Joe Amato* is the author of Symptoms
of a Finer Age (Viet Nam Generation, 1994, available through SPD); and Bookend:
Anatomies of a Virtual Self (SUNY Press, 1997). He may be contacted at joe.amato@colorado.edu,
and his online work is available at http://stripe.colorado.edu/~amatoj.
Jack Anderson's*
books include Field Trips on the Rapid Transit (Hanging Loose, 1990), Selected
Poems (Release Press, 1983), and his work has appeared in the journals: Poetry,
The Paris Review, Caliban, Hanging Loose, and Chelsea.
Timothy Baum
is a poet,
collector of Surrealist art and international authority on Dada and Surrealism.
He is the editor of Nadada editions and resides in New York City.
Bill Berkson's
latest book is A Copy of the Catalogue
(Labyrinth, Vienna, 1999). He is a poet, art critic and professor of art history
at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Tom Bradley's*
novels have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award and
The New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in the AWP Award
Series in the Novel. His short stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
John Brandi's
honors include the Portland State Poetry Prize,
an NEA fellowship in poetry and a Witter Bynner Translation Grant. Recent books
include, Weeding the Cosmos:Selected Haiku (La Alameda Press) and A
Question of Journey (Light and Dust).
Ira Cohen is a poet and photographer living in New York City.
He has appeared in films such as Reefers of Technicolor Island by Jack
Smith and taken photos for John McLaughlin's Devotion CD, and Spirit's
album, The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. His new film, out on Mystic
Fire Video, is called Kings With Straw Mats and chronicles the Kumbha
Mela religious festival in Hardwar, India.
Wanda Coleman's work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Epoch,
and Crab Orchard Review. Her newest book from Black Sparrow Press is
called Bathwater Wine.
byron coley
is a member of the ecstatic yod collective &
co-director of glass eye books, both virtually located in florence,
massachusetts. he does not collect materials related to ballet.
Cid Corman HELP YOURSELF: So much to sky/and such
a/little/breath. He is the editor of Origin and presently resides in
Kyoto, Japan.
Aziz Elhihi*
was born around 1960 in Meknes,
Morocco. He was 20 years old when he came to Switzerland to study. In 1987, he
moved to Nyon, on the Geneva Lake, where he dedicated himself to painting. Since
that time, he has exhibited his work in many personal and group shows in
Switzerland, France, Italy, Morocco, Germany, and Egypt.
Charles Henri Ford
founded and edited View, the
landmark avant-garde magazine of the arts. He is the author of Out of the
Labyrinth (City Lights). He is currently working on Automatic Memories
with John Yau.
Krista Franklin lives and writes in Dayton, Ohio.
Denis Gallagher lives in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney,
Australia.
Allan Graubard's theatre work, King Gordogan, an
adaptation of the Surrealist classic by Radovan Ivsic, opened at the Ohio
Theatre, New York, in February 1997. Other stage productions include There Was Blood, Much Blood,
and The Test.
Michael Haeflinger is a poet living in Dayton, Ohio.
Ken Haponek lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife Mary and son
Dante.
Jack Hirschman's publications include The David Arcane
(Amerus Press), The Bottom Line (Curbstone Press), The Endless
Threshold (Curbstone Press),The Xibalba Arcane (Azul Editions) and The Satin Arcane
(Zeitgeist Press).
Hamid Echbihi El Idrissi is a Berber from the Middle Atlas of
Morocco living in New York since 1983. He is a poet who is well known for his
culinary creations, including the enchanting candy, majoon.
Nuno Júdice was born in 1949 in the village of Mexilhoeira
Grande in the Algarve. Scholar, poet, and literary critic, he now lives in
Lisbon. His extensive publications include sixteen collections of poetry, seven
books of fiction, and six books of essays and criticism. He is the editor of Tabacaria.
Tuli Kupferberg along with Ed Sanders was/is the mastermind
behind the legendary rock/poetry outfit, The Fugs. He is a poet, artist
and erotic politician.
Robert LaVigne is a visual artist living in Seattle,
Washington. He is well known for his close associations with the Beat writers
and has had numerous shows nationwide.
Frank Lima's books include Angel (W.W. Norton/Liveright,
1976), Underground With the Oriole (Dutton, 1971), and New and
Selected Poems (Hard Press, 1997). Recent publications include IDoBelieveIDoBelieve
and Incidents of Travel in Poetry (Hard Press, 1999). He currently
teaches at the New York Restaurant School.
