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Beach, James : Capricorn, 36. 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.

Berge, Carol : Artist-poet, editor, neo-prof, writer. A New Yorker, a day-tripper who in the 1960s bitched to Allen Ginsberg, of "Howl" fame, about how everybody dropping in was disrupting her writing (---his response: Shut Your Door). What more to say? She's archived at universities, in textbooks, online. A new story, "We Are Not Alone," is slated to appear in Gargoyle 54. For more info: carolberge.com. RiP.

Plumb, David : Plumb’s latest book is A Slight Change in the Weather, fiction. Other work appears in The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Orlando Sentinel, Beyond the Pleasure Dome, University of Sheffield, UK; Homeless Not Helpless Anthology, Alimentum, Food Anthology 2006 and St. Martin’s Anthology, Monde James Dean. He has worked as a paramedic, a cab driver, a cook and tour guide. A long time San Francisco writer, he now lives in South Florida.

Will Rogers said, “Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.” Plumb says, “It depends on the parrot.”

Rothenberg, Jerome : "The Leonardo Project: 10+2," a suite of twelve visual poems, was commissioned by Francesco Conz as part of an exhibition in the city of Vinci (near Florence), to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s Last Supper. Originally in an 18 x 24 format, the work was reproduced and published in a catalogue, Leonardo in Action and Poetry and in Rothenberg’s A Paradise of Poets.

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet, translator and anthologist with over seventy books of poetry and several assemblages of traditional and contemporary poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for the Millennium. Triptych, his thirteenth book of poems from New Directions, appeared in 2007, and a nineteenth-century prequel to Poems for the Millennium is scheduled for 2009.

XeusZenon : Pseudonym noted. For kicks, this gassy god-element puts Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch song lyrics into online language translators; therefore, love wins.

Young, Karl : "The inherent intelligence of language may always remain a mystery. Virtually any sincere writer will tell you that in many situations the language itself contributes significantly to the act of writing. Once you start, the language will to a greater or lesser extent take over part of the process of forming itself into a poem or essay. Writing thus becomes a form of dialogue or collaboration. I'd like to think that finding new ways to set up and explore such collaborations clarifies them in some sense. It seems just as likely that they're what clarifies me. A millenium ago, troubadors began poems with nothing but lists of rhyming words, seeing them as a framework for poems they'd build inside the frame.---from Vocabularies, Fractals, and Semiconductors, The Karl Young Home Page.

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