featured poets
      paul skyrm 
      paul skyrm is an aurora, ohio-based poet. he was recently
      accepted to the jack kerouac school of disembodied poetics at
      naropa institute in colorado. spskyrm416@aol.com 
      om mane padme hum ( a poem in
      four parts) 
        
      kimberly nichols 
      kimberly nichols is a writer, editor of www.3ammagazine.com,
      diary of a californicator columnist and artist who lives in the
      california desert. kcooperblue@earthlink.net 
      letter to animus, 1998 
        
      charlene sieffert 
      charlene sieffert lives on the west coast of canada, and is working
      on a bachelors of fine arts when she isn't cycling or swimming.
      chargirl99@hotmail.com 
      mr. r.  
      end of summer 
      she 
        
      prasenjit maiti 
      prasenjit maiti is senior lecturer in political science at burdwan
      university, west bengal, india. dr maiti's print publication
      credits include 2river view, blue collar review, green queen,
      harlequin, micropress oz, monkey kettle, nightingale, paper wasp,
      phoenix, poetry church, poetry depth quarterly, poetry greece,
      pulsar, skald and the journal. pmaiti@vsnl.com 
      calcutta poems 
        
      daniel arnold 
      daniel arnold, from east lansing, mich., is a junior at the msu
      college of education, a writer for natural spirit ministries,
      and has done extensive research on the history of toys. darnold@toylegacies.org 
      (untitled) 
      class 
      untitled 
        
      kevin calaguiro 
      kevin calaguiro, 19 years old, is from suburbia, just outside
      of toronto. a few of his poems have been published on verse libre
      quarterly, an online e-zine. he loves reading, music and travelling,
      and hates when people wear white socks with dress shoes. nascent_soul@hotmail.com 
      the sunrise in the city 
      by way of the drug 
      glitter girls (part ii) 
      benched in grace 
      enough gloom 
      glitter girls and other stories 
      driving it to the taste 
      the concrete city 
        
      jason smith 
      jason smith grew up in eighty-four, pa, 20 minutes south of pittsburgh.
      after high school he lived in spain for 3 years, went to st.
      louis to finish college, and is now chillin' like a villain,
      paying rent, enjoying his penchant for dense verbosity. yoesaqui@hotmail.com 
      you were never lovelier than you
      were tonight 
        
      joseph blank 
      "hello, i'm joe blank, a 23-year-old neurotic caucasian
      living in the horrid suburbs of atlanta, choking on car fumes
      and progress. i write and work on various visual art projects
      to quell my junkie need to create. doomist, emotionalist, agnostic,
      romantic, i paint pictures of the show high up in the nosebleed
      seats, hoping some truth slips through in translation."
      joseph_blank@hotmail.com 
      thursday's suit 
        
      michael fitzgerald 
      michaelwjfitzgerald@hotmail.com 
      shore 
      blackbird 
      turd dumplings 
        
      richard edwards 
      cleveland writer richard edwards holds a bfa in creative writing
      from bowling green state university. his work has been published
      in prairie margins (print), miscellany (print), images inscript
      (web), and drunk duck (web). currently i have poems in press
      for quill and ink and niederngassei. in 1999 he won the claiborne
      quinn fiction award, and is currently working on a collection
      of short stories, and a collection of poetry. he works in publications
      at a medical publishing company. egem4@yahoo.com 
      up there getting ahead 
      the things we do for aliens reasons 
      the responsibility of fire 
      when i met the women he loved 
        
      jason walter 
      jason walter is a toronto-based poet/actor who does performance
      art/spoken word/film. he has released a chapbook entitled "underneath
      my fortune". his one-man act includes storytelling, poetry
      and comedy. he also takes part in a performance art troupe called
      "theatre of the ignorant", which combines theatre and
      poerty. he recently made his on-screen debut in a short film
      called "sunday lunch". jason_walter@hotmail.com 
      honestly alive 
      dry breeze 
      one-sided history 
        
      patrick iberi 
      patrick iberi, originally from the eastern heartland of nigeria,
      is a 25-year-old graduate of philosophy who is greatly interested
      in existentialism. he began writing poetry when he was 13. his
      hobbies are writing and playing chess.  
      lanchata@yahoo.com 
      mine 
      beholder 
      time 
        
      nilanshu agrawal 
      nilanshu agrawal is a lecturer in english at a p.g.college of
      india, and is interested in literature and aesthetics. nilanshu1973@yahoo.com 
      a sonnet  
      cause of fundamentalism  
      what is orchestra? 
        
      jacob rakovan 
      jacob rakovan is the editor of the portsmouth free press, a bi-monthly
      alternative news and entertainment paper in southern ohio. he
      is also the master of ceremonies for the third thursday open
      mic at eula's murray st. pub, which is best described as a cross
      between a vaudeville act and the gong show without the gong.
      portsmouthfreepress@yahoo.com 
      speed in winter in ohio: a monologue 
      "you can live in the future before it even arrives" 
      eugene pickelsimer, the accordian kid. 
      hungover in a five-dollar suit 
        
      
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