CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTES

justin.barrett lives in Salt Lake City, UT with his wife. He works as a chemist and has been writing poetry for over 12 years now.  He has been published in dozens of magazines and online journals including Nerve Cowboy, staplegun press, Thunder Sandwich and Open Wide.  His first collection, i was a third grade genius..., was released by Bottle of Smoke Press in 2003.  He is the editor of remark., an online journal of poetry, and has been since 1999.  He also started his own poetry press, Hemispherical Press, last year.

SEAN DONAHUE is a poet, healer and activist living in Lawrence, MA

He can be contacted at: wrldhealer@yahoo.com


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


LESLIE GABBARD is an outsider artist living in north Vernon, Indiana.

 She can be contacted at leslie47265@aol.com  

 

PHILIP KANE

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 counselor and martial artist.  He lives in Chatham, Kent (England).
 

CRAIG KIRCHNER lives and works as a sales rep on the east coast but considers himself a hobo of the universe. He writes about what he knows best and yet least - himself - in an effort to remove those labels.

Recent works have appeared in journals on and offline including Subterranean
Quarterly, Erosha, Divine Animal, The Blotter, Thunder Sandwich, Reading
Divas, Ink Magazine, Skyline, Haiku Hut, Poetry Repair Shop and Wicked
Alice.

craigkirchner@netzero.com


PETER MAGLIOCCO has edited the print lit-zine ART:MAG for nearly 20 years from Las Vegas, Nevada, and has poetry & fiction in several online & print places like BLAZE, THE WHIRLIGIG, & elsewhere... His novel of futuristic terror, "NU-EVERMORE" ($11, from Trafford Publishing, www.trafford.com, in cooperation with his own Limited Editions Press), is available via Amazon.com, Borders Books, et al...


JAYNE PUPEK holds an MA in Psychology and lives near Richmond, VA. Her
fiction and poetry have appeared in several online and print publications.
"Primitive," her chapbook of poetry, is forthcoming from Pudding House Press.
JaynePupek@aol.com


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.

He has been published with Clean Sheets and Slow Trains Literary Journal.  He has most recently found a home here, among the contributors and editors of The Divine Animal (featured March 2004).  He is currently spewing various short stories and attempting a novel or two.  Mostly he works and raises beautiful little gypsy girls.  Ah, it should be mentioned that he is a militant member of the Bastinadoes. 

 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


SCOTT WIGGERMAN is the author of Vegetables and Other Relationships (Plain View Press, 2000), as well as the founder and editor of the di-verse-city series of poetry anthologies for the Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF, 1997-2002).  He is the recipient of the 2003 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference D.H. Lawrence Scholarship in Poetry and one of thirty gay poets represented in the just-released anthology This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys, and Barbarians 2.  In addition, Wiggerman teaches “Poetry 101: The Way We Word” and “Poetry 201: Digging Deeper into the Poetic Toolbox,” two online poetry courses for UniversalClass.com, and he runs the Queer Poets series of Texas readings, now in its sixth year.