|
ken*again
CONTRIBUTORS
David Alexander (art)
was a Washington native, painted as a hobby. He painted for relaxation and
therapy. He loved painting in the style of "Photo Realism"—painting
from a photo. He also took sketching classes at the Maryland College
of Art and Design. He died in 1996 from a rare form of Leukemia.
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 16 year old high school student who
has always loved art. She has studied water colors and oil painting,
sketching, fashion design, ceramics, and costume design for her school's Theater
Department. Mikayla is in an IB {International Baccalaureate}Art,
English and French program at her high school in Maryland. She is
active in art, dance and theater, in school and in the community. eileenmikirose@gmail.com
George Anderson (poetry) grew up in
Montreal and now lives in Wollongong, Australia. He has published widely
in mainstream and alternative magazines over the last five years. In early
2008 you will find more of his work on Haggard and Halloo, Lit Chaos,
Yellow Mama, Red Fez, Literary Tonic, My Favorite Bullet,
A Tender Touch, Lost Beat Poetry, Hecale, Bolts of Silk
and many others. He edits the student poetry journal Ephemeral now
in its fifth print edition. Erbacce-press (UK) will shortly publish
a chapbook of his poetry called Dancing on Thin Ice.
garp2@bigpond.com.au
Uma Asopa (poetry) lives in India with her husband with her two daughters
and an adorable dog. She is a pediatrician by profession and writes poetry
to explore herself. Her poems have appeared earlier in ken*again, Lily
Literary review, Slow Trains, Subtle Tea, Poetic Voices, Pen Himalaya and
Spillway Review. Her poems can also be read on bologi.com
and South Asian Women's Forum. umaasopa@rediffmail.com
Priscilla Barton (poetry) has
appeared in Red Coral, Some Words, Shades of December, The Rose and Thorn,
Stirring: A Literary Collection, Falling Star Magazine, Rustlings of the Wind,
Lily, Pebble Lake Review, The Hypertexts, Can We Have Our Ball Back? and
various other small prints. She was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Award.
She resides in New York and works in the mental health field. She is madly
in love with poetry, and sometimes it loves her back. AntaresStarr@aol.com
Lisa Braxton (prose), a native
of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is an Emmy-nominated journalist. She is a former
television news anchor and reporter and spent her television career at stations
in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. She is also a former newspaper
reporter and radio reporter. She is currently manager of public education
projects for a nonprofit fire safety organization in the Boston, Massachusetts,
metropolitan area, where she writes, edits, and produces fire safety materials
and also makes public presentations. lisabraxton@hotmail.com
Christine Bruness
(art) is a writer and artist who has
been a creative free spirit her whole life. She has had hundreds of
poems, short stories, essays, articles, guest editorials, and artwork
published both in print and online literary publications. Her first
book: Imbalance, An Experimental Collection of Micro Stories and Poetry,
received the Rose/Rosemary Zientek Award. In 2007, Christine won the Useless
Knowledge 500 Word Story Contest for her piece, "Cat's Eyes".
Her artwork and/or poetry most recently appeared in A Hudson View, Literary
House Review, OCEAN, Poetic Hours, Transcendent Visions, Seasons,
Bewildering Stories, Poet's Ink, and Bolts of Silk, and
is forthcoming in Subtle Tea, and 3 Lights Gallery. In
February 2008, Christine appeared as the "Featured Artist" for
both Indie In-Tune and Carpe Nocturne. She lives in New
Jersey with her husband, Richard, and their two cats: Daisy and Shadow.
Strays visit often and are always welcome and fed. chatnoir@comcast.net
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). He had two chapbooks published by Kendra Steiner
Editions, Without Peace and Keepers of Silence.
Cuatemochi@aol.com
Maryam Chahine (poetry) is
an American Muslim woman living in the Pacific Northwest. She has loved poetry
ever since she first got her hands on the books of Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and
Shel Silverstein—poetry is a part of who she is. She is currently a
student working on a major that keeps changing every year and a minor in Arabic
and writing. Her work has been featured in Poetry Revolt.
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
Oscar Fairley (art) is from Maryland, and a nursery school movement
teacher, a popular local story teller and an accomplished artist.
