Carolyn Kizer
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Carolyn Kizer's reputation is established both nationally and internationally. The following selections are from her book Harping On: poems 1985 - 1996 published by Copper Canyon Press
Deena LarsenDeena Larsen's book, Marble Springs, has been published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. While we believe the following pieces powerful enough to stand by themselves as individual poems, they were intended to be part of the hypertext book. If you enjoy the poems they've allowed us to publish here, we strongly recommend the full version.
Jenniffer Lesh
From Bakersfield, California, Jenniffer Lesh's work has appeared in Xconnect, Agnieszka' Dowry, and Best Internet Poetry among others. She graduated from Cal State University with a degree in English, summa cum laude, and owns her own business selling antiques and art. In 1994 she was named Regional Poet by The League for Innovation. Email: Jenniffer Lesh.
Robert LietzA professor of English and Creative Writing (fiction and poetry) at Ohio Northern University, Robert Lietz's poetry has appeared in numerous magazines including Agni Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, The Georgia Review and Poetry Seven collections of his poems have been published, including Running in Place (1979 L’Epervier Press). At Park and East Division (1981, L’Epervier Press) The Lindbergh Half-century (1987, L’Epervier Press) The Inheritance (1988, Sandhills Press) and Storm Service (1994, Basfal Books). Basfal also published After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems in August, 1996. Eastgate Press will publish his first hypertext collection, Protection Avenue, this summer as part of a CD-Rom anthology. Email: Robert Lietz
Dennis List
Dennis List is a poet who grew up in New Zealand, and now lives in Australia. He has published in dozens of poetry magazines, edited several, and had three poetry collections published: A Kitset of 26 Poems, Pathways into the Brian, and Falling Off Chairs. His poems have been published in various anthologies and daubed on several fences by unknown graffitists, mostly near the Pacific Ocean. In his spare time he is an aid program consultant, working mostly for Scandinavian aid agencies in Africa and Asia. He has a web site at http://dlist.mtx.net.
Email: Dennis List
Heather Simeney MacLeod
Canadian writer, Heather Simeney MacLeod’s first book of poems, My Flesh the Sound of Rain, was published in 1998 by Coteau Books and was nominated for the First Nations Publishing prize that year. Two of her plays have received honourable mentions from, the journal, Aboriginal Voices and from the Native Playwrights Contest held in Alaska. She has a second poetry collection,North Woods (a collaboration with Coral Hull) forthcoming with Rattapallax Press. Heather’s third poetry book will be released with Turnstone Books in April 2004. Her work has been published widely in Canada as well as in reviews and journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Israel and New Zealand. E-Mail:Heather Simeney MacLeod
Karen Masullo
Karen Masullo's work has appeared in numerous on-line publications, some small press literary arts publications, and two hard copy anthologies. She has been a featured reader at The Greater Columbus Arts Festival (rated one of the top ten in the country), is a member of a performance and workshop group called the Umbrella Poets, and is a resident artist and assistant editor of the Acme Poets website.
A Certified Employment Trainer, she lives in Columbus, Ohio, and began writing after "Movie Star" and "Famous Singer" didn't work out. As a result, she enjoys every opportunity to read her work aloud, which somewhat fills the "Movie Star" desire. Karen does however worry, she may soon begin singing her work aloud to poetry audiences, rather than in her kitchen to the questioning looks of her dogs. She is wisely practicing restraint while teaching her dogs to applaud.
Karen is a 1999 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Email: Karen Masullo
Frank Matagrano
Frank Matagrano is the author of I Can Only Go As Fast As the Guy in Front of Me (Black Lawrence Press, 2005), His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Flyway, Northwest Review, Rhino Magazine and Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. He currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
Email: Frank Matagrano
RJ McCaffery
RJ McCaffery is a poet of temporary residence. Currently he can be found in Athens, GA. A graduate of Providence College, he holds a M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. His first book, Chaos Theory and the Knuckleballer, a limited print, hand bound text, accompanied by a CD, came out in the Spring of 2000. His poetry and essays have appeared in The Norton Anthology of Literature's web site, New Books, Ploughshares, The Cortland Review, Crania, The Alsop Review, The Free Cuisenart, Terrain, Conspire, Moondance, Shovel, The Melic Review, Octavo, Redwall, and The Alembic. When not restoring vintage 3-speed bicycles, he putters with several web-related poetry projects; many under the aegis of Eye Dialect, a literary publication which he edits with Kristina Van Sant and William Norris. Since 1999 he's worn various editorial staff hats at The Alsop Review. Anyone who wishes to discuss the Red Sox or poetry (and the fine line between them) is welcome to mail him.
Email: RJ McCaffery
Jane Mead
Jane Mead's collection of poems House of Poured-Out Waters will be published by the University of Illinois Press in the spring of 2001. She received a Whiting Writer's Award for her book The Lord And The General Din of the World, and is the recipient of a Completion Grant from the Lannan Foundation. She is Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University.
Email: Jane Mead
Robert Mezey
Robert Mezey was educated at Kenyon, Iowa, and Stanford, and has taught at Fresno State, the University of Utah, Franklin & Marshall, and elsewhere; he has recently retired from the faculty of Pomona College, where since 1976 he has been a professor and poet-in-residence.
His poems, prose, and translations have been appearing since 1953 in many journals, including The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, The Partisan Review, Yale Review, Grand Street, The New Yorker, Antaeus, Harper’s, Threepenny Review, kayak, Paris Review, New Letters, Field, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Grammercy Review, Wallace Stevens Journal, Missouri Review, and Verse. The poems have been included in numerous textbooks and anthologies, and translations of them have been published in Italy, Israel, Spain, and the former Yugoslovia.
