<eawp contributors>

AnnyNymity : Pseudonym more obvious than words.

Beach, James : Capricorn, 38. Into: camping, cards, chess, history, live music, meditation, philosophy, politics, sports, the theatre, travel. Also: studying literature, noticing art, doing stuff. Scoring is a prerequisite?! Published in little venues, worldwide.

Bellamy, Joe David : Lives in Florida. His two latest books are New World Extra and The Lost Saranac Interviews, the latter co-edited with Connie Bellamy. The books are available through his website: joedavidbellamy.com.

Corner, Philip : Became interested in calligraphy during military service in Korea in 1960-1961 and studied it with Ki-sung Kim; it is often incorporated into his scores. While there he became enamored with Korean traditional music, particularly the jeongak composition Sujecheon, which he describes as "the most beautiful piece of music in the history of the world." Many of his scores are open-ended in that some elements are specified, but others are left partially or entirely to the discretion of the performers. Some employ standard notation, whereas others are graphic scores, text scores, etc. His music also frequently explores unintentional sound, chance activities, minimalism, and non-Western instruments and tuning systems. Improvisation is important, though not exclusive; some "performance proposals" lead to a kind of ecstatic semi-trance. Contact with artists in other media, especially dance and the visual arts, as well as a long-standing interest in Eastern religions such as Buddhism (Zen) and study of the music of composers from the Baroque and Pre-Baroque eras has likewise impacted his music.

In addition to his work as a composer and musician, he has created numerous assemblages, calligraphy, collages, drawings, and paintings, many of which have been exhibited internationally. He has also written much poetry, which like some of his music, has occasionally appeared under his Korean pseudonym Gwan Pok, meaning "Contemplating Waterfall". Editions in silk-screen have been brought out by the Archivio F. Conz, Verona, and Pari e Dispari Agency in Reggio Emilia, among others. Works are regularly exhibited in galleries, mostly in Europe, and are in notable museum collections. His principle gallery is UnimediaModern in Genova, whose director Caterina Gualco maintains a large collection. Other important collectors are Hermann Braun in Germany (deceased 2009) and Luigi Bonotto in Bassano who maintains an extensive documentation.

His complete musical scores and some other writings are available on demand from Frog Peak Music, a Composers Collective in Lebanon, NH. frogpeak.org.

Economou, George :Is the author of twelve books of poetry and translations, the latest of which are Ananios of Kleitor (Shearsman, 2009), Half an Hour, translations of Cavafy (Stop Press of London, 2008), and Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite’s Garden (Random House, 2006). Educated at Colgate and Columbia Universities, he has published many translations from ancient and Modern Greek and medieval European languages, including William Langland’s Piers Plowman (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). A critic and scholar of medieval literature, he is the author of The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature (Harvard University Press, 1972; reprinted, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002) and numerous other studies, including an edition of the late Paul Blackburn’s troubadour translations, Proensa (University of California Press, 1978). A founding editor of The Chelsea Review and co-founder of Trobar and Trobar Books, he has published many critical reviews and essays. A Rockefeller Fellow at Bellagio, he has been named twice as an NEA Fellow in Poetry. He taught for forty-one years at Wagner College, Long Island University, Hunter College, Columbia, and the University of Oklahoma. He retired in 2000 as Professor Emeritus of English after teaching for seventeen years at the University of Oklahoma, where he was department chair of English from 1983-90 and director of Creative Writing from 1990-2000. George Economou has given readings and lectures throughout the United States and abroad at Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Michigan, Colgate, Texas A & M, Columbia, Stanford, California, the American College of Paris, King’s College of London, Oxford, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Athens, among others.

Fowler, S. J. :Is a postgraduate student in philosophy at the University of London, works for the British Museum, is archivist for Peter Owen publishers and conducts poetry journalism, with a speciality in Slavic, Balkan and Scandinavian poets. He has published poetry in Poetry Monthly International, Cadaverine, Nthposition, 3am, Vice, Moria, Pomegranate, Monkey Kettle and Parameter magazine. Interested in the nouveau roman movement and phenomenological poetry, he is focused on creating phonetic poetry that is led by etymological excavations and aural confusion and suspicion in the reader / listener. As such the work of Paul Celan, Tadeusz Rosewicz, W.S. Graham and Gunnar Ekelof is especially important to him.

Harsen, Edward : Works in New England and the Mid Atlantic, where he manages commercial properties. Edward spent fifteen years in the printing trade, during which time he worked for Street Magazine and Street Press. He also developed a hazard communication program for an envelope manufacturer in New York. He moved to Portland, OR, in 1991, and began work in Facilities and Property Management. Since 2001, he has been researching business relationship methods, supply chain management and absolute competitiveness.

Edward’s poetry has been published by Long Island Press, Oak City and Street Press. He has also written several white papers on contract management. He lives in Valatie, NY, with his wife Jeanine and two children, Johnathan and Sebastian.

Lepson, Ruth : "I'm poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and my books are (most recently) I Went Looking for You, Morphology, with artist Rusty Crump, both from BlazeVOX.org, and Dreaming in Color, from Alice James Books. U of Illinois published Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, which I edited. My poems have been in Carve, Agni, Shampoo, Big Bridge, EOAGH, and lots of other magazines, and my prose in Jacket, Harvard Review and elsewhere. My jazz/poetry group, low road, will be coming out with a CD. My website is ruthlepson.org and my email is ruthlepson@comcast.net."

Levinson, Heller : Lives in NYC where he studies animal behavior.

He has published in over a hundred journals and magazines including Sulfur, Hunger, Talisman, First Intensity, Laurel Review, The Wandering Hermit, Ampersand, etc. His most recent publication, SMELLING MARY, is newly out from Howling Dog Press and has been nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize.

Please visit: hellerlevinson.com for more information.

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