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Carol is a writer of sociopolitical neuroerotic rants and raves, poems, proems, and image drenched, lyrical whatnots, also a play, collaborative films/video’s and a collaborative CD. She has a JD and an MSW, but no MFA.
INVENTIONS II: Fictions, Fusions, & Poems
Recited by the author, Carol Novack
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Carol authored a chapbook of poetry, Living Alone without a Dictionary, published many years ago while she was living in Sydney. The Arts Council of Australia awarded her a writer’s grant. Carol returned to her native NYC in 1978, and became a people’s lawyer, representing all sorts of alleged miscreants, including street artists arrested for selling their works without a vendor’s license (she fought City Hall and won the case on First Amendment grounds). She pursued a Masters degree in social work (concentrating in community organizing and group work), and managed to trap it in 2004. Needless to say, Carol’s doing absolutely nothing with this third degree other than running this e-journal, the occasional workshop, fundraising extravaganzas and Mad Hatters’ Review series readings.
Carol's frequently enigmatic and totally misunderstood yet obliquely meaningful writings may or will be found all over the place, including The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, Action Yes, American Letters & Commentary, Anenome Sidecar, Big Bridge, BlazeVOX, Del Sol Review, Diagram, First Intensity, 5_Trope, Fiction International, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Knock, La Petite Zine, Legal Studies Forum, LIT, Milk, Notre Dame Review, Online Writings: The Best of the First Ten Years, Orphan Leaf Review, Otoliths, Salt River Review, Salt Flats Annual, Salt River Review, Segue, Sein und Werden, Susurrus, Tears in the Fence, The International Literary Quarterly, Unlikely Stories, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Word Riot, & Yankee Pot Roast. Oh blah blah blah. Her multi-genre chapbook, "The Architect's Play," will emerge in Fall, 2009, and the trailer to her forthcoming collection of quirkies will be out by 2011.
Hear Carol’s recitation of "A without Q with/out Self" (aka "Interview with Self") at
Notre Dame Review, accompanied by Music Editor Donald C. Meyer, the questioning bassoon. Other audios, with sonic accompaniment by Ben Miller and Donald C. Meyer may be found at
www.myspace.com/madhattercarollers.
For even more too much information, proceed to
carolnovack.blogspot.com.
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I graduated from college with three useless degrees and have worked meaningless jobs that I detested. I am employed and employable merely because the people and companies I owe money expect restitution. I have more interests than time to master them and none of the money required to dress the part. At any social gathering, if you happen to see the sneering, mute wallflower, envious eyes openly mocking the privileged, that might be me. If you notice me, then I need to work harder on being invisible. |
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Alla Michelle’s writing is both spontaneous and predictable. In her stories, someone usually 1) speaks Russian or Ukrainian, 2) eats borsch, pickled mushrooms or blini, 3) rides public transport, bribes somebody or sings obsolete, heart-warming songs. When not writing, she likes to philosophize about water stains that bloom every spring on her ceiling. Despite the above (or maybe because of it), she has been published in numerous fine e-zines, such as Muse Apprentice Guild, Skive Magazine, Salome, Long Story Short, and others.
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Tantra Bensko is the originator of the new genre, Lucid Fiction, a fiction, poetry, and non fiction writer published in magazines such as Retort, Unlikely Stories, Rose and Thorn, and numerous others. She is also an artist and photographer published in magazines such as Camera Arts, The Times Journal of Photography, The Pedestal, NFG, and Spartan Dog. Her solo art show is traveling through Spain, and her art shows internationally, and regularly in San Francisco, and she has two books of art available. She is also a Tantra teacher and hypnotherapist. She rides a red bike by the ocean, and her hair is almost as red, her mind almost as oceanic. www.LucidPlay.com
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Marc Lowe has been an editor (in some capacity) with Mad Hatters' Review since Issue #3. His fictions, essays, and reviews have been published in various corners of the web, as well as in print. He holds an M.A. degree in Japanese Literature and spent a number of years studying, teaching language, and writing fictions in various parts of Western Japan. Marc currently lives in Denver, CO with his wife. Visit his website at www.malo23.com for more information.
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Peter Schwartz has over 150 poems published, some of them in nationally-distributed journals, some printed overseas. He has stories and paintings published on and offline. He's also an associate art editor for Mad Hatters' Review and co-founder of www.sitrahahra.com. He lives almost silently in the forests of Maine.
