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Paul Beckman
I work as a real estate agent to feed my writing habit and in 1999 I received my MFA from Bennington.
Some other publishing credits: THE CONNECTICUT REVIEW, OTHER VOICES, THE WRITER'S VOICE, PLAYBOY, NORTHEAST MAGAZINE, FICTION WAREHOUSE, 5 TROPE, EXQUISITE CORPSE, SUGAR MULE, PARTING GIFTS, WEB DEL SOL, COLLECTED STORIES.COM & RIVER BABBLE.
Read Paul Beckman's Flash Fiction.
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John Bryan
John Bryan has been published in various journals such as Unlikely 2.0, 3AM Magazine, Outsider Ink, Poems Niederngasse, RockSaltPlum Review, ThisIsIt Magazine, DeadDrunkDublin, Thieves Jargon, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Copious Magazine, Hutt Magazine and Triplopia to name a few. He lives in Antarctic Canberra, the beleagured capital of Australia and is planning an expedition to Tasmania in twelve months to locate that most folkloric of beasts - the thylacine... stay tuned.
Read John Bryan's Poetry.
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Cathy Cramer
Cathy Cramer is a state bureaucrat and experienced slacker who pushes the limits of government incompetence on a daily basis. To her tremendous surprise and dismay, she has not yet been fired. In her spare time she plays solitaire and feels compelled to enter silly contests. This is the first one she has won without bribing anyone.
Read Cathy Cramer's Winning DADA Contest Entry.
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Ryan Goddard
Jack of all trades, master of none. I've been a ditch-digger, carpenter, sailor, and sportswriter. Followed my field of dreams to the banks of the Mississippi in southeastern Iowa where monster bucks thrive and the people are scarce. I live for my wife, kids, bowhunting, and playing rugby. Yes, for me at least - this is heaven.
Read Ryan Goddard's Winning DADA Contest Entry.
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Michael Graves
Michael Graves's book of poems is Outside St. Jude's, re-issued as an ebook by Rattapallax. He has received a grant of $4,500 from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. He has published thirteen (13) poems in the James Joyce Quarterly and read to a meeting of the James Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart. His poem "Apollo to Daphne" appears in Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford University Press). Among other publications, his work appears in The Classical Outlook, European Judaism, The Journal of Irish Literature (4), Writer's Forum, Rattapallax (5), The Hollins Critic (11), Archipelago, and Salonika and Cumberland Poetry Review. He has been an editor at Rattapallax and R. E.M. Press and The Poetry News Letter and a Contributing Editor to the Aeraiocht Press. He runs the Phoenix Reading Series. With Victor Schermer he is the co-author of "The Abandoned Male Persona and the Mysterious Feminine in the Work of James Wright: A Study in theTransformation of the Self," published in The Psychoanalytic Review. He organized the conference "Baptism of Fire: The Work of James Wright", at Poets.House in, Saturday, March 27, 2004.
Read Michael Graves's Poetry.
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Kelvin C. James
Trinidadian-American, Kelvin Christopher James holds a B.Sc. from the University of West Indies (St. Augustine campus), and a doctorate in Science Education from Columbia University Teachers College. He lives in Harlem, New York City. Born in Port of Spain, grown up in Arima, Kelvin left formal schooling at an early age. He worked as sole assistant to Dr. Gaston. P. Blair, a researcher of Red Ring disease (which still destroys coconut trees just at bearing age). These two were first to explain basic data such as life cycles and transmission mode of the nematodes (Aphelencus cocophilus) which cause the disease.
Beyond this life of apprentice research scientist, Kelvin enjoyed an adventurous youth, hitched his way around the Caribbean archipelago, found time to be a National athlete. Eventually visiting New York, he decided to stay and mingle. While about dis and dat, he meandered into the craft of fiction, and eventually abandoned his supervisory job at Harlem Hospital to pursue the Writer's life.
In 1989, he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction. In 1996, was granted a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Literature. From 1992, through 1996, and managed through the Board of Education, each year he donated approximately $3000 to New York City high-schoolers for his eponymous annual writing awards.
www.kelvinchristopherjames.com/
Read Kelvin C. James's Flash Fiction.
