Issue 4 - Contributors

Contributors to Issue 4, in the order in which they appear:
 

Scot Siegel contributed the front cover photograph and digital art.

Don Colburn contributed the original photographs used for digital art in the table of contents, welcome page, and back cover. Colburn's photographs are used with permission of MacDowell Colony.

Margaret Walther is a retired librarian and a past president of Columbine Poets, which promotes poetry in Colorado.  She won the Many Mountains Moving 2009 Poetry Contest.  Web del Sol selected two poems published at In Posse Review in 2010 for its e-SCENE Best of the Literary Journals.

David Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in England, and spent several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in1978. He has several collections, but takes special pleasure in a very short poem that appears beside John Clare and others in BIRDS, an anthology from the British Museum.

Vivian Faith Prescott was born and raised in Wrangell, Alaska. She lives in Sitka and at the USCG Air Station-Borinquen in Puerto Rico. Vivian facilitates three different writers' groups for adults, teenagers and youth at the air station. Her digital poetry chapbook Slick is available online at White Knuckle Press.

Alarie Tennille is a Pushcart Prize nominee.   She serves on the Board of Directors of The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri.  Her chapbook, Spiraling into Control, is available on Amazon.com. Alarie’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Margie, Poetry East, ByLine Magazine, and The Little Balkans Review.

William Stratton currently lives and writes in Newmarket, NH, where he is pursuing an MFA at UNH. His poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review and is forthcoming in Pif Magazine and 2River.

Bette Lynch Husted's works include At This Distance: Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon 2010), After Fire (Pudding House 2002) and Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land (OSU Press 2004). Above the Clearwater was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the WILLA Award in Creative Nonfiction. She lives in rural Oregon.

Lyn Lifshin has over 120 books and has edited 4 anthologies. Her recent books include: THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MY YEAR WITH RUFFIAN, Texas Review Press, and ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME from Black Sparrow at Godine. Her web site is www.lynlifshin.com.

Caroline Misner is a graduate of Sheridan College of Applied Arts & Technology with a diploma in Media Arts Writing.  Her poems have appeared in Ideals magazine as well as Penwomanship, Quills, Leaf Press, Poetry Canada, The Litchfield Review, Perigee, Fresh Boiled Peanuts, SLAB, Other Voices, Prairie Journal  and The Aroostook Review. Her literary short stories appear in Rosebud, Prairie Journal, Challenging Destiny and The Windsor Review.

David Filer lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Marlene Anderson, who created and directs The Imani Project, an AIDS prevention and orphan support program in eastern Kenya. He has recent work in Third Wednesday, Slant and Red River Review, and has authored two chapbooks: Night Verse (Finishing Line Press 2005) and The Landscape There (Stone City Press 2009). 

Gary Beck’s original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He currently lives in New York City, where he's busy writing fiction and poetry, which have appeared in numerous literary magazines.

Lena Judith Drake is the editor-in-chief of Breadcrumb Scabs Magazine (www.breadcrumbscabs.com). For personal information, or her own poetry, visit her at lenajudith.sedentarygecko.com. 

Ann Tweedy has published in numerous journals, including Gertrude, Rattle, and Clackamas Literary Review. Her chapbook Beleaguered Oases, TcCreative Press, Los Angeles, was selected as a finalist for two chapbook awards: Blue Light Press' annual chapbook competition and Seven Kitchens Press' Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Ann was born in Boston, grew up in Southeastern Massachusetts, and recently moved from Washington State to teach law in Michigan, where she resides with her family.

Susan Smith Nash examines poetics and the convergences of text, media, and culture in recent articles published in Press1, Golden Handcuffs Review, and World Literature Today. She functions as managing editor for Texture Press, and maintains an edublog, www.elearningqueen.com. Susan lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Issue 3: Contributors

"Return to the Source" by featured artist Scott Starbuck

Terry Brix, a “green” chemical engineer, divides his time among Blue River, Oregon; Bozeman, Montana; Scandinavia; and South Africa. Inspired by his travels, a collection of his poetry Chiseled from the Heart was published in 2000 by Vigeland Museum, Norway. His poetry has appeared in many publications, including The Evansville Review, Fireweed, Exit 13, Rattlesnake Review, Curbside Review, Liberty Hill Poetry Review and The Antioch Review. New poetry will soon appear in Chiron Review and Falling Star Magazine.

