Volume 2 Issue 3 ISSN 1934-1725
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Poet, composer of music (Max Able / Abel,
Rawls & Hayes), lawyer and spoken-word
performer (Scapeweavel), L. Ward Abel
lives in rural Georgia, USA, and has been
published at The Reader (UK), The Yale
Anglers’ Journal, Versal, The Pedestal,
Texas Poetry Journal, Kritya, OpenWide,
and many others. He is the author of
Peach Box and Verge (Little Poem Press,
2003), Jonesing For Byzantium (UK Authors
Press, 2006) and the newly released The
Heat of Blooming (Pudding House Press,
2008).
Robin Buehler Robin M. Buehler is a
photojournalist by trade. She holds a BA in
photojournalism and has been a journalist
for over 15 years. She is also a substitute
teacher and has had some of her short
stories and pictures published online and in
print in such places as the Taj Mahal
Review, No Longer Dreams, Byline
Magazine and more. Her photographs have
also exhibited at the Hopkins House;
Camden County Library in Auduon, NJ and
Atlantic County Library both at its Mays
Landing and Ventnor, branches; Atlantic
City art Center, Ocean City Art Center,
Hammonton Art Center and the Galloway
Cultural Art Center via the Galloway Twp.
Branch of the Atlantic County Library.
Antonia Crane was raised in Humboldt
County California, where gun-toting
republicans rub up against spotted owl
enthusiasts. In the mid 90’s, she was a union
organizer for SEIU local 790: The Exotic
Dancers Alliance, spear-headed by a
handful of dancers at the Lusty Lady
Theatre in San Francisco's North Beach.
She attended Mills College in Oakland and
cross- registered at Berkeley and at The Art
Institute.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to
escape the stripper lifestyle and to pursue
counseling, none of which happened. She
can be spotted dangling from stripper poles
in Los Angeles. In 2009 she was awarded an
MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles.
She has received scholarships from College
of The Redwoods, Antioch University and
The Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Her works in progress include her first fiction
novel titled: Kill The Day.
Angela M. Graziano is a part-time faculty
member at Fairleigh Dickinson University
where she teaches writing. She holds a
Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative
Writing: Nonfiction. To date, her essays,
poems and interviews have appeared in a
number of literary and arts journals including
ARIEL, APPLE VALLEY REVIEW,
DAMSELFLY PRESS, DISLOCATE, LOST,
MIRANDA and PORTAL DEL SOL. "Slashes
of Scab" is excerpted from her recently
completed memoir.
Dave Iaconangelo is a rising senior at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
originally from Erma, New Jersey, one of
those forgotten tideland boroughs between
Jersey Shore towns. The attached story
draws from his youth in these areas as well
as seventeen weeks of travel and strange
living funded by JHU and conducted in
various countries of the Caribbean Basin.
Rawls & Hayes), lawyer and spoken-word
performer (Scapeweavel), L. Ward Abel
lives in rural Georgia, USA, and has been
published at The Reader (UK), The Yale
Anglers’ Journal, Versal, The Pedestal,
Texas Poetry Journal, Kritya, OpenWide,
and many others. He is the author of
Peach Box and Verge (Little Poem Press,
2003), Jonesing For Byzantium (UK Authors
Press, 2006) and the newly released The
Heat of Blooming (Pudding House Press,
2008).
Robin Buehler Robin M. Buehler is a
photojournalist by trade. She holds a BA in
photojournalism and has been a journalist
for over 15 years. She is also a substitute
teacher and has had some of her short
stories and pictures published online and in
print in such places as the Taj Mahal
Review, No Longer Dreams, Byline
Magazine and more. Her photographs have
also exhibited at the Hopkins House;
Camden County Library in Auduon, NJ and
Atlantic County Library both at its Mays
Landing and Ventnor, branches; Atlantic
City art Center, Ocean City Art Center,
Hammonton Art Center and the Galloway
Cultural Art Center via the Galloway Twp.
Branch of the Atlantic County Library.
Antonia Crane was raised in Humboldt
County California, where gun-toting
republicans rub up against spotted owl
enthusiasts. In the mid 90’s, she was a union
organizer for SEIU local 790: The Exotic
Dancers Alliance, spear-headed by a
handful of dancers at the Lusty Lady
Theatre in San Francisco's North Beach.
She attended Mills College in Oakland and
cross- registered at Berkeley and at The Art
Institute.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to
escape the stripper lifestyle and to pursue
counseling, none of which happened. She
can be spotted dangling from stripper poles
in Los Angeles. In 2009 she was awarded an
MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles.
She has received scholarships from College
of The Redwoods, Antioch University and
The Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Her works in progress include her first fiction
novel titled: Kill The Day.
