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Harryette Mullen
Harryette Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, and raised in Fort Worth,
Texas. She has earned degrees in English and in Literature from the University
of Texas, Austin, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early in
her career as a poet, she worked in the Artists in Schools program sponsored
by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and for six years she taught African-American
and other U.S. ethnic literatures at Cornell University in Ithaca, New
York. Her books of poetry include Muse & Drudge (Singing Horse, 1995),
S*PeRM**K*T (1992), Trimmings (1991), and Tree Tall Woman (1981).
Her poetry has appeared in journals and magazines including Agni Review,
Antioch Review, Arras, Big Allis, Black Renaissance, Bombay Gin, Chain,
Epoch, Furnitures, Hambone, Hole, La Jornada Semanal, Long News in the
Short Century, Parnassus, Proliferation, Prosodia, Voice Literary Supplement,
and The World. Her poems and short fiction have also been included in Moving
Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (ed. Mary Margaret
Sloan, 1998); Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry (ed.
Jerry Ward, 1997); African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and
Anthology (eds. Al Young and Ishmael Reed, 1996); Ecstatic Occasions. Expedient
Forms (ed. David Lehman, 1996); In Search of Color Everywhere (ed. E. Ethelbert
Miller, 1994); The Jazz Poetry Anthology (eds. Sasha Feinstein and Yusef
Komunyakaa, 1991); O#2 Anthology (ed. Leslie Scalapino, 1991); and elementary
and secondary school textbooks, including a new edition of Reflections
on A Gift of Watermelon Pickle, (eds. Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders,
Naomi Shihab Nye, Keith Gilyard, and Demetrice A. Worley; 1995).
Her honors include artist grants from the Texas Institute of Letters
and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, the Gertrude Stein Award
in Innovative American Poetry, and a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Susan
B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Rochester.
Harryette Mullen teaches African-American literature and creative writing
in the English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Cheryl
Beychok A trip to Paris in 1986 inspired me to study sculpture. Since that
time I have studied with Don Gale, Terry O'Donnell (El Camino College),
Martine Vaugel (1 month course in the Loire Valley) and currently with
Robert Cunningham Studio in Culver City. Seeking to capture the poetry
of anatomy, in the words of Michaelangelo, "I am still learning."
"Blue City" is my first Chapbook based upon my experiences in
Cuba.
fiatluxor23@adelphia.net
Marcielle
Brandler Marcielle Brandler’s first book of poetry, The Breathing House is now
available on Amazon.com, and Borders Books. Her poetry has been widely
published & translated into French, Czech, Spanish, & Arabic. Her
work has been praised by Jack Hirschman, poet Laureate of San Francisco;
Evelyn McDonnell, LA Weekly,1992; LIONEL ROLFE, Writer/Editor California
Classics Books & others. “Marcielle, is the Salvador Dali of poetry!”
– Jesse Collins, Jesse Collins Jazz Band. Her poem, “Eden” won first prize
at the Mt. San Antonio College Writers’ Day Festival 1997.
Her poem, “At the Monastery,” was part of a national project.
More than a thousand carnations were distributed through participating
schools and volunteers on February 14, 2006 throughout different communities
in Los Angeles. Marcielle’s poem went a number of times into the hands
of Los Angeles individuals on the streets, in the schools, in a mall, in
a hospital, rest home or bus stop! www.valentinepeaceproject.org
Award-winning poet, Marcielle Brandler earned her Master’s Degree in
1994 in Professional Writing, with emphasis on Poetry and has been publishing
her work since 1976. She was an editor for Working Title Magazine,
and a staff writer for Creative Line Magazine, Religion & Ethics Digest,
and Sierra Madre Vista. Marcielle has been teaching English, Literature,
Creative Writing, and Critical Thinking at the college level for two decades.
She hosted a monthly poetry reading series called Ambassadors of Delight
for three years, and her Adelphia Public Access TV show is called, Marcielle
Presents!
She was a judge in the 2001 & the 2005 Poetry Competitions at Los
Angeles City College. She has directed poetry workshops since 1988 as an
independent contractor for California Poets in the Schools and mentored
a younger poet with Performing Tree. Marcielle was a Board member of the
Alameda Writers’ Group and appears in Who’s Who of American Women 2003-07
and in Who’s Who in the World, 2005-07. She did an interview on Xradio,
and her poem, “First One,” has just been published in the San Gabriel Valley
Ouarterly. She is currently doing a book tour in Los Angeles.
