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Cheryl Townsend is the Editor of Impetus magazine & head of Implosion Press. She created the Impecunious Poetry Project and hosts readings where ever she can. She recently formed W.A.R.M. (The Womens Art Recognition Movement) and has been setting up art shows throughout Ohio promoting the art of women. She is the head cat at cat's Impetuous Books & stuff in Kent, Ohio... (get the feeling there's a little imp in her?) She has been published in hundreds of journals, anthologies and collections and has been working on a collective to shop around. An avid photographer and abstract painter...cat's work can be viewd at: |
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cait collins |
YO! I live almost anywhere from Philadelphia to L.A. and I keep up with the rest in between. also, I maintain the royal titles of editor/publisher/columist/webmistress of the HOLD e-zine, plus I design web sites and I pretend to be a poet. |
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dAev grew up in the slums of Calcutta selling handmade gourd rattles to tourists for pinto beans. Later he migrated to America on the back of a giant sea turtle. Then, one day, he decided to start The HOLD, and the rest is pretty much history. |
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Michael Hathaway |
Michael Hathaway founded Chiron Review literary magazine in 1982 at the age of 19. He lives in St. John, KS with 14 cats and roommate Ratboy. He has worked as a typesetter, personal care assistant for the mentally disabled, society editor for daily newspaper and many other odd jobs. This is his first e-zine publication, as far as he knows. He's been published in Atom Mind, Pearl, Gypsy, Blank Gun Silencer, Nerve Cowboy, Medicinal Purposes, Waterways, Cat Fancy and most recently in the anthologies: A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry (Barricade); Obsessions: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Memoirs (Penguin), using the pseudonym Jeremy Michaels; and Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse. |
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Jim Chandler |
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Craig Sernotti lives in the overly-populated state of NJ in the overly-populated country of America in the overly-populated 3rd plant from the sun called Earth. |
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goo is a troubled individual who has dabbled in various drugs for years which has most likely effected his brain, he is going through a divorce and looking to get laid. His life-long dream is to destroy the earth. |
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elaine thomas |
Elaine co-hosts the "Room 11" message board with poet Michael McNeilley. Her work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications including (but not limited to) Thunder Sandwich, Peshekee River Poetry, Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, Poetry Super Highway, idiolect, and, yes, the hold. She currently lives in Indiana, though happily this is about to change. |
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Scotts' authored 9 poetry books. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines in 26 countries and 5 languages, including journals such as The Minnesota Review, Hawaii Review, Wisconsin Review, Kiosk, Chiron Review, Long Shot, Exquisite Corpse, Textual Studies in Canada, Pacific Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arkansas Review, Lullwater Review, and Southern Review. |
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I am a California native now living in Michigan. |
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Marc Ellis |
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Donna Hill lives in British Columbia, Canada with her three sons. She has been seriously writing poetry for just over a year now, drawing much of her writing style for realism from life around her, her family, and her work as child educator. Donna's poems have appeared in print locally, One Dog Press out of Ca., Niederngrasse from Switzerland, and are published online by a number of web-zines, including Thunder Sandwich, Free Zone Quarterly, Writer's Choice, and Poetry Magazine.com. Her first chapbook entitled "Love & Other Mysteries" is available online at Thunder Sandwich Productions. |
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Asked to submit a bio for this bit a' madness I aint got much to own to: Born with Mom in the room anyway. Had some pretensions early then had to find a job. Now I'm sittin' here and your reading this. Ain't much else, is there? Booze, pharmacueticals, pschyedelics; ya, it all figgers in...but I SWEAR TO YOUR FUCKIN GOD if anybody else fucks my mother for money owed me...nonono...no more O' Dippin' Da Puss...s'like this...GODDAMMIT...you know who you motherfuckers are... |
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Name: Bracelets_HELL....~JaMIE...t0 thoSE ..wh0..shaRE theyre Cigs...alalallalaaa)_+ Grew up in the TRenches 0f NeW~YorK CiTY....Where i,,,Developed ...a...senSE..FoR__(((( PaIN)))=(strongley advise anyone to stay away from cellars)~~__Started Writing At Age 4yrs=When singing newest peom in caR~mommy SAid!!==Shad up...I'll ..?~_. *I now livE in..Gutter oF miami=South=Beach+...And do_*Sing*...and..they still say...SHaD~UP..alallallalla* +my peotry is true crimes true things as are my songs+ +if youR in miami__finD,,mE...in,,,a muSic,,cellar....Bangin mY guitar+ ~~oh yea,,,,im,,a Chic...heeee...31 yrs old....~~~BuT!! 700yrs VAmpyRE..*...non-re-flective*__)_+(~_C-ya-Be-Well-_"anYone got a cig?...? Type 0f Poetry:____SLidin___ |
