award Finalist. He won the 2006 Black River Chapbook Competition and
received a 2007 Pushcart Special Mention Award. He has been included
in the Million Writers Award of Notable Stories for 2005, 2006 and 2007 and was
a finalist for the 2008 St Lawrence Book Award. harbor@net1plus.com
Loretta Giacoletto (prose) Her short fiction has appeared or is
forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Damned in
Dixie Anthology, Hell in the Heartland Anthology, The Scruffy Dog Review,
Literary Mama, and Halfway Down The Stairs among others. http://www.lorettagiacoletto.com/
Swati Goswami (poetry) is from Delhi, the capital of India. She
has been writing since a young age and got published in local newspapers (which
made her very happy as a young girl.) Rains and Springtime bring out the
best of the writer in her. She is an avid swimmer and athlete and loves to
spend time with her family. swatigoswami03@rediffmail.com
Carol Lynn Grellas (poetry) is a two-time Pushcart nominee and
the author of two chapbooks: Litany of Finger Prayers, from Pudding
House Press and Object of Desire newly released from Finishing Line
Press. She is widely published in magazines and online journals including
most recently, The Smoking Poet, Oak Bend Review and Flutter,
with work upcoming in decomP, Thick with Conviction and Poetry
Midwest and Best of Boston Literary Magazine. She lives with her
husband, five children and a blind dog named Ginger. clgrellas@aol.com
Robert L. Harrison
(poetry and photography) earned a B.A. from Stony Brook University and
an advanced study degree from Hofstra University in Instructional
Communications. Robert is an historian, as well as a playwright, poet and
photographer. He has researched and published articles on Long Island's
historic past and has presented lectures on forgotten Long Islanders, the
Island's baseball history, and presentations on Long Island poets.
Robert's plays "Bloom & O'Hara," "Confessions of a
Shakespeare Addict" and "The Long Island Dead Poets Society" have
all been presented on Long Island. He has published over 400 poems in his
own poetry books, as well as in magazines and literary journals. In 1995,
one of Robert's poems received a Grammy nomination in the spoken word category
and he co-authored the children's book "Goblin Giggles" with Gene
Fehler, published by Simon & Schuster. Robert has served as the poetry
judge for the Freeport Council of the Arts Celebration of Poetry contest for
Nassau County high school students. As a photographer, Robert has been
written about in Newsday and the New York Times. His photographs have been
shown in more than 100 exhibits across Long Island. Among his many
photographic awards is a 2004 Folio Award from the Long Island Coalition for
Fair Broadcasting and an Award of Excellence from the Art League of Long Island.
Robert is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America. Recently, his work
"Light Design" was picked by a curator from the Whitney Museum for the
Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College. harrisonbd@hotmail.com
Rebecca
Katechis (poetry) is a lifelong New
Yorker stuck in Florida but ever hopeful of making it back to the
Northeast. She teaches writing in a distance learning program at JHU/CTY.
She writes now for children and young adults, collaborating with her painter
sister, Carolyn Schlam, on a memoir series for young readers. Rebecca read
poetry around NYC in a time long ago when such an event was still called a
poetry reading. She remembers those days fondly, especially the readings
she did with her friend, Hank Malone. "I have no external sense of
rhythm, so I will never perform what is now called spoken word. I
woke up one day recently thinking how nice it would be to have an adult poem in
print, and marked this rare thought with a submission to ken*again". rskatechis@yahoo.com
Eric D. Lehman
(prose) is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of
Bridgeport in Connecticut and has previously published reviews, essays, fiction,
and poetry in journals such as Red River Review, Magnolia, Entelechy,
Switchback, and here at ken*again. His first book, Bridgeport:
Tales From the Park City, is available from The History Press.
elehman@bridgeport.edu
Joseph Lewis
(poetry)
has published poetry in various print and ezines including ken*again, Sunspinner
and sometime city. He has poems forthcoming in the regional
anthology Poet's Domain. He lives in Virginia.
ezwriter101@excite.com
Lyn Lifshin (poetry)'s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was
published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006. It has been
selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous
finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. (ORDER@GODINE.COM). Also out in
2006, her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse,
Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian from
Texas Review Press.
Other of Lifshin’s recent prizewinning books include
Before It's Light published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press,
following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997. Other recently
published books and chap books include: In Mirrors from Presa Press and Upstate:
An Unfinished Story from Foot Hills and The Daughter I Don't Have from
Plan B Press. Other new books include When a Cat Dies, Another Woman's
Story, Barbie Poems, She was Found Treading Water Deep Out in the Ocean,
and Mad Girl Poems. A New Film about a Woman in Love with the Dead came
from March Street Press in 2003.
She has published more than 120 books of
poetry, including Marilyn Monroe and Blue Tattoo. She won
awards for her non fiction and edited four anthologies of women's
writing including Tangled Vines, Ariadne's Thread and Lips
Unsealed. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry
magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, Lyn
Lifshin: Not Made of Glass, available from Women Make Movies.