Kane X. Faucher (prose) 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
William
Gladys (prose) is the pen name of Brian Rayner. Under his pen name he
published (through his own Derek Books) a satire, Monarchy:
Politics of Tyranny & Denial, an irreverent critique of royals and
monarchy in Britain at the present time, which is being stocked by local
bookshops and some branches of Ottakers. He self-published because he was
fed up with delays from interested publishers in Great Britain. He has a
BA in English Literature from Cardiff University, is a pensioner, married with
three children with hordes of grandchildren rooting about his place from time to
time. Writing short stories is a new venture for him. His hobbies
include stained glass work, walking his dog Daisy, and playing the blues on
trumpet. He is keen on flying single engine aircraft, but the cost is
prohibitive at present. He enjoys listening to Miles Davis and William
Orbit and reading prose and poetry; poetry-wise he likes Sylvia Plath and will
not apologize to those who consider her rather over the top and angst
ridden. williamgladys@tiscali.co.uk
Carol Lynn Grellas (poetry) is a Northern California-based writer. She
attended Santa Clara University where she was an English and Art major.
Her first Chapbook: Litany of Finger Prayers will be released
in 2008 from Pudding House Press. Her First book, I'm Packing Things
for Heaven, a collection of poetry, was published in 2007 by Authorhouse.
She has had dozens of poems appear in magazines and online journals, including
most recently, The Oasis Ezine, The Oasis Online, Las Cruces
for Poets & Writers, Munyori Poetry Journal, Words on Paper,
The Pregnant Moon Review, Moondance, Dogzplot ,Twilight
Musings Anthology, The Verse Marauder and A Tender Touch. S he
has poems forthcoming in MSU Great Falls Literary Guild: Writings from
the River, The Storyteller Magazine, Sonnet-writers and Chanterelle's
Notebook. She lives with her husband, five children and a blind dog
named Ginger, who inspire much of her poetry. clgrellas@aol.com
Michael D. Grover (poetry) is a Florida born poet. As a
drifter, he has lived all over the country. Michael's poetry has been
published all over the literary underground in places like Cause & Effect,
Citizen 32, Alphabeat Soup, The San Gabriel Poetry Quarterly,
Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Poets and the anthologies One
Drop: To Be The Color Black, West Memphis Witchhunt, and My Time:
The Lunch Break Book and online including www.saintvituspress.com,
www.outsiderwriters.org, www.getunderground.com, www.dyingwriters.com, DecomP
Literary Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee, Redfez.net, Whirlygig
Zine, and Beat The Dust. Michael is now back in Florida; from
there he hosts the website www.covertpoetics.com, co-edits CP Journal,
and hosts a reading at Exodus Coffee & Culture in Port Saint Lucie.
Michael spends entirely too much time in his lab where he experiments with words
and sound. He plans on moving soon once again. His newest chapbook
is titled "The Man That Lives In The Park". covert.poetics@gmail.com
Karen Kelsay (poetry) is a native Californian, who grew up along and
on the Pacific, and that should explain her love for writing poetry about the
sea. At the same time, she has written narrative, romantic, and
fairy-theme poems that were created with other backgrounds and foreign lands in
mind. She attended college in Alaska, where she studied art and history, and then
devoted much time
to traveling, for leisure, and the sake of gathering impressions for writing
poetry. Several of her rhymed and free-verse verses have been accepted by
the following magazines: The Christian Science Monitor, Love’s
Chance, The Oak, The Shepherd, Designing On Line Magazine,
Pregnant Moon, The Storyteller, Avocet, Lucid Rhythms,
Oasis Magazine and Munyori Poetry Journal. pkincalif@yahoo.com
Eric D. Lehman (prose) is a Professor of English at the University of
Bridgeport in Connecticut and has published travel stories, fiction, essays, and
poetry in various journals, such as Hackwriters: The International
Writer’s Magazine, INK, Nature’s Wisdom, Niederngasse,
Simply Haiku, Travelmag, Ultraverse, Bluegreenearth,and
others. 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) has written more than 100 books and edited four
anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and
literary magazines in the U.S.A., and her work has been included in virtually
every major anthology of recent writing by women. She has given more than
700 readings across the U.S.A. and has appeared at Dartmouth and Skidmore
colleges, Cornell University, the Shakespeare Library, Whitney Museum, and
Huntington Library. Lyn Lifshin has also taught poetry and prose writing
for many years at universities, colleges and high schools, and has been Poet in
Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain
College. Winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book
Kiss The Skin Off, Lyn is the subject of the documentary film Lyn
Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. For her absolute dedication to the
small presses which first published her, and for managing to survive on her own
apart from any major publishing house or academic institution, Lifshin has
earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Presses." She has
been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders has
seen her as "a modern Emily Dickinson." onyxvelvet@aol.com
Duane Locke (art) lives in rural
Lakeland, Florida. Duane Locke, Ph. D. (Metaphysical Poetry) has had (as
of May 07) 5,877 poems published in print and e zines and 17 print and e books
published. He is also a painter, exhibited widely—a discussion of his
work appears in Gary Monroe’s Extraordinary Interpretations (U of Fla
press). He has a recent exhibition, “Outsider Art” at Polk
Museum. Dr. Locke is also a photographer and has 289 photos published on
the internet. He goes close-ups of tossed away trash, Mystic vegetation, visual
music and nature (primarily small insects). For more information,
interviews, awards, etc. click on Google, he has quasi half-million entries and
is listed in Who’s Who in America (Marquis.) duanelocke@gmail.com
Scott Malby (poetry) digs deep
for bones along the Pacific Coast in Coos Bay, Oregon. He'll promise you
anything if you scratch him in the right place. scottmalby@gmail.com
Carla
Martin-Wood (poetry) Her chapbook,
Garden of Regret, is forthcoming from Pudding House. Her work has
or will appear online in IBPC New Voices (Winner 2nd Place
April) and Goblin Fruit. She has published in print journals since
1978, including Rosebud, State Street Review, Elk River Review, The Lyric,
Aura, Astarte, and many others. Carla is a passionate believer in
spoken word and has performed her poetry from coffeehouses and bars to the
sacred halls of academia. Under the pseudonym of “Angel”, she created
and maintains Smoky Joe’s Café, a virtual coffeehouse where poets may read.
Her
website,
including Smoky Joe’s Café, is located at http://thewellreadhead.googlepages.com
Leigh Pierce (prose) is a writer, poet, artist and basically just a
jackass-of-all-trades. With over two decades of experience writing, he already
has over twelve decades of work to show for it. The pages pile up next to
the bills, and he takes turns sending them out. It just depends on how
much money he’s got for postage. With nothing but endless time on his
hands and visceral thoughts in his head, he creates some of those most unique
writing available today. When not huddled over the keyboard, he’s kept (semi)sane
by his wife and their two sons in Edgerton, WI. Publishing Credits: Janesville
Gazette, Edgerton Reporter, Wisconsin State Journal, The
Isthmus, Slug & Lettuce, Profane Existence (1st ever
printing of a fictional in their pages, issue #56), Gloom Cupboard
(online and print edition), Literary Kicks, Lummox Journal, Word
Riot, and others. He is also the editor and creator of the online
poetry webzine, Skitzo Lit (http://sitzolit.blogspot.com) dairylanddisturbance@hotmail.com
Quentin Poulsen
(prose) is
a former journalist from Wellington, New Zealand, teaching in Spain, though
currently on extended vacation in Turkey. He studied literature at Doane
College in Nebraska and won a share of the university's literary award in
1993. He is now seeking a publisher for his short novel based around the
main character in Robot Mode. quentinpoulsen@yahoo.com.au
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
Marcus Rose (prose) lives on Kauai, Hawaii, where he says that the
races are as segregated as the pre-Civil Rights Movement south, without, of
course, the fully extroverted animosity between groups. Rose has lived on the
island for three years. He lived in Montana before he moved.
Wayne
Scheer (prose) taught writing and literature in college for twenty-five
years; he retired to follow his own advice and write. He's been nominated
for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net. His work has appeared in
The Christian Science Monitor, Notre Dame Magazine, The
Pedestal, flashquake, Pindeldyboz, Eclectica Magazine, Hamilton
Stone Review, Stone Table Review, River Walk Journal, The
Potomac and Triplopia. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife.
wvscheer@aol.com
Austin
G. Wallace
(poetry) as a youth wandered the United States, and as of now teaches ESL in
South Korea. Inside and outside the classroom, people tell him he walks,
talks and smells like poetry (bathing doesn't help). He is also a painter, and
his as yet unnamed band will put out a CD by the end of 2008. austin_g_wallace@hotmail.com Janet
Yung (prose) lives and writes
in St. Louis. Short fiction has appeared in Writers On The River
and on-line Foliate Oak, Terrain and Flashquake. nickyung@charter.net
Return
to top of page
|
|