- Fall 2000
- Spring 2001
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- Summer 2002
- Winter 2003
- Summer 2003
- Winter 2004
- Fall 2004
- Spring 2005
- Winter 2006
- Winter 2007
David
B.
Mussen
David Mussen is a poet
and musician
living in Buffalo, New York
Ella
Veres
Ella Veres is a graduate
student
from Transylvania in creative writing and performance studies in
Baton Rouge, LA. Her homepage is at http://www.fuzzyland.com
Curtis
L.
Crisler
Curtis L. Crisler has a
B.A.
in English and a minor in Theatre from Indiana Purdue Fort
Wayne.
He has been published in Columbia Poetry Review, Obsidian II,
Artisan,
In Our Own Words vol i & vol ii, Skylark, The Poetry
Conspiracy,
and many others. He recently won the Katherine Young
Chapbook
Contest for his manuscript "Burnt Offerings of a City." He has a
current manuscript out entitled "My Life in Traffic" in which the
title poem has jut been picked up by Streetnotes. He is
also
working on a screenplay and writing lyrics for songs.
Sarah
L.
Rasmusson
Sarah L. Rasmusson
is reporter
with a MA in humanities. Her journalist coverage can
be seen on the following news websites:
www.freedomforum.org,
www.womensenews.org. Her work has appeared in Media Studies
Journal, Village Voice, New York Magazine, and WOmen's
Studies
Quarterly.
Virgil
Suarez
Virgil Suarez was born in
Havana,
Cuba in 1962. He is the author of four published novels: Latin
Jazz,
The Cutter, Havana Thursdays, and Going Under, and of a collection of
short
stories titled Welcome to the Oasis. With his wife Delia Poey he
has co-edited two best-selling anthologies: Iguana Dreams: New
Latino
Fiction and Little Havana Blues: A Contemporary
Cuban-American
Literature Anthology. Most recently he has published an anthology
of Latino poetry titled Paper Dance, co-edited with Victor Hernandez
Cruz
and Leroy V. Quintana, and his own collection of poetry and memoir
titled
Spared Angola: Memories From a Cuban-American Childhood.
His
poetry, stories, translations, and essays continue to be published in
journals
and reviews the likes of TriQuarterly, Field, Cimarron, Meridian,
Callaloo, The Ohio Review, The Caribbean Review, Salmagundi, New
England
Review, Ploughshares, The Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, and
Prairie
Schooner, and many others in the United States. Abroad his work
has
appeared in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba,
England,
France, Germany, India, Israel, New Zealand and Spain. His poetry
and fiction have been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and received
one
Pushcart Prize this year. He's also been nominated to the
Pulitzer
Prize twice before. This year he is a recipient of a Florida Individual
Artist Grant. You Come Singing, a new collection of poems, is out from
Tia Chucha Press/ Northwestern University, as well as the limited
edition
book of poems titled Garabato Poems (Wings Press, San Antonio.)
In
The Republic of Longing , a new collection is out from Bilingual Review
Press/Arizona State University. Next year Palm Crows, his fifth
collection,
will be out from the University of Arizona Press "Camino del Sol"
Series.
Currently he is at work on a new collection tentatively titled Caliban
Ponders Chaos, from which these poems are taken.
David
Michalski
David Michalski is a
librarian
at the University of California, Davis. He is also the editor of Xcp:
Streetnotes.
Aaron
Lercher
Aaron Lercher is a
Philosophy
professor and filmmaker in Buffalo, NY. His recently completed Ph.D. is
a critique of progress in mathematics.
Jennifer
Webb
Jennifer Webb teaches at
the
University of Canberra, Australia. She has a doctorate in Cultural
Theory,
and is a member of a number of research and professional organizations,
including the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, the
Modern Languages Association of America, the ACT Writers Centre and the
Society of Editors. Jen is the editor of Re-Siting Theatre: approaches
to regional theatre development (1997) and the co-author of
Understanding
Foucault (SAGE, 2000)andUnderstanding Bourdieu (forthcoming, SAGE,
2001)
as well as a number of articles in journals such as Diacritics , Social
Semiotics,
SPAN (New Zealand)
and
Journal of Australian Studies, Media International Australia, and
Southern
Review (Australia). She has also published short fictions and poems in
literary journals such as Imago: New Writing, LiNQ and Refractory Girl
(Australia), New England Review and The Amethyst Review .
Hope
Vilsick-Greenwell
Hope Vilsick-Greenwell
received
her BA in Liberal Arts from Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
University
and she is completing a MA in American Indian Studies and Environmental
Education at The University of Arizona. Her poems have appeared in
several
journals and anthologies. She is compiling a collection of her poems
entitled
The Women Are Speaking.
Chris
Funkhouser
CF is a writer, editor,
photographer,
and musician. He is co-founder of We Press
(http://home.con2.com/wepress),
who in 1999 co-published Kamau Brathwaite's ConVERSations with
Nathaniel
Mackey with XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics. He currently edits
Newark
Review (http://www-ec.njit.edu/~newrev), and is Poetry Editor for Terra
Nova (MIT Press). In the mid-90s he assembled DIU, Descriptions of an
Imaginary
Universe (http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ezines/diu).
He is an assistant professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and
lives on Staten Island.
Massimo
Repetti
Massimo Repetti is a
graduate
in Anthropology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(France).
His publications and research interests lie in the areas of
contemporary
Urban African Art and Urban Migration in developing countries. This
paper
was made possible by an agreement between Italy and Senegal, an
agreement
which enabled his seven-month field study in Dakar. Massimo Repetti
continues
his work on questions involving rural immigration to urban areas
(specifically
in Senegal, and China). He is particularly interested in how the
imagination
is formed by concepts of identity, heritage and social memory.
David
Andrew
Stoler
David Andrew Stoler was
born
in Troy, NY, but lived in Providence, RI, from 1992 - 2000, where he
was
a journalist and Contributing Editor at the Providence Phoenixfrom 1996
- 2000. He is currently New York Times Fellow in fiction at New York
University's
graduate MFA program.
Kristin
Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet is a
poet,
editor, essayist, teacher, and translator. She is the author of The
Parasite
Poems and Perturbation, My Sister. She lives in Brooklyn.
Christopher
Luna
Christopher Luna is a
poet, editor,
journalist, and performer with an MFA in Writing and Poetics from the
Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. His
poetry
has appeared in publications including Gare du Nord, Exquisite
Corpse,
the Babylon Review, the @tached document, and Big Scream. Luna
has
collaborated with musicians including Dystopia One, Pimpcore,
Liquid
Logic, Piltdown Man, Vole, and Steven Taylor. He is currently editing
the
selected correspondence of the filmmaker Stan Brakhage and
Michael
McClure.
Daniel
Makagon
Daniel Makagon has
a Ph.D.
in Communication from the University of South Florida. He is Assistant
Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Humanities
Department
at Michigan Technological University beginning Fall 2001. He has
published articles about cultural disruption, guerrilla art, and urban
life. His audio documentaries have aired on public radio. Send e-mail
to:
dmakagon@mtu.edu
Ramez
Qureshi
Ramez Qureshi has
published
poetry and criticism in Read Me, Jacket, How2, Rhizome, and other
publications,
including a forthcoming review for XCP 8.
Tyler
Doherty
Tyler Doherty was born in
1973
and grew up in Toronto, Canada. Rumored to have been an accomplished
figure
skater, soccer goalie and calligrapher, he attended McGill University
and
holds an MFA from Naropa Unviversity where he was the poetry editor of
Bombay Gin 27. He is currently pursuing a Masters degree in education.
