John M. Bennett has published over 250 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press), CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL (Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed)), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods), and BACKWORDS (Blue Lion Books), NOS (Redfox Press), D RAIN B LOOM (with Scott Helmes; xPress(ed)). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.

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Catherine Berg's work has been published in madhatter's review, taj mahal review, virginia woolf miscellany, sojourn journal, and poems can be read at www.DallasArtsRevue.com.

 

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F.J. Bergmann (www.fibitz.com) lives in Wisconsin. She has no literary academic qualifications, but is kind to those so afflicted. Publications in which her poems have appeared include Blackbox, DIAGRAM, nth position, stirring, and Unpleasant Event Schedule, as well as a recent chapbook, Aqua Regia (Parallel Press 2007). One of her pseudopodia reaches all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator. Her hairstyle is deceptive.

 

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David Blaine is a poet and writer living in rural Michigan. His poetry, essays, reviews, stories and interviews have appeared widely in the small press. You can visit David online at davidblaine.blogspot.com or outsiderwriters.org

 

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Louis E. Bourgeois teaches writing at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. His most recent book The Gar Diaries, a memoir, is forthcoming in January 2008 by Community Press. Bourgeois is also editor of VOX and the recently formed Wolf Table Press.

www.voxjournal.com

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Codrescu is an umbrella-organisation for a number of poets, essayists, translators, film makers, and catastrophe-specialists, located on the internet at corpse.org and codrescu.com. The purpose of the organisation is to provide culture shock and opportunities for riding horses and lions.

 

 

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Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he's been.

The image/text pieces published in this issue are part of a series, UNWANTED ADS, featuring characters and creatures from the American underbelly.

Other collaborative work of Jeff Crouch and Christopher Woods has appeared in SEIN UND WERDEN, admit2, NEW VERSE NEWS, SLOW TRAINS and ISTANBUL LITERATURE REVIEW. New work is forthcoming in BLACK BIRO, STONE TABLE REVIEW and DEAD DRUNK DUBLIN.

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Alan Davies is the author of RAVE (Roof), NAME (This), CANDOR (O Books), and SIGNAGE (Roof), among many other books. His BOOK 5, part of a long ongoing work, was recently published by Katalanché. The poems in this issue of MHR are from a recently completed manuscript called ODES & fragments. He lives in New York City, where he practices zen and writes. Accompanying sounds have been provided by NYC noise artist Austin Publicover.

 

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Jeremy M. Davies's work has appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, CONTEXT, and is forthcoming this year in Snow Monkey. He was born in Brooklyn, lives in Chicago, and has recently completed a novel, as well as collaborating on the short opera "Lear-Runner in the Post-Future."

 

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His biography, in brief, is that he was a young journalist during the political upheaval of the sixties whose writing eventually got him in trouble. While he wasn’t exiled, he was blackballed and couldn’t earn a living as a journalist either. He eventually became a sportswriter, knowing that he wouldn’t get in trouble politically with that. Drummond was a big, HUGE, fan of Atletico Mineiro, and he wrote about soccer to earn his living for the rest of his life.

The mythology is that he died watching Brazil play England in the 2002 World Cup.

On the side, this public man – his soccer column was nationally syndicated, and he also had a regionally broadcast TV show on the sport – but, on the side, this public man wrote his fiction. At the time of his death, he was the author of eight novels, one of which was made into a telenovela, and two collections of stories.

This is the first time his fiction has been published in English.

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Charles Freeland teaches at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Recent work appears in Jubilat, Margie, The Cincinnati Review, The Hollins Critic, 42opus and Cream City Review. He is the author of a chapbook, Where We Saw Them Last (Lily Press). His website is charlesfreelandpoetry.net.

 

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Angela Genusa is a writer of experimental fiction, poetry, and humor. A real smartass, she once asked her new creative writing teacher, Steve Barthelme, "Any relation to Donald?" Oops, her bad. Some of her work can be found on the Web in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Über, The Black Table, and Opium Magazine, The Science Creative Quarterly, among others. She weaves burlap and gold into the fabric of our lives. Visit Angela's Blog.

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Phyllis Jean Green recently won first prize for poetry in the Dan Sullivan Memorial Contest. Pudding House published her chapbook, Above and Below, in February, 2007. Other credits include an autism-related biography and serving as editor of Peter Tomassi's Mixing Cement [Thunder-Rain, 2000]. She was Associate Editor of L'Intrigue for four years. Among the magazines that have published her poetry are Sulphur River Literary Review, Sensations Magazine, Snow Monkey, and The Pedestal Magazine. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Kyle Hemmings's stories and poems have been published in Night Train, Juked, Armchair Aesthete, Cezanne's Carrot, Insolent Rudder, Triptych, Slow Trains, Menda City Review, Write Side Up (forthcoming), Four Volts, Apple Valley Review, and others.