For information call: 626 791-5867 or email: marcielle@dslextreme.com
Visit her website at : www.webspawner.com/users/marcielle/
Elena
Karina Byrne Elena Karina Byrne is a teacher, editor, Poetry Consultant and Moderator
for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and former 12 year Regional
Director of the Poetry Society of America, and is now Literary Programs
Director for The Ruskin Art Club and Museum Of Contemporary Art. A ten-time
Pushcart Prize nominee, her many recent publications include, Best American
Poetry 2005, Yale Review, Paris Review, APR, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares,
Verse, Tri-Quarterly, and Poetry Daily Anthology. Books include: The
Flammable Bird , (Zoo, 2002 /Tupelo); MASQUE (07)and The
Fable Language (09) are forthcoming with Tupelo Press. Elena’s
work in progress includes Voyeur Hour, an art/poetry book, and a
collection of essays entitled, Insignificance (09).
Ekduende@aol.com Ekduende@cox.net PO Box 3761 Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
Luis
Campos Incomparable to any other modern poet, Luis Campos collects a lifetime
of his personal best - 100 Selected Poems. Through his signature tangling
of words, readers are not clear what emotions are appropriate - joy or
tears, lust or disgust. Campos clearly controls the language in a ways
that bring levels to each poem, drawing upon multiple interpretations and
defiance of expectations. Or, they could mean nothing at all.
Luis Campos, a native of the Dominican Republic, started writing poetry
in 1968. In 1969, he joined the original Venice Poetry Workshop, initiated
by John Harris and Joseph Hansen. "Shooting on W. 92nd St." won first prize
in the Bay Area Poets Coalition contest of 1984. "Electric Poem in A.C.
Minor" won the Unknown Reader Award of Electrum Magazine in 1985. "For
Lease" won second prize, Ecology category, Bay Area Poets Coalition contest
of 1985.
Steve
Goldman Steve Goldman is the founder/MC of The Venice Poetry Readings in The
New Library, successor/continuation of The Venice Poetry Readings in the
Old Jail, after a short 20-year hiatus.
His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Solo,
Verve, Glue,The Venice Beachhead, The Santa Monica Bay News, Abalone Moon,
poeticdiversity and The Walt Whitman Pioneer, the last his junior high
school literary magazine in 1951. In that publication, the last two lines
of his debut poem were cut off via Goldman’s failure to include his whole
text on just one side of a page, as required. Additionally, he appears
in Abalone Moon, of which he is an Associate Editor. Goldman fervently
denies conflict of interest thereabout; if Editor-in-Chief Velene Campbell
is silly enough to publish Goldman’s poems, he disclaims responsibility.
His long awaited (by himself at any rate) collection The Canon of the
Lone Ranger has been published by Sybaritic Press (nominated this year
for a Pushcart Prize, for the poem "The Birth of the Lone Ranger")
after a short interlude of 35 years in preparation. His chapbook Rachmunas
has been approved for publication by Casa de Poesia Press.
Goldman teaches fencing, the sport based on sword fighting, not the
art of receiving stolen goods. Inasmuch as Goldman is also the king, he
has recently awarded himself an MFA. Following Octavio Paz, who said “Poetry
is important, the poet is not.” – Goldman abominates the Yupoet phenomenon.
(PoeticDiversity.org)
elkingo.steve@gmail.com
Victoria
Chang Victoria Chang's first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard
Review Award Series in Poetry, published by Southern Illinois University
Press (Click here to purchase) and was a Finalist for the 2005 ForeWord
Magazine Book of the Year Award and a Finalist for the 2005 PEN Center
USA Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in journals
such as The Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, Threepenny
Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Pleiades, Ploughshares,
Triquarterly, and Best American Poetry 2005. She is the editor of an anthology
titled: Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, published by The University
of Illinois Press (Click here to purchase). She has degrees from the University
of Michigan, Harvard, and Stanford. She received a Holden Minority Scholarship
from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She has received a BreadLoaf
Fellowship, a Taylor Fellowship from the Kenyon Writer's Workshop, a Sewanee
Fellowship, and a Hopwood Award. She resides in Los Angeles and is attending
the Ph.D. program in Literature and Creative Writing at USC.
