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Spring/Summer 2012
Guest Editor: Melissa Buckheit
Samuel Ace is the author of three collections of poetry: NormalSex (Firebrand Books), Home in three days. Don’t wash., a hybrid project of poetry,video and photography (Hard Press), and most recently Stealth,co-authored with Maureen Seaton (Chax Press). He is arecipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, two-time finalist for aLambda Literary Award in Poetry, winner of the Astraea Lesbian Writer’s FundPrize in Poetry, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and theFirecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry. His work has been widelyanthologized and has appeared in or is forthcoming from, Ploughshares, Eoagh, Spiral Orb, Nimrod, The Prose Poem: anInternational Journal, Kenyon Review, van Gogh’s Ear, Rhino, 3:am, andothers. He lives in Tucson, AZ and Truth or Consequences, NM.
Maya Asher is 27 years old and anArizona native. She is a poet, an advent student of American Sign Language, andworks with children. She graduated from the University of Arizona with aBachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, a Bachelor of Science in SpecialEducation and Rehabilitation, and a Masters of Arts in RehabilitationCounseling. She was one of the three founders of the longest running TucsonPoetry Slam. She has been a spoken word artist for 5 years. She has beenfeatured in The Edge Reading Series, in Tucson and been on the KXCI 91.3 Radioshow, A Poet’s Moment. She hasperformed in many bars and coffee shops around the country. She is fascinatedby communication is all forms – speech, ASL, behavior, art, and more. Shejust accepted the title of Director of Health Initiatives for the Tucson YouthPoetry Slam and is creating a pilot program for poetry and healing. Along with her poems in this issue, she has an essay Disability, Poetry, ASL, and Me. 
Naomi Benaron’s debut novel Running the Rift won the 2010 BellwetherPrize, for a novel addressing issues of social change.Other awards include the Sharat Chandra Prize forFiction, the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize andthe Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. Her fiction, poetry, andreviews have appeared in many print and online journals. She teaches writingonline for UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and is a mentor for the AfghanWomen’s Writing Project.
Debby Jo Blank is the author of TheExplosion of Binary Stars (Shearsman Books, 2012) and is a primary carephysician in Tucson, Arizona. Her medical training was in Boston at Tufts,Harvard and a three-year Sloan Fellowship at MIT. She won the Faulkner Prizefor Poetry in 2008 and has been short-listed for the Hippocrates Prize, theBlack Lawrence Award and was a finalist for both the St. Lawrence Award and theJoy Harjo Contest. In 2012 she was awarded the W.D.Snodgrass Fellowship. She has studied in the MFA program at Lesley Universityand studied writing at Sarah Lawrence, the Fine Arts Work Center inProvincetown, the Poetry Week of San Miguel de Allende, Iowa Writer’s Workshop,ASU and as an Undergraduate at Stanford. She hikes in the Sonoran Desert in theAmerican Southwest, a greenbelt of cacti, Palo Verdes, Mesquite, Cottonwoodsand other indigenous plants hardy enough to withstand the summer heat and thewinter freeze. She has volunteered in hospice and at the Poetry Center of theUniversity of Arizona. 
Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork,selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Book Prize, and, withprogrammer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012). Her chapbook, Tonal Saw (2010), was published by TheSong Cave. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities atMIT and will join the faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at theUniversity of Washington Bothell this fall.
Marguerite Guzman Bouvard is the author of six books and twochapbooks of poetry. Her latest poetry book, The Unpredictability of Light, won the Massbook award for poetry.She is also the author of twelve non-fiction books. Her poems have been widelyanthologized and have appeared in many literary journals such as Louisiana Literature and the Istambul Literary Magazine. She’s aResident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis Universityand gives poetry workshops at the Yanafide (You Are Not Alone Foundationfor Inspiration and Empowerment) non-profit foundation.
