Contributors

THE ELITE.

Current Contributors

Daralee Fallin

geometry cultist/occasional photographer/occasional denver/
guilty: new urbanism/acoustic ecology/xerox fetish
founding member: titwrench.com
hear: myspace.com/vviiaa

Patrick Nybakken

Born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, 1982. Raised in the wilds of Parkland County (30 min west of Etown) moved around a bit...currently residing in Spruce Grove Alberta... 20 min west of Etown. Big fan of things that make me laugh, music of all types, photography,collaging, skateboarding, fun garments', friendships, thrift shopping, dancing in parking lots, drawing doodle scratch messes, and food.MMMMM I REALLY LIKE TO COOK, and holler. School soon... where ? don't know, then traveling. Word. Hearts.

Matthew Charrels Peterson

Eyeglass-wearer.

Francis Patrick Carr

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Luke Csehak

Luke Csehak is slowly dieing for a cause he doesn't understand. He is the author of such 21st century poetic classics as, "headache trivia" (2001), "don't belittle my aura!" (2001), "thunderbolt jargon" (2001), "let the road be thy maidservant" (2001), "hello, fake hand" (2001), and "i suck on purpose, i swear!" (2001). He is also the author of the influential non-fiction book, "alternate modes of divination" (2001). He is currently working on a play for an all-dog cast called "101 baby rattlesnakes" as well as a cliff-notes for a novel that doesn't exist. He has been awarded tons of poetry prizes and grants and is available for birthday parties and weddings. Email him NOW at lukecsehak@yahoo.com.

Isaac Linder

Isaac Linder (20 de novembro de 1920) é um writer and conceptual artist, historiador, escritor e especialista na história do enxadrismocurrently living and working in Denver, Colorado. A sua obra-prima é The Art of Chess Pieces and is working on a number of texts conceived of as ambient maneuvers through language (Tan Lin). Linder é graduado em História pela Universidade de Moscou. http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Linder http://falsedawn.tumblr.com /

Travis Egedy

travis egedy is an artist living in sunny denver, colorado. attempting to peek through that golden door, while continuing to make beats with his trusty microkorg and drawing pictures of punks from a not so distant mystical goth future. he likes blogging about whatever he feels like. www.plainpictures.blogspot.com

Christopher Todd Alamo Schuman

Christopher Todd Alamo Schuman, Etc, is a 24 year-old college graduate, and possibly some sort of human. He recently returned from the underworld and found it very cold and largely unappealing. Schuman currently edits thee amazing BEEHIVE MAGAZINE, and takes pictures of people's houses without their consent.

Theodore Darst

new haven connecticut & varsity basketball of 2001
nyc jcrs & great poetry failure of 2004
chicago films & videos of 2009

Nehemiah St-Danger

Nehemiah St-Danger was born through a hole in the sky on September 11, 2001. Determined to be a threat to national security, he was whisked away by supernatural forces to live in abject poverty in Oakland, California. There, he spent some time with the Barnes & Noble Corporation, where he learned about literature and check fraud. Currently, he is unemployed. Everybody knows him as a "musician," but he really doesn't make very much music. He does, however, contribute to tinymixtapes.com as an album reviewer under a thinly-disguised nom de plume. His interests include krautrock, fermentative mysticism, and bad html.

Brody Christensen

Brody Christensen was born in Mankato, MN to mother Jean Keenan who died giving birth to him. Mankato is close to a river where Brody loves to fish and hope that you enjoy his poems. Brody was kicked out of Naropa University and became a window salesman. Eventually his heavy drinking ruined that too and his beautiful and intelligent girlfriend left him. After that he moved into his Dad's basement and didn’t work for a long time. He is working and writing again in Minneapolis.

Martin Bell

Martin Bell is a writer, photographer, and sound designer residing at the bottom of the east coast. He thanks you for your continued support.

Eleni Kelaidis

Eleni grew up in colorado and lives in brooklyn. She also draws.

Serena Herrick

Serena Herrick is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. She is from Boulder, Colorado. She is fake Left Handed and fake Native American.