Jeanete Clough Jeanette Clough's collection, Cantatas, appeared in 2002 from Tebot
Bach Press. Among the journals publishing her poetry are Colorado Review,
Denver Quarterly, Nimrod, Ohio Review, Atlanta Review, Pool, Runes, and
Poetrybay.com. She is an assistant editor for Solo: A Journal of Poetry,
and also curates and co-hosts the monthly Poem.X series in Santa Monica.
She has been a featured poet at many California festivals and venues, including
the Long Beach, San Luis Obispo, and San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festivals;
Barnsdall Art Park, Pasadena Central Library, and Beyond Baroque Literary
Arts Center. Clough was born in Paterson, New Jersey. She received a Masters
degree from the University of Chicago and currently works for the Getty
Research Institute in Los Angeles. Of her work, Victor D. Infante says,
"Her writing is delicate, almost brittle, yet it burns with a power that
can only be achieved by one who is speaking the truth." (OC Weekly, March
20-26, 1998, p66). In his introduction to Cantatas, David St. John states,
"This is a songbook that maps our hopes and dreams, our accomplishments
and out defeats. It is a collection of maturity, beauty, and lasting power."
(MoonDay)
Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman was born in 1946 and is the author of Bathwater Wine
(Black Sparrow Press, 1998), winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry
Prize. A former medical secretary, magazine editor, journalist and scriptwriter,
Coleman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Guggenheim Foundation for her poetry. Her other books of poetry
include Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors (1996); Hand Dance
(1993); African Sleeping Sickness (1990); A War of Eyes & Other Stories
(1988); Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems & Stories 1968-1986 (1988); Imagoes
(1983); and Mercurochrome: New Poems (2001). She has also written Mambo
Hips & Make Believe: A Novel, published by Black Sparrow Press in 1999.
(Poets.org)
Brendan Constantine Brendan Constantine’s collection Hyenas 57 was a finalist for the National
Poetry Series. His work has appeared in ArtLife, The Cider Press Review,
and Abalone Moon, among other journals. He teaches poetry at The Windward
School in Los Angeles. (Ploughshares.com)
Kamau
Daaood A pioneer of the spoken word movement, Daaood has been
a powerful artistic and social force, an inspired seer/seeker. Whether
collaborating with renowned musicians, heading up a performance group or
inspiring and nurturing new talent, he speaks to and from the urgency of
his time.
Kamau Daaood, performance poet and community arts activist, is the artistic
director of Los Angeles' World Stage Performance Gallery, which he co-founded
with master drummer Billy Higgins. His work can be heard on his award-winning
CD "Leimert Park." Language of Saxophones is Kamau lastest Poetry Book
offering.
Catherine
Daly Catherine Daly lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Ron Burch. Her
second book of poetry, Locket, will be published by Tupelo Press (http://tupelopress.org)
in 2005. Her first book, DaDaDa, was published by Salt (http://www.saltpublishing.com)
in 2003. Both books include a great deal of love poetry. (Poetic
Diversity)
Jennifer
Kwon Dobbs Jennifer Kwon Dobbs was born in Won Ju, South Korea and holds degrees
from Oklahoma State University and the
University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry has appeared in 5AM, Crazyhorse,
Cimarron Review, Cream City Review, Poetry NZ,
Tulane Review, and Echoes upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings
(Temple UP 2003) and has been featured on
Prosody WYEP 91.3 Pittsburgh. She has poems forthcoming in Mi Po and
Contemporary Voices from the Eastern World
(W.W. Norton 2007). "Among Joshua Trees," her music collaboration with
the composer, Steven Gates, debuted in
Carnegie Hall as a selection of the New York Youth Symphony's "First
Music" program. She is also a recipient of the
Edward G. Moses Prize in Poetry, runner up for “Emerging Writers” from
Rivendell Magazine, and finalist for the New
Issues Press Prize in Poetry. Currently, she is Edwin Mem fellow and
a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. in Literature and
Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California where
she co-founded the SummerTIME writing
curriculum, a bridge program for Los Angeles inner-city high school
graduates accepted to college.
