GUEST EDITOR GABRIEL GUDDING ~THE STRANGE CALL
VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 ISSN 1543-6063

Books & Books

MiPOesias Reading
November 11, 2005
~8 to 10PM~ at the Coral Gables store~

David Trinidad’s last two books, Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse and Plasticville, were published by Turtle Point Press. His other books include Answer Song and Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988. His poems have appeared in such periodicals as The American Poetry Review, Boston Review and Harper’s, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Trinidad is Director of the Graduate Poetry Program at Columbia College Chicago, where he also teaches and co-edits the journal Court Green.

Nick Carbó is the author of three collections of poetry, the latest being Andalusian Dawn. He has edited three ground breaking anthologies of Filipino and Filipino American Writing, Returning A Borrowed Tongue, Babaylan, and Pinoy Poetics. He has won fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and residencies to Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, VCCA, Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), and Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland). His visual poems have been exhibited in Harvard University's Infinity Visual Poetry show. He is currently teaching as the Distinguished Visiting Poet in the MFA program at the University of Miami.

Terri Carrion was conceived in Venezuela, born in New York, raised in Los Angeles, and now lives in Hollywood, Florida. She received her MFA from FIU. Her work has appeared in The Cream City Review, Slipstream, Hanging Loose, Pearl, Paper Tiger and Miami Street, among others, and online in Jack Magazine, MiPOesia, Poetic Inhalations, and Dead Drunk Dublin (Ireland). Her photography has also appeared online in Jack and Dead Drunk Dublin, and in print in Gulf Stream magazine. She is currently assistant editor of the online journal BigBridge.org


Reb Livingston is the editor of No Tell Motel. She is one of the editors of the anthology The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (scheduled to be published end of 2005). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in MiPOesia, SOFTBLOW, Ducky, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Drunken Boat, Good Foot and LIT. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, she lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son.

 


Michael Hettich has published a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry. He has two new books out this year: SWIMMER DREAMS (Turning Point, winner of the Tales Prize) and FLOCK AND SHADOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (New Rivers Press). His work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies. His awards include two Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. He teaches at Miami Dade College.
 

 

Bruce Covey is Adjunct Lecturer of Creative Writing at Emory University and author of three collections of poetry—The Greek Gods as Telephone Wires, and the forthcoming Ten Pins, Ten Frames and Glass Is Really a Liquid—all from Front Room Publishers.  His work also appears in MiPoesias, 26, Jacket, Explosive Magazine, XConnect, Pool, Bombay Gin, Big Bridge, GutCult, and other journals.


Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz writes poetry and stories, for both children and adults. Her work has appeared in various online and print journals, as well as six anthologies. Mintz has degrees from New Mexico State University and is a former news writer and college instructor. Nominated for creative works, Mintz' biography was included in the 24th edition of "Who's Who Of American Women, 2004-2005." She lives with her children and various pets in New Mexico.


Gianmarc Manzione received an MFA in poetry from New School University in 2004. Poems from his first collection, This Brevity, are forthcoming in The Paris Review and Raritan. He also freelances for Bowlers Journal as well as several music and literary magazines.

Howard Camner is the author of fifteen books of poetry. He represents the United States in the Poet 2000 Sculpted Library based in Dublin.

Barbra Nightingale has published over 200 poems, 4 chapbooks and one book, Singing in the Key of L which won the 1999 NFSPS Stevens Award.  She has a new manuscript, The Geometry of Dreams, looking for a home.  Barbra teaches English and Poetry at Broward Community College, South Campus.

Rita Maria Martinez, is a native Floridian living in Fort Lauderdale. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Diagram, Gargoyle, Gulf Stream Magazine, Ploughshares, MiPOesias Magazine, Mangrove and Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual. Martinez worked as a writer for Miami Dade College’s Publications Department and is part of the group that coordinates the Spoken Word Café at the Miami Book Fair. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida International University and has taught there and at MDC.

 

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