Issue VI, Volume III : February 2012

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Swoon & David Tomaloff - Featured Artists of the Month
TomaloffDavid David Tomaloff is a writer, photographer, musician, and all around bad influence. His work has appeared in fine publications such as Mud Luscious, >kill author, PANK, HOUSEFIRE, Prick of the Spindle, DOGZPLOT, elimae, and many more. He is the author of the chapbooks 13 (Artistically Declined Press), A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF (NAP),
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Susan Straight - Featured Artist of the Month
SusanStraight Susan Straight has published seven novels: Aquaboogie (Milkweed Editions, 1990), I Been In Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All The Pots (Hyperion, 1992, Anchor paperback, 1993),  which was named one of the best novels of 1992 by both USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly, as well as named a Notable Book by the New York Times, Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (Hyperion, 1994, Anchor paperback 1995), The Gettin Place (Hyperion 1996, Anchor paperback 1997), Highwire Moon (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), A Million Nightingales (Pantheon, 2006), and her most recent novel, Take One Candle Light A Room (Pantheon, 2010).
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Emeritus Artist - Lucien Stryk
StrykLucien Lucien Stryk has written numerous volumes of poetry, including And Still Birds Sing: New & Collected Poems and Where We Are: Selected Poems. 
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Gray Jacobik - Featured Artist of the Month
Gray_Jacobik15 Gray Jacobik earned her Ph.D. in American and British Literature from Brandeis University and for many years served as a professor of literature at Eastern Connecticut State University.
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Doug Anderson - Featured Artist of the Month
Anderson Doug Anderson's memoir, Keep Your Head Down, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009. He has published two award winning books of poetry: The Moon Reflected Fire, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police, which received a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He is at work on another book of poems and a novel. He teaches in the Pacific University of Oregon MFA Program and at the University of Connecticut.
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Emeritus Artist: Gerald Locklin

Over long distance drinks one night our web designer John Turi and I were trying to decide what our next column offering would be.
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Charles Evered - Interview, Sedona, AZ Film Festival Part II : Video

Charles-Evered This is the second half of the interview we did with Charles Evered at the Sedona International Film Festival’s Best of Fest Week. We apologize in advance for the silliness, but we all had a great time. If you pay close attention, you’ll even get a rare peek at John Turi, our Web Designer. 

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Ed Weathers - $20 Haiku Project - Feature Artist of the Month
Weathers Ed Weathers is a semi-retired English instructor at Virginia Tech. His career included 14 years of college teaching and 27 years as a magazine editor,  writer, and mildly syndicated newspaper and magazine columnist. He has written more than 300 articles for magazines all over the country.
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J. P. Dancing Bear - Featured Artist of the Month
BearJPDancing J. P. Dancing Bear is the author nine collections of poetry, most recently, Inner Cities of Gulls (2010), and Conflicted Light (2008) both published by Salmon Poetry.
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Charles Evered - Featured Artist of the Month
Charles-Evered Class, by Charles Evered.
Reviewed by Founding Editor-in-Chief, Ken Robidoux
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Frank X. Gaspar - Interview
FrankGaspar I first met Frank Gaspar in the fall of 1996 when I stumbled, quite by accident, into an English class at Long Beach City College.
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Charles Evered - Interview, Sedona, AZ Film Festival Part I : Video

evered-intr We caught up with writer - director Charles Evered at the Sedona International Film Festival’s “Best of Fest Week.” Thanks to the whole crew at Wonderstar Productions, and festival director Pat Schweiss who let us shoot this interview in his office. And thank you to Charles, who, in the beginning, more than anyone else, convinced John & me this magazine just might work.

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Jim Harms - Featured Artist : September 2009

James-Harms James Harms is the author of five books of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press, After West (2008), Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), Quarters (2001), The Joy Addict (1998), and Modern Ocean (1992), as well as a letter press, limited edition volume, East of Avalon (2000) from Caddis Case Press. The Joy Addict has just been reissued in the Classic Contemporary Series. His poems, essays and short stories have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Verse, The North American Review, Oxford American and many other literary journals; in addition, he is a contributing editor of West Branch.

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