CONTRIBUTOR NOTES
| AMBERLEE
CARTER I live a pretty quiet life here in Idaho, it's a good thing silence can inspire me. Out here, there's so much space and so many stars that one becomes speechless. I started writing poetry when I was around 11, during my Mother's illness. I quit school to take care of her, the only good decision I've ever made. Sadly, she lost her battle August 30th of 97. I moved directly in with my Father who was as well very ill and bed-ridden. I cared for him until his death August 5th of 99. So I lost both my parents before my 18th birthday. The future's looking bright though, I'm 22 now and in love with a man who inspires me beyond expression.. For the first time, in a long time, I'm actually enjoying this life. |
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FRED & LARA ELLIS are photographers living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Their photography is available for sale from galleries throughout Virginia. They also do portraits on request. They can be contacted at: mindseye@shentel.net |
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Award-winning
poet,
author
and
traditional
storyteller
PHILIP
KANE
is
one
of
the
most
unique
and
powerful
voices
to
emerge
from
North
Kent's
extraordinary
literary
and
artistic
scene.
His
work
is
uncompromising
yet
lyrical,
often
experimental,
and
always
imbued
with
a
radical
spirit
in
the
tradition
of
Blake
and
Shelley.
Philip's
writings
can
range
widely
across
social
and
political
concerns,
love
and
eroticism,
and
the
magic
that
occurs
when
the
Unconscious
breaks
through
into
everyday
reality.
They
also
often
carry
a
strong
sense
of
place.
Philip's
publications
include
city's
little
heart
(Mezzanine,
1993),
The
Wildwood
King
(Capall
Bann,
1997),
Tarot
(Mezzanine,
2000),
and
Among
High
Waves
(Urban
Fox
Press,
2004).
He
was
editor
of
the
first,
groundbreaking,
North
Kent
anthology,
The
Industry
of
Letters
(Mezzanine/KCC,
1996).
He
is
a
frequent
contributor
to
many
magazines,
and
to
anthologies
including
Six
Days
of
Hunger
(Medea/Baggins,
1998),
The
Medway
Scene
(Urban
Fox
Press,
2004),
and
New
Art
from
North
Kent
(Urban
Fox
Press,
2004)
Philip
Kane
currently
teaches
Creative
Writing
through
adult
education
and
the
Open
College.
Since
1997
he
has
been
Writer-in-residence
within
the
mental
health
services
in
Maidstone,
Kent;
and
in
1999
he
was
the
first
Reader-in-residence
to
be
appointed
in
South
East
England,
at
Tunbridge
Wells
Library.
He
is
a
member
of
the
London
Surrealist
Group,
a
frequent
performer
of
his
own
work,
and
a
highly
experienced
workshop
facilitator.
Philip
is
also
a
visual
artist,
dance
teacher,
trained
counsellor
and
martial
artist.
He
lives
in
Chatham,
Kent
(England).
Email
wayfarers@supanet.com
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CHRIS
KORNACKI
is
22
and
lives
in
Windsor,
Ontario,
Canada
where
he
is
currently
working
towards
his
B.A.
in
philosophy.
He has been sending out submissions to magazines for the first time ever over the past two months, and thus far have haiku forthcoming in "bottle rockets" magazine. |
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LYN
LIFSHIN's
most
recent
prizewinning
book,
(Paterson
poetry
award)
BEFORE
IT'S
LIGHT,
was
published
winter
1999-2000
by
Black
Sparrow
press,
following
their
publication
of
COLD
COMFORT
in
1997.
ANOTHER
WOMAN
WHO
LOOKS
LIKE
ME
will
be
published
by
Black
Sparrow
books
published
by
David
Godine
in
November
2003.
(ORDER@GODINE.)
Also,
just
published
is
A
NEW
FILM
BY
A
WOMAN
IN
LOVE
WITH
THE
DEAD,
March
Street
Press.
