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 . 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 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 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…
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 Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical. Learn more at http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving…
BIO . William Logan is the author of ten volumes of poetry, most recently Madame X (2012). He has published six books of essays and reviews, including The Undiscovered Country, which received the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. A new book of criticism, Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure, was published early this year. Among…
BIO Annabelle Moseley is an award-winning American poet and writer, born and raised on the North Shore of Long Island. Author of nine books, first Walt Whitman Birthplace Writer-in-Residence, and 2014 Long Island Poet of the Year, Moseley is a Lecturer at St. Joseph’s College in New York. Her newest collection is a double volume…
BIO Karen Kelsay lives in Los Angeles County, and is the founder and editor of the poetry magazine Victorian Violet Press. She has authored several books and chapbooks: Lavender Song (Fortunate Childe Publications 2011), In Spite of Her (Flutter Press 2010), Song of the Bluebell Fairy (Pudding House Publications 2010), A Fist of Roots (Pudding…
