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John Beaton
John Beaton is a Scottish-born actuary who lives on Vancouver Island with his wife and five children. He recites at Burns Suppers and performs his own humorous poetry at musical concerts, Celtic festivals, and other revelries. His poems have popped up in places such as Light Quarterly, The New Formalist, The Buckeye, Forgotten Ground Regained, and AbleMuse's Tipsy Muse contest.
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.
Peter Desmond
Peter H. Desmond's poetry has appeared in Compost, Ibbetson Street Press, 96 Inc, Raintown Review, Tucumcari Literary Review, and on the websites MiPo Zine, Poetry Porch, canwehaveourballback, and Poetry SuperHighway. Over the last fifteen years he has recited his poems at churches, art galleries, antiwar rallies, funerals, bars, and an accounting conference. Peter, once a Pushcart nominee, has won three Cambridge Poetry Awards, a prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia, and a first prize in the May 2000 Interboard Poetry Contest. He prepares tax returns for several hundred writers, artists, and musicians in Cambridge, Mass.
Paul Dickey
Paul Dickey's poetry has appeared recently in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, The Concho River Review, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, The Cider Press Review, Swink Online, Rattle, and other online and print journals. They Say This is How Death Came Into the World was a finalist in the 2005 Red Mountain Review chapbook contest. Another chapbook, What Wisconsin Took, will be published by The Parallel Press next year. Biographical information and additional notes on previous publishing activity can be found at http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/dickey.htm.
Scott Emmons
Scott Emmons is the author of Word Chowder, an online collection of light verse illustrated by Chris Harding. A former professor with a Ph. D. in Classical Studies, Scott currently works as a humor writer for Hallmark.
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 was born and grew up in London, but now lives in Dorset (Hardy's Wessex). She enjoys writing both free and formal verse, and edits a poetry e-zine called WORM. Her work has appeared in Snakeskin, Crescent Moon Journal, The Eleventh Muse, Mind Mutations, and Mindfire Renewed, amongst others.
Henry Hurst
Henry Hurst is semi-retired from the air cargo business (founder of Pegasus Air Express, Inc. in Baltimore, MD), now living in Albuquerque, NM, and enjoys tennis, bridge, and composing various works in light verse for amusement.
Janet Kenny
Janet Kenny blundered from being a painter in New Zealand to being an opera and concert singer based in London, England and foreign parts, then an anti-nuclear agitator and publisher's researcher and writer in Sydney, Australia, and is now about to wander northwards to watch whales and pelicans in Queensland, Australia where she may have to get a bit of a grip on herself.
Rachel Lindley
Rachel Lindley is a Canadian woman who, after brain surgery, became addicted to writing poetry of all sorts. She strongly suspects brain injury may actually be a prerequisite for devoting oneself to writing and publishing poetry. Her light verse has previously appeared in Light Quarterly as well as the Doggerel Daze anthology Kiss and Part.
Tim Love
Tim Love lives in Cambridge, UK with an Italian wife and 2 bilingual sons. He has prose and prose in several magazines.
Chris O'Carroll
Chris O'Carroll is a writer, actor, and stand-up comedian. His work has appeared in Iambs & Trochees, The Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, and other journals. Frequently confused about the distinction between light verse and serious poetry, he does what he can to confuse others.
Washington Snow
Washington Snow is a furniture craftsman from Rome, Georgia.