Credits
Editor
Mary Sands has been a web designer for Big Bridge, and worked with Ira Cohen and Robert La Vigne on large art cyber-spectives. She has published articles in Rain Taxi, Kerouac Rag, and The Kerouac Connection. Mary is also a freelance editor for Trafford Publishing and currently a technical writer at a large architectural firm. She has been a part of the Coast Guard Auxiliary in Dana Point, California, and is a member of the Surfrider Foundation. Currently she lives in Kansas City, Missouri but misses the West Coast and probably will go back within the year.
Contributing Editor
Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Michael Rothenberg is a poet and songwriter. He has been an active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 25 years, where he cultivates orchids and bromeliads at his nursery, Shelldance.
His broadside Elegy for the Dusky Seaside Sparrow was selected Broadside of the Year by Fine Print Magazine. The broadside of his poem "Angels" was produced in limited edition by Hatch Show Prints as part of The Country Music Foundation's museum resources. His songs have appeared in the films Shadowhunter, Black Day Blue Night, and Outside Ozona. He is also editor and co-founder of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, an online magazine.
Rothenberg's books of poems include Favorite Songs, Nightmare of the Violins (Twowindows Press), What The Fish Saw, Man/Women w/ Joanne Kyger, The Paris Journals (Fish Drum), Grown Up Cuba (Il Begatto Press, Amsterdam), and Intoxications. He is also author of the novel Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press). Other editorial projects include Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2002) and As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin Books, 2002). He is presently working on the Selected Poems of David Meltzer (Penguin, 2004), and Selected Poems of Ed Dorn (Penguin, 2006).
Michael Rothenberg divides his time between Pacifica, California, and Miami, Florida and is on the constant lookout for bottle caps and pennies for his son Cosmos.
Artists
Claudio Parentela was born in 1962, Catanzaro, Italy, where he lives and works. He's an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist and does freelance work. He has been active for many years in the international underground scene. He collaborates with many magazines of contemporary art, literary, and comics in Italy and in the rest of the world--both on paper and on the web--including Komix.it, Braintwisting, Lo Sciacallo Elettronico, Inguine, Stripburger, Lavirint ,Komikaze, The Lummox Journal, The Cherotic R(e)volutionary, Sick Puppy, Malefact, Gordo.it, Lamette, Chance, Lucid Moon, Que Suerte, Art Life, Pintalo De Verde, ApArte, Evasion, The Benway Institute, Phony Lid Pubblications, First Class, This Is Magazine, Diesel, Stu Magazine, Crane Magazine, Staplegun, Untergruntblatte, Head Press, Entmoot, You&Me, Rorschach, Fagorgo, B.G.A. Comix, Tracce, Prospektiva, Balkan Spirit, Liberazione.net, Don Juan Online, Emozioni, Fatece Largo, Petrolio, Out Zine, Pssst Zine, Bolle Di Cartone, All About Fucking, Gibbering Madness, Rotkop, Anima Mal Nata, ZZZzine, Labour Of Love, Bianco D'Uovo, Bries, Ratriot, Kami Zine, Pus!, Bathtub Gin, Experimental Forest, Stardust Memories, Sunburn, Funtime Comics, Spaghetti, Plop, Topaz & Psichedelica, Joey and The Black Boots, Blind Man's Rainbow, The White Buffalo Gazzette, Lore, Lunatic, Chamelon, Rigodor, Axolotl, Luca Bonanno Editore, Succo Acido, Pitchfork, Chainsmoker, Surface, Crimson Feet, Skyline, Re:Magazine, Oyster Boy Review, Anthology, Xero Magazine, Slic, Lit Pot Press, Gumball Poetry, Mineshaft Milk & Wodka, Yahoo Zine, Stardust Memories, CartaIgienica, Faestethic, Field Report, Out Of The Blue, Comfusion Magazine, Careful, Ellin Selae, Multistorey, Disegni Di Sogni, Omnibus, The Sound Projector, Gooch Magazine, Laugh Clown Laugh, Shift, Vial, Frior, Debilana, Cool Strip Anthology, Panik, Celulit, Pimba, Proper Gander, Container, Mammamiaquantosangue, Cikuta, Traspiratore, Gambuzine, Empty Life, Erroneo, Kalte Tage, Planeta Underground, Cabezabajo, Nexus, Criade, Love Eternal Lost Infernal, Algiza, Raven, A.K.O.M., Mutate & Survive, Angelflesh Press, Skirocore, Sirota Jerica, Zone Optimiste De Bande Dessinèe, Breakfast All Day, The Brown Bottle, Crystal Drum, The Brobdingnan Time, Edgar, Il Foglio Clandestino, Microbe, New York Press, Something Else, O!!Zone, Vitriol, The Flashing Astonisher, Devil Blossoms, Contagio, The Dream Zone, Sinus, Yops Zine, Versus Press, and many others.
