BIO Václav Z. J. Pinkava was born in 1958 in Prague (Czechoslovakia, as was then). He emigrated in 1969 to Britain, growing up there and completing his education at Oxford. He followed this with a career in IT management, latterly as a professional translator, having moved back to the Czech Republic in 1992 with his…
BIO Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, was educated at Oxford University. A poet, critic, interdisciplinary scholar, public intellectual, translator, and former editor of The Kenyon Review, he has authored over 30 books, including The New World; Beauty: The Value of Values; The Culture of Hope;…
BIO During his lifetime, the poems of Wilmer Mills were published in journals (The New Republic, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The New Criterion, among others), in two anthologies (Penguin/Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poets, 2004; The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, 2009)and in two books: a chapbook, Right as Rain (Aralia…
BIO Joseph S. Salemi teaches in the Department of Classical Languages at Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. He has published seven books of poetry, the latest of which is Steel Masks (White Violet Press, 2013). His poems, essays, translations, and scholarly articles have appeared in over one hundred publications world-wide. He is the editor of the poetry…
BIO Lewis Turco is the author of over 50 books, chapbooks, and monographs including The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (UPNE), and his latest collection of poems, The Familiar Stranger (StarCloudPress.com, 2014). His epic, The Hero Enkidu, will appear from Bordighera Press in 2014. A Marvelous Tailgater Bluesanelle For Jean at 10:58…
BIO Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (January 24, 1871 – March 5, 1951, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer and literary critic. He studied theology at the Theological faculty in Prague, but he did not complete. Thereafter, he left Czechia for one year and after his return he started working as a clerk in the post office. Soon after,…
BIO Richard Wakefield has been a poetry and fiction critic for the Seattle Times for thirty years. For the past thirty-six years he has taught writing and American literature at the University of Washington-Tacoma, Tacoma Community College, and the University of Washington-Seattle, where he earned his Ph.D. in American literature in 1983. His first collection…
BIO Marly Youmans is the author of twelve books of poetry and fiction. Her most recent novel is Glimmerglass (Mercer, 2014), which follows A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer, 2012 / The Ferrol Sams Award / The ForeWord Silver Award for Fiction). Her most recent poetry books are Thaliad, a long adventure in…
BIO Felix Fojas is an internationally published writer. His works have appeared in such internationally circulated New Age magazines like the Magical Blend and Natural Health and Beauty Magazine. An award-winning literary writer, Fojas’s works have appeared in Evergreen Review, Paris/Atlantic Journal, Anthology Magazine,and Writers’ Journal, among many others. A retired professor and advertising executive, Felix Fojas works…
BIO . Michael T. Young’s fourth poetry collection, The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost, was published by Poets Wear Prada Press. He received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a Chaffin Poetry Award. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Iodine Poetry Review, Fogged Clarity, The Louisville Review,…
BIO Born and educated in New Zealand, Janet Alexa Kenny sang professionally with international casts in the United Kingdom, then moved to Sydney, Australia, where she was active in the nuclear disarmament movement. She jointly edited, compiled and wrote Beyond Chernobyl and contributed to a book of essays commemorating the Australian novelist Patrick White. She now…
BIO Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869), known by his pen name, Ghalib, is a famous romantic and mystical poet from the Mughal Empire era in India. His poems are characterized by great wit, puns, and a mystical, erotic imagery so passionate as to veer at times into the surreal. Diwan-e-Ghalib is a famous poetry book written by…
