BiographiesBiographiesBARRY
ALPERT resides precisely between Washington DC & Baltimore. He
edited VORTmagazine. Duke
University Press recently reprinted his "performed lecture" on John Cage,
Buckminster Fuller, and David Antin. His book The Poet In The Imaginary
Museum was published by both Carcanet Press and Persea Books, and it
was reviewed prominently in the Times Literary Supplement and the
New
York Times Book Review. The 49th Venice Biennial is currently exhibiting
on-line his text via Donald Judd at http://www.geocities.com/biennale2001/interventi.html
LEONARD
ABRAMS is a writer and videographer living in New York.
HAKAN
ANDERSON was born in a small Swedish town Skara the same year world
war two ended and has been living in the beautiful island of Gotland, in
the middle of the Baltic, for 30 years. He works as a secondary school
teacher. He has published four collections of poetry and has a book forthcoming
about British poets and landscapes: from MacDiarmid in Shetland to WS Graham
down in Cornwall, RS Thomas, Dylan T. Ted Hughes, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney
and many others. He has just written his first novel and is also a jazz
musician.
WILLIAM
JAMES AUSTIN is a connoisseur of the bizarre and controversial. He
lives in New York City and remains addicted to its dystopian landscape.
He has published three collections of poetry, 1 Underworld 2 (S
Press), 3 Underworld 4 (S Press), 5 Underworld 6 (Koja Press),
plus the book length study, A Deconstruction Of T. S. Eliot: The Fire
And The Rose (University of Salzburg). His articles and book reviews
have appeared in numerous journals and magazines both print and online,
including The American Book Review, Koja, The New Laurel Review, The
Boston Literary Review, Blaze and The Patterson Literary Review.
In younger days Austin worked as a studio musician and songwriter, composing
music and lyrics for Lou Rawls, Hammer, and other rock and jazz notables.
Currently he is writing a book length poem entitled "trans/text/ual" while
teaching at the State University of New York.
ANDREA
BAKER lives in and writes from Brooklyn, NY. She is associate poetry
editor of 3rdBed (http://www.3rdBed.com),
a mostly print publication of mostly experimental writings. Her work has
appeared in literary magazines such as canwehavourballback.com,
3rdBed,
Siren,
and Come Horses.
DAVID
BIRCUMSHAW was born 1955 in what can be variously described as Meriden
or Coleshill, or Warwickshire. Rescued as a baby from a public pond. Thrown
out of some of the best Grammar Schools in Birmingham. 5 "O" levels. Accidently
came to Leicester some 13 years ago and has not yet found his way out.
Earlier this year founded the magazine A
Chide's Alphabet.
MARION
BLOEM was born in the Netherlands in 1952, two years after her parents
(Dutch-Indonesian) emigrated from Indonesia to the Netherlands. After high
school Bloem studied clinical psychology at the State University of Utrecht.
During her studies there, she published her first books for children. Soon
she started to write, produce and direct short-feature films. Her first
novel came out the same year (1983) as her first feature-length documentary
appeared. Known as a novelist and filmmaker, Marion Bloem has also received
wide-spread appreciation as a visual artist, since her first major exhibition
in 1987. Her paintings, objects and prints are exhibited regularly in the
Netherlands and abroad. Marion Bloem has published eleven novels for adults,
two short-story books, several poetry books, six children novels, and nine
books for young children. http://www.marionbloem.com/
RIP
BULKELEY is a retired peace researcher and historian of science who
has been writing poetry for 45 years and started getting serious about
it seven years ago. His poetry has appeared in numerous small print
magazines, such as The Shop and The Journal, as well as in
internet webzines, on London buses, and in an international photographic
exhibition about Kosovar refugees. He lives in Oxford, England. Finding
the local poetry scene a little chaotic and downhearted in the 1990s, he
first edited and published Island City, an anthology of Oxford poems
by poets living in Oxford, and then went on to help set up and run Back
Room Poets, a guild of more than 30 poets who work in many different styles
and forms but are united by their desire to grow in the craft and their
willingness to see poetry take its proper place in the community.
