(street address) 266 Elmwood Ave #307
(city&state) Buffalo, NY 14222
(e.mail address) [email protected]
(affiliations/organizations)

National Writers Union, member
Italian American Writers Union, member
The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Lifetime Subscriber

(publication credits)

(list of works)

CHAPBOOK
Resculpting (Paper Boat Press,1995)

ANTHOLOGIES
This Far Together (Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, 1995)
Go Gently (The Healing Woman, 1995)
Bay Area Poets Coalition 1995 Anthology
Husky Voices (Univ of WA, MFA Anthology, 1998)

(where written up)
Women's Work (Seattle,WA, 1995)
Arts Journal (Poulsbo, WA, 1996)
The Healing Woman (1996)
Small Press Review (Pick of the Month & Review, 1996)
synapse (review, 1996)
The Kitsap Herald (1995)

(contemporary poets important to Bramkamp)
Charles Simic, Jana Harris, Billy Collins, Lynda Hull (deceased), Seamus Heaney, Lynn Emmanuel, Carolyn Kizer, Mark Doty, Raymond Carver, Nikki Finney, Jane Kenyon, Ai, Gillian Conoley, Patti Smith Larry Levis (deceased), Adrienne Rich, Carolyn Forche, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Nancy Willard, Richard Hugo, Theodore Roethke, Carol Ann Duffy, Marlene Nourbese Philip & many others

(poets of yesteryear important to respondent)
Colette, Muriel Rukeyser, Paul Celan, Rilke, Rimbaud, Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Samuel Beckett, Eugene O'Neil, W.H. Auden, Frank O'Hara And many more..........

(critics important to respondent)

Eavan Boland, bell hooks, Adrienne Rich... otherwise, not particularly interested in criticism. I think going through an MFA program "ruined" it for me.

(tastes in poetry) I'm most drawn to narrative, lyrical, and prose poetry. Yet, I read widely and try to sample styles outside my usual references.

(impression of contemporary poetry) Ever-changing. Expanding, shouting, fighting amongst our many selves, loud, soft, chilling,consoling, alienating & inviting.

(zines, etc., that ought to be listed in the dictionary)
Switched-On-Gutenberg (Internet)
The Cortland Review (Internet)
SketchRadio.com (Internet)
Small Press Review & Small Magazine Review (Dust Books)
The Directory of Poetry Publishers (Dust Books)
Directory of Literary Magazines (CLMP)

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