Peter Arcese teaches literature at NYU and performing poetry at HB Studio in Manhattan. He has translated Aeschylus' Agamemnon into English syllabic verse, as well as fragments of Sappho. His original poetry most recently appeared in New York Quarterly. He is co-founder and president of Athanata Arts, Ltd., an independent publishing and production company, and is a practicing trusts and estates attorney concentrating in estate planning and charitable gift planning in support of arts and education.
Stanley H. Barkan is the editor/publisher of Cross-Cultural
Communications, which has, to date, published some 350 titles in 50
different languages. In 1991 Poets House and the NYC Board of
Education presented him with the Poetry Teacher of the Year Award, and
in 1996 he received the Poor Richard's Award "for a quarter century of high quality publishing." His writing has been translated into 22
languages. Last May, he was the first solo featured poet at the Dylan
Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales. His latest book, his fourteenth, is Strange Seasons.
Svea Barrett lives with her husband and three sons in NJ, where she teaches high school creative writing. Her work has appeared in various online and print publications such as Samsara Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, LIPS, Edison Literary Review, and Journal of New Jersey Poets. Svea won Second Place (tied) in the 2003 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, and her chapbook, Why I Collect Moose, won the 2005 Poets Corner Press Poetry Chapbook Contest.
Rachel Bunting is a born and bred South Jersey girl currently living between the Delaware River and the Pine Barrens. Her poetry can be found in Mad Poets Review, Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and the online journals Wicked Alice and Apple Valley Review. She likes sushi, acupuncture, and Tony Hoagland, and is the co-founder and president of the Quick and Dirty Poets.
Sandra Duguid was born and raised in rural western New York, and many of her poems derive from that rural setting. She has taught creative writing and literature at several colleges, and is currently Assistant Director of the Academic Support Center at Caldwell College. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies, on-line journals, and magazines such as Journal of New Jersey Poets, Modern Poetry Studies, America, Anglican Theological Review, Earth’s Daughters, and West Branch. She is the recipient of a Fellowship in Poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and has been a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.
Ira Joe Fisher’s poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, The Alembic, New York Quarterly, Entelechy International, Diner, Ridgefield Magazine and the anthology, Confrontation. He is the author of Some Holy Weight in the Village Air (Athanata Arts, Ltd.) and Remembering Rew. Ira has a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from New England College. He has taught poetry, communications and broadcast history at New England College, and now lectures and teaches at the University of Connecticut and Pace University.
Roberta Gould began writing poetry when she attended the National University of Mexico on an exchange scholarship during her college years. Her recent work has appeared in Home Planet News, The New York Times, Catholic Worker, Jewish Currents, Village Voice, Borderlands, and Confrontation and in the anthologies, Mixed Voices and The Art and Craft of Poetry. She is the author of eight books of poetry; her most recent, Pacing the Wind, was published this fall.
Jim Gwyn began writing poetry and fiction in the Sixties. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as Voices Rising from the Grove, Spindrift, and Paterson: The Poet’s City. His journal publications include Lips, Paterson Literary Review, and Edison Literary Review. He won Honorable Mention in the 2001, 2002, and 2004 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards contests, and his "Love Poem #1,210,004" received a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Nicole Hefner's poems, stories and essays have appeared in many publications including Painted Bride Quarterly, Washington Square, New York Quarterly and lingo. She was a finalist in the Iowa Review Award for Literary Nonfiction and was named notable reading for The 2004 Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is a Language Lecturer at New York University and lives in Brooklyn with her fiance.
Adele Kenny is the author of 21 books (poetry and nonfiction). Her poems have been published throughout the US and abroad, as well as in books and anthologies from Crown, Mc-Graw Hill, and Tuttle. She is the recipient of various honors for her poetry, including two NJ State Arts Council fellowships and awards for the 2007 Merton Poetry of the Sacred Prize and 2006 Paumanok Poetry Award. Several of her poems have received Pushcart Prize nominations, and she is currently poetry editor of Tiferet. She has been featured at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and is the founder/director of the Carriage House Poetry Series.
Autumn Konopka’s poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Crab Orchard Review, Re)Verb, Ekphrasis, Birmingham Poetry Review, and HiNgE Online. She won first prize in the 11th Annual Mad Poets Review Competition and has read her poetry throughout the region, including performances in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the 215 Festival. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University.