Lauren Camp of Santa Fe, New Mexico is an artist and educator. Her poems appear in The New Verse News, J Journal, and Sin Fronteras. She is the author of a book of poems, This Business of Wisdom (West End Press, 2010).

Brittney Corrigan’s poems have appeared in The Texas Observer, Hayden's Ferry Review, Borderlands, The Blue Mesa Review, Oregon Review, Manzanita Quarterly, Stringtown, and Many Mountains Moving, among others. She is the poetry editor for the online literary journal Hyperlexia and lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children.

Lucia Galloway’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Comstock Review, Poemeleon, Her Mark 2009, Foundling Review, Redheaded Stepchild, Rufous City Review, Tilt-a-Whirl, and Untitled Country Review, to name the most recent.  The winner of several awards and prizes, she has two books to her credit: Venus and Other Losses (Plain View, 2010) and the chapbook Playing Outside (Finishing Line, 2005).  Galloway co-hosts a monthly poetry reading series in Claremont, California.

Melissa Madenski works for Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon as an Adult Literacy Coordinator.  She has taught in workshops throughout the northwest and at Lewis and Clark College’s Northwest Writing Institute.  Her essays, poems and stories have been in regional and national periodicals and anthologies.

Catherine McGuire has been widely published over the past two decades, more than 160 poems including in The New Verse News, The Smoking Poet, Tipton Poetry Journal, Poetry In Motion, Folio, and Main Street Rag. She has published a chapbook, Joy Into Stillness: Seasons of Lake Quinault.

Lex Runciman's fourth collection of poems, Starting from Anywhere, was published last year by Salmon Poetry, Ireland.  He has work new or forthcoming in Hubbub, Cloudbank, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Poetry East.  And a reproduction of John Keats’ life mask looks down on his writing desk.

Scot Siegel, Editor of Untitled Country Review, contributed photography; except photographs of ceramic art provided by Scott Starbuck.

Scott T. Starbuck is a Creative Writing Coordinator at San Diego Mesa College.  His next chapbook, Riverwalker, will be published by Mountains and Rivers Press, and his "Wild Salmon" essay will appear in the 2011/12 issue of The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy at Athabasca University regarding the theme of deep ecology across generations. Issue 3 features Starbuck's poetry and photographs of his ceramic art. His artwork is currently showing at the Columbia River Gallery in Troutdale, Oregon.

Ray Succre is an undergraduate currently living on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and son.  He has had poems published in Aesthetica, Poets and Artists, and Pank, as well as in numerous others across as many countries.  His novels Tatterdemalion (2008) and Amphisbaena (2009), both through Cauliay, are widely available in print.  Other Cruel Things (2009), an online collection of poetry, is available through Differentia Press.  

Laura Winter’s most recent poetry collection is Coming Here to be Alone (Mountains and Rivers Press 2008, English and German). The western landscape with all its hoodoos, headlands, basin and range, whitewater and rain are the foundation from which she works. Winter’s love for improvised music also informs how she approaches using the English language. Improvised music and its spaces create an interesting tension between sound, words and silence of landscape she uses in her poetry.




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Issue 1: Contributors

Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi, martial artist, and data analyst living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Islamica, The Lyric and VoiceCatcher, and has been featured on KBOO, Prairie Home Companion and MiPoRadio. Tiel Aisha Ansari has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her collection is Knocking from Inside.

George Bishop was raised on the Jersey Shore and attended Rutgers University before moving to Central Florida in 1985 where he now lives and writes. His work has been featured in such periodicals as White Pelican Review, Off The Coast and Grasslimb Journal. Finishing Line Press published his chapbook Love Scenes in November 2009.

