Contributors' Notes
Gail White lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, in the
heart of Cajun country. Her full length collection of poems, The
Price of Everything, was published by Mellen Poetry Press in
2001.
Leo Yankevich lives in Gliwice, Poland, with his wife and
three sons. A new collection of his work, The Bird-Headed
Monster, is forthcoming from The Mandrake Press in 2003.
Peter Stewart Richards has recently had poems in
Snakeskin and Mandrake Poetry Review. He lives in
Oslo, Norway.
Randall Peaslee lives with his wife in Katowice, Poland,
where he teaches English. He has contributed poems to The
Villager and Mandrake Poetry Review.
Timothy Murphy's books include The Deed of Gift
(Story Line Press, 1998), Set the Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie
Memoir (Ohio University Press, 2000), and Very Far North
(Waywiser Press, 2002). He lives in North Dakota.
J.B. Mulligan has had two chapbooks published (Samisdat
Press), The Stations of the Cross and This Way to the
Egress. He lives in Washingtonville, NY.
Richard Moore has ten published volumes of poetry, one of
which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His newest collection,
The Naked Scarecrow, was published by Truman State
University Press, New Odyssey Editions, in the spring of 2000.
M.L. McCarthy is the editor of Candelabrum,
Britain's longest-established Traditionalist fringe poetry
magazine. His poems have recently appeared in The NeoVictorian,
Rebirth, Romantic Renaissance and Romantics
Quarterly.
Peter Norman's poetry and fiction have appeared in
various Canadian literary journals, including Windsor Review,
Prism International, The Fiddlehead, and Event.
Jerry H. Jenkins' poems have appeared in numerous
periodicals such as The Formalist, The Lyric, Piedmont Literary
Review, Mandrake Poetry Review, Mobius, and others.
Thomas Jardine lives in South Carolina with his wife and
child, and is the author of Virtual White Orchids, poems
1970-2000 (Fells Point Poetry Books, 2001) .
George Held, with Katherine Mayer, translated two sonnets
from the Hungarian by Lorinc Szabo that appear in the 2001 issue of
Modern Poetry in Translation. His latest collection of poems
is Beyond Renewal (Cedar Hill, 2001).
Marie Harris currently serves as the Poet Laureate of New
Hampshire. She is a freelance writer and editor and the author of
four books of poetry, the most recent of which are WEASEL IN THE
TURKEY PEN (Hanging Loose Press) and YOUR SUN, MANNY: A
Prose Poem Memoir (New Rivers Press).
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.
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 small magazines on
both sides of the Atlantic.
Shekhar Aiyar's work has appeared previously in magazines in
India, England, Sri Lanka and Canada. His first volume of poems,
Continental Drift, was published by Writer’s Workshop,
Calcutta, in 1998.