Many thanks to the resourceful translators—Pablo Baler, Daniel Borzutzky, Jonathan Cohen, Ryan Daly, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Matt Lodada, Marta Hernández Salván, Claire Sullivan, Jeffrey Thomson, David Unger,—for delivering our South American poetry.

 

 

 

Andrea Augé is an artist and art director for film/video and print living in Seattle. Recently she has focused her camera lens on the writing community.

 

 

Concepción Bertone was born in Rosario, Argentina on April 23, 1947, and is a poet, essayist and literary critic. She has published the following poetry collections: De la piel hacia adentro, 1973; El vuelo inmóvil, 1983; Citas, 1993; Aria Da Capo, 2006; Las 40 (anthology of poets from the province of Santa Fe, Ed. de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral). She also has two unpublished books of poetry and an essay on the poetry of Rosario. In 1993 the University of Mayaguéz, Puerto Rico, selected her for its video anthology of the 20 best poets of Latin America, and in 1998 she was the honored guest of the University of Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Her prizes include the Mención de Honor of the Fondo Nacional de Las Artes and the Premio R. G. Tuñón. Her poetry appears in anthologies in Argentina and overseas, and has been translated to Catalan, French, English and Italian. She writes in newspapers and literary reviews in Argentina and elsewhere.

 

 

 

Jorge Boccanera. Born in Argentina (Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province), in 1952. Poet, playwright and essayist  Subsequent to the Argentine coup in 1976, he lived in exile in Mexico and Central America, working as a journalist and a creative writer. After the fall of the military dictatorship, he returned to Argentina and devoted himself full time to literature. In 1976 he won the esteemed “Casa de las Americas” in Cuba and later the “National Award for Poetry” in Mexico.  His poetry includes: The scarecrow suicide (1974); news of any woman (1976); Password (1976); Poems on the size of an orange (1979); the eyes of the burned bird (1980); Zona de Tolerancia (1998) and Beasts in a hotel in passing (2001).

 

 

 

Adriana Borga is a poet, teacher and artisan. She was born in Rosario, Argentina, where she currently lives, but spent her infancy and part of her adolescence one hundred kilometers to the south, in the town of Firmat.

      She has coordinated poetry workshops for children and adults, and received a B.A. in Literature from the Department of Arts and Humanities of the National University of Rosario. In 1997 she participated in the 5th Festival of Latin American Poetry, in Rosario.

      She has published in the weekly El Correo de Firmat, and in the literary reviews Cuidad Gótica, Los Viajeros de la Underwood and Los Lanzallamas, all of Rosario. The tryptich of poems Puerta a Puerta (1997) was her first independent publication, and she has published in the following anthologies: Poseidonea-Paestum (Ed. Comuna de Capaccio Paestum, Italy, 1993), Poesías del Primer Encuentro de Escritores Jóvenes y muy jóvenes (Ed. Ciudad Gótica, Rosario, 1997), Los que siguen (Ed. Los Lanzallamas, Rosario, 2002), and Dodecaedro de Poetas (Ed. Honorable Concejo Municipal de Rosario, 2004). Her first book published is Animalidad Humana (Ed. Los Lanzallamas, Rosario, 2003).

 

 

David Bromige has published more than 30 books of poetry, most recently Spade and The Petrarch Project with Rychard Denner. His many awards include the Western States Poetry Award, and the wide range of institutions honoring him include the Poetry Foundation and the Nacional Endowment for the Arts.  He lives in Sebastopol, California.

 

 

Ernesto Cardenal.  Born on January 20, 1925 in Grenada, Nicaragua. He studied in Mexico and at Columbia University in the U.S., and with Thomas Merton at a Trappist monastery in Kentucky in 1957. Nicaraguan dictactor Anastasio Somoza declared Cardenal an outlaw in 1957 for his support of the Sandinista movement. In 1965, he was ordained a priest and founded a Christian commune, Solentiname. During the revolution, Cardenal served as a field chaplain for the FSLN. After the Triumph, he served as Minister of Culture from 1979 to 1988 and promoted literary workshops throughout Nicaragua. At present he is the Vice President of Casa de Las Tres Mundos, a literary and cultural organization based in Managua.  He is the author of more than 35 books in Spanish, a number of which have been translated into English, including Flights of Victory, Zero Hour, Homage to the American Indians, and With Walker in Nicaragua. His English translation poetry volumes include Marilyn Monroe and Other Poems (1965), The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation (1967), To Live is to Love (1970), In Cuba (1974), Apocalypse and Other Poems (1977), Nicaraguan New Time (1988), Cosmic Canticle (1993), and The Doubtful Strait (1995). Choice magazine calls Cardenal “one of the world’s major poets” who “struggles to convince himself that the underlying force in the universe is divine purpose rather than pure chance. For him, the politics of commitment is essential the poetic discourse, just as love, the ultimate cohesive principle, is necessary to preserve the oneness of creation.”