Kyle recently finished his MFA in creative writing and likes to cook, burn food, bake, burn muffins, and occasionally, tries his hand at drawing. His favorite artists are Dali and R. Crumb among others.

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"Krista Hoefle's multimedia installations explore the female body as influenced, impacted, and altered by technoculture. Working across a variety of artistic disciplines, Krista's objects, animations, drawings, and digital prints have been exhibited in multiple national and international venues. Current solo exhibitions of these installations include: "my corpse is not yet quite up to scratch" Vespine Gallery, Chicago (July-August 2006); "a machine designed by the devil and powered by the dead" Hanover College Art Galleries, Hanover, IN (September-October 2005); "Tart" Urban Institute of Contemporary Art's Race St. Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI (September-October, 2004), and "Nothing this beautiful can be real!" at The Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN (October-November 2003). Her work has been selected for group exhibitions exploring a wide range of media and themes, such as: "Group Show," Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL (October-November 2006), "4th Annual International Video Shorts Screening" Women's Caucus for Art, College Art Association Conference 2007 (juried by Sheryl Mousley--Curator of Film and Video, Walker Art Center, MN), "Pixel Pops!" C2C Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic (September 2006); "Digital Print Exhibition" Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA (juried by Marisa Olsen, Curator-at-Large for Rhizome.org, New Museum of Art, NYC); "Signal in/on Eastern Europe" Kika Gallery in Budapest, Hungary (June-August 2006); Almost Heaven, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (March-April 2002); Playground, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (August 2003); and "As Small As Possible" ZG Gallery, Chicago, IL (November-January 2004). An Associate Professor and Gallery Director, Krista teaches Sculpture and Foundations at Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN)."

For more information: www.kristahoefle.com

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Janis Butler Holm lives in Athens, Ohio, where she has served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal. Her essays, stories, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Jonesing for Samantha, a one-act play, was recently produced at Manhattan Theatre Source.

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Rosemary Jones is an Australian teacher and writer who now lives in Connecticut with her family. She has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. She recently won the Cezanne's Carrot 2007 winter solstice short story award, and is currently writing a novel set in an opal mining town in the South Australian desert.

 

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Siel's poems and fiction have been published in Hobart, Gargoyle, So to Speak, Ladyfest Anthology, and others, with a few more forthcoming in How2. She lives and writes in Los Angeles. greenlagirl.com

 

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Ashley Kaufman's short fiction and essays have appeared in Rosebud, PanGaia, SageWoman, Susurrus, and elsewhere. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, sons, and three cats.

 

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Penn Kemp has published 25 books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as Canada's first poetry CD-ROM. She creates Sound Operas online and live: sample poems on mytown.ca/pendas, pennkemp.ca and myspace.com/pennkemp. She is Series Editor for the Pendas Poets Series of book/cd combos. Penn hosts chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices, lit.-on-air: see mytown.ca/gatheringvoices. She was proclaimed one of the foremothers of Canadian poetry by the League of Canadian Poets.

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Jason Lahr received his BFA in painting from Clarion University, and his MFA in drawing and painting from Penn State University. In addition to being the Curator of Education and Exhibitions at the South Bend Regional Museum of Art, he holds a Lecturer position at Saint Mary's College, and his currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Recent selected exhibitions include: "White Male" Packer Schopf Gallery (Chicago, IL); Bridge Art Fair (Miami, FL); "Beastyfeast," Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA; "A Knock at the Door", Cooper Union, NYC, NY; "Narrative, Cartoon, Zine, Strip Show" Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI); "Fort Wayne Biennial", Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, IN); "As Small as Possible" ZG Gallery (Chicago, IL); "Riding with Pike," Fugitive Art Center (Nashville, TN); "American Eyes" Gallery Eleven 50 (Atlanta, GA); "Biennial 21 "South Bend Regional Museum of Art (South Bend, IN); "New" Moreau Art Galleries, Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN); "Culture of Class" Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD).

For more information: www.jasonlahr.net

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There have been some high points. I've staged performance pieces at The Franklin Furnace, MOMA, L.A. Institute of Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Warsaw Institute of Contemporary Art, The Fringe of the Edinburgh Festival and the Chicago Cultural Center. As a performance artist I've received three NEA fellowships. An audio piece of my mine, "The Audio Encyclopedia of Personal Knowledge," was selected by Susan Stamberg for her book, "The Best From The First Ten Years of ATC." I've had fiction published in The New Yorker, Fiction, Chelsea, Chicago Noir and others. Recently I've been making audio flash fictions—a mix of spoken text with "almost" music and sonic bits and bobs. A CD of these short-short audio pieces, "Once Again Doctor Freud's Horse Has Gone Missing," is just out. I earn a living as an art professor and teach in the graduate writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. michaelkmeyers.com

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Sheila E. Murphy's most recent full-length books include The Case of the Lost Objective (Case) (Otoliths Press, 2007) and Continuations, with Douglas Barbour (The University of Alberta Press, 2006).

