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Cheryl Townsend
 
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.
unlike others, my poetry and other stuff I write is unlike others. you swim inside my mind and see what it's like...my stuff has appeared in  the HOLD, Thunder Sandwich,  PoetikLicense and Poetry Central and in places no one would dare crawl into or out of. I have not banned catholic organizations or the frail of explicit language from my website. chapbooks available: "in the midst of erected poems" and "Smell ME-1."
don't ask, I'm just  "here"  for some odd reason!

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dAev f. dembinski

 
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.

the pipe is calling...


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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
 
  • Jim Chandler's work has appeared in numerous literary and college magazines and newspapers during the last 35 years.
  • His latest chapbook, The Word Is All There is from Mt. Aukum Press.
  • Chandler's poetry appears in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, a 685-page anthology published by Thunder's Mouth Press in October, 1999.
  • Chandler lives in Mckenzie, Tennessee and works in journalism and web development
  • He was editor and publisher of  Thunder Sandwich magazine  in the eighties and currently operates an online version of that magazine.


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  • Craig Sernotti
     
    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.
    In May 1999 he completed his freshman year of college. (If yr interested he's working for an English major.) He enjoys readin, writin, sleepin, dreamin, eatin, watchin Stanley Kubrick movies, listenin to Howard Stern's radio show, & just plain doin nothin. He wants to become a full-time writer so he can do what he wants & not have to bother with the bullshit of the real world. Questions, comments, hatred, & love can be sent to  quietpoet@hotmail.com.

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    goo
     
    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 Highwayidiolect,  and, yes, the hold.  She currently lives in Indiana, though happily this is about to change.

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    Scott Holstad
     
    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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    Dolomite
     
    • Subject:  Dolomite
    • Name:  Unknown at present
    • E-mail:  BKDolo10@aol.com
    • Age:  CXXVI in dog years
    • Turn-Ons:
      • Porn, Humor and good food
    • Turn-Offs:
      • Bad Taste, Religious fanatics that go door-to-door, Idiots, Jerks, Prejudice (except against Catholics and the French)
    • Plans for Future:
      • Become President, breed either flying cat or walking bat (bat + cat somehow), play golf drunk, masturbation
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    Nicholas Morgan
     
    I am a California native now living in Michigan.
    I have started a website to premiere my literary work called  JELLYGUN PRESS
    in collaboration with exceptional artist Andrew Burd, creator of
    BoOka Studios Digital Media

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    Marc Ellis
     
    • Born:  Wichita Falls, Texas - 1952
    • Raised:  Denver, California, Kansas
    • Home:  New Orleans
    • Occupation:  Immigration Lawyer
    • Edu:  Troy State U., Univ. of Alabama Law School
      Writing - 6 plays:
      • "The Pollster" (Semi-finalist, Southern Playwright's Competition 1993).
      • "The Ghost of Jean Paul Sartre Visits an Alabama Convenience Store" (1994);
      • "The Focus Group" (Performed 1994 Dramarama Festival New Orleans).
      • "A Man of His Times" (Performed, 1995 Dramarama Festival, New Orleans)
      • "The Hat", performed 1998 Freeport McMoran Theatre, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center;
      • "Double Espresso"; Staged Reading scheduled for October 1999 at C.A.C.

      Music:
      • Numerous Musical Compositions, including "The Fantomas Waltz" and "HOY!", composed for film: "F",
      • Clementine Productions, Hollywood California, Howard A. Rodman Writer/Director, starring
      • Terrence Stamp, Produced by Laurie Parker.

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    Donna Hill

     
    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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    rohe
     
    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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    Jamie B.Lepore
     
    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___

    Signed:Bracelets_HELL *Be Well*Protect*YouR*Circle^)*

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    R.L. Stephenson
     
    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
     
    Lincoln Sward: born 10/08/74 in Escondido, CA

    I really don’t know what this is all about. I was just writing these poem for therapy...and to give me an idea where I was at in life. All of it seemed as if it were the way things are and that I could relate more to my reality then I could others. So I let it live and gave it a home on page.
    Now alive..and better off than I was I started to share this life with others..it’s better than nothing and I already have enough of that.


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    Michael McNeilley
     
    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.

    McNeilley's new book, Situational Reality, is available from Dream Horse Press, San Jose, CA; write bear@hooked.net

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    Rachel
     
    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
     
    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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    Sally Mour
     
    Biography:

    Growing up by the shores of the Atlantic Ocean just eighteen miles from New York City the author, Sally Mour began seriously writing at the ripe old age of ten years old. While her first love was journalism, the difficulty of breaking into that field opened other opportunities. In a short period of time, Poetry surfaced as her one true love. Now older then dirt, she resides bi-coastally between California and Michigan. While playing part time computer consultant, she never leaves the love of the written word.


