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Carol Leavitt Altieri was awarded the Degree of Advanced Study at Wesleyan University, after receiving a Master’s Degree in English and American literature and a Sixth Year Degree in Educational Leadership at Southern Connecticut State University. While there, she received “Graduate Poet of the Year.” In 2005-2006, she received Silver Laureate Award for Poetry by National Senior Poets’ Laureate. In 2006, she received First Prize in California State Poetry Contest and First Prize in Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest of the Connecticut Poetry Society. As recipient of an English Speakers Union’s Scholarship, Carol has studied English literature and culture at the University of London for two summers and participated in Yale/New Haven Teachers Institute for six years. A member of the Guilford Poets Guild, she is now a retired English and science teacher working as a literacy volunteer. She has published three previous books of poetry, In Beijing, There Are No Dawn Redwoods, The Isinglass River and The Jade Bower Aside from spending a great deal of time working for natural conservation and against the destruction of the environment, she writes essays, memoir, letters and poetry. In addition, she enjoys her grandchildren, hiking, birding, traveling, and reading: natural history, novels, essays, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Christine Beck is the former President of the Connecticut Poetry Society and is currently the Contest Chairperson of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. She is a member of the board of directors of The Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens and of The Riverwood Poetry Series. Her poems have been published in the anthologies, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, Grayson Books, 2003, and Everybody Says Hello, Grayson Books, 2009. Her poems have appeared in such journals such as J Journal, Passager, Connecticut River Review, Long River Run, and Caduceus. She is also the author of the short play, Behind the Beats. She is an attorney and instructor of legal studies at the University of Hartford and has published a textbook on forensic evidence. Sherri [Sheryll] Bedingfield works as a licensed psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist. Her poetry appears in Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, Poems about Marriage, Grayson Books, and The Breath of Parted Lips, Voices from the Robert Frost Place, Vol. 2, Cavan Kerry Press, An Intergenerational Anthology of Writing, West Hartford Remembered, 2004, and Connecticut River Review 2006, 2007. Long River Run 2005, 2007. New Songs from the Meadows, An Anthology of poems from the Wood Memorial Library. And Caduceus, The poets @ Art Place Volume6, 2008. Sherri’s poem Love Struck was performed in “Plays with Poetry” by The East Haddam Stage Company in November 2004. Sherri also enjoys visual arts and dance. She has studied art at Silvermine Art Guild, from other artists on Monhegan Island, in New England, and in the United Kingdom. She has done meditation in the southwestern desert and is intrigued with the details of life, the physical and psychological movements and dynamics of people and animals. Mark Belair is a drummer and percussionist based in New York City. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including The Distillery, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mudfish, Slipstream, The South Carolina Review, and The Sun. His poem, “The Word,” was nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. Visit www.markbelair.com Gaylord Brewer is the founding editor of Poems & Plays. His most recent books are the poetry collection The Martini Diet (Dream Horse) and the novella Octavius the 1st (Red Hen). He teaches at Middle Tennessee State University and in the low-residency MFA program at Murray State. Patricia G. Bullard is from southern, IL. She spent the first twenty years of married life moving thirteen times, due to her husband’s career, and traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East. Patricia began to write poetry after settling in Guilford, CT in 1968 and studied with Richard Raymond, Alice Mattison, Charlotte Courrier and Edwina Trentham. She and her husband just celebrated their 60th anniversary and have four children, seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Matthew Burns is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at Binghamton University where he is associate editor for Harpur Palate. He has been nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project and won an Academy of American Poets College Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, The Georgetown Review, Paddlefish, Upstreet, Spoon River Poetry Review, Jelly Bucket, and others. James Cagney is a writer, poet and performer as well as a Cave Canem fellow from Oakland, Ca. He’s appeared as a featured artist at venues such as the San Francisco Public Library, The Starry Plough, La Pena Cultural Center, Above Paradise Lounge, The Stork Club, The Java House, Mahogany Restaurant, and OK Hotel among others. He appeared in the stage show Four Brothers Featuring Will Power, and performed in Ritual Theater 2000, as well as Celebration of the Word with Maya Angelou and Quincy Troupe. He is the author of four volumes of poetry including Transmitting The Disease and Hot Death. His work has been published in Asili Journal, Cake, Drumvoices, Barbershop Chronicles and Sussurrus. Shulamith S. Chernoff is Professor of Education Emerita at Southern Connecticut State University. She has translated a holocaust