Suzanne
Lummis In Danger, her most recent collection, was selected for the
California Poetry Series, Roundhouse Press/Heyday Books.She is the present
and founding Director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival (LAPF), which
now produces a festival every second year, and literary coordinator of
the Arroyo Arts Collective project “Poetry in the Windows” in Highland
Park, CA. She was principal editor of Grand Passion: The Poetry of
Los Angeles and Beyond – a publication of the LAPF organization.
In the summer of 2002 she wrote the lyrics for a children's musical
production of Twelfth Night produced in Beverly Hills and La Jolla by the
ETC Theater Company. Her own two plays, October 22, 4004 B.C.,
Saturday and Night Owls, were produced in Washington State and Houston,
Texas, as well at The Cast Theater, Los Angeles. The late Drama-Logue honored
the Los Angeles productions with Playwriting awards in 1987 and 1989.
Suzanne Lummis has led the beginning through master class workshops
in poetry at the UCLA Extension since 1991. She received their Outstanding
Teacher Award in 1996. She studied with Philip Levine at Fresno State University,
where she completed her M.A. in English/Creative Writing.
Jawanza
Dumisani Jawanza Dumisani is Director of the Anansi Poetry Workshop at the World
Stage. His first chapbook, Stoetry, was an editor’s choice on FoxStarFire
Press, and Beyond Baroque selected him as an emerging voice in the 2003
LA Poetry Festival. A Detroit native, Dumisani is working on his first
novel, Nails, Flowers, Blood, and Stone, a tale of Motown in the 1960s.
(Library Foundation
of Los Angeles)
Lynne
Thompson Lynne Thompson was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, by parents
born in the Windward Islands, West Indies. She received her B.A. from Scripps
College and a J.D from Southwestern University of Law. Lynne Thompson is
a recovering attorney who now works in human resources for the University
of California, Los Angeles as the Director of Employee and Labor Relations.
An active member of the Los Angeles literary scene and a Pushcart
Prize nominee her work has been published in Rattle, Louisiana Literature
and The Yalobusha Review and is forthcoming in Runes and The Indiana Review.
Ms. Thompson's latest book is entitled BEG NO PARDON published by
Perugia Press (www.perugiapress.com
or info@perugiapress.com).
Jerry
Danielsen Jerry Danielsen, the owner/operator of Busy Signal Studios, earned
degrees from both California Institute of the Arts and Sound Master Audio/Video
Institute. The most recent performances of his contemporary chamber music
were featured at concert halls in the U.S., Europe, and India. He is the
proud author of two poetry chapbooks "What?" and "Spiritual Ennui"
FrancEyE francEyE, often referred to as “the female Charles Bukowski,” was born
Frances Elizabeth Dean in San Rafael, California, on St. Joseph's Day,
1922, but grew up on the East Coast where she began to publish in the 1930s
in school newspapers and Scholastic. In 1963, she returned to California,
where she has been writing, reading, attending poetry workshops and open
mics and publishing here and there ever since. A winner of the Allen
J. Freedman Poetry Prize, francEyE is the author of the 1996 poetry collection,
Snaggletooth, and the 2004 chapbook, Amber Spider.
FrancEyE has read all over Southern California and reads frequently
in the bay area where she comes to visit her daughter and grandson.
Nika
Hoffman A fifteen-year veteran of teaching creative writing, film studies,
and English in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, Nika Hoffman has also worked
in film research, documentary film, published dozens of critical essays,
and won national writing awards for her short fiction. A Columbia MFA graduate,
Hoffman has two poems in the 2004 issue of Onthebus and two literary reviews
in Magill's Literary Annual. (PoeticDiverity.org)
nhoffman@xrds.org
Dr. Thea
Iberall Thea Iberall is a scientist, playwright, and published poet. She is
also a videographer and magician. She says “writing a poem is a challenge
to tell a big story through a little window.” And challenges, Thea definitely
likes. She tells stories by finding the essence. She layers them through
their dimensions.
As a scientist, Thea worked at the University of Southern California
doing research in computational neuroscience and human hand function. How
can robot hands be made as dextrous as the human hand? How can prosthetic
hands be improved to make them functionally equivalent to the real thing?