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    dickens
     
    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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    Haze McElhenny
     
    Haze McElhenny
    524 S Bergen Street
    Bethlehem, PA 18015
    Phone 610-868-5097
    Poetry On Black Vinyl
    E-mail
    • Haze is a professional artist of traditional and digital media. Her graphic illustration, "Summer Dreams" is currently on display at MAC21 (Malaga Spain), an international arts exhibition/competition.
    • In the ancient 80's her poetry was featured among several anthologies.
    • Haze took a long hiatus from public writing only to rejoin the literary venue in 1996 via the WWW. Her work has been published online by Wilmington Blues, WebStatic, CherrySucker, and Rogue Scholars.
    • Haze resides in Bethlehem, PA with her 4 cats and is married to photographer, Don Cerrato.


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    Sara T. Punk
     
    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.

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    Allison Inaba
     
    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

     
    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

     
    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.
          His poetry has appeared in  LOST AND FOUND TIMES, WORLD LETTER, POTEPOETTEXT, POTEPOETZINE, WHISKEY ISLAND, LUNA NEGRA, ARIEL, BLACK RIVER REVIEW, THE COVENTRY READER,  etc.
         Lewis is working on a long collaborative e-mail poem called OUTSIDE THE BOTHER OF SUNLIGHT with Sheila E. Murphy and a collective text called UTOPIA which features several authors, among whom are Murphy, Thomas Lowe Taylor, and John Cone.

          Editor of the e-zine IDIOLECT, Lewis lives in Kent, OH.

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    Restless Natives

     
    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 Ellsworth

     
    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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    Jay Miner

     
    born/raised buffalo, new york

      Press List/Bibliography Zines:
      • Rebel's Advocate #1-6 (1995-1997)

      Titles by Jay Miner.
      • The Dirty Soul Diary Project - 1996 (chapbook and audio cassette)
      • Fading Distant Car Sounds - 1997
      • Scatalogical Humor - 1998
      • The Exploding Season - 1998
      • Nightmares, Daydreams, and Delusions of Grandeur - 1999

      All titles by Jay Miner and Rebel's Advocate housed at SUNY Buffalo Library
      • "The Internet Email Web Page Conversations" (1999) (Collaberative Writing Experiments Series)
      • "Sex, Religion, Politics, and a pair of crusty Tweezers." by Jeff Filipski and Jay Miner
      • ·"Trainspotting: The Musical" by Dianne Gilleece and Jay Miner
      • "The losers and the insane" by Jeff Filipski and Jay Miner
      • "Mike Basinski on Foodservice" by Mike Basinski and Jay Miner

      Publications
      • Boxhead Records Compilation CD (1997), Boxhead Records, Lancaster, NY
      • Wooden Head Review, Mark Hartenbach, Ed., E. Liverpool, OH, Issue #7 (1998)
      • Fuck!, Lee Thorn, Ed., Tuscon, AZ, Vol 2, #10, (October 1998)

      Pending Pubs
      • Lucid Moon, Ralph Haselmann, Jr, Ed. (Sept/Oct 1999)

      Reviews
      • Rebel's Advocate: Nightlife, Basinski A Zine of the Arths
      • DSDP Chap: Basinski A Zine of the Arths
      • DSDP Audio: Basinski A Zine of the Arths, Flavir, Bflo News Local record
      • Pick of the Week, Boxhead Catalogs 1-2, Small Press Collective
      • Showplace Theatre: Bflo News, Nightlife
      • 3b's final gig: Bflo News

      Gigs
      • 3b's
      • Mohawk Place
      • Showplace Theatre
      • Stimulance
      • SUNY College @ Bflo
      • Topic Café
      • Marquee

      Art Shows
      (w/ Erinn Mcelhaney) visual text collaberations w/ visual artist
      • 3b's
      • Topic Café

      Commissioned Readings:
      • Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, March, 1999

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    redd_k

     
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    Hi...I'm Redd_k, a 20 year-old girly as of this writing, in no way normal, so I remain partially anonymous. Who cares? I live in Redding, CA where I was born, had 12 years of parochial schooling and lack only two classes to earn my AA in business. I do intend to go on for the BA, but no hurry because I am already "positioned" as a partner in my best friend's on-going business as a consultant to cosmetics companies' marketing departments. My writing had always been private until I met MSallthat who encouraged me to put some of it in the internet. I'm not really a poet, but have tried that too. Mostly I write opinionated pieces because I need the outlet, but how much of that deserves to be in the Hold I leave to MS's good judgment.
         One of my quirks is a total fascination with Faerie, so I will submit pieces of that nature as well. I am half Irish and not only believe in the Faeries; I depend on them. My other half is Japanese, and they as a people are pretty weird too, believing in a netherword of their own, so I am a complete and willing victim of the Little People. If you read my stuff, go ahead and put your tongue in your cheek, but I at least am serious about what I write. If you want to get back at me, try  reddcalm@hotmail.com

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