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Beach, James : Capricorn, 37. 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.

Carswell, Clare : An interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is based in Oxford UK.

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 www.hellerlevinson for more information. .

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.”

Rosenthal, Barbara : Born in New York, she is an artist and writer who has taught photography at Parsons School of Design and writing at the City University of NY. She has published four books of photography and journal-text, Clues to Myself, Sensations, Homo Futurus, and Soul & Psyche, which, along with twenty other works, are in the collections of MoMA and The Whitney. She currently writes art criticism for NYArts magazine while filing rejections from literary agents who don’t think they can sell her novel Wish For Amnesia. emedialoft.org.

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.

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