A book-length collection of writing is due out soon from Bootstrap
Press.
Romina
E.
Freschi
Romina E. Freschi was
born the
8th July 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She works as a Literature
Teacher
and Researcher and also sometimes as a translator from English. She's
also
made literary translations from English, French and Portuguese. She
coordinates
literare Workshops and since July 1999 co-coordinates Poetry group
Zapatos
Rojos that celebrates Poetry lectures weekly, publishes a website
(http://www.zapatosrojos.com.ar)
and has published two Anthologies of Argentine Poetry and several
plaquettes of Argentine writers. She's published the following books of
her own: Soleros - Gob. de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1998 (selected
and
published for the national contest Buenos Aires no Duerme.) Redondel-
Ed.
Siesta, Bs. As. 1998 Incrustaciones en confite- (plaquette) Ed.ZR,
1999/
Estremezcales-Ed. Tsé-Tsé, Bs. As. 2000
Photographers
of the Erie Homes for Children and Adults, & Patricia
Czulewicz
This group of
photographers was
organized by Patricia Czulewicz of Erie Homes: a support and placement
facility for disabled people in Eire, PA.
Ryan
Eckes
Ryan Eckes currently
drives around
a little red trailer that says "Books Are Fun" on it. If you see
him, honk your horn. He obviously writes poems and has some
forthcoming
in the spring issue of Exquisite Corpse.
Harklia
Hari
Harilkia Hari was born in
Athens
in 1970. Studied Architecture at the Aristotle University,
Thessaloniki.
In practice in Athens since 1995. She co-curated the exhibition Kiss
from
Greece (Paris, 1998, Wien, 1999, Berlin, 2000) and collaborates
in
various architectural and art magazines. She has participated in
architectural
exhibitions and in the First Greek Festival for Art and Technology in
the
Video Art Section, May 1998, Athens with the video Define Void.
David
Michalski
Is a Librarian at the
University
of California, Davis, and a PhD. student in Cultural Studies at that
University.
He is the Editor of Xcp: Streetnotes, and the author of Cosmos and
Damian:
a World Trade Center Collage (Lowell, MA: Bootstrap
Press) 2004.
Eugenia
Tzirtzilaki
Greek. Born in 1975.
Studied
Photography, Journalism, Acting and now in CUNY enrolled in an MA
in theater directing. Walking in NY for 5 months now (new in the city,
new in the language).
Doug
Tanoury
Doug
Tanoury
is primarily a poet of the Internet with the majority of his work
never
leaving
electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic magazines
and
journals
across the world. The greatest influence on Doug's work was his 7th
grade
poetry anthology from Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A
Gift
Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse (Stephen Dunning, Edward
Lueders
and Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) He still keeps
a copy of it at his writing desk. Several of Doug Tanoury's electronic
books of poetry can be found here.
http://home.comcast.net/~dtanoury1/Tanoury.html
Debra
Steckler
Steckler
is an artist in New York City.
Ulf
Cronquist
Ph. D., works as a
lecturer at
the English Department, Goteborg University, Sweden. He has published a
full-length study on John Hawkes: Erotographic Metafiction: Aesthetic
Strategies
and Ethical Statements in John Hawkes's 'Sex Trilogy', His work, “White
Male Heterosexual Author Seeks...”: The Articulation of Queer
Performativity
Between Men in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers" appears in Xcp
10.
Gary
Mark
Smith
Gary holds a Bachelors of
Science
in Journalism for the William Allen
White School of Mass
Communications
at the University of Kansas and a
Masters of Photography
from Purdue
University. He has been working as a photographer for twenty years. In
this time he has authored 2 books and his photographs have appeared in
(to name a few) Time, Newsweek and American Photo, where he has been a
winner in their National Photographer's Career Competition twice.
More information and work can be seen at
http://www.streetphoto.com
.
Miwako
Kanno
Kanno,
from Japan, is a graduate of the City University of New York. She plays
classical piano and is studying Irish dance.
Blagovesta
Momchedjikova
Momchedjikova is a
writing teacher
and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performance Studies, New
York University. She is writing on the representation and remembrance
of
city space. She is the author of numerous reviews and creative
projects.
Her work “Brooklyn Bridge Bound,” Spring 1998can be found at www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/touristproductions/brbridge.html
Richard
Fein
Fein has been published
in many
web and print journals.
He has two personal web
pages
which have samples of his poetry and digital
photography.
HomePage http://hometown.aol.com/bardofbyte/myhomepage/index.html
Photo Album http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte
Poems http://expage.com/page/richardspoems
Jason
Lee
Brown
Jason
Lee
Brown is a photographer for News Progress in Sullivan,
IL.
He
has published or is forthcoming in Taint Magazine, Stirring,
The
Foliate
Oak, Megaera, smallspiralnotebook, Poetry Super
Highway,
Snow Monkey, Conspire and with Kitty Litter Press.
Naomi
Long
Naomi
Long
is a freelance writer and an assistant editor at Manoa. Educated at
Bard
College and the University of Hawaii, she is co-founder of Shoes in the
Street, a multimedia performance collective. Her poems and photographs
have been published in Century of the Tiger and OKAY (Overseas
Korean Artists Yearbook).
Louis
Armand
louis
armand
is an artist and writer living in prague. his reviews, critical essays,
poetry, fiction and translations have appeared in various journals and
anthologies, including sulfur, frank, poetry review, stand and
calyx:
30 contemporary australian poets (sydney: paper bark press, 2000).
in 1997 he received the max harris prize for poetry at the penola
festival
(adelaide), and more recently he was awarded the nassau review prize,
2000
(new york). his publications include land partition (melbourne:
textbase, 2001), the garden (cambridge: salt, 2001), inexorable
weather (lancashire: arc, 2001), and seances (prague:
twisted spoon press, 1998). louis armand is a member of the editorial
board
of rhizomes: studies in cultural knowledge, and poetry editor
of
the prague revue.
Britta
Wheeler
Britta
Wheeler has been a writer and an artist in various media over the last
twenty years. Her primary creative interest is to combine artistic
expression
with social theory and sociological analysis. Her Ph.D.
dissertation
in sociology examined the institutionalization of the field of
performance
art in the U.S. from 1970 to 2000.
James
Dickinson
James
Dickinson
lives in Philadelphia and regularly visits the Municipal Services
Building
plaza which for several years afforded an excellent prospect on the
dwindling
remains of the fire ravaged ruin that once was the One Meridian Place
office
tower. Otherwise, he teaches in the sociology department at Rider
University,
Lawrenceville, NJ where he regularly organizes exhibitions featuring
the
work of emerging Philadelphia artists for the University Gallery. His
recent
writings focus on the built environment of the contemporary
city--particularly
its worn, neglected and eroded parts--and interpretations of
landscape
in twentieth century art and photography. He was born Shropshire,
England
and was educated in England, the United States and Canada. He can
be contacted at: dickinson@rider.edu
Camille
Martin
Camille
Martin is a New Orleans poet and translator. Her collections of poetry
include sesame kiosk (Potes & Poets, 2001), rogue embryo
(Lavender Ink, 1999), magnus loop (Chax Press, 1999), and
Plastic
Heaven (Fell Swoop, 1996). Her poetry has been published in such
magazines
as sidereality , m.a.g. , Taverner's Koan , HOW2
, perspektive , kiosk, Cauldron & Net ,
Moria, poethia ,
and VeRT , Her work is included in the anthology Another
South:
Experimental Writing in the South (University of Alabama Press,
2002).
