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NUBAR ALEXANIAN 's documentary photography has regularly appeared in major magazines in the United States and Europe. For the past 25 years he has traveled to more than 30 countries focusing on long-term personal projects describing the human condition. His fourth book is Jazz (Walker Creek Press: 2002). ISSUE 1:2

RALPH ANGEL is the author of four books of poetry: Anxious Latitudes; Neither World, which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets; Twice Removed; and Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006; as well as a translation of Federico García Lorca’s Poem The Deep Song. Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles. ISSUE 2:1

JENNIFER ARIN 's work has been published in Gastronomica, Puerto del Sol, The AWP Writers’ Chronicle, and many others, and has won awards from the NEH, Poets & Writers, PEN, et al. Arin teaches at San Francisco State, writes poetry spots for KRON4-TV, and is a founder of Thicket Press. ISSUE 1:1 | ISSUE 2:2

HOSSANNAH ASUNCION is a Kundiman fellow and received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have previously appeared in Calyx, Inc., Foursquare Journal, Ghoti Magazine and Storyscape Journal. She lives in Brooklyn (via Los Angeles via Manila). ISSUE 4:1

CURTIS BAUER 's recent publications include The American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter and Barrow Street. He won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize for his first poetry collection, Fence Line (BkMk, 2004). He is the publisher and editor of Q Ave Press Chapbooks and he lives in Texas. ISSUE 3:1

JOSHUA BECKMAN is the author of numerous books of poetry. He lives in Seattle and New York. ISSUE 3:1

TARA BETTS is the author of Arc and Hue (Aquarius Press). Her writing has appeared in Ninth Letter, PMS, Drunken Boat and several anthologies. She is a Cave Canem fellow and one of the poetry editors for The November 3rd Club. She teaches at Rutgers University. ISSUE 3:2

MEG BIRNBAUM : I have worked extensively as a graphic designer specializing in magazines, including stints as founding art director of Cook’s Illustrated and as art director during the redesign of The American Prospect. I studied at the Photography Atelier seminars at Radcliffe, Lesley University, The Maine Photographic Workshops and The New England School of Photography. I am a member of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and The Texas Photographic Society. ISSUE 2:1

RUSSELL BITTNER lives and scribbles on a small island off the East Coast of the United States. The island is called "‘Long" and his borough is called "Brooklyn." His poetry has appeared in a number of print journals in the English-speaking world, and can also be found on the Web. ISSUE 3:1

SOPHIE CABOT BLACK has two poetry collections, The Misunderstanding of Nature (Graywolf Press, 1994), which received the Poetry Society of America's First Book Award and The Descent (Graywolf Press, 2004), which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She currently teaches at Columbia University. ISSUE 4:1

DAVID BLAIR 's first book Ascension Days was published by Del Sol Press in the fall of 2007. He’s an associate professor at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts.ISSUE 2:1

RICHARD BLANCO 's acclaimed first book of poetry, City of a Hundred Fires, received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998). His second book, Directions to The Beach of the Dead (University of Arizona Press, 2005), won the PEN-American Beyond Margins Award for its continued exploration of the universal themes of home and place. ISSUE 2:2

CHRIS BOCK holds an MFA from Lesley University. He served as Graduate Assistant at the George Edward Woodbury Poetry Room. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Harvard Review, Haikusun, The Noise Boston and Frigid Ember Magazine. He teaches at Lesley College in Cambridge and lives in South Boston. ISSUE 1:1

KARINA BOROWICZ has recent work in AGNI Online, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Southern Review. Her translations have appeared on Poetry Daily. She lives in Western Massachusetts. ISSUE 4:1

CM BURROUGHS is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and a nominee for the recent Pushcart Prize. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. “Artist’s Delight” is available as a broadside by the Public Poetry Project. ISSUE 2:2

TERESA CADER is the author of two collections of poetry, Guests (Ohio State University Press, 1991) and The Paper Wasp (TriQuarterly Press, 1999). She has just completed a third collection of poems, The History of Hurricanes. She is on the core poetry faculty of the Lesley University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. ISSUE 1:1

JAMES CAPOZZI lives in Seattle. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. ISSUE 2:2

WILLA CARROLL 's work has been published in Tin House and Mary Magazine. She is an MFA candidate in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and lives in New York City. ISSUE 4:1