She wrote three textbooks on these topics, and has been invited world-wide
to present papers on how the brain controls the hand.
As a poet, Thea has had poetry and short fiction published in
Rattle, Spillway, Common Lives, Peregrine XVI, ONTHE BUS, and Next... Magazine.
She was a semifinalist in the Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition.
Thea has given numerous poetry and fiction readings in Southern California
and New England. Her chapbook, Be Ye Love (Inevitable Press) is part of
the Laguna Poets series. She represented Los Angeles at the 1998 National
Poetry Slam Competition in Austin, Texas, where the team came in third
place out of 45 cities.
As a playwright, Thea's one-act play "When I Was Called Tony"
was produced November 2002 at the OUT Theatre in Long Beach, California.
Joining forces with her 90-year old mother, her new one-act play "Primed
for Love" had a staged reading in September 2003. She has written six other
plays including ‘Amacry! The Neuronic Musical’ which had a workshop production
at The OUT Theatre in April 2004.
As a videographer, Thea's short documentary Feminist Building
Project (1999) has screened at film festivals in New York, Seattle, San
Francisco, and Los Angeles. (Thea
Iberall's Website)
Chungmi
Kim Poet/playwright Chungmi Kim is the author of Chungmi—Selected Poems
and Glacier Lily. Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies, journals
and newspapers including Making Waves, Between Ourselves, Grand Passion,
Surfacing Sadness, Amerasia Journal, KoreAm Journal, Poetry Seattle, on
the spoken word CD, “The Verdict and the Violence,” and in a book, Selected
Poems by Three Korean-American Poets. She was one of the poets chosen for
the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry In Motion LA ’98-’99. She
has given numerous readings and performances of her work, including at
San Francisco Poetry Festival, KPFK Radio, KCET-TV, Beyond Baroque, Los
Angeles Poetry Festival and Library of Congress.
For television, her credits include writing and producing “The Koreans
In L.A.” and “Poets In Profile” for KCET-TV. As Co-Producer of “Korea:
The New Power in the Pacific,” one-hour documentary for KCBS-TV, she received
a Certificate of Merit from the Associated Press and an Emmy nomination.
Awards she has received include the first place Open Door Writing Award
for her screenplay, “The Dandelion,” from the Writers Guild Foundation,
West and Grand Prize for her play, “The Comfort Women,” at the 1995 USC
One-Act Play Festival. In 1999, her full-length play, “Hanako,” had
a world premiere at East West Players in Los Angeles. “Comfort Women”
(formerly Hanako) was produced by Urban Stages in New York in October,
2004. It is included in an anthology, “New Playwrights: The Best
Plays of 2005”, published by Smith and Kraus in May, 2006.
Website: http://www.chungmi.com/
E-mail: mail@chungmi.com
Marie
Lecrivain Marie Lecrivain is the executive editor of poeticdiversity: the litzine
of Los Angeles. She's a 2nd-level denizen of Dante's Inferno, and is a
writer in residence at her apartment.
Her prose and poetry have appeared in AE Magazine, Earth's Daughters,
Subtle Tea, Triplopia, and in the upcoming anthology Literary Angles: the
second year of poeticdiversity (Sybaritic Press 2005). She is the author
of two poetry collections: Canticle of a Bored Hausfrau (Sybaritic Press
2003), and poetry whored, an e-chapbook (Tamafyhr Mountain Press 2004).
Marie's avocations include photography, Sean Bean, felines, expensive
handbags, and sensual tributes upon her neck from male artists-except male
poets, who only write about it.
"Writing is like having sex with a beautiful freak, adventurous and
uncomfortable to the extreme."
Shahe
Mankerian Shahe Mankerian calls Pasadena home. He received his graduate degree
in English from California State University, Los Angeles, and wrote a book
of poetry entitled Children of Honey. Recently, his work was featured in
Birthmark, an anthology of Armenian-American poets. Shahe Mankerian ‘04
is now the principal at St. Gregory’s Hovesepian School in Pasadena.
dg: What
are your thoughts about being one of the 31 poets who appeared in the GV6
The Odyssey: Poets, Passion and Poetry documentary? In what way do you
think this documentary will help non-poets understand poetry?
sh:
It was a great honor to be in the GV6
the Odyssey. There were so many incredible
poets in the bunch. Bob Bryan, the director, believed that poetry provides
remedy to the soul. He created this documentary to educate the young. I
hope educators in our mundane world of “No Child Left Behind”
push forward the importance of reading, writing, and reciting poetry.