Lisa Bowden, Publisher and co-founder of Kore Press, is the editor of Autumnal: A Collection of Elegies,co-editor of Powder: Writingby Women in Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq,and co-adapter,director and producer of Coming in Hot(a play based on Powder). She is the 2011 recipient of the Maryann Campau Fellowship for poetry from the University of ArizonaPoetry Center and a Woman on the Move Award from the YWCA. A poet who works with an ensemble of dancers,writers and a musician, Lisa is a graduate of the University of Arizona. Shehas lived in London and Barcelona but currently resides in Tucson with herpartner Eve and daughter Djuna.
Afounding member of Oulipo, Paul Braffort is a poet, computer scientist, andsongwriter. His books in the Bibliothèque Oulipienne include Mes Hypertropes, Trente-quatre brazzles and Les bibliothèques invisibles,among others. His most recent collection is J & I: lesdeux combinateurs et la totalité (Plein Chant, 2002). He hasalso written numerous textbooks on artificialintelligence and programming. Much of his work can be found at www.paulbraffort.net. He lives in Paris.
Originally from NewYork and New England, Melissa Buckheit is a poet,dancer/choreographer, photographer, English Professor and Bodywork Therapist.She is the author of Noctilucent,(Shearsman Books), published in March 2012, an e-chapbook, Arc, (The Drunken Boat, 2007), and her poems,translations, photography, interviews and reviews have appeared or areforthcoming in nth position, Blue Fifth Review, The Drunken Boat, Broad!: A Gentlelady’sMagazine, Blue Five Notebook, Sinister Wisdom, University ofArizona Poetry Center eNewsletter, Cutthroat,Bombay Gin, Pirene’s Fountain, A Trunk of Delirium,Spiral Orb, Shearsman Magazine, and SonoraReview, among others. She translates the poet IoulitaIliopoulou from Modern Greek and the poet Olga Broumas into French. A recipient of the American PoetsHonorary Award, a Grossbardt Prize, and a Tucson-PimaArts Council Dance grant, her poetry has also been nominated for two PushcartPrizes. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from NaropaUniversity and a B.A. in English & American Literature/Creative Writing,Dance/Theatre, and French from Brandeis University. She has taught Literatureand Writing at The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, The Southwest University of VisualArt, Pima Community College, and the University of Arizona, as well as dancethrough Zuzi! Dance Company, Mirasol Eating Disorder Recovery Program, Arts for All andPaulo Friere Freedom School. Also achoreographer, Melissa has performed and premiered her work in Boulder, Boston,and Tucson, where she is a member of Brandeis Dance Collective and Zuzi! Dance Company. Melissa is the founder and curator ofEdge, a monthly reading series for emerging and younger writers at Casa Libre enla Solana in Tucson, AZ, which emphasizes diversity of narrative, identity, andaesthetic. She lives in Tucson with her partner, Rebecca and their son, Jacob.Read more of her work from Noctilucent at Shearsman Books.Simmons B. Buntin is the founding editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built &Natural Environments, now in its 15th year. His books of poetry are Bloom(2010) and Riverfall (2005), both published by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry. He haspublished poetry and prose in such publications as North American Review, Orion, Kyoto Journal, and Versal. His book highlightingsustainable communities, Unsprawl, will be published by PlanetizenPress this fall. Catch up withhim at www.SimmonsBuntin.com.
Wendy Burk is the author of two chapbooks, The Deerand The Place Names The Place Named, and the translator of Tedi LópezMills’s While Light Is Built and Arcadia in Chacahua. Readmore work online in Spiral Orb,Terrain, and InTranslation.
D. Phillip Clifford received hisMFA from the University of Arizona and has completed a manuscript entitled Myth of Scarcity, which deals with theintimate dynamics of family, culture, sexuality and religion. He is therecipient of the Hattie Locket Award for Poetry, University of ArizonaFoundation Award for Poetry and was nominated for an Association of Writers andWriting Programs Intro Award. He has had poems published in Persona, Underground Voices and Callaloo.