survivor’s memoirs; her translation was published in a collection entitled We Remember (1994). In 2000 she was awarded first place in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience.. This award is given annually by the Judah I. Magnes Museum in Berkeley California. She has had poetry published in the Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, Caduceus, Red River Review. Shula’s late husband, Dt. Hyman Chernoff was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University. Four of her six children chose medicine as a career. Her first collection of poetry The Stones Bear Witness was published in 2006 by the Hanover Press . A second edition came out in 2007. Judith Cody’s poetry has won national awards from Atlantic Monthly and Amelia; a poem (in English and Spanish) with its complete archives is in the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent collection, three poems were quarter-finalists in The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, and a poem took honorable mention from the National League of American Pen Women. A poem was awarded the “Conference Find,” top distinction, at the Southern California Writers Conference. Poems appear in journals such as: Nimrod, New York Quarterly, South Carolina Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Xavier Review, Texas Review, Primavera, Phoebe, Fugue, Louisville Review, Madison Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Westview, Rio Grande Review, Binnacle, Carquinez Review, Fox Cry Review, Rattlesnake Review, Poem, Arabesque, RiverSedge, Distillery, Phantasmagoria, Limestone, and many others. Poems are anthologized in: Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 2007, Oakland Out Loud 2007, Words Upon the Waters 2006, and Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2007. Books are: Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 2002; Eight Frames Eight, poems; Roses in Portraiture, photography, Kikimora Publishing Co., 2008. She is a University of California graduate Master Gardener, and she composes chamber music. www.judithcody.com Ginny Lowe Connors is the author of the poetry collection Barbarians in the Kitchen and has edited three poetry anthologies: To Love One Another, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge and Essential Love. The recipient of numerous poetry awards, she works as an English teacher in West Hartford, Connecticut. Kristi Murray Costello is a Lecturer of Writing at SUNY Binghamton. Her work can be found in College English Notes, Connecticut River Review, Subterranean Quarterly, Julie Mango, Ragazine, and Big Muddy Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, among others. In her spare time, she reads poetry, talks politics, and tries to convince her husband that they need a Yorkshire Terrier. Lorri B. Danzig MS, CSL. After a long and successful business career in the herbal products industry, Ms. Danzig is devoting her time to working with others in mid-life and older, teaching the process of transforming aging into sage-ing®. Ms. Danzig is certified to teach this non-denominational program developed by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Ms. Danzig holds a Masters degree in Jewish Studies with a focus on aging and dying, and has professional training in compassionate care of the dying. Ms. Danzig writes she is recovering from a successful brain surgery accomplished by the excellent team at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her experiences of sickness and recovery have greatly enhanced her work with others. Audrey Fitting is an accomplished photographer, artist, auto enthusiast and poet who writes from her true life experiences. Her family and friends are inspiration for her many published poems. She is a member of the Guilford Poets Guild, and The Shoreline Poets. Audrey has many poems and photographs published in newspapers, anthologies, and all of the Caduceus volumes to date, as well as the Connecticut Review and the Martha’s Vineyard News. Now retired, she continues to write poetry and snap photos daily as well as dabble in her many other interests. She resides in North Branford, the town she was born in, and has three adult children, and four beautiful grandchildren. Audrey enjoys exercising, and keeping fit to enjoy every day to the fullest. Tony Fusco is President of the CT Poetry Society and has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Southern Connecticut State University. He is the editor of Caduceus, the anthology of the Yale Medical Group Art Place and past editor of The Connecticut River Review, and Long River Run, journals of the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has been editor of the Southern News and the poetry anthologies High Tide and Sounds and Waves of West Haven. His work as appeared in many publications including the Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, the Red Rock Review, The South Carolina Review, Lips, and The Paterson Review. He is the author of Droplines published in 2009 by Grayson Books and of Jessie’s Garden published in 2004 by Negative Capability Press and three Chapbooks. His poetry has won prizes in several contests including: The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. He is a member of the New England Poetry Club. Tony has produced West Shore Poets a television poetry series at CTV and is web-master for several web sites including the CT Poetry Society. His poem “Harvest” was nominated for a Pushcart Award. Tony works at the Yale Medical Group in New Haven and lives in West Haven with his wife Patti, has two adult children and three grandsons. George Gott is a retired