She
has
published
more
than
100
books
of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE , BLUE TATTOO, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S THREAD, and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing," has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement." An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, "On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Sheets" was published Spring 2003. She is working on a collection of poems about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse Ruffian, new chapbooks including GIRLS AND WOMEN and MAD GIRLS and a new collection called THERE WERE DAYS, SO PERSEPHONE. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com |
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Emmy-winner
DUSTIN
D.
MORROW
is
a
digital
filmmaker,
photographer,
and
writer.
He
was
born
and
raised
in
a
rural
Illinois
community,
where
he
wrote
his
first
novel
in
third
grade,
directed
his
first
play
in
fourth
grade,
and
made
his
first
film
in
seventh
grade.
In 2000, Morrow returned to the Midwest to earn his MFA in the department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa after working for four years as an editor and director of music videos and commercials in Los Angeles. He was the founder of the digital film festival "D:Cinema," based in Iowa City, and the director of a large-scale mounting of Stephen Belber's play "Tape," in which he integrated digital media into the traditional theatrical setting in new and interesting ways. His short digital movies and photographs have won numerous awards and been shown in venues around the world. Morrow currently works as a Visiting Assistant Professor of film and video production at Monmouth College; writes about Digital Filmmaking and New Media; and continues to produce digital movies and photo essays. Morrow's artistic goals involve utilizing this seemingly cold and impersonal technology to move audiences emotionally, to create "digital mood pieces." He is currently in post-production on his first feature-length documentary, and he will direct two more films in the next year, in Germany and Hawaii.
His
works
have
screened
internationally
in
a
variety
of
forums,
including
the
Ann
Arbor
Film
Festival,
the
Academy
of
Television
Arts
and
Sciences,
the
Cornell
Environmental
Film
Festival,
the
Antimatter
Festival
of
Underground
Short
Film
and
Video,
the
Flicker
Film
Festival,
the
Palm |
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LAUREN
RAINE,
MFA,
has
been
a
performance
artist,
visual
artist,
and
mask
maker
for
25
years.
She
has
studied
traditions
of
Temple
mask
and
dance
in
Bali,
with
Ida
Bagus
Anom
and
others.
In
1999
she
created
20
multi-cultural
Masks
of
The
Goddess
for
THE
20TH
SPIRAL
DANCE
in
San
Francisco
with
Starhawk
and
Reclaiming,
as
well
as
choreographing
fire
dances
for
the
Spiral
Dance
and
the
Goddess
2000
Project.
In
2000
she
collaborated
on
the
production
of
TRAGOS,
a
film
by
Antero
Alli,
and
was
the
Director
of
Rites
of
Passage
Gallery,
a
Center
for
Transformative
Arts,
in
Berkeley,
California.
She
has
directed
and
performed
in
many
ritual
theatre
events,
including
the
Masque
of
the
Goddess
at
the
Willits
Community
Center
(2001)
,
The
Masque
of
the
Goddess
at
the
Sebastopol
Community
Center
(2001),
the
First
Annual
Spiral
Dance
of
Tucson
(2000),
Woman
With
a
Thousand
Faces
(at
the
Black
Box
Theatre
in
Oakland
(2002).
She
has
taught
workshops
in
maskmaking
in
California,
Arizona,
and
New
York,
and
was
a
featured
speaker
at
the
Matrilineage
Symposium
at
Syracuse
University,
Napa
Community
College,
and
many
others.
She
is
currently
working
with
groups
who
wish
to
create
events
with
her
Masks
of
the
Goddess
series,
and
is
working
on
a
book
about
masks
and
community
ritual
theatre.
LAUREN
RAINE |
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ERIC
ROOT
has
been
a
photographer
since
age
seven.
He
prefers
to
shoot
medium
format
but
uses
a
Contax
G-2
35mm
rangefinder
camera
for
color
work,
due
the
sharpness
and
contrast
of
the
images
that
result
from
the
rangefinder
camera.
The
majority
of
his
work
is
black
and
white
photography,
but
he
has
begun
exploring
color
images
using
digital
scanning
and
reproduction
techniques.