Lisa M. Cole is a writer and artistwho holds an MFA in poetry fromthe University of Arizona’s Creative Writing program. She is the author of twochapbooks, Tinder// Heart and The Bodyscape both of which areforthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She is currently transforming Tinder//Heart into a full-lengthcollection. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the anthology, Bound By the Secrets We Hide; Nimble; Gloom Cupboard; Sawbuck; SnowMonkey; The Albion Review; Persona; The Foundling Review; Bluestream, andother publications. She was nominated for "Best of the Net" award for2011 and she was the recipient of the Lois Nelson Award in Creative Nonfictionin 2005.Leopoldine Core was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared orare forthcoming in Open City, The Literarian,Joyland Magazine, Agriculture Reader,Harp & Altar and The Brooklyn Rail.She is a 2012 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow.
Nicholas A DeBoer puts out alot of stuff. Little DIY stuff, Red Night Anti-Matter (PDN 2011), HSHammerheart (PDN 2012), Vintage Violence Canto(PDN 2012), Port of Saints (PDN 2012), Ushered White Waiting(con/crescent2009). He runs con/crescent press with Jamie Townsend, whois up in the Massachusetts. They sometimes run a poetry reading series,when they have it all together. He did the whole education thing, Naropa, where he met those favorites he keeps up with. Thesweet people of Fact-Simile, EOAGH,CousinCorrine, In Stereo Press and some such stuff coming up in WellGreased have all been super special in puttingout his work. Most recently, EOAGH put out an essay on his process,called To the End of Ezra Pound. He is a Potlatch Discordian, believes in the 23 Enigma and has an ongoingdebate with Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, in his long poem, The Slip.
Jennifer K. Dick is the author of Fluorescence & the forthcoming Circuits (Corrupt Press, summer 2012) as well as3 chapbooks, including Tracery (Dusie Kollectiv 5, 2011) and Betwixt (Corrupt Press, 2011). She livesin France where she teaches at UHA, curates the Ivy Writers Paris bilingualreading series & co-organizes the EcrireL’Art French reading mini-residency in Mulhouse. She is also a poetryeditor for VERSAL magazine out ofAmsterdam & a regular book reviewer for DrunkenBoat (USA–see four reviews in the current issue, number 15, online now)and Tears in the Fence (UK–see hermost recent article in a series entitled "Of Tradition andExperiment" in issue 55). She organized a massive text and imageconference, Lex-ICON, in June 2012. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Denver Quarterly and BigBridge. Her blog is jenniferkdick.blogspot.com.Jennifer K Dick’s 6 poems from Betwixt (the continuation) are from a dialogue project with NY poet Amanda Deutch.
Michelle Elvy is a writer and editor in New Zealand whose latitudechanges with the seasons. She edits at Blue Five Notebook and A Baker’s Dozenand is alsoactive with poetryandflash fiction in New Zealand. Her currentpoetry project is a collaborative exhibit planned for 2013 with a collective ofseventeen Northland visual artists and poets. You can find Michelle’s work in online and print journals such as Poets & Artists, OCHO, Metazen,Words With JAM, BluePrintReview, and ROOM. Michelleblogs by the light of the Glow Worm
Julie R. Enszer is the author of Handmade Love (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2010) and Sisterhood, a chapbook (SevenKitchens Press, 2010). She is the editor of Milkand Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2011),which is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. She hasher MFA from the University of Maryland and is enrolled currently in the PhDprogram in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. She is a regular bookreviewer for the Lambda BookReport and Calyx. Youcan read more of her work at www.JulieREnszer.com
Originally from Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter has lived inEngland since 2001 and is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of CreativeWriting at Bath Spa University. She has published two collections: TheTethers (Seren, 2009), winner of the London New Poetry Award for the bestfirst collection published in the UK and Ireland in the preceding year, and Diviningfor Starters (Shearsman, 2011). She also edited Infinite Difference:Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010) and reviews contemporarypoetry for The Guardian. She has been blogging since 2005 at http://carrieetter.blogspot.com
Kit Fryatt was born in Iran in 1978. She grew up in England,Singapore and Turkey and moved to Ireland in 1999. Her chapbooks turn push | turn pull (corrupt press)and Rain Down Can (Shearsman Books)will be published later in 2012.
