Bruce Bennett was born in 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started to write poetry when he was eight. In the 1970s his poems began appearing regularly in magazines and anthologies. He received his AB, AM and PhD from Harvard, and taught English at Oberlin College from 1967-70, where he co-founded and served as an editor … Continued
Barbara Boncek has published her poems in many small literary journals. She was on the editorial board of Oxalis, a literary journal that was published for several years in Stone Ridge, NY She was a member of the Catskill Caravan, a group of poets who read throughout the Hudson Valley and the New England States. … Continued
Suzanne Cleary was born and raised in Binghamton, New York. Her poetry books are Keeping Time (2002), Trick Pear (2007), both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. A book reviewer for Bloomsbury Review and Professor of English at SUNY Rockland, she has an MA in Writing from Washington University and a Ph.D. in Literature and … Continued
Michael Coffey was raised in the small hamlet of Saranac in upstate New York. His father was a correction officer at Clinton Correctional Facility (Dannemora) and his mother a registered nurse in Plattsburgh. He graduated from Saranac Central High School in 1972, and received a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame (1976) … Continued
Mary Cuffe was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and has lived in upstate New York for the last several years. She has lived in Galway, Saratoga County, for four years. She is a Communications Specialist for a not for profit trade association representing community based agencies that provide services to people with disabilities. She is a … Continued
Martin Willitts Jr is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York. He currently evaluates Prior Learning Evaluations for SUNY Empire State College. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 11 Pushcart and 12 Best of the Net awards. He provided his hands-on workshop “How to Make … Continued
Irving Weiss was born in the Bronx, New York, and attended public schools in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Michigan in 1942 and then served 1942-1945 in the 95th Infantry Division in Europe. After receiving his Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from Columbia University … Continued
Thom Ward holds degrees in English from The College of Wooster and the SUNY College at Brockport. Currently, he is Editor/Development Director for BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house of American poetry and poetry in translation. His poetry books include Small Boat with Oars of Different Size,published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999 and … Continued
(1925-2023) Novelist, essayist, poet. Helen Barolini was born and grew up in Syracuse, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University. She did work at the University of London and traveled in Europe as a special columnist for the Syracuse Herald-Journal. In Italy she met and married fellow journalist and writer, Antonio Barolini. During her residence … Continued
Various pieces by RD Armstrong (Raindog) have appeared in Spillway, Pearl, Unwound, Haight Ashbury Review, Drinking With Bukowski, Art/Life, Genre, The Lummox Journal, bender, Pitchfork, Poetry Motel, Chiron Review, Momentum Magazine and others. His poems are anthologized in “Das Ist Alles,” Pearl Editions 1995; “Last Call: A Legacy of Madness” (also editor), Vinegar Hill Press … Continued