Due to personal issues this project and all others associated with Kind of a Hurricane Press are closed indefinitely.  All work that has already been published will remain live on the site.  All work that was accepted but has not been published is now released back to the author.  All print copies and issues will remain available through their current sales channels.

Blood And Cardboard -- Dan von der Embse

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Dan von der Embse was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, educated in Catholic schools, and graduated from Ashland University with a B.A. degree in Theatre.  He began writing poetry after a four-decade career as a copywriter for advertising agencies in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City.  His poems appear in The Missing Slate, Across the Margin, Harpoon Review, Decanto, Poetry Pacific and Poetry Quarterly.

Visions -- Duane Locke

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Duane Locke lives in Tampa, Florida near anhinga, gallinules, raccoons, alligators, etc.  He has published 6701 poems, including 29 books of poems.  His latest book publication (April 2012) is Duane Lock, The First Decade, 1968-1978 (Bitter Oleander Press).  This book is a republication of his first eleven books, containing 333 pages.

Bullet Points -- Don Thompson

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Don Thompson and his wife, Chris, have lived most of their lives where they were born:  in the farm country of the southern San Joaquin Valley.  He has been writing about the region for over fifty years.  For more information and links to his publications, visit his website, San Joaquin Ink (www.don-e-thompson.com).

Sinners Like Us -- Grace Maselli

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Grace Maselli studied in New York City at the Writers Studio founded by American poet and author Philip Schultz.  Her work has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Poydras Review, Streetlight Magazine and The Penmen Review.  Her poem, What the Hair is Going On? was published as a mini chapbook by Phfours Press, Ottowa, Canada.  She lives in North Tampa, FL, with a husband, two kids, three dogs, and two guinea pigs.

All Right Already -- Bruce McRae

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Bruce McRae is a Canadian musician, and a Pushcart-nominee with over 900 publications, including Poetry.com and The North American Review. His first book, ‘The So-Called Sonnets’ is available from the Silenced Press website or via Amazon books. To hear his music and view more poems visit “BruceMcRaePoetry’ on YouTube.

The Durability of Boredom -- M. Drew Williams

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M. Drew Williams is a poet residing in Western New York.  He is currently doing graduate work at Roberts Wesleyan College.  His poetry has appeared in a number of publications.  His writing can be found at m-d-williams.tumblr.com.

Flying South -- Chella Courington

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Chella Courington is the author of three prose poetry/flash fiction chapbooks:  Love Letter to Biology 250, Talking Did Not Come Easily to Diana and Girls and Women.  Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including SmokeLong, Nano Fiction, The Collagist, and The Los Angeles Review.  With another writer and two cats, she lives in the West.

physiography of the fittest -- henry 7. reneau, jr.

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henry 7. reneau, jr. attended UC, Davis double-majoring in English and African/African-American Studies.  He has been published in more than 200 journals and anthologies, among them, Nameless Magazine; Mandala Literary Journal; The Chaffey Review; Rufous City Review; Black Arts Quarterly; Harbinger Asylum; Empirical Magazine; FOLLY Magazine:  Entering:  Davis Poetry Book Project Anthology; BlazeVOX; Suisun Valley Review; Tidal Basin Review; Degenerates:  Voices for Peace Anthology and Storm Cycle:  2013 Best of Anthology from Kind of a Hurricane Press.  He was the winner of, and simultaneously received an Honorable Mention in the SN&R Student Poetry Contest for 2008.  He was the 2nd place winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize (Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize, 2008), and placed 3rd in the 2009 Annual Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest.  His poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press, 2014), was released in September of 2014.  Additionally, he has also self-published a chapbook entitled 13hirteen Levels of Resistance and is currently working on a book of connected short stories.  He has performed in collaboration with noted poet, and biographer, Quincy Troupe, Ray Manzarek, of The Doors, noted artist Milton Bowens, and has appeared in collaborative readings with the Toni Passerell Trio in the Davis Annual Jazz & Beat Arts Festival.  His favorite things are Rottweilers, poetry that reveals the concealed, but actual, American reality, his "fixie bike," and Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk.

