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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.

Fox, Hugh : Born in Chicago in 1932. Polio at age 4, cured by a pre-Saulk experimental medicine that worked. Spent his childhood totally immersed in the arts, was part of the All Children's Grand Opera group run by Viennese genius Zerlina Muhlman Metzger, studied violin and composition with P. Marinus Paulson, art and ceramics at the Art Institute in Chicago, was pushed into Medicine by his M.D. father, finished four years of pre-med and a year of medicine, then got an M.A. at Loyola in Chicago and a Ph.D. in English/American Literature at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. It was at Urbana-Champaign that he met and married Lucia Ungaro Zevallos, a Peruvian poet-critic who was getting her Ph.D. in Romance Languages, and after the marriage they moved to Los Angeles where he taught for ten years at Loyola-Marymount University and was immersed in the film-world. At the same time thanks to his wife he began to go to Peru to visit his Peruvian family and slowly visited all the major ruins in the pre-Columbian Americas. He met Harry Smith in Berkeley in 1968 and they became best friends and for some twenty years Fox would visit Smith 2-3 times a year in New York City/Brooklyn and work on Smith's magazines, get to know the poets and writers in the New York scene. He was a Fulbright Professor for a year in Mexico (1961), two years in Caracas (1964-'66), which especially made sense because he married a Peruvian in 1956. In 1968 he moved to Michigan State U. and taught there until he retired 6 years ago. While at Michigan State U. he had a Fulbright professorship in Brazil where he met and married a Brazilian M.D., studied Latin American literature on a grant from the Organization of American States at the U. of Buenos Aires, and after beginning to make archaeological discoveries and have his books on archaeology published, he received another grant from the Organization of American States to spend a year as an archaeologist in the Atacama Desert in Chile. He has some 104 books published.

"For decades I was immersed in the novels of Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley and the like, although I even wrote the first critical study of Charles Bukowski and was influenced by his super-realistic style. But mainly I like my style to be somewhat 'classic,' almost Jane Austin-ish, getting into the center of the characters' lives/feelings/aspirations. Since I was a child I have been totally immersed in the arts. Polio and then cured, and then shoved into opera, violin, piano, musical composition, drawing, painting, ceramics, my house practically a library of classics. Then French, Czech, German, Italian, I married a Peruvian, turned into an archaeologist and immersed myself in Pre-History. So there's always the big Overview in my work, man on planet earth, everything that exists the way it is impossible, but still there, so we live in an ambience of total wonder/impossibility."

Herzer, Christine : A poet and visual artist. She divides her time between India and Paris.

"I paint inside out; I write outside in. My poems stage locations for private, public & global intensities to happen in. Expansiveness and capacious experiment are at the heart of my aesthetic. The acts of leaving, leaping, effacing, stealing, overlapping, protecting, transgressing, displacing, recycling, and veiling echo what women do. to themselves. I desire language. I make mouth stamps."

Christine will graduate with an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College in June 2009. Her poems have appeared in Upstairs at Duroc, Louis Liard Magazine, Fogged Clarity, Open Letters, The New York Quarterly [forthcoming] and FENCE [Fall Issue 2009]. In 2008 she was invited to read her poetry for the literary journal Upstairs at Duroc, the Ivy Writers Reading Series in Paris, and Re-Loquations, Talking Poetry in Mumbai. Her current series of 100 mixed-media-drawings functions as a pilot to a series of writings on Handicapped Spaces.

Lifshin, Lyn : Her ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006. It has been selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. (ORDER@GODINE.COM) Also out in 2006, her prize-winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MY YEAR WITH RUFFIAN from Texas Review Press. Other of Lifshin's recent prize-winning books include BEFORE IT'S LIGHT published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of COLD COMFORT in 1997. Other recently published books and chapbooks include: IN MIRRORS from Presa Press and UPSTATE: AN UNFINISHED STORY from Foot Hills and THE DAUGHTER I DON'T HAVE from Plan B Press. Other new books include WHEN A CAT DIES, ANOTHER WOMAN'S STORY, BARBIE POEMS, SHE WAS FOUND TREADING WATER DEEP OUT IN THE OCEAN and MAD GIRL POEMS. A NEW FILM ABOUT A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH THE DEAD, from March Street Press in 2003. She has published more than 120 books of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE and BLUE TATTOO. She won awards for her nonfiction and edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S THREAD and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, No More Apologizing, has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement," by Alicia Ostriker. An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, "On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace," was published Spring 2003. WHAT MATTERS MOST and AUGUST WIND were recently published. TSUNAMI is forthcoming from Blue Unicorn. World Parade Press will publish POETS (MOSTLY) WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME, LIVING AND DEAD: ALL TRUE, ESPECIALLY THE LIES. Texas Review Press published BARBARO: BEYOND BROKENNESS in 2008 and World Parade Books just published DESIRE in 2008. And DRIFTING is just online. Red Hen has published PERSEPHONE in 2008. Coatalism Press just published 92 RAPPLE DRIVE and Goose River Press will publish NUTLEY POND. Clovis Hook Press just published LIGHT AT THE END, THE JESUS POEMS, and Finishing Line Press published LOST IN THE FOG. A new chap book: BALLET MADONNAS, from Mastodon Dentist. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is lynlifshin.com.