I don’t know if non-poets will understand poetry after seeing this documentary,
but I definitely know children will get it. While watching the documentary,
it would be interesting if a classroom full of students ask the teacher
to turn off the poetic babble so that they can actually write poetry.
Johnny
Masuda
Bad Johnny's Dirty Perspectives is for those that can't stand the flowers
shoved up their noses. Johnnys' first Book "For All My Dead Babies" is
not for the faint of heart or for those looking for something nice to read
to their significant other.
With a BA and MA in Sociology (Phd Candidate) Masuda has the eye of
a sociologist and the heart of a missionary and the cynicism of a drug
dealer and the compassion of a father. He is a major new voice in American
poetry and the subject of an upcoming documentary film for Bob Bryan's
"Graffiti Verite" series. Reading this collection is the literary equivalent
of riding a rollercoaster through the LA riots. With surprising tenderness
and empathy, Masuda's work examines poverty, prejudice, addiction and the
search for meaning and self. (by
Buddah Moskowitz - www.lulu.com)
Jim
Natal Chicago native Jim Natal came to Los Angeles via Santa Fe. His poetry
recently has appeared or is forthcoming in Spillway, Rattle, Saturday Afternoon
Journal, Squaw Valley Review, Blue Satellite, 51%, 1998 California Poetry
Calendar, and the anthologies Roadside Distractions and Beyond the Valley
of The Contemporary Poets 1997. Natal's first chapbook, Explaining Water
With Water, was published in May 1997, by Inevitable Press as part of the
Laguna Poets Series. Natal, with Central Coast poet Carla Martinez, was
the winner of the 1997 Walt Whitman Call and Response Poetry Contest. He
is a co-host of the HyperPoets weekly reading series at the Rose Cafe in
Venice, CA.
Jim Natal worked for 25 years as a creative executive for the NFL, editing
trade books, writing features and copy for NFL publications, and working
with the league's corporate sponsors on national marketing programs.
Also a highly-regarded poet, Natal's first full-length collection, In the
Bee Trees was a finalist for the 2000 Pen Center Award in poetry. A second
collection, Talking Back to the Rocks, was published by Archer Books in
2003. His poetry recently has been published, is forthcoming, or has been
reviewed in Runes, Pool, Reed, The Paterson Literary Review, Poetry International,
and The Los Angeles Review. His work also appears in the new anthologies
Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies, Open Windows, Blue Arc,
and Ghost of a Chance, and recently was selected as a winner of the postcard
poetry contest sponsored by Writers at Work and the City of Los Angeles.
Natal curates and co-hosts the long-running Poem.X monthly poetry series
in Santa Monica. With his wife, graphic designer and book artist Tania
Baban, he founded ConfluX Press in 2004, specializing in handmade books
and custom editions. He currently is completing his MFA in Creative Writing
Degree at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Aleida
Rodriguez Aleida Rodríguez was born on a kitchen table in Güines,
Havana. Her poetry and prose have been published in many literary magazines,
textbooks, and anthologies nationwide, including In Short: A Collection
of Brief Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 1996), The Spoon River Poetry
Review (whose Editors’ Prize she won in 1996), Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner,
and The Kenyon Review. She has been a recipient of fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Brody
Arts Fund. She lives in Los Angeles. (Sarabandebooks.org)
Keren
Taylor Keren Taylor is a songwriter, vocalist, poet, visual artist and the
founder of WriteGirl.
Passionate about inspiring others to cultivate their creative ideas,
Keren has conducted more than 150 songwriting, poetry and “Art & Words”
workshops in New York and Los Angeles for both children and adults. In
launching a new nonprofit organization, she has found the perfect vehicle
for more than ten years of experience in arts education, media and public
relations, sales, marketing, event planning and freelance writing and editing.
