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ken*again
CONTRIBUTORS
Khurshid Alam
(poetry) was previously a correspondent to an English tabloid, The Guiding
Star (Guwahti, Assam, India). He is a Technical Writer and writes web
contents, technical documentation, and business writings. He is now
writing poems, stories and currently working on a novel. Some poems have
been published in various journals and magazines in India and many are in the
queue to be published. khurshids.poetry@yahoo.com
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
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
(poetry) works in the mental health field in Los Angeles, CA. His
first book of poetry, Raw Materials, was published by Pygmy Forest Press.
His poems have appeared in Free Verse, Pemmican, and Zygote In
My Coffee and he has work appearing in Ascent Aspirations, Cerebral
Catalyst (both online journals), and in Blue Collar Review & Remark
Poetry Journal (print journal). Recently, he had chapbooks published
by Kendra Steiner Editions, Still Human, and by Deadbeat Press, Before
& Well After Midnight. He has a new chapbook, Overcome,
co-authored by photographer Cynthia Etheridge, and published by Kendra Steiner
Editions. Around October 2010, his chapbook,
The Book Of Absurd Dreams, will be published by New Polish Beat.
Cuatemochi@aol.com
Alan Britt (poetry) His recent books are Vegetable
Love (2009), Vermilion (2006), Infinite
Days (2003), Amnesia
Tango (1998) and Bodies of Lightning (1995).
The
Poetry Library providing a free access digital library of twentieth and twenty-first century
English poetry magazines with the aim of preserving them for the future, has
included Britt’s work published in Fire
(UK) in their project. Britt’s work
also appears in the new anthologies, American Poets Against the War, Metropolitan Arts Press, 2009 and
Vapor
transatlántico (Transatlantic
Steamer), a bi-lingual anthology of
Latin American and North American poets, Hofstra University Press/Fondo de
Cultura Económica de Mexico/Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Peru,
2008. Britt recently served as Panel Chair for Poetry
Studies & Creative Poetry
for the PCA/ACA Conference 2007 in
Boston and read poetry at Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ (2009) and the WPA
Gallery/Ward-Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River, NY (2008). He was nominated
for the Pushcart Prize 2008. Alan
currently teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University and lives in
Reisterstown, Maryland with his wife, daughter, two Bouviers des Flandres, one
Bichon Frise and two formerly feral cats. AlanBritt@comcast.net
Steve Cartwright (cartoons) has done art for several magazines,
newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, books, and tavern
napkins. He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups.
He was awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers.
He recently illustrated the Cimarron Review cover.
Take a gander (or a goose) at his online gallery:
www.angelfire.com/sc2/cartoonsbycartwright SCCART@aol.com
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
James A. Ford (prose) Writing has been a passion of his for many
years. His first publication credit dates back to the last century—1996.
Fortune smiled again with published stories in both May and June of this year.
He really writes stories as an outlet for his own mind, but "boy it sure is
nice when some one else likes them too." fordmail@rogers.com
Claire R. Foster (poetry) is an MFA student at Pacific University,
and lives in Portland, Oregon. claire.rudy.foster@gmail.com
Jeff Foster (art) is influenced by Gustav Klimt and Hieronymus Bosch.
He tries to create nebulous pictures of spirituality with his art. His
work has appeared in Tar Wolf Review and Steamticket. Mr.
Foster lives in Missouri with his wife Pam and teenager Kassie, where he runs
his own cleaning business. jpkfos@embarqmail.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
Paul Handley (poetry)
spent a career as a
student and a student of odd jobs. He
has an MA, an MPA, and is ABD. He
has driven a cab and sold meat door-to-door.
Paul has work included or forthcoming in Anemone
Sidecar, Apollo’s Lyre, Boston
Literary Magazine, The Shine Journal,
and others. paulehandley@hotmail.com
Rebecca
Katechis (poetry in art) 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. She
is the author of a book of poetry for children and their parents, Even
If You Never Go To Sleep, (illustrated by Carolyn) which will be
published by Valentine Avenue Press later this year.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. 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@gmail.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
Vikki Littlemore
(poetry) has recently had work published in The Glasgow Review, Poetry
Monthly International and Melisma, and was the second runner up in
the Birds on The Line featured poet competition. vikkilittlemore@hotmail.com
Duane Locke
(poetry) lives by an ancient oak, an underground stream, and as an osprey’s home in rural Lakeland, Florida.
