Issue
# 136
Contributors
To This Issue
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Featured Artist:
Susan Tileston
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Kristina B. Bresnen is a recent graduate
of Concordia University's English Literature program. She lives and writes
in Montreal.
Paul Brownsey was once a newspaper journalist
and is now a lecturer in philosophy at Glasgow University, Scotland. His
stories have appeared in many Scottish magazines and collections, including
Chapman, Cutting Teeth, and Cencrastus. North American
publications include stories in The Wascana Review and Harrington
Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly.
Grace Butcher is a Professor Emeritus at
Kent State University Geauga Campus and the editor of The Listening
Eye. A poem from Poetry was selected for Best American Poetry
2000 and for inclusion in The Poetry Anthology: 1912-2002.
Gundi Chan, who grew up in Hong Kong in the
1930s, was a visiting Fellow of the Fairbank Institute at Harvard University
when these poems were translated. It was his deep understanding and knowledge
of classical Chinese poetry that helped Allen West with his translation
of Li Quingzhao's poems. He lives in Hong Kong now.
David Livingstone Clink is the Artistic Director
of the Art Bar Poetry Series (artbar.org). He is the co-publisher
of believe your own press, and is webmaster of poetrymachine.com,
a resource for poets. His poetry has appeared in Analog, Cicada,
The Dalhousie Review, Descant, Grain Magazine, The
Literary Review of Canada, Midwest Poetry Review, On Spec,
and The Prairie Journal.
Susan Elmslie lives in Montreal. Her work
has appeared in anthologies and journals including The Malahat Review
and Contemporary Verse 2. She gratefully acknowledges the support
of the Canada Council for the Arts in the completion of the work published
here. She has poems forthcoming in Queen's Quarterly and Room
of One's Own.
David Hickey's poems have appeared in The
Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review, and will appear soon in
Descant. He works as a house painter in Fredericton, NB.
Iain Higgins' poems have appeared in Books
in Canada, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, The
Fiddlehead, Malahat Review, and Prism International.
His translations of contemporary Polish poetry have been published in
numerous magazines in Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the United States.
He lives in Victoria, BC.
Bill Howell, a frequent contributor to The
Antigonish Review, has three poetry collections. Recent work has appeared
in Arc, Canadian Literature, Dalhousie Review, Descant,
Grain, Event, Queen's Quarterly and Queen Street
Quarterly. He is Executive Producer of The Mystery Project
for CBC Radio Drama in Toronto.
Chris Hutchinson lives and writes in Vancouver,
BC. His work has been published widely in Canadian journals, most recently
in Prism International and Event. He is the co-founder of
Burning Cradle Press, a new publisher of books of poetry by Canadian
authors. He was the recipient of the Earle Birney Prize for poetry in
2003.
Sean Johnston is a Saskatchewan writer who
works as a surveyor in British Columbia. His poetry and fiction have been
published in various journals, including Grain, The Malahat
Review and Geist. He has work upcoming in The Fiddlehead
and The New Quarterly. His collection A Day Does Not Go By
(Nightwood Editions) won the 2003 ReLit Award for short fiction.
Ben Kalman is a graduate of Concordia University's
Creative Writing/English Literature joint honours program. He is presently
working on his Master's degree. He is the founder of Mercutio Press,
through which he recently published the chapbook In The City. He
has most recently been published in True Fiction: Art.
Nadia Kalman was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and
currently lives in Brooklyn. She has been published in The Gettysburg
Review and was awarded a summer fellowship to the Ragdale Colony.
While a student at Yale University, she won the Wallace and Wright prizes
for an essay about her family's experiences in the United States.
María Rosa Lojo is a writer and researcher
from Buenos Aires. She has published, in Spanish, three books of poetry,
including Esperan la mañana verde (1998) from which the present
selections are taken. Her prose, representative of the so-called "new
historical narrative," includes the novel La pasión de los nómades
(1994) and the collection of short narratives Amores insólitos de nuestra
historia (2001). English translations of her poems have also appeared
or are forthcoming in The Saint Ann's Review, Chelsea, and
Stand Magazine.
Micheline Maylor has a Masters degree in
Creative Writing from the U.K. She has been published in poetry journals
around the world, most recently in Equinox and ARC.
Christine McNair is currently studying book
conservation at West Dean College of the Arts in the UK.
Riel Nason grew up in Hawkshaw, NB and now
lives in Fredericton, NB with her husband. She is an antique dealer and
collector of many things old and interesting. This is her first story
accepted for publication.
Li Qingzhao (C. 1083 - aft. 1149) lived during
the Song Dynasty. Happily married to a government official who traveled
extensively, she wrote poetry for him while he lived and mourned him in
poetry after his death. She is considered one of the great women poets
of classical China.
Michael Quilty lives and runs and rides near
Toronto and Southern Georgian Bay. His poetry was recently published in
The Fiddlehead, and among other things, he is currently finishing
a full-length manuscript.
Scott Randall has published fiction in such
journals as Quarry, The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie
Review, The Windsor Review, Event and The South Dakota
Review. He graduated from the University of Windsor with a Master
of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and is presently
completing a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing at The University
of North Dakota.
Ellen Rose is the McCain-Aliant Telecom professor
of multimedia and instructional design at the University of New Brunswick.
Her publications on technology and culture include Hyper Texts: The
Language and Culture of Educational Computing (Althouse, 2000) and,
most recently, User Error: Resisting Computer Culture (Between
the Lines, 2003).
Brett Alan Sanders is a writer, translator,
and teacher living in Tell City, Indiana. His short prose has appeared
in several journals, and his novella A Bride Called Freedom was
published in 2003 in a bilingual edition from Ediciones Nuevo Espacio
. He is at work on further translations of the
poetry and fiction of María Rosa Lojo.
Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall: Stories (The Independent Press/Empyreal
Press, Montreal), and two comics collections, Attractive Forces
and Stray Moonbeams (NBM Publishing, New York), both illustrated
by Justin Norman.
Bill Stenson is a West Coast writer who will
have a short story collection, titled Translating Women, published
by Thistledown Press in the spring of 2004.
Andrew Stubbs teaches rhetoric and writing
at the University of Regina. He has published books and articles and presented
conference papers on Canadian literature and theory. He recently co-edited
(with Judy Chapman) The Other Harmony: The Collected Poetry of Eli
Mandel. He is currenty working on outlaw rhetorics in Canadian poetry.
Susan Tileston is a former teacher and arts
administrator. Currently she works as an arts consultant, freelance writer
and photographer. She lives in Granville Ferry, NS,where she can be seen
cycling in almost any kind of weather and spent last winter teaching English
in Mexico.
Myka Tucker-Abramson is a young Halifax-based
poet whose poetry and translations from Russian poetry have been published
in local journals and university publications. She has been featured on
the radio show Guerilla Radio, and the websites
and .
Allen C. West, who lives in Cambridge, MA,
is a retired professor of chemistry. He has had poetry published in journals
such as The Mid America Poetry Review, English Journal,
and The Comstock Review. In 2001 his chapbook The Time of Ripe
Figs won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press's chapbook competition.
It was published in 2002.
Jan Zwicky's most recent book is Wisdom
and Metaphor, published in the fall of 2003 by Gaspereau Press. The
poems in this issue are from Robinson's Crossing, forthcoming from
Brick Books in 2004.
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