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AnnyNymity : Pseudonym more obvious than words.

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.

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.”

Terrill, Mark : Shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and has lived in Germany since 1984, where he’s been scraping by in various incarnations, including shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook, postal worker and poet. Recent books and chapbooks include Superabundance (Longhouse Poetry); Something Red (Plan B Press); Bread & Fish (The Figures); and his selected translations of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Like a Pilot (Sulphur River Literary Review Press). His writings have been translated into German, French and Portuguese, and recently he’s performed his work in various venues in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and Prague. He is a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books and was guest-editor for a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review, forthcoming in 2009.

Vassilakis, Nico : works in both textual and visual poetry. Yes please, please send electricity. His recent book is TEXT LOSES TIME. We called those involved Starists. Nico’s videos have been shown extensively at exhibits and festivals. Crystal Curry lives in Seattle, where she always has one eye on a cushy civil service job. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and on-line journals and her chapbook, Logotherapy Pant, just came out from Cosa Nostra Editions. Curry is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a postgraduate fellow. She makes her home with poet Nico Vassilakis and a seven-year-old Cor and a 15-year-old Quixote.

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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