She founded and co-curates the Lit City Poetry Reading Series in New
Orleans
< http://www.litcity.net >.
R.
Richard
Wojewodzki
R.
Richard
Wojewodzki, editor of www.annetnanepo.org
, has recently returned to his hometown of Baltimore, MD. Baltimore has
just this last week been declared the 2nd most dangerous city in the
US.
The local news is nothing but arson and murder; no one mentions the
fact
that enormous sections of the urban grid lie in abject blight while the
city and the landlords wait for the heroin trade to eventually decimate
whole neighborhoods in the hope of capitalizing on future real estate
markets.
Wojewodzki dedicates this poem to the dead of Baltimore City.
Allison
Hedge Coke
Allison
Hedge Coke, MFA Vermont College, is a poet, writer, artist who
currently
directs the Writer's
Voice
and
presents literary residencies for incarcerated youth and free youth in
South Dakota.
She
is
a Cherokee, Huron, French Canadian and Portuguese woman who grew up
working
manual labor and is concerned with human condition, labor issues, the
natural
world and cultural matters of heritage. Her poetry won the American
Book
Award in 1998, with Dog Road Woman, Coffee House Press, where
another
volume of her poetry is currently brewing, Off-Season City Pipe.
Her memoir, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is forthcoming from the
University
of Nebraska.
Jonathan
W. Senchyne
Jonathan
W. Senchyne is from Buffalo, NY. He is a student and teacher of the
English
language. He is currently finshing up his degree at the State
University
of New York College at Geneseo. He is also one of the founding editors
of Living Forge, a new literary and arts journal focusing on
the
culture of the rust belt. Information about the journal can be found
online
at www.livingforge.com.
Roselle
Pineda
Roselle
Pineda works as an art educator -- teaching art theory, criticism,
performing
arts and art appreciation -- at the Department of Art Studies,
University
of the Philippines. She also writes and occasionally performs
independently.
For the last six years she has devoted her researches and performances
to the subject of the body and sexuality. Currently, she is finishing
her
master’s thesis on lesbian art in the Philippines, to complete a degree
in MA Art Theory and Criticism at the University of the Philippines.
She
is an active member of the advocacy group, Congress of Teachers and
Educators
for Nationalism and Democracu (CONTEND), and a founding member of the
cultural/advocacy
group Alay Sining.
Jess
Azner
Jes Aznar concentrates on
photo
journalism and digital imaging. As a political artist, he usually
documents
and participates in the mobilization of the masses.
Mideo
Cruz
Mideo Cruz is a multi
media art
practitioner. The key initiator of the art collective called UGAT Lahi,
a multi media group known for its remarkable street art. He is central
to the revival of performance art in Manila. He is now working on
several
art projects with the New World Disorder, a group who mimic the world
commerce
under globalization. And partakes in a forthnightly performance art
event
called Tupada.
T.W.
Ransom
T.W.
Ransom
is an internationally known photographer whose work has been featured
in
National Geographic Magazine, Natural History Magazine, Geographica
Universal,
other major publications and many books and articles. He lives and
works
in Olympia, Washington.
Christopher
Luna
Christopher
Luna is an editor, journalist, and performer with an MFA in Writing and
Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa
University
in Boulder, Colorado. His poetry has appeared in publications including
Gare du Nord, Exquisite Corpse, the Babylon Review, Many
Mountains
Moving, the @tached document, For Immediate Release, Falstaff's
China
Shop, and Big Scream. He is the author of Literal Motion
(Bootstrap
Press), a book which features three interviews with the filmmaker Stan
Brakhage, and is currently editing the selected correspondence of Stan
Brakhage and Michael McClure
Mary
Rizzo
Mary
Rizzo
is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies atthe
University
of Minnesota. Her dissertation looks at slumming -- what makes the
middle
class appropriate lower class-ed cultures? how does this become
commodified?
Her fiction has also been published on Trentonwrites.com and in The
Siren:
Voices from the Gaps.
Frank
Mort
Jr.
I
have
been very fortunate and lucky that I have had my paintings purchased by
Elaine Pawlowicz and Shona MaCDonald both of Chicago's Art Institute
and
poems published all over the world including the prestigious The
Journal out
of Devonshire, England. Also photos printed in several magazines and
now
the epitome, a short story published by Streetnotes.
David
Farber
David
Faber
was conceived by a hit and run latin lover from East Devonport Tasmania
during the 1958 festive season. Adopted by a shop keeping socialist, he
chose to leave his native island and go to the more cosmopolitan
University
of Adelaide in 1980. There he fell for a Milanese lass in a political
philosophy
tutorial. They returned to Italy after their marriage, residing at
Cernusco
Sul Naviglio (MI) from 1985-8 where they were active in the local
branch
of the Partito Comunista Italiano. David also began historical research
into the Veneto background of the anarchist activist Francesco Giovanni
Fantin (1901- 42) who was interned as an enemy alien after Pearl
Harbour
and was assassinated by a fascist internee. Work is continuing on a
biography
of Fantin. Divorced as a result of a cerebral syndrome and quackery,
David
is also an activist on behalf of the mentally ill. He writes poetry
under
the supervision of his cat Lucretius.
Donald
Spicehandler
Don
Spicehandler
saw first light in the early 1950s just down the hill from Grant's
Tomb.
He spent most of his youth in Paris and in 1970, returned to America to
study French linguistics and library science at the University of
Wisconsin--Madison.
Eventually he returned to his beloved New York where he worked for many
years as academic librarian. Most recently, Don was the head of
technical
services at the Visual Arts Library of the School of Visual Arts. More
of his photography can be viewed at his website, Rolling
NYC.
Margarita
Kompelmakher
Philip
Evans
Philip
Evans practices architecture in Toronto, Canada and is involved in a
range
of cultural policy-based projects and the preservation of public art
installations.
Balanced between the realm of architecture and artistic practices, much
of Philip’s work deals with materialization of shared experiences
within
the context of the city. His collaboration with the Cultures
of Cities, an international research project through York
University,
explored the unique identities of Toronto's neighborhoods. Philip
holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto’s
Faculty
of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. He can be reached at p_evans88@hotmail.com
.
Kevin
Mihn
Allen
Kevin
Allen
was born Nguyen Duc Minh in Gia Dinh, Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother
and
American father. In late November 1974 he was adopted by an
American
couple in Webster, New York, where he grew up and lived until September
2000. His poetry and essays have been published in such literary
spaces as Vietnam Journal, II Stix, The Green Tricycle,
Aileron,
Poetry Superhighway and Generation Rice. He can now
be
found enjoying the view in Seattle, Washington with his wife.
Britta
Wheeler
Britta
Wheeler is a sociologist and visual artist living in New York City.
Ben
Pasikoff
Retired
engineer. Returned to first love: poetry. Poems have appeared in the Quarterly
Review of Literature, Harvard, Atlanta & Texas
Reviews,
Literal Latte, Sarah Lawrence Review, and a horde of others.
Debra
Steckler
Debra
Steckler
is an artist and editor who has been mining for images and
reinterpreting
them for over ten years. After studying philosophy and English, she
received
her BFA in painting at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and
in 1998 received an MFA in painting from the City University of New
York's
Hunter College. Since then she has has been involved in editing
publications
and Web sites for organizations including the Whitney Museum of
American
Art and the PBS station Thirteen/WNET New York. Her work has been
reproduced
in several national publications and her photographs and paintings have
been exhibited in Atlanta, New York, and in Germany.