J. Townsend

J. Townsend is a graduate of Naropa University with an MFA in the Writing and Poetics. His poetry has been published in online and print journals, including Bombay Gin, The Cultural Society, Gam, Diagram, & Fact-Simile. His critical study, “Spiritual Man, Modern Man”, on the life and work of poet Frank Samperi appeared in issue 36 of JACKET magazine. J. is also a co-founder and editor of con/crescent press (www.concrescentpress.com), a print magazine focused on discursive essay and creative non-fiction, and chapbook publisher for emerging, innovative poets. He is a member of the New Philadelphia Poets, and lives in Kensington (Phila), PA.

Dawn Sueoka

Dawn Sueoka is the spy who loved you. Her work appears in Monkey Puzzle, Fast Forward, The Bathroom, and West Wind Review. She lives and works in Honolulu.

Daniel Sullivan

Daniel Sullivan was born in Chicago, IL in 1984. He lives and works in Chicago and will receive his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2010.

Antonio Ortuno

Spanish artist Antonio Ortuño, Alicante, 1970, expresses himself through single-channel video, video installation, and video combined with art. These are empathetic tools that help him better reflect circumstances that are otherwise hard to assimilate or understand, sometimes due to our own ignorance about ourselves, given the little interest we have in introspection or, simply, due to the fear of knowing how we actually are in our most intimate beings. Love, but also fear, pleasure, anguish, happiness, anxiety and doubt, among other emotions, all make up part of Ortuño's work. He hopes in some way to de-dramatize the situations and eliminate their aggressive tone, so that the viewer doesn't feel them directly, but rather reflects and understands their meaning, the reason for their existence.

The artistic journey of Antonio Ortuño began in Zaragoza in the Contemporary Art Festival "Conmutaciones-02", with the video installation "Por Amor/Deshechos" ("For Love/ejection"). Later came Valencia, where he presented the video "Él, antoñito" ("He, little antonio") in the space "El almacén del adecuado comportamiento" ("The store of appropriate conduct"), part of the Second Valencia Biennial. Later works include "Despegar" ("Detach"), a video he screened at the "Nabi Center" in Seoul, South Korea; the video "¿Te parece que esto son sólo palabras?" ("Does this seem like just words to you?") in the International Festival of Video Art in Valencia in the Sala Parpalló; the video installation "Individualities" in Local Project gallery in New York; and his participation in "The Most Curatiorial Biennial of the Universe" at ApexArt gallery in New York and in Animal Gallery in Santiago de Chile with the video ?Love=pleasure?. He has lived in New York City for four years now.

Alfie Ljuljdjuraj

alfie has been searching for her feelings for about 16 months. she has yet to find them. she is currently studying fine arts at the fashion institute of technology. currently she has taken up the banjo. she is finding this difficult. she is 25 and has a blog at http://www.justalfie.blogspot.com .

Rebecca Diaz

Rebecca Diaz is a life-long student. She currently lives and studies on a marijuana farm in Boulder, Colorado where she grows legally in both soil & rock wool and with a nutrient-mix of Charles Bukowski, Denise Levertov, and Juan Felipe Herrera. Look for her potent strain of THC, “What were they like, peeing in the sink of La Lucha” to hit dispensaries sometime in May

Max Lakner

Max is an artist, and a fighter, and a lover. Also, he is the best photographer. The best. See Max and Leah's websitewww.babymanque.com.

Caroline Berger

Caroline Berger is a writer, teacher, editor and curator based in New York City. Her writing has been published in such literary journals as La Petite Zine, Pindeldyboz, Barrow Street, Vibrant Gray and the anthologies Hiram, U.S.A: Essays From the Hill; Best of Vibrant Gray; and Best of Stain. She has read at various public venues in New York, Chicago, and Ohio. For the past seven years she has co-curated the Sunday Salon (www.sundaysalon.com), a monthly reading series in New York City, and has helped found sister series in Chicago and Nairobi and SalonZine, an online literary journal. Caroline is also thrilled to serve on the advisory board of the nonprofit Girls Write Now (www.girlswritenow.org), recently recognized by Michele Obama with a Coming Up Taller award.

Travis Cebula

Travis Cebula currently resides with his wife, Shannon, in Colorado. He holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. Poems, photographs, essays, and stories by Travis have appeared internationally in various print and on-line journals. His first solo collection of poetry and photographs, Some Exits, was released in 2009 by Monkey Puzzle Press; his most recent chapbook, Some Colors Will Touch Regardless was published in January by Fact-Simile Editions.