 

Sarah Campbell is completing a dissertation on Henry James and speech at SUNY Buffalo.  Recent work includes a poetry chapbook, The Maximum (Bonfire

Press, 2008).

 

 

Diane di Prima is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and prose, including Pieces of a Song (City Lights, 1990). Her work has been translated into at least twenty languages. She has received grants for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. She had received numerous awards, including an Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry from the National Poetry Association.

Loba: Books I & II was published in the Penguin Poets Series in August 1998. Her autobiographical memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, was published by Viking in April 2001. Recent poetry chapbooks include Towers Down (with Clive Matson),  Eidolon Editions in 2002; The Ones I Used to Laugh With, Habenicht Press, San Francisco, 2003, and TimeBomb, Eidolon Editions 2006. Diane lives and writes in San Francisco, where she teaches private classes and workshops and does individual consultations on writing and creativity.

 

Juan Carlos Flores was born in Havana in 1962 and is a self-taught poet living today in Cuba. His published collections include The Birds, winner of the David Prize, the New Pines Prize, and the Critics Prize, The Counter Stroke, and Many Ways to Dig a Tunnel, from which the poems above were taken. Green Integer Books will publish this translation in late 2008.

 

 

 

Celia Fontán was born in Rosario, located in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1946. She is a Professor of Letters, and graduate of the National University of Rosario. She has published the following works: Ha crecido el césped (The Grass Has Grown), Ed. Tupambaé, 1974; Los árboles rebeldes (Rebelious Trees),Ed. Tupambaé, 1975; De cruces y señales (Of Exchanges and Signs), Ed. Tupambaé, 1976; Hijas del mar (Daughters of the Sea), Arcién Foundation Award Edition,1981; Los habitantes de Valdrada (The Inhabitants of Valdrada), “Manuel Musto” Award Edition, Municipality of Rosario,1989; Restos del navío (Ship Remains), Ed. Juglaría,1995, Un taxi a Bucarest (A Taxi to Bucharest), Ed. Papeles de Boulevard, 2007. Her work has appeared as part of diverse anthologies and as collected works. Her poems, translated into Italian and selected by Pablo Anadón, make up the volume Poetesse argentine, published by the editorial Plural Poesía, directed by Enrico D’Angelo, in Cosenza, Italy.

In Rosario, she currently teaches and coordinates Poetry House Literary Workshops. Since its inception, Fontán has played an integral part – from 1993 to 1998 — in the Organization Committee of the International Poetry Festival of Rosario. She’s a contributor to both national and international newspapers and magazines.

 

 

 

Vernon Frazer has published eight books of poetry, including the longpoem IMPROVISATIONS, and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in
Aught, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Otoliths and many other literary magazines. His most recent books of poetry are Bodied Tone and Holiday
Idylling. His web site is http://vernonfrazer.com. Frazer is married and lives
in South Florida.

 

 

Luisa Futoransky is from Argentina, but has lived in Paris for the last 25 years. Among her books of poetry are Partir, digo (Editorial Prometeo, Valencia), La sanguina (Ediciones Taifa, Barcelona) and Antología (Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires). Her recently published books are Prender de gajo (Calambur, Madrid), Inclinaciones (Leviatán, Buenos Aires) and Seqüana Barrosa (EH Editores, Jerez). In 2007 her Desaires, with photos by José Antonio Berni, was published by the Centro de Arte Moderno of Madrid.  Her novels include Son cuentos chinos (Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires), De Pe a Pa (Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona), The Duration of the Voyage translated by Jason Weiss (Junction Press, 1997, junctionpress.com)and Urracas (Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires). Her personal favorite is, obviously, the unpublished El Formosa.  Her essays include Pelos (Ediciones Temas de Hoy, Madrid), Lunas de miel (Espasa Calpe, Spain), and the unpublished Crónica de supersiticones urbanas the courses and seminars she teaches on Argentine and Italian poets, she transmits her own experience in working with poetic language. She currently lives in the city of her birth.  

