William Seaton is the author of Spoor of Desire: Selected Poems (FootHills Publishing), Tourist Snapshots (CC Marimbo), and Cold Water (Monkey’s Press). His Dada Poems from the German is forthcoming from Nirala. Seaton’s poetry, reviews, translations, and essays have recently appeared in Poetry Flash, Chiron Review, Adirondack Review, Gander Press Review, Burp, and Chronogram. An … Continued
Vittoria Repetto is the Vice-President/ Co-Founder of the Italian American Writers Association, Inc.. She has been published in Mudfish, The Paterson Literary Review, Italian Americana, VIA (Voices in Italian Americana),Gertude, Amethyst, Lips, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, Curaggia: Writings by Women of Italian Descent, Identity Lessons: Learning American Style and Hey Paesan! … Continued
Barbara Raab, Co-chair and co-curator of In Our Own Write, is a network news television producer and a freelance contributor to entertainment television shows. She also contributes articles and short book reviews to magazines including OUT, USA Today, and Chicago Magazine. She is a past board member and chapter president of the National Lesbian and … Continued
Bruce Weber is an organizer of ABC No Rio’s Unorganized Reading and the alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza at CafĂ© Nico. He is author of These Poems Are Not Pretty (with Jan McLaughlin, Palmetto Press, 1991) and How The Poem Died (Linear Arts Press, 1998). By day he is Director of Research and … Continued
Carol Rosenfeld is a New York City-based poet, writer, and aspiring performance artist. She is the author of two self-published chapbooks, Poems I Can’t Show My Mother and Poems That Will Never Make the Norton Anthology. Her poem “Dyke-otomy” will appear in the forthcoming Poetry Nation, edited by Regie Cabico. She is currently working on … Continued
Carl Herr is a poet whose work has appeared in Struggle, Driver’s Side Airbag, and Ragshock. He organized a reading series at the Queens Independent Living Center relating to disability issues and oversees Our Unorganized Reading once a month.
LOUIS PARASCONDOLA is an Associate Professor of English at Long Island University. He holds a Ph. D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. He has been curating the poetry series at LIU and NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan Library for many years. His research interests include Black Literature (especially the Harlem Renaissance) and Victorian Literature.