Her poem, No More Apologizing has been called among the most impressive
documents of the women's
poetry movement, by Alicia Ostriker. An update to her Gale Research Projects
Autobiographical series, On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace, was
published Spring 2003. What Matters Most and August Wind
were recently published. Tsunami is forthcoming from Blue Unicorn.
World Parade Press will publish Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living
and Dead: All True, Especially the Lies. Texas Review Press
published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness in 2008 and World Parade Books
just published Desire in 2008. And Drifting is just online.
Red Hen has published Persephone in 2008. Coatalism Press just
published 92 Rapple Drive and Goose River Press will publish Nutley
Pond. Clevis Hook Press just published Light at the End, The Jesus
Poems, and Finishing Line Press published Lost in the Fog; also, Ballet
Madonnas was published by Mastodon Dentist. For interviews, photographs,
more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web
site is www.lynlifshin.com. onyxvelvet@aol.com
Amelia Makinano
(poetry) lives in Queens, NY, and teaches at Forest Hills HS. She was
happily writing poems in the University of Tampa, FL when destiny put her on a
jet plane to NYC. Her professional career began in a closet—too small for
a desk— and a typewriter balanced on her knees while writing sales manuals for
a Broadway fashion company. She went on to journalism, covered crime for
The New York Post, then horse shows for equestrian publications like The
Horseman's Yankee Pedlar. She is now settled in the suburban-like part of
Queens and is back to writing poems. Amelia was recently published in The
Poetry Warrior Ezine. alarcam1@juno.com
Carla
Martin-Wood
(poetry)'s newest chapbook, Garden of Regret, has just been released from
Pudding House Publications, and another chapbook, Redheaded Stepchild, is
in production with Pudding House. She will have poems included in two
anthologies: Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen and
Casting the Nines, both due for release in autumn, 2009. A recent
Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have been widely published in the US and
Ireland, including ken*again, Rosebud, Flutter, tinfoildresses, Oak
Bend Review, Elk River Review, The Lyric, State Street Review, Aura, Astarte,The
Foliate Oak, The Linnet’s Wings, and many other journals. She has
performed her work from Greenwich Village to The University of the South at
Sewanee, serves as an in-house reader for Soundzine and maintains a
virtual open mic at Smoky Joe’s Café on her website at
www.thewellreadhead.com
Derek McCrea (art) is a US Army Infantry Combat Soldier with two
tours in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division, and this is his stress
relief. He has always loved to paint; it allows him to express emotions on
paper and relax. Derek paints in a whimsical impressionistic style in
plein air settings. He was born in Albany, Georgia on February 19,
1969. He presently resides with his wife, Sheila, of 20 years and his two
sons. He first started painting with oils in the summer of 1984.
From 1985 to 1986 he painted under the instruction of Jimmy Peterson, a well
known artist from Georgia. In 1986 he won 1st place in the Georgia Arts
Exhibition. Derek joined the United States Army in 1987 and continued self
study and painting on landscape subjects in France, Holland, Germany, Italy and
Hungary, painting in the plein air style. He has completed over 20
commissions in the past year. His works were most recently placed in the
Shoppes on Madison in historic Douglas GA, and at Artsy's on the River Street in
historic Savannah Georgia. Derek has donated several artworks to
non-profit and charitable organizations in the past: February 2007 to
Christian Mission Hospital for HIV children run by Joyce Meyer Ministries in
India, silent auction for a baby with PWS syndrome October 25, 2008, and the
Annual Benefit on OCT 17, 2008 with Rescue Ink out of NYC. His website is
at http://www.derekmccrea.50megs.com His blog is at
http://watercolorpaintingart.blogspot.com/
derek.mccrea@us.army.mil
Diane Payne (prose) teaches creative writing at University of
Arkansas-Monticello, where she is also faculty advisor of Foliate Oak
Literary Magazine, http://www.foliateoak.uamont.edu. She is the
author of two novels: Burning Tulips and A New Kind of Music.
She has been published in hundreds of literary magazines, which most
recently include: Fiction International, The Rambler, Tea
Party, and Arkansas Literary Forum. More info can be found
at: http://home.earthlink.net/~dianepayne/ dianepayne@earthlink.net
Katina Ravenswood (poetry) lives happily in the Rocky Mountain West
but still yearns occasionally for the moist rich soil and piney woods of North
Florida. As a graduate student at the University of Colorado, she studied
under poets William Matthews and Paul Nelson. Under a previous name, she
has published poems, book reviews and interviews in Kalliope, Butter
& Brass (Kalliope's predecessor in Jacksonville, Florida) , Chomo-uri,
the New Orleans Review, Rocky Mountain News and the Boulder
Daily Camera, among others. Her work is included in several
anthologies, including "Womanthology," a collection of Colorado women
writers, and "To Life," edited by Ruth Moon Kempher of Kings Estate
Press. She is currently working on a book of poems for the alphabet.
