Grand Canyon at Twilight Photograph by Anne Hudson
H. BALAKRISHNAN topped his university in his subjects where, at graduation, he had Alternative English as a subject. Even during his teens and twenties, he used to contribute to leading magazines in India. In the recent past, he has been writing regularly for The Hindu, the prestigious publication of 125 years’ standing--mostly on culture, the fine arts, people, and society. He has also done occasional research for the Reader’s Digest. He has a collection of over 100 poems, some of which are available on the net. A book of poems is on the anvil. Balakrishnan lives in the historic city of Bhubaneswar, an hour’s drive from Puri town on the Bay of Bengal in Orissa, India. fabalas02@yahoo.com
FABRIZIO BIANCHINI Originally from Tuscany, Fabrizio Bianchini emigrated from Italy in 1993. He has been writing poetry and short stories for over 12 years and is currently attending Harvard University, focusing on his writing skills, as well as other interests, while working full-time. Fabrizio lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, with his wife, Tam. This is his first published story. tambianchini@earthlink.net
ANNE AGNES COLWELL is an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize, and the Quarterly Review of Literature. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including, most recently, California Quarterly, Evansville Review, Phoebe, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern Poetry Review, Stickman Review, Poetry Bay, and Writer's Voice. Poetry is also at the heart of her research interests, and she has published several essays about American poets, including an article in the Connecticut Review on Anne Bradstreet and Affliction/Conversion Narrative and an article in Journal X about Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "The Fish." She lives in Milton, Delaware, with James Keegan. Colwell@UDel.Edu
JACK COOPER studied psychology and English literature in Norway and attended graduate school in alpine botany at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His play with actor/writer Charles Bartlett, The Christmas Letter, is currently in development at the Victory Theater Center in Burbank, California. He is a 2004 recipient of a Bole'parn Writers prize. Journals publishing his work include Facets, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Phi Delta Kappan, Poetry Motel, The Broken Column, and Pegasus Journal. jkcooper@hotmail.com
ROSEMARIE CRISAFI lives in Wappingers Falls, New York. She works in White Plains, New York, for a not-for-profit agency that serves individuals with disabilities. She is interested in literature and films. She enjoys the process of writing poetry. Currently, she has poetry published online at 2River, Rock Salt Plum, Tin Lustre Mobil, Poems Niederngasse, Astropoetica, Millers Pond, and Experimental Poetry.com. Other poems have been accepted for publication in Canopic Jar, Nthposition, Ancient Paths, Promise Magazine, and The Carriage House Review. rcpoems@optonline.net
ELIZABETH DOLAN is a wife, mother, grandmother, and retired English teacher. She is most proud of the alternative school she ran in the Bronx. Her poetry, memoirs, and short stories have been published in Dreamstreets, Rattle, The Writer's Publishing [Canada], Literary Mama, Canadian Woman Studies, Lullaby Hearse, Slowtrains, and smallspiral notebook.
