Michael Basinski is a teacher and curator of special books collection at SUNY-Buffalo in New York. He is the author of many experimental publications, including the visual epic, HEKA, and Poemeserss. He has also done extensive performance work. >> _______________________________________________________ Guy Beining, currently living in Massachusettes, is a well know collageist and artist whose work has appeared in many publications. He was the featured artist in the fall/winter 1999 issue of Black Warrior Review. >> _______________________________________________________ John Crouse's artwork featured in this issue is from Prefaces available from xtantbooks. He also has two books, Headlines and Lapses, available online at OBooks.com. >> _______________________________________________________ Catherine Daly lives in Los Angeles. Her first book, Locket, will be published by Tupelo Press next year; another manuscript is currently a finalist for the National Poetry Series. NOTES:
_______________________________________________________ Raymond Farr has had or will have work published in future issues of Aught, Shampoo, CanWeHaveOurBallBack?, Poethia, East Village, X-Stream, Paradoxism, Cider Press Review, and Poet Lore. He welcomes comments which would lead to a dialogue about his work and postmodernist poetry in general at the following address: r.farr@worldnet.att.net. >> _______________________________________________________ Luc Fierens published his first poems in 1982, the same year he discovered the MAIL-ARTNetwork. Since 1984 he has been active in Belgian mail-art and visual poetry. He works in various media: collage, visual poetry, Artists' books, rubberstamps, artistamps, and sculpture. He has organized numerous Mail-Art projects, including "Homage to Fluxus," which has been accepted by the Sonia Henie Museum in Hovikodden (Oslo), Norway. He is the editor of POSTFLUXUSBOOKLETS. >> _______________________________________________________ Jeff Harrison's poetry appears in the current issues of Moria and VeRT, and is forthcoming in Poethia, A Chide's Alphabet, M.A.G., Side-Reality, and BlazeVox (e-book). He has an essay forthcoming in How2. >> _______________________________________________________ Tom Hibbard's most recent book of poems is titled Gessom, available from the author. His reviews can currently be seen online at `Jacket' and `Milk' magazines. >> _______________________________________________________ Brenda Iijima's books are EPITOME and Person (a) (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Recently Pressed Wafer of Boston published IN A GLASS BOX, a chapbook. As well, she is a photographer and painter. She grew up in North Adams, Massachusetts and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. NOTES:
_______________________________________________________ Mary Kasimor has been published in X-Cultural Poetics, moria, Nedge, Volt, Prosodia, Lungfull!, Columbia Poetry Review, and xtant2, among others. >> _______________________________________________________ Richard Kostelanetz has published many books of indubitably experimental poetry and prose. >> _______________________________________________________ Jim Leftwich co-edits xtant, and is the author of Doubt (Potes & Poets), Dirt (Luna Bisonte), Virgule (Lingua Blanca) and Staceal 1 (Avantacular). From 1994 to 2000 he published the early mail-art zine Juxta and co-edited and Juxta Electronic. An extensive selection of his work is accessible online in the november issue of Muse Apprentice Guild. His long work, Doubt, is available at avant-garde bookstores. He lives in Charlottesville, VA. >> _______________________________________________________ Camille Martin is a poet and translator who lives in New Orleans. Her collections of poetry include sesame kiosk (Potes & Poets, 2001), rogue embryo (Lavender Ink, 1999), magnus loop (Chax Press, 1999), and Plastic Heaven (Fell Swoop, 1996). She recently completed a new collection,codes of public sleep. Her work has been published in such magazines as Perspektive, Kiosk, Fiddlehead, Cauldron & Net, Unarmed, Moria, Poethia, and VeRT, and in the anthology Another South: Experimental Writing of the South (University of Alabama Press, 2002). She founded and co-curates the Lit City Poetry Reading Series in New Orleans. >> _______________________________________________________ Nick Moudry is currently working on a collaborative book with the poets Eric Baus, Noah Eli Gordon and Travis Nichols. He lives in Northampton, MA and edits baffling combustions. >> _______________________________________________________ Lanny Quarles hails from the panhandle area of Texas where his heroes became Rimbaud, Jarry and Pecos Bill. His digital collages can currently be viewed on-line at ontologicalmuseum.org. >> _______________________________________________________ Francis Raven works for an environmental justice non-profit in San Francisco. Broken Boulder press just recently published two of his chapbooks called Notestalk and Notationing. Anabasis Press published his novella, Journey Writ Large on a Blue or Lilac Notebook. Warnell.com published his electronic chapbook entitled Do Not Add Up which is located at: http://www.warnell.com/syntac/add.htm. He has been published in The Red Booth Review, Beehive, Gestalten, Untitled, The In Posse Review, Inter/Face, The East Village, Moria Poetry, Oblique, and The New Colonist, among others. His poem "Icon Reverberation" was written while watching Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet 6 times. >> _______________________________________________________ Chris Sawyer lives in New York City. His recent texts have appeared in Poethia, Moria, Can we have our ball back?, sidereality, and xStream. A chapbook, Mesmeranda (Potes & Poets, 2000), is available from Small Press Distribution. NOTES:
_______________________________________________________ Ravi Shankar is the founding editor of http://www.drunkenboat.com and is the poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including the Paris Review, Gulf Coast, Poets & Writers, Crowd, The Massachusetts Review and Lit. You can read an interview with him at: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket16/dev-iv-shank.html. >> _______________________________________________________ Jordan Stempleman a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago where he received the Academy of American Poets Prize for Poetry in 2000. His work has appeared in Bridge Magazine and The Columbia Poetry Review. >> NOTES:
_______________________________________________________ Sara Veglahn is the author of a chapbook, Another Random Heart, forthcoming from Margin to Margin Press (www.litpress.com). Recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from CanWeHaveOurBallBack?, Castagraf, and 26. She is one of seven editors of the journal baffling combustions. NOTES:
_______________________________________________________ Ian Randall Wilson is the managing editor of the poetry journal 88. Recent work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Spinning Jenny and Spork. His first fiction collection, Hunger and Other Stories, was published by Hollyridge Press. NOTES:
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