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Board of Directors:

Tony Luebbermann, President

Cynthia Miller, Vice-President

Paul Klinger, Secretary

Dawn Pendergast, Secretary

Tenney Nathanson, Treasurer & Project Director for Poetry in Action.  Tenney Nathanson is the author of the book-length poem Home on the Range (The Night Sky with Stars in My Mouth) (O Books, 2005) and of the collection Erased Art (Chax Press, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Jacket, Kenning, Social Text, The Massachusetts Review, Antennae, Ironwood, Caterpillar, and RIF/T. His critical study Whitman's Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass (NYU, 1992, rpt. 1994) is still in print. Nathanson is currently at work on a book-length poem, "Ghost Snow Falls Through the Void (Globalization)," and a critical book about the contemporary poets John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Leslie Scalapino, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Norman Fischer, and David Shapiro. He teaches American Poetry in the English Department at the University of Arizona.

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Charles Alexander, Project Director for Cushing Street Poetry.  Charles Alexander, poet, Chax Press founder/director. Author of  Hopeful Buildings, Arc of Light / Dark Matter, Near or Random Acts, and other books. Editor of Talking the Boundless Book. 2006 Recipient of The Arizona Arts Award. Chax Press at http://chax.org; blog at http://chax.org/blog.htm.

Anna Fulford

Carlos Gallego

Barbara Henning.  Barbara Henning  is a poet and fiction writer, author of two novels and six books of poetry. She is Professor Emeritus from Long Island University in Brooklyn where she co-directed the Creative Writing Program with Lewis Warsh.

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Rachel McCrystal

Bonnie Jean Michalski received her MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona

in 2006. She works at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and is involved in Macawmacaw Press, a local small press dedicated to tactilely-innovative small run books of a collaborative nature.

Frank Parker. . . . combined his crafts of printing and writing to publish his book, Heart Shaped Blossoms, and has since become active in electronic publishing, i.e., Frank's Home. His poem "Wild with Spring" won a prize in Quarry West 35/36: Poets and Writers of the Monterey Bay, edited by Ken Weisner, judged by Francisco X. Alarcón, in the Spring of 2000. . . . moved to Tucson, Arizona, May 2003, from Monterey, CA. He enjoys his children and grandchildren there. Hikes among the Saguaro Nation too.

Rodney Phillips

Kali Tal

John Wright

 

Advisory Board:

Deborah Bernhardt received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence. After working as a Photo Editor she attended the UA Creative Writing Program (M.F.A. ’98) and served as a Poetry Editor/Art Editor of Sonora Review. Since leaving Arizona she has been the 1999 Penn State Altoona Writer-in-Residence, a 2000-2001 Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, a 2001-2002 Jay C. & Ruth Halls Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a 2002 recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the 2003 Writers @Work Poetry Fellow. She returned to Arizona in 2000 for a POG reading and a Scottsdale Museum of Art commission, and in 2003 for a reading at Biblio. Her poems have appeared or will appear in canwehaveourballback.com (Tucson Issue), Pog 2, River City, Shankpainter, Spork, Barrow Street and Quarterly West.

Jen Bervin, poet and visual artist, is the author of Nets (Ugly Duckling 2004) and Under What Is Not Under (Potes & Poets 2001). Her work has been published in Aufgabe, Chain, Denver Quarterly, Fell Swoop, Five Finger Review, How2, Insurance, Poets & Poems (a collaboration with Alystyre Julian), and Web Conjunctions. Bervin has received a BFA and a Presidential Merit Scholarship from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA in Poetry from the University of Denver, an Edward M. Lannan Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a Centrum Residency. She teaches at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Pratt Institute, and makes artists’ books.

David Bromige has published over 30 titles, best-known perhaps being Desire: Selected Poems 1963-87 (Black Sparrow Press), which won the Western States Arts Federation Award in 1988. Recent books include The Harbormaster of Hong Kong (Sun & Moon), A Cast of Tens (Avec Books), Establishing (Spad, London), Authenticizing (A+bend Books), and the collaborative novel Piccolo Mondo (Coach House). Chapters from his novel-in-progress, "Twilite Time," were anthologized in POG ONE (POG & Chax Press). Other awards include two from the NEA, two from the Canada Council, two 'Gertrude Steins' for Innovative Writing, and one each from the Fund for Poetry, the Pushcart Anthology, and the Macmillan Company.  Chax will publish his As in 'T' as in 'Tether' later this year.

Susan Dick runs the Writing Works program for the University of Arizona's Extended University.  She is active on the boards of several Tucson arts organizations.

Dan Featherston is a poet, scholar, and teacher.  His books of poetry include The Clock Maker’s Memoir (Cuneiform Press, forthcoming 2007), United States (Factory School, 2005), and Into the Earth (Quarry Press, 2005).  Shorter collections include The Clock Maker’s Memoir: 1–12 (Handwritten Press, 2002), 26 Islands (Primitive Publications, 1999), and Anatomies (Potes & Poets Press, 1998).  He teaches at Kutztown University and lives in Philadelphia with Rachel McCrystal and their dog Fredo. 