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X-8, Associate Art Editor
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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A former stevedore and bartender, Peter currently teaches remedial English, GED classes, and Creative Writing to incarcerated adults and juveniles in Central Mississippi. In his spare time, he makes complex art objects out of recycled film strips. This summer, Peter will be attending a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute that deals with the Brazilian Contemporary Urban Novel. He is also translating and editing a chapbook of poetry devoted to the World Cup.
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Amy Marie Bucciferro is a poet, comedian, and free-roaming critic of the arts. Born on the beautiful Thousand Islands, she grew up in New York’s Capital Region (Albany/Schenectady) and hung around in Washington, DC after attending The George Washington University and before launching her phantom career in New York City. In the past she performed with the improv and sketch comedy troupe Capitol Goga and edited the literary journal The GW Review. Her poetry has been published in a smattering of student and international journals and she has received awards from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Academy of American Poets.
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After a long career as a newspaper journalist, in the mid-1990s Pete Dolack decided to switch careers and do something more honest, and became an activist and a poet. He's since added essayist and photographer to his portfolio. Although early in his poetry career he often penned political satires, which frequently took the form of monologues in character, he increasingly tinkers with different styles and subjects but often integrates a story-telling style layered with humor that is sometimes subtle, sometimes caustic and sometimes both, with a range of voices to burrow into the fault lines of contemporary society and the inside of his head. As an activist, he has worked with several groups, including the National People's Campaign, New York Workers Against Fascism, the Brooklyn Greens and the environmental organization No Spray Coalition, of which he was one of the founders. His first full-length book of poetry is, he hopes, forthcoming from a publisher to be determined, and he is also working on a book examining the history of the 20th century's socialist experiments and the lessons
that can be drawn from them when the next attempts to transcend capitalism emerge. He is also the publisher of Eastwaterfront Press, www.eastwaterfront.com, which has evolved from a vehicle to self-publish two titles into a small press that intends to publish some of the best emerging poets in New York City.
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Andrea Kneeland has no plans for the future. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including American Letters & Commentary, 580 Split, Hobart, Caketrain, VOX, alice blue, DIAGRAM, Lamination Colony and elimae, among others.
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M.H. is a very shy character living anonymously in Chicago's downtown with a taciturn husband and an arthritic gray tabby.
She has studied the secret lives of kitty cats all her life and become friends with them all, everything from successful artists to less successful poets and writers to drunken sailors.
Her cartoons tell some of the stories of her mysterious friends.
She is currently working on a picture book about six Japanese cats.
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Daniel Y. Harris is the author of the forthcoming poetry book, Unio Mystica. He is a widely published poet, essayist and visual artist. Among his credits are: The Pedestal Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, In Posse Review, Mad Hatters' Review, Sein und Werden, Poetry Salzburg Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poetry Magazine.com, Convergence and The Other Voices International Project. Among his art exhibitions credits are: The Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, Market Street Gallery, The Euphrat Museum and The Center for Visual Arts. He earns his living as Northwest Regional Director of Development for Canine Companions for Independence. His website is www.danielyharris.com.
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Liesl Jobson is a South African writer. Her work appears in South African and international anthologies and journals including Chimurenga, New Coin, New Contrast, Fidelities, Green Dragon, Kotaz, The Southern Review, Mississippi Review, Sleeping Fish, Temenos, Per Contra, Wigleaf, elimae, Night Train, Smokelong Quarterly, FRiGG and The Rambler.
In 2005 she won the POWA Women's Writing Poetry Competition and the Ernst van Heerden Award. In 2007 she gained a special mention in the Pushcart Anthology. She also earned a publishing grant from the National Library of South Africa's Centre for the Book for her poetry manuscript, View from an Escalator.
Her collection of prose poems and flash fiction, 100 Papers, is due out from Botsotso Press in June 2008. She edits Poetry International Web South Africa and BOOK SA, the South African literary website.
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Steve Kane is a writer and composer from the UK of questionable talent and unequalled idleness. He employs many a cunning ploy to avoid doing anything remotely productive such as harvesting organs from the homeless to sell to Turkish sailors and hunting geography teachers for sport. He was once elected President of Azerbaijan by mistake. Although only in power for twenty minutes, he made peep-hole bras mandatory attire for all men under the age of forty-seven. He is currently serving a two year prison sentence for buggering a haddock. Visit www.steve-kane.co.uk for more gibberish.
