CONTRIBUTORS
Issue 14, Volume II
Pocket Anthology
Dana Delibovi, Curator. Living contributors to the Anthology are as follows: Tom Phillips is an English artist. He was born in London, where he continues to work. He is a painter, printmaker and collagist. His book of found poetry, A Humument, now in its fourth edition, is part of the Prints and Drawings collection of the Tate Gallery, London. His work can be viewed at https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tom-phillips-1764. José Angel Araguz’s most recent collection is An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press). His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner and Oxidant|Engine among other places. He blogs at The Friday Influence, José is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander and is also a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. Twitter: @JoseAraguz https://twitter.com/josearaguz; Instagram: @poetryamano https://www.instagram.com/poetryamano/; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jose.araguz https://thefridayinfluence.com Stephanie Johnson has spent most of her adult life overseas teaching English literature, ESL and Spanish. Her writing usually focuses on the slightly uncomfortable space of the expatriation/ repatriation experience. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Witty Partition, Sink Hollow, Forum Literary Magazine, and others. She is an Associate Editor at www.novelslices.com/Novel Slices, a new literary magazine based solely on novel excerpts, and she is currently based in Sydney, Australia. Find her on Instagram at @stephaniejohnsonpoetry and Twitter at @stephan64833622. Mary Ruefle is the author of several poetry collections, including Dunce (2019) and My Private Property (2016). Her Selected Poems (2010) was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. As an erasure artist, Ruefle has exhibited her treatments of nineteenth century texts in museums and galleries and has published them in A Little White Shadow. Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including Guggenheim and NEA fellowship. Her work is available at https://wavepoetry.com/. John Carroll is a creator that dabbles in writing, painting, and homesteading. He currently resides with his girlfriend, two dogs, and seven chickens in the southern United States, where he builds folk art road signs that convey forgotten spiritual truths. Carroll is the author of Make Blackout Poetry, a workbook for blackout poets, and Hidden Messages of Hope, a collection of blackout poems and essays. From 2013 to 2019, he curated blackout poetry from Instagram users, @makeblackoutpoetry. Poetry Carmen Firan has published twenty eight books including poetry, novels, essays and short stories in her native Romania and in the USA. Since 2000 she has been living in New York. Among her books published in the United States are Changing Your Sign, Changing your Destiny. An Immigrant’s Horoscope (New Meridian Arts), Interviews and Encounters (Poems and Dialogue with Nina Cassian, Sheep Meadow Press), Inferno (SD Press), Rock and Dew (Sheep Meadow Press), Words and Flesh, (Talisman Publishers, 2008), The Second Life (short stories, Columbia University Press, 2005), The Farce (novel, Spuyten Duyvil, 2003), In the Most Beautiful Life (Umbrage Editions, 2002), and other collections of poetry: Afternoon With An Angel, The First Moment After Death, and Accomplished Error. She co-edited Born in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry (Talisman), and the anthology Stranger at Home. Contemporary American Poetry with an Accent (Numina Press, Los Angeles). Her work appears in translation in magazines, anthologies, and books in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, etc. Firan is a member of the Pen American Center and the Poetry Society of America. www.carmenfiran.com Teddy Norris is a retired Professor of English who lives in St. Charles, Missouri. Her writing has won recognition in contests and appeared in various journals, including Broad River Review, Country Dog Review, Flying South, Kakalak, Little Patuxent Review, and Switchgrass Review. Her chapbook Pillars of Salt was published by Finishing Line Press. More of her work is available at https://teddynorris.com/. Time Machine Bill Hayward is an award-winning director, filmmaker, photographer, choreographer and writer. His American Memory Project has been on the road since 1948. Still images from the Project appear in his books: Bad Behavior, Rizzoli International, 2000 and Chasing Dragons, Glitterati 2015. Project film imagery is collected at billhayward.com. His feature-length Asphalt, Muscle & Bone and short films have received numerous awards at international film festivals. Ekphrasis Teddy Jefferson is the author of One Inch Leather: 14 Stories, Rorschach Tempest (sedizioni books), and numerous stories, essays, and plays, including The Wedding, The Desk, The Trial of the Little Match Girl and The Insomniac. His second book of stories, Deinvention of the Wheel, will be published in late 2021. Portfolio Basil King, born in London, England before World War II, has been painting for over seven decades and writing since 1985. He does both in Brooklyn where he has lived since 1969. For information including publishers and selected images, visit www.basilking-marthaking.com Remarkable Reads Edward Foster is a widely published critic, essayist and poet. He is the founding editor of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Talisman House, Publishers, now Jensen/Daniels, Publishers. He was for many years a professor of history and the associate dean for administration in the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology, a visiting professor at Drew University Graduate Faculty and at Beykent University (Istanbul), and a Fulbright lecturer at Haceteppe University in Ankara, Turkey and at the University of Istanbul. Foster has written or edited over a dozen books, and his poetry has been translated into, and published in, many languages, including single-author volumes in Slovenian, Romanian, and Russian. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work today. Born in Lumuru, Kenya, in 1938, he is the author of A Grain of Wheat, Weep Not, Child; and Petals of Blood, as well as Birth of a Dream Weaver, and Minutes of Glory. His most important non-fictional work, in this writer's opinion (as others') is Decolonizing the Mind. For some years, he has written in his mother tongue, Gikuyu, and generally does hisown translations into English. His first novel in Gikuyu, Devil on the Cross, was written w hile he was imprisoned by the late Kenyan dictator, Daniel arap Moi. (Ngugi was freed with the combined efforts of PEN and AMnesty International.) The satirical competition portrayed in Devil on the Cross is sadly reminiscent of our own polital dilemmas in the so-called "developed" world. Ngugi is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative LIterature and the Founding Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at University of California, Irvine. He is recipient of 13 honorary doctorates and a UCI medal, among manhy other awards. Editors Bronwyn Mills holds an MFA from UMass, Amherst, and a Ph.D. from NYU where she was an Anais Nin Fellow. Later a Fulbright Fellow (La République du Bénin, West Africa) she travels widely, and has lived in New York City, Istanbul, Turkey; Latin America; and Paris, France. For many years a dance and theatre writer for regional arts publications in New England, she is also a Senior Prose Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Books include Night of the Luna Moths (poetry,) Beastly's Tale (a fabulist novel). She has just completed By the Spoonmaker's Tomb, vignettes from her time living in Istanbul and has just completed Canary Club, a novel set in medieval Spain. Her work has appeared in IKON, Frigate,Talisman: a Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Tupelo Quarterly, and most recently in Agni Online. She guest-edited the Turkish issue of Absinthe; New European Writing (#19.) Bronwyn has taught at Stevens Institute of Technology; Kadir Has University in Istanbul; and Abomey-Calavi in Bénin. From time to time she publishes work on African vodou. Bronwyn lives and writes in a tiny mountain village far, far away. Read more at https://bronwynmills.org/ Eric Darton’s books include Free City, a novel, first published in 1996 by WW. Norton and recently re-released by Dalkey Archive Press, and the New York Times bestseller Divided We Stand: A Biography of The World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011). Other of his writings may be found at bookoftheworldcourant.net, ericdarton.net and tupeloquarterly.com. He co-wrote, co-produced, and appears in the award-winning feature Asphalt, Muscle & Bone, directed by Bill Hayward. Darton teaches literature, writing, urban design and Ba Gua Zhang, a Chinese internal martial art. He leads Writing at the Crossroads, an interdisciplinary prose workshop. Hardy Griffin has a Ph.D. from Boğaziçi University, and has published writing in Fresh.ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury). His translations can be found in Words Without Borders, The Istanbul Biennial, and for the award-winning EU-sponsored study Armenians, which documents the lives of Armenians living in contemporary Turkey. A selection of his work can be found here. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Novel Slices, dedicated solely to the publication of novel excerpts of all genres. Consulting Editors Dana Delibovi, our Consulting Poetry Editor, is a poet, essayist, and translator from Missouri (USA). Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in After the Art, Arkansan Review, Bluestem, The Confluence, Linden Avenue, Noon, Witty Partition, and Zingara Poetry Review. She has published translations in Apple Valley Review, Ezra Translations, and Witty Partition. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee in nonfiction. To learn more, visit danadelibovi.weebly.com/ Jan Schmidt, our Consulting Prose Editor, has had fiction published in The Wall, Tupelo Quarterly, The Long Story and New York Stories. In Downtown she published a series of oral history interviews with hard-core, risky individuals and their brushes with salvation. With J.D. Rage, she co-edited Venom Press and its quarterly poetry and fiction magazine, Curare, for eight years. Her short story collection Collateral Regeneration was a finalist for the Eludia Award from Hidden River Arts, 2019. Some of her published writing can be seen on her website janschmidt-writer.com Contributing Editor-at-Large Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, whose memoir we continue to serialize, is the author of more than a dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles, e.e. cummings, and a group portrait of American writers in Paris 1944-1960, The Continual Pilgrimage. He has translated the Salvador Dalí's "San Sebastien" essay, work by Eduard Roditti, andbooks by Paul Eluard, Rafael Alberti, Panaït Istrati, García Lorca as well as the Mayan Books of Chilam Balam. Most recent publications:Dix méditations sur quelques mots d’Antonin Artaud, translated by Patricia Pruitt (Paris: Alyscamps, 2018) Remission (Talisman House, 2016) and Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany (Talisman House, 2014) Until retiring he taught writing at MIT for over a quarter-century. He lives in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Many of his books are on Amazon and Bookshop.org. |