Leah Victoria Hennessey

Leah Victoria Hennessey is an aspiring pop idol who works as a playwright, performer and strategist. She is editor in chief of the hyperreal ontological terror known as FAKEHEAD and the face of the photo/design team Babymanque.

Trevor Boley

TRISTAN CONCEPCIÓN ON TREVOR BOLEY

For the festive: Trevor Boley welcomes anyone to come entertain him in Yonkers, NY where he lives an overly disarray, intense scientific life style studying neuro-psychology, philosophy, and poetry.
For the Americans: he is currently the literature editor of the magazine/epidemic called FAKEHEAD.
For the men: he is a poor exhibition of certain moments or people within literature or history.
For the stage/theatre: but this much I’ve heard, you can catch him on the curvy road home, when he has a certain sway in his hips, so that when he walks down the street the shutters shatter open and the girls go “Ooo-la-loo”,
throwing their change accordingly
that he leaves in a beggar’s tall hat,
throws the change back accordingly.

Ryan Clark

Ryan Clark is the Candy Cummings of our generation. He currently lives in Normal, Illinois, where he's working toward a PhD in English Studies at Illinois State University. As he's working on his curveball grip, he will continue to write poetry and homophonic translations, and obsess over puns, the Texas Rangers, and doughnuts.

Richard Schwass

Richard is a 2008 graduate of the Masters Program in Poetics at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa U., Boulder. Having grown up in Hawaii and Newport, RI, he is most likely asleep.

Kona Morris

Kona Morris is an existential open pore yawning into the face of american shit parades with her loud and cheerful anus. Like her fellow Dadaist, she has a hard time taking anything seriously—however, she has been limb wrapped in love with Chaz Baudelaire since she was fourteen years old and decided to devote her life to being drunken always, with wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. Kona co-founded Fast Forward Press (www.fastforwardpress.org), as well as The Anthology of the Awkward, both for which she currently remains editor. She has recently been given her own class loads of Denver college students to teach writing tricks to and she is in the midst of finishing her first fiction novel.

Adam Perry

Adam Perry, soon to exit his 20's, is a writer and musician living in Santa Fe with his partner and their beautiful daughter Sidney. His second book of poems, "Fotographs of Bones," was released by Boulder's Monkey Puzzle Press in 2009.

Kenneth Clayton Bernhardt

kenneth clayton bernhardt: born in kentucky. habitual smoker & drinker. bleeding heart.

Eric Claussen

Eric Claussen is an electronic musician based around Madison, Wi. His compositions range from Indie and dance to neo-classical. His primary area of study is classical guitar under George Linquist. Over the last 5 years Eric has self-produced two albums and is currently working on completing a third. He can be seen performing in the Milwaukee/Madison area as the band, French Press and Frequencies as well as DJing under the Frequencies name. He also performs with the Whitewater Guitar Ensemble.

Alyssa Martinez

Believed to have been lost in the far reaches of the internet, A.Martinez recently dissolved allegations with correspondence reading "conducting.research/everything.is.ok." Although no comprehensive information is available at this time, regular updates of her mission can be found at http://www.nonsource.com

Teresa Doyle

doyle's complicity was never in question. she majors in english /writing and intercultural studies / social justice at elmhurst college in elmhurst, il, where they are only slightly less likely to let her get away with her consistent refusal to capitalize anything. she waseditor-in-chief of the anthology "lit kids: mama bird and the electric rabbit," winner of the 2009 carlson contest for poetry, and has previously been published in middlewestern voice, dovetail journal, and ourzine.

Sarah Sarai

Sarah Sarai sold her soul to the Devil who traded it back for ten Goldman Sachs execs. and some of that sizzlin' corporate bailout money. So she needs a job and wishes to point out her book, The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX), has a pretty cover; her latest work is in Boston Reviewand Parthenon West Review & more; she also writes fiction (Fairy Tale Review, South Dakota Review, Storyglossia & co.); and doesn't have to live in New York City, the environs of which were backdrop for her MFA.

Rebecca George

Rebecca is a writer, columnist, editor, educator, and general rebel rouser. Over the years, Rebecca has collected too many degrees and not enough money. She is the founder of TheLinchPin.org, former managing editor of Bombay Gin and a general coordinator and organizer of the universe.