Qwo-Li
Driskill
Qwo-Li
Driskill is a Cherokee Two-Spirit also of African, Irish, Lenape,
Lumbee,
and Osage *ascent*. Qwo-Li's work has appeared or will soon be
appearing
in Many Mountains Moving, The Raven Chronicles, Revolutionary
Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, and Speak
to
Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry.
Qwo-Li’s first book of poetry is forthcoming.
Jason
Lee
Brown
Jason Lee Brown is an
editor
for News Progress in Sullivan, IL. His work has appeared in VietNow
National Magazine, The Pacific Review, RiverSedge, Main Street Rag,
Adirondack
Review, Smallspiralnotebook, Stirring, and elsewhere.
Alex
Kimmelman
is
the
Acting Director of the Community and Oral History Center Pima Community
College Tucson, Arizona.
Blagovesta
Momchedjikova
Momchedjikova is a
writing teacher
and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performance Studies, New York
University. She is writing on the representation and remembrance of
city
space. She is the author of numerous reviews and creative projects,
some
of which appear in Streetnotes, Summer 2002. Her article “My Heart’s in
the Small Lands: Touring the Miniature Metropolis in the Museum,” can
be
found in the December 2002 issue of the journal Tourist
Studies .
Jeremy
Hight
Jeremy
Hight is a new media artist, theorist, writer and professor of
English
and New Media. He is a graduate of S.F.S.U and Cal Arts. He
is working towards new structures in narrative and the fusion of
creative writing and critical theory. His collaboration with Jeff
Knowlton
(programming / editing / sound recording / concept)and Naomi Spellman
(graphic
design / concept / sound recording) entitled "34 north 118 west" has
been
reviewed in Wired, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science
Monitor,
Radio Italia, The BBC and others. Recorded sections of triggered
narratives
and sounds + interview with Jeremy and Jeff to air in late August/
early
September on N.P.R (on the program "day to day"). Interview with all
three
collaborators to air as part of documentary looking at layers of
interpretation
of Los Angeles on P.B.S early 2004.
Colin
Kennedy
Donovan
Colin
Kennedy
Donovan is an anti-racist Irish/German/English/Spanish trans (dis)abled
writer, poet and activist. S/he appears in the current (July/August)
issue
of Clamor Magazine, and publishes the (disability zine "Fuck
Pity."
S/he can be reached at cripqueer@hotmail.com
Ann
Tweedy
Ann Tweedy's poetry has
been
published in Clackamas Literary Review, The Yalobusha Review,
Berkeley
Poetry Review, The Drag King Anthology, and elsewhere.
Originally
from Southeastern Massachusetts, Ann currently lives in Northern
Washington,
where she works as a lawyer for an Indian tribe.
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Christopher
Mulrooney
Christopher Mulrooney's
poems
have recently appeared in Sleeping Fish, Pettycoat Relaxer, The
Northridge
Review, and Octavo. He is the author of notebook and sheaves.
Francesco
Levato
Francesco Levato is a
Chicago
poet currently in transition from Central Italy. His work typically
deals
with what lies beneath the surface of modern life. His poetry has
recently
been published, or is scheduled for publication, in Snow Monkey, Letter
eX (Chicago Poetry), Niederngasse and Best of Niederngasse, Outsider
Ink,
Poets Against the War, and Poetic Review.
Elizabeth
Grace
Elizabeth Grace is
studying literacy
and inclusive practices at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at
UC Santa Barbara and greatly enjoys being a fellow of the South Coast
Writing
Project.
Adam
Tavel
originally a historian
from the
Annapolis, MD area, Adam Tavel is writing, teaching and studying as a
first-year
graduate student in English Literature at the University of
Toledo.
Sarah
Rosenthal
Sarah Rosenthal
teaches
poetry workshops and writing courses in San Francisco, including
classes
at Santa Clara University, San Francisco State University, and Modern
Times
Bookstore, where she recently taught a course entitled “Poet As Radio.”
She is the author of three chapbooks: How I Wrote This Story (Margin to
Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000), and not-chicago (Melodeon,
1998).
Her work has appeared in hinge: A BOAS Anthology (Crack Press, 2002),
as
well as in magazines such as Rain Taxi, Jacket, How2, Bombay Gin,
Untitled,
Tripwire, Melodeon, VeRT, Rooms, Tinfish, Fourteen Hills, Mirage
Period(ical),
and Transfer. My multimedia piece "skinny minded" was commissioned by
the
San Francisco Exploratorium for its Second Wednesdays Art Series. I am
the recipient of the Primavera Prize and the Leo Litwak Award.
Liuba
Liuba is an international
performance
artist. More of the artist's work can be http://www.intervistalartista.com/liuba/
Nicole
Gervace
Nicole Gervace is a
writer, yogi,
and Developmental English Instructor living in Nederland, CO aka "Home
to the Frozen Dead Guy" @ 8,236 feet above the sea.
Hillary
Goidell
Hillary Goidell lives in
Paris,
where she has bridged her research in anthropology with work in
photography
and digital media. Her website is www.speedfish.com/hill.
Niki
Herd
Niki Herd, whose work has
appeared
in such publications as Black Issues Book Review, is working on her
first
book of poetry. She is a member of Kore Press, a press founded by and
for
women, and is a graduate of Antioch's MFA program in Los Angelos.
Gerry
Clara
Gerry Clara is a street
photographer.
More of artist's work is available at http://www.unpromisedwork.org/
Philip
de
Haes
Derek
White
Derek White has a few
chapbooks
available from Calamari Press and is the editor of SleepingFish.
He is trying to get laid off from his day job (with little success) so
he can write more.
Aaron
Wilcher
I survived a luke-warm
eight-year
career as an amateur bike racer, before entering the academic vortex,
where
I find myself now. I grew up in the Bay Area and have lived in San
Jose,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ghent, Belgium, Nancy, France, and Granada,
Spain, where I studied for one year while still a student at San
Francisco
State. I graduated from UCLA with a BA in Spanish and am now a humble
graduate
student in the department of American Studies at Saint Louis
University,
where I am soon to graduate. In addition to my interest in bike
culture,
I’ve also written essays about translation theory, video art, John
Cage,
and the Argentine Pampa in the nineteenth century. This essay forms
part
of a larger project regarding bicycle culture in America, so I invite
any
feedback via email: aaronwilcher@yahoo.com.
Derek
Fenner
Derek Fenner is a
graduate of
Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the author of
_The Katie Couric Odes_ [ http://www.thekatiecouricodes.com/].
He is also a principal and editor at Bootstrap
Productions, Inc. a non-profit arts and literary collective in
Lowell,
Massachussets.
Ryan
Gallagher
Ryan Gallagher – is the
author
of “Plum Smash and Other Flashbulbs; poems, sketches, and letters” due
out in the Spring of 2004 from Bootstrap Productions. He is
almost
finished translating “The Complete Works of Gaius Valerius
Catullus”.
Other web work includes an Essay on “Louis Zukofsky’s Shakespeare and
Catullus”
in Exquisite Corpse #9 and an upcoming on-line gallery of his artwork
at bootstrapproductions.org.
