Biographies

Rockland, Maine poet Carol Bachofner is second runner-up in the Bread & Lightning contest.  A teacher and writing coach, her poetry has been featured in Prairie Schooner, The Cream City Review, The Comstock Review, and The Auroreans.  Ms. Bachofner's chapbook Daughter of the Ardennes Forest was published by Main Street Rag.  She was recently named A Poet of Merit by the Florence Poets' Society.
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Peter Dabbene is a  New Jersey-based writer whose poetry has been featured in Hinge Online, The BluePrint Review, SLAB, Ampersand Poetry Journal, and The Red River Review.  Xlibris published his story collections, Prime Movements and Glossolalia.  Mr. Dabbene has published the novel, Mister Dreyfus' Demons and is currently working on the graphic novel  Ark.

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Daniel Daly has written an alluring poem, "Lady of Bear Lake."  That is all that can be said at this time.

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In a previous life, Bread & Lightning contest winner and maskmaker Carolyn Moore performed her poetry with dancers, masked mimes, musicians and actors.  In other lives longer ago the poet worked her way through college and graduate school as a waitress, sportswear model, dude ranch wrangler, and dormitory housemother.  A self-described "aging hippie" and anti-war activist, Ms. Moore does free-lance writing and research from the last remnant of the family farm in Tigard, Oregon.

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Of the numerous publications that have said "Yes!" to Christopher Mulrooney, he recently chose to cite Beeswax, Vanitas, Guernica, echolocation, The Delinquent, and fourW.

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Grace C. Ocasio's poetry has appeared in magazines including Main Street Rag, Iodine, and The River's Edge.  It was also featured in a North Carolina public arts project.  She currently resides in Charlotte.

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Becky Dennison Sakellariou grew up in New England and has spent much of her adult life in Greece.   A teacher and mediator, she has twice been nominated for the Pushcart poetry prize.  Her chapbook The Importance of Bone was a 2005 Blue Light contest winner.  Ms. Sakellariou can be found in Peterborough, New Hampshire or on the island of Euboia, puttering around an acre of almond, lemon, pomegranate, and apricot trees.

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Jack Skelley is in the surf-rock band Lawndale. His poetry and prose have been widely published. He is based in Los Angeles.

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Circleville, Ohio writer Allen Strous contributed to poetry collection The Fifth Voice (Toadlily Press).  His poems have also appeared in The Ohio Review, Blue Unicorn, and other journals.

Image and Music Credits

 Ann Cutting:  Main poetry page,  Becky Sakellariou page,  image at top of Carolyn Moore page, Daniel Daly page, Links page, image at top of Biographies, image at top of Contests and Guidelines. See more of Ms. Cutting's work at www.cuttingphoto.com or www.cutting.com.

Meg Madison:  Carol Bachofner page, Christopher Mulrooney page, and Allen Strouse page/upper image.  More of Ms. Madison's work can be found at www.MegMadison.com.

Our home page image, "Backstage at the Warner," is by Peter Muise, who is based in Washington, D.C. Muise has a prolific body of work that includes the seminal New Wave scene as it unfolded in Washington. Muise was in a band called Tony Perkins and the Psychotics with Carl Cephas, who is featured in this photo. Muise also caught the image on our Ridikulous Wordz main page. 

Patty Mooney took pictures for one of our "Ain't Got No Home" galleries.  Ms. Mooney  is a video producer and partner at video production services company Crystal Pyramid Productions and at New & Unique Videos, a source of contemporary and archival video footage.  Along with traveling to record events and people of meaning and significance, she also enjoys ancient history, mountain biking, blogging, social networking, bodyboarding, and  poetry writing.  Learn more about Patty through her website, www.pattymooney.com or her blog, www.sandiegovideoproduction.blogspot.com.

Leroy  Allen Skalstad can be thanked for the photograph heading off  the "Ain't Got No Home" section as well as that featured in one of the AGNH galleries.   See more of his work at www.flickr.com.

Miscellaneous imagery:  Bottom of Carolyn Moore's page and bottom of Contests/Guidelines page: stills from Jean Vigo's Zero pour Conduit.  Peter Dabbene's page:  Joseph Cornell film still.

The music on our home page is a relatively low-key contribution from Los Angeles-based musical experimenter and filmmaker Hans Fjellestad.  Mr. Fjellestad, or his alter-ego, "33,"  has a vast and prolific resume that includes solo and collaborative work, the latter with artists including Muhal Richard Abrams, Jello Biafra, Lee Ranaldo, George Lewis, Peter Kowald, Lé Quan Ninh, Lisle Ellis, Haco, Miya Masaoka, Money Mark, G.E. Stinson, Donkey, Yoshimi P-We, Takayuki Kato, Saga Yuki, Kojima Takashi, Arai Minako, Susan Rawcliffe,  and Trummerflora Collective. Learn more about Hans and experience more of his work at www.hansfjellestad.com.

Music on the poetry menu page and the links page is by Oto, which creates ambient music and soundscapes  using live instruments along with electronic sounds and field recordings.  The group has released an ep, Sketch 1,  on Pandatone's online label, Creation Centre.  Oto believes in the easy exchange and distribution of music and other media.  Find out more about Oto and the ambient music scene at  www.otosound.net

Acknowledgments

Carolyn Moore's "The Logic of a Lesser-loved Science" won the Juniper Creek National Poetry Competition and was published in The Ash Canyon Review. 

Christopher Mulrooney's "lazy brand x" was published in Creekwalker.  

Becky Dennison Sakellariou's "Traveling North" was published in Jane's Stories.  "Dark Science" was published in Passager.