CORINNA,
award winning published writer of Hebrew literary fiction and nonfiction,
is a recipient of the Yaddo and Ledig fellowships; Among numerous grants
and awards are also the 1998 Fine Arts & Literature Grant from the
Tel-Aviv Foundation, The Hebrew Writers Association Publication Prize,
The Aricha Prize for "Revelation", The Institute for Translations of Hebrew
Literature Translation Grants, The New Israel Fund Wyner Prize, The Institute
for a Better Israel Award, The Tel-Aviv Foundation for Arts & Culture
Publication and Writing Grants, the Israel Foreign Ministry travel grant
to Egypt, The BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association) Publication
Honor for "Revelation", The President of Israel Amos Grant and the recent
Ministry of Culture Creativity Grant. Two of her latest books, Once
She Was a Child and A Minyan of Lovers have been recently translated
into English and are awaiting publication, while several chapters have
been already published in such literary magazines as Partisan Review, International
Quarterly, Pen Israel Anthology. Additional chapters are projected for
publication in quarterlies within the coming months. In 1975 Corinna
initiated and organized for a six month term bi-weekly meetings and events
in the Galilee featuring and attended by Palestinian and Jewish Israeli
artists, composers and writers. In 1984 Corinna founded HILAI, The Israeli
Center for the Creative Arts. She directed the not for profit organisation,
now closed due to illness, for eleven years during which it ran two international
modest artists and writers colonies in the Galilee and in the Negev (Desert)
and conducted over five hundred peace oriented encounters, art, literature,
and music events and classes.
IRENE
FERNANDEZ is a a feminist human rights activist.Ê Currently,
she is Director of a women's rights cum labor rights organization called
Tenaganita, which means 'Women's Force", based in Malaysia.Ê The
organisation works with women, especially women workers in plantations,
in factories and in the sex industry.Ê Our other key focus is Migrant
workers.Ê She is also the Chairperson for the regional organization
CARAM_Asia (Cordination Action Research on AIDS and Mobility) and Chair
of another regional organization - Pesticide Action Network. Currently
on trial in Malaysia for exposing the inhuman and outrageous conditions
in immigration detention camps. This trial began in 1996 and is still on
going.
DOMINIC
FOX lives with his partner and their son in Leicester , where he is
still trying to complete his PhD dissertation on the poetry of Geoffrey
Hill. He currently works in a bank, and tries not to make too much of the
fact that T. S. Eliot did too. His other favourite poet is Early Auden,
and after some initial unpleasantness he is getting to quite like Milton
as well.
JAMES
GRAHAM lives and breathes in New York, when he isn't busy getting lost
elsewhere. His novel Spice Factory is ready when you are. You can
reach him at percheron22@mindspring.com
ROBERT
HAMPSON is Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department
at Royal Holloway, University of London. He edited the magazine Alembic
with Ken Edwards and Peter Barry in the 70s, and edited the volume of essays,
The
New British Poetry: The Scope of the Possible (with Peter Barry). His
selected poems, Assembled Fugitives, was published by Stride in
2000.
DAVID
HOWARD is the author of Shebang: Collected Poems 1980-2000 (Wellington,
Steele Roberts, 2001), the editor of Complete with Instructions
(Christchurch, Firebrand, 2001), and works internationally as Tour Supervisor
(SFX) for popular performers such as Metallica and Janet Jackson.
PETER
HORN was born in Teplitz-Schsnau. In 1955 he emigrated with his parents
to South Africa, since then his permanent residence. He taught at the University
of Cape Town. He has published several volumes of poetry, including Voices
from the Gallows Trees, Walking through our Sleep, Silence in Jail,
Civil War Cantos, Poems 1964-1989, An Axe in the Ice, and The Rivers
that Connect us to the Past, a volume of short stories My Voice
is under control now, a volume of essays Writing my Reading
and an anthology of South African poetry in German translation, Kap
der Guten Hoffnung. His poetry has been widely translated. He was co-editor
with Walter Saunders of
Ophir, Journal for Poetry 1966-1974. He
has also published widely on German literature. In 1974 he received the
Pringle Prize of the South African English Academy, in 1992 he received
the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (Honourable Mention for Poems 1964-1989),
and in 1993 the Alex La Guma/Bessie Head Award for the short story collection
The
Kaffir who read Books (published under the title: My Voice is under
Control now. 1999 Charles Hermann Bosman Prize 1999, Nomination for the
Caine Prize for African Literature). In 1994 the University of Cape Town
granted him a Honorary Fellowship for life. Two of his volumes of poetry
and numerous other publications by him were banned for possession during
the Apartheid regime. His poems are anthologised in most major anthologies
of South African poetry.
CORAL
HULL is the author of thirty five books of poetry, prose fiction and
digital photography. Her work has been published in literary magazines
in the USA, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. She is the Editor
of
Thylazine.
