MARCH 2007

Christopher Stackhouse's books are: Slip (Corollary Press, 2005), a collection of poems; Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), a book featuring his drawings with text by writer/professor John Keene. He is a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, and a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for The Arts. A poetry editor at FENCE Magazine, he lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Adam Fieled is a poet, musician, and critic. His chapbook "Posit" is forthcoming from Dusie Press. He has released four albums, including two spoken word collections, "Raw Rainy Fog" (Radio Eris Records, 2002) and "Virtual Pinball/Madame Psychosis" (WSG Productions, 2006), and edits the blog-journal P.F.S. Post and the blog Stoning the Devil. He has work in Jacket, Rain Taxi, Blazexox, Dusie, Eratio, Nth Position, Cordite, Otoliths, Mipoesias, Cake Train, Words Dance, Word For/Word and Many Mountains Moving. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also holds an MFA in poetry from New England College and is a PhD candidate at Temple University in Philly.

Matthew Henriksen co-edits Typo and Cannibal and curates The Burning Chair Readings in Brooklyn. Recent poems appear in Absent, Agricultural Reader, and Wildlife. His chapbook, Is Holy, has recently emerged from horse less press.

JANUARY 26, 2007

Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn and is co-editor of SOFT TARGETS. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Absent, Cannibal, H_NGM_N, Effing, Dreams That Money Can Buy, and elsewhere. Videos and movie criticism are available on his website, www.sinlechuga.com.



PF POTVIN is the author of The Attention Lesson (No Tell Books). His work has appeared in MiPOesias, Sleepingfish, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Sentence, No Tell Motel, and elsewhere. He has taught at various language schools and colleges in the U.S. and Chile. He serves on the staff of Drunken Boat, runs ultramarathons, and currently resides in Miami, FL.

Erica Miriam Fabri is a poet and educator. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her MFA in poetry from the New School. She is the author of High Heel Magazine, winner of the 2006 Belle Letter Press chapbook contest. She has work published or forthcoming in Good Foot Magazine and Got Poetry? An Offline Anthology. She currently teaches creative writing at The School of Visual Arts, Baruch College and Lehman College. www.ericafabri.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Jennifer L. Knox was born and raised in Lancaster, California, where absolutely anything can be made into a bong. Her work is featured in Best American Poetry 2006, and her book of poems, A Gringo Like Me, is available from Softskull Press.

SINA QUEYRAS'most recent collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, was published by Coach House Books in 2006. Last year she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets. She is contributing editor to Drunken Boat and co-curator of Belladonna reading series. This year she is visiting professor at Haverford College. Next year she is writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary. She wears a cape whenever possible and keeps a blog: lemonhound.blogspot.com.

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JULY 2007

Richard Peabody, a prolific poet, fiction writer and editor, is an experienced teacher and important activist in the Washington , D.C. community of letters. He is the founder and co-editor of Gargoyle magazine and editor (or co-editor) of fourteen anthologies including Mondo Barbie, Mondo Elvis, Conversations with Gore Vidal, A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, Alice Redux, Sex & Chocolate, Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women and Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women. He is the author of the novella Sugar Mountain, two short story collections, and six poetry collections. He is currently working on Electric Grace: Still More Fiction by Washington Area Women (forthcoming 2007). Peabody teaches at The Writer's Center and at Johns Hopkins University, where he has been presented the Faculty Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement. He lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area. You can find out more at: www.wikipedia.org and www.gargoylemagazine.com.

Nicole Steinberg is the Co-Editor of LIT and Associate Editor of BOMB Magazine. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, McSweeney's Internet Tendency,The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—Second Floor, PMS,Lumina, and Half Drunk Muse, and she writes for music webzine Axis of Live. She's the founder, curator and host of EARSHOT, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to the work and presence of emerging writers in the New York City area. She lives in Queens, New York.


Cate Peebles was born in Pittsburgh and currently lives in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of Reed College and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the New School. She works as an editorial assistant on an oral biography of George Plimpton that will be published by Random House in 2008.

JUNE 29, 2007

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005) as well as several chapbooks. After working at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, WI for many years she moved to New York to be the Program Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. This year she is also the Monday Night Reading curator. She edited Gam: A Survey of Great Lakes Writing which lived for 4 issues, and now works as co-editor or contributing editor on various projects including Instance Press and Fascicle. Her current work in process is called "hyper glossia," parts of which can be found on the internet, in a Belladonna* chap book and forthcoming from Hot Whiskey Press.

ETHAN PAQUIN is author of My Thieves (Salt, 2007), The Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2005), Accumulus (Salt, 2003) and The Makeshift (UK: Stride, 2002). He lives and teaches in Buffalo, NY, and returns to seacoast New Hampshire every summer.


ALVERZ RICARDEZ is the publisher of Kill Poet Press & Journal. His poetry has been published in several journals including Chronogram, Softblow, Pemmican, Language & Culture & AVQ. Alveraz lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on his second volume of poetry.

MAY 25, 2007

KAYA OAKES’ collection of poetry, Telegraph, was the recipient of the Transcontinental Poetry Prize (editor’s choice) from Pavement Saw Press. Her poems have previously appeared in Volt, Conduit, Spinning Jenny, Shampoo, and numerous other publications. She teaches writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the poetry editor and senior editor of Kitchen Sink Magazine. She also hosts Telegraph Stories, a quarterly creative nonfiction and music series. Her website is http://www.oakestown.org.


