MiPo January Issue Volume 11

	Radames Ortiz
Radames Ortiz is the author of a chapbook of poems, Between Angels & Monsters. Founding editor of Coyote Magazine: Bringing Literature and Art Across Borders and former editor of the Bayou Review, the literary journal for the University of Houston Downtown. His work has appeared in numerous publications including, Exquisite Corpse, Pacific Review, Gulf Coast, The Amherst Review, and Borderlands. Winner of the 2000 Fabian Worsham award for Poetry and fellowships from the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets at Bucknell University and Voices Writing Workshop at the University of San Francisco. He is also a recipient of a 2002 Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County. He currently resides in Houston, TX where he is Marketing Associate for Arte Publico Press.
Ken Ashworth
	Kenneth Ashworth has previously been published in Stirring, Writer's Hood, Melic Review, and Adirondack Review, and in print The Best of Melic.
Janet Buck
	Janet Buck lives in Medford, Oregon and writes poetry because she can't think of anything else to do with her sour apples.
John Sweet
John has been writing for 20 years now, publishing in the small press for 14, most recently in Sometimes City, Red Coral, Paumanok Review and Arsenic Lobster. He was a poet of the week at Poetry SuperHighway. He has an upcoming full length collection, human cathedrals, due in dec 2002 from Ravenna Press.
	T. Birch
	Tara Birch is a disabled ex-attorney with the two most beautiful hapa children in the universe (other than all the other ones she has ever seen). She now spends all her free time on her current addiction: poetry. It may be habit forming, but so far she hasn't noticed too many adverse side effects. Oh and she's 46 years old.
Michael Paul Ladanyi
I am a poetry editor with Rustlings of the Wind. My work has appeared in close to sixty print and online magazines during the last year in five countries, including: Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, PoetryRepairShop, Poetry Super Highway, Poetry Greece, The Taj Mahal Review, Snow Monkey, Joey and the Black Boots, Free Zone Quarterly, Red Booth Review, Concrete Wolf, AnotherSun, Retort, etc. I was recently published as the featured poet in Poetry In A Cup and The Muses Student. My first poetry chapbook, Palm Shadows, was released in June 2002. I have won several editors choice and poem of the issue awards, and also a Poet's Hall of Fame nomination from Skyline Literary Magazine. I maintain a poets resource site
	Robert Edward Levin
	Robert Edward Levin, has had poetry, prose and essays published in numerous print and online magazines and journals across the United States and in other countries. He released his first novel, the thriller, The Lizard and the Fly, in 1998. He is the coauthor of the novel About Face, which is due to be released in 2003. His book of prose, short stories and essays titled, The Glass Heart, was released in the Summer of 2002.
	Jeff Filipski
	Born in Buffalo, New York. Lives in Florida. Winter, snow, depression takes its toll. Now, its only depression His work has appeared in: Fubbles Press "Duendes" Pure Light, Atticus Review, Impetus, Generator, Non Compos Mentis, In Word Out (a PBS broadcast) as well as online in *The Hold, Thunder Sandwich, and Deluxe Rubber Chicken*. His art has been displayed on the South Beach of Miami as well as Orlando, Melbourne, Florida
	Cait Collins
Let’s boogie down some kama sutra. yea! interview at the-hold
	John Eivaz
John Eivaz was born in New York and lives in California. His work has been published online at Mipo, Slow Trains, Ophelia's Muse, Tryst, Branches and other websites including The Erotica Readers and Writers Association, where he is poetry and flash fiction editor. His poetry has been recognized by the IBPC and the Preditors and Editors Poll, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He works in a winery.
Christin Melton
	Christin Melton lives in New Jersey with her husband, three boys, two dogs, cat and lizard. She co-runs a poetry board and helps moderates a forum at The Alsop Review. She has been published in *Tryst* and *MiPo*.
	Tasha Klein
Tasha Klein is a receptionist for a telecommunications company at a retirement facility in the Chicago area. Her poems have been published in various online zines, most recently, Steel Point Quarterly, Artemis Journal, Locust Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Pig Iron Malt, Snakeskin, Lotus Blooms Journal, Shampoo, MiPo~Print, MiPo Gallery and HiNgE. She will have poems in forthcoming issues of, Erosha, Sometimes City & Carnelian. She is the founder and administrator of Salty Dreams poetry board (established 2000) and is editor for MiPo Best of the Poetry Board Edition.
Pris Campbell
	Pris Campbell began writing poetry in the fall of 1999 and has been published (or has poems pending publication) in Limestone Circle, Blackmail Press, The Dakota House, Muses Kiss, Peshekee River Poets, MiPo~Print, The Fae Whirl, Passage Through August, The Dead Mule: An Anthology of Southern Literature, and *The International War Veterans Poetry Archives*. Previously a psychologist and sailor/traveler, she has temporarily parked her vagabond shoes, but now fancies herself a mermaid with a waterproof pen. She lives in the greater West Palm Beach, Florida , USA.
	Dennis Green
Dennis Greene was born in England in 1949, moved to what is now Zimbabwe in 1953, and has lived in Perth since 1983.He has had various occupations, including meteorologist, soldier, real estate salesman and retail manager. Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 1987, his articles on PD related issues have appeared worldwide. In 1999 he was invited to the United States to co-edit "Voices from the Parking Lot", an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by people affected by Parkinson's. He was Assistant editor of the Poetry Down Under (PDU) website, and now is the Editor of Numbat Poetry Journal.
PJ Nights
Publishing credits include Erotica Readers & Writers Association, Slow Trains, CleanSheets, The Lightning Bell Poetry Journal, MiPoesias, Mind Caviar, Amoret, the Emerald Collection, Ophelia's Muse, Hoot Island, the Writer's Hood, Tryst, Adult Story Corner, La Rosa Blanca, Erosha, Penumbra, Femme, Artemis, and the 2002 Slow Trains Anthology.
	Peter Stewart Richards
	Peter Richards, a manual worker who's been fooled into taking some exams. Nothing published in print except something about a cow in something about cows. It turned out to be about a donkey, but I knew that.
K.R. Copeland
K.R. Copeland is a semi-reclusive writer from Chicago, Illinois. Her poetry, which ranges from formal to experimental, heady to absurd, has been included in numerous publications including, Artvilla, Atomic Petals, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Glass Tesseract, Locust, Miller's Pond, Moxie, Niederngasse, Scrivner's Pen, Seeker, Snakeskin, Snow Monkey, The American Muse, and Unlikely Stories.
	Lynze Newbern
Poet One medium Online version Writes daily Published in some places and other places too and I thank them for that. 3rd muse, Peshekee River, Ygdrasil. *I got five dolla* for a poem one time. smile.**
	Sarah Wilson
	Sarah Wilson is a writer that loves to live, spend her time traveling. When home her husband is often in the dog house, either covering his ears from her singing or hiding his wallet. She is published online and in book format.
Pedro Trevino-Ramirez
	Pedro is a young poet living in the upper peninsula of Michigan, soon to be relocating to Pennsylvania. He often uses the following quote by Vladimir Nabakov to describe himself: "My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.-" A few of his publication credits include *Thunder Sandwich, the Meeting of the Minds Journal, and Carved in Sand. He will be the featured writer for the next issue of Tryst* and will also be published in the next issue of *Mt. Houghton Miscellany, sort of the print version of Peshekee River Poetry*.