CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #15
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Sumita Chakraborty is the Assistant Poetry Editor at
AGNI Magazine
(
www.agnimagazine.org). A resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts
and a graduate of Wellesley College, she plans to pursue graduate studies in English literature in the future.
She blogs at
www.deliberately.wordpress.com.
Recommended poet:
Dana Levin.
Cindy Cunningham graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Psychology and a Minor in Women's Studies.
She also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. in English from Georgia
State University. Her poems have been published in several small journals and she has many poems currently floating around in
the limbo of submission queues. She currently serves as Director of Literary Arts for the Appomattox Regional Governor's School
for the Arts and Technology in Petersburg, Virginia. She is at work on a collection of poems and hopes to send this collection
out in the summer of 2008.
Recommended poet:
Lori D'Angelo is an MFA candidate in fiction at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, where
she also teaches composition to freshman and sophomores. She has a master’s degree in theology and once worked as a journalist.
Recommended poet:
Mark DeCarteret's work has appeared in the anthologies
American Poetry: The Next Generation
(Carnegie Mellon Press),
Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line Press),
Thus Spake the Corpse:
An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press) and
Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets
(Oyster River Press) which he also co-edited. His fourth book
(If This Is the) New World was released last year from
March Street Press.
Recommended poets:
Mimi White,
Martha Zweig.
John W. Evans's appear in
Boston Review, Best New Poets 2006, Hayden's Ferry Review,
Poetry East, and
Verse Daily. He will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University this fall.
He blogs regularly at
www.howtolikeit.blogspot.com and oversees the Katie Memorial Foundation (
www.katiememorialfoundation.org).
(
wevbo@hotmail.com)
Recommended poet:
Catherine Bowman.
Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of
Sagittarius Agitprop (Black Lawrence Press),
Four Hours to Mpumalanga
(Pudding House), and
Aardvark (West Town Press). Recent work appears in
The New Republic, Field, Epoch, Crazyhorse,
Indiana Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and others. He currently teaches at Grand Valley State University.
Tonight, he will attempt to convert his dream about a rosewater ravioli dessert into reality.
(
mattfrank76@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet:
Sarah Vap.
Rebecca Givens has poems published or upcoming in the
Cincinnati Review, Scene 360, and
American Letters
& Commentary. Her website is at
www.rebeccagivens.com.
Recommended poets:
Henri Cole,
Anne Carson.
Aya Ibrahim's poems have appeared in
Bateau, Word Riot, Foliate Oak, Istanbul Literature Review
and other journals. She is a native of Cairo, Egypt and will soon start her MFA in poetry at Indiana University, Bloomington.
(
aya862001@gmail.com)
Recommended poet:
Christophe Tarkos
Clyde Kessler has had poems published online in 2008 in
Barnwood, Sugar Mule & Xelas Magazine.
He volunteers with a recovery effort for the Regal Fritillary, a rare butterfly in Virginia which has been nearly extirpated. He lives
in Radford VA with his wife Kendall an artist and their son Alan. (
ckessler@vt.edu)
Recommended poet:
Ruth Stone.
Brian Price is currently assistant provost at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, Montana.
Long interested in observation, for more than ten years he has been making photographs as a way of seeing what he observes.
More of his photographs can be seen at
www.flickr.com/photos/brian_price.
(
b_price@umwestern.edu).
Recommended poets:
Roger Dunsmore,
Gary Lundy,
Rebecca Knotts.
William Reichard is the author of three collections of poetry, including
This Brightness
(Mid-List Press, 2007). His new collection,
Sin Eater, is forthcoming. (
williamreichard@comcast.net)
Recommended poet: Henri Cole.
Michael Schmeltzer is a writer living in Seattle, Washington. He earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop
at Pacific Lutheran University. He writes reviews for
A River & Sound Review> and has been published or has work forthcoming
in
Water~Stone Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, and
pacificREVIEW, among others. (
mschmeltzer01@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet: Kelli Russell Agodon.
Lafayette Wattles, a former high school teacher and graduate of Spalding
University's MFA program, once worked as a P.A. on a low-budget movie with Amanda Plummer
and had the good fortune of playing her dead husband in a scene that was eventually scrapped
(which pretty much sums up his career as an actor). His car, however, made it into the movie.
Lafayette's poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in
FRIGG, Thick with
Conviction, The Centrifugal Eye, Mannequin Envy, Underground Voices, Stirring, and
Big Toe Review among others.
(
lafayette.wattles@gmail.com)
Recommended poet:
Rane Arroyo.