JOHN CASERTA received an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2004. He received a J. William Fulbright Fellowship in Art in 2004 to create a time capsule project for a dying village in southern Italy. As a professional designer, John has produced interactive and print projects with major media. As an artist, his chief interest is to capture the infinite detail and complexity within our analog world while embracing the potential of current technology. These forms include experimental books, interactive installations, large format photographs, and mapping projects. He is on the adjunct faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design in the graphic design department. He lives and works in Providence. ISSUE 1:2

AMY M. CLARK 's first book of poems, Stray Home, was selected by Beth Ann Fennelly for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry in 2009, and will be published by the University of North Texas Press in early 2010. ISSUE 3:2

ANDREA COHEN is the author of the poetry collections Long Division (Salmon Poetry, 2009) and The Cartographer's Vacation (Owl Creek Press, 1999). She directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series. ISSUE 4:1

BRUCE COHEN 's poems have appeared in literary periodicals such as The Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Ecotone, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Southern Review as well as being featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, he has two collections of poems, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press 2010), and Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press 2009), awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize. ISSUE 4:1

SUE COHEN: I continue to be a daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, hospice worker, and birth doula as I make my way with advanced ovarian cancer.ISSUE 2:1

BILLY COLLINS is the author of seven books of poetry including The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, and Sailing Alone Around the Room. A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), he served as United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 and New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006. ISSUE 2:2

PHIL CORDELLI currently resides in the “panhandle” area of northern Manhattan in New York City. He is an occasional teacher, and gardener, as well as an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. Poems of his can be seen in Zoland Poetry, Cannibal, CutBank, and Octopus. ISSUE 2:2

STEVEN CRAMER is the author of four poetry collections: The Eye That Desires to Look Upward (1987), The World Book (1992), Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (1997), and Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books: 2004), named a Massachusetts Honor Book in Poetry for 2005 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Mass. Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He directs the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge. ISSUE 1:2

JON CREAMER is a photographer and math teacher living in Groton, MA. All photographs were hand printed for this issue of Tuesday. ISSUE 4:1

CYNTHIA CRUZ has had poems published in the American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Boston Review, AGNI, FIELD, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, and others. Her first book is RUIN (Alice James Books). Her work has been anthologized in Isn�t it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. She has received fellowships to YADDO and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. ISSUE 3:2

DÉLANA R. A. DAMERON is the author of How God Ends Us (University of South Carolina Press, 2009), chosen by Elizabeth Alexander as the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, she currently resides in NYC. ISSUE 4:1

KYLE G. DARGAN is the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS online magazine and an assistant professor of literature at American University in Washington, D.C. His poetry collections include The Listening (University of Georgia Press, 2004) and Bouquet of Hungers (University of Georgia Press, 2007). ISSUE 3:2

JARITA DAVIS has a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Her work has appeared in Southwestern Review, Historic Nantucket, Cave Canem Anthologies, Crab Orchard Review, and Plainsongs. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ISSUE 3:1

NEHASSAIU DEGANNES has work appearing or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poem/Memoir/Story, Encyclopedia Project, Quotes Community: Notes For Black Poets and Painted Bride Quarterly. Awards include the Philbrick Prize and the 2008 Poetry Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She is a Cave Canem Fellow. ISSUE 2:1

GREG DELANTY is the Artist in Residence at St. Michael's College. He became a US citizen in 1994, is politically active and ran for The Green Party in the US elections. His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is recently out from the Oxford Poets series of Carcanet Press. His other more recent books are The Ship of Birth (Carcanet Press: 2003, Louisiana State University Press: 2007), The Blind Stitch (Carcanet Press: 2001, Louisiana State University Press: 2002), and The Hellbox (Oxford University Press: 1998). He has received numerous awards and has just been granted a Guggenheim for Poetry. ISSUE 1:2

CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Cannibal, Cutbank, LIT, Notnostrums, and Third Coast.
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ELSA DORFMAN : A session with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky on February 8, 1980 was the first time Elsa Dorfman used the Polaroid 20x24. She has three books, Elsa’s Housebook: A Woman’s Photojournal (1974), En Famille with Robert Creeley (1999) and NoHairDay (2003) and over 200 different photo postcards. Her website is her obsession:
www.elsadorfman.com. ISSUE 2:1

