We'd like to thank everyone for contributing to this issue. We look forward to working with all of you in the future again soon. Be sure to submit your work for the next issue, too! See Journal Guidelines for details.
Mark Allen
A psychic, writer, and spiritual counselor with his practice based in
Seattle, WA. Sessions available upon request.
marknsea@gay.com
Aidan Baker
I am a writer and musician from Toronto, Canada. I have had writing published
internationally in such magazines as Mind Caviar, The 12 Gauge Review,
and Suspect Thoughts (forthcoming). I am the author of a poetry chapbook,
The Adventures of Me & You (Eraserhead Press), and a book of poetry, Fingerspelling
(Penumbra Press). Website at:
http://redrival.com/aidan
aidanbaker@hotmail.com
Danielle Boss
I received a full athletic (soccer) scolarship to attend Mercer University
in Macon, Georgia. I recently graduated with a BA in Special Education,
Specific Learning Disibilities. Next fall I will attend graduate school
at Kansas University here in Lawrence. I am presently employed by the
Leavenworth County Special Education Cooperative to teach 7th and 8th
grade students at Basehor-Linwood Middle School.
dani_boss@hotmailcom
Janet I. Buck
She is a two-time Pushcart Nominee and her work has recently appeared
in The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Paumanok Review, Born Magazine, pith,
Saothar Portfolio, Poetry Magazine.com, The Eclipse, and Comrades. She
is the author of three collections of poetry: Calamity's Quilt, Reefs
We Live, and Bookmarks in a Hurricane. Art Villa Records is soon to release
her first CD entitled Before the Rose. To read more of Janet's work, go
to:
janetbuck.com
and
Hot
Links: Janet I. Buck.
JBuck22874@aol.com
Julie Cederberg
Julie, native of the Pacific Northwest, has counted influential in her
writing, life experiences, family and relationships. (Not necessarily
in that order). Julie has studied creative writing with Esther Altshul
Helfgott, Waverly Fitzgerald, and David Norling (Garbonzo Behnenzahler).
jscberg@concentric.net
Lou Faber
Louis Faber is a corporate attorney and poet residing in Fairport, NY.
He has been writing and publishing for more than ten years and his work
has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, The Worcester Review, Borderlands, European
Judaism, The Amethyst Review (Canada), Vigil (U.K.) and elsewhere.
Website at:
http://members.nbci.com/faberthebard/
loufaber@email.com
Kara Fell
I will be 17 years old this month (December). There are many things I
do that inspire me to write. I am active in my church youth group, I have
played the piano for eight years, I am on my school's swim team, and I
am also involved in track and field. I am a member of several clubs as
well, Ruritan, a service orginization, I am the secretary of the Spanish
club, in the drama club, and an editor on our school newspaper. I have
many things to keep me busy, however I try my best to not overlook the
little things that are so vital to our happiness. Like love, adventures,
and of course, dreams.
Email comments to us here at KotaPress,
and we'll be happy to forward you messages to Kara directly.
John Fox
John is a poet and certified poetry therapist. He is an associate professor
at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California.
He also teaches in the Graduate School of Psychology at John F. Kennedy
University in Orinda, California and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology
in Palo Alto, California. John offers workshops at Esalen and Omega Institutes
and throughout the United States in hospitals, churches and schools. He
is the author of Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and
Creativity Through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of
Poem-Making (Jeremy P. Tarcher/G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995, 1997). His work
is featured in The Soul of Creativity edited by Tona Pearce-Myers and
published by New World Library. John is the recepient of the National
Association for Poetry Therapy's 1995 Distinguished Service Award. He
lives in Mountain View, California.
website: www.poeticmedicine.com
JFoxCPT@aol.com
Alan Gann
I am an 18 year transplant to Dallas, Texas from North Carolina and earn
my daily bread as a microchip designer. I share my living quaters with
two bossy (but loving) cats, am an avid acoustic and world music fan,
and an active member of the Dallas Poets Community workshop group. My
poems have appeared in many journals including 11th St Ruse, Borderlands,
Friends Journal, Expose, and the anthology Other Testaments.
alanrgann@yahoo.com
Dana Gerringer
Dana writes because if she stopped, she might cease to exist. Her drug
of choice? Adventure! She thanks God everyday for her superhuman powers
and loves to hang out at headquarters with all her superfriends. In between
working on writing the best thing that will ever be written, she plots
the way she may forever escape the daily tedium of survival and write
full time. Until then, she has devoted her free time and backyard to her
word sanctuary where pieces wounded by red pen and harsh criticism are
nursed back onto her pages. She is sorry that Tom Robbins is married,
Jeff Buckley is dead, and that Salman Rushdie is probably too old for
her.
