KIMBERLEY DIAMOND BONES

Kimberley Diamond Bones

Kimberley Diamond Bones writes fictional poetry about things that either have or have not happened in the real world. In high school she was accused of plagiarizing by her "Film as Art" class teacher after writing a movie review of the American Film Society's production of Jacque Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. The teacher said no one in high school could write that good, I mean, that well. Kimberley was able to demonstrate that she had written the paper in question. No one else alive had seen the movie and no other reviews existed. She graduated early from high school in order to pursue her ambition of not having to wake up in time to get to classes.

Kimberley intentionally attempts to choose words that invoke ambiguity. She blames this on her inability to commit to one thing or another, and credits the influence of her late paternal grandfather Albert G., who was a naturally gifted and unapologetic punster. She takes all the big words out of her writing because she doesn't have spell check.

Currently she lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with 2 too many cats and once had 7 W2s in one year. Many years have passed and lots of stuff has happened. Some of her favorites: jumping waves along side dolphins out in the Pacific ocean on a jet ski, and passing the mandatory drug screening for her current employer.

DIANNE BORSENIK

Dianne Borsenik is a former flowerchild and a current redhead, and she lives in a temple of happiness with her husband James.
Her poems, haiku, and lyrics have appeared in various publications, including Rosebud, Naturally, Nerve Cowboy, Ship of Fools, Slipstream, Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, and The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry.
Actor Jonathan Frid used three of her poems in his one-man play "Genesis Of Evil".

E B BORTZ

e b bortz writes ebbortz.blogspot.com and hosts the annual Poetry Without Walls open reading in Pittsburgh.

HILARY BRANDT

Hilary Brant is a depressed, butch lesbian, autodidact in a bowtie. She lives in Boston's Fenway neighborhood with her wife, Cathy J. and two cats.

Bree photo by Jim Lang

Bree is an artist, singer/songwriter, poet and founder of Green Panda Press, which produces anthologies and chapbooks of poetry and art. All books are handmade and bound using household materials like double sided window insulation tape, or minty dental floss. Green Panda titles include Rain Poet (2004), by Daniel Thompson and the memoir of Charles Potts Valga Krusa (2007) in two volumes.

 

C M Brooks

C. M. BROOKS

Christina Brooks is a writer and poet currently living in Ferndale, Michigan. She is a mother of one son, avid tennis player and organic gardener. She is a Taoist-Buddhist-Pagan, vegetarian, swordfighter, leatherworker, card and paper crafter and heavy metal music fan. She is a fledgling poet whose poetry has been published online at 10 K Poetry and on MySpace and also pod cast on episode 8 of Poet’s Haven. com.

She is currently working on a fantasy novel titled Rune Warrior: Tales of the Shattered Tower. You can find her current poetry posted on her web page at

http://profile.myspace.com/index. cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=167215819

MICHAEL H. BROWNSTEIN

Brownstein teaches elementary school in Chicago ’s inner city, studies authentic African instruments with his students, conducts grant-writing workshops for educators and the State of Illinois Title 1 Convention, and records performance and music pieces with grants from the City of Chicago ’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Oppenheimer Foundation, BP Leadership Grants, and others.

COURTNEY CAMPBELL

Courtney J. Campbell writes poetry, essays and reviews, along with a bunch of academic stuff for her doctoral studies. She studies at Vanderbilt University in the History program, has a Master's degree in Education from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Brazil, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, is on the editorial boards of The Socialist and Socialist Women and has done other things that (hopefully) don't leave a papertrail. Her writing has appeared in Iodine Poetry Journal, Ocho, From East to West: Bicoastal Verse, Starfish Poetry, Poetrybay, Empowerment4Women, In the Fray, MiPoesias, and Zygote in my Coffee, among others. She enjoys drinking guava juice, walking barefoot and arguing with her cat.