CHRISTINA DUHIG holds an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Washington Square, The Greensboro Review, and Best New Poets 2007. She teaches in the University Studies program at North Carolina A&T State University. ISSUE 3:2

JILLY DYBKA lives in Tennessee, is married to a jazz musician, & works with computers at a university. ISSUE 1:2

JOSHUA BLAKE EDWARDS co-edits Canarium Books with Robyn Schiff, Nick Twemlow, and Lynn Xu. His poems and translations appear in Chicago Review, LIT, Slate, Skanky Possum, Northwest Review, CROWD, Vanitas, and elsewhere. ISSUE 3:1

THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS is a poet and photographer. The Maverick Room (Graywolf Press: 2005) was awarded The John C. Zacharis First Book Award. He is also the author of "The Good Junk," published in Take Three #1 (Graywolf: 1996), The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press: 2001), and the chaplet Song On (WinteRed Press: 2005). An Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of the Lesley University low-residency MFA program, his Breakfast and Blackfist: Notes for Black Poets is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press. ISSUE 1:2 | ISSUE 3:1

TONY EPRILE is the author of The Persistence of Memory (Norton, 2004), a NY Times Notable Book of the Year and Koret Jewish Book Award winner. He has photographs appearing in Edible Green Mountains and Gourmet.com, and essays appearing in Post Road and an anthology on Dads Who Cook. Tony currently teaches at Lesley University's low-residency MFA. ISSUE 4:1

JUDSON EVANS is Director of Liberal Arts at The Boston Conservatory. He has been chosen as an “emerging poet” for the Association of American Poets by John Yau. His work appears in The Haiku Anthology (Norton, 1999), Journeys to the Interior (Tuttle, 1998) and in a newly published first chapbook, a sequence of haibun called Mortal Coil (Leap Press, 2005). ISSUE 2:1

AARON FAGAN is the author of Garage (Salt Publishing, 2007). He is an editor for Scientific American and lives in the Bronx. ISSUE 3:1

FORKSCREW GRAPHICS is a design group committed to social awareness projects. We are two Los Angeles residents in our 30’s who started Forkscrew in 2004. ISSUE 2:1

GINA FRANCO 's collection of poems is The Keepsake Storm (University of Arizona Press, 2004). Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, BorderSenses, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Fence, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, and Zone 3. She divides her time between Galesburg, Illinois, where she teaches English and creative writing at Knox College, and the Arizona desert where she grew up. ISSUE 3:2

DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES is the author of Maroon, a collection of poems (Curbstone Press, 2001). Her poems have appeared in journals including Agni, Callaloo, Poeisis, and Black/Renaissance/Noire and in numerous anthologies. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division at Lesley University. ISSUE 2:1

BILL GALLERY is a renowned commercial/documentary photographer living in Boston. His work has appeared in all the important creative journals and is widely recognized in the field of corporate photography. ISSUE 1:2

LISA GILL is the author of two books of poetry, Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist and Mortar & Pestle. In 2007 she received a fellowship in poetry from the NEA. She lives in Moriarty, NM with her two dogs. ISSUE 2:2

MARY GIRARD 's poetry has appeared in Watershed Journal and Perihelion and has won awards from Georgetown Review and Riverbanks Garden Poetry Contest. She lives in Arlington, MA. ISSUE 2:2

MYRONN HARDY is the author of two books of poems: Approaching the�Center (New Issues, 2001), winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints (New Issues, 2008).�His poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, FIELD, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in New York City. ISSUE 3:2

MARC HARSHMAN lives in West Virginia. He taught in a three-room school. Periodical publications include The Georgia Review, Marginalia, Shenandoah, and The Progressive. He has written three chapbooks of poetry including Local Journeys (Finishing Line, 2004). He is also the author of eleven children's books including The Storm, a Smithsonian Notable Book for Children. ISSUE 3:2

MELANIE HENDERSON , 4th generation native of Washington, DC, received her MBA from Trinity University and an MFA from Lesley University. She is the Managing Editor of the Tidal Basin Review. Her work has appeared in Amistad, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Black Arts Quarterly. She is a winner of the 2009 Larry Neal Writers' Award. ISSUE 4:1