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Peter Knoll is a professional guitarist who relocated to New York City from Berlin (Germany) in 2004. He's played in bands in almost every style of music. Since 2000, he's focused on his own Avantgarde Solo-Project (Experimental Music) in which he mixes Blues, Jazz and Oriental Music. See further details at his website and myspace page. read more >>
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Guthrie Lowe has been a professional musician for 21 years and composed orchestral and piano music for 11 years. Currently, he is writing music for independent films and various other projects. For more information, music samples and to contact, please go to: www.guthrielowe.com
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Donald C. Meyer, Music Editor
Composer and musicologist Donald C. Meyer, collaborates with choreographers, filmmakers, theater directors, and authors to create multi-media works that interweave classical and contemporary sounds forms into poly-vocal aesthetic structures. He is the author of articles on American cultural history and rock music and a music appreciation textbook called Perspectives on Music (Prentice Hall, 2003). Dr. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Lake Forest College.
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Ben has composed, recorded and performed music for a number of years focusing on atypically structured songwriting, freeform-based improvisation and notated scores in quasi-tonality. Current projects include the rock band Third Border, with their recent debut release “Sun of Water, Sea of Light” on Radial Records, as well as solo performance on prepared stereo electric guitar w/electronics, saxophone and spoken word. Ben has played with Sproton Layer, a post-psychedelic rock quartet with brothers' Roger (Mission Of Burma, Binary System) and Laurence (Destroy All Monsters, Mr. Laurence); Destroy All Monsters with Ron Asheton (Iggy & The Stooges) and Michael Davis (The MC5) opening up for Pere Ubu, The Ramones, Devo, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, etc.; GKW; an Ann Arbor, MI performance art-noise group; M3, an ongoing project with brothers Laurence and Roger hailed as "the best guitar release to emerge this year" by Guitar Player Magazine in 1994 regarding their first
self-titled release; Chicago's Dirty Old Man River; Ben Miller/Degeneration "If new expressionists closed their eyes and painted what they say then Ben Miller must be taping shut his ears and playing what he hears." Metro Times, 2001; and Third Border featuring Ben’s return to songwriting. He is a contributing writer at www.burningword.com, and featured in www.bigbridge.org Issue #6 “Export: Writing The Midwest”. For information on discography, upcoming shows, products for sale, and other projects, please visit www.benmiller.info.
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I am a former Korean Army lieutenant and a retired academic living in the semi-arid part of Colorado. I write poetry and music, not necessarily in that order. My poems appeared in East and West, Bitter Oleander, Spillway Review, Quill and Ink, Religious Humanism, Tryst, Subterranean Quarterly, Underground Window, Sage of Consciousness, and others.
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| Phil Nelson is an amateur doodler who likes to draw pictures of himself frolicking on the beach. He taught himself to read by staring vacantly at Marvel comics and paperback collections of Peanuts. At the age of 6 he created a crude comic strip called Coconuts as a rip-off of.....tribute to Charles Schulz. He attended the Philadelphia College of Art from 1983 to 1984 or 5 when he was forcibly expelled by the students and faculty because they were all jealous. After despairing away in dank, sweaty, poorly-ventilated print shops for 20 years, he decided to try drawing again. He is still trying.
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Brooklyn-based noise artist Austin Publicover as shale oil the equivalent of 2.1 trillion barrels of conventional petroleum, my bitumen fields his clickety clackety analogs; an honor to collaborate with Alan Davies both lively and cyberspacily; a CD-R with Brenda Iijima, a monthly recording gig for Belladonna*, a penchant for tar sands.
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| Paul A. Toth lives in Michigan. His novel Fizz is available from Bleak House Books. Fishnet, his second
novel, was published in July 2005. Toth's short fiction has appeared or will soon appear in Night
Train, Iowa Review Web, Antigonish Review, Barcelona Review, Mississippi Review Online and many others.
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| Guitarist, composer, and producer, Ben Tyree began his musical journey in Washington, DC, exploring the piano and violin before discovering his passion for the guitar at the age of 11. Tyree attended the world-renowned Duke Ellington School of the Arts and later studied jazz performance, composition, and classical guitar at Howard University. With the critically acclaimed 2002 release Dead In Dreams under their belt, his brain child Miscellaneous Flux won a "Wammie" (Washington Area Music Association award), with 4 other group nominations, in addition to an independent nomination for best urban contemporary instrumentalist for Tyree himself.