Jeff Chiplis

JEFF CHIPLIS

Jeff Chiplis' outsider art consists of recycled neon recontextualized outside its original commercial use. His work includes spelled out pieces of wit, three dimensional art such as "Bonfire, 2002" and pictorial works such as "House on Fire, 1997" installed on walls. His work can be found in galleries and bars in Cleveland

ELI P. CIMOTA

A provincial, left-handed NW native, National Merit Scholar ( college dropout), voted "class poet" "least likely to succeed" by Richland, Wa HS peers. Urban child embraced 60s hippy ethic, survived rural rigors in coastal Oregon (part-time ANYthing- logger, tree-planter, commercial fisherman, moonshiner, midwife, farmer/forager, etc). Finds every musical form ear-worthy... but has a predilection for acoustic country blues, calypso, jazz, other "social protest" genre.

Amateur ecologist, native plant maven ( grower/marketer), religious recycler, morphing from the strident to the curmudgeonly, over time.

 

Jesus Crisis

JESUS CRISIS

Jesus Crisis is a Buddho-Taoist, agnostic, liberal, poet, musician, composer, pacifist, pagan, bibliophile, and philosopher in Elyria, Ohio. Involved in the vibrant Cleveland poetry scene and founder of the burgeoning Crisis Chronicles Press and free online library, JC at one point spent eleven years in prison for a crime he did not commit. While there, he was involved a series of musical theatre productions as a playwright, composer, actor, and musical director. JC spent about 20 years of his adult life studying at schools including Lorain County Community College, Ohio University and a couple of seminaries. He eventually became a number one blogger on MySpace in 2007 before deciding to declare his independence at www.crisischronicles.com.

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Consider this selection from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet:

"Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,

And that which is neither deeds nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

Who can spread his hours before him, saying, 'This is for God and this is for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?'

All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self."

JIM DEUCHARS

Jim D. Deuchars is an American poet born in Waukesha, WI. He currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

His poetry has appeared in a variety of publications and online journals, including The Socialist, Polarity eMagazine, CP Journal, Starfish Poetry & The Michigan Socialist.

His latest chapbook, "allegheny rising", will be released in October, 2008 as part of the Kendra Steiner Editions. Visit his poetry blog at www. myspace. com/jimddeuchars.

DJUANA

Lisa Gordon, aka Djuana, has had work in numerous online zines including Mipo, Poetry SZ, Writer's Hood, Junket, Denver Syntax & From east to west bicoastal verse. In print, her work has appeared in The Women of the Web Anthology (The Sun Rising Poetry Press, 2005), Vallum, The Antigonish Review, & Tears in the Fence (U.K.). She resides in Montreal with her husband.

KE

KE

My name's Kevin Eberhardt. Been writing for so long I'm startin' to see things. Now for good, bad or ugly I can't stop. It's like havin' a hangover everyday without the benefit of a good drunk the night before, or at least, in my case, not for a long time. Could be worse, could wake up one day as an honorary member of the Red Hat Society. That would definitely start me drinkin' again (though I do look good in red)...

 

MICHELE GIBBS

Michele Gibbs describes herself as "a free radical." She is a teacher, writer, and visual artist. As a Black woman, her active political involvement spans the last 50 years. She has lived in Oaxaca since 1988.

GEOFFREY LANDIS

Poet Geoffrey Landis is the secret identity of NASA scientist Geoffrey A. Landis.  He also writes fiction (under his pseudonym Geoffrey A. Landis), and has had two books published, his novel MARS CROSSING and a collection of short stories IMPACT PARAMETER.  You can  see him reading poetry here and there in the Cleveland poetry scene,  most often at the Deep Cleveland readings, but occasionally at other  places.  Geoffrey Landis' first collection of poetry, IRON ANGELS, is  about to come out from VanZeno.  It contains a wide spread of his  poems, some of them dating back a quarter of a century, others  written last year.  He's married to the poet Mary A. Turzillo, and  has a web page at http://www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis.

