Contributors
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Will Alexander is a poet whose recent and forthcoming work appears in Aufgabe, Five Fingers Review, Tripwire, Hunger, Hambone, Urvox, Fence, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative, as well as in Alien Weaving Anovella From Green Integer, and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, A Book of Poems From Canopic Press.
Donia Elizabeth Allen holds a MFA in Poetry from Columbia University's School of Arts, and a MA in Afro-American Studies from The University of Wisconsin Madison. She did her undergraduate work at Brown University. Currently she serves as Associate Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.
Tom Bell is a psychologist in private practice as well as a poet. He has had poetry and criticism published nationally and internationally on-line and in print.
Michelle Maria Boleyn is a painter, photographer and poet. Her portraits of Bob Kaufman have been published in The Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Le Figaro, Beatitude-Silver Anniversary Edition, Poetry Flash, and South Atlantic Quarterly. Her photography is in the public collections of Mills College and San Francisco State University. One of her paintings is in the collection of the Multi-Ethnic Cultural Library, Texas State University, Arlington. She currently resides in San Francisco.
Daniel Carter is both a writer and musician/composer. His publications include work in The Tinker: Innovative Arts and Literature Magazine (2001), 50 Miles of Elbow Room, Number One (2000), Dyed-in-the-Wool (2000), Intervalsss: The Poems and Words of Musicians (2000), Sex Sells Magazines (1997), and Wandering Archive One (1998). He has had a long and prolific performing and recording career, both as a soloist and as a member of numerous musical groups. He is currently working on a large-scale orchestral piece.
Cris Cheek is a performance poet living and writing in England.
James E. Cherry is a poet and a fiction writer residing in Tennessee. His works have been featured in Curious Rooms, Stolen Island Review, Bma: Sonia Sanchez Journal, Sauti Mypa, Sarasota Review, and Illuminations. Presently, he has poems in the anthologies Bum Rush the Page (Crown) and Roll Call (Third World Press). He is the founder of The Griot Collective, a poetry workshop.
Horace Coleman was born and raised in Paul Laurence Dunbar's hometown, Dayton, Ohio. A teacher of literature, creative writing and composition, his most [End Page 348] recent publications were in The Asheville Review, International Chinese Poetry, Cedar Hill Review, and in the anthologies From Both Sides Now, International Poetry and Fin, Saturday Afternoon Journal. He lives in Long Beach, California.
Maria Damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (Minnesota University Press) and co-author, with Miekal And, of Literature Nation, a hypertext poem at http://cla.umn.edu/joglars/. She is a member of the National Writers' Union.
Jordan Davis lives and works in New York City. He is an editor of The Hat, and his recent books include Yeah, No, A Winter Magazine, and Million Poems Journal.
Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry: Kartunes (Warthog Press, 1980); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1991), nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; You Don't Miss Your Water (Henry Holt and Co., 1995); The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Carnegie-Mellong University Press, 1997); and Brutal Imagination (G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2001). He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature (1985), a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry (1993), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy (1993), and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award (1994). A co-founder, with poet Toi Derricotte, of the Cave Canem summer workshops for African-American poets, he will spend the next two years at the Vineyard Theatre (site of a production of Brutal Imagination) working under the auspices of a TCG/Pew playwriting fellowship.
Brent Hayes Edwards is an assistant professor in the English Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He is currently completing a book called The Practice of...