Karen Braucher is the author of two full-length collections, Aqua Curves and Sending Messages Over Inconceivable Distances, as well as two chapbooks, Heaven’s Net and Mermaid Café. Her poems have appeared in many journals and won regional and national prizes.

Don Colburn is a writer in Portland. His poetry chapbook Because You Might Not Remember is due out in November from Finishing Line Press. A longtime newspaper reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, he took a recent buyout from The Oregonian. His poem "Coach" won this year's Duckabush Prize for Poetry. 

S.P. Flannery was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and now resides in Madison. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review, Random Acts of Writing, The Alembic, Monkey's Fist, and Bolts of Silk.

Lucia Galloway is author of Venus and Other Losses (Plain View Press, 2010) and Playing Outside (Finishing Line, 2005). Recent work appears or is pending in The Lyric, Poemeleon, Her Mark 2009, Redheaded Stepchild, The Foundling Review, and Tilt-a-Whirl. Galloway co-hosts a poetry reading series in Claremont, California.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 18 print and digital poetry chapbooks. He has been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net anthology. His first full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, was released in 2009 by Press Americana. He is co-editor of the online literary journal Left Hand Waving.

Maxima Kahn leads workshops on writing and the creative process. Her poetry has appeared in Eclipse, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Hardpan, Poem, Borderlands, Left Curve, Eureka Literary Magazine and elsewhere. She is also a musician and a dancer.

Catherine Kasper directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her work has received an AWP Intro award, a PEN Texas award, the Mid-America Review Fineline award, and an Academy of American Poets’ Prize. She is the author of field stones (Winner of the 2004 Winnow Press First Book Award in Poetry) and NOTES from the Committee (Noemi Press, 2009).

Barbara LaMorticella has lived in the woods outside of Portland since 1968. She is a long time host of KBOO radio’s Talking earth. Her second collection of poems, Rain on Waterless Mountain, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.  She’s twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize,  was a Poetry in Motion poet, and won a Bumbershoot Big Book Award. She was awarded the first Oregon Literary Fellowship for Women Writers, and a Stewart Holbrook Award for outstanding service to Oregon literary arts. She organizes and hosts many poetry events.  Her newest collection is “The Great Dance, Poems 1969-2009.”

Chase McCartney is 18 years old. He lives in Beaverton, Oregon. “Down In My Heart” is his first poetry publication.

Paulann Petersen’s poetry books are The Wild Awake, Blood-Silk , A Bride of Narrow Escape, and Kindle. A fifth, The Voluptuary is forthcoming from Lost Horse Press. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she was recently appointed Oregon Poet Laureate. She serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January Stafford Birthday Events.

Work by mixed blood Yankee Patricia Smith Ranzoni, who writes from one of the subsistence farms of her youth in Maine, has been published across the country and abroad and in five collections drawn from by UME depts. of English and history, most recently: Greatest Hits (Pudding House invitational GOLD series).

Scot Siegel edits Untitled Country Review. The photographs in Issue 1 (Wrangell, Alaska) are his.

Judith Terzi lives in Pasadena, California, where she taught high school French for over twenty years. Her poetry has been widely published, and a chapbook, "The Road to Oxnard," will appear from Pudding House Publications this year. Poems are forthcoming in Poemeleon, Qarrtsiluni, Red Rock Review, and Umbrella.

Pam Uschuk’s five books of poems include CRAZY LOVE (2009, Wings Press). Translated into ten languages, Uschuk’s received prizes from the National League of American PEN Women and Amnesty International.  Pam edits CUTTHROAT, A JOURNAL OF THE ARTS, teaches at Fort Lewis College, and lives with poet William Pitt Root, in Colorado.  


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Issue 2: Contributors

J. P. Dancing Bear is the author nine collections of poetry, most recently, Inner Cities of Gulls (2010), and Conflicted Light (2008) both published by Salmon Poetry. His poems have been published in hundreds of publications.  He is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press.    

