Contributors
Meg Barboza's poems have appeared in P-Queue, Court Green, 1913, and Denver Quarterly. She lives and works in New York City.
Sarah Boyer is a second year poet at UMASS Poets and Writers.
Macgregor Card left Brooklyn. He lives in Queens, teaches at Pratt Institute and programs Monday nights at The Poetry Project. A new chapbook, The Archers, is just out from Song Cave. His first book, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, was published in December '09 by Fence Books.
Dan Chelotti's work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Gulf Coast, Bateau, Court Green, Handsome, Hotel Amerika, Past Simple, Poets for Living Waters, and was featured in the anthologies, State of the Union (Wave Books) and Disco Prairie Social Aid and Pleasure Club (Factory Hollow Press). A chapbook, The Eights, was published by the Poetry Society of America. He teaches writing at Elms College.
Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch are the authors of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). They recently completed another collaborative manuscript called Conversations over Stolen Food. Fitch’s Not Intelligent, but Smart: Rethinking Joe Brainard is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. Cotner lives in Brooklyn, NY; Fitch, in Laramie, WY, where he’s an assistant professor in the U. of Wyoming’s MFA Program.
Molly Dorozenski lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and attended the MFA program at UMASS-Amherst. Her poems have been published in the Boston Review, Conduit, Spinning Jenny, Court Green, American Letters & Commentary, Gulf Coast, and other places. She is, with Lauren Ireland, the co-founder of Best Fucking Friends Press, which produces hand printed broadsides in limited editions, and she is an editorial assistant at Lungfull! Magazine. She works for Greenpeace in the "trying to get journalists to care about the environment" department.
Brandon Downing is a writer and visual artist originally from San Francisco, California. His books of poetry include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002) and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005), while a monograph of his collages from 1996-2008, Lake Antiquity, was released from Fence Books in late 2009. In 2007 he released a feature-length collection of collaged digital shorts, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, with a 2nd volume forthcoming in 2011. He lives in New York City. www.brandondowning.org
Dobby Gibson is the author of Polar (Alice James Books, 2005), which won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and Skirmish (Graywolf Press, 2009). He lives in Minneapolis.
Ben Fama is the author of Aquarius Rising (UDP) and co-author of the chapbook Girl Boy Girl Boy (Correspondences, 2010). He is the founder of the Brooklyn-based Supermachine Reading Series and poetry journal. His work has appeared in GlitterPony, Pank! and Poor Claudia, among others.
Lewis Freedman reads and writes poems. He recently lives in Madison, where he co-organizes the ________-Shaped Reading Series with Andy Gricevich. Two chapbooks, The Third Word [what to us(press)] and Catfish Po' Boys (minutes BOOKS) were published in 2009. He is also a co-editor at the multi-locatable Agnes Fox Press.
Anne Cecelia Holmes is the assistant managing editor of jubilat and lives in Northampton, MA. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in SUPERMACHINE, Sir!, We Are Champion, Jellyfish, Front Porch, and others. A collaborative chapbook with Lily Ladewig, I Am A Natural Wonder, is forthcoming from Blue Hour Press.
Lauren Ireland grew up in southern Maryland and coastal Virginia. Currently an editor at Lungfull! Magazine, she also curates the monthly poetry series, The Reading at Chrystie Street. Her poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Conduit, SUPERMACHINE, and Bateau, among other magazines. More work can be found online at oui-ja-yes.blogspot.com. She lives in Brooklyn.
Caroline Knox's seventh book, Nine Worthies, appeared in September 2010 from Wave Books. Her sixth, Quaker Guns (Wave, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. She has new work in Fou, Denver Quarterly, and A Public Space.
Lesle Lewis' books include Small Boat and Landscapes I & II. Forthcoming in spring 2011 will be her book, lie down too. She lives in New Hampshire and teaches at Landmark College.
Chris Martin is the author of Becoming Weather, a book of poems that will be published by Coffee House Press in the coming year. His first book, American Music, received the Hayden Carruth Award and was published by Copper Canyon Press. A new chapbook, How to Write a Mistake-ist Poem, will arrive from Brave Men Press sometime in the near and beautiful future. He lives in Brooklyn with the avatar of the Assyrian tiger demon Pazuzu. When he's not rapping alone, he's rapping with others.
Nathaniel Otting is a sub-sub librarian for minutes BOOKS and at Walser & Company, a new bookstore at FLYING OBJECT in Hadley, MA.
Michael D Snediker teaches American Literature and Poetry at Queen's University, Kingston ON. His poems have appeared in journals including jubilat, Blackwarrior Review, Crazyhorse, Paris Review. His first book of poems, Nervous Pastoral, was published by DoveTail Press. His next chapbook, Bourdon, is forthcoming from White Rabbit Press. His book, Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions, was published by University of Minnesota Press.
Jordan Stempleman's recent collection of poems, Doubled Over, was published by BlazeVOX Books in 2009. He teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute and is the Associate Editor of The Continental Review: a video-only forum for contemporary poetry and poetics.
Lesley Yalen lives in Northampton, MA. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Glitterpony, Invisible Ear, Octopus, Hayden's Ferry Review, Encyclopedia Vol. 2, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Agnes Fox Press publishing collective.