Angela M. Graziano is a part-time faculty
member at Fairleigh Dickinson University
where she teaches writing. She holds a
Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative
Writing: Nonfiction. To date, her essays,
poems and interviews have appeared in a
number of literary and arts journals including
ARIEL, APPLE VALLEY REVIEW,
DAMSELFLY PRESS, DISLOCATE, LOST,
MIRANDA and PORTAL DEL SOL. "Slashes
of Scab" is excerpted from her recently
completed memoir.
Dave Iaconangelo is a rising senior at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
originally from Erma, New Jersey, one of
those forgotten tideland boroughs between
Jersey Shore towns. The attached story
draws from his youth in these areas as well
as seventeen weeks of travel and strange
living funded by JHU and conducted in
various countries of the Caribbean Basin.
| Cherry Blossoms By Elizabeth Switaj |
Don Lattin, is a San Francisco-based journalist
who writes about alternative social movements
and religious organizations in the United States.
He is the author of four books, including JESUS
FREAKS – A True Story of Murder and Madness
on the Evangelical Edge, and the upcoming
book, THE HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB --
How Timothy Leary, Andrew Weil, Ram Dass and
Huston Smith Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a
New Age for America. It will be published in
February 2010 by HarperCollins. He worked as a
staff writer for the San Francisco Examiner from
1977 to 1988, and for the San Francisco
Chronicle from 1988 to 2005. To contact him or
see more of his work, go to: www.donlattin.com
Lafe Metz and his beautiful wife Emily (who is
expecting) live happily in the river valleys of
Western Pennsylvania. When Lafe isn't
cloistered in the basement office wearing his red
bathrobe, you can find him climbing hills on his
bicycle.
Scott Michael Miller was born in Philadelphia,
PA in 1978. Raised in a fairly typical suburban
family, he graduated from MIT in 2000 with a
degree in mathematics, as well as minors in
physics and chemistry. Scott began writing in
2004, about two years after moving to Los
Angeles, and earned an M.F.A. from Antioch
University Los Angeles in December 2008. His
poems have appeared in Barefoot Muse,
poeticdiversity and The Chickasaw Plum. Scott
lives in Reseda, CA with his wife of seven years.
Hannah K. New is currently a graduate student
in the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
MFA program. She currently lives in
Murphsyboro, Il with her husband and dog.
Jane O'Keeffe is a writer and natural resources
consultant living in Adel, Oregon. O'Keeffe
received her MFA in Creative Writing from
Antioch University in December of 2008.
Currently, O'Keeffe is hard at work on three
books; an examination of a true crime, a policy
wonk book on a local federal forest initiative, and
to the surprise of everybody - including herself -
a work of fiction.
Lisbeth Prifogle recently completed her
contract with the United States Marine Corps and
quietly exited back into the real world by moving
out of her apartment and into her car. She sold
anything that did not fit in her VW Bug and has
been traveling through South and Central
America, along the coast of California and soon
coast-to-coast. She lives by the grace of good
friends and good weather (she always keeps a
tent and sleeping bag in her car). She is working
on her MFA at Antioch University in LA.
JD Roland, musician, songwriter, poet, and
author has spent the better part of forty years
honing his craft. As a musician he has a well
developed sense of rhythm to his writing. He
graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art with
honors in the early nineties. Four years ago he
moved to a small town in southwest Colorado to
start writing fulltime. This time was spent
experimenting with different styles in an effort to
create a unique pallet from which to display his
thoughts and imagination. What we are left with,
however, is an array of many styles, yet all
holding his fresh, contemporary, and engaging
signature vision. Some of his works hold obvious
messages to contemplate while others require
digging beneath the surface. As of late, he has
been published in three anthologies (Satiated
Sunrise, Embracing Candice, and A World of
Love), self-published his first book “Beyond the
Blue Door”, 121 pages of poems and pros written
between 2004 and 2008 and been awarded the
Franklin-Christopher award of Merit.
Stephan Salit is a musician/photographer
currently residing in San Francisco. While having
played music professionally for all of his adult life,
Mr. Salit has also pursued his passion for
photography – and most recently has made the
jump to professional photographer. His
photographs can be viewed on his website:
Neurotica.
who writes about alternative social movements
and religious organizations in the United States.
He is the author of four books, including JESUS
FREAKS – A True Story of Murder and Madness
on the Evangelical Edge, and the upcoming
book, THE HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB --
How Timothy Leary, Andrew Weil, Ram Dass and
Huston Smith Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a
New Age for America. It will be published in
February 2010 by HarperCollins. He worked as a
staff writer for the San Francisco Examiner from
1977 to 1988, and for the San Francisco
Chronicle from 1988 to 2005. To contact him or
see more of his work, go to: www.donlattin.com
Lafe Metz and his beautiful wife Emily (who is
expecting) live happily in the river valleys of
Western Pennsylvania. When Lafe isn't
cloistered in the basement office wearing his red
bathrobe, you can find him climbing hills on his
bicycle.
