Saturday, January 24, 2015

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.



Sunday, December 7, 2014

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.



Monday, November 10, 2014

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)



Saturday, October 18, 2014

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




Sunday, October 5, 2014

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.



Friday, September 19, 2014

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).



Sunday, September 7, 2014

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.