Janelle Adsit is currently in Brooklyn finishing her thesis on creative writing pedagogy. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Caketrain, Oyez Review, Inkwell, Euphony, and Broken Bridge Review.

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Kenneth M. Camacho is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina. His work focuses on the relationship between race and masculinity in twentieth century American literature. He is also co-editor of "The Paterson Project," a blog-based poetry experiment recognized as a finalist for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative's 2008 Poetry Award. He currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife and daughter.

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Laura Davenport is currently in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poem "The Year of Small Boats" was nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project last year.

• The Lisbon Typist

Rory Douglas lives in Shoreline, Washington, and is an M.F.A. student at Goddard College. His work has appeared on Eyeshot.net, Pindeldyboz.com, and McSweeneys.net. His favorite dinosaur is the stegosaurus.

• Old Cougar’s

Michael Kroesche is currently an MFA student at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, with a focus in poetry. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 2008, majoring in Creative Writing with a minor in French. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, he's 22 years-old, and published his first collection titled Summer Hymnals through Elik Press in 2004.

• Migratory Patterns 1

Caroline A. LeBlanc is a writer, artist, workshop leader and retired RN and psychotherapist living in Adams, NY and currently enrolled in Spalding University's MFA in Creative Writing program. Her art, poetry and essay have been published in the Black River Review as well as national newsletters and journals. Ms. LeBlanc finds inspiration in nature, music, movement, mask work, cross-cultural studies, mythology and Jungian psychology and offers group workshops to explore the deep connections with nature and ourselves.

• WHOLE MILK SOUNDS

Mark Pawlak grew up in Buffalo, New York, and has lived in the Boston area ever since he attended college at MIT. He has taught writing, science and mathematics at various levels and is presently Director of Academic Support Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he teaches mathematics. Official Versions is Mark Pawlak's fifth poetry collection. The other most recent titles being Special Handling: Newspaper Poems New and Selected and All the News. His poetry and prose has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2006 (Billy Collins, ed.), New American Writing, Off The Coast, Pemmican, The Saint Ann's Review and The World, among other places. In addition, he is editor of four anthologies, most recently, Present/Tense: Poets in the World, an anthology of contemporary American political poetry, featuring work from some of the country's best-known writers. He also co-edited Shooting the Rat: Outstanding Poems and Stories by High School Writers, the third in a series of anthologies drawn from the celebrated high school section of Hanging Loose magazine. He has been the recipient of two Massachusetts Artist Fellowship awards. Pawlak is a co-editor of Hanging Loose magazine and press, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year. It is one of the oldest, if not the oldest independent literary press in the country. Hanging Loose is noted for being the poetry publisher of such award winning writers as Sherman Alexie, Jayne Cortez, Kimiko Hahn, and Ha Jin, among many many others.

• from Quoddy Journal 2007, Lubec Maine

Joyce Peseroff is the author of 4 books of poems, most recently Eastern Mountain Time, and the editor of The Ploughshares Poetry Reader, Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake, and Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon.

• THE YIN AND YANG OF IT
• SOME LIMITS TO HAPPINESS

Jason Roush is the author of three books of poems: After Hours (2005), Breezeway (2007), and Crosstown (2009). His poetry and reviews have appeared in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Bay Windows, Brooklyn Review, Cimarron Review, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. He teaches writing, literature, and cultural studies at Emerson College, where he is Faculty Assistant to the Director of the Honors Program.

• The Career Test
• The Faeries, Sleeping

Jeffrey Taylor completed his B.A. at the University of Utah, with a creative writing emphasis. He is currently living in Boston, where he attends the MFA poetry program and teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts.His literary publications include fiction and poetry in Enormous Rooms, Subtle Tea and Centrifugal Eye. His chapbook of poetry, don't put it in your mouth was published summer 2008 by Elik Press.In 2007, he was the Poetry Editor for The Watermark, a literary magazine published by the University of Massachusetts. In 2007-2008 was the Assistant Poetry Editor for the online literary journal, Prick of the Spindle. He is also co-managing editor of Temporary Press.

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Cate Whetzel is a recent graduate of Indiana's MFA. program and a poetry editor emeritas of Indiana Review. She currently lives in Chicago where she teaches poetry to elementary school students through the Hands on Stanzas program at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

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Frannie Lindsay's second volume of poetry, Lamb, was selected Perugia Press's 2006 Intro Award winner and was the runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her first volume, Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press, 2004), was selected by J.D. McClatchy as the winner of the May Swenson Award. She is the 2009 winner of the Missouri Review Prize.Her poems have appeared individually in The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, Black Warrior Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, Field, Salamander, Beloit Poetry Journal, Passages North, Harvard Review, Poetry East, Tampa Review, Hunger Mountain, Poet Lore, and many other journals. They have also been featured on Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, and read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's Writer's Almanac. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer 's Workshop. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony.

• Snow Party
• The Clear Midnight

J. Tamayo lives and works in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her work was a finalist for the 2008 Annual William Wisdom Creative Writing Award based out of The Faulkner House's Words & Music Festival. Her poem "XIII." is part of a forthcoming longer sequence of poems, "Imagined Family Portraits."

• from Imagined Family Portraits

Robert Edwards is the author of Radio Venceremos, Fragments From A Graffitied Wall, and Transparencies. He edits the online political literary journal Pemmican. Edwards currently lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

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• SNAPSHOT