Our Writers
A. Molotkov is a a writer, composer, filmmaker and visual artist, and co-founder of the Inflectionist poetry movement (Inflectionism.com). Born in Russia, he moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. He is the author of several novels, short story and poetry collections and the winner of the 2010 New Millennium Writings and the 2008 E. M. Koeppel fiction contests, nominated for a Pushcart. His poem “Being” won second place in the recent Hawaii Review contest. His other fiction and poetry has appeared in over 25 publications, both in print and online. In February 2010, he spearheaded a one-hour poetry and music performance “Love Outlives Us” presented by the Show and Tell Gallery in Portland, OR and repeated on KBOO in June. His web site at www.AMolotkov.com/literature contains links to some of the work previously published online.
A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida. She has previously published her work in literary journals, in the U.K. as well as America, such as Avon Literary Intelligencer, Eastern Rainbow, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, The Intercultural Writer’s Review, Icon, Writer’s Gazette, and The Penwood Review.
Andrew E. Colarusso
NYU Class of 2011
College of Arts & Science
Comparative Literature
The Poetics of Cloth Creative Writing Prize Runner-Up
Email: aec362@nyu.edu
April A. has been writing for almost five years, getting inspiration from various experiences seen by the eyes of a thinker. The purpose of her creativity is urging people to see beyond the bounds, to be themselves, to speak their minds loud, not to be afraid to differ from the crowd. She creates to destroy. To destroy the naive beliefs. To destroy the stereotypes. April lives in St. Petersburg with her beloved one at the moment and hopes to succeed further both as a poet and a songwriter. Her work can be found on http://april-abd.bravehost.com/Homepage.htm
Ben Nardolilli is a 23 year old writer, currently living in Arlington, Virginia. His work has appeared in the Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, Gold Dust, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Cantaraville, and Perspectives Magazine. He was also the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU. Blog:mirrorsponge.blogspot.com / Email: ben209@nyu.edu
Chris Mansel is a writer, filmmaker, epileptic, musician, photographer and a permanent outsider for some reason. He is the author of While in Exile: The Savage Tale of Walter Seems, Soddoma: The Cantos of Ulysses, Interviews and two books of photography entitled, No Burden and Ahisma. Along with Jake Berry, he formed the band Impermanence who have released one album, Arito. He releases music under the name dilation Impromptu who have released four albums and have just released a new Cd Indentions On The North Face of Everest. His writing has been published in the Experioddi(cyber)cist, Apocryphal Text, and the Atlantic Press among others. He has made over 260 short films for other artists as well as his own work.
Dusty Pendleton, b 1946 Houston, Tx. A professional artist since graduation from Texas State University in 1970, Pendleton has lived and worked in Texas as well as England, France, Spain and Oaxaca, Mexico. Primarily a painter in oil and watercolor, Pendleton is represented in private collections in Europe, Mexico and South America as well as the United States in addition to book and music publications. Currently resides in his studio in Bandera, Tx. with his wife of 39 years, Martha. (www.pendletonart.com)
Doctori Sadisco
POEMS OF BLOOD
I write poems because I must. People ask me why I write these poems,
and I tell them it is in my blood. No other reason. Then I ask them,
“Why do you breathe? Is it to live?” I write these poems because they
are my breath. I live through these poems which are a transmission
from more than I know to what you can find out. I am the poems
you see, and they are many. Just as the swarms of cells in my flesh
are many, and the swarms of molecules in my cells are many, and the
swarms of atoms and subatomic particles in the basic nectar of my being
are many. All of these which compose my existence need a voice,
this is that voice: Poems of Blood.
David Alpaugh is a poet, essayist, dramatist, and songwriter living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Literary Journals that have published his work include Able Muse, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Evergreen Review, The Formalist, Light, Modern Drama, Mudlark, Poetry, Poets & Writers, Rattle, Thema, Twentieth Century Literature, Wisconsin Review, and Zyzzyva. Links to his poetry, essays, songs, poetry readings, and YouTubes are available at his website: www.davidalpaugh.com.
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His chapbook ‘Remembrance’ was published by Origami Condom Press and ‘The Conquest of Somalia’ was published by Cervena Barva Press. A collection of his poetry ‘Days of Destruction’ has been published in 2009 by Skive Press and another collection ‘Expectations’ is being published by Rogue Scholars Press. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He currently lives in New York City , where he’s busy writing. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines. Email: garycbeck@yahoo.com
G. David Schwartz was the former president of Seedhouse, an online interfaith committee. He is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati , Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered on Amazon. Jennifer is an employee at Drake Hospital.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. His first full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, is forthcoming from The Poetry Press of Press Americana. Email: goodh@newpaltz.edu
Heather Ann Schmidt lives in Waterford Michigan and is an adjunct professor at Oakland Community College. She edits tinfoildresses poetry journal and Quiddities Journal. Her poems can be found in various online and print journals. Her chapbook, Channeling Isadora Duncan, was recently released from Gold Wake Press and her first full collection of poems, Chasing Lou Hoover, is forthcoming from Village Green Press. She received her MFA from National University and hopes to begin pursuing her PhD at Union Institute in 2010.. You can find more info at her website.