ARNI
IBSEN(b. 1948). Author of four collections of poetry and a dozen plays
which are translated into ten languages and performed in Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Finland, The Faroe Islands, Estonia, Hungary, Germany, Ireland,
England and the USA, as well as his native Iceland. A bi-lingual selected
poems, A Different Silence, won The American-Scandinavian Foundation
Translation Prize in 1999 and was published by Harwood Academic Publishers
in 2000. In 1996 he was nominated for the Nordic Playwrights Prize for
Heaven
- A Schizophrenic Comedy (1995). His debut play was The Turtle Gets
There Too (1984), a two-hander about William Carlos Williams and Ezra
Pound. Subsequent plays include Elin Helena (1993), Fish Out
of Water (1993), I Wish I Was a Goldfish (1996), the disjointed,
cinematic satire entitled For Ever (1997), named play of the year
in 1997, and Man Alive (1999), an opera libretto inspired by 'Everyman',
as well as several plays for radio and tv. Numerous translation credits
include a selected poems by William Carlos Williams (1997) and an anthology
of plays, prose and poetry by Samuel Beckett (1987). Arni Ibsen lives with
his wife in Hafnarfjsrdur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. They have three sons
and a grandson.
JILL
JONES is a Sydney poet and writer. Her first book, The Mask and
the Jagged Star, won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. Her third book
of poetry,
The Book of Possibilities, was shortlisted for the 1997
National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards, the 1997 Age Book of the Year Poetry
Prize and the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards. A new and selected, Screens
Jets Heaven, is forthcoming from Salt Publishing in 2002.
S.
K. KELENÊ lives in Canberra where he teaches creative writing
and poetry. He was the recipient of the ACT Chief Minister's Creative Arts
Fellowship for 2000. ÊHe is the author of a number of books of poems
including The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes (Brisbane: Makar Press,
1978), To the Heart of the World's Electricity (Sydney: Senor, 1980),
Atomic
Ballet Ê(Sydney: Hale & Iremonger 1991), Dingo Sky
(Sydney: HarperCollins/Angus &Robertson 1993), Trans-Sumatran Highway
and other poems (Canberra: polonius, 1995), Dragon Rising (Hanoi:
The Gioi, 1998). ÊHis most recent book is Shimmerings (Wollongong:
Five Islands Press, 2nd printing November 2000) and includes poems written
during recent residencies in the USA, Vietnam and his imagination.Ê
He was recently awarded the Canberra Arts Patron Organisation's Fellowship
for 2001.
JOHN
KINSELLA is the author of twenty books whose many prizes and awards
include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry from
The Adelaide Festival, The Age Poetry Book of The Year Award, The Western
Australian Premier's Prize for Poetry (twice), a Young Australian Creative
Fellowship from the former PM of Australia, Paul Keating, and senior Fellowships
from the Literature Board of The Australia Council. His Poems 1980ö1994
and volume of poetry The Hunt (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation)
were published in May 1998 by Bloodaxe in the UK and USA, The Undertow:
New & Selected Poems (Arc, U.K),
Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999),
Wheatlands
(with Dorothy Hewett in 2000), and The Hierarchy of Sheep (Bloodaxe/FACP,
2001). He is the editor of the international literary journal
Salt,
a Consultant Editor to
Westerly (CSAL, University of Western Australia),
Cambridge correspondent for
Overland (Melbourne, Australia), co-editor
of the British literary journal Stand, International Editor of the
American journal The Kenyon Review, and a Fellow of Churchill College,
Cambridge. A novel Genre was published in 1997 (Fremantle Arts Centre
Press) and Grappling Eros in late 1998 (FACP). He co-edited (with
Joseph Parisi) a double issue of Australian poetry for the American journal
Poetry
and has been appointed the Richard L Thomas Professor of Creative Writing
at Kenyon College in the United States for 2001. He is a Fellow of Churchill
College, Cambridge University, and Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University,
Western Australia. His work has been or is being translated into many languages,
including French, German, Chinese, and Dutch.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/1664/kinsella.html
ANASTASIOS
KOZAITIS is a poet. He lives in New York City.
SOPHIE
LEVY is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature and Women's
Studies at the University of Toronto, where she recently completed a Master's
thesis on the psychogeography of Toronto. She has a collection,
marsh
fear / fen tiger (with Leo Mellor), forthcoming from Salt in Spring
2002. Her work has appeared on the page (The May Anthologies, Entropy),
on stage (Kassandra at the Edinburgh Festival 1999, her translation
of La Casa de Bernarda Alba in Cambridge, 1999), online (Vines)
and on BBC Radio Scotland.
MEZ
[Mary-Anne Breeze] has been described as one of "the original net.artists"
who is "...without doubt one of the most consistent, prolific, innovative
artists working in new media today. Mez's work with language has had a
considerable effect on the language of many...". The impact of her unique
net.wurks [constructed via her pioneering net.language "mezangelle"] has
been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson,
e.e. cummings and Larry Wall. Since 1995, she has exhibited extensively
via the internet and in "realtime" [e.g CTHEORY's Digital Dirt, Prague's
Goethe Institute, Digitarts '96, Experimenta Media Arts, ISEA_97 Chicago,
ARS Electronica_97, trAce, The Metropolitan Museum Tokyo, SIGGRAPH_99&00,
d>Art 00&01 and_hybrid ERMINIA
PASSANNANTI is an Italian poet, essayist and translator. She read Modern
Languages at The Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Salerno University
and has carried on a postgraduate research on the Poetry of Franco Fortini
at London University College (UCL). She is now professor of English Literature
in Italy. Her first poetry selection Noi altri was published by
Vanni Scheiwiller in the anthology I 5 Poeti del Premio Laura Nobile,
(1993). In 1995, she won the First Prize of the National Poetry Competition
Laura Nobile of the University of Siena. Her second collection, Macchina,
is published with Manni Editore. She was one the organizers for Oxford
of the World Poetry Day, Dialogue Among Civilizations.
