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Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander wears many masks: moderator at the Sonnet Board, associate editor of lyric poetry review, organizer of the weekly Wednesday poetry open mic at Helios in Houston, TX. His most recent chapbook, "Haunted by Absinthe," celebrates the 150th birthday of Arthur Rimbaud. Alexander counts himself a Symbolist, & lucky. His website, which he shares with poet K. A. Thomas, is www.abusedmuse.com.

Christy Armistead

Christy Armistead is a southern writer who was born in Kittery, Maine, which is probably the first, but certainly not the least or last, of the contradictions in her life. Her family's frequent relocations gave her a rich supply of experiences to draw from, well into her adult years. Christy, married 25 years, currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband Bruce, and their two daughters.

Steven Beeney

Steven Beeney's first job was table-to-table requests with 300 songs. Since then, he played guitar solo throughout the US & Europe and taught Renaissance lute in Italy. From 1995-99, he taught English language in Saudi Arabia and returned to teach humanities at Rose State College and writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is Google-able. He listens to short-wave and the wind, likes Chopin and cats, dislikes TV and educational administrators. He's writing a new song called "The Red State Blues." He says "The basic artform is ourselves, but the highest is each other."

Michael Cantor

New York-born Michael Cantor resides on Plum Island, north of Boston on the Massachusetts coast, with his wife, his books, and an excessive number of woks and condiments. His work has appeared in The Formalist, The Atlanta Review, Candelabrum (UK), The Comstock Review (Pushcart nomination), The Cumberland Poetry Review (Robert Penn Warren Award finalist), Edge City Review, Iambs & Trochees, Light Quarterly, Orbis (UK) and many other journals. He won the 2004 NAA Poetry Award.

Terese Coe

Terese Coe's poems, translations, and poetry book reviews have appeared or will soon appear in Poetry, The Formalist, First Things, Orbis (UK), The Shakespeare Newsletter, Iambs and Trochees, Edge City Review, The Texas Review, Light, Anon, Blue Unicorn, The Hypertexts, Triplopia, and Leviathan Quarterly (UK), among others, and her book, The Everyday Uncommon, was awarded publication by The Word Press Poetry Prize (publication date January 2005). She was a finalist in the 2004 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize for her translation of Rilke's "End of Autumn," and received Pushcart nominations in 2003 and 2004. Tripolopia's interview appeared in Spring 2004.

Edmund Conti

Edmund Conti comes from a long line of poets but finds the line is getting longer as more poets push in front of him. This is especially true here in New Jersey where every other poet has won a Pulitzer Prize.

Jack Conway

Jack Conway is the author of two books of poetry, My Picnic With Lolita and Other Poems (2004) and Life Sentences (2002) published by North Country Press, Providence, Rhode Island. His poem "That’s What Happens When You Let Hamlet Play Quarterback," will be published in A Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Look at Shakespeare, published by the University of Iowa Press. His poems have appeared in: The Antioch Review, The Columbia Review, Light, Rattle, Stickman, Yankee, Floating Holiday, The Nantucket Review, Edgar Magazine and The Norton Anthology of Light Verse, among others. He teaches writing at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts.

K. R. Copeland

K.R. Copeland is a frequently published Chicago poet/digital photographer. Her written work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Stirring, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Sidereality, Cranky, Triplopia, Wicked Alice and Swivel. Her photos have made it into Lily, Rock Salt Plum and Ken*Again. K.R. is also one of two judges for the ongoing Beginnings Magazine poetry competitions. Her first chapbook, Anatomically Correct, is slated for release, Spring 2005, through Dancing Girl Press.

Mitchell Geller

Mitchell Geller was born and raised in the Boston area, where he still lives. His poem "Villanelle for an English Professor" won first place in the IBPC for April 2004. His work has appeared in The Melic Review and Worm, and he has a sonnet appearing in the forthcoming premiere print edition of Sonnetto Poesia.

M. A. Griffiths

M. A. Griffiths didn't send a biographical blurb, but we happen to know she's the editor of Worm, and is therefore in a position to reciprocate by publishing our poems, which is the only reason we've bothered to include her substandard work in our otherwise fine webzine. —Folly Staff

Laura Heidy

Laura (Lo) Heidy is a former medic from the midwest who now lives, blissfully unemployed, in Northern Virginia with fellow writer, Dan Halberstein. Her poetry has appeared in Sol Magazine, Mind Caviar, Solares Hill, Poets Against the War, The Susquehanna Quarterly and The Hypertexts.

Ralph C. La Rosa

Ralph C. La Rosa's poems have appeared in various journals and magazines, including Light Quarterly, The Lyric, Pivot, Italian Americana, Aethlon, Voices in Italian Americana, and First Things.

Mark Lipowicz

Mark Lipowicz studied engineering and business, and works in business publishing; therefore most of the historical, cultural and emotional context of modern and classical poetry goes right over his head. He enjoys reading the stuff anyway, but wonders if we've ever noticed how hard some poets work to make each line come out just like the last. [Editor's Note: No, we haven't. No, we haven't. No, we haven't.] Lately he has been getting poems accepted for publication in places like Rattle, Pebble Lake Review, and elsewhere.

Fred Longworth

Fred Longworth's poems have appeared in numerous hardcopy journals including California Quarterly, Pearl, Rattapallax and Spillway; and on-line in Melic Review, miller's pond, poetic voices and poetryfish. He makes his living restoring vintage audio components. He lives and writes in San Diego.

Bob McKenty

Bob McKenty's light verse has appeared in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Formalist, and Light Quarterly, where he was Featured Poet in 1999. He has also had poems in numerous anthologies and a couple of college textbooks. Doggerel Daze will publish his Fair Game: Open Season on Baseball later this year. He makes an annual pilgrimage to the Baseball Hall of Fame to recite his poetry.

Richard Moore

In a lifelong love affair with peace and obscurity, Richard Moore has published a novel, a book of essays, translations of plays by Plautus and Euripides, and ten books of poetry, the first of which scared him to death by being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His web site, www.moorepoetry.com, has fresh goodies every Thursday.

rob_said_that

rob_said_that is a writer/designer/developer who lives in a blue state and is feeling bluer than ever these days.

Washington Snow

Washington Snow is a furniture craftsman from Rome, Georgia.

Don Zirilli

Wife, House, Dog, Computer job, English major.