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…
Sacredness of what we do… : An Interview with Christopher Merrill, by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
“If I had learned anything during the war, it was that our walk in the sun is brief, and so I resolved to wander from monastery to monastery, a sojourner in the world of last things.” “It was time for me to come to terms with the way my life had turned out: the love…
Timothy Murphy
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,…
Dimitri V. Psurtsev: Translated by F. D. Reeve
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…
Notes from a Journey : Christopher Merrill
BIO Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and books of translations; and five works of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of the Hidden…
Lois P. Jones
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…
Julie Kane
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…
Pietros Maneos
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…
Chris O’Carroll
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…
Wendy Videlock
. BIO Wendy Videlock is the author of the chapbook What’s That Supposed to Mean (2010) and the full-length collections The Dark Gnu and Other Poems 7 (2013) and Nevertheless(2011). Known for poems that evoke myth, fairy tale, and the natural world, Videlock has also received praise for her deft command of meter. In an interview with the Colorado Poets…
Apryl Skies: Translated by Angel Uriel Perales
BIO Apryl Skies, an LA native, shares a birthday with Anaïs Nin, W.H. Auden and the emotive Nina Simone. She is an award-winning author of A Song Beneath Silence and Skye the Troll & Other Fairy Tales for Children. The latter, Skye the Troll has been adapted to clay animation winning the 2010 Gold Pixie…
David A. Worthington: Poems Inspired By Cinema
BIO David A. Worthington is a natural scientist, athlete, wanderlust and writer of lyrics and poetry. He graduated from the University of Texas, at Austin in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. During his formative years, his life journey wove a triad of American-West hometowns, each with its variances of societal norms: Chico California,…