In 1999 he was a guest at the Break 21 Festival in Ljubliana (Slovenja). His obscure and crazy art has been in many art galleries on the web as well as at the Girasole (Villa Basilica), Tabula Rasa (Barcelona), Galerie Slaphanger (Amsterdam), La Casa di Tolleranza (Milan), La Cueva-No Art Gallery (Milan), in Turin at the Association's Mind the Gap, Pina Gallery (Koper), Diesel Gallery (NY), Metaverso (Rome), Little Cakes Gallery (NY), Interzona (Verona), Libreria Hoepli (Milan), Trainside Gallery (Haverhill, USA), Scaremongering Gallery (USA), Achab of Catania and at other Sicilian stops of the show SognoDiSegni, at the Zo Cafè (Bologna), Arredi Digitali in San Benedetto Del Tronto, and at the shows that Graphola has organized and continues to organize--Leave Your Fingerprints, organized by friend Mimmo Manes & UBQ. He also particpates in many mail art projects.
He collaborates with many industrial, noise, experimental & electronic, harsh & death, punk, and metal gore bands. He has illustrated poems and stories of Gavin Burrows, Harry Wilkens, Vittorio Baccelli, Claudio Morici, Alberto Rizzi, Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel, Mark Sonnenfeld, Nathan Medema, and Richard D. Houff. He has drawn with Gianluca Costantini, Evi Athan, Marcel Herms, and Kapreles--and for various publishers he has collaborated on illustrations and comic booklets: Il Ratto Bavoso and L'Incubo Dimezzato (Innovation Studio-B.G.A.Comix, Italy), 'Fashion Robot (David Lasky-Seattle, USA), L'Agnello Sacrificale e la Salamandra Impiccata al Patè 666 (Medicina Nucleare-Italy), Storie (Progetto Siderurgiko, Italy), Eudemoni and Piccola Trilogia Nera (the poems of Alberto Rizzi and Cristiano Quadalti, with Claudio's illustrations--Criatu Prod., Italy); Jeanne Dark, You Got Balls and The Frogs' Ballet (self-produced), Black Kisses and Other Stories, and The Book Of Secrets (La Cafetiere Editions, Belgium), Endless Tongue (texts of Richard D.Houff and Claudio's illustrations--The Benway Institute, USA), Else Beds (Claudio's illustrations and the poems of Nathan Medema--JesusBunny Press, Canada), The Savage Soldier, Luca Menichini Prod., Italy), Derrumbe (Claudio's illustrations and the story of Claudio Morici-Valter Casini Ed., Italy), Matter Ballet (Claudio's illustrations and the poems of Michael Kriesel--BoneWorld Publishing, USA), Social Reform (the poems of Shannon Colebank and Claudio's illustrations--Whizzbanger Prod., USA).
Websites: http://www.graphola.com/artist_detail.php?id=120 and http://www.cafepress.com/artclaudioart.
Essays/Interviews
Harpeet Kaur is an eccentric 19 year old from Singapore with plenty of qualms. Unfortunately, only a few can be celebrated without landing herself in jail. Most of her writing can be accessed at her online writing journal (http://www.livejournal.com/users/kismett). She is a freelance writer/columnist whose interest lies deeply in philosophy and gender/queer issues. One day, she hopes to become a successful author and lecturer. For
now, she is plotting her escape to a better place where alcohol is cheaper.Lauren Rosenfield is a second-year Master's student at Truman State University. She enjoys environmental literature, Hunter S. Thompson, camping, hiking, and cooking.
