 | Poetry
Fall 2006
Charles P. Ries, Poetry Editor | | Charles P. Ries lives
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His narrative poems, short stories, interviews and poetry reviews have appeared
in over one hundred print and electronic publications. He has received three Pushcart
Prize nominations for his writing and most recently he read his poetry on National
Public Radio's Theme and Variations,
a program that is broadcast over seventy NPR affiliates. He is the author
of THE FATHERS WE FIND, a novel based on memory. Ries is also the author of five
books of poetry, the most recent entitled, The
Last Time which was recently released by The Moon
Press in Tucson, Arizona.
He is the poetry editor for Word Riot (www.wordriot.org)
and he is on the board of the Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the Wisconsin Poet Laureate
Commission. You may find additional samples of his work by going to: http://www.literati.net/Ries/
and you may write him at charlesr@execpc.com |  | Michael
Estabrook is a Marketing Communications Manager for a tiny division of a gigantic
company, and man, going into an office every day can be excruciating. As my avocation,
I've been writing poetry for so long that Methuselah should be taking notice,
but in reality, time is simply doing its thing streaking ahead blithely pulling
all of us along for the wild ride whether we like it or not; reminds me, I've
published 15 chapbooks over the years, the last one just came out about my Dad,
“methinks I see my father,” done in cahoots with the talented Glenn
Cooper from Australia, and before that was “when Patti would fall asleep.
You may write Michael by email mestabrook@comcast.net |  | Joseph
Farley is editor of Axe Factory. His most recent book is Suckers. He is featured
in the award winning documentary The Day Arnold Schwarzeneger Kicked My A***
You may write to Farley c/o Passport Journal,
just be sure to put his name in the Subject line. |  | Peter
Schwartz once again appears in our lit-zine. Schwartz has over 150 poems published,
some of them innationally-distributed journals, some printed overseas. He has
stories and paintings published on and offline as well as his own somewhat controversial
journal that can be sampled at: www.watchtheeye.com.
He's also the associate art editor for Mad Hatters' Review and co-founder of www.sitrahahra.com.
He lives almost silently in the forests of Maine. |  | Shoshauna
Shy is a member of the Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet
which includes John Lehman, Richard Roe and Robin Chapman. They are available
to perform at museum celebrations, art gallery openings, special events and evening
soirées. In May 2004, she founded a program called Poetry Jumps Off the
Shelf, http://www.poetryjumpsofftheshelf.com/ in which
the mission is to place poetry in public places where it is not expected. Poetry
has been produced on laminated bookmarks attached to Budget Bicycles' Red Bike
rentals, distributed by A Room of One's Own and Avol's book stores, compiled into
hand-sized books for the glove compartments of Community Car, and attached to
java jackets distributed by Fair Trade and Michelangelo's coffee houses. Please
email Shoshauna for more information about this program. Shoshauna
Shy's poems have been published on-line and in numerous journals and magazines
which include Poetry Northwest, Cimarron Review, The Comstock Review and
Rosebud . One of her poems was selected for the Poetry 180 Library of Congress
program, "A Poem a Day in American High Schools" launched by Billy Collins. She
has been a featured reader at Canterbury Booksellers, Avol's Bookstore, and Barnes
& Noble in Madison, as well as at the Beaver Dam Public Library, Montello
Public Library and bookstores in northern Illinois.
PUBLICATIONSWhite Horses
on Sale for a Song, Parallel Press, 2005.
Lake Wingra Morning:
Poems of the Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood, Woodrow Hall Editions in partnership
with the Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood Association, 2003.
Edited by Shoshauna
Shy.
Slide Into Light: Poems of the Brighter Moments, Moon
Journal Press, 2001.
Souped-Up on the Must-Drive Syndrome Pudding House Publications,
2000.
Shoshauna Shy's
poems have been anthologized by Random House, Grayson Books, Wisconsin Poets'
Calendars, Samsara Quarterly, Pudding House Publications and Wild Dove
Studio & Press. You may writer to her at shoshaunashy@yahoo.com
|  | David
Trane writes to us: I am an Italian teacher, English born and living in Venice-Italy
and writing poetry exclusively in English since 1993. My poems have appeared in
more than two hundred magazines since 1999. My collection Re-Emerging was published
by Gatto Publishing.com in 2006. You may write to him
davide.trane@libero.it |
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