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Prakash Kona
Prakash Kona lives in Hyderabad, India. He completed his doctoral studies with a comparative study of Chomsky, Derrida and Wittgenstein at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. He has two works of fiction entitled "Streets that smell of dying roses" and "Pearls of an unstrung necklace" from Fugue State Press (www.fuguestatepress.com) and one work on language theory entitled "A Study of Pluralism" from Wisdom House, Leeds (www.wisdomhouse.co.uk). He is the author of two previous books of poetry published in Calcutta.
Read Prakash Kona's Whatnots.
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Duane Locke
Now after being forcefully evicted by what he calls "The Tampa Gestapo" (city inspectors) from his fifty year home in the Tampa crime district and slums, Duane now lives in luxurious retirement by a lake populated with wild birds in Lakeland, Florida. His Tampa environment was pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and the homeless, but now is Snowy egrets, Wood Ibis and Wood Ducks.
Duane has a Doctor of Philosophy degree, specializing in poetry from Donne to Marvell. During his academic career at a less-than-mediocre university which he considers a waste of his life he taught varied courses in poetry from Homer to Michael Palmer.
He has had over 5,000 poems published. As of July 2005, 5,515. He has also had over 250 photos published, mainly photos of Tampa trash and Lakeland's mystic flowers. Has had a number of one man art shows and exhibitions of his paintings throughout Florida.
The entire Spring 2004 issue of the magazine Bitter Oleander is devoted to a 92 page interview and sixty of his poems. The book Extraordinary Interpretations by Gary Monroe has a discussion of his paintings.
He is listed in Who's Who in America (Marquis). For more information click "Duane Locke" on the search engine Google.
Read Duane Locke's Poetry.
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Marc Lowe
Marc Lowe lives in Hiroshima, Japan, where he writes, teaches English to businesspeople, and pretends he's not insane (convincing, isn't he?). His work to-date has appeared in/at The Beat, Girls With Insurance, Mad Hatters' Review (see also: Re-Birthing in Issue #2), Pindeldyboz, and Thieves Jargon. He is also the most recent "Working Stiff" at MHR. Visit his website @ http://www.malo23.com at your own risk.
Read Marc Lowe's Prose Poetry.
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Peter Markus
Peter Markus has published three collections of short fiction, The Singing Press, which was just published this spring by Calamari Press, The Moon is a Lighthouse (New Michigan Press, 2003), and Good, Brother (AWOL Press, 2001). In the words of Gary Lutz, "Peter Markus' gorgeously spare, riverine fables of brotherlysweetness and violence are hypnotic, haunting, and sublime." Norman Lock has said that, "Markus has written a novel of amazement and beauty. He might also have written a cantata or work for the musical theater." Peter's fictions have appeared in 3rd Bed, Post Road, New Orleans Review, Northwest Review, Black Warrior Review, Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, and Unsaid, as well as online at 5_Trope, failbetter, taint, pindeldyboz, elimae, DIAGRAM, Avatar Review, Eleven Bulls, Sleeping Fish, LitRag, Stickman Review, among others. He teaches fiction writing classes privately and through the Gotham Writers' Workshop.
Read Peter Markus's Whatnot.
Read C.B. Smith's Review of Peter Markus's The Singing Fish.
Read Mad Hatters' Interview with Peter Markus.
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Anna McDougall
Anna McDougall writes from her home in Calgary, Canada where she soaks up life's sweet moments with her husband and their four young children. Anna's short fiction and creative nonfiction appears at flashfiction.net, Salome, Verbsap and Toasted-Cheese. From the University of Calgary she received
Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts degrees.
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Rich Murphy
My poems have appeared in such journals as Rolling Stone, Poetry Magazine (where I was featured poet), Grand Street, New Letters, Negative Capability, Confrontation Magazine, Slant Journal, Barrelhouse Review, West 47 (Ireland), Aesthetica Review (England), Alligator Juniper, New Delta Review, Full Circle Journal, Fulcrum, Salamander, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Entelechy: Mind and Culture, Red China, and MiPoesias. You may also read, or listen to me read, poems in the current issue of Inertia Magazine (www.inertiamagazine.com). My essay "Vanishing Artist: American Poet and Differend" was published in Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics and again in The International Journal of the Humanities.
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Tom O'Connell
I am a librarian working for a library software company in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. My stories and poems have appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Cranky, and Flashquake, as well as others.