Koyoonk’auwi poet Janice Gould has publishedpoetry in over sixty publications, and has won awards from the NationalEndowment for the Arts, the Astraea Foundation for Lesbian Writers, the PikesPeak Arts Council, and from the online publication Native Literatures: Generations. Her books of poetry include Beneath My Heart, Alphabet(a chapbook), Earthquake Weather, andmost recently, Doubters and Dreamers,a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for 2012, and also a finalist for the2012 Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. She is the co-editor, with Dean Rader,of Speak to Me Words: Essays onContemporary American Indian Poetry. In March, Janice completed a Residency forIndigenous Writers at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NewMexico. She is an Associate Professorin Women’s and Ethnic Studies (WEST) at the University of Colorado, ColoradoSprings, where she has developed a concentration in Native American Studies andteaches Native American Literature, Native American Perspectives on Museums,Native American Philosophical Thought, and Indigenous Views on Sustainability.Annie Guthrie is a writerand jeweler living in Tucson. She works and teaches at the UA Poetry Center.She has work published or forthcoming in TarpaulinSky, Ploughshares, Fairy Tale Review, HNGMAN, The Destroyer, RealPoetik, Everyday Genius, Omniverse,The Volta, Spiral Orb, 1913, A Journal of Forms, and more.
Justin Hardeckerwas raised in upstate New York and earned his bachelor’s degree from BrandeisUniversity, where he was fortunate to study poetry with Olga Broumas, Melanie Braverman, andFranz Wright. He received the Ramon Feliciano Poetry Prize and the AmericanPoets Honorary Prize, and his work has appeared in Ploughshares, Winter 2008-09 (guest edited by Jean Valentine). He currently lives in Albany, NY, where he works as a teacher assistant at aschool for students with developmental disabilities.
Mark Haunschildis an instructor of creative and academic writing at Arizona State University’sdowntown Phoenix campus and coordinates the creative writing program at ArtIntersection in Gilbert, AZ. He has worked as an editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review, Watershed, and the Flume Press ChapbookSeries and is the current faculty advisor of poetry for the Superstition Review. 
HRHegnauer is the authorof the chapbook Sir (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011). She is afreelance book designer and website designer specializing in working withindependent publishers as well as individual artists and writers. HR has alsoacted in two movies directed by Ed Bowes: The Value of Small Skeletons (2011)and Essay on Ash (forthcoming). She is a member of the feministpublishing collaborative Belladonna* and the poets’ theater group GASP: GirlsAssembling Something Perpetual, and she received her MFA in Writing &Poetics from Naropa University. HR maintains a portfolio of her work at www.hrhegnauer.com.Jen Hofer is a poet, translator, social justice interpreter,teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Herrecent and forthcoming poem sequences and translations are available throughvarious autonomous small presses including: Atelos, Counterpath Press, DusieBooks, Insert Press, Kenning Editions, Les Figues Press, Litmus Press, LittleRed Leaves, Palm Press, and Subpress. Her installation titled “Uncovering:A Quilted Poem Made from Donated and Foraged Materials from Wendover, Utah” ison view at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Utah through 2013. Sheteaches at California Institute of the Arts and Otis College, andworks nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter through Antena, a language justice collaborative.She also writes letters for people in public spaces at her escritorio público,and makes tiny books by hand at her kitchen table in Cypress Park, Los Angeles.
Gabriela Jauregui is the author of the poetry collection ControlledDecay (Akashic Books/ Black Goat Press, 2008) and El TiempoSe Volvió Cuero (Sur+, 2009), a bilingual Spanish translationof Tom Raworth’s poems. With Monica de la Torre, Laureano Toledo, and AuraEstrada, she is the author of the collaborative book El Taller de Taquimecanografia(Tumbona Edicions, 2011). She is a member of thesur+ publishing collective in Mexico.