He lives in Lowell, Ma and owns a Jack Kerouac bobblehead
David
Crawford
David Crawford (b. 1970,
Riverside,
CA) studied film, video, and new media at the Massachusetts College of
Art and received a BFA in 1997. In 1999, his "Here and Now" project was
commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts with funds from National
Endowment for the Arts. In 2000, Crawford's "Light of Speed" project
was
a finalist for the SFMOMA Webby Prize for Excellence in Online Art. In
2003, his "Stop Motion Studies" project received an Artport Gate Page
Commission
from the Whitney Museum of American Art and an Award of Distinction in
the Net Vision category at the Prix Ars Electronica.
Kathleen
Fraser
Kathleen Fraser is a
writer and
poet who teaches writing at SF Bay Area colleges, including the
California
Institute of the Arts. She is the author of twelve books of poetry. She
has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Reed College, The Naropa
Institute
and San Francisco State University where she was professor of Creative
Writing from 1972 to 1992. She founded The American Poetry Archives
during
her
directorship of The Poetry Center at SFSU. She is a Guggenheim
Fellow
in Poetry and has received an NEA Poetry Fellowship and the NEA Young
Writers
Award. Kathleen Fraser currently splits her year between San Francisco
and Rome.
Danielle
Marx
Danielle Marx lives and
works
in Porto Alegre, Brazil where she practices her art and architecture.
Recently
she taught art classes at the " Descentralização da
Cultura project" in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Carolyn
Whitzman
Carolyn Whitzman is a
Lecturer
in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. She has written
extensively on design and social development approaches to violence
prevention,
including 'Safe Cities: guidelines for planning, design, and
management'
(with Gerda Wekerle, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995).
Lisa
Hoffman
Lisa M. Hoffman teaches
in the
Urban Studies Program at the University of Washington Tacoma. She
received her doctorate from UC Berkeley in cultural anthropology and
her
research interests include neoliberal governmentality, subjectivity and
power, and socio-cultural negotiations and conflicts in cities.
Her
dissertation focused on the emergence of post-Mao, urban professionals
in China and recent work investigates neoliberal governmentality and
rationalities
of enterprise and entrepreneurialism (in China and the US), analyzing
HUD's
HOPE VI housing program, and collecting oral histories from former
students
of Tacoma's Japanase Language School (including discussions of of
belonging/citizenship
in pre-WWII urban America).
Blagovesta
Momchedjicova
Momchedjikova teaches
writing
in New York University. She is also working on her dissertation about
scale
models of cities in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch
School of the Arts. Her essay on the topic, “My Heart’s in the Small
Lands:
Touring the Miniature Metropolis in the Museum,” appears in the
December
2002 issue of Tourist Studies: http://www.sagepub.com/journalIssue.aspx?pid=236&jiid=1030700203
The 2002 and 2003 Summer
issues
of Streetnotes feature some of her city-inspired poetry.
Mark
Nowak
Mark Nowak is the editor
of Xcp:
Cross Cultural Poetics. He is the author of _Revenants_ from Coffee
House
Press, 2000 and the forthcoming _Shut Up / Shut Down_ also from Coffee
House Press (2004). His work and writing have appeared in numerous
publications.
He teaches composition and writing courses at St.Catherine's College in
Minneapolis. He is currently organizing book store workers.
Please visit http://www.urww.org
Romney
Steele
Rommey Steele is a MFA
candidate
in Poetry at Mills College. She is also
co-editor of the Postcard
section
of the online magazine, How2. She
currently lives in
Oakland with
her two children.
Aimee
Le
Duc
Aimee Le Duc is a
graduate student
at California College of the Arts. She is a freelance writer and art
critic
working and living in the Bay Area.
Youmna
Chlala
Youmna Chlala is a writer
and
artist born in Beirut and currently living in San Francisco. She likes
to tell stories that pull the surreal/super-real out of the everyday.
Her
recent body of work explores the tension between the architecture of
diaspora
and the archeology of home/homeland. Youmna is an MFA candidate at the
California College of the Arts.
Melanie
Thomas
Melanie Thomas is student
at
the University of Melbourne in Australia. She is currently
studying
Public Policy and Managment after completing a Bachelor of Science and
a Diploma of Modern Languages in French.
top
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2004
Sesshu Foster
Sesshu
Foster teaches literature and composition in East L.A. He is author of
ATOMIK AZTEK, a novel due out from City Lights Press in 2005.
Jane Sprague
Jane
Sprague publishes Palm Press, www.palmpress.org . Her poems
and reviews are published in many online and print journals including
How2, kultureflash, Jacket, Kiosk, Columbia Poetry Review, Bird Dog,
VeRT, Rain Taxi , ecopoetics and Tinfish, among others. She was a 2002
New York Foundation for the Arts recipient for work at Cornell
University and has taught in a variety of settings, most recently
at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in conjunction with
Bank Street College. She began and curated the West End Reading Series
in Ithaca, New York before her recent move to Long Beach, California.
Her manuscript, Halocline, is currently
looking for a publisher.
Alejandro Crawford
Alejandro Crawford writes to get at the fabric of things, and the
resonancebeneath their connections. Recently he has tried to
counter dominant images of New York. He collaborates with
composer Milika Nevárez and is a member of the spoken word-music
combo Street Beat Society. He can be contacted through Nolej Records at
www.nolej.net.
Joel Morton
Joel Morton is an assistant professor of Gender Studies at St. Lawrence
University in Canton, NY. His current research on gender and the
post-socialist transformation in central and eastern Europe combines
ethnography, popular culture analysis, and oral history. He also
documents contemporary street culture in the region, especially in
eastern Germany. His online collection of post-socialist street
posters and ephemera may be found at http://www.gallery.stlawu.edu.
Jason Oliver Chang
Jason
received his BA at Prescott College in Arizona where he studied
Ecological
Economics, Political Economy, and Sustainable
Development of Latin
America. He is a candidate in the
Masters program at the Center for Public Policy and Administration at
the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His
primary focus has been border and critical policy
studies. He is also interested in
exploring the
intersection of geography, power, symbolism, and culture through the
arts.
María Isabel Pazos
María Isabel
Pazos was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She attended a bilingual
school and graduated on Literary Translation, on Psychology and, later
on Psychoanalysis. She has published several scientific articles and
two poem books written in Spanish and edited by El Dock ed.: Hay Un Errante
Detrás De La Cerca
(B.A.,1999) (An Errant Behind The Fence ) and ¿Hay
Alguien En Casa?
(B.A.,2002) (Is There Anybody Home?), the last one having also been
translated to Catalan by Pilar Cabot and editet in Barcelona by
Emboscall editions in 2003.
Gregory Cowan
Gregory Cowan is an
Australian street scholar, architect, and educator living in London.
www.gregory.cowan.com
Bruce Covey
Bruce Covey is Adjunct
Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and author of three
collections of poetry — The Greek
Gods as Telephone Wires, Ten
Pins, Ten Frames, and the forthcoming Glass Is Really a Liquid — all from
Front Room Publishers. His work also appears in Jacket, Explosive Magazine, Shampoo, MiPo, can we have our ball back?, Aught, CrossConnect, Word For/Word, and other journals.
Cat Tyc
Cat Tyc is a writer-poet/video-maker.
She co-teaches a poetry/photography workshop at the Lower East Side
Girls Club in NYC. She has work in the anthology 'A Generation Defining
Itself, vol.5' (MWE Press) and has more excerpts from "The Kate
Project' appearing in the literary journal TORCH. She is also the
editor of the literary webzine www.paintedladypress.com.
Joel Duncan
Joel
Duncan is studying, among other things, English Literature at the
University of
Sussex in Brighton, England. He is the co-editor of the writings
section of The Icarus Project's website (theicarusproject.net). He also
aids in the production of the independant Swedish magazine Oreda (oreda.org).
