MiPOesias Magazine

Jen Tynes lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches writing and edits horse less press. She is the author of one book of poetry, The End Of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press). Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Kulture Vulture, Diagram, Typo, The Cultural Society, CutBank, jubilat, No Tell Motel, Octopus and H_NGM_N. Visit her web to track her recent collaboration-in-progress with Erika Howsare.

Dale DeBakcsy. Proper Name, referring to the early twenty-first century author and Buddhist boarding school science teacher who lived and died in California survived by his two cats, wife, and daughter. As a verb, To DeBakcsy, refers to the practice of calculating the cost of objects in terms of used Sinclair Lewis novels (i.e. "I never thought I'd see the day when a sandwich cost twelve Bethel Merridays."). Before his tragically early death in 2008, Mr. DeBakcsy's works could be found in the pages of Mobius, Eureka Literary Magazine, Red Wheelbarrow, Thought Magazine, Green's Magazine, The Idiot, and Tears In the Fence.

Krista Madsen is the author of two novels, Degas Must Have Loved a Dancer and Four Corners, both published by Livingston Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she owns and operates the arts/wine lounge Stain.

Kyle Thompson lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Work published in Hotel Amerika, AGNI, Indiana Review, Seneca Review and etc.

David Need is a writer and university instructor living with wife and four cats in Durham, NC. His son is off to college. He has previously lived in Cleveland, Boston, Northampton MA, and Charlottesville. His poetry is largely unpublished save in small numbers of hand-made books, but he has read publicly since the late seventies. His reviews have appeared in Oyster Boy and the Independent Weekly. He was recently identified as a future North Carolina Poet of the Week. He teaches Asian religions—Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist Ethics, Indian Theism, South and Central Asian religions, as well as courses on the Beat Generation writers, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick, and Religion and Film. Continued.....

Mia Leonin’s book of poems Braid was published by Anhinga Press. She has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize and her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2005, she was awarded a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Leonin frequently writes about theater, dance and performance for the Miami Herald.

"Alberto" is an excerpt from FATHER HUNGER, a memoir/travel narrative that recounts a one-month trip the author took in 1998 to Latin America that ended up lasting over a year. Leonin lived alone in Bogotá, Colombia and visited Havana, Cuba, the birthplace of her father whom she met for the first time at the age of nineteen. FATHER HUNGER chronicles a search for fatherly love, sexual liberation, and spiritual kinship in a series of intense, and at times, dangerous encounters and relationships. Continued....