His books of poetry include the Lovemaker, White Blossoms, A Book of Dying, The Mercy of Sorrow, The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, Couplets, Small Song, Selected Translations and Natural Selection. In 1987, Evening Wind won a P.E.N. prize and the Bassine Citation. His Collected Poems were published by University of Arkansas Press in 2000. He has edited Poems from the Hebrew, co-edited Naked Poetry, and with Donald Justice edited the Collected Poems of Henri Coulette. He has also published in the last few years his editions of Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Penguin) and The Poetry of E. A. Robinson (Modern Library). In 1982, Syracuse University Press published his annotated translation of Caesar Vallejo's novel, Tungsteno. Over many years, he and the late Dick Barnes translated the collected poems of Jorge Luis Borges, much of it in formal verse. Because of the unexplained opposition of Maria Kodama and her agent, Penguin dropped them as the official translators and their widely acclaimed book of Borges' four hundred and twenty-some poems cannot at present be published.
His awards include the Robert Frost Prize, the Lamont Selection (for the Lovemaker), and award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a fellowship from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, one from the Guggenheim Foundation, and from the National Endowment of Arts.
Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy (b.1951) was graduated from Yale in 1972 as Scholar of the House in Poetry. His tutor was Robert Penn Warren.
The Deed Of Gift (Story Line Press, 1998) collects Murphy’s poems from 1976 to 1996. Set The Ploughshare Deep (Ohio University Press, 2000) is a memoir in prose and verse which recounts his experiences farming and hunting the high plains.
A verse translation of Beowulf, on which he collaborated with his partner, Alan Sullivan, is included in the Longman Anthology of British Literature and will be published by Longman as a critical edition in November of 2003. Another collection of Murphy’s poetry, Very Far North, was published by the Waywiser Press in Great Britain in 2002.
Email: Timothy Murphy
from Very Far North
from The Deed of Gift
Kristy Nielsen
Kristy Nielsen has been published in Mid American Review, Asylum, Poet & Critic, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Illinois Review, The Prose Poem, Kalliope, and Bakunin.
She also been anthologized in the New Rivers Press Anthology of American Prose Poems, and Sarejevo: An Anthology for Bosnian Relief.
She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has won both the Amelia Prose Poem Award and the AWP INTRO Award.
The Self Portrait Poems:
Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park writes poetry for both adults and young people. Her work has been published in several journals, both print and online. She also writes fiction (see The Writers ); her third book A Single Shard was awarded the 2002 John Newbery Medal.
Her website is www.lindasuepark.com.
See also: An Interview with Linda Sue Park
Jennifer Reeser
Jennifer is author of An Alabaster Flask, winner of the 2002 First Book Prize from Word Press. Her poems, translations and critical essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The Formalist, The Dark Horse (Scot.), Salt (Austr.), Louisiana Literature, The New Laurel Review, The Lyric, PIVOT and Edge City Review. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her work has been chosen for anthology in Rising Phoenix, a collection of poetry by Generation X New Expansivist writers edited by Sonny Williams, consulting editor Dana Gioia. She serves as assistant editor to the journal Iambs & Trochees, and lives in southern Louisiana with her husband and their five children. Jennifer's website can be accessed at : www.geocities.com/jdreeser
Email: Jennifer Reeser.
Anthony Robinson
Anthony Robinson teaches introductory poetry classes and freshman composition and has an incomplete knowledge of the classics.
He lives and works in Eugene, Oregon.
Email: Anthony Robinson
Selections from Parables
matt robinson
matt robinson* (1974), a native of Halifax, NS, Canada, now living in Fredericton, NB, is a PhD student in Canadian Literature at The University of New Brunswick. His first collection of poetry, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac, 2000), was short-listed for both the 2001 Gerald Lampert Memorial and ReLit Poetry Awards. His poetry, fiction and reviews have won numerous awards including the Petra Kenney Memorial International Poetry Prize, the Bailey Prize, and the Short Grain Prose Poem Award, as well as having appeared on radio and television, in a number of anthologies, and in numerous Canadian, American, British, and Australian journals and magazines. robinson is on the editorial board of both The Fiddlehead and Kaleidoscope, as well as serving as the NB/PEI Regional Representative for The League of Canadian Poets. A Residence Don at The University of New Brunswick’s McLeod House, he also teaches creative writing workshops and is an active participant in the 'Writers in the Schools' programs of both the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. how we play at it: a list, his second collection of poetry, is forthcoming from ECW Press this Fall (2002).
*Lower case spellings here and on poem pages are per the author's preference.
Linda Rogers
Linda Rogers writes poetry and fiction for adults and children. She and her husband, musician Rick van Krugel, write blues for kids. Rick also illustrates her children's novels.
She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Victoria and does books and writers on television. Her poems have won the Acorn/Rukeyser, Stephen Leacock and Dorothy Livesay Prizes. Recent titles include Heaven Cake, Love in the Rainforest, The Half Life of Radium, The Saning, The Broad Canvas ( portraits of women artists ), Brown Bag Blues and Frankie Zapper and the Disappearing Teacher.
Rogers has three sons and two grandchildren.
William Ryan
William Ryan’s poems, stories, essays and articles have appeared in many periodicals.
His books include the novel Dr. Excitement’s Elixir of Longevity (Donald I. Fine, Inc., hardcover; Dell Publishing, paperback), To Die in Latin (poems, Lynx House Press), Eating the Heart of the Enemy (poems, Lynx House Press)and Not to Make Emptiness a Point of View (poems, Oat City Press).
Email: William Ryan