Kristal Sands resides in Southern California and is currently a student at Saddleback College majoring in English. In her spare time she likes to play pool, read, write, sing, hike, and keep her cats company. She one day hopes to be an accomplished writer.
Omar Swartz graduated magma cum laude from Duke University School of Law in 2001 and earned his doctorate in Communication from Purdue University in 1995. He is the author of seven books and more than 60 essays, book chapters, and reviews. Dr. Swartz teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.
Andrew Weiss graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in creative writing. He hasn't done much in terms of anything, but would very much like to someday. If at any point he figures anything out, which is highly doubtful, he'll let you know.
Fiction/Nonfiction
Martin Kovan: The photo shows Mr. George Whitman, 91
years, of Shakespeare n Company Bookstore, Paris, talking in code with a somewhat younger Martin Kovan, in Nov. 2004. To get there, M. Kovan travelled, since 1972, quite a way. Counter-cultural roots in rainforest Australia, poetry and forest-acitivism, philosophy BA, drama-school, a handful of novels and some kind of full-circle of sense in studying with Beat poet Gary Snyder for an M.A. English in his last teaching semester in 2002. All during this time on the dharma-trail from Sarnath to Dharamsala to San Francisco to Graz to Prague and beyond. Currently living in rural India, teaching in Krishnamurti school. Looks out from a summer-haze of sheer disbelief at where the world is choosing to travel. Wondering how far love is a code for the unattainable, language a code for the inexpressible, and life a code for the ineffable. Thankfully, it seems none of these codes have been broken yet. "The Traveler" is about someone who breaks, for a moment at least, his own code, and with it the tyranny of the others as well. "Man In A Wheelchair," perhaps, is about someone who doesn't.
Zdravka Evtimova was born in 1959 in Bulgaria. In her native country, she has published several books of fiction. Her collection of short stories Bitter Sky was published in June 2003 by Skrev Press, UK. Two of her short stories have been broadcast on Radio BBC - London in the week of East
European fiction. She was nominated for the 2005 Pushcart Prize, and won the Best Short Story Collection by an Established Author award of MAG Press in 2004. She has several short stories published in online and print reviews and journals. In Bulgaria she has won a number of literary awards and works as an editor for Bulgaria of the American literary magazine Muse Apprentice Guild, California, USA. She is also editor for Bulgaria of the English literary magazine Texts' Bones and Local Minds literary magazine. She works as a literary translator from English and German into Bulgarian. Zdravka Evtimova lives in Pernik, Bulgaria, with her husband, her two sons and her daughter and works as a literary translator from English into Bulgarian. She speaks and writes English, Russian and
German excellently, and she speaks and writes French well. Bulgarian is her native language.
Mark S. Weber has been a bum, a milkman, a commercial fisherman, and a corporate stooge, among other things. He has a deep love of wild places and barbeque and believes he has heard the Yeti howl. He has some recently published poems in Simply Haiku.
Path
Subhranil De is a Ph.D. in physics who loves to savor the
colors of nature. He wants to pursue a teaching and research career in physics. Apart from spending time with science and music, he seeks regular excuses to respond to the call of the road. He was born in Calcutta, India and presently lives in Troy, NY. He can be reached by email at subhranilde@yahoo.com .
Poetry/Prose
Benjamin Buchholz is an Army Officer assigned in Wisconsin. It has been his responsibility for the last couple years to prepare young soldiers to go to war--a tough thing, especially since it requires the intercession of distance
both between himself and his trainees and between himself and the war. His first book of poetry How To Die chronicles the tension of this experience and overlays the dissolution of his marriage: the external war of spouses pitted against the internal war of politics versus responsibilities. His short fiction and poetry have been featured or are forthcoming in quite a number of venues, including Tryst, Goodfoot, Drunken Boat, Dislocate, Chiaroscuro, The Wisconsin Academy Review, Harness, Big Bridge, The 2River View, AntiMuse, The Swamp, Snow Monkey, and others.