Jim Lang

Poet, photographer, potter, philosopher, publisher, and poartist from Cleveland, Ohio USA who frequently accompanies his readings with multimedia visual works.

I've been the open mic host for the 3rd Saturday poetry reading at The Bookstore on West 25th Street forever and give a Bagozine of poetry, tea, pennies, incense and nonesense each month to everyone who attends.

I have taken photos of most every poet who has passed through Cleveland as far back as d.a. levy & Charles Dickens.

I gratefully edited issue #9 of ArtCrimes and coedited issues #15 and 17. I have published many chapbooks of my own and other's poetry.

I am a cantankerous full time professional curmudgeon, but an oddly a nice guy even so.

MAX UHLER

Max Uhler is a sixty-six year old man living in Oaxaca Mexico, born in Lacrosse WI.  He had a brief introduction to Classical Studies at the University of Minnesota, got drunk with Bob Dylan, John Berryman and the Grateful Dead from time to time and worked most of his life as a Chef, including a stretch on tow-boats on the Mississippi.

RONNIE MCGRATH

Before returning to Britain at the age of seven, Ronnie McGrath was brought up in Kingston, Jamaica, by his grandmother, Sarah. Residing in the East End of London, he worked as a Graphic Designer, before leaving the industry and becoming a full time musician. In 1989 he became a founder member of the now defunct musical group The London Afro Blok, who toured Europe, performed for the Queen and opened the 1994 Commonwealth Games in British Columbia, Canada. He is a Creative Writing Lecturer at the University of the Arts, London College of Communication. In 1993, he was commended for his writing by ACER, who later published and awarded 1st place for his writing in 1994. A graduate of Manchester University’s MA in Novel Writing, Ronnie’s formidable short story The Day Before That One, Too, is published in IC3, The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain. His other published work include a chapbook, Poems From The Tired Lips Of Newspapers, 2003, reprinted again in 2005 and 2007 by the Tall-Lighthouse Press, and the novel On The Verge of Losing iT, ankhademia press, 2005. Written with a specific audience in mind, OTVOLiT is a darkly satirical, no-holds barred, scatological, urban, gothic novel, which explores the issue of race in the language and sensibility of the ‘street.’ Also published by ankhademia press is Ronnie’s first spoken word CD Acoustic Avant-Gardism, Streams of Consciousness Poems for Neo-Surrealists, 2007. His first full collection of poems Data Trace will be published by Salt, November 2008/January 2009.

ROB PLATH

rob plath is a 38 year old poet from new york. he has six books of poetry out and another one on the way.  he has published hundreds of poems in magazines and journals both nationally and internationally.  he was once a student of allen ginsberg in the mid 90's. he carries on ginsberg's commitment to candor.

JACKIE SHEELER

Jackie Sheeler has 2 books and a CD in print and blogs at www.getangrywithme.com. She is founder & publisher of www.poetz.com.

LADY K & S B SMITH

Kathy Ireland Smith -- Smith's "Lady K" -- edits The City Poetry. In 2006, Lady left the U.S. to make art, write poetry, and have adventures with S B Smith, who is a fractal finding ambiance adjuster on the run from reality wandering the Earth. Smith and Lady document their continuing adventures on the blog Walking on Thin Ice.

Lady has a chaplet and broadside package with Green Panda Press. Lady is on MySpace.

 

STEVEN B SMITH

smith:
was born.
is currently living.
eventually won't be.
all the rest is lie.

and i am NOT insane.

 

C@PTAIN WALLNUT

bio coming soon

Jason Williams

JASON WILLIAMS

Former mad gadfly poet now trying to remain on the wobbly straight & narrow but is constantly distracted by the curious items & strange produce local riffraff sell at roadside push carts, Jason Floyd Williams--the John Edwards finalist (w/out the handsome hair), two years in a row, for the Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate gig--is exhausted by gray skies & finds great satisfaction in karaoke bars that feature Talking Heads tunes.

 

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