Shaindel Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon’s high desert and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary. A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009) is her first full-length collection. Find her online at http://shaindelbeers.com.

Jessie Carty received her MFA from Queen’s University of Charlotte and continues to reside in North Carolina. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Main Street Rag, MARGIE and The Northville Review. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, At the A & P Meridiem (Pudding House, 2009) and The Wait of Atom (Folded Word, 2009). You can find her all around the web, but most often at her blog: http://jessiecarty.com.

David Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in England, and spent several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in1978. He recently had a poem included in the anthology, BIRDS, from the British Museum, and won the Slipstream Chapbook Contest with From the Age of Miracles.

Mary Christine Delea is the author of The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky, two chapbooks, and numerous published poems. Most recently a Poet-in-the-Schools and a university professor, she is currently a stay-at-home writer. Delea is from Long Island, and now lives in Oregon.

William Doreski's work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently Waiting for the Angel (Pygmy Forest Press, 2009). 

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 19 print and digital poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection, Lovesick, published by Press Americana.

Leigh Anne Hornfeldt lives in Kentucky with her husband and three young sons. She wrote her first (and probably best) poem at age six while "camping" in the back of a pickup truck. Her poems have appeared in Plainspoke.

S. K. McGillis is currently in his second year of the MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) program and Portland State University. He lives in Portland with his wife, Leah, and their two dogs. He has been writing poetry for five years. His poetry has previously appeared in Pathos Literary Magazine and Watershed Literary Magazine.

Sherry O’Keefe is a descendant of Montana pioneers and a graduate of MSU-B. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Switched-on Gutenberg, Terrain. Org., Barnwood Poetry Review, Avatar Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Two Review, Babel Fruit, Soundzine, The High Desert Journal and Main Street Rag. Her chapbook, Making Good Use of August was released in October 2009 from Finishing Line Press.

Scott Owens is the author of six collections of poetry and has over 600 poems published in journals and anthologies. He is editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, Vice President of the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and recipient of awards from the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Academy of American Poets, the NC Writers’ Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC.  He holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro and currently teaches at Catawba Valley Community College.

Penelope Scambly Schott’s most recent books are Six Lips and a chapbook Under Taos Mountain: The Terrible Quarrel of Magpie and Tia.  Her verse biography A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Poetry.

B.T. Shaw is the author of This Dirty Little Heart. She lives in Portland, where in spring and summer her hands are more often dirty than not. Currently, her chard is under siege from leaf miners. If you don't know what a leaf miner is, consider yourself lucky. If you have suggestions for battling leaf miners or if you wish to send a poem to The Oregonian's Poetry column, write to B.T. at poetry@news.oregonian.com.

Scot Siegel contributed photography for Issue 2.

Scott T. Starbuck is the Interim Creative Writing Coordinator at San Diego Mesa College, and lives near The Clackamas River in Oregon.  You can see his fossil art at The Spirit of the Salmon Fund and hear him read two poems at Fogged Clarity. Pudding House published his new chapbook of nature and protest poems, The Warrior Poems, in June 2010, and his next chapbook will be published by Mountains and Rivers Press.

Larina Warnock works for a nonprofit organization in Corvallis, Oregon. She is a graduate student at Saint Xavier University.  Warnock's work has been published or is forthcoming in The Oregonian, PEMMICAN, Today's Caregiver, and others.  Her poetry has been recognized with awards from Writer's Digest Poetry Competition, the IBPC, and The Guardian Poetry Workshops.

Paul Watsky has published one full-length poetry collection, Telling the Difference (Fisher King Press, 2010) and two chapbooks, More Questions Than Answers and Sea Side (tel-let, 2001, 2003), co-translated with Emiko Miyashita Santoka (Tokyo, PIE Books, 2006), and has poems in such journals as Poetry Flash, The Cream City Review, onthebus, The Asheville Poetry Review, and The Pinch.

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