Contributors' Notes
Stephen Todd Booker has been an inmate at Florida State Prison's death
row since 1978. His work has appeared in Bouillabaisse, Confrontation, and
Cream City Review. His collection of poems Tug was issued
by Wesleyan University Press in 1994, and a chapbook Swiftly, Deeper
was published by The Mandrake Press in 1995.
Richard Alan Bunch has had poems in Nebo, Mandrake Poetry
Review, Poetry Nottingham, Puddinghouse Anthology, Slant, and Sonoma Mandala. His chapbook
A Foggy Morning, published
by The Mandrake Press in 1996, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
David Castleman lives in a shanty in a redwood grove with two improbably
conceited cats, listening by evening to John McCormack and Billie Holiday.
His poems, tales and imaginatively critical essays have appeared in hundreds
of journals on both sides of the Atlantic. For money he labors in a lumberyard
north of San Francisco.
R.L. Cook is Scottish. His poems have appeared in hundreds of poetry
journals over the past 5 decades and seven collections of poetry have been
published in Britain.
Michael Daugherty lives in Douglas, Isle of Man. He has been published
in many of the more prestigious British magazines over the last thirty years,
establishing a reputation as a cult figure and a regular at the local saloon.
Cornel Adam Lengyel was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1915. His
literary honors include fellowships at the Macdowell Colony, the Hartford
Foundation, the Ossabaw Island Project; the DiCastagnola Award of the Poetry
Society of America; a National Endowment for the Arts Award. He lives on
his homestead in El Dorado National Forest in Northern California. His latest
book, Stop, I Told the Sun, is available from amazon.com.
Neill Megaw retired in 1985 after 35 years of teaching (Williams College,
then Univ. of Texas), intending to write plays. Instead, a year later he
started on poems and at once found himself hooked. His work has appeared
in over 200 English and American journals.
Leo Yankevich lives with his wife and three sons in Gliwice, Poland.
His poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, Envoi, The MacGuffun, Staple, Windsor Review and scores of other magazines. His
latest book The Unfinished Crusade: New & Selected Poems is available
from amazon.com.