Has Ph. D., specializing in English Metaphysical Poetry. Present: A 400 page book of his poems, YANG CHU’s POEMS,
published in April, 2009 by the Canadian publisher, Crossing Chaos. Can now be
ordered, Crossing Chaos on Search Engine, then click on Catalogue, then Yang
Chu, then Order Now, Pay by Pay Pal. Also, can be ordered from Amazon. Also: A discussion and review of Duane Locke’s YANG CHU’S
POEMS by Constance Stadler is now on the current issue of CounterExample
Poetics. Recent: Featured poet and Interviewed (23pp.) in Constance Stadler
and Antony Hitchen’s “Eviscerator Heaven, #4” Past: 6,352 poems published in print magazines and e
zines. The entire issue, Vol. 10, No, 1 of “The Bitter Oleander”
contains his poems And 92pp. Interview. Poems and Interview in Mukul Dahal's Pen Himalaya (Nepal)
Now available: Interview in Felino Soriano’s Counter Example Poetics.
Currently, The featured poet. For further information, click “Duane Locke” on Google Search, 524,000
entries.
Also is in Who’s Who in America (Marquis). duanelocke@gmail.com
Joan McNerney
(poetry) has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Boston
Review of the Arts, Kalliope, Mudfish, Spectrum and Word Thursdays. Four of
her books have been published by fine literary presses. She has performed at the
National Arts Club, State University of New York, Oneonta, McNay Art Institute
and other distinguished venues. A recent reading was sponsored by the American
Academy of Poetry. Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky, A.P.D. Press,
Albany, New York. poetryjoan@statetel.com
Louise Norlie (And another thing...) Every day Louise Norlie plows
through miles of traffic to crunch numbers and shuffle papers in a windowless
cubicle in northern New Jersey. She doesn't know how she got to be that
lucky. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various publications,
most recently Unlikely Stories and Sein und Werden. One of
her short stories is featured in Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone
Bad (Dead Letter Press). She also has contributed a chapter to Unseen
Childhoods: Disabled Characters in 20th-Century Books for Girls which was
recently published by Bettany Press. Her website can be found at
louise-norlie.blogspot.com.
Scott Owens
(poetry) has
received awards from the North Carolina Poetry Society, the North Carolina
Writer’s Network, the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of
South Carolina for his four collections of poetry and more than 400 poems
published in various journals and anthologies. He is co-editor of Wild
Goose Poetry Review, Chair of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize, author of
“Musings” (a weekly poetry column), and founder of Poetry Hickory. He
teaches creative writing at Catawba Valley Community College and has been
nominated for two Pushcart Prizes.
asowens1@yahoo.com
Bill Roberts (poetry) is a retired nuclear weapons consultant who lives
quietly in Broomfield, Colorado. His poetry has appeared in well over a
hundred small-press and online magazines over the past thirteen years. If
he could rewind his clock, he'd try to become a dog trainer, opera singer or
ballet dancer—maybe all three. marcorosie@comcast.net
Brenton Rossow (art) has been living in South East Asia for the past nine
years. He is the lead singer of an experimental three piece called The Folding
Chairs. His work has recently had work published in LINQ, Thieves Jargon, Taj
Mahal Review, Decomp Mag, Origami Condom, Nefarious Ballerina, Sein Und Werden,
Parameter Magazine, Barrel House and Everyday Genius.
He is currently working on a novel about grasshoppers in Laos.
Carolyn Schlam (art) 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
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb
(poetry) is co-founder of Native West Press, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit,
natural history press. In addition to ken* again (Fall 2005 and Summer
2007), her poetry has appeared in The Foliate Oak, Concho River Review,
SevenCircle Press, The Externalist, Blueline, Terrain.org:
A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, Midwest Quarterly, The
Pedestal Magazine, The Kerf, LanguageandCulture.net, Broken Bridge
Review, and many other print and online journals. Her interests include
poetry and linguistics, evolutionary psychology, and the phenomenon of biophilia
related to sustainable practices and human interactions with the natural world.
