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"ants fading into Bolivia"
"ants ascend from the sea"
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"moonlight on missing 1099-MISC forms"
by Dale Wisely
C o n t r i b u t o r s
A.J. Wright lives in the Birmingham, Alabama, area. He has been publishing poetry and non-fiction since the 1960s.
Angele Ellis’s poetry appeared on a theater marquee after she won Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ 2009 G-20 Haiku Contest—which earned her a mention in the noted poetry publication The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors’ Choice Chapbook) and Arab on Radar (Six Gallery). She lives in Pittsburgh.
Bill Christophersen still remembers the quadratic formula.
Brad Rose was born and raised in southern California, and lives in Boston. He agrees with Paul Valéry, who said, “Every view of things that is not strange is false.” Except, Brad’s pretty sure it’s vice versa. Links to Brad's poetry and miniature fiction can be found at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com. His very recent and entirely free digital chapbook on RHP is Coyotes Circle the Party Store.
Deborah Rosenblum lives in New York. She has spent the last several years recovering from a terminal case of writers' block. She was published in the first issue of the now defunct Bastard Fiction, and the first issue of the now defunct Painted Moon Review. She swears it's a coincidence, not her fault.
D.W. Cunningham’s poems have appeared in POETRY, Seneca Review, and other print publications. They have appeared in online journals such as Pure Francis and Four and Twenty. He lives in Maryland.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press. He has published numerous chapbooks, including Elephant Gun from Dog on a Chain Press, The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press, and Strange Roads from Puddles of Sky Press.
Janeen Pergrin Rastall lives in Gordon, MI, population 2. Her poetry has appeared in Brevity Poetry Review and Short, Fast and Deadly and will be appearing soon in Inkscrawl and Midwestern Gothic.
Kim Suttell, after years of being woken by verse only to scribble lines down to stash in drawers, began taking writing courses. By day she is an employee of the City of New York. At night she is a secret poet. She was an English Literature major at UCLA, a teacher, and a Peace Corps volunteer.
Mark Kaplon lives and works on the Big Island of Hawaii. His poetry has recently appeared in the Aurorean, Frogpond, Shot Glass Journal, Four and Twenty, and elsewhere.
Quinn White can cook only pancakes, but they’re the best pancakes you’ll ever eat. She studies poetry at Virginia Tech and wishes the fog warning would expire. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Word Riot, Bayou Magazine, and Sixth Finch.
R L Swihart currently lives in Long Beach, CA, and teaches high school mathematics in Los Angeles. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various online and print journals, including Bateau, elimae, Rhino, Right Hand Pointing, 1110, and decomP. His first collection of poems, The Last Man, was published in 2012 by Desperanto Press.
Robert Scotellaro has published short fiction and poetry in numerous print and online journals and anthologies. He is the author of five literary chapbooks. His most recent collections are Rhapsody of Fallen Objects (Flutter Press 2010) and The Night Sings A Cappella (Big Table Publishing 2011). A full-length collection of his flash fiction, Measuring the Distance, has recently been published by Blue Light Press. He is the recipient of Zone 3's Rainmaker Award in Poetry. He is also the author of three books for children. Raised in Manhattan, he currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
Robert Walicki lives in Pittsburgh,PA.His poetry has been published in The Shot Glass Journal, Emerge Literary Journal,and Eunoia Review.
William W. Fraker has been previously published by Right Hand Pointing and has a recently released book of poetry, 'Nostalgia Resides in the Marrow.'
Worthy Evans was the winner of the 2009 South Carolina Poetry Prize for his book Green Revolver (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). He uses history, mythology, television, his personal past and everyday occurences to conjure up at times an alternate reality, or a hyper reality, that when it works looks to remind people who we are and what we are doing to ourselves, or for ourselves. He works as a communications specialist for a Medicare Contractor in Columbia,SC