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.
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.
THAD RUTKOWSKI: Thad’s fiction was nominated for a 1998 Pushcart Prize. His novel, Roughouse, will be published in the spring of 1999 by Kaya Productions in New York.
KIMIKO HAHN is the author of air Pocket (Hanging Loose Press, 1989), Earshot (HLP, 1992)–awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award–The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American Book Award, Volatile (HLP, forthcoming, 1998), and Mosquito and Ant (W.W. Norton, forthcoming, 1999.) She is currently … Continued
J. D. Rage is a self-published poet and novelist. She is also an editor of Venom Press and the magazine Curare.
Born in the Red Hook, New York projects, Carolyn A. Butts is a self-described “artrepreneur” who has forged a successful business catering to artists and art lovers. Carolyn founded African Voices Communications, Inc. at 25. A graduate of Long Island University and the High School of Graphic Communication Arts, she began her career as a … Continued