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Holding a Ph.D. in physics and having studied Buddhism for twenty years, Jon Wesick has enjoyed a front row seat at a collision of worldviews. He has published over a hundred poems in small press journals such as Pearl, Pudding, Slipstream, American Tanka, Anthology Magazine, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Edgz, The Kaleidoscope Review, The Magee Park Anthology, The New Verse News, Poesia, Sacred Journey, San Diego Writer’s Monthly, Tidepools, Vortex of the Macabre, Zillah, and others. He’s published eight chapbooks, including two that have been honorable mentions in the San Diego Book Awards. His latest chapbook is License to Rant. Three Treasures Zen Community | ||||||||
b. 1940 NYC poet, linguist, translator. Her original work and her translations (from Hindi) have appeared in many journals and anthologies in the US, UK, India and Canada. She has an anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets "In Their Own Voice" which appeared from Penguin India in 1993. She may be contacted at : [email protected]
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Charlotte Pence’s poetry has appeared in a variety of journals including Southern Poetry Review, Seattle Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. In 2003, she received the individual artist fellowship in poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the New Millennium Writing Award for Poetry, XVI, 2004. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. | ||||||||
Monica Berlin received her MFA from Vermont College. Her poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Artful Dodge, horseless review, The Southern Indiana Review, Flyway, and forthcoming in Third Coast. She has received two Pushcart nominations and was awarded an Illinois Arts Council grant in 2005. Berlin is an Assistant Professor of English at Knox College in Galesburg, IL where she teaches Creative Writing.
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Dean Faulwell's works have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Chelsea, Conduit, Happy, Paris Review, Poetry Now, et al. He was one of the founding editors, along with Paul Hoover and James Leonard, of the seminal Chicago poetry mag Oink. | ||||||||
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Sylvia Manning's poetry has appeared widely in U.S. literary publications including Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream (NYC) and Borderlands: the Texas Poetry Review (Austin). She translates from French, usually, not the other way around. She loves Quebec City and Louis Aragon. | ||||||||
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Because Ursa's gender is undefined – and because Ursa deserves respect – Dan Wahl chose to use gender neutral pronouns to present the pieces fairly. Dan Wahl received an MFA in 2005 from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and has recently moved from the prairies to the mountains. He misses home.
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