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Richard Martin

poetry books include White Man Appears on Southern California Beach and Modulations.  His poems have appeared in ACM, The Café Review, Exquisite Corpse, Fell Swoop: The All Bohemian Review, and unarmed.  He is also the author of boink!, an antimemoir published by Lavender Ink, and Obstinate Midgets (flash fiction) published by Obscure Publications.  He lives in Boston.

Taylor Mali

was one of the original poets to appear on the HBO series Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.  His work has appeared in anthologies and other publications including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The Idiot’s Guide to Slam Poetry, Spoken Word Revolution, The Tampa Review, The Underwood Review, Taj Mahal Review, Cadillac Cicatrix, Spindle, The Whatever Literary Journal, and Paddlefish. He was once an Associate Editor of The Café Review.

Jami Macarty

lives on the coast of British Columbia and in the desert of Arizona.  When a desert dweller, she teaches therapeutic movement and skeletal alignment; when in the rain forest, she teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University.  Poems from her first manuscript, which is under construction, can be read in current issues or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Drunken Boat, Interim, Mudfish, Skidrow Penthouse, and Volt.  Ms. Macarty expresses her gratitude to the editors of these magazines, as well as to the editors of The Café Review for their confidence in her work.

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

his poems, interviews, and reviews have appeared in magazines including Boston Review, The New Republic, and Tin House and in anthologies including From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great.  He is the Executive Director of The Telling Room, a nonprofit community writing center in Portland, Maine.