http://www.dialoguepoetry.org/oxford.htm
GOENAWAN
MOHAMAD is an Indonesian journalist. This article first appeared in
Tempo.
SUSAN
M. SCHULTZ teaches American poetry and creative writing at the University
of Hawai`i. Her forthcoming volume of poetry is
Memory Cards & Adoption
Papers from Potes & Poets Press.
RON
SILLIMAN is a poet living in the Valley Forge region of Pennsylvania.
An anti-war activist during the Vietnam period, Silliman worked for years
in the prison movement and later as a tenant organizer in San Francisco's
inner city. Later, he was the executive editor of Socialist Review.
He is the author of one collection of criticism, The New Sentence,
and over 20 books of poetry, including Demo to Ink, What, Toner, Xing,
Ketjak and Tjanting.
KESTON
SUTHERLAND is a poet, producer of critical and philosophical essays,
editor of QUID and (with Andrea Brady) of Barque Press. One essay is online
at: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket15/sutherland-bathos.html.
Barque Press has a website at http://www.barquepress.com.
Its latest project was 100 Days, a collection of invectives against
George W. Bush, featuring contributions from over 90 writers worldwide.
Keston can be contacted at kms20@hermes.cam.ac.uk.
LAWRENCE
UPTON is a solo and collaborative poet, artist and performer. He chairs
Sub Voicive Poetry readings and colloquia in London. He co-edited the anthology
Word
Score Utterance Choreography in verbal and visual poetry (1998) with
Bob Cobbing with whom he is now co-editing the part-work anthology
On
word: an anthology of contemporary poetry (2001). His solo publications
include: Initial Dance (2001, housepress, Canada), Meadows
(2000, WF, UK), and Game on a line (2000, PaperBrainPress, USA).
Forthcoming publications: Let me have a word 1 & voice gestures
- both from housepress & wire sculptures (Reality Street Editions,
UK). http://pages.britishlibrary.net/lawrence.upton/,
http://clix.to/svp/
ELIOT
WEINBERGER'S essays are collected in Works on Paper, Outside Stories,
Written Reaction and, most recently, Karmic Traces. They appear
regularly in translation in ten languages. He is the author of a study
of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, and
the editor of the anthology American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators &
Outsiders. His many translations of the work of Octavio Paz include
the
Collected Poems 1957-1987, In Light of India, Sunstone, and
An
Erotic Beyond: Sade. Among his other translations are Vicente Huidobro's
Altazor,
Xavier Villaurrutia's Nostalgia for Death, Jorge Luis Borges'
Seven
Nights, and Unlock by Bei Dao. His edition of Jorge Luis Borges'
Selected
Non-Fictions received the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism.
In 1992, he was given the first PEN/Kolovakos Award for his work in promoting
Hispanic literature in the United States and, in 2000, he became the first
American literary writer to be awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by
the government of Mexico.
HARRIET
ZINNES'S many books include Plunge (a poetry chapbook), My,
Haven't the Flowers Been? (poems), The Radiant Absurdity of Desire
(short stories), Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts (criticism), and
Blood
and Feathers (translations from the French poetry of Jacques Prevert).
She is a contributing editor of The Denver Quarterly and of The
Hollins Critic and a contributing writer for New York Arts Magazine.
She is Professor Emerita of English of Queens College of the City University
of New York.
ALI
ALIZADEH was born in Iran in 1976 and migrated to Australia at 14.
Having endured the Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War and years of out-right
racist attacks in Queensland, he managed to graduate from Griffith University
Gold Coast with Honours in Creative Arts in 1998. Since then he's been
living in Melbourne, working on a PhD at Deakin University and developing
his poetics for the post-modern epic. Ali's first English-language poem
was published and performed in 1995. Since then he has been reading his
poems in pubs, festivals, street-corners and classrooms across Australia,
while working on two narrative texts Elixir and La Pucelle.
He's had poems published in journals such as Veranda, Divan,
Writing
Australia and Voiceworks. He also writes book-reviews and plays.
His play Irene's Inquisition is staged during the 2001 Melbourne
Fringe Festival.