Notes

Jason Lee Brown is a weekly columnist/Sports Editor for News Progress in Sullivan, IL. He has published in Taint Magazine, Stirring, The Foliate Oak, The Vehicle and Poetry Super Highway and has work forthcoming with Snow Monkey and Kitty Litter Press.

Lucille Lang Day is the author of four poetry collections: INFINITIES, WILD ONE, FIRE IN THE GARDEN, and SELF-PORTRAIT WITH HAND MICROSCOPE, which received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature. She also has a chapbook in the "Greatest Hits" series from Pudding House Publications. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, and director of the Hall of Health, a museum in Berkeley.

Paul Dulberg is a writer and a Marriage and Family Counselor residing in Hayward, California. His short stories, "Silent Circles" and "The Homecoming" won awards at the Focus On Writers Short Story Contest, in Sacramento, California. "The Homecoming" will be published in "The Northwest College Review" in March, 2002.

Rich Furman, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Colorado State University, his poetry has been published or is soon to be published in Colere, Pearl, Hawai'i Review, Black Bear Review, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Poetry Motel, Penn Review, and nearly 100 other literary journals. His scholarly writing is concerned with social work ethics, international social work, friendship, social work theory and social work practice. He teaches group and practice courses in the BSW and MSW programs. He is married to a wonderful women who has more freckles than there are craters on the moon, has two children, loves to mountain bike, and is slightly obsessed with his two wonderful American Bull dogs. Mostly, he just likes to live as fully as possibly. He welcomes feedback, comments and dialogue about his work. His first book of poetry, of only average intent, was printed by Snorting Dog Press in 2002. He is also seeking submission for anthology of poems on friendship. Bias towards free verse, imagistic poems without obvious use of literary device. Poems should contribute toward the understanding of friendship. E-mail to furman@cahs.colostate.edu or Send with SASE to Rich Furman, School of Social Work. Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO 80524.

Risa Kaparo, Ph.D. is a psychological and somatic therapist and an award winning poet. Her poetry and essays have been widely published. Her first collection of poems, Embrace, is being published by Scarlet Tanager Books and will be available in March of 2002 . She has taught at M.I.T., John F. Kennedy University, The California Institute of Integral Studies, New College and numerous other universities and professional institutions. She lives and works in California and Hawaii and gives lectures, seminars and workshops worldwide. (www.risakaparo.com).

Thomas Kellar is a 46 year old man living in the Sierra foothills who did not begin writing poetry until 1998. He is married and has 2 sons. Tom enjoys discordant jazz, cheap cigars, professional basketball, and watching the evening sunset from the sanctity of a wraparound porch.

Alex Lemon lives in St. Paul, Minnesota where he can be seen digging though dumpsters with a look of invention on his face. He has poems.

Prasenjit Maiti (1971-) has published in print and electronic journals in the USA, UK, Australia, Greece and elsewhere. Dr Maiti teaches Political Science at Burdwan University, West Bengal and resides with his family at Calcutta, India.

Wayne Moore is a 1980 graduate of the Masters Program in Creative Writing at the University of Colorado and studied writing and philosophy at Antioch College and at the University of Lancaster in the U.K. Edward Dorn was Mr. Moore's Dissertation Advisor for his Masters manuscript, "Opening Statements," and Mr. Moore acknowledges his gratitude for the lasting critical influences on his writing of mentors Bill Matthews, Peter Michelson, and Sidney Goldfarb. Mr. Moore resides now in Longmont and makes a living transferring science technology from public research to commercial applications.

Ray Ragosta's most recent collections of poetry are "Grondines Episode" and "Opposite Ends," both from Paradigm Press. He lives in Providence, R.I.

John Sweet, 33, has been writing for 20 years and publishing in the small press for 14. he is living proof of what spending too many years in upstate new york can do to a person. his time there is spent with his wife, their son, and three cats, and a second child is on the way. upcoming collections in 2002 include Approaching Lost (Via Dolorosa Press), Human Cathedrals (Ravenna Press) and Mapping the Room of Murdered Children (Black Hoody Nation).

Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle and is part of the SubText Collective www.speakeasy.org/subtext . He published SubRosa Press for many years and edited Clear-Cut:An Anthology www.speakeasy.org/clear-cut. His last book was entitled ORANGE: A Manual. As well as a writer, he is a visual poet and some of his works can be found at:

www.ubu.com/contemp/vass/vass.html
www.factoryschool.org/backlight/vassilakis/index.html
www.angelfire.com/tx/AVTEXTFEST/pvisual/rig.html
www.3rdbed.com/hypertext/moonth.htm


Cathy Warner lives in the Santa Cruz mountains of California with her husband, two daughters and too many pets. She is a lay preacher in the United Methodist Church, leads spiritual writing groups and is writing a book of prayers and poetry for worship. Her fiction has appeared in the Porter Gulch Review, Drexel Online Journal, Tattoo Highway, and is slated for the Fall '02 issue of Water~Stone. Cathy is the 2000 winner of the National Steinbeck Short Story competition, Mary Lonneberg Poetry Award and Cabrillo College Fiction Award.

Ian Randall Wilson writes, " I'm the managing editor of the poetry journal. Recent work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Spinning Jenny and Spork. My first fiction collection, Hunger and Other Stories, was published by Hollyridge Press."