Holly Day is a travel writing instructor living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and two children. Her most recent nonfiction books are Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, and Walking Twin Cities.
Hugh Fox was born in Chicago in 1932, spent his childhood immersed in violin, piano, musical composition, was a member of the All Childrens’ Grand Opera run by Zerlina Muhlman Metzger from Vienna, was pushed into pre-med and medicine by his frustrated-violinist father who had been pushed into medicine by his wife, dropped out of medicine and got an M.A. and Ph.D. in English/American Literature, taught at Loyola (now Loyola-Marymount) in Los Angeles for 10 years, then taught Freshman Comp at Michigan State until he retired in the late ‘90’s. He also taught for two years at the Instituto Pedagogico and the Universidad Católico in Caracas (Fulbright Professorshiop), a year at the University of Hermosillo in Mexico (Fulbright Professorship), two years at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil (again a Fulbright Professorship), received a grant to study Latin American Literature at the U. of Buenos Aires for one year, and another grant as an archaeologist (from the Organization of American States) to spend a year in the Atacama Desert in Chile, also spent one year in Spain on sabbatical and travelled throughout Spain, England, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy various times.
He had married the Peruvian poet Lucia Ungaro de Zevallos back in 1956 and after visiting all the pre-Columbian ruins in South and Central America and Mexico, he began to see things no one had ever seen before — like the fact that the writing of the Mochica Indians in Peru was ancient Lebanese, and that the writing on monuments on the ruins at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia was ancient Sumerian. That was the beginning. He has had over a hundred books published, novels, poetry, three books on archaeology, a book of his plays, literary criticism, cultural history, his latest being The Collected Poetry of Hugh Fox (540 pages, WorldAudience, NYC,2008) and Icehouse/ The Thirteen Keys to Talmud (Crossing Chaos Press, London, Ontario, Canada, 2010), The Place of the Yellow Woodpecker (Drill Press, 2010), Where Sanity Begins (Cervena Barva Press, 2010).
Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google him.
John Grey lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been published recently in the Georgetown Review, Connecticut Review, South Carolina Review and The Pedestal and has work upcoming in Poetry East and The Pinch.
Joseph Grant’s short stories have been published in over 200 literary reviews such as Byline, New Authors Journal, Underground Voices, Midwest Literary Magazine, Inwood Indiana Literary Review, Hack Writers, Six Sentences, Literary Mary, NexGenPulp, Is This Reality Zine , Darkest Before Dawn, strangeroad.com, FarAway Journal, Full of Crow, Heroin Love Songs, Bewildering Stories, Writing Raw, Unheard Magazine, Absent Willow Literary Review.
Julien Edmund Moss has been writing since age 3. He has published various illegitimate sketches in the Jibsheet, a weekly newspaper published at Bellevue Community College. He graduated BCC with an A.A. Degree in Spring 2007. He’s been published in Always Looking, Love’s Chance, Poet’s Espresso, The Stray Branch, Straylight, Soul Fountain, Languageandculture.net, Litsnack, Expressions, Eskimo Pie, Blink Ink, Open Minds Quarterly, Poetic Matrix Press (poeticmatrix.com), and Northern Stars magazines, The Sheltered Poet blog (http://theshelteredpoet.blogspot.com/) under August, December, and January 2008-9, and Record Magazine blog under July 2009. He also has a chapbook out called 24 Poems.
John Sibley Williams is a poet and small press publicist residing in Portland, OR. He has a previous MA in Writing and presently studies Book Publishing at Portland State University, where he serves as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and publicist for Three Muses Press. His poetry was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize and won the 2011 Heart Poetry Award. His chapbooks include A Pure River (The Last Automat Press, 2010), Door, Door (Red Ochre Press, 2011), From Colder Climates (Folded Word, forthcoming), The Longest Compass (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), and The Art of Raining (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, forthcoming). Some of his over 100 previous or upcoming publications include: The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, and Poetry Quarterly.
Kyle Hemmings lives and works and dies in New Jersey. He’s been pubbed in a number of places.
Krishnendu Piplai is currently pursuing his third year of a bachelor’s degree in VELLORE INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY, India. Music and literature had always been his prime passion, inspired by the works of eminent poets like Rabindranath Tagore, Jorge Luis Borges and Michael Madhusudan Dutt, his poems share the darker phases of the human life which are mostly turned a blind eye to.