She holds an interdisciplinary MA in Ecosemantics from Prescott College. nativewestpres@cableone.net
Tom Sheehan (poetry)'s
Epic Cures (short stories), won a 2006 IPPY Award. A Collection of
Friends, Pocol Press, was nominated for Albrend Memoir Award. He has nine
Pushcart and three Million Writer nominations, a Noted Story nomination, a
Silver Rose Award from ART and the Georges Simenon Award for Excellence in
Fiction. He served in the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1951-52. He
has published four novels, four books of poetry. In publication process
are two short story collections, Brief Cases, Short Spans (due fall 2008,Press
53) and From the Quickening (due spring 2009, Pocol Press). He meets again soon
for a lunch/gab session with pals, the ROMEOs, Retired Old Men Eating Out,
(92/80/79/78). They’ve co-edited two books on their hometown of Saugus,
MA, sold 3500 to date of 4500 printed and he can hardly wait to see them.
His pals will each have one martini, he’ll have three beers, and the waitress
will shine on them. tomfsheehan@comcast.net
Sam Silva
(poetry) has published at least 150 poems in print magazines, including Sow's
Ear, The ECU Rebel, Pembroke magazine, Samisdat, St. Andrew's Review, Charlotte
Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, and many more. Has published at least 300
poems
in online journals including Jack Magazine, Comrades, Megaera, Poetry Super
Highway,
physik garden, ken*again, -30-, Fairfield Review, Foliate oak, and dozens of
others.
Three legitmate small presses have published chapbooks of his; three of those
presses
have nominated work of his for Pushcart a total of 7 times. Bright Spark
Creative of Wilimington purchased rights to his first full length book EATING
AND DRINKING and put the book out through author house at their expense.
He now has many books and chapbooks available at http://www.lulu.com/samsilva54.
And his spoken word poetry is avaible at the major digital markets such as Apple
i tunes.
samsilva54@nc.rr.com
John Sims
(prose) is now 53, retired from field archaeology and taken up the ambition
to write for money. He sold 25 magazine articles and 6 short stories, ranging
from historical fiction to fantasy. He was born and retired in Wales. He has no
plans to write a novel but would like to write for television when time
allows. john.sims10@ntlworld.com
Lee Stern
(poetry) lives in Los Angeles where he is the manager of a Lincoln Towncar
service. He is very nervous about his first, upcoming public reading this
August at a church in Ocean Park, Ca. Most recently his poems have shown
up in jubilat, RATTLE and BLUE EARTH REVIEW in addition to a number of online
sites. He has gotten to the point where writing a poem a day has become
something of an ingrained habit. lstern90066@yahoo.com
Jack Swenson
(prose) is a teacher and scribbler who lives in sunny California. He
hasn’t written his million words yet, but he is close. He writes flash
and micro fiction. He also teaches a class at a local senior center and
works around the house and yard when he has to.
swenjack@comcast.net
Davide Trame
(poetry) is an Italian teacher of English. He was born and lives in
Venice-Italy. He has been writing exclusively in his second language, English,
for twenty years. His poems started appearing in journals, now around four
hundred, since 1999.
His poetry collection "Re-emerging" was published as a downloadable
on-line book by www.gattopublishing.com. davide.trame@libero.it
J. A. Tyler (prose) 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. author@aboutjatyler.com
Saskia van der Linden (prose) was
born and bored in 1969 in Delft, The Netherlands. She has an MA in Dutch
Language and Literature from the University of Leiden. In 1997 she moved
to England, where she held various jobs as an Administrator and Dutch Tutor,
often combining the two. After eight years she moved back to The
Netherlands and is now residing in Den Haag. By day she is a Team
Assistant at Shell, by night she is a writer. Other publications include
‘My life before I met & married Mick Jagger’ (BBC Shropshire website
2004), ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ (The Sun website 2007) and ‘No. 3840251’
(Quill & Ink website 2007). lindens@live.nl
John Vespasian (prose) has lived in New York, Madrid, Paris, and
Munich. His stories reflect the values of entrepreneurship, tolerance, and
self-reliance. johnvespasian@gmail.com
Denise Vincent (prose) was born and brought up in the West
Midlands and moved to Wiltshire in 1996. She lives with her husband Ray
and three children in a small village near Stonehenge. She has recently
graduated from the Open University with a first class honours degree in English
literature. Denise is a full time Mum and works part-time in a primary
school as a teachers assistant. vincentd@waitrose.com
Joanna M. Weston (poetry) has had poetry, reviews, and short stories
published in anthologies and journals for twenty years. She has two
middle-readers published, ‘The Willow-Tree Girl’, ‘Those Blue Shoes', and
poetry, ‘A Summer Father’, published
by Frontenac House of Calgary. peacewoode@gmail.com
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