Doug Draime has been a presence in the underground
literature and small press movement since the formative 1960's,
when he was part of the notorious Los Angeles poetry scene. Most
recent books are: "Bones" (Kendra Steiner Editions),
"Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980" (Covert Press),
and forthcoming from Tainted Coffee Press, "Dancing On The
Skids".
His diverse body of work, which includes poetry,
short stories and plays continue to appear in publications worldwide.
Awarded PEN International grants in 1987 and 1991. He currently
lives in Oregon.
Julie Ann Shapiro is a freelance writer, novelist
and short story author. Her novel Jen-Zen and the One Shoe
Diaries is published by Synergebooks.com. Published Short
Stories/Essays have appeared in many magazines and journals, including
the San Diego Union Tribune, North County Times, Los Angeles Journal,
Pindeldyboz, Sacred Waters/Fire: (Adams Media 2005), Story South,
Word Riot, and Opium Magazine.
Cindy is a New York textbook editor by day, a
hardboiled Jersey female by night. Her fiction has appeared in
Black Petals, The Beat, The Cynic, Red Fez, Zygote in My Coffee,
Hardboiled, NVF, Devil Blossoms, & 13th Warrior Review. She
has three collections of stories out: Angel of Manslaughter, Gutter
Balls, and Calpurnia’s Window. She is the editor of the
e-zine, Yellow
Mama. She is also a thrill seeker, a Gemini, and a Christian.
Taylor Gorman is a Creative Writing
student at Louisiana State University and lives in, well... Louisiana.
Jobless, he is lazy yet overly ambitious. Why has McSweeney's
not called him back about that story he never sent? His next story
will probably involve zombies, David Bowie, magic-pancakes, and
will consist entirely from the dialogue in "Hamlet."
Look out, Pulitzer-committee. Also, he wishes to high-five Bob
Dylan.
George Anderson grew up in Montreal and now lives
in North Wollongong, Australia. He has published in about 100
magazines over the last six years. In 2008 you will find more
of his work on Ken*Again, Cause & Effect, Sein und Werden,
Gloom Cupboard and several others. Erbacce-press in July 2008
published a chapbook of his poems ‘Dancing
On Thin Ice’.
Daniel S. Irwin. Artist/writer/heathen dog. Abandoned
in the wilderness by gypsies and raised in a capitalist commune.
Speaks gibberish in four languages...all unintelligible. Author
of six books frequently burned by religious fanatics of all faiths.
Work published in journals, magazines, e-zines, and shit house
walls world wide...which means little as each piece must stand
on its own.
David McLean is Welsh though he has lived in Sweden
since 1987. He has a couple of chapbooks out, one a free download
at Whyvandalism.com. The other, in print, can be ordered at Erbacce
Press. He has a full length poetry collection available at
Whistling Shade Press called Cadaver's dance. It can be ordered
on alibris.com or on amazon.com.
A second book of 128 pp is coming from Erbacce-press in August,
"pushing lemmings." There is a self-published book of
109 pages at Lulu called "eating
your night". There are 600 poems now in, or forthcoming,
in round 250 magazines online and/or in print. Details are at
his blog.
Craig Sernotti is not dead but dreaming. Poems
by him have recently appeared in Instant Pussy, Dogzplot, Eviscerator
Heaven, Sisters of the Page, and Journal of Heroin Love Songs,
among others.
He edits The (http://welcometoyethe.blogspot.com).
Steve Ely writes kick ass poems, short stories,
novels and combinations all of the above. You can read extracts
from his epic poem JerUSAlem at www.dogmatika.com and www.laurahird.com.
Despite his obvious greatness, the literary establishment are,
like, keeping him down, man, and spiking his kool-aid with agent
orange. That's why he spends most of his time down the dump, shooting
space rats. It's a goddamn shame; he wears a tie and everything.
After almost a decade of working as a freelance photographer in
Europe, Maurice Oliver returned to America in 1990. Then, in 1995,
he made a life-long dream reality by traveling around the world
for eight months. But instead of taking pictures, he recorded
the experience in a journal which eventually became poems. His
fourth chapbook, "One Remedy Is Travel" was published
in August '07 at Origami Condom. The editor of the ezine Concelebratory
Shoehorn Review (www.concelebratory.blogspot.com) he lives in
Portland, Oregon, where he works as a private tutor.
Emme Hor, born in Kuala Lumpur,
models for local magazines although she has a degree in law. If
you compliment her on her poetry she may sign a picture of her
ass for you as a souvenir. She was once offered 10,000 dollars
to take a bukkake. She has been writing poetry since college as
an escape from the regiment of words. She writes from her haunches.
Mail her at dear.hor@gmail.com.
See more about her at http://emhor.blogspot.com.
Marty Esworthy, Megaera-award-winning poet, editor
emeritus, Steel Point Quarterly, and renowned poetry impresario,
is director of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. Recent books by
Esworthy include hard reality, Pacobooks, 2004, and Twenty-Six
Javanese Proverbs, winner of the R.E. Foundation Award for Outstanding
Poetry, Iris G. Press, 2006.
Other pubs include Haggard and Halloo, text_TOWER,
Fledgling Rag, House Taken Over, logodaedalus, Syzygy, International
Digest of World
poetry, Experimental Forest, and the Miserere Review.
Esworthy does verbo-visual and sound poetry, and
hosts a weekly verse venue. As a performance artist, his most
impressive feat was an epic project, in which our hero thought
daily-- for five years! about Ng, a
cyberspace siren (1998--2003). Didn't watch. Thought. Every day.
It was grueling, draining, arduous. He's never been the same.