Ralph Malachowski is a poet who lives and works in New Jersey. He is an adjunct professor at William Paterson University. His work has appeared in The Mississippi Review, The Peralta Press, RFD, and online at canwehaveourballback.com, riverbabble, and Burning Leaf.
Sid Miller's poetry will or has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including, Margie, Rattle, Hawaii Pacific Review, RUNES, Eye~Rhyme: Journal of Experimental Literature, Inkwell, and BorderSenses. He has been a Pushcart nominee and this year his chapbook, Quietly Waiting, was published by White Heron Press. He is founder and editor of the new print poetry journal, Burnside Review.
Ashok Niyogi was born in 1955 and graduated with
Honors in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata. He has been in international trade and has traveled the world over including a 10-year stint as an expatriate in Yeltsin’s Russia. Ashok has been and will be published in innumerable magazines (print and on-line) in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe. He has not been published in Africa, the Caribbean or his country of origin, India and this rankles. Ashok has two books of poetry published by A-4, India---Crossroads, Reflections in the Dark, and one 225 page paperback of poems --Tentatively, iUniverse, USA (with Amazon, B&N, Borders etc.), out in March 2005. The e-book version of Tentatively at $6 is doing better. Ashok was schooled in Irish Christian Brothers’ schools and writes in Indian English, with whiffs of Russian, inevitable Americanisms and the odd Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali turn of phrase. He claims to have basic survival skills in these languages. He is unemployed since writing poetry is not a gainful occupation, and lives off his savings, charity, inheritances, gifts and his wife’s earnings (she is a senior corporate manager in Delhi). He divides time between the Bay Area in San Francisco, where his daughters live, India, Russia, airplanes and wherever his poetry takes him.
Kevin Opstedal has a couple of new chapbooks of poems out, Minus Tide (Smog Eyes, 2005) and 400 Hawaiian Shirts (Detour Press, 2005). He is currently living in Santa Cruz, CA.
Julio Peralta-Paulino is a writer currently at work on a
screenplay. Some of his recent work is featured at Stylus Poetry Journal and at Sun Oasis. His writing has also been published at Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), Skive, Metro Seven, Interpoetry, Write Between The Lines, and Eclectica. He is a member of the Zoetrope Virtual Studio as well as the Dorothy Parker Society.
Jayne Lyn Stahl has had poetry published in such notable anthologies, and magazines, as Poetry Magazine, Jack Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, City Lights Review: 2, Stiffest of the Corpse (a City Lights publication edited by Andrei Codrescu), The New York Quarterly, and Big Bridge, to name but a few. Her work has been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, and French. Jayne currently lives in the Bay Area, and is founder and project director of Writers-at-Large, a statewide writers' advocacy group funded by the California Arts Council.
Michael Standaert is a writer currently dividing his time between Iowa City, Iowa and Monterey, California. Recently he finished a non-fiction project for Soft Skull Press, which will appear sometime mid-2005. His first novel, The Adventures of the Pisco Kid, will be published by Arriviste Press in early 2005.
David Trame has been an Italian teacher of English poetry since 1993, and has published in magazines in U.K, U.S., and elsewhere. He lives
in Venice.Reviews
Matt Myftiu was born and raised in Michigan and has called
the state his home for all but two years of his life when he took a brief sojourn to Florida. He has been working in the evil empire known as the media (in the field of journalism) for the past ten years for various information-giving periodicals, and in that time has covered news, sports, entertainment and written many opinion pieces. He has also held several editing positions over the years, and is currently editing and doing page design/layout.
Morgan Woodbury currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, which, contrary to popular opinion, is not named so because it is the intersection point if one were to draw a line east from British Isles and north from Columbia. He enjoys computers, games, and many other nerd-related activities; trained as a computer programmer, he fills his days living in unfulfilled potential and loving it.
Road
Dorothee Lang is a writer and net artist. She lives in an old house with highspeed connection in South Germany, where she edits the travel mag subside.zine and has web dreams on a weekly basis. Her work has recently appeared in Sunday Herald and Surface, Dublin Quarterly, Drunkenboat, Pedestal, and pi, among others. To see some of her latest pieces, visit her virtual gallery at http://www.blueprint21.de.
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