July Issue

July Issue

TABLE OF CONTENTS

John Grey
Australian born poet, playwright, musician. Latest book is  “What Else Is There” from Main Street Rag. Recently in The   English Journal, The Pedestal, Pearl and the Journal Of The American   Medical Association.

Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey is a Seattle-area writer whose first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, was recently published by Steel Toe Books. Poems from the book have appeared multiple times on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, and The Evansville Review. Her chapbook, “Female Comic Book Superheroes,” was published by Pudding House Press and is available at her web site, www.webbish6.com.

Jeff Walt
Was a semi-finalist in the 2006 “Discovery”/The Nation contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has completed writing residencies at Djerassi and The MacDowell Colony. Poems have appeared in various literary journals including Poetry International, Runes, Americas Review, Connecticut Review, Alehouse Review, The Sun, and New Millennium Writings.

R.T. Castleberry
A writer, editor and wit, R.T. Castleberry is assistant editor at Lily Literary Review, a co-founder and director of the Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe—a literary performance group, and former co-editor/publisher of the poetry publication Curbside Review.
His work has been published in Green Mountains Review, Texas Review, The Alembic, Common Ground Review, Pacific Review, Poet Lore and myriad other journals, both nationally and internationally.
Mr. Castleberry lives and works in Houston, Texas.

A.D. Winans
A.D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer. He is the author of over 45 books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. He is the former Editor and Publisher of Second Coming Magazine/Press, and a member of PEN. In 2005 a poem of his was set to music and performed at Tully Hall, NYC. He is the winner of a PEN National Josephine Miles Literary Excellence Award. Presa Press recently published a book of his Selected Poems: The Other Side Of Broadway: Selected Poems 1965-2005.

Steve Davenport
Steve Davenport is the Creative Nonfiction Editor of Ninth Letter. You can read more of his poetry in Uncontainable Noise (2006), which won Pavement Saw's Transcontinental Poetry Award, and his fiction/nonfiction in Black Warrior Review, 580 Split, Diagram, and Fiction International.

Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin’s ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME was just published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006. It has been selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. (ORDER@GODINE.COM ). Also out in 2006 is her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MY YEAR WITH RUFFIAN from TEXAS REVIEW PRESS. Other of Lifshin’s recent prizewinning books include BEFORE IT’S LIGHT published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of COLD COMFORT in 1997.Other recently published books and chap books include : IN MIRRORS from Presa Press and UPSTATE: AN UNFINISHED STORY from Foot Hills and THE DAUGHTER I DON’T HAVE from Plan B Press. Other new books include WHEN A CAT DIES, ANOTHER WOMAN’S STORY, BARBIE POEMS, SHE WAS LAST SEEN TREADING WATER and MAD GIRL POEMS, A NEW FILM ABOUT A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH THE DEAD, came from March Street Press in 2003. She has published more than 120 books of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE, BLUE TATTOO, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women’s writing including: TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE’S THREAD and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, ANo More Apologizing has been called Aamong the most impressive documents of the women’s poetry movement, by Alicia Ostriker. An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, AOn The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace, was published Spring 2003. She has several forthcoming books including WHAT MATTERS MOST. TSUNAMI is forthcoming from BLUE UNICORN. Arielle Press will publish POETS (MOSTLY) WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME, LIVING AND DEAD. ALL TRUE, ESPECIALLY THE LIES summer of 2006. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com. She is working on a new collection of selected poems, a collection of poems about the amazing race horse Barbaro as well as other collections.

Larry D. Thomas
Larry D. Thomas, who resides in Houston, has published seven collections of poems. Among the numerous prizes and awards he has received for his poetry are the 2004 Violet Crown Award (Writers’ League of Texas), 2003 Western Heritage Award (Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma), two Texas Review Poetry Prizes (2004 and 2001), and two Pushcart Prize nominations. On April 19, 2007, he was appointed by the Texas Legislature as the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate.

Bryce Milligan
Bryce Milligan is a modern troubadour, or, as Edward Hirsch called him recently, “a contemporary muse poet.” Bloomsbury Review called him a “literary wizard.” He calls himself a jack-of-all-genres. He is a prolific poet, playwright, critic, novelist (for young adults) and children’s author. Novelist and writing guru John Gardner wrote of Milligan’s first book, Daysleepers & Other Poems, over twenty years ago: “Milligan is a real poet, with the real poet’s sure voice, richness and variety, technical skill, and above all, delight in risk. . . . He pulls out all the stops, and because he knows so surely what he’s talking about, and has an ear so unerring and an eye so partisan yet unblinking, he gets away with it. Reading him is a joy.” Or as Daisy Aldan put it: “Here is an ancient intuitive vision and unity brought to the modern experience. This is a poet who will delight those who revere the word.” Milligan has been trying to live up to those overly-kind words for the last 30 years.  Milligan is also a musician and songwriter, a maker of guitars and other stringed instruments, an occasional sculptor, a teacher when he has to be, and an arts activist and organizer, and an inveterate high country wanderer.   Among other things he was a co-founder and long-time director of the Inter-American Bookfair, the Latina Letters annual conference, and two literary magazines. He has been the publisher/editor of Wings Press in San Antonio, Texas, since 1995. He has been married for 32 years to Mary, a librarian and sometime co-editor. They have two children, accomplished scholars both.

Dale Wisely
has poems and short fiction in America, Amaryllis, Birmingham Poetry Review, National Catholic Reporter, Poet’s Canvas, Salt River Review, Main Street rag, Birmingham Arts Journal, Blue Collar Review and elsewhere. He is the author of a chapbook, Visitation. Dale co-operates a small literary press, MERCY SEAT PRESS, and edits and designs books for the press. He has visual art forthcoming in the art and lit website: Unpleasant Events Schedule. Dale is the editor on the on-line literary journal: Right Hand Pointing.

Stella Brice
received her degree in English Lit. from Rice University; & has worked, variously as housecleaner, tarot reader & performance artist. Her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in Frank, Fine Madness, Southern Poetry Review, the anthology of border poetry Tierra Cruzada/Crossed Land & many others. She is a winner of the John Z. Bennet Prize & is co-editor of the literary journal: Art Club. Her first collection of poems, Green Lion was released in the spring of 2005.

Arlene Ang
lives in Spinea, Italy. Her poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming in Forklift Ohio, 42opus, Liminal Pleasures, Nthposition, Painted Bride Quarterly and Unpleasant Event Schedule. She was awarded The Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2006. Website: www.leafscape.org/aang

Bruce New
was born in 1970. He currently resides in the wilds of northern Kentucky, with a bird and a son, on a mountain top, right next to the sun, where he creates his artwork high on butterfly wine.