Anna Aaron is an artist who does a bit of everything.
From photography to video, to jewelry design and everything in between. She currently works as a teacher and freelances in photography and makeup. Her interests include paranormal investigations and she the group organizer for Chicago Photoshop Group. To view her work, please visit:http://gallery.mac.com/amgdesigns andhttp://www.etsy.com/shop/BuzzinglyBeautiful
Crazy Lombardo(the master of pork) has been a strong machine in the authoring factory since his early days in the early 90s where he began working on poetry and prose at the No Exit, In One Ear open mic readings. In 1998 or thereabout he became a shining, nonfamous(infamous?) model/celebrity of the open stage poet community of the greater eastern side of Milwaukee. The strong Influence of Muppet, They Might be Giants, Early German Expressionist film criticism, Beat Poetry, Unfinished Newspaper Crossword Puzzles and dirty dishes can be found all throughout any place he ends up living in and hinted at in any piece of writing he tries publishing. Lately he's been putting most of his pieces in blog format or small status quotes.
Rachael Delamar I am sometimes subservient to a softer side, but an inner vixen usually overrides. My thoughts come out as bullets that ricochet before exploding through male/female targets, as I am obsessed with the interactions between he and she. Sometimes me....I steal my own life experiences as if they never happened, a defense mechanism to turn it all into make believe. ~ " He imagined phallically shaped glass fucking me " ~ I get off on blasphemy and sexuality, anything to get a heated reaction. My first muse was my mother. She has since morphed into Persephone Ate an Oleander, a spoken word creation by my husband and myself. He is blinding light, the one who pulls me out of my dark side and balances....me.
Sarah-Joy Geddes is an artist and popcorn schleper. She lives in Calgary AB, Canada, in the guts of the Prairies, with her husband and two sons. She works in an Art Deco movie theatre where she gets paid to daydream. She lives to draw.
Michael D. Grover is a Florida born poet. As a wanderer he's traveled and lived all over the country. He currently lives in Toledo, Ohio. His work has appeared all over the literary underground. Michael currently is a resident artist at the Collingwood Art Center in Toledo where he hosts a monthly reading with John Dorsey. He runs the Covert Press. His newest chapbook is titled "Confessions Of An american Outlaw". His first full length book will be out in early 2012 on Tainted Coffee Press. Michael is the current head poetry editor at www.redfez.net.
Bonnie Hudgins has published in several online Journals and Magazines including
Photography and Haiku in:
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Khristian E. Kay is a storyteller; a teacher/poet. Generally considered to be controversial in subject matter because he pursues knowledge as the end all of existence. Khristian's work often stretches the limits of complacency digging into the cracks as it were of what constitutes idealism. While his work appears political and often satirical he utilizes
the words as metaphorical rubber bullets: painful and bruising and only lethal at close range.
Paula D. Lietz lives in Canada. Published poet artist and photographer in print and on-line.' always be in the process of becoming and never just being'
Angie Lisle has been writing and drawing since she was a wee tot growing up in the mountains of West Virginia. Several samples of her poetry and art are available on her website: http://www.angielisle.com.
Miriam Matzeder lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri, and very often considers running away to Waxahachie, Texas or Snohomish, Washington.
She likes words and wide-open spaces.
She began writing poetry at age 13 because of the overwhelming feeling that no one understood her.
Not much has changed.
Jesse S. Mitchell was born a lucky lump of clay with a full head of hair and was raised alone by a wild pack of televisions. He taught himself to read and write and now composes pretty stories and poems on the backs of magazine covers and old bus schedules.
Nickolas Nikolic is a photojournalist from Milwaukee, WI. He studied at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, where he received his Bachelor's in the Fine Arts in 2004. He has been published internationally in over 20 news-sources as of 2011. Some of his publications include ThirdCoastDigest.com, Marxist.com, and TreeHugger.com. He believes in the potential of all individuals and looks intently for that potential in every person he meets. Social issues he finds extremely interesting. You may find more of his work at http://nickolasnikolic.com, as well as contact him there.
Lars Palm lives with his lovely (photographer) wife in malmö (in southern sweden). he writes, translates & runs a small ungovernable press. he tends to enjoy the first thunder of the year rolling in. he blogs at mischievoice; http://larspalm.wordpress.com/
Misti Rainwater-Lites has books for sale. Lots. Follow her blogs for links and news.
Joseph Reich is a social worker who lives and works out in the state of Massachusetts...
He has been published in a wide variety of eclectic literary journals both here and abroad, been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and his most recent books include, "A Different Sort Of Distance" (Skive Magazine Press) "If I Told You To Jump Off The Brooklyn Bridge" (Flutter Press) "Pain Diary: Working Methadone & The Life & Times Of The Man Sawed In Half" (Brick Road Poetry Press) "Escaping Shangrila" (Punkin House Press) "Drugstore Sushi" (Thunderclap Press) "All My Born Days"
(Propaganda Press) "Obscure Aphorisms Written On A Fine Overcast Day" (Lummox Press)"The Derivation Of Cowboys & Indians" (Poet Works Press)
Amber Shefchek was born in Kewaunee, Wisconsin in 1987 and currently lives in Milwaukee, WI. She received her B.F.A. in Art Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. You can find more of her work at www.ceramberics.com.
~the editor~
Tommy Anthony
dreamy tortured writer thirty-something forever young kinky hopeless romantic wine-drinking non-golfer dog-loving cat-person occultist secret society man student tutor school teacher artist traveler happy camper coffee addict tree-hugging libertarian stubborn pacifist conspiracy theorist Midwestern pisces poet son of a bitch recovering Catholic Gnostic Christian Taoist Deadhead Milwaukee Brewers fan sado-maso-hedonistic panty-sniffing motherfucker with a BA in English (Creative Writing) from UW-Milwaukee and some poems published in various big and small presses
books ~
A Life of Easter series
My Catechism
Young and Immortal
Schwag
The Tower of Babel: How the Fall of Man Found Us in the Age of Terror
Anomalee
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Erotica
Hotel
Wet Dreams: Bedtime Stories for Bad Girls and Boys
Science-Fiction
Somewhere Along the Line
Letters from Purgatory
Poetry
Good Hope Road: Collected Poems 1999-2009
Everything is Green: Ireland Journal, June 1999
Eight Years We’ll Never Get Back: Poetry Written During the Bush Sabotage, 2001-2009
Jerking Off onto the Open Page
The Burden of the Grasshopper
all published by Rolling Thunder Press