teacher from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where he taught for many years. He has had over seven hundred poems published in magazines in the United States and many other countries. Kathleen Greiger has been published in many publications, including Healing Muse, Windy Hill, Breath and Shadow and YJHM. Lorence Gutterman has been an oncologist/hematologist involved in patient care. He is an author and teaches creative writing to medical, nursing, and public health students in the Humanities in Medicine Program at Yale University School of Medicine. His poems and prose have been published or are forthcoming in several literary journals including JAMA, River Teeth, Caduceus, The Healing Muse, Common Ground Review and others. He and his wife Sharon, married 47 years, continue their spiritual journey together through meditation, mindfulness, and yoga. Pat Hale has written poetry and stories since she was a little girl. Her poetry has appeared in CALYX, Sow’s Ear, Long River Run, Dogwood, Connecticut River Review, and other journals. Her awards include CALYX’s 2005 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize and first prize in the Connecticut Poetry Society’s 2007 Al Savard Poetry Competition. She lives in West Hartford. Myronn Hardy is the author of two collections of poems, Approaching the Center, winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, and FIELD among others. He lives in New York City James Harker, Jr. was raised in Clayton, North Carolina. He has been writing poetry for the past ten years. He has recently won first prize in the Gateway Community College Annual Poetry Contest, for the poem “We Spoke Throughout All the Years.” He lives in West Haven, Connecticut. Kelly A. Harris’ poems have appeared in PLUCK, PMS: poems Memoir Stories Journal, and most recently, Southern Women’s Review. She earned her MFA in creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge MA. The Cave Canem Fellow is a Cleveland native who lives in New Orleans with her husband. Robert Hass Pulitzer Prize-winner, environmentalist, teacher and former U.S. Poet Laureate (1995–97), Robert Hass has published numerous books of poetry, including Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, and Sun Under Wood, as well as a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. His most recent book is a collection of poems entitled Time and Materials (Fall 2007), which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. As U.S. Poet Laureate, Hass worked tirelessly both to heighten literacy and to promote awareness about the environment. His deep commitment to both issues led him to found River of Words (ROW), an organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and twice the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (in 1984 and 1997), Hass is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005) and Practical Water (2009). She has edited Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. She is involved in anti-war activism with CodePink. Bob Jacob began to read poetry to cancer support groups in the 1990’s. In addition, he has made his large collection of poems available to churches, chaplains, and individual cancer and MS patients. For seven years he has been reading poetry as a hospice volunteer at The Connecticut Hospice Hospital in Branford. He has also been a hospice volunteer at the Visiting Nurses Association in East Hartford, and is at present a hospice volunteer through the VNA at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, reading to home-bound patients. In 2004 a short selection of Jacob’s hospice poems, “Upon Their Quiet Altars,” was published. Like his full-length collection, the earlier book appeared under the aegis of The Connecticut Hospice, to which all proceeds of both books are being donated. Margaret Iacobellis, a member of the Guilford Poetry Guild, has won several Connecticut Poetry Society awards. In addition, her poems have been published in Tidelines of South Florida, the 2004 issue of Octagon, An Anthology of Guilford Poets, Connecticut River Review, as well as in issues of Caduceus and Long River Run. Some of her poetry has been performed with music and dance by the Neighborhood Music School. Margaret also participates in poetry readings for the Second Thursday Poetry Series at the Greene Gallery in Guilford. Bill Kaplan has lived in Mexico City and Portland, Oregon. He enjoys traveling. He and his wife, Lise, live in New Haven, Connecticut. They have two grown daughters. Bill’s interests, all tied into poetry, include teaching, carpentry, piano and sailing. Recently he fulfilled a long-time dream of hiking the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, in Peru. Susan Kinsolving’s books of poems are The White Eyelash, Dailies & Rushes, a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award, Among Flowers, and forthcoming, My Glass Eye. She teaches poetry in The Bennington Writing Seminars. As a librettist, her works have been performed in The Netherlands, Italy, New York, and California. A new song cycle will premiere with the Marin Symphony in 2010. Kinsolving has received poetry fellowships to France, Italy, Scotland, and Switzerland. The Poetry Society of America awarded her the 2009 Lyric Award. She originated poetry reading series for The New York Public Library, California Institute of the Arts, and The Mercantile Library of Manhattan. Laura Manuelidis is a physician who works on the brain’s unraveling. She has published a poetry book Out of Order, as well as in print and online journals, and has been nominated for Pushcart prizes. Sample works and links are at