Emma Jones is from Sydney. Her first book, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009.See Melissa Buckheit’s interview with Emma Jonesin this issue.
Karen Klein is in her second career. Retiring from Brandeisafter 37 years teaching literature and interdisciplinary humanities, shereturned to her first love, modern dance and is a member of the performancegroup, Prometheus Dance Elders Ensemble. A wood sculptor and a poet, she has had eight soloexhibitions, including the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, and is theExhibitions Chair for New England Sculptors Association, a member of StudiosWithout Walls and Galatea Fine Art in Boston. Reproductions of her drawingshave been published in books, including those from Oxford, Beacon, McGraw-Hill,and her poetry has been published in national and international magazines andanthologies and performed in dance productions in Boston and Tokyo. She says: “But mostly, I’m a very physical person: Iwalk fast, rarely sit still, am a dancer. Perhaps the dancer part is what lovesgesture and wants to capture it or searches, even in the solidity of wood orthe formal constraints of poetry, for the line that moves.” 
Drew Krewer’swork has appeared or is forthcoming in killauthor, DIAGRAM, and The Volta, among others. He is also theauthor of the chapbook Ars Warholica(Spork Press 2010). He currently co-edits TheDestroyer at www.thedestroyermag.comSueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. Sheedits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to multi-ethnic innovativewriting, writes reviews for The Constant Critic, and is acontributing editor at EOAGH. Her books include ThatGorgeous Feeling (Coconut Press), Underground National (FactorySchool), and the forthcoming chapbooks A Primary Mother (LeastWeasel Series at Propolis Press) and No Comet,That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Black Warrior Review). You canfind her at silentbroadcast.com. This issue includes hercollaboration with Nicholas A DeBoer WHAT ONE WANTSAND WHAT WILL BE PRESCRIBED WITHOUT ONESINGLE CENTER FOREVER and a series of short poems.
Mark Lee is a native of Tucson, AZ. He worked in the IT field,before deciding to attend the University of Arizona’s Creative Writing program. Hiswork and travels have taken him from the Olympic Training Center in Coloradoto remote villages in China. Currently, he works with amateur andprofessional cyclists and triathletes as a bicycle mechanic.
Rachel Lehrman is a poet, writer, artist,former academic, and sometimes-teacher living in the idyllic UK village ofChorleywood. Her work has previously appeared in Blue Fifth Review, The Drunken Boat, Fire Magazine, Spiral Orb and Shearsman Magazine, as well as theanthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets(Shearsman Press, 2010). She published her first chapbook, SecondWaking, with Oystercatcher Press in 2009 and has forthcoming work in SeaPie: a Shearsman Anthology of Oystercatcher Poetry (2012). Rachel completedher M.F.A. in Creative Writing Poetry at the University of Arizona in 2002, anda practice-based Ph.D in Collaborative Authorship from Roehampton University, in2009. 
Eric Magrane has recent poetry in the journals Versal, Saw Palm, and Fourth River,and artwork in the recent exhibits ObjectPoems (23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon), The Preserve (Big Cypress National Preserve, Ochopee, Florida), andMesquite (Tohono Chul Park, Tucson,Arizona). He is the editor of Spiral Orb,an experiment in permaculture poetics, and has been an Artist in Residence inthree national parks. His collaborations also include Borderlands Theater’s Tucson Pastorela and the song cycle (F)light. He lives in Tucson, Arizona,with the poet Wendy Burk, two cats, and three chickens.Kristi Maxwell isthe author of Re- (Ahsahta Press, 2011), Hush Sessions (SaturnaliaBooks, 2009), and Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008). She livesand writes in Tucson, Arizona, and teaches at the Poetry Center and Casa Libreen la Solana, among other places.
Jeevan Narney was born inIndia but was raised in the United States. He is an MFA candidate in CreativeWriting at the University of Arizona. His work has appeared in Right Hand Pointing and Spiral Orb. He lived in China from2007-2009 teaching English to Chinese students at DezhouUniversity.
