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Townsend ! collins ! dembinski ! Hathaway ! Chandler ! Sernotti ! goo thomas ! Holstad ! Dolomite ! trellis ! Morgan ! Ellis ! Hill ! rohe ! Lepore Stephenson ! Sward ! McNeilley ! Rachel ! Dancing Bear ! Mour ! dickens Sara T. Punk ! Inaba ! Johnston ! LaCook ! Seymonds ! Ellsworth ! Miner |
Cheryl Townsend is the Editor of Impetus magazine & head of Implosion Press. She created the Impecunious Poetry Project and hosts readings where ever she can. She recently formed W.A.R.M. (The Womens Art Recognition Movement) and has been setting up art shows throughout Ohio promoting the art of women. She is the head cat at cat's Impetuous Books & stuff in Kent, Ohio... (get the feeling there's a little imp in her?) She has been published in hundreds of journals, anthologies and collections and has been working on a collective to shop around. An avid photographer and abstract painter...cat's work can be viewd at: |
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cait collins |
cait collins lives almost anywhere from Philadelphia to L.A. but mostly lives. she maintains such duties as editor/publisher/columist/webmistress of the HOLD e-zine, designs web sites and pretends to be a poet. unlike others, her poetry is unlike others. her work appears in the HOLD, Thunder Sandwich, PoetikLicense and Poetry Central. she has not banned catholic organizations and the frail of explicit language from her website. chapbooks available: |
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dAev grew up in the slums of Calcutta selling handmade gourd rattles to tourists for pinto beans. Later he migrated to America on the back of a giant sea turtle. Then, one day, he decided to start The HOLD, and the rest is pretty much history. |
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Michael Hathaway |
Michael Hathaway founded Chiron Review literary magazine in 1982 at the age of 19. He lives in St. John, KS with 14 cats and roommate Ratboy. He has worked as a typesetter, personal care assistant for the mentally disabled, society editor for daily newspaper and many other odd jobs. This is his first e-zine publication, as far as he knows. He's been published in Atom Mind, Pearl, Gypsy, Blank Gun Silencer, Nerve Cowboy, Medicinal Purposes, Waterways, Cat Fancy and most recently in the anthologies: A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry (Barricade); Obsessions: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Memoirs (Penguin), using the pseudonym Jeremy Michaels; and Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse. |
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Jim Chandler |
Jim Chandler's work has appeared in numerous literary and college magazines and newspapers during the last 35 years. His latest chapbook is The Word Is All There is from Mt. Aukum Press. Chandler has poetry forthcoming in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, a 900 plus page anthology due out from Thunder's Mouth Press in October. He was editor and publisher of Thunder Sandwich magazine in the eighties and currently operates an online version of that magazine. |
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Craig Sernotti lives in the overly-populated state of NJ in the overly-populated country of America in the overly-populated 3rd plant from the sun called Earth. |
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goo is a troubled individual who has dabbled in various drugs for years which has most likely effected his brain, he is going through a divorce and looking to get laid. His life-long dream is to destroy the earth. |
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elaine thomas |
Elaine co-hosts the "Room 11" message board with poet Michael McNeilley. Her work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications including (but not limited to) Thunder Sandwich, Peshekee River Poetry, Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, Poetry Super Highway, idiolect, and, yes, the hold. She currently lives in Indiana, though happily this is about to change. |
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Scotts' authored 9 poetry books. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines in 26 countries and 5 languages, including journals such as The Minnesota Review, Hawaii Review, Wisconsin Review, Kiosk, Chiron Review, Long Shot, Exquisite Corpse, Textual Studies in Canada, Pacific Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arkansas Review, Lullwater Review, and Southern Review. |
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Dolomite |
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hello i am trellis and i am a gay robot on acid. |
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I am a 29-year-old fiction writer, living in Michigan. I grew up for the most part in St Louis Missouri and Southern California. I have been to college for Journalism, receiving my 2- year associates degree. I then went on to study Fire Science, accumulating a number of credits, receiving my Hazardous Materials Technician level certification, and my Fire Fighter1 certification. I have also had Emergency Medical Training. My interest in that field has somewhat dwindled away recently. I have worked as a Bartender, a residential painter, a pizza deliveryman, a dishwasher, a waiter, a roofer, a landscaper, a salsa maker, a golf glove packager, a factory worker, a freelance Journalist, A brick layer, and the list goes on and on… At present, all I care about is writing fiction. I plan on writing a novel in the future. |
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Marc Ellis |
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Donna Hill lives in British Columbia, Canada with her three sons. She has been seriously writing poetry for just over a year now, drawing much of her writing style for realism from life around her, her family, and her work as child educator. Donna's poems have appeared in print locally, One Dog Press out of Ca., Niederngrasse from Switzerland, and are published online by a number of web-zines, including Thunder Sandwich, Free Zone Quarterly, Writer's Choice, and Poetry Magazine.com. Her first chapbook entitled "Love & Other Mysteries" is available online at Thunder Sandwich Productions. |