Tricia R. Louvar
Tricia R. Louvar
recently worked with documentary photographer Subhankar Banerjee on a
story about the Arctic Wildlife Refuge for Orion. She studied a little
creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Washington
University in St. Louis as well as documentary storytelling at the
DoubleTake Institute. Currently, she resides in the Santa Monica
Mountains, where she works as a freelance writer, book editor, and
documentary photographer.
George Edward Potter
George Potter is a
graduate teaching assistant in the Department of English at Indiana
State University, where he is completing a Master's in English with an
emphasis in writing. His play Curves was recently published in
the e-journal Philament. He is currently co-writing
a play to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Emmett Till's murder.
Christopher Roell
Christopher
Roell is a Lead Administrative Union Organizer with SEIU District 1199P
in Pennsylvania. He has an Associates and Bachelors degree in political
philosophy. He believes that the working class ultimately finds its
weapon of struggle in philosophy. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Laura Winton
Laura Winton is a writer
and
performance artist currently living in Minneapolis. She creates
work simultaneously for page and stage. Her poetry,fiction,
manifestos and whatnot have been widely published in print and online
journals and she has performed at the Minnesota Fringe Festival,
LadyFest Midwest, Estrogenius, Theatres Against War, Walker Art Center,
and many others. She is interested in the liberation of the
imagination as a political act to cut through the noise of culture and
instruction. She recently completed her MA in Performance Studies
at NYU and is contemplating pending student loan hardship deferments.
Richard Crawford
Richard Crawford, photographer, lives and works in New York City and
West Hurley, New York. His photographs come from walking the streets of
New York City and the woods near his upstate cabin. He can be reached
by choosing
"contact" at www.nolej.net.
Michelle Auerbach
Michelle Auerbach's
prose, poetry, and translations have recently appeared in Chelsea, Van Gogh's Ear, and Bombay Gin. Her book of
historical fiction, Alice Modern
(Excessive Poetics Press) is due out this fall. She holds an MFA
in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University and lives in Berthoud,
Colorado with her three children and her true love.
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
Gregory Vincent St.
Thomasino's poetry has appeared in Xcp:
Cross-Cultural Poetics #8, and in Barrow Street, The Germ, jubilat,
Washington Review and online at Rattapallax--Fusebox, In Posse Review, GutCult and BlazeVox. Recently he has
published two e-books, Go
(xPress(ed), 2003) and Go Mirrored
(xPress(ed), 2003). He is the editor of the online journal eratio postmodern poetry.
Kara Lynch
kara lynch has lived and
worked in New York City as a film/video, visual and performance artist
since 1990. She has received several awards for her video work such as
the Planet Out/ifilm Queer Short Movie Award in 2000 and both the New
York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts
Individual artist awards in video and new media. Recent works include:
'Black Russians' 2001 117min documentary video; ‘The Outing Trilogy’
experimental video piece including: 'Mi Companera' 2002 12min and
‘Me-ba… I’m Coming’ 1998 9min; 'Xing Over' 2003 6hr performance/2.36min
3 channel audio piece; 'Invisible: episode 03 meet me in Okemah, Ok
circa 1911' 2003/4 an speculative fiction audio/video installation. She
has served on the selection committee for MIX: New York Experimental
Film and Video Festival and has been involved with the New Festival as
a member of the shorts selection committee and print traffic
co-coordinator. Ms. lynch is an Assistant Professor of Video Production
and Criticism at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. She has
recently completed her MFA in Visual Arts at University of California,
San Diego.
Sung-san Hong
Sung-san Hong is a
Korean-American currently working/traveling in Korea. He can be reached
at sungsan at gmail dot com.
Kerby Valladares
Born and raised in
Uniondale, NY, Kerby Valladares has received a bachelor’s degree in
English from Queens College, NY. He is a children’s
librarian for the city of Houston, TX. He has an affinity for the
hip hop generation and his home, New York. He is currently
working on a collection of poems.
Elijah Mirochnik
Elijah Mirochnik is an
assistant professor in the Initiatives in Educational Transformation
Program at George Mason University, (Arlington, Virginia). He received
a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Masters degrees from Harvard and Columbia (in
education and urban design, respectively) and an undergraduate degree
in architecture from the University of Maryland. For over twenty-five
years he has integrated visual and performance arts concepts in his
work with public school children and teachers. His work with children
in Harlem (in New York City) led to numerous collaborations with
photographers, artists, and dancers and educators interested in testing
out experimental and creative classroom practices that empower students
and teachers to change their communities. He has exhibited his
photography in galleries since 1979. Most recently, as a member of a
group show, he exhibited "I Have A Name," a photo/text installation on
Jewish and Palestinian identity in Israel at the Attleboro Museum
(Attleboro, Massachusetts 2002). In his solo show entitled "Big Babies"
at the Sacramento Street Gallery (Cambridge, Massachusetts 2002), he
explored children’s identities through large format digital color
prints.
Claudia Milian
Claudia Milian's
contribution to this volume is part of a creative non-fiction
manuscript, Repetition: Salvadoran Verses. Her autobiographical
sketches of an estranged national subject can be found at http://hermanastralejana.blogspot.com.
Ashok Niyogi
Ashok Niyogi was born in
1955 and graduated with Honors in Economics from Presidency College,
Kolkata. He has been in international trade and has traveled the world
over including a 10-year stint as an expatriate in Yeltsin’s Russia.
Ashok has been and will be published in innumerable magazines (print
and on-line) in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and
Europe. He has not been published in Africa, the Caribbean or his
country of origin, India and this rankles.
Ashok has two books of
poetry published by A-4, India---‘CROSSROADS’ and ‘REFLECTIONS IN THE
DARK’ and one 225 page paperback of poems ---‘TENTATIVELY’ from
iUniverse, USA, (with Amazon, B&N, Borders etc.), out in March
2005, but which no one seems willing to pay $20 for. The e-book version
of TENTATIVELY at $6 is doing better.
Ashok was schooled in
Irish Christian Brothers’ schools and writes in Indian English, with
whiffs of Russian, inevitable Americanisms and the odd Hindi, Urdu,
Punjabi and Bengali turn of phrase. He claims to have basic survival
skills in these languages. He is unemployed since writing poetry is not
a gainful occupation, and lives off his savings, charity, inheritances,
gifts and his wife’s earnings (she is a senior corporate manager in
Delhi). He divides time between the Bay Area in San Francisco, where
his daughters live, India, Russia, airplanes and wherever his poetry
takes him.
Michael Marcinkowski
Michael Marcinkowski was
brought up in Detroit and went to The University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor. He now lives in Brooklyn. He's had poems in
Television, The Yellow Elephant, canwehaveourballback, Catch, and has
some in an upcoming issue of GAM.
Dave Lordan
Dave Lordan Irish writer
living in Dublin. He has an MA in American Lit from University College
Cork and an Mphil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. His
first collection _Out of My Head_ was runner up in the 2003 Patrick
Kavanagh Award. He is currently in receipt of a writer's bursary from
the Irish Art's Council to assist in completing my second collection.
His work has been widely published and performed at home and abroad.
Most recently he read in London and Belgrade. A selection of his poems
was recently published in arabic translation in the daily newspaper
_Al-Quds Al-Arabi_. He is currently editing an international anthology
of poetry on behalf of the Irish Anti War Movement featuring poets from
the US, Ireland, Iraq and Palestine.
