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LOUIS ARMAND is an artist and writer who has lived and worked in prague since 1994. his work has appeared internationally. his reviews, critical essays, poetry, fiction and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including sulfur, meanjin, frank, poetry review, stand, triquarterly, culture machine and calyx: 30 contemporary poets, eds. michael brennan and peter minter (sydney: paper bark press, 2000). in 1997 he received the max harris prize for poetry at the penola festival (adelaide), and more recently he was awarded the nassau review prize, 2000 (new york). http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/bio.html

Besides being published widely in NZ my poems have been published internationally eg recently in Jacket (Aust), The Reader and Coffee House Poetry (UK). Forthcoming poems are being published by Wasafiri, Poetry Nottingham (UK) and New England Review, Overland (Aust) and Poetry NZ. Hazard Press Publishers, Christchurch, NZ, will be publishing my first collection in June 2005.

Christophe Casamassima is the editor of Ambit : Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and proprietor of Furniture Press. He is the author of two chapbooks: mov/ments (Furniture Press 2003) and qui/etude, a collaboration with his wife Sarah. Forthcoming is a pamphlet from King of Mice Press, The Sarah Quatrains (2005). Please write him at furniture_press@graffiti.net

Angela Costi's poems, narratives and essays have nestled in many national and international print and online periodicals. She is commissioned as a writer by various organizations across Victoria. The reLOCATED artsproject, for which she was writer-in-residence at the Kensington Public Housing Estate,received the national award for community services 2002. Her poetry collection, 'Dinted Halos', is part of a chapbook series, published by Hit & Miss Publications. In 2005, her CD 'Prayers for the Wicked' is scheduled to be launched.

Richard has completed a PhD in Australian Studies at the Flinders University of South Australia. He is currently Director of The SideWaLK Poets Collective Inc. He is also a contributing editor for papertiger, an international CD-ROM poetry journal. Richard's career as a writer has included radio talkback shows live internet performances, and readings at many of Australia's most well known literary establishments. His poetry has been published widely throughout the world. His most recent collection is Jabiluka Honey (Bookends Press, 2003). Email: richardhillman@iprimus.com.au Richard Hillman's publications include: Poetry: Mending The Dingo Fence, (FSP/Wakefield Press, 1997), Gone Up River, (SideWaLK, 1999), No Grounds, (SideWaLK/ Subverse 2000), Jabiluka Honey: New & Selected Poems, (Bookends Books, 2003), Anthology: Flow: Friendly Street Reader 25 (co-editor with Heather Sladdin), (FSP/Wakefield Press, 2001).

jUStin!katKO is a sound!visual poet recent handmade print-on-demand books: SCHEME! and FORM! !o crystals%razors = making pink magic o! dox actuary = he is open to the imaginable justin.katko@gmail.com http://www.justin-katko.tk

Donna Kuhn has published over 300 poems in print and online journals and anthologies including poethia, aught, big bridge, generator press, over the transom, red dirt, unlikely stories, sidereality, xstream, muse apprentice guild, juxta, 5-trope, moria, poetry new york, dallas review,
poetry motel, sonoma review, poetry motel, pudding magazine, lost and found times, onyx, ambit, fusebox, and sendecki. Her e-chapbooks are “no bird on yr arm” published by Tamaphyr Mountain Press (2003), “red plastic mystic fish ladle” (2002) and ”rent a tart”(2004) published by Xpressed. Three mini-chapbooks were published by poems-for-all (2003). Her print chapbooks include “when yr eyes snow” Foothills Publishing (2003), “up bluen,” Furniture Press (2004) and “purse no birds” Chapultepec Press (2004) . Visual poetry has been published by generator press, juxta, eratio and xstream. http://www.onlinewebart.com

I've had poems in many magazines, but Australian readers might also recognize my name from Jacket (an essay on John Ashbery and Henry Darger, and an interview with classicist and translator Stanley Lombardo). I keep a blog, "Orange Crate Art," at http://mleddy.blogspot.com and live in Charleston, Illinois.

Rupert Loydell is the Managing Editor of Stride Publications, Editor of Stride magazine, and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Tangents magazine. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Warwick University and Poet in Residence at Sherborne School. He lives in Exeter, Devon with his wife and two daughters. Recent publications include A Conference of Voices, The Museum of Light and Endlessly Divisible, and four collaborative works.

Paul's work is especially concerned with issues of home and community; the writing life and the mind's fragility. His poems have appeared in the Age, the Australian, Quadrant, Overland, Cordite, Studio, Overland Express, Imago, and many other journals. His work has also been broadcast on Triple R radio in Melbourne, and Sydney's The RedRoom project. He's won the Studio Poetry Prize and was runner-up in the 2002 Melbourne University Postgraduate Poetry Prize. Paul is also a freelance writer. His articles have appeared in The Age, AQ, The Sunday Herald-Sun and The Big Issue, among others. He's currently studying for a Masters of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) under Dr Kevin Brophy at the University of Melbourne.

I am a graduate of Macalester College, in St. Paul Minnesota where I majored in English with an emphasis in creative writing. I won a 'best of issue' prize for my poem in the Spring, 1995 edition of Chanter Magazine. After that, I gave up writing for awhile for a more direct political engagement with the issues of the day; (I am an itinerant community organizer), only to discover the open mic poetry scene in Boston, Ma. in 1999. I started doing features around town in 2001; at the Lizard Lounge, Harvard Epworth Church, the Zeitgeist gallery and others in Cambridge as well as performing in artist-run spaces across the river in Boston. I was published this summer in "Flesh from Ashes". I am interested in language poetry, but wish that the text did not have to be an expression of the symptoms of all that is lacking in words, of the hopelessness of expressive writing; and the corrosion of meaning, but instead took up a more contemplative stance and retained a level of faith in the reader/listener's ability to find significance within the work.

I am editorial assistant at the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. My chapbooks "Notestalk" and "Notationing" were published by Broken Boulder Press and my novella "Journey Writ Large" was published as a chapbook by Anabasis Press. Sonnets, written in collaboration with Jeff Bacon, were published as an electronic chapbook by Beard of Bees, viewable online here: http://www.beardofbees.com/pubs/Sonnets_to_Renew_Your_Subscription.pdf. Poems of mine have been published in Mudlark, Conundrum, Untitled, Pindeldyboz, Big Bridge, Le Petite Zine, and Can We Have Our Ball Back? Essays and articles of mine have been published in Jacket, Clamor, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, Sauce, and > Pavement Saw.

John West works full time as a nurse in a large hospital in Melbourne and writes many poems about the people he meets there although his family is an even more important source of material. His latest collection was "Modest Lives" which appeared as the July 2004 issue of the WAGTAIL series from Picaro Press.