Category: Summer 2014 Issue

Loie Merritt
is a writer and mixed media artist who grew up on Cliff Island, Maine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Starvations and Blinders

David Meltzer
was born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Brooklyn. He began his literary career during the San Francisco Beat and Berkeley Renaissance

Oz Hardwick
is a writer, photographer, and musician based in York (UK). He has been published widely in the UK, Europe, and the US. His fifth poetry

George Economou
was born in Great Falls, Montana, and was educated at Colgate and Columbia Universities. He is the author of 12 books of poetry and

David Cope
has written seven books of poetry: Quiet Lives, (foreword by Allen Ginsberg), 1983; On The Bridge, 1986; Fragments from The Stars, 1990; Coming

Andy Clausen
was born Andre Laloux in a Belgian bomb shelter in 1943. He was raised in Oakland, California and is the author of 14 books of poetry, including

Neeli Cherkovski
was born in Santa Monica, California in 1945. He is an applauded poet, critic, memoirist, and literary biographer. He has written twelve books of

H. D. Brown
lives and works in Chico, California where he gets by on wine and poetry. He has recent and forthcoming work in The South Dakota Review,

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by David Meltzer Pops Staples picks Jenny up & holds her in his arms at the Troubador she’s 2 years old unsprung gold hair coils round pink

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by David Meltzer Ah, ego wants everything all the time & spaces silence or blank page lays splayed apart for whatever words pass as art’s