Currently residing in Brooklyn, NY, Tyree regularly works with Boston Fielder's MuthaWit Orchestra and the related URB ALT Festivals where he has had the opportunity to work with a broad assortment of artists including Res, Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio), V. Jeffrey Smith (The Family Stand), and J.T. Lewis (Harriet Tubman, Vanessa Williams, Sting, Herbie Hancock). He also occasionally performs with his improv. jazz/electronic/drum and bass trio Chaos Frame, urban songstress Nomi, and Senegalese singer/songwriter Pape Armand Boye. He is an in-demand session guitarist and freelance jazz guitarist and instructor who also writes for Ugly Planet Media and Modern Guitars Magazine, interviewing such musicians as Glenn Tipton and Mike Stern. Several of his scores have been featured in indie films, most notably a forthcoming documentary on the life of Omar Khayyam.
Tyree has also performed or collaborated with Clark Terry, Vernon Reid (Living Colour, Masque, Yohimbe Brothers), Frank Foster, Delfeayo Marsalis, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Roy Hargrove, Graham Haynes, Grady Tate, Keter Betts, Warren Smith, Stacy Dillard, Ralph Alessi, Lakecia Benjamin, and The Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber to name a few. He also briefly studied guitar with Mike Stern.
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Machines are now surrogates for almost everything human. The standardized initiations of mass culture are replacing our intimate journeys of perception. Technology alienates us. Arts that inspire discourse unite us. So remember, create something that people will talk about.
Marty is a painter, a poet, storyteller, parent, peace propagandist, and general purveyor of prevarications that enrich the lives of others. An Ohio native, he was transplanted in the Florida sands of the Gulf of Mexico where he studied fine art at St. Petersburg College. His novels With a Glass Hammer, Zero's Lizard (coauthored with Ron Barnhart), Taste of Pennies, and Servicing the Machine: a Postindustrial Nightmare are available to interested agents and publishers. Among other places, his words appeared in the Painted Moon Review, Frigg Magazine, the Beat, the St. Petersburg Times, and the bathroom walls of Wendy’s fine restaurants everywhere. You may view some of his plastic work at www.martyison.skyedragon.com a website graciously provided by the playwright poet Paddy Gillard-Bently.
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Award winning satirist artist, Tony "Baloney" Juliano is not your normal painter. With his single, panel, lush comic-like paintings dealing with quick puns, whimsical sayings, ironic sadness, and his penchant for parodying other famous artists, Tony makes art laughable in colorful complementary painted frames. Tony has had shows all over the US and the UK such as John Slade Ely House, Hygienic Art Gallery, CB's 313 Gallery, Artescape Studios, MoCCA, DeCordova Museum, The Walker, and lots more!
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As far back as I can remember I’ve been involved in creative pursuits. Photography has been at the core of most of it, and it’s been a real journey of expansion. I grew up in New York City, the Bronx, to be exact, went to college in Washington D.C. ( GWU BA psychology ), returned to live in Manhattan for a few years before moving across the Hudson River to New Jersey, where I’ve lived for many years, way too many to count ‘em all. Straight photography was my primary creative outlet in the beginning until a friend taught me the silkscreen process, and that process changed my work in a major way. I did screen prints, and multi-media pieces based on my photographs, and earned a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship on the merits of that work. I’ve been lucky enough to have participated in a few museum and gallery shows, both group and one person. I’ve shown at the OK Harris gallery in NYC and at the Noyes and Jersey City museums in New Jersey as well as a few other galleries in New Jersey, Washington D.C., and California.
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While photography still remains as the primary source of all my work, for the past three or four years
I've turned to the computer as a tool for working with my images.
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Our fabulously talented and (sometimes) saintly web designer survived and escaped the transgenerational satanic ritual abuse cult of childhood to serve Mad Hatter madness, and that of her much loved family - husband, 3 kids stretching from age five to twenty-two, 1 grandson age six months, 1 thirteen year old cat presently stabilized on prozac, 1 kitten, known as Crazy Katie (not yet diagnosed, but we know), 2 dogs, one of which is a pug (no further explanation needed), and 1 beautiful 14 year old mixed breed who's sadly living her last days.
When Shirley's not at the beck and call of her clients and others above, Shirley does a little dabbling in water colors, and paint shop graphics, and not so much writing as she would like. She also takes pleasure in freelance word puzzle assignments for print mags like KAPPA, Highlights for Children, and Penny Press, and several online venues, including Smart-Kit. Busy busy busy. It's probably a good thing Shirley doesn't have much idle time, 'cause when she does she tends to engage in strange debates with committees of wildly diverse persons…all within her own head. Welcome to the madness.
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