Kristen E. Nelson is the author or Write, Dad (UnthinkableCreatures Press, 2012). She has recently published work in Drunken Boat, DinosaurBees, Everyday Genius, and GlitterTongue. She has workforthcoming in Denver Quarterly. She is a founder and the ExecutiveDirector of Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center inTucson, Arizona; an editor/curator for Trickhouse.org; and aproduction editor for Tarpaulin Sky Press. She earned her MFAin creative writing from Goddard College and teaches English and creativewriting in Tucson, Arizona.
Sarah Rose Nordgren’s poemshave recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Pleiades, TheLiterary Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Best New Poets 2011anthology. Winner of the 2012 James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-AmericanReview, Sarah Rose is the recipient of two fellowships from the Fine ArtsWork Center in Provincetown as well as support from the Virginia Center for theCreative Arts and the Louis Untermeyer Tuition Scholarship from the Bread LoafWriters Conference. She grew up in Durham, North Carolina and teaches at MiamiUniversity of Ohio. Maria Pinto was born in Jamaica, grewup in Florida, and currently lives in Boston where she went to college. Herwork has appeared in a number of publications, including Seeds in theBlack Earth, Spirited Magazine, and Broad!, andshe was awarded the Ivan Gold Fellowship at the Writer’s Room of Boston. She’san odd-jobber, is seeking representation for her first novel, and has begun towork in earnest on her second. Her top priorities are to read widelyand retain her sense of wonder.
Sam Rasnake’s works,receiving five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in numerousjournals and anthologies, including The Southern Poetry Anthology, OCHO,Best of the Web 2009, Literal Latté, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, Poets /Artists, Big Muddy, and > kill author. His latest collections are are Lessons in Morphology(GOSS183, 2010) and Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press,2010). His personal website is samofthetenthousandthings.wordpress.com/Eléna Rivera’s mostrecent books are The Perforated Map (ShearsmanBooks, 2011) and Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRLe-Editions, 2010). She won the 2010 Robert Faglesprize in translation for her translation of The Rest of the Voyage byBernard Noël, published by Graywolf Press (2011).
Yael Shinar wasborn in California and now resides in Cambridge, MA. Her poems have appeared inThe Beloit Poetry Journal, Meridian, TheMid-American Review, Third Coast, BOMBlog, TheCarolina Quarterly, Poetry Daily, The Drunken Boat, and other publications.Her first manuscript, If God Does Not Sitin the Nostrils of the Starling’s Beak, was a semifinalist for the 2012Perugia Press Prize and the 2010 Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books). She earned the degree ofMaster of Divinity at Harvard University in 2010 and completed pre-medrequirements at Harvard Extension School in 2012. She reads and writes inEnglish and in Hebrew and has studied Akkadian,Arabic, Sanskrit and FrenchThis issue also includes an excerpt from Yael’s poetic documentaryAWAKE ALERT ORIENTED.
Jennifer Stella just returned to her last year of medical school atthe University of California, San Francisco after taking a year off to pursuean MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College. She also worked in harm reduction at theNYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Now on leave of absence from theMFA, to be finished after residency in internal medicine, Jenny used to thinkthat “writer” was who she was and “doctor” was what she did. This year, she’slearned that both are both. Her poetry and prose have appeared or areforthcoming in Switched-on Gutenberg,The Brooklyn Review, The Examined Life Journal, and others.Medicine, all of it, is about stories – reading, writing, and becomingpart of them. It is about learning to listen to the inside of the body, whichis telling things the patient knows but lacks vocabulary to describe. The poet,like the doctor, is always listening
Dr. Todd Swift haspublished eight full collections of poetry including Seaway: New andSelected Poems (Salmon, 2008) and When All My Disappointments Came AtOnce (Tightrope Books, 2012). Swift has edited or co-edited manyanthologies, including Poetry Nation, 100 Poets Against The War, and(with Evan Jones) Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010). In 2007 he andJason Camlot published the collection of essays on contemporary Anglo-Quebecpoetry, Language Acts (Vehicule). He has edited special sections onCanadian Poetry for New American Writing and London Magazine; andon British and Scottish Poets for The Manhattan Review. His poems haveappeared widely, in leading publications, including Poetry (Chicago), PoetryLondon, Poetry Review, Jacket, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail.His poems have appeared in key North American anthologies, including The NewCanon, Open Field, and Best Canadian Poetry 2008. He was Oxfam GBPoet-in-residence in 2004, and continues to run the London-based Oxfam Poetry Series.This project has produced three CDS: Life Lines, Life Lines 2, and Poems forChildren; and a DVD, Asking A Shadow To Dance, which have involved over120 of the leading and emerging poets of Britain. New publications include LungJazz: The Oxfam Book of Young British Poets (Cinnamon Press, 2011),co-edited with Kim Lockwood. He lectures in English Literature and CreativeWriting (Associate Professor) at Kingston University, England. His PhD was onstyle in British poets of the 1940s, from UEA. He is Director of the smallpress Eyewear Publishing Ltd. He lives in London with his wife, Sara.
