Category: Spring 2012 Issue

Paul Nelson
is a poet, teacher, broadcast interview host, and a charter e – poets.net site director in Auburn, Washington. He is director of the

Michael McClure
at the age of 22 he gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read “Howl.”

Amalio Madueño
grew up on the borderlands of California and Baja. He organized farm workers with Cesar Chavez, studied poetry in graduate school at the

Norbert Hirschhorn
is an international public health physician, commended by President Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero.” He lives in London and Beirut.

Kimberly Cloutier Green
lives in Kittery Point, Maine. Her chapbook What becomes of Words was published by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, and

Jack Foley
is a poet and critic who, with his wife, Adelle, performs his work frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was born in Neptune, New Jersey

Alan Elyshevitz
is a poet and short story writer from East Norriton, Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared most recently in Snail Mail Review, Sliver of Stone,

Andrei Codrescu
a poet, novelist, and essayist born in Transylvania. In 1966, he moved to Detroit. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry, including

Ewa Chrusciel
won the 2009 Emergency Press International Book Contest for Strata, her first book published in English. Prior to Strata, she released two books

Neeli Cherkovski
was born in Santa Monica, California in 1945. While in high school he edited The Black Cat Review, a poetry journal and began to publish in small