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His brand new poetry chapbook with pictures From Which Place the Morning Rises and his new photo version of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom are available at: Lulu and the original version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, can be found at iuniverse.
He has been published in over 22 countries. The author is also editor/publisher of four poetry sites, all open for submission, which can be found at his website. All of his books are now available on Amazon website. Email: promomanusa@gmail.com
Mike Berger, “I am 72 years old. I have a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and was a practicing psychotherapist for 30 years. I am now fully retired. I have authored two books of short stories. I have published in numerous professional journals. I have freelanced for more than 20 years. My humor pieces Clyde and Goliath, Good Grief Columbus, and If Noah Built the Ark Today have won awards. I am now writing poetry full-time. I have many pursuits which include sculpting, painting, gardening and baking bread. My forcaccia is to die for.” Email: berger8247@msn.com.
Muhamed Riyaz is an International freelance Journalist, Press reporter, Writer, Social worker & Human rights activist for the past 10 years who has worked in India, Saudi Arabia & U.A.E. Apart from that, he has gained expertise and owed many designations during these years in various sections of the Corporate world like Media, Sales, Marketing, Public Relations, Business Development, Events, Conference, Career Counseling, Administration, Customer Service, Strategic consulting, Project Handling, Database & Call Management in various industries like Newspapers, Advertising, Event Management & Information Technology. He is currently a Business consultant for multiple organizations.
His core interests are analyzing global political relations between various nations and other burning issues. Muhammed writes articles on general topics which are of importance to day to day life of the common man as well as many important topics which are of grave concern to the global community. He is also a Crime & Investigative reporter besides being associated with projects of media and human rights organizations globally.
His volunteering activities include participating in various Global Peace, Human Rights & Social rights campaigns. He has actively associated in the last decade on many programs conducted by Global Organizations viz Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Organization for Migration, Red Cross, Journalists against Nuclear weapons, etc. with prominent personalities like Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT, USA (Global political speaker & critic of Imperialist nations). Email: riyazppmc@gmail.com
Nicole Taylor has attended college in Salem, Oregon where she lives near her siblings, mother and other British family. She has been published in her college newspaper and a local anthology. Nicole has also won several contests in a local bookstore and her college newspaper. She attends local workshops, readings, and festivals. She is dancer, an artist and a volunteer.
Nicole has been published at wordgathering.com, other online sites, Yes Poetry the Silverton Poetry Association, and The Chemeketa VISIONS of Chemeketa Community College. Her poetry has won first place in Chemeketa VISIONS and several places in the Jackson’s Books Annual Poetry Contest, a now closed local independent bookstore and host of the Third Thursday events. She attends at the Third Thursday readings, Third Wednesday, Second Sunday readings, and other area events. In spring 2008 she won an anonymous donation to Vern Rutsala’s Silverton Poetry Association class and a scholarship to Lawson Inada’s Improvisations and Lively Noise workshop Everyday Poetry at Sitka Center for the Arts and later two short workshops during the Oregon State Poetry Association Spring 2010 Conference in Eugene, with Quinton Hallett and later Matthew Dickman. In spring 2008 she had two poems published online at wordgathering.com and another poem was performed in her DanceAbility dance group, through Chemeketa College. Dancer and poet Ruth has read a few of her poems at campus Soapbox Readings and published one in her poetry e-mail newsletter, Very Local Poetry.
Her poems, art and blog can be found at her blog and links:
http://www.apoetessanthology.blogspot.com/ and http://alternativereel.com/includes/poets-corner/display_review.php?id=00103
Peycho Kanev is 28 years old. He loves to listen to sad music while he slowly drinks his beer. His work has been published in Welter, Gloom Cupboard, Poetry Cemetery, Nerve Cowboy, The Chiron Review, The Guild of Outsider Writers, Mad Swirl, Side of Grits, Southern Ocean Review and many others. He loves to put the word down and not talking on the cellphone for days. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Award. He lives in Chicago. Alone.
His new poetry collection which is a collaboration with the poet Felino Soriano and the Editor Edward Wells is out now and can be found at Amazon.com.