http://info.med.yale.edu/neurosci/faculty/manuelidis_poetry.html. For 18 years Gemma Mathewson was director and teacher at an Early Childhood program called Nursery On Notch Hill. Recently she has coordinated special projects for I-Park, a 450 acre multi-discipline artist retreat in East Hampton, and illustrated a German fantasy novel, Sargon’s Schatz. Her current enthusiasms include open mic poetry and world music. She is a lifetime insomniac and omnivorous reader Rennie McQuilkin’s poetry has been published by The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Scholar, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, and other journals. He is the author of several books and has received fellowships from the NEA as well as the State of Connecticut. His New & Selected Poems appeared in 2009. For many years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT, and subsequently founded Antrim House Books, which publishes the work of Northeastern poets. In 2003 he received the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He and his wife, the artist Sarah McQuilkin, live in Simsbury, CT. Alison Meyers’ poems have appeared in Caduceus II, Common Ground Review, Connecticut Review, Freshwater Review and Urhalpool. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she is the author of two chapbooks, Red Angel’s Orphan & Other Poems and Pest Control (Everyday Books). Vivian Shipley has called her “a talented writer with a style that is physical and memorable.” She has served as Executive Director of Cave Canem Foundation in New York City since 2006. Previously, she directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, a multi-faceted program of Hill-Stead Museum, CT, where she concurrently served as Director of Marketing & Communications. Patricia Mottola, an artist and poet who resides in Cheshire, Connecticut, earned her M.S. Degree in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. She currently enjoys teaching art and poetry to Senior Citizens as well as practicing Art Therapy with homebound individuals. Pat is a member of the Connecticut Poetry Society and the Elm City Writer’s Group. She has studied with major poets across the country. Her work has been published in numerous poetry journals including War, Literature & the Arts, Connecticut River Review, Caduceus, Long River Run, Connecticut Review, Welter, Noctua Review, and Folio. She is the winner of the 2008 Leo Connellan Poetry Prize. She is Poetry Editor for Noctua Review 2009. Jane Muir has been a writer most of her life but a poet in only the last decade. She worked as an advertising copywriter in New York before and after her marriage, during which time she had three nonfiction books published. She has been a journalist and newspaper editor. After moving to Guilford thirteen years ago, she began writing poetry. “Who would of thought I would have serendipitously ended up in a town full of poets?” she said. Her poems have been published in Caduceus and several other journals. She is a member of the Guilford Poets Guild and the Guilford Peace Alliance. Tom Nicotera has been writing poetry since his days as a college physics major when he preferred filling his science notebooks with poems rather than equations. He has been a factory worker, street performer, mime, water/sewer repairman, copy editor, and teacher, while keeping poetry as the one constant in his life. In Washington, D.C., he was a founding member of Second Wind Poetry Group and co-producer of a jazz/poetry day at the Washington Monument. He also ran the Takoma Cafe Poetry Series in Maryland and taught at Georgetown University. In Connecticut, he organized the poetry series at Susan’s Cafe in Granby and is currently co-host of Bloomfield Library’s Wintonbury Poetry Series. He edited Charter Oak Poets II, a collection of works from Hartford area writers, and served on the organizing committee for the 2001 CT Poetry Festival at Middlesex Community College. In 2005, MW Penn began writing poetry to introduce young children to the seminal ideas of mathematics. Her first children’s publication, Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6, won the Connecticut Press Club Communications Award for best children’s book of 2007. She has two additional books and a workbook in publication and poems in several anthologies including the International Rotary Club literacy initiative, A World of Stories. Highlights for Children published Ms. Molly Mop with the 7s on Top in the September, 2009, issue; it is the second of Penn’s poems to appear in Highlights. In addition to writing verse for children, Ms Penn is a technical writer and journalist, with over 60 published articles in the field of architectural and landscape stone to her credit. Most recently, Healing Waters, an article on the new cancer center at Griffin Hospital in Derby, CT, was the cover article for Architectural Stone and Landscape Design. Alita Pirkopf received a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Denver. Later she taught several small classes related to feminist interpretations of literature. Eventually she enrolled in a poetry seminar taught by the poet Bin Ramke. Poems of hers have been included in two art shows and have been published in Illya’s Honey, RiverSedge, Ship of Fools, The Distillery, and The Chaffin Journal. Pit Menousek Pinegar has poems recently in Tar River Poetry, NEO, The Texas Review, and other places. She teaches writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, The Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University where she hopes her students learn as much from her as she learns from them. She has taken to