BIO Laura Mucelli Klemm was born in 1964 at Forbach in Lorraine, France, the child of Italian immigrants. In addition to French, she has been writing poems in her native Italian. After studying languages and literatures at the university of Nancy, she became a certified court translator and interpreter, and after further studies, a high…
BIO An experienced feature film Producer, Emmanuel Itier directed the thriller ‘Tell me no Lies’ (2000) and the horror film ‘Scarecrow’ (2002). He completed in 2012 the Peace documentary ‘The Invocation’ narrated by Sharon Stone and with Desmond Tutu, HH The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra and many others worldwide peace activists. Emmanuel Itier has…
BIO George Jisho Robertson is 79. He was first and always a teacher of literature and an advocate for children, becoming an innovative senior high principal in three schools. In 1990 he became a Zen priest. From 2008 he has lived in London, UK where he devotes his life to family, poetry, photographic art and…
BIO Philip Quinlan is the author of a chapbook, Head Lands (White Violet Press, 2012). He received nominations, in 2011, for both The Best of the Net and Pushcart. His work has appeared in: The Flea, The Chimaera, Lucid Rhythms, Lilt, Soundzine, Numinous, The Avatar Review, The Centrifugal Eye, Sea Stories, Shit Creek Review, Shot…
BIO Gail White’s fourth poetry collection, Asperity Street, will be published in 2015 by Able Muse Press. She has won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award for 2012 and 2013. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana with her husband and cats. DESDEMONA Othello was exotic – always dressed In gold and red, black as a…
BIO T.S. Kerrigan was born March 15, 1939 in Los Angeles. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and received his law degree from Loyola University in Los Angeles. Kerrigan is not only a poet, but a playwright. He is the author of “Branches Among the Stars” (Louisville, 1990). His plays have been produced in…
BIO Born in 1951, Timothy Murphy grew up in the Red River Valley of the North. He studied at Yale University under Robert Penn Warren, graduating (B.A.) as Scholar of the House in Poetry in 1972. Since then, he has farmed and hunted in the Dakotas. His previous collections of poetry are The Deed of Gift, Story Line Press, 1998,…
BIO Dimitri V. Psurtsev, a Russian poet, was born in 1960 near Moscow and has spent all his life there. He has a PhD in Linguistics and has published papers on linguistic theory and translation. He also has translated fiction (John Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence, F.L. Baum, Dylan Thomas, David Malouf, A.S. Byatt). Dimitri divides his…
BIO . Pietros Maneos is the author of two poetry collections, the internationally acclaimed novella, ‘The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos,’ and a work of aesthetic criticism titled ‘American Bards & The London Reviewer.’ His work has also appeared in The Huffington Post, Italian Americana and Mediterranean Poetry. In addition to his literary pursuits, Pietros…
BIO Poet Julie Kane—the great-grandchild of eight Irish immigrants—was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Massachusetts, upstate New York, and New Jersey, and graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in English. She lived in Baton Rouge for two years, working in the federal “War on Poverty”; then in New Orleans for…
BIO Lois P. Jonesis a host of Pacifica Radio’s “Poet’s Café” (KPFK 90.7 fm), and co-hosts the Moonday series in West Los Angeles. Publications include Narrative Magazine, The Warwick Review, American Poetry Journal, Nassau Review, Askew and Antioch’s Lunch Ticket with upcoming work in Eyewear. Her work won honors under judges Fiona Sampson, Kwame Dawes…
BIO Chris O’Carroll is a writer and an actor. His poems have appeared in Angle, First Things, Free Inquiry, Light, and The Rotary Dial, among other print and online journals, and in the anthologies The Best of the Barefoot Muse and 20 Years at the Cantab Lounge. Top of the First I will fling…
