Michael Bernstein Michael Bernstein was born and raised in Chicago. He received a BA from Columbia College, and an MFA from the Kerouac School at Naropa University. His poems have appeared in journals such as Puppy Flowers, Conundrum, Columbia Poetry Review, and New AmericanWriting. He has taught Creative Writing to at-risks teens though Boulder Attention Homes in Boulder, CO, and as a visiting artist at the University of Tulsa. He has read his work in numerous US cities, and has collaborated (as a writer and bass player) with countless artists, musicians, emcees, writers, and performers. He currently lives in Tampa, FL. See Michael Bernstein's work.


Sean Burke Sean Burke is a New England Patriots fan. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. His work has most recently appeared in Dirty: a literary magazine. See Sean Burke's work.


Jennifer K. Dick is the author of Fluorescence (UofGA Press Contemporary Poetry Series winner 2004) and Retina/Rétine (Estepa Editions, Paris, 2005). She has also had poems in Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome (2005), Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets (2005), In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction, ( UK, 2004), SHORT FUSE: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry,(NYC, 2002) and 100 Poets Against the War, ( UK, 2003). Originally from Iowa City , Jennifer holds a BA from Mt Holyoke and an MFA from CSU. She lives in Paris where she is a doctoral candidate in Comp Lit at Paris III and teaches for ENSAE and Oxbridge Summer Programs. Previous editor of Upstairs at Duroc (lit review), Jennifer co-curates the multi-lingual Ivy Writers’ Series with Michelle Noteboom, writes book reviews for Tears in The Fence (UK) and conducts interviews of other poets as well as sends out monthly Paris literary mailings from fragment78@aol.com. Recent work appears or is soon forthcoming in The Colorado Review, Aufgabe, The Canary, Mipoesias.com, The Diagram.com, Gargoyle, Diner, Green Mountain’s Review and 12 x 12 anthology. She guest edited a selection of French translations with interviews for www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com (click on FRANCE ). See Jennifer K. Dick's work.


Kari Edwards is a poet, artist and gender activist, received one of Small Press Traffic's books of the year (2004), New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002); and is author of obedience, Factory School (2005); iduna, O Books (2003), a day in the life of p., subpress collective (2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press (2000). edwards' work can also be found in Scribner's The Best American Poetry (2004), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, Coffee House Press, (2004), Biting the Error: writers explore narrative, Coach House, Toronto, (2004), Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others, Hawoth Press, Inc. (2004), Experimental Theology, Public Text 0.2., Seattle Research Institute (2003), Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted Leaf Press (2000), Aufgabe, Tinfish, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Amerikan Hotel, Boog City, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Narrativity, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Pom2, Shearsman, and Submodern Fiction. See Kari Edwards' work (1) (2) (3).


Eric Elshtain lives in Chicago where he edits Beard of Bees Press, an on-line poetry chapbook delivery system. See Eric Elshtain's work.


Harvey Goldner lives in Seattle. His poems have appeared in Arnazella, Bellowing Ark, Chelsea, Exhibition, Exquisite Corpse, 4th Street, Shampoo Poetry, Puerto del Sol, The Sun, and elsewhere. A chapbook, Memphis Jack, was recently published by Spankstra Press (Seattle). See Harvey Goldner' work.


Lisa Jarnot is the author of three full-length collections of poetry including Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, Chicago). She is currently completing a biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan which will be published by University of California Press in 2007. She lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Brooklyn College. See Lisa Jarnot's work.


Katia Kapovich is a bilingual poet writing in English and Russian. She is the author of five collections of Russian verse and of a book of English language poetry, Gogol in Rome (Salt, 2004). Her English poems have also appeared in the London Review of Books, The New Republic, Harvard Review, The Independent, Jacket, and numerous other periodicals. She was the 2001 recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress. Kapovich participated in a literary dissident movement, emigrated from the USSR in 1990, and currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics. See Katia Kapovich's work.


Stefania Iryne Marthakis received her BA from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA from Naropa University. Her work, under various names, has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Small Town, a broadside from Farfalla Press and lyrics for a song by The Stones We Throw. She currently lives in New York City where she interns at The Poetry Project. See Stefania Iryne Marthakis' work.


James Sanders is part of the writing collective Atlanta Poets Group. It's like the Borg only with fewer sentences. Once upon a time in Kindergarten a 12-inch Darth Vader with a pink light saber came in over the neuter-colored hospital floor as a get well present to him for his tonsilectomy. Later, he slept in a wet car at some point. His him is sometimes a me. See James Sanders' work (1) (2) (3) (4).


Letitia Trent is a graduate student at Ohio State University. Her work is upcoming in 42opus, and Noo Journal. See Letita Trent's work.


Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was raised in India and Nepal. Tsering received MAs from University of Delhi, University of Massachusetts and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her first book of poems, Rules of the House, published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Her most recent book In the Absent Everyday, is also from Apogee Press. Other publications include two chapbooks, In Writing the Names (Abacus, Potes & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). Tsering works for a San Francisco based non-profit foundation that provides humanitarian aid to people of the Himalayas. See Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's work.


Daneen Waldrop poetry has appeared in Seneca Review, TriQuarterly, Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Carolina Quarterly, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award, judged by Jean Valentine; the Bentley Prize for Poetry from Seattle Review; two Pushcart prize nominations; and has authored two books of literary criticism, including Emily Dickinson’s Gothic (University of Iowa Press). See Daneen Waldrop's work.


Lewis Warsh most recent books include Touch of the Whip (Singing Horse), The Origin of the World (Creative Arts), Ted's Favorite Skirt (Sputen Duyvil) and Debtor's Prison, a book length poem in collaboration with Julie Harrison (Granary). A double CD of a reading of The Origin of the World is available from Deerhead Records/Ugly Duckling Presse. He is co-editor, with Anne Waldman, of The Angel Hair Anthology (Granary), editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and Associate Professor in the English Department at Long Island University in Brooklyn. See Lewis Warsh's work.