Keren has performed her original music across the country in concert
halls, theatres, clubs and festivals with her acapella vocal group, The
Trembles, and as a solo artist. She has opened for such acts as Blood,
Sweat & Tears, Marvin Hamlisch, Dana Carvey, Frank Sinatra Jr. and
Gladys Knight. She spent a year in Las Vegas as one of the featured performers
in “Madhattan” a musical production of New York street musicians at the
New York New York Hotel & Casino.
Her poetry appears in The San Gabriel Valley Poetry Review, Wavelength
and So Luminous the Wildflowers - An Anthology of California Poetry from
Tebot Bach Press.
Her art has been exhibited at the Barnsdall Art Center, Rock Rose Gallery,
Gallery 727 and is in personal collections.
Keren holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the
University of British Columbia, a Piano Performance Degree from the Royal
Conservatory of Music, Toronto and a Diploma from the American Music and
Dramatic Academy, New York City.
email: keren@writegirl.org
Jennifer
Tseng Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California. She received
her MA in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los
Angeles, her MFA from the University of Houston and she was twice a fellow
at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In addition to having taught
Asian American Studies and Creative Writing at UCLA and Hampshire College
respectively, she has taught Poetic Forms for Khmer Girls in Action in
Long Beach and Poetry in Translation for the A Room of Her Own Foundation
in New Mexico. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Barrow Street, Glimmer
Train Stories, Indiana Review, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She lives in
California and Massachusetts. (Photo by Maceo Senna) Poetry
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Richard
Weekley Richard Weekley was born in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1945. Cofounder/coeditor
of Volume Number Magazine from 1983-2000, he won the Teacher of the Year
Award for his work in the William S. Hart Union High School District in
Los Angeles County in 1999. His poetry has been published by The Literary
Review, The MacGuffin, The Midwest Quarterly, Poetry LA, Queen's Quarterly,
Wisconsin Review, West Coast Review, Bitterroot, CQ, Crosscurrents and
Pudding, among others. He is listed in A Directory of American Poets and
Writers compiled by Poets & Writers, Inc., and the winner of various
prizes including Black Bear Publication's International Chapbook Competition.
He has performed as a visiting artist at Mount Saint Mary's College and
California Institute of the Arts, as well as for many coffee houses and
literary groups like the Laguna Poets and the Iguana Café. Although
published internationally, Richard continues to counsel: his cat Antonio
not to kill birds; his dog Bubbha not to bark at unseen skateboarders;
and himself not to make shopping lists for insect spray and toilet paper
during zazen. Richard teaches Creative Writing at Bowman High School, and
resides with his family in Santa Clarita, California. (Book
That Poet)
Askew "I'm a performance poet recently re-located from Milwaukee, WI. I've
been in many musical projects resulting in radio airplay, etc. (Guido's
Racecar, F/i, Nancy, The Disciples of Confusion, Crap, Osiris Pickup Truck,
and others). I've been featured in several small press publications including
Hodge Podge Poetry, The Poets Monday Grab Bag, poesia, the TMP Irregular,
the Everything About You is Beautiful, etc.
As for education, let's just say too many credits and not enough degrees.
For me, it's easier to hide behind several different pseudonyms--not out
of fear, but because of the slightly different types of expression they
engender. I've travelled most of the western U.S. and Europe (sometimes
even living off the proceeds of performing poetry). In short, I'm an arrogant
asshole with a lot of friends and more talent than I deserve."
Rod
Bradley Rod Bradley is a poet, novelist ( TV Man, Gun Play) and filmmaker (PAINTING
THE WILD, boy & dog) living in South Central Los Angeles.
He was born in Wisconsin, grew up in various small towns in the Kansas,
Nebraska, Wyoming, California, came of age in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon
and has now spent the second part of his life in that city of exiles affectionately
known both by its initials, and its sweetly ironic moniker, City of Angels.
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The GRAFFITI VERITE' Volumes 1
- 6 DOCUMENTARY
Series (including GV6
THE ODYSSEY)
Marcielle
Brandler
Luis
Campos
Jawanza
Dumisani
Lynne
Thompson
Jerry
Danielsen
FrancEyE
Nika
Hoffman
Johnny
Masuda
Askew
Rod
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