poems

William John Watkins was a member of the founding faculty at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey from which he recently retired. He has published more than 500 poems in such magazines as Rhino, South Carolina Review, Hellas, and Commonweal. His sonnet, “Wife of My Youth, Look Back, Look Back”, won the 1994 Hellas Award, and his poem, “We Die as Angels and Come Back as Men” won the 2002 Rhysling Award. His short story, “Beggar in the Living Room”, was a Nebula Award finalist.

Tom Noe is a writer and editor living in South Bend, Indiana. His most recent project was the text of a song cycle on the life of Marie Curie, staged in Virginia in February, 2009. He's currently working on a new play and, of course, more poetry.

Timothy Murphy hunts and farms in the Dakotas.

Tim Kidwell lives in St. Louis where he works as a writer, actor and airline customer service agent. His poetry has appeared in Big Muggy and Eads Bridge and his article, “At the End of the Day,” appeared last summer in the Wall Street Journal.

Steve Potter's poems, stories and reviews have appeared in print and online journals such as; Arson, Blue Collar Review, Chrysanthemum, Drunken Boat, Freefall, Howling Dog, Pindeldyboz, Spout, 3rd Bed and the recent anthology, Paumanok:Poems and Pictures of Long Island. He published and edited the short-lived Wandering Hermit Review. When not reading or writing, he's usually making something to sell at one of the many summer arts and crafts festivals in the Rochester, NY region where he lives.

Born in Vietnam, Samantha Lê immigrated to the United States in 1983. She is currently working on her MFA at San Jose State University. Some of her publications include: My Solitude, a collection of spoken poetry; Corridors, a collection of poetry and short stories; and Little Sister Left Behind, a fictional memoir. She is also the creative director of e33 design.