MICHAEL ESTABROOK is a medievalist at heart (and by training), disappointed (though reconciled) with the modern world, particuarly with the materialism and mercantilism bludgeoning life, smashing our brains into the ground, our hearts into dust. He's still hoping to find a true and meaningful "cause" in life, other than scratching out his pale poetic murmurings like trying to write in hardened concrete. But he needs to find his "cause" pretty soon before he turns to dust himself. mestabrook@comcast.net
JASON FRALEY works at an investment corporation. His first chapbook of poetry, The Arche of Existentialism, is available through Little Poems Press. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Confluence, Amarillo Bay, Tryst, Redactions, Snow Monkey, Pebble Lake Review, and others. jfraley@mail.com
DO GENTRY recently won third prize and two honorable mentions in the Sacramento Poetry Center's annual competition, and has had poems published in Confluence, Sulphur River Literary Review, Fourteen Hills, Rhino, The Ledge, and elsewhere. Bichette3@aol.com
Because metaphors are not always the most exciting – and syncopated – ways of describing what’s (fictionally) what, DAN HARDER will sometimes play with syncopated juxtapostions. Call it “associational wizardry” – how all art is made, ultimately; putting things together that have never been put together “just so” before. Hence, the “zipper” poem, "Out of Place." In addition to numerous plays and poems, Dan writes features for the LA Times, NPR, the SF Chronicle, etc., has published children’s books, photo-essay books, a couple of books of poetry, just optioned an original screenplay, and… well, done lots of things. Visit his Web site – www.danharder.com – and link to other poems, play productions, essays/articles, and other sundry offerings. Hardschul@aol.com
CARLOS HIRALDO is currently an assistant professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. While receiving his Ph.D. in English literature from Stony Brook University, he was coeditor for four years of the school literary magazine, Snark: A Journal of Poetry & Translations. carlosbpvp@yahoo.com
KATHERINE HOLMES' published work has appeared in Wordwrights Magazine, Porcupine, The South Dakota Review, Minnesota Poetry Calendar, Talking River Review, River Images, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Skyways and Icehouses (a Walker Art Center exhibition catalogue), Loonfeather, and others. In the last year, she's been published in the internet journals, Full Circle, Gin Bender, Front Street Review, and Rio. In 1993, she received an honorable mention in Minnesota Monthly Magazine's Tamarack Awards. More recently, she was a 2003-04 recipient of an Arrowhead Regional Emerging Artist's grant, and she works with used and rare books. katheholmes@yahoo.com
J. PATRICK LEWIS's poems have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Graham House Review, Kansas Quarterly, Dalhousie Review, and many other journals. He has published 38 children's picture/poetry books with Knopf, S&S/Atheneum, Penguin, Putnam, Harcourt, DK Ink, and Little Brown, among others. jplewis42@aol.com
LYN LIFSHIN's BEFORE IT'S LIGHT was awarded the Paterson poetry award and reprinted in 2001 by Black Sparrow Press. Black Sparrow also published a series of her books, including ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME, in 2002. She has published over 100 books of poetry and edited four anthologies of women's writing, including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S THREAD, and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines. She is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing," has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement." For interviews, photographs, more biographical material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, visit her Web site at www.lynlifshin.com onyxvelvet@aol.com
After a decade as an executive in the entertainment industry, in a fit of (in)sanity ROBIN PALMER left the corporate world a few years ago to write. Since then she's written a novel, a collection of essays, and--because she lives in Los Angeles--a few screenplays. She's currently at work on her second novel. RLP321@comcast.net
SUDARSAN PATNAIK (27) lives in Puri town, Orissa, India on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. His sand sculptures, of up to 40 feet in height, have been created in 24 places around the world, inspiring awe among spectators. He has won several prizes at international exhibitions in Japan, China, Spain, Holland, and Germany, the latest being the Visitors’ Prize at the Berlin Sand Station Competition, 2004. He teaches sand sculpture to children at his Golden Sand Art Institute. sudarsansand@hotmail.com
KENNETH POBO's book, INTRODUCTIONS, came out in 2003 from Pearl's Book'Em Press. His work online can be read at: FORPOETRY.COM, PLUM RUBY REVIEW, SUNSPINNER, DREXEL ONLINE JOURNAL, THREE CANDLES, and elsewhere. Notably, he appeared in the inaugural issue of Facets. After almost 12 years together, he and his partner just bought a house and will be moving in in October. kgpobo@enter.net
SUSAN RAWLINS' poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Grand Street, The Quarterly, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, Facets, and other publications. A frequent contributor to this magazine, she lives in Berkeley, CA. s-rawlins@sbcglobal.net
A. P. SULLIVAN, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, is a high school English teacher in Fair Oaks, California. He has a Masters in English from California State University, Sacramento. He has lived and traveled in Mexico, England, and Australia. Besides poetry, he counts epistemology, choral singing, and soccer as major interests. His poems have appeared in Salt Hill, Cider Press Review, Bryant Literary Review, and The Tule Review. In a matter of weeks, Poet’s Corner Press will publish his first chapbook, Islands of Earshot. apmpsullivan@aol.com
Facets A Literary Magazine (Volume IV, Issue 3)
July/August 2004