Chris Stroffolino

Chris Stroffolino dedicates his bio note to the late Vic Chesnutt, who died on boxing day's eve 2009, as a direct result of
American Health Insurance Business. A quadrapelegic since 1983, Mr. Chesnutt's "pre-existing condition," prevented him
from receiving adequate treatment. He could have received SSI Disability because of his condition, but his accident also
awakened his songwriting ability, and he heroically battled his condition for 25 years--releasing many albums (the most recent produced by Jonathan Richman)--
and, though he never made enough money to pay for the exorbitant costs of his health treatement, he made TOO MUCH to be eligible for Social Security disability support.
It's a sad cruelty of America that had he had not tried to make something of himself after his accident, and achieved success as a songwriter (at his best, he reminds me
of what I love about Townes Van Zandt), he would have received more economic support for his "health issues." Of course, the basic obituaries will just say,
"he died of an overdose of pain killers," but read his statements about his health care, and you tell me if this beautiful heroic survivor's death was "suicide!" I am absolutely sure that VIc would not mind being used as a rallying cry in his death. He's so much more--but another reason to step up the fight for Single Payer. Oh, as for Chris Stroffolino--his first solo album, on both vinyl/CD is due to be released sometime this year. You can order a limited edition pre-release at www.chrisstroffolino.com or chris.stroffolino@gmail.com

Hannah Zeavin

Hannah Zeavin has until recently been considered a child. With her new freedom, she moved to New Haven to attend Yale, leaving behind everything she ever liked, and lives in a town she loathes. There, she sits in a bar called the Owl Shop, a cigar shop really, that was grandfathered in before the smoking ban, and smokes and drinks whisky but also gin with Bill who is the manager, who also wears a panama hat. Holding off on returning to Brooklyn, her book Circa (2009) has just been published with Handing Loose and Scholastic presses.

Nicholas A. Deboer

On October 30, 1952, my parents were born in separate cities, twelve hours apart. Mine was on the 23rd, WSB's #. EzPo in 1887, me in 1981 (94 years). The SI supported the barricades as long as they could, hands like miniature infidels, 1968 (13 years). Tumbled out in the middle of the night, without any breath in the lungs. Policy Wonk degree from WMU (2004), the rest from JKDP (2008). Chicago, the wild leek is home-base, is the cavern's retreat. Manorexic Nervosity available from Con/Crescent Press. Published poems in Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin, In Stereo Press and other(s). Co-Editor with J Townsend for Con/Crescent Press. My poem of some length caught in the graveyard, a tarantula on the right shoulder, inking venom into a tattoo: 'ante mortem no scortum'

LaVonne Natasha Caesar

LaVonne Natasha Caesar is a multilingual poet and performer currently writing and creating in Madison, WI. She was recently awarded honorable mention in the New Millenium Poetry prize judged by Nikki Giovanni. You can listen to her poetry at instereopress.com or read her writing in Monkey PuzzleMagazine, Kevin Killian & Dodie Bellamy’s writing/art zine Mirage #4/Period(ical). Her chapbook The Black Pussy Revolution, Part 1 is available on Amazon.com.

Amanda Beckley

Amanda Beckley was God's very first idea. She is a dropout of Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury Connecticut, voted one of "The Ten Worst Places to Live in America" in the 1999 Places Rated Almanac and it hurts. Nothing turns her on more than the gap between Lauren Hutton's two front teeth. She currently lives in NYC.

Elizabeth Rabb

Elizabeth Rabb is a portrait photographer currently living on a pony farm somewhere within the contiguous United States. In her spare time she shoots raccoons instead of photos and teaches photography to high school kids. www.elizabethrabb.com

Daniel Chavarria Estrada

BORN: 17/Sept/1986 MIAMI, FL/ SAN SALVADOR, E.S/ GAYAQUIL, ECU
MOTHER: Ecuadorian (Italian+ Mexican) FATHER: El Salvadorian(Spanish+ Scottish)
FIRST AMBITION: G.I Joe
FIRST ARTISTIC AMBITION: Architect
ESCUELA AMERICANA- 91-2001
DOG BITES EAR -2nd grade
HONOR ROLL 94-99
SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL (2 days) 6th grade
SUPENDED AGAIN (one week) 8th grade
FIRST CIGARETTE: 11
FIRST DOG: Fiona
CRASHED FIRST CAR -2000
INTERAMERICAN ACADEMY 2001-2005
PHYSICS ELITE 2004-2005
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Guayaquil Crunk City/Cuento County/Drunk in English/ Gum/ Cric-Cracs
ORGANIZATION: ELMUNICIPIO/REGISTRO CIVIL/ OPERATION MUSTACHE/ APACHE

