Contributors' Notes
Jerry H. Jenkins' poems have appeared in The
Formalist, The Lyric, Mobius, Mandrake Poetry Review, Harp-Strings,
Piedmont Literary Review and Pirate Writings. His
book-length collection of poems, in collaboration with Keith Allen
Daniels and Ann K. Schwader, was published by Anamnesis Press in
June 2000, under the title The Weird Sonneteers.
Anthony Lombardy's poems and translations have appeared
in Classical Outlook, The Cumberland Poetry Review, The
Formalist, Italian Americana, The New Yorker, Pivot, and
Sparrow. His translation of Euripides' Bacchae was
published and produced at Nashville's Parthenon. His first book of
poems is Severe (Bennett & Kitchel 1995). He teaches
classics and poetry writing at Belmont University.
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.
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.
Stanley Mason was born in the Canadian Rockies, reared on
a British coalfield, and educated at Oxford before moving to
Switzerland during WW II to teach. Later he worked many years as a
translator in an engineering firm, then became editor of an art and
design magazine. Three collections of his poetry have been
published as well as his translation in verse of Albrecht von
Haller's Die Alpen. He passed away in 1997.
Leo Yankevich's poems and translations have appeared
widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in Blue
Unicorn, Sulphur River Literary Review, Cedar Hill Review, Envoi,
The MacGuffin, Poetry Nottingham, Staple, and Windsor
Review. He lives with his wife and three sons in Gliwice,
Poland. His latest book, The Unfinished Crusade: New &
Selected Poems, is available from The Mandrake Press through
amazon.com.
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.
Mark Wilson lives in Denton, Texas where he works for
Denton Publishing Company. He is co-founder and former editor of
The Grind Magazine. Born in Natchez, Mississippi, he has
lived in New Orleans, Houston, and Moscow, Russia.
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.
Deborah Warren's poems have appeared in Cumberland
Poetry Review, Edge City Review, The Formalist, Orbis, Sparrow,
and other journals. She was the runner-up for the 1998 Robert Penn
Warren Poetry Prize and the 2000 T. S. Eliot Prize.
Michael Axtell lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His
poems and reviews have appeared widely in the small presses.
