CINDY BEER-FOUHY is the Director of Literary Arts at the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts. She develops writing courses and curriculum and teaches poetry and creative writing workshops for children, teens and adults. Cindy is Founder and Coordinator of the Creative Arts Café, the weekly poetry series at NWCA, now in its fourth year, … Continued
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
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
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
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
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.