Mathew Lima is a composer and poet currently attending Harvard
University.
Duane Locke*,
Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, has had over
2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review,
Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander, and is
the author of 14 books of poems, his latest being WATCHING WISTERIA.
Gerard Malanga's latest book of poems is Mythologies of the Heart
(Black Sparrow Press, 1996) and he has recently published a book of photographic
portraits entitled Resistance to Memory, Portraits of the Seventies
(Arena Editions, 1998). He also recently appeared in Roderick Townley's Night Errands, How Poets Use Dreams.
His poem, "The Nature of Violent Storms", is directly related to
his experience assisting Warhol with the "Death and Disaster"
paintings.
Joseph Massey is a poet and writer living in Delaware.
Marty Matz is a poet and artist living in San Francisco,
California.
David Meltzer's most recent books are two anthologies from
Mercury House: Reading Jazz (1993) and Writing Jazz (1996.) He
was an early collaborator with Ishmael Reed and Al Young on the Before Columbus
Foundation for the advancement of multicultural literature which sponsors the
American Book Award. He has taught in the Humanities and Poetics programs at New College since 1981.
thurston moore has remained the most truly viable guitarist to
come out of the original punk scene, continuing to break fresh ground in a mileu
long stagnant. He breathes the same aesthetic atmosphere/poetic territory as Lou
Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine. A book of his early poetry is
reputedly coming from Waterow Books.
Sheila E. Murphy is the author of Pure Mental Breath
(Gesture Press, 1994) and A Clove of Gender (Stride Press). She was also
included in the Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, an
anthology edited by Douglas Messerli.
Mark Owens spent a few years in Mexico, tuning the wind, and
now resides in rural Massachusetts.
John Perreault presently resides in New York City.
Hans Plomp lives and writes in Amsterdam, Holland.
Simon Perchik "Working close to the deeper sources of
poetry, in modes reflecting individuality and technical determination, Mr.
Perchik is the most original..."- Donald W. Baker
Man Ray b. 1890; 1913, visits Armory Show, discovers European
avant-garde with works of Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia; 1915, buys a
camera to photograph his paintings; 1921, makes first rayograph.
Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor, and
co-founder of Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. His
work has appeared in many journals including Beehive, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket,
and Zyzzyva.
Larry Sawyer's work has appeared in Nexus, Cokefish, Snakeskin, FZQ, Tabacaria
(Portugal), Exquisite Corpse, Big Bridge, Ygdrasil, Aught, Moria, and JACK.
He has work
forthcoming in The East Village, Paper Tiger (Australia), and Dennis Formento's Mesechabe.
Hazel Smith's book, Abstractly Represented: Poems and Performance Texts 1982-90
was published by Butterfly Books, Sydney, Australia in 1991. Her new volume of
poems, short prose, and performance texts, Keys Round Her Tongue, will
be published by Monogene in 1999.
The "mad poet," Mike Topp*, is neither mad nor a poet. He is a
self-schooled Siberian peasant who affects religiosity and dabbles in faith
healing. He has a talent of sorts for hypnosis. He has an eye for human
frailty.
Roberto Valenza
resides in Seattle, WA.
Janine Pommy Vega is a Beat generation writer, performer,
musician and the author of twelve books. In reference to Tracking The Serpent
(City Lights), Gregory Corso said, "With poetry one line, in prose steady
mind. Vega learned from poetry how to use details, with prose, to keep track of
time. I really respect this book." Her latest book is a collection of prose
essays, Traveling With The Spirit: A Woman's Journey, from City Lights.
Lina ramona Vitkauskas, has received an Honorable Mention for STORY
Magazine's Carson McCullers Prize and placed as a quarterfinalist in the New
Century Writer's Short Story Awards. Her fiction has been placed on/in The Wisconsin Review, Mississippi
Review, ShortStory.org,
and is currently featured as an Editor's Pick on Web
Del Sol.
Her poetry has been published in/on The
Poet,
The Outlet, milk, Mudlark, Big
Bridge, JACK, and Lithuanian Poets.
More poetry is forthcoming on In Posse Review.
Terry Wilson's Perilous Passage finalizes a trilogy
commencing with Dreams of Green Base and "D" Train.
A.D. Winans has been publishing in the small presses since
1965. He has appeared in City Lights Journal, New York Quarterly, Beat Scene,
Beatitude, Second Coming, and Confrontation.
Mark Yakich* presently resides in the fine state of Louisiana.
*previously unpublished in milk