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| Jennifer F. Prado
Jennifer Prado grew up in the green and leafy
suburbs of New Jersey, and completed an undergraduate
degree in Fiction Writing at the University of
Wisconsin - Madison. Upon arrival in NYC, she had an
accidental career in finance that involved numbers and
selling widgets. She left NYC after 9/11 and moved to
South America to write and re-evaluate life. The end
result was a novel and a collection of short fiction,
which includes this piece about letting go of the old
in order to embrace the new. Jennifer's fiction has
been published in numerous internet magazines
including: Pindeldyboz, Small Spiral Notebook, Tower of
Babel, and Word Riot.
Read Jennifer F. Prado's Flash Fiction.
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Rochelle Ratner
Rochelle Ratner's books include two novels: Bobby's Girl (Coffee House Press, 1986) and The Lion's Share (Coffee House Press, 1991) and fourteen poetry books, including House and Home (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), two new e-chapbooks, Lady Pinball and Tellings (both available at www.tmpoetry.com), Practicing to Be a Woman: New and Selected Poems (Scarecrow Press, 1982), Someday Songs (BkMk Press/Univ. of Missouri Kansas City, 1992), and Zodiac Arrest (Ridgeway Press, 1995). She lives in New York City, where she is Executive Editor of American Book Review and reviews regularly for Library Journal. An anthology she edited, Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness, was published in January 2000 by The Feminist Press. Hide & Seek, an original poem-photo series based on the limited-edition poetry volume, is posted on the Light and Dust website. More information and links to her writing on the Internet can be found on her homepage: www.rochelleratner.com.
Read Rochelle Ratner's Poetry.
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Tomi Shaw
Tomi Shaw lives in Kentucky, late of the woods but now in the big city lights. She loves the sound of rain tat-tattering on a tin roof. Summer weekends finds her at the drag strip in a bittersweet-colored Mustang, cutting killer reaction times and putting guys on the trailer home.
Her work has appeared in The Barcelona Review, storySouth, Absinthe Literary Review, Outsider Ink,
Pindeldyboz, Smokelong Quarterly, Snow Monkey, Penthouse, Literary Mama, Edifice Wrecked and
elsewhere. Coming soon to The Rose and Thorn, Gator Springs Gazette and The Dead Mule. I've guest edited for Francis Ford Coppola's All Story Extra and am currently co-editor of Prairie Dog 13 Magazine.
www.tomishaw.com
Read Tomi Shaw's Flash Fiction.
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Eisy (Eileen Murphy)
Raised in LA, moved to Seattle during adolescence. Loves her bunny;
inspired by Annie's vision of an ideal world; loves the freedom of Megan.
Lives in Marysville with quasi-husband Chris and spends all day trying to
wrangle paintbrushes from baby Sienna.
www.siennagallery.net
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Marjorie Kaye
Marjorie Kaye is an artist residing in Salem, Massachusetts who graduated from Syracuse University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting cum laude. She is best known for her colorful, detailed mandala drawings, and also her Surrealistic representations and has exhibited these in many galleries and shows nationally. She is also the owner and operator of the on-line Caladan Gallery, which exhibits artists from around the world. Her mandala drawings resonate from the center and draw the energy outwards. The forms are influenced by nature, geometry, music, and are also influenced by the artwork of many ancient cultures. She is devoted to the drawings, and integrates her interest in spirituality and meditation into them, which become a vehicle for spiritual expression. She feels that the opportunity for spiritual manifestation through art is limitless. “Art is life celebrated in matter.” Her Surrealistic representations reflect the irony present in the act of living! They are often humorous depictions of both the common and serendipitous.
“I celebrate the boundless range of elemental combinations present in the universe. From basic substances of matter emerge presences of infinite variety that take form as planets, comets, stars, trees, human-kind, and other celestial travelers. This is a manifestation of the creativity of spirit. This is present and reflected on all levels of being. It is with this observation that my drawings are made.”
www.caladangallery.com/sites/marjorie (personal site)
www.caladangallery.com (gallery site)
View Marjorie Kaye's Art on Michael Graves's pages.
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Michelle Kim
Michelle Kim is a fifteen year-old student. She has had very little
experience in this dark ass-biting world. However, because of her
unblemished backside, she can use her love of art and make this world
nice and fluffy.
View Michelle Kim's Art on Paul Beckman's pages.