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Alex Garza trained with renowned sculptor Julian Harr in Chicago in the mid-1970's, later becoming a partner with Harr on numerous public artworks as well as private sculptural commissions.  Garza's sculptural work includes work in stone and wood.  His public art also includes numerous mural projects which encompass both painted and mosaic murals.  In 1983 he moved to Tucson and has continued to expand his commitment not only to public work, but to working with youth in the arts.  He has received grants and awards for his work from various agencies, and he currently is supported, in his work with Pima County youth, by funds from Pima County.  He is the co-founder of Las Artes Studios, which offers training to youth in the arts-notably to gang members and other at-risk young people.

Michelle Grijalva.  Before coming to Arizona International College, Dr. Grijalva was with the American Indian Studies Program and the Department of English at The University of Arizona. She has received grants for a comparative literature and writing program for Hopi and Navajo students from reservations in northern Arizona. Her work has been presented at various conferences worldwide; she has published several articles, and has just finished a book about the oral traditions and history of the Pascua Yaquis, Chiricahua Apaches, Tohono O'odham, and prehistoric Hohokam of the Rincon Valley.  She received her BA in philosophy as well as her MA and Ph.D. in English at the University of Arizona. She is currently working on a book of poetry.

Edie Jarolim, who has a Ph.D. in American Literature from NYU, is the editor of The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn (1985) and The Selected Poems of Paul Blackburn (1987), as well as the author of many articles about Blackburn and other contemporary writers.

Dan LaBeau is a poet with a BA from the University of Arizona and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  He now lives in Philadelphia, where he co-edits a new literary magazine, JOSS.

Jason Lagapa is a doctoral candidate in the Literature Program at the University of Arizona.  He is presently at work on a dissertation on twentieth century poetry.

Gene Lyman was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and educated in New England.  He graduated from Yale in 1992 with a BA in English Literature.  He spent the following six years at the University of Texas at Austin studying Native American history and the history of the U.S. West.  He left graduate school in 1998 and moved to Tucson, Arizona, to pursue a career divided between musical performance and computer systems administration.

Mia McDonald is currently pursuing her B.A. in Creative Writing and B.S. in Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She was recent reader for the Other Voices reading series, as well as the annual Poetry Center Undergraduate Reading. Mia works at the Poetry Center, is a past POG intern, and the current UA Prose Series intern. She was a recipient of the Fredrica Hearst Poetry Prize in 2003.

 

Sheila E. Murphy's most recent book publications include Continuations, a collaborative book with Douglas Barbour (The University of Alberta Press, 2006), Incessant Seeds (Pavement Saw), and Proof of Silhouettes (Stride). Her home is in Phoenix, where she and Beverly Carver co-founded and coordinated for twelve years the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series. Murphy is an active visual poet, as well. One of her visual poems is included in the upcoming permanent installation by Harriet Bart at the Rondo Community Library in St. Paul, Minnesota, scheduled to open in the fall of 2006.

 Heather Nagami received her B.A. in Literature/Creative Writing from U.C. Santa Cruz, where she also edited one of the university's literary journals, Red Wheelbarrow.  She is currently in the M.F.A. program at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where she serves as editor of Sonora Review and teaches poetry.

Tim Peterson's book POISE is forthcoming from Chax Press in fall 2006. Chapbooks include CUMULUS (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) and Trinkets Mashed into a Blender (Faux Press/e). Tim edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, and currently acts as a curator for the Segue Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York. He also recently edited a special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac devoted to New Media Poetry and Poetics, which can be found online at http://www.leoalmanac.org

 Jesse Seldess lives in Chicago, where he works in social services for the elderly, edits the magazine Antennae, and co-curates the Discrete Reading and Performance Series.

Frances Sjoberg received an MFA from Warren Wilson College and her work has been published in several journals including Barrow Street, Forklift Ohio, and in translation in Crítica, the literary journal of the Universidad de Puebla in Mexico.  Recently, she received a grant from the Fund For Poetry.  She is Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.

Jonathan VanBallenberghe teaches writing at Pima Community College and is currently working on an experimental textbook concerned with the study of ontologies.  His poems have appeared in several journals. 

Sharon Wahl did graduate work in math at MIT, then completed an MFA in creative writing at Washington University, in St, Louis.   Her short stories and poems have appeared in The Iowa Review (Tim McGinnis Award), Chicago Tribune (Nelson Algren Award finalist), Pleiades (Editors' Prize in poetry), Literal Latte (Fiction Contest winner), Harvard Review, and other journals.  She won a fiction fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts in 1999, and is currently teaching at Pima Community College in Tucson. 

Meredith Walters is a curator of education at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, where she runs the FREE VERSE poetry series. She is a 1999 graduate of the University of Arizona's creative Writing Program.

Debra White-Stanley is a PhD candidate in English at UA and the Director of the Womanspeak arts series.  She holds an MA degree in English from Northeastern University.

 

 

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