 

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Martin Nakell has published several books of fiction and poetry, including Two Fields That Face & Mirror Each Other (Sun & Moon), Goings (Margin-to-margin Press), Form (Spuyten Duyvil), Settlement (Spuyten Duyvil), and others, some in progress, some not yet written. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the fictionalist, Rebecca Goodman. Martin, Rebecca, and the Los Angeles poet, Christopher Reiner constitute the &NOW ’08 Committee, hosting the &NOW Conference/Festival of Innovative Art & Literature in Southern California in April 2008. (please go to www.andnowfestival.com)

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Stefani Nellen is a psychologist-turned-writer who lives in the The Netherlands and the US with her husband. Her work appeared in FRiGG and Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest, among other places.

 

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Louise Norlie's fiction and nonfiction pieces have appeared in numerous magazines, including the angler, The First Line, edifice Wrecked, elimae, insolent rudder, and Sein und Werden.

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Before getting his degree in Physics, M.E. Parker had been a short-order cook, a construction worker, a software engineer, done a stint in the Navy, and seen much of Western Europe from the driver’s seat of a Volkswagen microbus. His stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in print in The Briar Cliff Review, The Flint Hills Review, Outercast, and Whistling Shade and online in 42opus, Edifice WRECKED, and Barnstorm (UNH). www.meparker.com

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Rob Reynolds' stories have appeared in Tampa Review, Vestal Review, and Flashquake. The Vestal Review is including his short short "What You Can Learn in a Bar" for publication in The Best Flash Fiction of the 21st Century. He's a former Contributing Associate of the Harvard Review and Contributing Editor of the (now defunct) Boston Book Review. Besides brief stints in New York (well, Jersey) City and Florida, he's lived in Austin, Texas, since 1994.

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Jordan Sanderson lives in Auburn, AL. His poems have appeared in several small journals, including DMQ REVIEW, PARTHENON WEST REVIEW, and STONE TABLE REVIEW, and his chapbook, THE LAST HEDONIST, appeared in 2006.

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Davis Schneiderman is the author of the novel Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan Reader (Spuyten Duyvil 2006), co-author of the novel Abecedarium (Chiasmus Press, 2007), and co-editor of Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto 2004) and The Exquisite Corpse: Creativity, Collaboration, and the World’s Most Popular Parlor Game (Nebraska, 2007). His creative work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and accepted by numerous journals including the Notre Dame Review, Fiction International, The Iowa Review Web, Exquisite Corpse, and Gargoyle. Dr. Schneiderman is an Assistant Professor of English at Lake Forest College, and co-editor of literary journal Potion (potionmag.org). Visit Davis Schneiderman's website.

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James Spitzer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the year 1936. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, earning BS, MA, and MFA degrees under the tutelage of a variety of well-known masters: Alfred Sessler, Dean Meeker and Warrington Colescott. Early in his career, he taught at Colleges and Universities in New York, Arizona, and Wisconsin, but turned to full-time drawing, painting, woodcut and sculpture.

Spitzer has shown extensively from coast to coast with solo shows at Carus gallery in New York City, New York University, Cornell College, Ithaca University, University of North Carolina, Southern Florida University, Sonoma State University, etc. Spitzer lives in Santa Rosa, California.

His works are varied. They include large murals in wood-cut, wherein the woodblock itself becomes the final work, large muralistic paintings in acrylic, and large scale to tiny pen and ink drawings on paper. Woodcut on paper, an early favorite medium, occupied a recent period with 90 new works the result. Currently he is working in acrylic medium in a variety of transcendental themes that defy nomenclature. He completed several small works in bronze. Fifty of Spitzer's drawings were featured with 50 of Michael Brenner's sketches in a joint showing of 100 drawings. This catalog is available from J. C. Leissring Fine Arts Press.

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Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored nineteen collections of poetry, seven plays, nine books of fiction, a biography, and numerous articles and translations. He was born in Ukraine but raised and educated in the West. He writes both in Ukrainian and English. Upon graduating from college with a degree in Electrical Engineering (Newark College of Engineering), he joined the IBM Corporation, where he worked first on circuit design but then switched over to computer science, earning his Ph.D. in Linguistics (New York University) in the process. Much of his work in this area has been in Artificial Intelligence, in particular Natural Language Processing. After taking an early retirement, he joined Columbia University in New York City, where he became Adjunct Assistant professor of Ukrainian literature and culture.