Richard O’Connell lives in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. Collections of his poetry include RetroWorlds, Simulations, Voyages and The Bright Tower, all published by the University of Salzburg Press (now Poetry Salzburg). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Margie, National Review, The Texas Review, Acumen, The Formalist, Light, etc. His most recent collections are Dawn Crossing and Waiting for the Terrorists. Email: rocon100@comcast.net
Ricky Garni was almost certain that he would draw pictures of Spiderman for a living until he found himself in a faraway country at the age of 16 that only offered two books in English: Richard Brautigan’s REVENGE OF THE LAWN and Jacqueline Susann’s ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH. Brautigan’s “Pale Marble Movie”, the first story he read, knocked him down and over and out completely and he woke up saying “You can do that? It’s OK?” and automatically wanted to do that, just what Richard Brautigan had done, for the rest of his life. He liked ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH, too. After all, he was 16. It didn’t make him want to write, though, particularly.
Roger Cornish aged 51 has been married for 31 years and has a son who is 22. He had a daughter Sarah, who died at the age of 9 due to Cystic fibrosis. Roger was a Coal Miner for 23 years and now works in a cannery making pet food. He studied English literature and Language to A level standard at night school some years ago. He says, “that’s my only claim to academia I’m afraid, having left school with no qualifications.” He has always enjoyed reading and accidentally found Bukowski’s novel ‘WOMEN’ in a bookstore. That got him into poetry, although he had memorised Byron’s “She walks in beauty” years ago. He has a Westie and a Scotty terrier who dominates everything! He has also been published in ‘One Night Stanza’ and ‘ Gloom cupboard’. E-mail: cornirog.1@btopenworld.com
Sergio Ortiz has a B.A. in English literature from Inter-American University, and a M.A. in philosophy from World University. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in: Autumn Sky Poetry, 3LightsGallery, The Smoking Poet, The Acentos Review, Poesia, and many other journals. He has traveled and worked throughout South, Central, and North America. He currently lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Email: ortsergio@gmail.com
Stephen Jarrell Williams loves to write, listen to his music, and dance late into the night. He was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His parents are native Texans. He has lived most of his life in California. His poetry has appeared in Anthology, Avocet, Blue Collar Review, The Broome Review, Byline Magazine, Chronogram Magazine, Fissure Magazine, Freefall, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hawaii Review, HUNGUR, Liquid Imagination, Nerve Cowboy, Mirror Dance, POEM, Poesia, Posey, Purpose, REAL, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and many others. Email: stephenjarrellwilliams@hotmail.com
Stephan Anstey is the founder of Shakespeare’s Monkeys and Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, both venues primarily for poetry and poets. As an artist, he is focused on spiritual exploration and the celebration of the individual in mankind’s endless war against an increasingly invasive society. Anstey’s art is primarily a combination of poetry, paint and digital collage, some of which is on display at the Arts League of Lowell Gallery on Shattuck Street in Lowell. He lives an idyllic life in the historic mill city of Lowell, Massachusetts with his beautiful and beloved bride Ellen and their talented and wonderful children, Emily, a Classics major at Boston University, and Cameron, an excellent trombonist with many bands at Lowell High School.
Salvatore Buttaci is an obsessive-compulsive writer who plies his craft many hours a day. His poems, stories, articles, and letters have appeared widely in publications that include New York Times, U. S. A. Today, The Writer, ShortPoem, Cats Magazine, The National Enquirer, Christian Science Monitor, and Six Sentences. He was the recipient of the $500 Cyber-wit Poetry Award in 2007. His collection of 165 short-fiction stories, Flashing My Shorts, is available from All Things That Matter Press at
http://allthingsthatmatterpress.com or from
He lives with his wife Sharon in West Virginia.
Vanessa Jubis is 31 years old and lives in Miami, Florida with her husband and three young daughters. She is currently working on a novel, a memoir and continually writes poetry. She is currently an MFA student at National University. When she’s not writing, she’s either sewing a new dress for her daughters or baking and decorating fondant cakes. You can read some of her writing on her website.
William Doreski teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His latest collection of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge. He can be contacted on wdoreski@keene.edu.
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Sana Rafiq is a freelance writer and editor. She has been published in “Women in Religion” by Mary Pat Fisher, and also received a personal letter from the former Indian Prime Minister Mr. A.B. Vajpayee dated March 25, 2003 for her poetic works when she was 16 years old. She has been active in several independent literary projects. Her first poetry collection ‘The Silent Music’ was privately published in New Delhi, India through the Vir Arjun News Press (Daily Pratap) which was inaugrated by former Deputy Prime Minister Mr. L.K. Advani on Feb 20, 2003. Other official recognitions include a certificate of appreciation from the Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) Mr. Talmiz Ahmad. Also published by Jenifer Wills in her digital publication entitled: Don’t Call me Plath: 12 outstandin women in small press. Her poetry book ‘Raison d’etre of Life’ is available on amazon and cyberwit.
She is owner and managing editor of The Neglected Ratio e-zine which publishes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, articles, arts, photography and critical essays. Currently she is pursuing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership (Curriculum & Instruction) from the University of Phoenix.