EMILY HIESTAND 's third book is Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels (Beacon Press, 1998). Hiestand’s photographs are collected, exhibited and published. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Salon. Honors include The Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, Case Award, National Poetry Award, and the National Magazine Award. ISSUE 1:1

JOHN HODGEN teaches creative writing at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He was winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press: 2006). His work has recently appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and APR. ISSUE 1:2

JOAN HOULIHAN is author of Hand-Held Executions, Poems & Essays (Del Sol Press) and of The Mending Worm, winner of the 2005 Green Rose Award from New Issues Press. She is founder and director of the Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts. ISSUE 1:2

MAJOR JACKSON 's second book of poetry is Hoops (Norton, 2006). His awards include the Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Pew and Witter Bynner Foundations. Jackson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the Bennington Writing Seminars. Currently he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. ISSUE 1:1

PATRICIA SPEARS JONES is the author of Think: Poems on Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Day Hat (www.bombsite.org, 2009), Repuestas! (Belladonna Books, 2007), Femme Du Monde (Tia Chucha Press, 2006), The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press, 1995), Mythologizing Always (Telephone Books, 1981), and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets (Ordinary Women Books, 1978). ISSUE 4:1

ROSAMOND S. KING , Ph.D., is a creative and critical writer and performer. Her poetry has been published in over a dozen journals and anthologies, and she has performed her distinctive verse cabaret style around the world in theatres, nightclubs, and galleries. ISSUE 3:2

NOELLE KOCOT is the author of three books of poetry: 4, The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books: 2001 and 2004, respectively), and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books: 2006). Her honors include awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The American Poetry Review, and The Fund for Poetry, as well as inclusion in Best American Poetry 2001. She is widow of composer Damon Tomblin. She lives in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised. ISSUE 1:2

RON KOERTGE lives in South Pasadena, CA. After teaching for a thousand years at Pasadena City College, he retired to write poetry as well as fiction for young adults. Oh, and to bet on thoroughbred race horses. His latest book of poems is Fever (Red Hen Press), his latest YA novel is Deadville (Candlewick Press) and his latest winner is Tammy’s Luck at 4-1. ISSUE 2:2

QURAYSH ALI LANSANA is author of four poetry books, a children’s book, and editor of eight anthologies. He is director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing and an associate professor of English/Creative Writing at Chicago State
University. A former Juilliard School of Drama faculty member, Quraysh earned a MFA in Poetry at NYU. ISSUE 2:2

JUDITH S. LARSEN has a BFA and MFA in Painting from Tufts University and the Boston Museum School. She has exhibited internationally, and is represented in numerous collections, including the DeCordova Museum and the Boston MFA. Larsen is the Art Editor for the Harvard Review and a member of the Board of Governors for the Boston Museum School. She is currently represented by RHYS Gallery, Boston and by Eli Klein Fine Art, New York. ISSUE 2:2

KAREN AN-HWEI LEE is the author of Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008) and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004). She lives and teaches on the West Coast, where she is a novice harpist. ISSUE 3:1

DAVID LEHMAN 's most recent book of poems is When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005). He teaches poetry and literature in the New School’s graduate writing program in New York City. ISSUE 3:1

LISA LEWIS 's books are The Unbeliever and Silent Treatment. She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as poetry editor for the Cimarron Review. New work appears or is forthcoming in Cortland Review, Seattle Review, CutThroat, Hunger Mountain, POOL, Parthenon West Review, and Crab Orchard Review. ISSUE 2:2

FRANNIE LINDSAY is the author of Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press: 2004) and Lamb (Perugia Press: 2006), runner-up for the Laughlin Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Black Warrior Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include the May Swenson Award, the Perugia Press Intro Award, an NEA Fellowship, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Grant. ISSUE 1:2

CHRISTOPHER LOCKE , a recent Pushcart Prize nominee, has received grants in poetry from both the New Hampshire Council on the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His full length collection, End of American Magic, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. ISSUE 3:2

DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is the author of A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (U of Georgia P), which was selected by Carl Phillips for the 2006 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She lives in Pittsburgh were she works as an assistant professor. ISSUE 2:1

WINSLOW MARTIN has won many newspaper industry awards during his 20 years as a professional photographer. He was named New England Press photographer of the year in 2000. He is currently working on a book-length documentary project on life in the Republic of Armenia. ISSUE 1:1

