Yes, Poetry

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Contributor’s Notes

Megan Coxe, an amateur poet in the truest sense, has just returned from a sabbatical year in Almería, Spain as an assistant English teacher, to be plunged back into American life. Now she splits her time preparing to pursue a MA in Hispanic Literature at the University of Texas, coping with the return to her birthplace, and plotting her next international escape.

Joseph Farley edited Axe Factory for 24 years. His books and chapbooks include Suckers, For the Birds, and Longing for the Mother Tongue (March Street Press). His novel, Labor Day, about a dismal future world without unions, is currently seeking a publisher.

Carol Lynn Grellas is a six-time Pushcart nominee and a 2010 Best of the Net nominee. She is the author of seven chapbooks with her latest collection of poems: Epistemology of an Odd Girl, forthcoming from March Street Press. She lives El Dorado Hills, California.

Robin Kalinich currently lives in Albuquerque, and has enjoyed a myriad of careers including clown, roofer, waitress, retail manager, and many others too numerous (or embarrassing) to mention. She fled a staid existence as a homemaker and religious zealot to begin an arduous process of self-actualization. Along the way, she found true love, and a penchant for expensive cheese. She currently works as a chemist and is pursuing a degree in Nanoscience, but her true passions lie in the creative realm. After completing her master’s degree, she plans on switching gears to pursue an MFA. Her blog can be found at: http://sparklysugardragon.blogspot.com/

Peycho Kanev is the Editor In Chief of Kanev Books. His poems have appeared in more than 400 literary magazines, such as: Poetry Quarterly, The Monongahela Review, Steam Ticket, Ann Arbor Review, Midwest Literary Review, Third Wednesday, Burnt Bridge, Istanbul Literary Review, Loch Raven Review, In Posse Review, The Penwood Review, Mascara Literary Review, The Mayo Review and many others. He is nominated for the Pushcart Award and lives in Chicago. In 2009 his short story collection “Walking Through Walls” (Ciela), and in April 2010 his poetry collection “American Notebooks” (Ciela) both were published in Bulgaria. His new poetry collection “Bone Silence” was released in September 2010 by Desperanto, NY. http://www.kanevbooks.com

Tracy Leddy is a poet and writer who has published Alison’s Shadow and The Song of Everything. She has lived on Nantucket Island for 30 years.

John McKernan – who grew up in Omaha Nebraska – is now a retired comma herder after teaching a long time at Marshall University. He lives – mostly – in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His most recent book is Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

Joseph Pentangelo majors in Linguistics at the Macaulay Honors College at the College of Staten Island, Class of 2012. He is a cofounder of Wigwam Press, a very tiny publishing house. His writing has previously been published in Weird N.J. and Operation: Three-Legged Dolphin (for which he, under an alias, wrote an ornithological linguistics joke). Other works of his are slated to appear in the Fall, 2011 issue of Caesura. In addition to writing poetry and short fiction, he spends his time traveling, studying, and playing music. You can find him here: truthofmasks.tumblr.com, wigwampress.webs.com

Carson Pierpont is a writer writing in the Pacific Northwest. He enjoys coffee, re-reading his favorite authors, going to the theatre alone, and, especially, as he is a Pisces, the ocean. When he’s not writing he’s worrying about not writing.

Phillip R. Polefrone is a young poet and essayist living in Brooklyn, near the river, trying to figure out how to get out of school immediately and stay in it indefinitely. This has so far landed him on the verge of a B.A. His poems have been published in The Broome Street Review, his essays in Mercer Street. He also edits West 10th, and undergraduate literary magazine, and is on the editorial team of Mercer Street, an annual collection of student essays. He hopes that his status as an undergraduate will not be leveled against him; as Marianne Moore put it (taken gleefully out of context), “I, too, dislike it.”

Melissa Sewell lives in Topeka, Kansas, where she makes a living slinging coffee and spends her free time constructing cardboard cities with her four year-old. Her work has appeared in seveneightfive magazine, Inscape, Susquehanna Review and others.

Craig Shay has had poems published or forthcoming in The Camel Saloon,

Clockwise Cat, PigeonBike, Catapult to Mars, Calliope Nerve, and Skidrow Penthouse. Samples of his work can be found on his webpage: www.craigshay.wordpress.com

Stacy Skolnik’s poems are never slight. Playful and deceptively simple, they nonetheless take on the big questions of human existence—life, love, time, God. Even when their subject is the self, her poems fulfill what Rilke names as the task of the poet: they “maintain contact with the farthest distance,” and thereby “link us with it.”

Sasha Van Hoven originally hales from Syracuse, New York, and is now located in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BA in Lit, and would probably even leave her lovely, bearded boyfriend for Mr. William Faulkner if he was still alive today. She pays her bills by writing copy for a furniture company based out of Denver. In her non-triangle hours, she is a published poet and cereal connoisseur. She is also the co-founder of The Golden Triangle, which can be found here: http://www.thegoldentriangle.org/

Clinton Van Inman is a high school teacher in Hillsborough County, Florida, am 65 and a graduate of San Diego StateUniversity. I was born in Walton on Thames, England. My recent publications include: Warwick Unbound, Down in the Dirt, May, June, July, The Inquisition, The Journal, the New Writing, The Hudson Review, Essence, Forge, Houston Literary Review, Greensilk Journal Northwest Spirits Magazine, to name a few.

Timothy Volpert is a poet and musician from Topeka, KS, where he also co-manages a fledgling vegan-friendly cafe. His poems have appeared in Coal City Review, Inscape, Blue Island Review, andseveneightfive magazine. He loves you and wants the best for you.

Editor’s Biography

Joanna C. Valente is a native New Yorker. She has been featured in various publications, such as You Say. Say. (Uphook Press), The Westchester Review, The Houston Literary Review, Side B Magazine, among others. She is currently attending Sarah Lawrence College as an MFA candidate in poetry. In the future, she would like to live by the ocean.