dodpoete@juno.com
Michelle Reale (prose) is an academic librarian working in a
university library in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Her fiction has been
published in
Verbsap, elimae, Monkeybicycle, Laura Hird,
Apt, Pequin, JMWW, Blood Orange Review, Freight Train, Underground Voices, The
Battered Suitcase, Dogzplot, The Blue Print Review
and others. metay2@yahoo.com
Carolyn Schlam (And another thing...) is a painter and glassmaker originally from New
York and now living and working in Miami, Florida. She's a graduate of
Harpur College and studied art with Norman Raeben in Carnegie Hall and
glassmaking at Urban Glass. She works in oil, mixed media, collage, fused
and cast glass and now combines glass with clay and metal. She has a large
body of diverse work and accepts commissions in glass and other media.
Visit her website at carolynschlam.com. carolynschlam@aol.com
Peter Schwartz (art) is an abstract painter who has dedicated his
life to perfecting his art. In addition to having his work featured on
over 80 websites, his paintings have appeared in such print journals as Existere,
Orange Coast Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed, and International
Poetry Review. His most recent exhibition was at the Amsterdam Whitney
Gallery in NYC. He is an art editor for both Mad Hatters' Review
and Dogzplot. His work can be seen directly at sitrahahra.com/.
pupil@watchtheeye.com
Iolanda Scripca (poetry) lived in Eastern Europe for the first 20
years of her life, in a loving family. Her mom was a teacher and high
school principal and her dad a published writer, poet and TV producer. She
is a graduate of Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of
Bucharest. Nowadays she enjoys Southern California and possesses a CA
Teaching Credential. Ms. Scripca publishes in several Romanian-American
Newspapers both in Romanian and English. She is married to
Ron; they own a business and enjoy traveling to exotic places.
Scripca@aol.com
Felino Soriano
(poetry), from California, is a case manager working with developmentally
and physically disabled adults. He is the editor of the online journal,
Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, which focuses on
International interpretations of experimental poetry, art, and photography.
He is the author of three chapbooks: Exhibits Require Understanding Open Eyes(Trainwreck
Press, 2008), Feeling Through Mirages (Shadow Archer Press, 2008), Abstract
Appearance Reaching Toward the Absolute (Trainwreck Press, 2009) and an
e-book, Among the Interrogated (BlazeVOX [books], 2008). The
juxtaposition of his philosophical studies with his love of classic and
avant-garde jazz explains his poetic motivation. reinterpretation@gmail.com
Richard Spuler
(poetry) His writings have appeared in numerous literary magazines.
Someday he'd like to write a book. ricks@rice.edu
Constance Stadler (poetry) has
been writing, publishing, and editing poetry from the ‘prehistoric’ epoch of
print journals to modern e-times. She was a former editor of South and
West, is currently a contributing editor to Eviscerator Heaven and,
recently, a Review Editor for Calliope Nerve. She has published
nearly 400 poems, many in her first three chapbooks released in her ‘first
manifestation’ as a poet, and has recently released first two chaps in 20
years, Tinted Steam (Shadow Archer Press) and Sublunary Curse (Erbacce).
A new full length manuscript, eBook Paper Cut (Paraphilia Books) will be
released in Summer 2009. Her most recent work appears in such 'zines as
ditch, ken*again, Pen Himalaya, Rain Over Bouville, Clockwise Cat, Hanging Moss,
Neonbeam, Counterexample Poetics, and Gloom Cupboard. She was
recently “Featured Poet” for the Guild of Outsider Writers and will be
featured in the April issue of Counterexample Poetics. Her website
is www.conniestadler.blogspot.com
connie.stadler@gmail.com
Jerry Vilhotti
(prose) has had stories published in The Dream
International, Hob-Nob, Puck&Pluck, The Literary Review
and many other literary magazines. He lives in the Litchfield Hills,
"in a simpler place in time, with a good and thoughtful wife who treats me
well (often I wonder why—writers, you know)" and their three children,
"who have helped us fulfill a dream we had long ago and far away—just
like the song!" vilhotti@peoplepc.com
John Sibley Williams
(poetry) has
an MA in Writing and has recently returned to the Boston area, where he
frequently performs his poetry. He is presently compiling manuscripts
composed from the last two years of traveling and living abroad. Some of
his over thirty previous or upcoming publications include: The Evansville
Review, Flint Hills Review, Cadillac Cicatrix, Juked, The Journal, Barnwood
International Poetry, Phantasmagoria, The Alembic, Southern Ocean Review, Poetic
Diversity, Language and Culture, Raving Dove, Ghoti, and Red Hawk Review. kafkaesque1307@yahoo.com
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