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Chris Lawson
Chris Lawson's visual art is in over 1000 collections worldwide including those of Patti Smith and Michael Stipe. Exhibitions are upcoming in Siem Reap, Cambodia and Melbourne, Australia. Chris has also created cd cover art for Saddle Creek Records, and his films have screened worldwide and been featured on npr. Chris lives in Alabama where he teaches art to people with autism and other neurological challenges.
View Chris Lawson's Art on Tom O'Connell's pages.
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Jeff Lowe
Jeff Lowe has had no former training in art. In 2002 he was led into painting for cathartic reasons. He has paintings in many private collections and has been commissioned to paint CD covers. His work has appeared in museums and galleries and in art magazines, as well.
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DK Mcdonald
' Hungry Doors', a
collage she created for one of Richard Levine's poems in Issue 2, was accepted into an international
juried show in Texas. DK McDonald is an award-winning artist residing in the mountains of southern Colorado. Working primarily in watermedia and collage, her commissioned works and series are held by collectors across the US.
Possessing an innate and inexplicable fondness for classical literature, ancient greek philosophers, and obscure Catholic poets, her figure work and abstracts are heavily influenced by her readings of the same.
When not in the studio, she spends her time hiking Colorado's numerous mountain trails, camera in hand.
More of her work can be seen at www.artbeacon.com/dkmcdonal
View D.K. McDonald's Art on Prakash Kona's pages.
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Claudio Parentela
I’m born in Catanzaro(1962-Italy) where I live and I work…I’m an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail-artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist…free lance...I’m active since many years in the international underground scene. I’ve collaborated & I collaborate with many ,many zines ,magazines of contemporary art, literary and of comics in Italy and in the world...& on the paper and on the web... …
During the 1999 I was guest of the BREAK 21 FESTIVAL in Ljubliana (Slovenja)...
...My obscure & crazy artworks are present & shown in many, many art galleries in the endless web... ...I do a lot of mail art and I partecipate to all the mail art projects I know...
...I’ve collaborated and I collaborate with many bands of industrial music, noise, experimental & electronic, harsh & death & metal gore...punx...for various publishers I’ve realized some booklets of illustrations and comics
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
VIA F.CRISPI 79
88100 CATANZARO-Italy
Tel.Num.:0961-744087
Cell.:347-1256756
View Claudio Parentela's Art on Kelvin C. James's pages.
Graphola :: Cafeshops-Claudioart :: YouAndIProductions :: www.claudioparentela.net
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Serena Perrone
Serena Perrone is a painter/printmaker from St. Louis who now lives in
Providence, Rhode Island where she is finishing her Masters' degree at Rhode
Island School of Design. She grew up between St. Louis and a small village
in Sicily where her father's family lives. Elements of both American and
Italian cultures appear frequently in her work. She has also researched
natural history, the culture of freaks and sideshows, and the history of
medicine and physical abnormalities for imagery that she uses both literally
and symbolically to discuss the external/physical and the internal/emotional
metamorphosis that is a constant within the life of each individual.
www.serenaperrone.30art.com
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Lynn Rupe
Lynn Rupe was raised in Michigan but adopted Vermont as her home in 1975. She has a love for both science and art and has masters degrees in both science (Natural Resource Planning) and in art (MFA).
Here’s what she say about her paintings:
“I love paintings that possess a compelling charisma and that make it hard for me to walk away,” says Rupe, whose striking, acrylic-on-panel artworks do just that. When asked about her work’s quirky complexity, she says: “I want to give the viewer a toehold in chaos, without losing the chaos.”