contemplating the idea of poetry as flotation device. Geri Radacsi has been a journalist in Chicago and Connecticut, an English teacher, a corporate communication specialist, and freelance writer. Currently, she is associate director of university relations, emerita, after a long career in marketing/communications at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. Her prize-winning chapbook, Ancient Music, was published in 2000 by Pecan Grove Press, San Antonio, Texas. Her full-length poetry collection, Trapped in Amber, was published 2005 by Connecticut River Press. And, Tightrope Walker was published in 2007 by Antrim House. Jim Reese is an Assistant Professor of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editor-in-Chief of PADDLEFISH. Reese’s poetry and prose have been widely published, most recently in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Paterson Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Connecticut Review and elsewhere. His latest collection of poetry is These Trespasses (Backwaters Press, 2005, 2006) which includes Pushcart Prize nominated poems. Reese is also the 2008 and 2009 National Endowment for the Art’s Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp. José Antonio Rodríguez, born in México and raised in south Texas, now resides in upstate New York. He is a graduate student in the English and creative writing program at SUNY-Binghamton. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Paterson Literary Review, Connecticut Review, Connecticut River Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and cream city review, among other journals. Maria Sassi is a prize winning poet and playwright, writer, lecturer and teacher. She is the first Poet Laureate of West Hartford. The first edition of her book of poems, Rooted In Stars was selected for the permanent collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript library at Yale University. Margaret Sawyer A globe-trotting photographer for many, many years and an art director, editor, journalist, and community activist in Connecticut for many more, Margaret Sawyer is currently teaching high school in New Haven, watching her grandchildren grow, and writing poetry. Alexandrina Sergio is the author of My Daughter is Drummer in the Rock ‘n Roll Band (Antrim House, 2009). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Long River Run, Caduceus, Connecticut River Review, Encore and anthologies Wisdom of Our Mothers (Familia Books); Love After 70, and Double Lives, Reinvention and Those We Leave Behind (Wising Up Press), as well as an online publication Cold Shoulders & Evil Eyes, Steadying Gazes & Warm Embraces: Exclusion and Inclusion in Our Daily Lives (Universal Table). Her work has twice been performed by a professional stage company. Awards include first place, 2007 Connecticut Senior Poetry Contest, and second place, 2008 National Federation of State Poetry Societies’ Dorman John Grace Contest. Sandy lives in Connecticut and is a member of the Thread City Poets, a writers collective sheltered by Curbstone Press. Vivian Shipley is the Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor and the Editor of Connecticut Review from Southern Connecticut State University. She has published five chapbooks and her seventh book of poems, Hardboot: Poems New & Old, (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2005) won the 2006 Paterson Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement and the 2006 Connecticut Press Club Prize for Best Creative Writing. She won the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award for service to the Literary Community from the Library of Congress Connecticut Center for the Book and the 2005 SCSU Faculty Scholar Award. Gleanings: Old Poems, New Poems (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2003) won the Paterson Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. When There is No Shore, also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the 2003 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry from the Library of Congress’ Center for the Book and the 2002 Word Press Poetry Prize. In 2007, she was inducted into the University of Kentucky Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, won the Hackney Literary Award for Poetry from Birmingham-Southern University in Alabama and the New Millennium Poetry Prize. In 2008, she was named the Faculty Scholar from Southern Connecticut State University for Gleanings. A new book of poetry, All of Your Message Have Been Erased, is forthcoming in 2009 from Southeastern Louisiana University Press. Lisa L. Siedlarz of New Haven, CT received her Masters in Fine Arts from WCSU in 2009. She is Editor of Connecticut River Review, the national poetry journal supported by the CT Poetry Society, and Managing Editor for Connecticut Review. Awarded the 2006 John Holmes and the 2007 Leo Connellan poetry prizes, publications include: The MacGuffin, Calyx, Rattle, War, Literature & the Arts, Louisiana Literature, Main Street Rag, the Patterson Review, Big Bridge, Kritya, Caduceus and others. Her work has been nominated for the 2009 Best New Poets Anthology. She also facilitated a 16 week writing workshop with Vietnam veterans and edited a collection of their work called A Season of Now. Her debut chapbook, I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball, is from Clemson University Digital Press (2009). John Smelcer is the author of over 40 books, including ten books of poetry. The poems in his most recent collection, The Binghamton Poems, were personally selected and edited by John Updike. His writing appears in over 400 magazines worldwide. He