Shelly Taylor lives in Tucson & is theauthor of the recent chap, Dirt CityLions (Horse Less Press, 2012). Black-Eyed Heifer (Tarp SkyPress, 2010) is her book. Otherchaps are out from Dancing Girl & Portable Press at YoYo Labs. ScottThurston’s books include: Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer Books,2011), Of Being Circular (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010), InternalRhyme (Shearsman, 2010), Momentum (Shearsman, 2008), and Hold (Shearsman,2006). He edits The Radiator, a little magazine of poetics, and co-editsThe Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Scott lectures atthe University of Salford, UK and has published widely on innovative poetry,including a recent books of interviews Talking Poetics (Shearsman, 2011). See his pages at www.archiveofthenow.com/
M.E.Wakamatsu was born in the border town of San Luis R.C. Sonora,Mexico. The daughter of a Mexican mother and Japanese father, she writes fromthe border between cultures, between patterns of discourse, between first andthird worlds. Her work appears in Cutthroat, Southwestern Women New Voices andCantos al Sexto Sol. Sheproduced From the Lair, A Spoken WordPoetry CD and Speakwater: Regando LaFrontera—A Multi-material Visual Poetry Installation at theUniversity of Arizona Poetry Center. She has received numerous awards, including the 2008 Mary Ann CampauMemorial Fellowship Award and the 200 Ohio State Scarlet and Gray Award forSouthern Arizona Teacher of the Year.
Joni Wallace earneda B.A. and J.D. at the University of New Mexico and her M.F.A. at theUniversity of Montana. She is the author of BlinkingEphemeral Valentine, selected by Mary Jo Bang for the 2009 Levis Prize(Four Way Books, 2011). She grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico andcurrently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. Her most recent work appearsor is forthcoming here and in Catch-Up, a journal of comics andliterature, West Branch Wired www.bucknell.edu/westbranch, SonoraReview and VOCA, the University of ArizonaPoetry Center’s Audio Visual Library.
Orlando White is the author of Bone Light (Red HenPress, 2009). Originally from Tólikan, Arizona, he isDiné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e. Heholds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts andan MFA from Brown University. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Omnidawn Poetry Feature Blog, Salt Hill Journal, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, American Indian Culture And Research Journal, Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal ofPoetics, and elsewhere. His poetry has been anthologized in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americasand translated into Spanish in In ThatRound Nation of Blood: An Anthology of Contemporary Indigenous Poetry. He is a recipient of a TrumanCapote Creative Writing Fellowship and a LannanFoundation Residency. He has taught at The Art Center Design College, BrownUniversity, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Currently, he teaches atDiné College and lives in Tsaile, Arizona. See Melissa Buckheit’s interview with Orlando and her reviewof Bone Light in this issue.
Eleanor Wilner’s mostrecent books are Tourist in Hell(University of Chicago, 2010) and TheGirl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon, 2004). She teaches in the MFAProgram for Writers at Warren Wilson College. See the interview and featureof her work in a previous issue.