CATE MARVIN 's second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2007. She lives in Staten Island, NY. ISSUE 1:1

ADRIAN MATEJKA is the author of The Devil's Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) and Mixology (Penguin Books, 2009), winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. His work has appeared APR, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. ISSUE 4:1

BEN MAZER is the author of The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books) and Johanna Poems (Cy Gist Press). He is the editor of Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press), and a contributing editor to Fulcrum. ISSUE 2:2

JEFFREY MCDANIEL 's third book of poetry is The Splinter Factory (Manic D. Press: 2000). He is a professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. ISSUE 1:2

ANDREW MERTON 's work has appeared in the AQR, Bellevue Literary Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, The Comstock Review, Silk Road, and The American Journal of Nursing. He has published nonfiction in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Ms. Magazine. He teaches writing at UNH. ISSUE 4:1

DANTE MICHEAUX 's work has appeared in various journals and anthologies. He has been a guest of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, among others. His honors include the Oscar Wilde Award and fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and The New York Times Foundation. Micheaux resides in Paris, France. ISSUE 3:1

MARY TAUTIN MOLONEY holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in Lumina and Big City Lit, and she was selected as a semi-finalist in the 2007 Discovery/The Nation poetry contest. ISSUE 1:2

VALZHYNA MORT , born in Minsk, Belarus, made her American debut in 2008 with a poetry collection, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press). Currently she is an artist in residence at Sylt-Quelle on the island of Sylt, Germany. Off season, Mort is a visiting writer at the University of Baltimore. ISSUE 3:2

VICTORIA BOSCH MURRAY 's poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review, Field, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Inch, The Potomac, Salamander, and elsewhere. A chapbook of her poems, On the Hood of Someone Else's Car, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She has an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson, and teaches at Suffolk University in Boston where she's also a contributing editor at Salamander. ISSUE 4:1

Poet, novelist, essayist, historian and art critic, BERNARD NOËL received the Prix National de Poésie in 1992. He was given the poet laureateship as well as the Grand Prix International Guillevic-Ville de Saint-Malo, for his oeuvre in 2005. In France, his poems are accessible in three pocketbook editions: La Chute des temps and Extraits du corps from Poésie/Gallimard, and Le Reste du voyage from Points/poésie Seuil. ISSUE 3:1

SIMON NORFOLK is a landscape photographer whose work is probing the meaning of the word “battlefield” in all its forms. His work has been widely recognised: he has won Le Prix Dialogue at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2005; an Infinity Award from The International Center of Photography in 2004; the Foreign Press Club of America Award in 2003: and he was winner of the European Publishing Award, 2002. ISSUE 2:2

NADIA NURHUSSEIN was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Staten Island. She earned her PhD in English from UC Berkeley, where her poetry received the Eisner Prize. Her work has appeared in The Harvard Review, 580 Split, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, and Good Foot. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. ISSUE 1:1

CALEY O'DWYER 's first book is Full Nova (Orchises Press, 2001). His publications include Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and Hayden's Ferry Review . He teaches writing at the University of Southern California. ISSUE 1:1

BENJAMIN PALOFF is a poetry editor for Boston Review. His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Fulcrum, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and he is the translator, most recently, of Dorota Maslowska's Snow White and Russian Red (Grove Press, 2005). ISSUE 1:1

MARGOT PAPPAS lives in Gloucester MA. She is currently working on a chapbook collection Easy, Marshmallow. This is her first published poem. ISSUE 1:1

CYNTHIA PARKER-OHENE is a graduate of the MFA program at the Saint Mary�s College of California where she was the Chester Aaron Scholar for Excellence in Creative Writing. She is the recipient of a Callaloo Writing Fellowship, the Zora Neale Hurston Award from Naropa, and Honorable Mention for the Pan African Literary Forum in Ghana. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and Ecotone, among others. ISSUE 3:2

JEFFREY PERKINS is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. This is his first published poem. ISSUE 1:2

MIKE PERROW 's poetry has appeared in Shenandoah, Volt, The Hollins Critic, Willow Springs Review, Del Sol Review, and Perihelion, as featured poet for Issue #9. He was winner of The Boston Review 8th Annual Poetry Contest. ISSUE 1:2

