Janet Buck is a six-time Pushcart Nominee. Her poetry has recently appeared in Octavo, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, CrossConnect, Scrivener's Pen, Poetry Magazine.com, The Montserrat Review, Nasty, Offcourse, The Pedestal Magazine, MiPo, PoetryBay, Tryst, The Rose & Thorn, Red River Review, Coelacanth, Facets Magazine, and hundreds of journals worldwide. Tickets to a Closing Play, her second print collection of poetry, won the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award and is available at Amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.booksurge.com, and www.givalpress.com. For links to more of her work, visit   http://members.aol.com/jbuck22874/whatsnew.html.

Paul Corman-Roberts is the producer of the annual San Francisco Anti-Slam and the former late night poet in residence at the Pacifica network's flagship station KPFA.  His work has appeard in 42opus, Cherry Bleeds, and Tea Party and is a current feature in the Muse Apprentice Guild.

Susan K. Droney currently has a novel Twisted Lives available in paperback and electronic format from The Fiction Works.  Her novels Cats-Kill  and The Stalker  will be available from The Fiction Works in paperback and electronic formats with the release dates to be announced.  From Hard Shell Word Factory she has Broken Promises:  A New Beginning available in electronic format and soon to be released in paperback.  Also, from The Writers E-Exchange she has a children's book, Squeaky Squirrel,  available in electronic format and an eight book children's series, The Adventures Of Angel ,due to be released in the near future. For more information, visit www.susandroney.com

Michael Fitzgerald has been a freelance writer for Jacksonville's Folio Weekly, The Business Journal,  The First Coast Entertainer, Orlando's JAM Magazine, and The Musician's Trade Journal. He was also an editor and writer at Florida Community College's Campus Voice and Jacksonville University's Navigator, and is the creator and editor of Cowford magazine.

Fashion designer Valerie N. Ford, a native of Memphis, is currently attending college in Middle Tennessee. She has been published in the Eternal Portraits Series, various poetry web sites including Poetry.com, and has been featured in local publications. Many of her poems are tied to her art, which usually have a psychological connotation. She believes poetry should evoke emotions lost in our mundane and harsh world.

Bill Green on Bill Green: "It's been a long interesting trip to here from my Kentucky roots through the Marines, through three marriages, one to a Florida country girl, one to an anthropologist from Brooklyn, and a one to young police-woman from L.A. I have three children from the first wife. A free thinker, a Navy Seal now soldier, a financial analyst, six grandchildren and one and a half great-grandchildren make up the family that I wish I could spend more time around. There were many wonderful years near Key West too fishing for a living, building boats and homes sometimes too. Always reading, reading, I read the entire sci-fi section of the library in Key West while I was recuperating from an accident. I am seventeen years now into recovery from the dreaded scourge of alcohol addiction and I spend a couple of days each week directing others down that precipitous path. It seems odd but I enjoy that as much as I enjoyed teaching my children to catch fish. I'm a happy guy. I have a dog." (and I bet that dog, like I am, is grateful to be called a friend of Bill's--ed.)

Blaine Greenwood's official mini-bio: Blaine's poetry reflects his interests in psychology, history and spirituality and has been described as "dark, homespun, sensual, rich with images". His latest chapbook is entitled Walking Naked Down the Street, published by Coldwater Press (Fort Macleod). A selection of his poems has been published in the Interpscan Journal (Canada), in Our Journey (Oregon, USA), and in Mudlark Press'  Rags III / RAGS IV: A Journal of Creative Writing (2002 / 2003). Blaine has presented his poetry in Calgary at the Good Earth Cafe, at Waterton National Park's Bear Grass Days,  Lethbridge's Peace through Poetry campaign (2002), StreetFest (Lethbridge 2002 and 2003) and Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge 2003)  as well as the Fort Macleod, Alberta's South Country Fair (2002 and 2003) with him being a featured main stage performer in 2003. Along with his wife and fellow poet Druene Greenwood, he shares the artistic coordination of Lotos Land poetry venue at South Country Fair. Blaine's current writing project involves a series of poems about artists of the 19th and 20th Century (including Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte). He is currently the Coordinator of MOST VOCAL Poets Society of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Jeannette Harris created "A Country Rag" at http://www.geocities.com/countryrag, an online publication that explores and celebrates country, especially Appalachian, culture through diverse poetry, short stories, graphics, photography, topical essays, regional cuisine and links.

P. A. Merrill and Phil Rice started Canopic Jar back in 1985 in the midst of a drunken moment that was as cliché as it was inspired. The Canopic Jar experience has thus far included several print issues, a live performance featuring original music and readings, a video, the obscure Canopic Apartment Studio Tapes (with brother Hal deftly playing a myriad of instruments around Phil's readings), the current online venture, and the books of Canopic Publishing.  And it's still Canopic Jar.

Emmett Stinson is a writer in Washington, DC. His work has previously appeared in Pindeldyboz, The Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Nuvein, and Flashquake. You can contact him at mylesnagopleen@yahoo.com.

Jason Visconti is a poet living in Astoria, New York.

Top row, l-r: Emmett Stinson, Susan Droney, Janet Buck, Bill Green, Jeannette Harris;
Bottom row, l-r: Michael Fitzgerald, Carver Adams, Alan Phillips, Valerie Ford

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