In
his
mind,
each
medium
has
its
own
attributes,
advantages
and
disadvantages
in
conveying
the
photographer’s
vision
on
paper.
He
maintains
total
control
over
the
image
creation
process
from
shooting
through
development
and
printing
to
final
mounting
of
the
image.
In
general,
he
prefers
black
and
white
photographs
because
they
are
one
step
removed
from
our
normal
vision
and
perception
process,
a
level
of
abstraction
that
triggers
our
subconscious.
This
level
of
abstraction
reveals
certain
elements,
or
brings
them
to
the
surface,
so
that
the
viewer’s
perception
is
altered
and
open
to
the
depth
of
the
image
and
all
it
has
to
offer.
Eric
Root
often
refers
to
a
line
in
the
movie
American
Beauty:
“Sometimes
there
is
so
much
beauty
that
it
hurts”.
His
photographs
attempt
to
bring
into
awareness
all
that
is
special
around
us
each
day,
our
friends,
our
families,
our
environmental
surroundings,
life.
His
photographs
attempt
to
capture
the
lines
and
forms
of
nature
and
the
human
body,
powerful
elements
that
at
innate
to
all
of
us
as
human
beings.
His
portraits
attempt
to
capture
that
unspoken
quality
that
says,
“this
is
what
is
special
about
this
person…
this
captures
their
soul”.
Eric
Root
(alias
DILLID:
Dark
into
Light…
Light
into
Dark)
explores
both
the
dark
and
light
sides
to
life,
knowing
that
one
cannot
exist
without
the
other,
that
each
is
a
mirror
to
the
other.
His
themes
purposely
provoke
the
viewer
to
look
within,
to
access
the
full
spectrum
of
life.
He
is
currently
exploring
high
resolution
digital
color
panorama
images
using
a
Kaidan
QuickPan
Magnum
tripod
head,
PTGui
stitching
softwaare,
PhotoShop,
Nikon
Coolscan
8000
scanner,
Epson
2200
archival
ink
printer.
Some
of
his
panoramas
involve
digital
stitching
and
manipulation
of
up
to
ten
images. Eric Root has a studio in Leavenworth, Washington. Contact
Info: |
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CHRIS
TOLIAN
is
one
of
those
people
constantly
searching
for
things
that
he
doesn't
yet
understand.
Finding
muses
makes
him
blissfully
happy.
He
is
intrigued
by
people
and
forever
trying
to
connect.
He
can
be
found
mostly
around
Chicago
looking
for
that
quiet
place
between
the
city
and
serendipity
where
the
wild
things
dance
and
the
sidewalk
ends.
The
meaning
of
the
previous
statement,
and
any
other
bleatings
uttered
by
him
for
that
matter,
should
be
taken
with
a
large
dose
of
skepticism…
maybe.
His
email
is:
christopher_2031@hotmail.com |
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JOHN
YATES
lives
as
far
back
in
the
woods
as
he
can
at
the
edge
of
the
Allegheny
National
Forest
in
northwestern
Pennsylvania.
He
also
has
lived
in
very
remote
areas
of
Montana,
Ontario
and
Alaska.
His
writing
often is
based
on
the
power
of
nature
to
heal
and
transform
people,
and
of
eros
as
the
symbol
and
expression
of
transformation
and
a
healthy
and
vibrant
sense
of
self
and
life.
"Who
I
am
sexually,
is
who
I
am,"
he
said.
His
favorite
writers
include
Walt
Whitman,
Henry
Miller,
Linda
Hogan,
Terry
Tempest
Williams
and
Lenore
Kandel.
He
trains
dogs
for
a
living,
likes
to
get
his
hands
in
the
dirt,
often
is
off
the
wall,
and
values
intimacy
and
sharing
in
human
relationships.
"If
you
are
going
to
be
alive,"
he
says,
"do
it
to
excess.
Live,
love,
celebrate
life
and
be
overwhelmed
by
the
beauty
around
you."
He can be reached at standingrock814@hotmail.com |