JON
CONE is a Canadian who lives in Iowa City with his wife and
two children. His poems can be found in glossy journals and fugitive
zines above and below the border and beyond. Recently he was featured
in 1913: A Journal of Forms. For nine years he edited the
international literary review World Letter. His Sitting
Getting Up Sitting Again has been issued by Standing Guard in
a Cornfield Press. |
CLAUDIA
GRINNELL was born and raised in Germany. She now lives in Louisiana,
where she teaches at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Her first
book of poems, Conditions Horizontal, was published by Missing
Consonant Press in 2001. Among her honors are the Southern Women Writers
Emerging Poets Award and a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship
(2005). She is an editor for turnrow. |
KLIPSCHUTZ
(aka Kurt Lipschutz) lives in San Francisco. His collections are
Twilight
of the Male Ego (Tsunami Inc., 2002), The
Good Neighbor Policy (End of the Century Press, 1989) and
The Erection of Scaffolding for the Re-Painting of Heaven by
the Lowest Bidder (privately printed, 1985). The editor of this
volume, he picked three worthies far-flung and diverse—of whose
talent he is jealous—then, in a nod to Dick Cheney, recommended
himself.
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ALBERT
SGAMBATI is a native of New York City currently based in Mexico
City where he freelances as a writer and film consultant. During the
90s he was a beat reporter for Mexico City’s English language national
daily, The News. Work in various genres has appeared here,
there, and in Anthology of American Poets 1980’s (Big Scream,
1989). His novel, The
Waiting Room, is out from Miami University Press (2006). |