Summoning the Moon -- April Salzano

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April Salzano teaches college writing in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband and two sons.  She is currenlty working on a memoir on raising a child with autism and several collections of poetry.  Her work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals such as Convergence, Ascent Aspirations, The Camel Saloon, Centrifugal Eye, Deadsnakes, Visceral Uterus, Salome, Poetry Quarterly, Writing Tomorrow and Rattle.  Her chapbook, The Girl of My Dreams, is forthcoming in spring 2015 from Dancing Girl Press.  The author serves as co-editor at Kind of a Hurricane Press (www.kindofahurricanepress.com)

Surrogate Dharma -- Allison Grayhurst

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Allison Grayhurst is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets.  She has over 400 poems published in more than 210 international journals and anthologies.  Her book, Somewhere Falling, was published by Beach Holme Publishers in 1995.  Since then she has published ten other books of poetry and four collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing.  Prior to the publication of Somewhere Falling, she had a poetry book published, Common Dream, and four chapbooks published by The Plowman.  Her poetry chapbook, The River is Blind, was published by Ottawa publisher above/ground press, December 2012.  She lives in Toronto with her family.  She also sculpts, working with clay; www.allisongrayhurst.com

Listening to Electric Cambodia Looking Up at Trees of Heaven -- Marianne Szlyk

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Marianne Szlyk is a professor of English at Montgomery College, an associate poetry editor for Potomac Review, and a member of the DC Poetry Project.  She is also the editor of The Song Is. . ., an e-zine for poems inspired by jazz and other music.  This is her first chapbook.

Tiny Things -- Holly Day

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Holly Day was born in Hereford, Texas, "The Town Without a Toothache."  She and her family currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center.  Her published books include the notification books Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, and Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, and the poetry books "Late-Night Reading for Hardworking Construction Men" (The Moon Publishing) and "The Smell of Snow" (ELJ Publications).

Pictures of the Floating World -- Jonel Abellanosa

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Jonel Abellanosa resides in Cebu City, the Philippines.  He is a graduate of the University of San Carlos and a fellow of its annual Cornelio Faigao Memorial Writers Workshop.  His poetry appeared or will appear in numerous print and online journals.  He is currently working on his first poetry collection, Multiverse.

Foundlings -- Ken L. Jones

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Ken L. Jones has written everything from Donald Duck comic books to dialogue for the Freddy Krueger movies for the past thirty plus years.  In the last three years, he has gained great notice for his vast publication of horror poetry which has appeared in many anthologies, blogs, magazines, websites, and especially in his first solo book of poetry, Bad Harvest and Other Poems.  

In a Heartbeat -- Jnana Hodson

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Jnana Hodson recently stepped down from a four-decade career in newspaper journalism that included positions on eight publications in six states and the Chicago Tribune's syndication service.  His commutes have included moose, bear, eagles, owls, bobcat, and legions of deer along the way.  He lives in an old New Englander in the seacoast region of the Granite State.

South Dakota Suite -- Séamas Carraher

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Séamas Carraher's poetry has appeared in a number of print and online journals and anthologies. At the moment he lives in a small house in Ballyogan, south County Dublin, Ireland.  http://www.seamascarraher.blogspot.ie/

Twelve Times Thirteen -- Walter Ruhlmann

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Walter Ruhlmann works as an English teacher, edits mgversion2>datura and runs mgv2>publishing.  His latest collections are Maore published by Lapwing Publications, UK, 2013, Carmine Carnival published by Lazarus Media, USA, 2013 and The Loss through Flutter Press, USA, 2014.  Coming up in 2014 Crossing Puddles through Robocup Press.  His blog:  http://thenightorchid.blogspot.fr 

Persephone Dreaming of Cherries -- Loretta Oleck

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Loretta Oleck is a New York poet, and creative artist whose work braids into many disciplines as her poetry and photography have been published or is forthcoming in worldwide publications including Feminist Studies, The Missing Slate, Obsidian Literature, Word Riot, High Coupe, Right Hand Pointing, Cultural Weekly, Commonline Journal, The Westchester Review, Black Lawrence Press, Poetica Literary Magazine, Cactus Heart, The Adirondack Review, and numerous others.  Her poetry was anthologized in The Best of 2013 by Storm Cycle, and her performed poetry was filmed to be used as part of the Public Poetry Series by Fjords Review.  She has performed all over New York including the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.  Loretta holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from N.Y. University.

Miss Quill -- Kyle Hemmings

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Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey.  He has been published in Elimae, Smokelong Quarterly, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Matchbook, and elsewhere.  He loves cats, dogs, and garage bands of the 60s.