Scott Michael Miller was born in Philadelphia,
PA in 1978. Raised in a fairly typical suburban
family, he graduated from MIT in 2000 with a
degree in mathematics, as well as minors in
physics and chemistry. Scott began writing in
2004, about two years after moving to Los
Angeles, and earned an M.F.A. from Antioch
University Los Angeles in December 2008. His
poems have appeared in Barefoot Muse,
poeticdiversity and The Chickasaw Plum. Scott
lives in Reseda, CA with his wife of seven years.
Hannah K. New is currently a graduate student
in the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
MFA program. She currently lives in
Murphsyboro, Il with her husband and dog.
Jane O'Keeffe is a writer and natural resources
consultant living in Adel, Oregon. O'Keeffe
received her MFA in Creative Writing from
Antioch University in December of 2008.
Currently, O'Keeffe is hard at work on three
books; an examination of a true crime, a policy
wonk book on a local federal forest initiative, and
to the surprise of everybody - including herself -
a work of fiction.
Lisbeth Prifogle recently completed her
contract with the United States Marine Corps and
quietly exited back into the real world by moving
out of her apartment and into her car. She sold
anything that did not fit in her VW Bug and has
been traveling through South and Central
America, along the coast of California and soon
coast-to-coast. She lives by the grace of good
friends and good weather (she always keeps a
tent and sleeping bag in her car). She is working
on her MFA at Antioch University in LA.
JD Roland, musician, songwriter, poet, and
author has spent the better part of forty years
honing his craft. As a musician he has a well
developed sense of rhythm to his writing. He
graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art with
honors in the early nineties. Four years ago he
moved to a small town in southwest Colorado to
start writing fulltime. This time was spent
experimenting with different styles in an effort to
create a unique pallet from which to display his
thoughts and imagination. What we are left with,
however, is an array of many styles, yet all
holding his fresh, contemporary, and engaging
signature vision. Some of his works hold obvious
messages to contemplate while others require
digging beneath the surface. As of late, he has
been published in three anthologies (Satiated
Sunrise, Embracing Candice, and A World of
Love), self-published his first book “Beyond the
Blue Door”, 121 pages of poems and pros written
between 2004 and 2008 and been awarded the
Franklin-Christopher award of Merit.
Stephan Salit is a musician/photographer
currently residing in San Francisco. While having
played music professionally for all of his adult life,
Mr. Salit has also pursued his passion for
photography – and most recently has made the
jump to professional photographer. His
photographs can be viewed on his website:
Neurotica.
Caty Sporleder lives in the North End of Boise
Idaho. Her prose has been published in
Wheelhouse Magazine. She has a book-length
collection of prose and poetry set for release
from BlazeVOX Books in the spring of 2009. She
graduated with her MFA from Antioch University
in 2008.
Elizabeth Kate Switaj is the author of
Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press),
Shanghai (Gold Wake Press), and The Broken
Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press). She
edits Crossing Rivers Into Twilight and Gender
Across Borders . Her photographs have
appeared in Schmap travel guides and
Kaleidowhirl as well as on the cover of Boxcar
Poetry's 2006 anthology. For more information
visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of
three books of poetry, the most recent of which is
SPARE PARTS, A Novella in Verse (Turning
Point, 2008). She has two chapbooks, UP FROM
THE ROOT CELLAR (Cervena Barva Press,
2008) and AESOP'S EAGLES (Northwoods,
2001). Her essays and poetry have appeared in
U.S. and Canadian journals, such as
TriQuarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly,
Connecticut Review, Antigonish Review, and Poet
Lore, as well as at several sites on line. She is a
member of the Poetry Board at the Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Idaho. Her prose has been published in
Wheelhouse Magazine. She has a book-length
collection of prose and poetry set for release
from BlazeVOX Books in the spring of 2009. She
graduated with her MFA from Antioch University
in 2008.
Elizabeth Kate Switaj is the author of
Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press),
Shanghai (Gold Wake Press), and The Broken
Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press). She
edits Crossing Rivers Into Twilight and Gender
Across Borders . Her photographs have
appeared in Schmap travel guides and
Kaleidowhirl as well as on the cover of Boxcar
Poetry's 2006 anthology. For more information
visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of
three books of poetry, the most recent of which is
SPARE PARTS, A Novella in Verse (Turning
Point, 2008). She has two chapbooks, UP FROM
THE ROOT CELLAR (Cervena Barva Press,
2008) and AESOP'S EAGLES (Northwoods,
2001). Her essays and poetry have appeared in
U.S. and Canadian journals, such as
TriQuarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly,
Connecticut Review, Antigonish Review, and Poet
Lore, as well as at several sites on line. She is a
member of the Poetry Board at the Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
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