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
Catherine Coy began work as the Poets House Program Director after completing her MFA in poetry from Columbia University in 1997. Before joining the staff full-time, she had been with Poets House for two years as a volunteer and Program Assistant. She moved to New York from Chicago, where she received her BA in English … Continued
Ram Devineni recently produced Vegas: Based on a True Story, by Amir Naderi, which was selected for competition at the 2008 Venice Film Festival and won the ITVS Diversity Development Fund. He is working on a documentary on the poet Allen Ginsberg’s life in India and a poetry video series for MIND TV in Philadelphia. … Continued
LINDA BULLARD serves as program coordinator for adults at the Saratoga Springs Public Library. During the past fifteen years she has initiated the combination public reacing/reading group concept, the first local authors book fair, and the poem give-away during National Poetry Month.
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 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
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.
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.