Franciszka Voeltz

franciszka voeltz:
anchor. collector. seer. magician.
open-heart surgeon in a sequined mask.
prude/slut. homebody/adventurer.
bring it: collaborations. peirogies. eye contact. heat.
commiserate, collaborate, communicate: frantidote@gmail.com

Melissa Conser

Staggeringly pale for being born and raised in Southern California, Melissa Conser is of the Animalia-Chordata-Vertabrata-Mammalia-Placentalia-Primate-Hominidae-Homo-Sapien variety. She currently shares a home with her parents, golden retriever and metabolically-challenged lavender plant (apparently, it likes to be watered).

Theresa Stefaniak

Theresa Stefaniak is boneless but not spineless, shoeless but not pennyless, and necklace but not tiara. She migrated here from Lake Michigan and is an endangered species. On the black market, a trophy head is worth millions, but I'd be wary in trying to capture one. Very slippery.

Nate Jordon

Nate Jordon is a lifeaholic. His recent work has appeared in the Denver Voice, The Pulchritudinous Review, and The Bathroom. He is the 2008 recipient of the Jack Kerouac Scholarship; that same year was interviewed with John Allen Cassady on Studio 12 about The Beat Generation in Denver. He holds a BA in English from California State University, Fresno and an MFA in Writing and Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He is the founder of Monkey Puzzle Press and Magazine.

Julia L. Wejchert

Eternal optimist & child of the sea, Julia splits her time between the mountains of Vermont and the shores of Long Island. An English and Political Science major at the University of Vermont, Julia writes, edits and just generally does a bunch of stuff regularly for the Vermont Cynic.

Samuel Jablon

Samuel Jablon was born and raised in Binghamton/Slinghamton, NY, and is an alumni of Naropa University. Samuel apprenticed with artist Ana Maria Hernando for three years while living in Boulder, CO. Currently he lives in Brooklyn, NY where he has a studio and studies at the Art Students League of NY. www.SamuelJablon.com

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William Doreski
Sarah Pumphrey
Pan Idis
Daniel Weiss
Lilian Heehs
Cristina Astigarraga
Dorian McKaie

Alexandra Reif Lukens

Founder / Editor
Philolexian / Ax & Coffin
Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn New York United States of the Americas

Past Contributors

Claudia Martinez

Claudia lives and works in New York City.

Jeff Crouch

Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google him.

Nicolette Westfall

A former wedding photographer, Nicolette Westfall now spends her time photographing anything that calls for its own voice.

Vadi Erdal

Vadi Erdal takes after her African great great great great great grandmother in the nappiness of head. Secretly, she writes notes to future archaeologists and hides them in river mouths and desert caverns. Secretly, she licks the blood from her skinned knees to taste her childhood. Secretly, she tells the same made-up joke to everyone she knows hoping it will come back to her when she's older. Come back through the lips of a man she meets at a truck stop in Tennessee who offers her a laugh for a cigarette.

Mitch Shenassa

Mitch is a writer of paranoid splatter-noir with a literary bent and a fanatical vendetta against tame prose. Originally from Dirty Jersey, now living in Boulder, Colorado, he has published two chapbooks of his acid-bubble short fiction and is currently hammering the final nails into the coffin of his long-conceived stoner-zombie-voodoo-noir masterpiece

Holly Anderson

Holly Anderson’s poetry and prose has been anthologized in Up is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (NYU Press 2006) The Unbearables (Autonomedia) First Person Intense (Mudborn Press) Her limited edition books Lily Lou (Purgatory Pie Press) and Sheherezade (Pyramid Atlantic) are in library collections including MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, Brooklyn Museum.Holly's work is also online or in print at AdmitTwo, Conduit, Critjournal, FlashFire 500, Fringe, Gargoyle, MungBeing, qarrtsiluni, Rampike, Six LittleThings, smokemusic.tv, Switched-On Gutenberg & Tattoo Highway.Her Mission of Burma co-write Mica has been licensed to the rhythm game RockBand 2. She's also written lyrics for Jonathan Kane, Rhys Chatham, Lisa B. Burns & Peg Simone.She still lives in NYC and gardens happily in Bovina, NY.