is poetry editor at Rosebud magazine. Dana Sonnenschein’s Bear Country (2009) won the National Federation of State Poetry Socities’ Stevens Manuscript Award; prior collections include Corvus (Wind, 2003), No Angels But These (Main Street Rag, 2005), and Natural Forms (Word Press, 2006). Recently, her work has appeared in Feminist Studies, The Lumberyard, Camas, Isotope, Northwest Review, and Quarter After Eight. She teaches literature and writing at Southern Connecticut State University. Rebecca Spears, a poet and instructor, has an MFA from Bennington College. Her chapbook, The Bright Obvious (Finishing Line Press), was released in May 2009. Her writing appears in If These Walls Could Speak: The Blanton Museum Poetry Project (Univ. of Texas, Austin), The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press), Calyx, Minnesota Review, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, Sentence, Borderlands, Texas Review, Nimrod, and other journals and anthologies. She has received scholarships from the Taos Writers Workshop and Vermont Studio Center and was a finalist for the 2008 Iowa Review Poetry Award. Bianca Spriggs is an artist, educator, and activist from Lexington, Kentucky. Mostrecently the Visiting Writer at Transylvania Univesity, Spriggs has worked as an instructor of composition, literature, and creative writing for all educational levels as well as for non-profit organizations. An Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow, Spriggs is the author of Kaffir Lily, and has workshopped and presented her work throughout the Appalachian region and nationally. Her poems may be found in the anthologies, America! What’s My Name and New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings, and have appeared in the literary journals, Appalachian Heritage Magazine, Torch, and Alehouse. John Terenzi teaches English at Guilford High School, he is the recipient of the 2003 poet of the year award. Elizabeth Thomas is a widely published poet, performer, advocate of the arts and teacher. The author of three books of poetry, she has read her work throughout the U.S. and recently returned from teaching in the United Arab Emirates. She hosts a website for young writers and teachers at www.upwordspoetry.com. Faith Vicinanza is a poet, a nature photographer, a creative writing workshop facilitator, arts educator, editor, and member of the performance troupe Shijin. She is the author of three books of poetry, widely published in anthologies and journals, and is working on her fourth collection of poetry, Experimental Faith and a memoir. As a member of two national slam teams, she competed in National Slam Championship competitions in 1994 and 1996. She was also a member of the U.S. Team that competed in Sweden in 1997, as well as the executive director of The 1997 National Poetry Slam Championships held in Middletown, CT. As a member of Mother Tongue (Elizabeth Thomas, Valerie Lawson and Faith Vicinanza), she toured the U.S. in the spring of 2009. Ms. Vicinanza has been featured from Stockholm to San Francisco, has been a poet laureate nominee, and is the recipient of the 2003 CT Commission on the Arts Advocates for the Arts Award. You can check out her three month bicycle trip from Key West to Canada in the summer of 2005 with her husband Peter at faithandpeter.blogs.com. Mary Buell Volk is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the Design Department at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Old Saybrook. She has a degree in History from Emmanuel College in Boston and has worked in the realms of politics, media, banking, human resources, higher education and arts administration. She has studied voice, performed in community theatre and plays piano. She is a member of the Greater Middletown Chorale. Mary has been writing poetry for three years. She won third place in the 2008 Old Saybrook library’s annual poetry contest, and her poetry has been previously published in Caduceus. Ian Williams is the author of two forthcoming books: You Know Who You Are (poetry) and Not Anyone’s Anything (fiction). He has held residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy. He divides his time between Ontario and Massachusetts. Simone Wolff is a poet and writer from Guilford, Connecticut. She studied creative writing at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. She recently graduated High School and will be attending Barnard College this coming fall. Dr. Barry L. Zaret has been on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine since 1973 and for 26 years served as chief of cardiology. He is currently Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine and Professor of Diagnostic Radiology. He has been writing poetry for a number of years. Two poems have been published in previous volumes of Caduceus. Several of his poems have also been put to music and performed in concert. In addition to medicine and poetry, he is also a painter and shows his work regularly in galleries in New Haven and the Berkshires. Gemma Mathewson Other Uses One gerund puts him in a snit - No joy in creativity, Though I confess I’m not averse One metaphor I can’t sustain Though I’m not jealous, Euterpe, Whom I address is most unclear My errors are irreversible Penultimate in tragedy - My Latin blood its roots preferred, Descriptive galloping stampede Though I suspect he fancies me Pat Mottola Most Times It wasn’t like that. She’s dressed like a star Instead she had babies, Some nights I turn Barry L. Zaret My Father’s Kosher Butcher Shop For years my father served Occasionally I delivered orders,
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