Patricia Ranzoni
Patricia Smith Ranzoni
writes from one of the subsistence farms of her youth in outback Maine.
She is unschooled in poetry but for the folk ways of her people and
self-trained habit. Her documentary poems have appeared across the
country and abroad and are used and archived in schools and gatherings
on Maine writing, history, class, women's studies, and disability.
Puckerbrush Press published her first collections, CLAIMING (1995) and
SETTLING (2000); and Sheltering Pines Press will publish ONLY
HUMAN/Poems From the Atlantic Flyway. An invitational chapbook is
forthcoming from Pudding House's Gold series. [Her work appears in
_Streetnotes_ Fall 1998]
George Katodrytis
Professor George
Katodrytis teaches at the School of Architecture and Design, American
University of Sharjah.
Dana Ward
Dana Ward is the author
of The Imaginary Lives of My Neighbors (Duration, 2003) & I Didn't
Build This Machine (Boog Literature, 2004.) Recent work has appeared or
is forthcoming in the Hat, Factorial, the Tiny, 6x6, & elsewhere,
He lives in Cincinnati, & edits Cy Press.
Derek White
Derek White lives in NYC
where he edits SleepingFish magazine and publishes his work through his
own Calamari Press. He has other recent writings andpictures appearing
or forthcoming in Post Road, suitcAse, Forklift, Ohio, Bathhouse,
Prague Literary Review, Diagram, Zunaí (Brazil), perspektive
(Austria) and an earlier XCP: Streetnotes.
Alexandre Lexington
a student of the world;
a traveler with a heavy quill.
Michael Leong
Michael Leong holds an
MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and am currently pursuing a PhD. in
English at Rutgers University. His poetry and prose has appeared
or is forthcoming in _Atlanta Review_, _Bird Dog_, _NFG_, _The Seattle
Review_, _Snow Monkey_, and _Tin House_.
Jessica Fanzo
Jessica Fanzo lives in
NYC where she takes photos, and likes meerkats. A lot.
Mary Kasimor
Cheryl Bradbee
Cheryl is a Canadian
artist, writer, teacher, designer and community organizer exploring new
ways to meet the needs of communities through environmental design,
inside and out, at all scales. Time out is spent in her straw bale
healthy home surrounded by a naturalized landscape that attracts
bunnies, birds and butterflies. Cheryl is the principal of her
own Toronto firm, POV and can be contacted at info@pov-design.com.
Ellen Baxt
Ellen Baxt has three
chapbooks on Sona Books and one on Press Toe. She is completing her
M.A. in Creative Writing at the City College of New York and teaches
English as a Second Language to immigrants in Brooklyn, NY
Ramsey Scott
Ramsey Scott studies
English in the PhD. program at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and teaches
English at Brooklyn College. He likes writing prose.
Susan Mazur-Stommen
Anthropology Professor,
University of California, Riverside.
CJ Lundberg
CJ Lundberg
is a poet living in Minneapolis. She has a B.A. in English from
the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA
low residency at Naropa University.
Uddipana Goswami
Uddipana Goswami is a
PhD fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
(CSSSCAL). Her focus area is indigenous-settler conflicts in Northeast
India. She has done a study for the Centre for Northeast india, South
and Southeast Asia Studies (CENISEAS), Guwahati, on the politics of
assimilation with relation to the immigrant Muslims of East Bengali
origin in Assam. Uddipana has also done a case study for the University
of Zurich on settler-indigenous conflicts in Western Assam. She has a
Masters in English from Delhi University and has worked with a number
of major media houses, like India Today and National Geographic Channel
(India), before turning to research. She contributes occasional
articles to Assamese dailies on nationalism, assimilation and
ethnicity. She is also a translator and creative writer.
Cat Tyc
Catherine Tyc is a
writer/video artist living in Portland, OR. She got her BA in English
Literature from Marymount Manhattan College and is currently studying
Digital Video Production at the Art Institute of Portland. Her
work also appears in Xcp:
Streetnotes Fall 2004
Kenji Siratori
a Japanese cyberpunk
writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of
highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is
a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all
cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental
writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and
Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his
relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused,
with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over
linear narrative and character development. With unparalleled stylistic
terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack. An unprovoked assault on
the senses. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David
Bowie. http://www.kenjisiratori.com
Ewa Chrusciel
Ewa Chrusciel is a poet
and translator currently pursuing her PhD in poetry at Illinois State
University. She holds a master degree from the Jagiellonian University
in Krakow. In 2003, Studium
published her first book of poetry entitled Furkot. Her poems have
appeared in Topos, Studium, Pracownia, Zeszyty Literackie in Poland; The Spoon River Poetry Review, Pebble Lake Review and are
forthcoming in Mandorla in
the United States; ClanDestino
and Il Giornale and are
forthcoming in a book in Italy. A selection of her poetry has also
appeared in translation in Hungary. Her translations of poetry have
appeared in Lyric 8, in an
anthology Carnivorous Boy and
Carnivorous Bird: Poetry from Poland, in Chicago Review and Przekladaniec. In her free time she
loves going to the Zoo or fantasizing about having a mynah bird.
Urzula Lukaszuk
Urszula
Lukaszuk is a graphical artist. She holds a Master degree in music from
Frederic Chopin’s Music Academy in Warsaw, Poland. She has also studied
photography and graphical arts in Chicago. Among Urszula’s
clients are Rodrick Dixon (from Three Mo’ Tenors), soprano Alfreda
Burke and Chicago Irish singer Catherine O’Connell. Her photographic
digital art has been published in Ewa Chrusciel’s poetry book “Furkot.”
Urszula has been predominantly fascinated with black and white
photography. Her first individual exhibition “Encounters” took place in
October, 2005 at ARC Gallery in Chicago. In one of the reviews of her
photography Michael Weinstein wrote, “Shooting at dawn and dusk, and in
the dead of night, Urszula Lukaszuk transforms familiar North Side
streets into scenes of eerie gothic power in her softly toned classical
black-and-white silver-gelatin prints. Harking back to a past that
never was, Lukaszuk's moody images of storefronts, trees, residential
buildings and the Chicago River conjure up a myth of our sweet home as
an old European city drenched in accreted mysteries.” Another upcoming
individual photography show at D & Z House of Books in Chicago will
open with Ewa Chrusciel’s poetry reading on January 28, 2006.
Jeremy Hight
Jeremy Hight is a
locative and new media writer/author/theorist and musician. He
collaborated on the early locative narrative project "34 north 118
west" (winner of the grand jury prize at the Art in Motion Festival).
His essay "Narrative Archaeology" (published in xcp streetnotes summer
2003) is now cited as a resource in locative media. He
collaborated on the landscape edited project "Carrizo Parkfield
Diaries" (now archived in the Whitney Museum Artport). He has
lectured about his work and narrative archaeology at the Inernational
Symposium on literature and technology "Trace" at the University of
Nottingham-Trent, and at the "Work of Stories 4" conference at MIT. He
is currently editing a book of essays on locative media and working on
several landscape projects. His experimental music compositions are in
the "Musique Trove" exhibition in Cologne, Germany.
Jefferson Navicky
Jefferson Navicky lives
in Brooklyn, New York and works at the Authors Guild. His
chapbook "Map of the Second Person" will be published by Black Lodge
Press in early 2006.