JOYCE PESEROFF 's recent books are Eastern Mountain Time and Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon. She directs the creative writing and MFA program at UMass Boston. ISSUE 2:1

ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS teaches poetry at SUNY, Stony Brook. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Harvard Review, No: A Journal of the Arts, Seneca Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, and The New Yorker . ISSUE 1:1 | ISSUE 2:1

JACQUELYN POPE is the author of Watermark (Marsh Hawk Press) and a regular contributor to Harvard Review and Callaloo. ISSUE 2:1

DOUG RAMSPECK 's poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, was selected for the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in West Branch, Rattle, Confrontation Magazine, Connecticut Review, Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, and numerous other journals. He directs the Writing Center and teaches English at The Ohio State University at Lima. ISSUE 2:2

ADRIENNE RICHARD grew up in the Chicago area with important periods spent in California, Arizona and New Mexico. She returned to Chicago to attend the University of Chicago where she graduated in 1943. Her published work includes novels for older children, short stories, magazine and newspaper features, a book on epilepsy, and poems. ISSUE 2:1

KATY RICHEY lives in the Washington Metro area.� Her work has appeared in Rattle, Gargoyle Magazine, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Torch, and is forthcoming in Little Patuxent Review.� She is a 2009 Bread Loaf fellow and currently teaches English in Montgomery County, Maryland. ISSUE 3:2

DAVID RIVARD 's most recent book is Sugartown (Graywolf, 2005). In 2006 he was awarded the Folger Shakespeare Library's O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize for his writing and teaching. He teaches at Tufts University. ISSUE 1:1

ELÉNA RIVERA was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood, to the age of thirteen, in Paris. Her latest book of poetry is Mistakes, Accidents and a Want of Liberty from Barque Press. Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secrets of the Breath is just out from Burning Deck Press, and other translations can be found in the Chicago Review, Circumference: Poetry in Translation and Tarpaulin Sky. She was recently awarded the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. ISSUE 1:1 | ISSUE 3:1

LISA M. ROBINSON 's photographic project, "Snowbound," is appearing in galleries internationally. Her awards include a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and a Fulbright scholarship. She lives and works in New York. ISSUE 1:1

KEN ROSENTHAL 's artwork is held in public collections internationally, and is represented nationally by Etherton Gallery, Gerald Peters Gallery, and Dolby Chadwick Gallery, among others. Rosenthal’s first monograph, Seen and Not Seen, will be published in 2009 as part of the Wittliff Gallery Series by the University of Texas Press. ISSUE 2:2

RENÉE ROSSI 's poems have appeared in the BOA Ltd. Anthology Body Language, 2008 Best of the Net Anthology, Jl of Medical Humanities, Sentence and Sojourn. Her work was nominated in 2007 and 2008 for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, Still Life, is forthcoming from Gertrude Press in 2010. She lives in Dallas, Texas. ISSUE 4:1

MARY RUEFLE 's latest book is The Most Of It (Wave Books, 2008). She lives in Vermont. ISSUE 3:1

ROBIN BETH SCHAER is the recipient of fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, Barrow Street, and Washington Square, among others, and recordings of her poems are featured on From the Fishouse. ISSUE 2:2

WILLIAM SCHAFF is a wreck. His most recent regular paid work involved him punching people in the head, and hoping they didn't punch him back. That said he manages to create lots of artwork for different folk, from the likes of fine authors, to such notable independent musicians as Okkervil River, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and many more. This fine artist is just trying to keep his lights on, his car insured and his mortgage paid. Well, one out of three ain't bad. God Bless you, William Schaff. ISSUE 4:1

RAVI SHANKAR is poet-in-residence at CCSU. He is founding editor of Drunken Boat. His first book Instrumentality (Cherry Grove Press: 2004) was finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, LIT and The Iowa Review. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Together with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, Shankar is currently editing an anthology of South Asian, East Asian, and Middle Eastern poetry, due out with W.W. Norton & Co. in 2007. ISSUE 1:2

DON SHARE is Senior Editor at Poetry Magazine. His most recent book is Squandermania (Salt Publishing: 2007). Other books include Union (Zoo Press); Seneca in English (Penguin Classics: 1998); I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández (Bloodaxe Books: 1997), which received the Times Literary Supplement/Society of Authors Translation Prize; and a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s work, forthcoming from Faber and Faber. ISSUE 1:2