Lowery, Matt : Hailing from central Colorado, he spent his childhood staring at trees and building electrical gadgetry.

He now spends his time as a software developer, designer, and student, working from a small experimental production studio in Denver's Capitol Hill district.

He is a creative thinker and problem solver. Employing these ~wholly remarkable~ talents at every stage of his work, he is able to demonstrate a stylistic edge that transcends traditional methodologies and normals. He is not afraid to go in two or more directions at one time.

When pressed, he will admit that his current artistic interest involves minimalism, formalism, and futurism. His favorite contemporary photographic artists include Abelardo Morell, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Sandy Skoglund, Duane Michals, Jeff Wall, Jay Myrdal, Taylor Deupree, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

He is currently studying Photography and Fine Arts at Metropolitan State College in Denver.

Mulrooney, Christopher : Has written poems in Rune, Vanitas, The Broadkill Review, Moloch, The Delinquent, and Nebula.

Mycue, Edward : "DAMAGE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, a volume of poems out of print since 1973 was republished in January 1977 by Panjandrum Press. In August 1977, Menard Press, London, will publish BEYOND THE SOURCE, which is Volume III of 'The Assault on Summer Triptych' (of which, DAMAGE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY is Volume I). Forthcoming is a chapbook, 'Something Inheres in the Marigold,' a section of Volume II, MUDDY ON THE HORIZON, from Thorpe Springs Press, Berkeley. When the entire Triptych is published altogether, the work I began in 1966 will be complete. Viewing and reviewing my stay is an art formed in simple words of surviving, growing old, doing a good job necklaced like the world that can change from one day to the next and hangs on. And I stand by the rose without clean hands although summer is over and passages of melancholy loss recess in dreams that curl like the bannister or a squirrel's tail, squeaking, shivering with possibility for the right moment. All the while dewy mornings, azure skies, pussy willow trees---kit, caboodle of dreamers' stocks-in-trade---confront the knife, a tiny blade that conspires like needles, stars, explosions and yet are still not night but light on light: the lake. Between past and future is now, no hands in the stone although breath has many doors to mix retrospect with apprehension, maybe told, forgotten, lost, found this morning."--from CENTER, 1978.

Most recently, Mycue has published MINDWALKING (2008, PHILOS PRESS, LACEY, WA).

Plumb, David : His 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.

Stevens, Geoff : At the mid 1970s period, poetry in standard English began to take over and when he met Olive Hyatt at a Writers' Club in Dudleyry, they decided in 1976 to start a magazine.

It was duplicated in purple ink and was called Purple Patch. Soon it was being sold to friends, in clubs, and on subscription and enjoyed the highest circulation of its publication (see the Purple Patch website).

A magazine called Promotion was introduced to highlight individual poets and included Hilary Mellon, Michael Newman, Robert Cole, Andy Botterill and Geoff himself in the first edition.

By the late 1990s at The Barlow Theatre, he won, along with Wayne Dean-Richards, their competition for a book consisting of the work of two writers. His poetry and Wayne's stories appeared in: At The Edge/Central To Me.

Geoff's poetry acceptances by magazines began to zoom and in the 1990s he was having over 200 poems published each year.

A collection in co-operation with Paul Weinman, Skin Print, was published in the U.S.A., funded by their National Endowment for the Arts. He became the U.K. Editor of Slugfest Ltd. Literary Magazine, an American publication.
As well as Poetry Wednesbury, which is organised with Brendan Hawthorne, Geoff has taken over Spouting Forth's Barlow Theatre Readings and has joined with Alex Barzdo and Brendan to form Unleaded Petrels in order to expand their performance opportunities.

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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