Camille Martin
Camille Martin recently
escaped from the ruins of New Orleans to settle in her new home of
Toronto, where she is happily adapting to winter conditions and the
lack of hurricanes. Her short poetry collections are sesame kiosk,
rogue embryo, magnus loop, and Plastic Heaven. Her work has also been
widely published in journals. To view more of her work in Xcp: Streetnotes Winter
2003 , see “codes of
public sleep,” an interdisciplinary work of poetry and photographs
set in downtown New Orleans.
Ambronita Douzart
biographical note coming soon.
Tim Keane
Tim Keane's poem is from
an unpublished collection called Alphabets of Elsewhere; others from
this collection have appeared widely in the US (Denver Quarterly,
Shenandoah, Mudlark), the UK (Modern Painters, Stride Magazine, Poetry
Scotland), and Asia (Quartrely Literary Review Singapore and Poetry New
Zealand). For more info: www.timkeane.com
Lance Newman
Lance Newman's poems
have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, New Collage, Poets Against the
War, Negative Images, and Perigee, and in two anthologies American
Sports Poems, edited by May Swenson, and Sunshine/Noir, edited by Jim
Miller. He teaches US Literature and Creative Writing at California
State University at San Marcos.
Dion Farquhar
Dion Farquhar is a poet,
prose fiction writer, and cultural critic. Obsessed by her formative
experience of the Sixties and repudiating nothing, she rues the
escalating national slide into theocracy and the evanescence of all
those committed kids her own age. She is currently working on a poem
cycle that tracks cultural and social changes from the Sixties through
the Aughts. Her poetry has appeared in Aught, Rogue Scholars, City Works, Sulfur, Hawaii Review, boundary 2, Cream City
Review, Painted Bride
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yadda.
Catherine Daly
Catherine Daly has
published two poetry collections in 2003: Locket, from Tupelo Press,
and the trilogy DaDaDa, from SALT Publishing. She received an MFA
from Columbia University in 1991. Her poem "Chinese Wedding" appeared in Xcp: Streetnotes
Spring 2000. For more information about Catherine Daly, including a
schedule of public readiings and a link to her blog, visit http://www.catherinedaly.info/
Donald Wellman
Donald Wellman is a
Professor of Humanities and Writing at Daniel Webster College in
Nashua, NH. He is the founding editor of "O.ARS," a series exploring
postmodern and ethnographic poetics, published between 1982 and 1995.
His poetry is available in "Fields" from Light and Dust, 1995. His
"Notebook: Cuaderno de Costa Rica" is forthcoming from Ahadada. He has
pubulished critical essays on on topics related to poetry and cultural
hybridity, most recently in "Sagetrieb" and in "Assembling
Alternatives."
Olive McKeon
Olive McKeon makes
dances in Northampton, MA. Her primary influences are political economist Henry George,
the School for Designing a Society, and choreographer Jess Curtis. Her
research interests include alienation, land use economics, and art as
social change. She is not sympathetic to apologists or the denouncement
of theory. She can be contacted at kom04@hampshire.edu
Melissa Buzzeo
Born in 1977 in New
York, Melissa Buzzeo has worked as a counselor, curator, professor and
palm reader. City M, was published in 2004 by Leona Press (New York)
and is presently being translated into French for inclusion in the
Quebecois journal, Le Quartanier. Disparate work has been translated
into Catalan, anticipating publication in Spain. A second chapbook, In
The Garden of the Book, is forthcoming from NO press (Calgary).
Additional texts can be found in the journals Tessera (Montreal) and
Antennae (Chicago).
B. Marlin Young
B. Marlin Young has
degrees from the University of Arizona and Penn State. He
currently lives in Fairfax, Virginia, where he teaches writing at
George Mason. He has two cats, a wife, and three pairs of shoes.
Adam Siegel
Adam Siegel is a
reference librarian at the University of California, Davis. He is
currently translating volumes of Die Geschichte
der Empfindlichkeit into
English, and is at work on a longer study of Der Platz der
Gehenkten.
Edward Wainwright
Edward Wainwright is a
graduate of Architecture at Cardiff University. Supported by a doctoral
research grant from the AHRC, he is a first year PhD student at the
Welsh School of Architecture, researching the histories of political,
cultural and architectural intersections of transparency, focusing on
late twentieth century applications of a 'transparent project' in
corporate and democratic architectures.
David
Michalski
Is a Librarian at the
University
of California, Davis, and a PhD. student in Cultural Studies at that
University.
He is the Editor of Xcp: Streetnotes, and the author of Cosmos and
Damian:
a World Trade Center Collage (Lowell, MA: Bootstrap
Press) 2005.
WINTER 2007
Emori Haruhiko
Painted with the Shinjuku cardboard house mural artists for a short
time at the beginning. Currently making kamishibai (a form of
performative storytelling that uses picture cards).
Ichimura Misako
Artist and author who lives and works with homeless people in Yoyogi
Park. Organizes weekly painting and drawing circle. Recent publications
include a book of letters and artwork Dear Kikuchi (Dear キクチさん).
Justin Jesty
Working on dissertation titled Art and Activism in Postwar Japan at the
University of Chicago. Currently researching in Japan with a grant from
the Japan Foundation.
Kamijo Kumiko
Painted with the Shinjuku cardboard house mural artists for a short
time at the beginning.
Ogawa Tetsuo
Artist, author and shogi (chess) champion who lives and works with
homeless people in Yoyogi Park.
Ōta Tomomi
Painted with the Shinjuku cardboard house mural group for a short time
at the very beginning. She also took some photos of the project.
Sakokawa Naoko
Photographer and long time documenter of Shinjuku. Her most
recent collection of photos is titled Shinjuku, day after day (新宿日計り).
Also manages café Berg, in Shinjuku station.
Takano Itohisa
Joined the Shinjuku cardboard artists over the summer of 1996.
Presently working in drawing and art book publishing. Director of Swamp
Publications http://swamp-publication.com/.
Take Junichirō.
The central figure among the group of painters doing the cardboard
house murals in Shinjuku’s west exit underground. Still painting.
Concentrating on live/festival painting, art book publishing, and
playing in a band. He maintains the Corrugated Cardboard House Painting
website: http://cardboard-house-painting.jp/mt/
Yamane Yasuhiro
Participated from September 1995 to January 24th, 1996, the night
the city forcibly removed all the houses from the area. He recently
formed Swamp Publications together with Takano Itohisa and is producing
handmade artist books.
Yoshizaki Takeo
(real name, Yoshizaki Taeko)
Began the Shinjuku cardboard house mural painting together with Take
Junichirō. There were only two artists who worked from the beginning to
the very end: Take Junichirō and Yoshizaki Takeo. Presently Yoshizaki
is working in oil painting.
Alan Thomas
Alan Thomas was born in West Berlin, raised in Virginia, and lives in
Chicago. He graduated from Princeton University, where he studied
photography with Emmet Gowin and Frederick Sommer. He also holds an
M.Phil. in English Studies from Oxford University. His writings on
photography have appeared in the New
Art Examiner and In These
Times. He is an editorial director at the University of Chicago
Press. [More information about Alan Thomas and his work can be found at
Alan-Thomas.com ]
Shin Yu Pai
Shin Yu Pai is the author of The Love Hotel Poems (Press
Lorentz, 2006), Unnecessary
Roughness (xPress(ed), 2005), Equivalence
(La Alameda, 2003), and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains
and
Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998). Sightings:
Selected Works [2000-2005] (Ahadada Books), Works on
Paper (Convivio Bookworks), and Nutritional Feed are
forthcoming. Her poems are anthologized in America Zen: A
Gathering of Poets (Bottom Dog Press) and The Wisdom
Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry (Wisdom
Publications).