Ione is the author of Pride of Family, Four Generations of Women of Color (Summit Books, 1991; paperback, Avon Books, 1993). Pride of Family is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and on the New York Public Library’s list of 25 Books to Remember. Her memoir was inspired by the 1868 diary … Continued
Rick Pernod is the founder and director of Exoterica, a Bronx-based literary organization that produces workshops, literary events, and Poetry at the Poor Mouth, the award-winning poetry series now in its seventh year. Most recently he was chosen by the Museum of the City of New York to produce a companion poetry series for their … 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 Café 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.