Yuriy Tarnawsky's professional background has had a profound influence on his literary work. It manifests itself primarily as strict attention to language and structure. The novel Meningitis (FC/1979), for instance, is written in an artificial language, a proper subset of English. Three Blondes and Death (FC2/1993) uses a similarly restricted language and relies on numerology instead of plot. His work also shows strong influence of Surrealism and Existentialism. His most recent book is a collection of mininovels Like Blood in Water from FC2 (Spring of 2007). It is a new genre, nestling somewhere between the short story, the novel, and a musical composition, relying heavily on the reader's participation. The theory behind it is expounded in the article "The mininovel and negative text" published in the May/June 2007 issue of American Book Review. myspace.com/yuriytarnawsky

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The Michael P. Grace II Chair in Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, Maria Tomasula's creative work centers on themes of mortality, regeneration and the dynamics of human relations. Her paintings examine and extend the traditions of Latin American religious art by depicting familiar objects in highly stylized, symbolic compositions meant to act as metaphors for her thematic concerns in a way that will resonate for contemporary audiences. She has had twelve one-person exhibitions at Forum Gallery, the Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery. Her work has also been shown at the Katonah Museum of Art; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design; the State of Illinois Gallery; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; the Graham Foundation; and in over one hundred other venues. Her work has been reviewed in such publications as The New York Times, ArtNews and The New Yorker among numerous others.

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"Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels The Book of Portraiture (FC2); IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press); and VAS: An Opera in Flatland, an acclaimed novel of the biotech revolution that has recently been re-released in paper by The University of Chicago Press.

Incorporating narrative forms of all kinds—from comic books, travelogues, journalism or code to Hong Kong action movies or science reports—Tomasula's writing has been called a 'reinvention of the novel,' combining an 'attention to society in the tradition of Orwell, attention to language in the tradition of Beckett, and the humor of a Coover or Pynchon.' His writing often crosses visual, as well as written genres, drawing on science and the arts to take up themes of how we represent what we think we know, and how these representations shape our lives. His short fiction has been published widely, and most recently in McSweeney's, The Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, and The Iowa Review where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work published in any genre.

Recent essays on body art, literature and culture can be found in Data Made Flesh (Routledge), Musing the Mosaic (SUNY), Leonardo (M.I.T.), and numerous magazines both here and in Europe. He holds a doctorate in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches in the program for writers at the University of Notre Dame."

For more information: www.stevetomasula.com

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I am from Wheaton, Illinois.

 

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Lise Whidden's work has appeared in Lily Literary Review, Hiss Quarterly, Shine..A Journal and Crimson Highway. She lives and writes in North Carolina. She is a member of several poetry groups and workshops.

 

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Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY (Panther Creek Press), and a collection of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. His play, MOONBIRDS, about doomed census takers in an uninhabited desert country, received its New York City premiere by PERSONAL SPACE THEATRICS. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas, and can be reached at dreamwood77019@hotmail.com

The image/text pieces published in this issue are part of a series, UNWANTED ADS, featuring characters and creatures from the American underbelly.

Other collaborative work of Jeff Crouch and Christopher Woods has appeared in SEIN UND WERDEN, admit2, NEW VERSE NEWS, SLOW TRAINS and ISTANBUL LITERATURE REVIEW. New work is forthcoming in BLACK BIRO, STONE TABLE REVIEW and DEAD DRUNK DUBLIN.

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Carolyn Adams's art and writing have been published in many journals, anthologies and e-zines, such as Sein und Werden, Tattoo Highway, RIght Hand Pointing, all things girl and Small Spiral Notebook, among others. Her e-chapbook Beautiful Strangers has been published by Lily Press (Lily Literature Review). You can find her poetry, photography and art featured on numerous web-based publications.

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Theo Amaral was born in Pará de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1974. He enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in 1998 and graduated in Fine Arts from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2007 with the following qualifications: Bachelor of Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, and Major in Arts.
He works with diverse techniques and with media such as photographs, watercolors, illustrations, collages, prints, and digital art.

"Minha pintura esboça idéias na negação do traço" (My painting sketches ideas in the negation of the line)

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I work in a variety of mediums: acrylic, oil, pastels, aquarelle, oil sticks, varnishes, glazes, finishing and surface techniques. I am exploring basic issues of opacity, color, form, depth, obfuscation and revelation in life, language and in art-- I can not help but be influenced by philosophy, poetry, literature, psychological symbolism, fairy tales, music, myths, conceits, and metaphors, especially of strong feminist models-- women’s conflicting roles in a changing time throughout the centuries.

I am using background in design, 2nd and 3rd dimensional techniques and aesthetics. My background is integrated with my writing, psychology, my early childhood and life experiences evolving as a woman and mother combining international study to explore these issues in an organized but abstract way. I tend to reinvent the same themes, work from a structure and then proceed by distressing, demolishing, recreating and saving. My major themes are inner restoration and survival, challenging always reality vs. myth. read more >>

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