EVIE SHOCKLEY is the author of two poetry collections: a half-red sea (2006) and The Gorgon Goddess (2001), both with Carolina Wren Press. Her work appears as well in numerous journals and anthologies. A Cave Canem fellow and the recipient of a residency at Hedgebrook retreat center for women writers, Shockley teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.


KARL PARKER teaches literature and creative writing at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, in lacustrine Geneva, NY. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as Fence, Seneca Review, MiPOesias, and No Tell Motel. He has published a chapbook, HARMSTORM, with Lame House Press.

APRIL 27, 2007

DAVID LEHMAN was born in New York City in 1948. He is the author of six books of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005). Among his nonfiction books are The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Anchor, 1999) and The Perfect Murder (Michigan, 2000). He edited Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, which appeared from Scribner in 2003. He teaches writing and literature in the graduate writing program of the New School in New York City and offers an undergraduate course each fall on “Great Poems” at New York University. He is the editor of a new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, a one-volume comprehensive anthology of poems from Anne Bradstreet to the present. He initiated The Best American Poetry series in 1988 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship a year later. He lives in New York City and in Ithaca, New York.


ELAINE EQUI is the author of ten books including Surface Tension, Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award, and The Cloud of Knowable Things. Her latest is Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems from Coffee House Press. She teaches in the MFA Programs at City College and The New School, and at New York University.


MAIRÉAD BYRNE is employed as Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She immigrated to America from Ireland in 1994 and earned a PhD in English (Theory & Cultural Studies) from Purdue University in 2001. Recent publications include a poetry collection, Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press 2003); three chapbooks Vivas (Wild Honey Press 2005), An Educated Heart (Palm Press 2005), and Kalends (Belladonna* 2005); and a talk, Some Differences Between Poetry & Standup (UbuWeb 2005).

OCTOBER 2007

Peter Davis' book of poems is Hitler's Mustache. He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books That Shaped Their Art. His poems have appeared in journals like MiPOesias, Octopus, Court Green, Rattle, and McSweeney's. His music project, Shot Hand, is available through Collectible Escalators. He lives in Muncie, Indiana with his wife, son, and daughter and teaches at Ball State University.

AUGUST 2007

Geoffrey Jacques is a poet and critic who writes about literature, the visual arts, and culture. His latest book of poems is Just For a Thrill (Wayne State University Press, 2005). His book of criticism, A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary, is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press. His previous poetry collections include Hunger and Other Poems (1993) and Suspended Knowledge (1998).

Jacques has taught at several colleges, including Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) the University of Massachusetts Boston, Hunter College, CUNY, the New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and at Parsons School of Design.

Tonya Foster is the author of Swarm of Bees in High Court(Belladonna, 2001), WaterTables (forthcoming, Portable Press @ YoYo Labs), co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Writing through Visual Art. Poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews published in various journals and magazines. Recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the City University of New York. She has organized reading series and cultural events throughout New York City, and taught creative writing and literature courses at CCNY's Bridge to Medicine Program and at Cooper Union.

Tara Betts is a graduate of the New England College MFA Program and Cave Canem. Her work appears in several anthologies and journals, including Gathering Ground, Obsidian III and Essence. In addition to performing and reading her work across the country, she is a lecturer at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She recently completed her full-length manuscript Infinite Arithmetic.

Mendi Obadike is the author Armor and Flesh and the librettist of the The Sour Thunder. She works with composer / conceptual artist Keith Obadike. Together they have received the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, a commission from the Whitney Museum, and one from Northwestern University to create a new work, Big House/
Disclosure, an intermedia suite featuring a 200-hour long house song. Mendi teaches at Princeton and lives in the New York area.
Read QUEST here.

SEPTEMBER 2007

Heralded as one of three Chicago poets for the 21st century by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, Duriel E. Harris is a co-founder of the Black Took Collective and Poetry Editor for Obsidian III. Drag (Elixir Press, 2003), her first book, was hailed by Black Issues Book Review as one of the best poetry volumes of the year. She is currently at work on AMNESIAC, a media art project (poetry volume, DVD, sound recording, website) funded in part by the University of California Santa Barbara Center for Black Studies Race and Technology Initiative. AMNESIAC writings appear or are forthcoming in Stone Canoe, nocturnes, The Encyclopedia Project, Mixed Blood, and The Ringing Ear. A performing poet/sound artist, Harris is a Cave Canem fellow, recent resident at The MacDowell Colony, and member of the free jazz ensemble Douglas Ewart & Inventions. She teaches English at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York.

Aracelis Girmay writes poetry, fiction, & essays. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she earned degrees from Connecticut College & NYU. Girmay is a Cave Canem Fellow & former Watson Fellow. Her poems have been published in Callaloo, Bellevue Literary Review, Indiana Review, and Ploughshares, among others. Her book of poems, Teeth, will be published by Curbstone Press: summer, 2007.

Christopher Stackhouse the author of "Slip" (Corollary Press, 2005) and co-author with writer John Keene on the collaborative book "Seismosis" (1913 Press, 2006), which features Keene's text and Stackhouse's drawings. He is an editor for literary journal Fence Magazine, a Cave Canem Writer Fellow, a 2005 Fellow in Poetry New York Foundation For The Arts, and Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, M.F.A. Writing Candidate.

NOVEMBER 2007

DECEMBER 2007