Email us with your comments for
Dana, and we'll promptly forward your messages to her.
Jared Gullage
My name is Jared Gullage. I am 20 years old and am currently a junior
majoring in English and minoring in Spanish at Auburn University in Alabama.
I have been published in The National Library of Poetry's anthology, "Sketches
of the Soul," the Poetry Guild's anthology, "The Harvest Season," and
in Wellspring: A Journal of Christian Poetry. My brother, Jason, died
in 1997 in a car accident, and I often write poems to remember him.
Email us with your comments for
Jared, and we'll promptly forward your messages to him.
Hawk
He has been singer, composer, and song writer since Hector was a pup.
You can often find him in various Seattle venues performing his music
live with his poet wife.
He also enjoys his day job of creating web sites. If you like what you
see here, then you like his work. He and his wife started KotaPress
in memory of their son Dakota. hawk@kotapress.com
Mary Harrison
Mary has a Master of Science degree from University of Connecticut. Her
poetry and prose have been published in several journals including "Kansas
Quarterly," "Midwest Poetry Review," "Mediphors" and "Poetry Motel." She
is currently writing a memoir and a book for her son, Scott. She is a
retired psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and has four sons.
misong@ix.netcom.com
Coral Hull
Coral was born in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia in 1965. She
is a full time writer and visual artist specialising in poetry, experimental
prose fiction, prose poetry, literary articles and digital photography.
Her work has been published extensively in literary magazines in the U.S.A.,
Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. She has several books in print
currently plus the CDRom titled Remote which features the art work you
see here and much more. She is also the Editor of The Book of Modern Australian
Animal Poems, an anthology of Australian poets writing about animals from
1900-1999. Coral is an animal rights advocate and the Editor of Thylazine,
www.thylazine.org,
an electronic literary journal featuring articles, interviews, photographs
and the recent work of Australian writers and artists working in the areas
of landscape and animals. For full bio see:
http://www.thylazine.org/coralhull/
Tim Hulley
Tim is a professional website developer and author of three poetry chapbooks:
Hopes Are Breadcrumbs, New Chords, and Nestled in Silence. He enjoys celebrating
the divine gift of life through poetry, music, and art. Current passions
include singing the sacred music of Hildegard Von Bingen and talking with
his Grey Parrot companion of 11 years, Sharky, who often reminds him:
"Don't worry, be happy."
tim.hulley@home.com
Kara L.C. Jones
Friend to turtles, Speaker of the word "NO!", Tamer of ludicrous thoughts,
Mother of a dead child, Goddess of Hawksville, Huntress available for
Catwomyn's productions at a moment's notice, and Taker of absolutely no
more bullshit.
ladyh@kotapress.com
C. E. Lennon
She resides in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where
she edites the online e-zine "The Eclipse." She is a web designer and
freelance artist.
Celain@theeclipse.net
Alyssa A. Lappen
Ms. Lappen's poems have been published in International Poetry Review,
Blueline, Touched by Adoption: Stories, Letters and Poems, (Green River
Press, 1999), Ruah: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry, HEArt Quarterly, ForPoetry.com,
Kudzu: A Digital Quarterly (www.etext.org/Zines/Kudzu), Switched-on Gutenberg
(http://faculty.washington.edu/jnh/), New Works Review (www.new-works.org),
Out of Line, Earth Beneath Sky Beyond (Outrider Press, 2000), Major Signs,
Poetry & Story magazine (www.poetrystory.com) and she was recently a reader
at the Phoenix series in New York. She won honorable mention 2000 New
Millennium Writing competition, and has acceptances from The Sow's Ear
Poetry Review, Poetry Motel and Neovictorian Cochlea. Ms. Lappen was a
staff journalist for 25 years for such publications as The New Haven Register,
Forbes, Working Woman, Corporate Finance and Institutional Investor. She
currently writes for a major money management firm.