Here’s what the reviewers say:
“The acrylic-on-panel works are vivid jumbles and juxtapositions of geometric and organic shapes that suggest a universe of barely controlled chaos. Indeed, they nearly leave you breathless—…” — Pamela Polston, Editor, Seven Days, Burlington, VT May, 200
One of these artists is Lynn Rupe, whose paintings, etchings, and monoprints are both serenely intimate and boldly expressive. Lynn has a knack for conjuring up images—from the real world and from the bottom drawers of our collective psyche—which we can’t always put our fingers on but which seem hauntingly familiar. Carefully layered patinas and strikingly original textures enhance the elegance and hypnotic “moodiness” of her work. — David Diefendorf
Although it may be impossible to say whether any 21st-century artist can “boldly go where no one has gone before,” it is clear that Rupe’s paintings have taken a very productive turn. When Pollock’s work began to completely fill the picture plane with gestural forms, he became enamored with drip painting — a technique he learned from David Siqueros — and Rupe’s epiphany will certainly lead her into a different direction eventually. She is not the sort of painter who is content to rest on accolades and settle into production work. Meanwhile, it’s got to be fun to paint like this, and we all get to enjoy the ride. —
Mark Awodey© Seven Days Newspaper, 2003
Rupe’s own life has been anything but a straight line. From Dearborn, Michigan, to a Peace Corps stint in the Philippines, to Burlington, Vermont. From a Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan, to an M.S. at UVM in resource planning, to an MFA at the Vermont Studio Center. From sheep farmer to town planner to high school science and art teacher. Rupe’s varied experiences may or may not be reflected in her unsettled but increasingly masterful paintings, but you won’t hear that kind of analysis from her. Still, her assessment sounds a lot like… life. “These really do start from nothing,” she insists. “You just make a mark, and then another mark, and you hope eventually the marks mean something.” Polston/7 days.com
www.lynnrupe.com
View Lynn's Rupe's Gallery.
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Mattthew Skenadore
THE DlViNE BAT SWAN WiTH SQUARE FEET AND THE PARADOX OF AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE MEANING
"From the beginning man has created art not perhaps to please others, but to
express the feelings and emotions of soul and spirit whose suzerainty is the
inner world.
Within ourselves we are all so very vast that without the use of symbols to
condense the meanings of the multitudinous emotions and feelings of this
inner world the explorer could very quickly become lost.
By positing a dichotomy, direction and destination become realizable and by
familiarity the inner landscape becomes a laboratory for the study and
synthesis of experience into meaning."
The above quote is from Matthew Skenandore whose work will be on display in
the sanctuary beginning March 1. He will give a brief talk on the painting
above the altar after church March 13th and a longer discussion on his other
works at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22nd in the sanctuary. If you have any
questions about his art you can call him at 827-8287. And if you don't have
any questions about this quote you are a lot smarter than the secretary!
Mattthew (the third T is silent and the Q is invisible) Skenandore has
unusual brain chemistry and or pretensions of mysticism.
Prone to fits of clarity, Mattthew paints some.
View Mattthew Skenadore's Art on Tomi Shaw's pages.
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Silvia Verweij
Mysterious, dark, romantic or melancholy, impulsive and explosive,
smoulderingly sexy or creepyly innocent.
This describes both myself and my artwork. Just dipping my toes in the
waters of 'struggling artisism', I'm currently seeking how I fit into that
world. I like doing assignments because they push me into a learning streak
every time, and they make me discover new artistic abilities and creative
images I didn't know were there. After having wasted my time spending two
years at Art School, I am now self-teaching and learning through trial and
error, developing my own style. I am greatly inspired by Tim Burton's gothic
tragicness mixed with his black humor. I dream through life, always
wondering and always learning... Times are hard, for dreamers.
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Paul Cordes Wilm
Paul Cordes Wilm lives in Birmingham, AL. He likes to paint on found pieces of wood. Sometimes the wood happens to also be furniture. He paints with housepaint and xerox ink.
Paul Cordes Wilm is colorblind... which could explain why the colors he chooses are so bold. His paintings seem to bridge the gap between Folk Art and Pop Art since many of the images found in his paintings come from products and advertisements in old magazines.
Paul Cordes Wilm also makes films, music videos and designs websites. He is the singer in a "garage punk" band called Nowhere Squares. www.forkitude.com
View Paul Cordes Wilm's Art on Rich Murphy's and Rochelle Ratner's pages.
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Peter Wilm
my name=peter wilm
my age=34 years old
i love drinking red wine and listening to tom waits "rain dogs" late at night
i went to school and hated most of it
my friends are scattered around the planet like the leaves of Fall
i love drawing black and whites and singing songs to my guitar
if i had one wish it would be for all of my friends to come back and live in the same tree with me for a whole day
the end
View Peter Wilm's Art on Dan McNeil's pages.
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The Los Angeles artist X-8 began creating abstract paintings utilizing
mud, hair and blood in 1981.
In 1993 he began creating 'exorcistic' works, utilzing macabre and
internal imagery. His work is ultimately cathartic and therapeutic.
He currently creates large scale works based on mythology, decay and
isolation.
He is represented in the UK by the Henry Boxer Gallery.
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