Fall, 2011

1.2 (Fall, 2011): Out Late September

Contributors:

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His poems and translations have appeared in Guernica, Boston Review, and DIAGRAM. He works at the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center and is a 2011 fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Joel Allegretti (www.joelallegretti.com) is the author of two full-length volumes of poetry from The Poet’s Press: The Plague Psalms and Father Silicon. In 2010 Poets Wear Prada released his third collection, Thrum, a chapbook of poems, prose poems and poetic essays about musical instruments. Allegretti’s work has appeared in The New York Quarterly, Margie, Rattapallax, Art/Life Limited Editions, Slipstream, Confrontation, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics and many other national journals, as well as on the Best American Poetry blog.

Dmitry Borshch is an American artist of Soviet origin. He was born in Dnepropetrovsk, studied in Moscow, today lives in New York and exhibits internationally. His work has been exhibited at the National Arts Club (NY), Brecht Forum (NY), Exit Art (NY), CUNY Graduate Center (NY), Salmagundi Club (NY) & ISE Cultural Foundation (NY).

Edward Byrne is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Seeded Light (Turning Point Books, 2010). A seventh collection, Tinted Distances, will be released in 2011. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals—such as American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, American Scholar, The Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Oxford Magazine, Quarterly West, Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Poetry Review—as well as a number of anthologies. He is a professor of American literature and creative writing at Valparaiso University, where he serves as the editor of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Lorna Crozier’s latest book of poetry is Small Mechanics, published by McCelland & Stewart. A Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria, she is the recipient of several awards for poetry, including the Governor-General’s. She lives on Vancouver Island with the writer Patrick Lane and their two fine cats.

Linh Dinh is the author of five books of poetry and three of fiction, with the latest a novel, Love Like Hate. He has also published political essays in many alternative webzines.

Julie Doxsee holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2007) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she lives and writes in Istanbul on the European shores of the Bosphorus, where since 2007 she has been teaching creative writing, academic writing, and literature courses at Koç University. Her book of poetry, Objects for a Fog Death, was released by Black Ocean in 2010.

Phil Estes’ chapbook is called Gem City Fountain City (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2009) and he has poems forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Redivider, Sonora Review, and others. He lives in Stillwater, OK.

Katie Farris is the author of boysgirls, a book of short-short fictions from Marick Press (2011). Her fiction and translations have been published in various journals, including TriQuarterly, Verse, Washington Square, and Fugue, as well as in books and anthologies from presses such as Harper Collins, Graywolf and Tupelo. Currently, she is an assistant professor at San Diego State University.

John Gallaher is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, co-authored with G.C. Waldrep, due out in Spring 2011 from BOA Editions, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press. Other than that, he’s co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press and The Akron Series in Poetics, with Mary Biddinger.

Mark Gosztyla has poems forthcoming from, or recently published in, Tuesday: An Art Project, Requited, and The Helix. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire’s MFA program and now teaches poetry at Tufts University. Mark lives in Somerville, MA with his wife, Amy, hound-dog Bailey, and the shade of Whitey Bulger.

Ivy Grimes received her MFA from the University of Alabama, and she is now in law school. Her poems have been published in The Cimarron Review, Euphony, Word Riot, decomP, and Radioactive Moat.

Eileen G’Sell lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and teaches at Washington University, where she is publications assistant for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Her work can be found in journals such as the Boston Review, Ninth Letter, and Harp & Altar. Since 2004 she has been an active mentor at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club of St. Louis.

Arlo Haskell is the publisher of Sand Paper Press, a director of the Key West Literary Seminar, and author of a collection of poems called Joker. He appears in the recent television documentary, Key West: Bohemia in the Tropics, and lives in that southernmost Florida city. Recent projects include fiberglass repairs to his fishing boat, a website overhaul, a transcription of Charles Olson’s 1945 Key West notebooks, and the beginnings of a new poem.

Shawn Huckins currently lives and works in Middletown, Connecticut. For more dirt on Huckins and his work, please visit www.shawnhuckins.com

Guy Jean resides in Gatineau, Quebec, where he is much involved in the development and promotion of literature. He collaborates in creative and translation projects with artists and poets in Quebec, USA and Europe. He has just recently published his seventh book of poems.

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship awarded annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing in Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord magazine. In 2008, Kaminsky was awarded Lannan Foundation’s Literary Fellowship. His anthology of 20th-century poetry in translation, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, was published by HarperCollins.

J.P. King is a Montreal artist, writer, & publisher. His most recent book with Anteism is a single 27-foot print. His work has shown throughout Canada, in Minnesota, and Stockholm. An upcoming residency focused on the death of newspapers will take him to Toronto for the summer, while another residency will place him in the Yukon for fall of 2011. He currently runs Paper Pusher Print Works, an experimental micro-press dedicated to visual & text collaborations. Find him at www.jpking.ca

Diane Lefer has published three short story collections, including California Transit which received the Mary McCarthy Prize and was published by Sarabande, and the nonfiction The Blessing Next to the Wound, co-authored with Colombian exile Hector Aristizabal and published by Lantern Books. Her advocacy journalism has appeared in CounterPunch, LA Progressive, New Clear Vision, Truthout and other publications. She has led writing workshops for literacy skills and social justice in the US as well as in Colombia and will take her methods to Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2012.

Lesle Lewis’ books include Small Boat (winner of the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize), Landscapes I & II (Alice James Books 2006) and lie down too (Alice James Books 2011). She lives in New Hampshire and teaches at Landmark College in Vermont.

Born in Cuba, Pablo Medina moved to New York City with his parents at the age of twelve. He is the author of 12 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and translation, among them the poetry collection The Man Who Wrote on Water (2011) and the novel The Cigar Roller (2005). Medina writes and publishes in both Spanish and English, and his work has appeared in periodicals and magazines throughout the world. He is currently professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston.

Dolan Morgan lives and writes in Brooklyn. www.dolanmorgan.com

Curtis Perdue was born and raised in Miami, FL. His book reviews and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Willow Springs, NOO Journal (online), H_NGM_N, Cloudbank, Redivider and Ghost Town. He is the founding and principal editor of inter|rupture, a new online journal of poetry and art. www.interrupture.com.

Jared Schickling lives in upstate New York. His newest book of poetry, t&u& lash your nipple to a post history is gorgeous, is published by Blazevox (2011).

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels. His writing has been compared to the work of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, and Jim Jarmusch.

J. A. Tyler is the author of A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed and A Shiny, Unused Heart and has recent work with Diagram, Black Warrior Review, Redivider, Fourteen Hills, and New York Tyrant. He is also founding editor of Mud Luscious Press. For more, visit: www.chokeonthesewords.com.