ANNE SHAW is the author of Undertow (Persea Books, 2008), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Literal Latt�, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, Subtropics, The Journal, New American Writing, Poetry Daily and From the Fishouse. ISSUE 3:2

PETER JAY SHIPPY 's most recent book is the verse novella How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press). For more poems, try www.peterjayshippy.com. ISSUE 2:1

EVIE SHOCKLEY is the author of a half-red sea and two chapbooks. She currently serves as a guest editor of Jubilat. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and recipient of a Hedgebrook residency, Shockley teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. ISSUE 3:1

SEAN SINGER 's first book Discography won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the recipient of an artists’ grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2005 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISSUE 2:1

Weapons Grade, TERESE SVOBODA 's fifth book of poetry, will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2009. It contains poems published in the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, Paris Review, Tin House—and Tuesday. The Japan Times named her Graywolf memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, Best of 2008. ISSUE 3:1

ANNE TAIT grew up in Akron, Ohio. In 1997 She received her MFA in painting from American University in Washington, DC. She is presently an Assistant Professor of Art at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, and the resident artist in a Providence cemetery. ISSUE 1:1

AMY THOMPSON was born on an army base in Virginia, and raised in Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Belgium. The photographic essay Peace, Violence and Visitors, made in Cambodia, is highlighted on Verve Photo: A New Breed of Documentary Photographers and selections were exhibited at Panopticon Gallery in Boston. Her awards include a Fulbright Scholarship and the Paul Schutzer Memorial Award for advanced documentary work. She was a featured photographer in National Geographic Magazine. ISSUE 3:2

ROSMARIE WALDROP 's trilogy (The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, and Reluctant Gravities) has just been reprinted by New Directions under the title Curves to the Apple. Other recent books of poetry are Splitting Image (Zasterle), Blindsight (New Directions), Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn), and Dissonance (if you are interested): Collected Essays (University of Alabama Press: Fall, 2005). ISSUE 1:2

FRANZ WRIGHT 's collections of poetry include The Beforelife (2001), God's Silence (2006), and Walking to Martha's Vineyard, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. He has received a Whiting Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for his poetry. Wright has translated poetry by Ranier Maria Rilke and Rene Char; in 2008 he and his wife, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, co-translated a collection by the Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears. ISSUE 4:1

FRANK X WALKER is the author of four books of poetry and the editor of PLUCK! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture. He is currently the Artist-in-residence at Northern Kentucky University. ISSUE 3:1

FRITZ WARD 's poems have appeared in more than fifty journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Agni, Salt Hill, Blackbird, Portland Review, Diagram, and The Journal. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and currently lives in Santa Rosa, California and Philadelphia. ISSUE 3:1

AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER 's latest collection of poetry is The Plum Flower Dance (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007). Afaa lives in Somerville, MA. ISSUE 3:2

JONATHAN WEINERT 's first book, In the Mode of Disappearance, was selected by Brenda Hillman for the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize, and will be published by Nightboat Books in 2008. His poetry and review publications include American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, LIT, and 32 Poems. ISSUE 1:2

ELANA JOY WETZNER is an interdisciplinary visual artist and designer from the Great North East. Her work has been exhibited in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and France. She rides a red bicycle and would like a dog. ISSUE 3:2

SIMONE WHITE lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the chapbook Dolly (Q Ave Press, with the paintings of Kim Thomas), the exhibition catalog for “The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Flow,” Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and Indiana Review. Currently a doctoral student in English at CUNY Graduate Center, she received her MFA from The New School and trained as a lawyer at Harvard. ISSUE 2:2

LESLIE WILLIAMS' poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Slate, The Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, North American Review and many other magazines. She’s been a finalist in the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the National Poetry Series and won an Illinois Artist Grant in Poetry. ISSUE 2:1

DAN WOOD is an artist and letterpress printer living in Providence, RI. He founded DWRI Letterpress in 2005 to work collaboratively with other artists and designers. His own work has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently at the International Print Center New York, and is included in the print collection of the New York Public Library. He is also Tuesday’s very own Ink-Stained Wretch. ISSUE 2:2