Her website is at: http://hometown.aol.com/alyssaalappen/myhomepage/index.html and she can be reached by email at: aalappen@aol.com
Linda Lisowski
Linda lives in Erie, PA with her husband Joseph and 6 year old son Yuzi.
She has an abiding interest in literature, music, and quantum physics.
This is her first published poem.
jlisowsk@mercyhurst.edu
Carrington MacDuffie
Carrington has published poetry in The Amicus Journal, The Crab Creek
Review, PoetsWest, ONTHEBUS and many others. She's a singer, songwriter
and multimedia performer, as well as a poet, and frequently performs her
poetry in Seattle and Los Angeles. She makes her living as a voiceover
actress, specializing in reading books on tape.
Scrad@aol.com
Malama MacNeil
I am a native Californian, though I lived five years in community on the
south fork of the Shenandoah River (Virginia), and four years in Kailua
(Oahu), Hawaii. I’ve been married thirty years to Hasan; we have five
adult children and live now in Chico, California, where I care for Fiona,
our middle daughter, do hands-on healing work, and practice taijiquan.
I am currently developing a one-woman performance piece on the theme of
the transformative work of grieving which blends poetry, narrative, movement,
and exposition. Thank you for reading my poem. I welcome responses. You
can reach me at:
malama@shocking.com
Katie McAllaster Weaver
I am a member of the SCBWI. Most recent sales include WEST WIND REVIEW,
HAZMAT, WRITERS' FORUM, INK BLOTTER, CHANCE, KOTA PRESS, AETHER and THUNDER
SANDWICH among others. I also have poems forthcoming in Scholastic, Milkweed
and HarperCollins anthologies. This is an exclusive submission.
Mkmwe3@aol.com
Susan Mello
She sprouted up in the suburbs of New York City and got the-hell downtown
as soon as possible. During her time in New York, she took up black &
white photography, and gleefully burned negatives during her 8 years there.
City burn-out brought her to the Pacific Northwest to be soothed by plantlife,
mountains, and mild weather. Here, creativity bloomed again in the form
of musical studies, jazz singing, piano & flute. Baking and gardening
became passions. A recent trip to Kenya produced images, sounds, and stories
which will be featured in her upcoming website. Comments, questions, requests
for prints, mailing list membership to:
spmello@hotmail.com
Janie Moore
Janie is a poet in the midst of change.
Email us with your comments and
we'll forward your message to Janie asap!
Rebecca Page
A poet her whole life, Rebeccas poetry took on a new form upon the near
loss of her sister. During the past four years her collection of poetry
has grown to exceed 500 poems. The main themes in her writing are loss
and depression, although light is also reflected on occasion. Her dream
is to be published.
becca@rainsoul.com
James Penha
A native New Yorker, James Penha teaches at the Jakarta International
School in Indonesia. Among the most recent of his many publications are
a story in Columbiaand poems in Thema.A new chapbook of his selected poems
is available from Pudding House as part of its “Greatest Hits” series
honoring the work of small-press poets.
jpenha@cbn.net.id
David L. Sutton
He is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Auburn
University. His life partner is Charlotte Decker Sutton, an associate
professor in the College of Business at Auburn University. The Suttons
have two children (Scott and Alison), one dog (Sandy), and two cats (Princess
and Shadow).
suttoda@auburn.edu
Todd Schneider
He's a 95% self-taught photographer, 12 years after receiving a 35mm camera
for high school graduation. "I've primarily used photography as just another
element in other artworks (illustrations, sculptures, graphics, fanzines)
but, in recent years, I've been treating it as itself by studying the
finer points of the image and experimenting with infrared and recording
films. My current, never ending, photo study is collapsing, and consequently
disappearing, homestead and farm buildings." He makes his base on the
south shores of Bainbridge Island, Washington from where he creates, hikes,
cycles, snowboards, travels, and searches out great music.
tmschneider666@hotmail.com
Cree Wolfe
I am a singal female...was close to getting married to jessicas father,
but he kinda of dissapeared off the face of the earth...anyway I am currently
trying to get my life straightened by looking for a job, and keeping it...but
I haven't had much luck in that department at all...My life is ok...but
not great and right now there are still alot of things I need to work
on...I think I might have some clinical depression, but I am working on
that, too.
sweetcherokeemoon@yahoo.com
