The Cabin Fever Affidavit -- Ed Zahniser

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Ed Zahniser’s poems have appeared in over 100 literary magazines in the U.S. and U.K., three chapbooks, three books, nine anthologies, and two gallery shows of poetry as works on walls. His book Mall-hopping with the Great I AM (Somondoco Press) was published in 2006, with design, production, and cover photography by Heather Watson, Pernot and Tatlin, environmental graphic design: exhibits/ signage: www.pernotandtatlin.com/. In 2010, Ed collaborated with Watson on Slow Down and Live, a limited handmade edition of 26 copies she produced. Ed’s series of “I Want To Quit My Day job and . . .” poems were illustrated with Watson’s drawings of envelope security patterns. The book was printed on scrap office paper from Watson’s former day job. With Georgia Lee McElhaney, poet laureate of Shepherdstown, WV, Ed co-edited an anthology of 27 area poets to celebrate the town’s 250^th Anniversary in 2012. The book was designed and produced by Watson. An upcoming book project will include three Shepherdstown long poems by Ed with design, illustration, and production by Watson. Ed and his wife Christine Duewel live in Shepherdstown, WV, where he is poetry editor of the town’s all-volunteer quarterly print and online tabloid Good News Paper, which he cofounded with Executive Editor Randall Tremba in 1979. 

Nodding In Time -- Rodney Nelson

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Rodney Nelson's work began appearing in mainstream journals long ago; but he turned to fiction and did not write a poem for twenty-two years, restarting in the 2000s.  So he is both older and "new."  See his page in the Poets & Writers directory (http://www.pw.org/content/rodney_nelson) for a notion of the publishing history.  He has worked as a copy editor in the Southwest and now lives in the northern Great Plains.  Recenlty, his poem "One Winter" won a Poetry Kit Award for 2011 (U.K.); it had appeared in Symmetry Pebbles.  His "Upstream in Idaho" received a Best of Issue Award at the late Neon Beam (also England). The chapbook Metacowboy was published in 2011; another title, In Wait, in November 2012.  Bog Light has just appeared.

Cubicleland -- Laura Winton

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Laura Winton is a poet, writer, and performance artist currently based in Minneapolis, MN.  She has been writing for about 30 years and has published the journal Karawane:  Or, the Temporary Death of the Bruitist. She likes to read and write avante-garde and experimental literature and is particularly influenced by Dadaism, Surrealism, Beat Writers, and the Language Poets, among others.  Her prose is part prose poems, part fiction, and part creative non-fiction, in keeping with her life, in which she cannot tell anymore what is fiction vs. creative non-fiction.

Journey To Become Forgotten -- Carl Scharwath

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The Orlando Sentinel, Lake Healthy Living, Think Healthy and Mature Lifestyles Magazines have all described Carl Scharwath as the "running poet." His interests include being a father/grandfather, competitive running, sprint triathlons and taekwondo (he's a 2nd degree black belt).

His work appears worldwide with over forty published poems and five short stories. He was awarded “Best in Issue” in Haiku Reality Magazine and was recently selected as a featured poet in Ambrielrev. His favorite authors are Hermann Hesse and Charlotte Perkins Gillman.

The Great Crochet Question -- Paul David Adkins

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Paul David Adkins lives in New York and works as a counselor.

Announcing Kind of a Hurricane Press's First Annual Poetry Contest!

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2013 KIND OF A HURRICANE PRESS EDITOR'S CHOICE POETRY AWARD ARE NOW OPEN!

First Place Winner gets $200 (US)  Payable via PayPal

for more details check out the Kind of a Hurricane Press Editor's Choice Poetry Award Site:

http://editorschoiceaward.blogspot.com/

The Katy Trail, Mid-Missouri, 100F Outside And Other Poems -- Michael H. Brownstein

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Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses.  His work has appeared in The Cafe Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse, Xavier Review Hotel Amerika, Free Lunch, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Pacific Review, Poetrysuperhighway.com and others.  In addition, he has nine poetry chapbooks including The Shooting Gallery (Samidat Press,1987), Poems from the Body Bag (Ommation Press, 1988), A Period of Trees (Snark Press, 2004), What Stone Is (Fractal Edge Press, 2005), and I Was a Teacher Once (Ten Page Press, 2011).  He is the editor of First Poems from Viet Nam (2011).