John Larkin is a retired Electronic Engineer. He has been published in
Paterson Literary Review, Edison Literary Review, Home Planet News, Big Hammer and elsewhere. He has been a featured reader at several New Jersey venues. John is an assistant editor/typist for the Edison Literary Review and has photographed three of the five covers for that publication.
Robert Milby, of Florida NY, has been reading his poetry throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond since March 1995. He hosts six poetry readings in the Hudson Valley. Robert has been published in Home Planet News, Hunger Magazine, Will Work For Peace, and other journals and anthologies. His first book of poetry, Ophelia's Offspring, will be published by Foothills Publishing in 2007. Revenant Echo (Sontrope Recordings, 2004) is his spoken word cd.
Sanjana Nair's work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pudding Int'l and other journals. She is a Professor for the City Universities of New York (CUNY) where she has served as guest poet and writing judge. She is also a founder of Kundiman, Inc., a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) sponsored group promoting Asian American poetry, and has collaborated with Composer's Collaborative for the Non-Sequiter Series for which she appeared on National Public Radio's (NPR) Soundcheck. She lives and writes in Manhattan.
Alison Nguyen is a resident of Morristown, NJ, and has studied
poetry under the direction of Michael S. Harper at Brown University.
Her literary interests include the work of Vietnamese poets and the work of Vietnam vets. Her first published poem appears in the current issue of the Journal of New Jersey Poets.
Priscilla Orr, a recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo, is the author of Jugglers & Tides. Orr’s poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, Worcester Review, and other journals, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Geraldine R. Dodge poet, Orr resides in Hamburg, NJ, and is an Associate Professor of English at Sussex County Community College.
Wanda S. Praisner is a recipient of Poetry Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She won the Devil's Millhopper Kudzu Prize and has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. Her books are A Fine and Bitter Snow (Palanquin Press, 2003) and On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona, winner of the 2005 Spire Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is a Poet in Residence for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Edwin Romond's latest book of poetry is Dream Teaching (Grayson Books.) His poems have been featured on NPR and have appeared widely in college texts, anthologies, and journals such as The Sun, Lips, Exit 13, Tiferet, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and Barrow Street. He also wrote the book, music, and lyrics for two musical plays, A Family Life and Robin Hood, both produced at New Jersey community theaters, and his prose memoir, "The Ticket," appears in Tim Russert's best seller, Wisdom of Our Fathers. Before retiring in 2003, he was a public school teacher for 32 years in Wisconsin and New Jersey.
Nancy Scott began writing poetry about ten years ago as a way to record the myriad stories she had heard in her work with homeless families, adoptive and foster children, the mentally ill and the disabled. Her poetry has appeared in many journals, including the Journal of New Jersey Poets, Slant, Out of Line, Exit 13, Slipstream, and The Ledge. She is a member of the U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative. Her first book of poetry is Down to the Quick (Plain View Press, 2007).
Madeline Tiger’s eighth collection of poetry is Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003). She has been a teaching artist since 1974 and a Dodge Poet since 1986. Recent poems appear in the Edison Literary Review, Tiferet, Exit 13, The Marlboro Review, and US 1 Worksheets. Her reviews have appeared in the Journal of New Jersey Poets, Home Planet News, Paterson Literary Review, and American Book Review. She lives in Bloomfield, NJ, under a weeping cherry tree.
David Vincenti is a father, husband, poet, engineer, accordionist, and baseball fan. His poems have appeared in the Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and Paterson Literary Review, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has run writing workshops since 2004, has judged poetry contests on both coasts, and is Spoken Word Artist in Residence at The Center for the Performing Arts at DeBaun Auditorium at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken.
Joe Weil is a lecturer in the graduate creative writing program at
Binghamton University-State University of New York. He is also a
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation poet-in-the-schools and has received an
NFAA certificate of excellence for his work with award-winning students
in both poetry and fiction. His book, Painting the Christmas Trees, is
forthcoming from Texas Review Press.
Michael T. Young has published two collections of poetry: a full-length collection, Transcriptions of Daylight (Rattapallax 2000), and a chapbook, Because the Wind Has Questions (Somers Rocks Press, 1997). He has received a 2007 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and received the Chaffin Poetry Award for 2005. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Heliotrope, Hidden Oak, Rattle, and Spillway. He has lives with his wife and newborn in Jersey City, New Jersey.
