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Charles Alexander directs Chax Press. Current poems appear in Can We Have Our Ball  Back?, Facture, and 6ix, and forthcoming in QSQ and Antennae. Books include Hopeful Buildings and Arc of Light / Dark Matter, with two books forthcoming: Certain Slants (Junction Press) and Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse Press).  For online work by Charles and online material about him see

http://www.canwehaveourballback.com/azindex.htm

http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/alterran/2001/v1-4-Apr/alex.htm

http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/alterran/2001/v1-4-Apr/alex2.htm http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/alexander/aviary.html

http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lcaarc.htm

http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lca1.txt

http://www.studiocleo.com/cauldron/volume3/contents/index.html

http://www.jacketmagazine.com/04/chaxmurphy.html

http://tech1.dccs.upenn.edu/xconnect/v5/i1/g/alexandermurphy.html

http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_6_2001/current/new-writing/murphy-alexander.html

Jefferson Carter is currently Writing Department Chair at Pima College, Downtown Campus, where he’s  taught developmental writing and poetry since 1978.  “Homemade Arrows,” his latest chapbook, is available from Red Felt Publishing.  Two recent poems will appear in the fall and spring issues of Salt River Review.

Millie Chapin is an exhibiting artist, having shown her work in galleries and museums in the US as well as abroad.  She has published a book of her paintings, prints, and poetry, Reverberations:  Mothers and Daughters.  She has been a nationally known art therapist, practicing, teaching, writing & presenting for the past 3 decades.  She is a new Tucsonian.  For more on Millie’s work see

www.lachmanchapin.com

Melanie Cooley has taught writing for the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA, and for Smarthinking.com, where she wrote both the student and teacher editions of the poetry writer's guide. She has received the Arizona Commission on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Colby Fellowship; she has also been a finalist for both Poetry Magazine's Ruth Lily Award and the University of Michigan's Excellence in Teaching Award. Her poems have appeared in various journals, including Spinning Jenny and Persona.

Jeremy Frey just began MFA Poetry studies on fellowship at the U of A where he also teaches composition. Two recent poems will be featured in the “new poets” section in an anthology of “Sacred Bearings: a Journal of Violence, Poetry & Survival” this fall. From Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, and there a founding member of the Burnt Possum Poets, he looks forward to involvement in POG and the Sonoran Desert.  For work online see

www.pandorapressus.com/dsm/summer02/freyje.htm

Maggie Golston owns and runs BIBLIO, an independent bookstore located at 222 E.Congress St. downtown in the Arts District.  Her work has appeared in Spork and Ploughshares.

Elizabeth Landry “is currently wasting her life at a crummy 9-5, while dreaming of being a housewife with a generous allowance.” Her work has been published in antennae, the POG 2 Anthology, and Can We Have Our Ball Back?  For work online see

http://www.canwehaveourballback.com/azlandry.htm

Mia McDonald is finishing her undergraduate work in creative writing and linguistics at the University of  Arizona.  She is a long time employee of the Poetry Center, and a winner of the Frederica Hearst Poetry Contest three years in a row.  She hopes to open a bookstore someday so that she can urge beautiful books into the hands of those who need them.

Tenney Nathanson is the author of Whitman’s Presence (NYU Press), The Book of Death (Membrane Press), One Block Over (Chax Press), and the forthcoming Erased Art (Chax Press).  Sections from his recently completed book-length poem Home on the Range have appeared in Antennae, Kenning, the POG TWO anthology, Jacket, can we have our ball back?, and the L.A. Review.  For work online see

http://jacketmagazine.com/22/nath-home.html

http://canwehaveourballback.com/aznathanson.htm

http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/rift/rift05/nath0501.html

http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/rift/rift03/nath0301.html

Wendy Miller Roberts attends the University of Arizona where she studies modern and contemporary writings in the Master's program in Literature.  Her poems have appeared in Weber Studies.

Matt Rotando received his MFA from Brooklyn College in 1999.  He is currently in the PhD in English Literature program at the University of Arizona.  For online work see

http://canwehaveourballback.com/azrotando.htm

Jason Zuzga is a second year M.F.A. poetry student at the U of A. His work has appeared in FENCE, jubilat, spork, and elsewhere. He was a 2001-2002 Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.  For work online see

http://www.canwehaveourballback.com/azzuzga.htm

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