Katy Hamer

Katy Hamer, born in 1977, N.Y.
In mythology, words, shapes, colors, and spatial relationships are all signifiers. In my art, I use the figure to pull the viewer in utilizing the flat plane of space to lessen the distance of communication. In pulling from the past to arrive here, in 2008, by way of the internet, cultural identity is erased. The distance and time needed to arrive in a foreign land has become minute. In this same way, the moment needed for the viewer to arrive at the subject is short, even immediate. Yet from there, one must question the purpose, the way in which he or she arrived, and wonder if there is an agenda and a specificity that is meant to be taken away. The completed image creates a moment of intrigue and inquiry. Currently in the stages of completing my M.A. in Studio Art at New York University, I met Holly Anderson in Fall 2007 while working as a T.A. in a class focusing on the art and cultural phenomena of Downtown New York, from the late 1970’s-1980’s. Holly was featured as a guest speaker and made quite an impression on both myself and the class of Undergraduate students. Her process of writing inspired me to construct my own poem and post a specific blog entry in response (http://eyes-towards-the-dove.blogspot.com/2007/10/holly-anderson-and-richard-prince.html). Our collaboration was born!

Shurjendu Dutt-Mazumdar

Shurjendu Dutt-Mazumdar, born in the United States of America, a product of a Bengali and a Rajput (from two different ethnic groups in the Indian subcontinent), raised in three different continents, has delusions of literary grandeur. Currently, he is struggling to pen his first novel. If successful in this venture, he will use his newfound notoriety to rebel publicly against every entrenched cause and prejudice that comes his way. One of his goals is to dance in the forests with ninety-nine stunning cowgirls and revel in the beauty of celestial orchestras. He is also a musician. In his spare time, Shurjendu enjoys taking long six-mile walks through New York City, talking with strangers and getting into random (or not-so-random) adventures. He is currently a student at Columbia University’s School of General Studies and is pursuing a double major in Philosophy and Linguistics. And yet, with all of this having been said… he is not this alone, not this alone…

Jefferson Navicky

Jefferson Navicky teaches writing and literature at Southern Maine Community College. His writing has appeared in Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky, Cafe Irreal, Bombay Gin and others. In 2007, Black Lodge Press published his chapbook, Map of the Second Person. He is a graduate of The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University, and will spend a portion of the summer as a writer in residence at the I-Park Foundation.

Megan DiBello

Born in New York, Megan DiBello is currently attending Naropa University for her M.F.A in Writing and Poetics. She recieved her B.A from Marymount Manhattan College in Communication Arts and Creative Writing. Megan has been published in Symposium, Fact-Similie, The Bathroom and the new issue of Flaneur Foundry. Megan is also the Marketing Intern of Monkey Puzzle Press.

Shane Joaquin Jimenez

Shane Joaquin Jimenez is a transitory expression of genes attending the Jack Kerouac School. He has been published in The Greensboro Review, Bat City Review, and Monkey Puzzle. He is also the author of a collection of short short stories, called It Can Be That Way Still, published by Bedouin Books.

Mickey O’Connor

Mickey O’Connor is the author of various books of
poetry, the most recent ; NOT EVEN MERELY END.
He lives & writes in Seattle .

Michelle Puckett

Michelle Puckett's poems have appeared in Bang Out San Francisco and Monkey Puzzle Magazine. She is currently working toward an MFA in Poetry from Mills College in Oakland, California. Some of her obsessions include the assassination of JFK in her hometown of Dallas, Texas, and the aesthetics of Catholicism.

Meg Day

Meg Day is a poet, spoken word artist & arts educator who hails from San Diego but is currently teaching with Youth Speaks in San Francisco & earning her MFA in Poetry at Mills College in Oakland. She loves postcards, chuck taylors & teaching young poets to hold their own at the mic, but not as much as she loves her sweet, dumb dalmatian.