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Asked to submit a bio for this bit a' madness I aint got much to own to: Born with Mom in the room anyway. Had some pretensions early then had to find a job. Now I'm sittin' here and your reading this. Ain't much else, is there? Booze, pharmacueticals, pschyedelics; ya, it all figgers in...but I SWEAR TO YOUR FUCKIN GOD if anybody else fucks my mother for money owed me...nonono...no more O' Dippin' Da Puss...s'like this...GODDAMMIT...you know who you motherfuckers are... |
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Name: Bracelets_HELL....~JaMIE...t0 thoSE ..wh0..shaRE theyre Cigs...alalallalaaa)_+ Grew up in the TRenches 0f NeW~YorK CiTY....Where i,,,Developed ...a...senSE..FoR__(((( PaIN)))=(strongley advise anyone to stay away from cellars)~~__Started Writing At Age 4yrs=When singing newest peom in caR~mommy SAid!!==Shad up...I'll ..?~_. *I now livE in..Gutter oF miami=South=Beach+...And do_*Sing*...and..they still say...SHaD~UP..alallallalla* +my peotry is true crimes true things as are my songs+ +if youR in miami__finD,,mE...in,,,a muSic,,cellar....Bangin mY guitar+ ~~oh yea,,,,im,,a Chic...heeee...31 yrs old....~~~BuT!! 700yrs VAmpyRE..*...non-re-flective*__)_+(~_C-ya-Be-Well-_"anYone got a cig?...? Type 0f Poetry:____SLidin___ |
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R. L. Stephenson has been livin' with the cactus and horny toads for many years. It certainly has affected his views, not to mention the few dances with peyote doin' the same. Slingin' hash, or grub to most folks, being an accomplished Executive Chef has put the groceries in the fridge and a roof over his head. His work appears on various websites, and he is currently publishing a chapbook, entitled "NoLa in the Streets" a N'awlins groove. |
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Lincoln Sward: born 10/08/74 in Escondido, CA |
Michael McNeilley co-edits Zero City, with JJ Webb; was Founding Director of the National Student News Service; worked as a reporter and correspondent in Washington, DC; and has published hundreds of poems and stories in magazines such as New York Quarterly, New Delta Review, Poet, Chicago Review, Oyster Boy Review, Cross-Connect, Sonoma Mandala, Hyphen, Minotaur, Slipstream, Cafe Review, Pink Cadillac, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, Plazm, DAM, Lilliput Review, Boulliabaisse, Writers' Forum, Green Fuse, Rockford Review, Mississippi Review, God's Bar Unplugged, Impetus, Tight, xib, Penny Dreadful, Exquisite Corpse, Atom Mind and elsewhere, including websites worldwide. |
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Rachel 's favorite writing style is actually prose poetry, of which she has a number of her poems published both in hard copy and over the web. However she has also been known to dabble with a few fiction pieces {said with a coy smile} Feel free to drop a her a friendly hello, at writeme_99@hotmail.com |
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Dancing Bear is of Chippewa and Swedish ancestry. He lives in the San Francisco bay area. His poems and art have been published in many journals, including New York Quarterly, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Slipstream, Perihelion, Pearl and Nerve Cowboy. He is the editor of the on-line magazine Disquieting Muses. Dancing Bear's third chapbook, Prospero in Therapy (Dream Horse Press), was released in August 1999 and his forth, Atlas (Red Fruit Press) is due out in the Fall of 1999. |
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Dickens. Born illegitimate when it was shameful, son of a WWII marine who, missing in action, turned back up--for one night, at least. Thanx, Dad. Mom was Rosie the Riveter at aircraft plant in Wichita, KS, then became Lois the Dominatrix long before any of us heard of the word. Enormous physical abuse, but at least she didn't charge. Reform school at 16 (bank robbery, car theft, assault, B&E), 17th birthday in solitary confinement. Successful escape, meaning the bastards never caught me. Higher education at various colleges and universities, including Kansas University as well as studying Hawaiian and Japanese languages in Honolulu. English Major. 26 or so years in Honolulu, 3 in Vancouver. Taught English in Japan. 3 great kids, 1 of whom still loves me. Hopeless drunk, currently sober. Homeless. Dharma Bum. Damn good poet. Kinky, too. |
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Sara T. Punk was born and raised in a vile little church town in northeastern Oklahoma. ...about 5,000 very oppressive people and 32 churches... 'nuff said. |
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APB: Allison Inaba. Last seen alive and well in San Mateo, California. Considered heavily armed with poetry and dangerous. |
Shannon Michele Johnston kicks it in Northern California (somewhere near Jim Carrey) with her husband Dale and her five children. She has no MAJOR police records and is currently working as a Domestic Diva, an Art Docent (look the word up, it means cheap labor-as in free) and pretends be a starving artist...please send donations.. |
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Lewis LaCook was born in Lorain Ohio on November 5, 1970, making him a Scorpio. At fifteen he joined the Black River Poets, and had his first published poems appear in their review. Leaving the group in his early twenties, he wrote features for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, and the Lorain Journal. He is currently an undergraduate English major at Kent State University. |
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Dan is 27 and lives in London. He writes poetry in between choking on the pollution and snarling at strangers on the underground, which can be hauntingly liberating. Dan hosts a weekly online "open mic" poetry reading, which can be accessed through his homepage. |
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steven is an ohio native who has moved south to athens, ga where he writes poetry, plays guitar, and swings a hammer for a living. now that the dust has settled from a life of emotional bloodloss he has started over at the ripe age of 29 and can be seen from miles away as a single flower growing atop mountainous pile of shit... |
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