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R. L. Stephenson has been livin' with the cactus and horny toads for many years. It certainly has affected his views, not to mention the few dances with peyote doin' the same. Slingin' hash, or grub to most folks, being an accomplished Executive Chef has put the groceries in the fridge and a roof over his head. His work appears on various websites, and he is currently publishing a chapbook, entitled "NoLa in the Streets" a N'awlins groove. |
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Lincoln Sward: born 10/08/74 in Escondido, CA |
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Michael McNeilley co-edits Zero City, with JJ Webb; was Founding Director of the National Student News Service; worked as a reporter and correspondent in Washington, DC; and has published hundreds of poems and stories in magazines such as New York Quarterly, New Delta Review, Poet, Chicago Review, Oyster Boy Review, Cross-Connect, Sonoma Mandala, Hyphen, Minotaur, Slipstream, Cafe Review, Pink Cadillac, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, Plazm, DAM, Lilliput Review, Boulliabaisse, Writers' Forum, Green Fuse, Rockford Review, Mississippi Review, God's Bar Unplugged, Impetus, Tight, xib, Penny Dreadful, Exquisite Corpse, Atom Mind and elsewhere, including websites worldwide. |
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Rachel 's favorite writing style is actually prose poetry, of which she has a number of her poems published both in hard copy and over the web. However she has also been known to dabble with a few fiction pieces {said with a coy smile} Feel free to drop a her a friendly hello, at writeme_99@hotmail.com |
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Dancing Bear is of Chippewa and Swedish ancestry. He lives in the San Francisco bay area. His poems and art have been published in many journals, including New York Quarterly, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Slipstream, Perihelion, Pearl and Nerve Cowboy. He is the editor of the on-line magazine Disquieting Muses. Dancing Bear's third chapbook, Prospero in Therapy (Dream Horse Press), was released in August 1999 and his forth, Atlas (Red Fruit Press) is due out in the Fall of 1999. |
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Dickens. Born illegitimate when it was shameful, son of a WWII marine who, missing in action, turned back up--for one night, at least. Thanx, Dad. Mom was Rosie the Riveter at aircraft plant in Wichita, KS, then became Lois the Dominatrix long before any of us heard of the word. Enormous physical abuse, but at least she didn't charge. Reform school at 16 (bank robbery, car theft, assault, B&E), 17th birthday in solitary confinement. Successful escape, meaning the bastards never caught me. Higher education at various colleges and universities, including Kansas University as well as studying Hawaiian and Japanese languages in Honolulu. English Major. 26 or so years in Honolulu, 3 in Vancouver. Taught English in Japan. 3 great kids, 1 of whom still loves me. Hopeless drunk, currently sober. Homeless. Dharma Bum. Damn good poet. Kinky, too. |
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Sara T. Punk was born and raised in a vile little church town in northeastern Oklahoma. ...about 5,000 very oppressive people and 32 churches... 'nuff said. | ||
APB: Allison Inaba. Last seen alive and well in San Mateo, California. Considered heavily armed with poetry and dangerous. |
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Shannon Michele Johnston kicks it in Northern California (somewhere near Jim Carrey) with her husband Dale and her five children. She has no MAJOR police records and is currently working as a Domestic Diva, an Art Docent (look the word up, it means cheap labor-as in free) and pretends be a starving artist...please send donations.. |
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Lewis LaCook was born in Lorain Ohio on November 5, 1970, making him a Scorpio. At fifteen he joined the Black River Poets, and had his first published poems appear in their review. Leaving the group in his early twenties, he wrote features for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, and the Lorain Journal. He is currently an undergraduate English major at Kent State University. |
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Dan Symonds is 27 and lives in London, England. He writes poetry, and wastes the rest of his time on various other crap, including maintaining a website. Most of the artwork and a bit of the poetry on the website is by his girlfriend and partner in crime, Ju. |
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steven is an ohio native who has moved south to athens, ga where he writes poetry, plays guitar, and swings a hammer for a living. now that the dust has settled from a life of emotional bloodloss he has started over at the ripe age of 29 and can be seen from miles away as a single flower growing atop mountainous pile of shit... |
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born/raised buffalo, new york |
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Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, publisher of over 2,000 poems in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander, author of 14 books of poems, his latest being WATCHING WISTERIA (to order see www.vidapublishing.com or call Small Press Distribution-1-800-869-7553), cyber-poet, since Sept 1, 1999 has had 530 acceptances by online zines, photographer, listed in PSA's WHO'S WHO as one of the top twenty nature photographers, painter, currently having a one-man show of over 30 painting at the Pyramid gallery in Tampa, winner for poetry of the Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charles Agnoff, and Walt Whitman awards, now lives alone and isolated in the sunny Tampa slums. |