 

 

Juan Gelman.  Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina May 3, 1930. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes Prizein 2007, the most important in Spanish literature. His poems contain themes touching on his Jewish heritage, family, Argentina, exile, and the tango. His works celebrate life but are also tempered with social and political commentary and reflect his own painful experiences with the politics of his country.

 

Otto-Raúl González was born in Guatemala City in 1921 and died in 2007 in Mexico City, where he spent the last 52 years of his life in exile. He authored over 20 books of poetry and is considered by his countrymen to be Guatemala’s most important—certainly most prolific—poet.

 

 

Giles Goodland’s last book was Capital from Salt in 2006. Before that was A Spy in the House of Years from Leviathan in 2001. He lives in London and works as a lexicographer.

 

 

Keith Jebb is a poet and academic who runs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton.  Recent work has been published in Poetry Salzburg Review and Fire.  ‘hide white space’ was published as a broadsheet in 2006 by Kater Murr’s Press.  He helps run the Blue Bus poetry reading series in London, with David Miller and Alyson Torns.

 

 

Alicia Kozameh.  Born in Rosario, Argentina, March, 1953.  She studied philosophy and literature at the University of Rosario and the University of Buenos Aires.  From September 1975 to December 1978 she was a political prisoner of the military dictatorship in Argentina.  In 1980, she went into exile in California, and, later, in Mexico.  During this period she wrote the novel The Seventh Dream.  On her return from exile, she published Steps Under Water.  Sinces 1988 she has lived in Los Angeles, where she finished the novel Ostrich Legs.  She has published numerous stories and articles in Argentina, the United States and Europe.  Her works have been translated into English and German.  She teaches at Santa Monica City College and Chapman University.

 

Stacey Levine was born in St. Louis and lives in Seattle. Her most recent novel is Frances Johnson (Clear Cut Press, 2005).  Her collection of short fiction The Kidney Problem will be published in 2008.

 

Rupert Loydell is the Managing Editor of Stride and Lecturer in

English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth. He has

published and edited many books of poetry and prose-poetry; recent

titles include The Smallest Deaths (bluechrome), A Conference of

Voices (Shearsman), and Ex Catalogue (Shadow Train). An Experiment in Navigation is forthcoming in 2008.

 

 

Brian Marley’s most recent book is Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum (Sound 323, 2005), which he co-edited with Mark Wastell.

 

 

Amy Evans McClure’s sculpture is widely collected and is exhibited in venues from the California Collage of the Arts to the San Francisco Zen Center, K Kimpton Contemporary Art, Oakland Museum, The Magic Theatre, Oakland International Airport, and beyond.  Her abstracted figurative work in clay reveals her deep feelings for the ancient and modern and is “enigmatic with a powerful particularity,” says poet and critic Jack Foley, who wrote that her sculpture
“...involves a deeper physicality and a tendency towards theatre...not a mirror of the people who come to see them. Rather, they seem to be emblems of another possibility.”  Recently, Evans McClure was awarded the comission to create the signature sculpture for The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri in the new Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.  She lives in Oakland with her husband Michael McClure.

 

 

Michael McClure is a leading figure among the Beat generation writers of the North Beach scene, and was one of the poets who read at the Six Gallery landmark event. His poetry features an extensive awareness of nature and the animal consciousness in human beings, combined with extensive awareness of contemporary biological research. A new collection, Mysteriosos and other Poems, is forthcoming. McClure is also noted for his spoken-word performances with Ray Manzarek of The Doors and with composer Terry Riley, and for his songwriting. McClure’s prize-winning plays have been produced widely, and he has also written fiction.

 

 

David Miller has published numerous books of poetry, fiction and essays, beginning with The Caryatids from Enitharmon Press in 1975. Recent publications include The Waters of Marah (Singing Horse Press, 2003 / Shearsman Books, 2005), Spiritual Letters (I-II) and other writings (Reality Street Editions, 2004), The Dorothy and Benno Stories (Reality Street, 2005) and In the Shop of Nothing: New and Selected Poems (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). He has compiled British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of ‘Little Magazines’, with Richard Price (The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2006). He is an Associate Editor of Poetry Salzburg Review, as well as one of the organisers of The Blue Bus, a poetry reading series based in London.

 

 

Jed Myers is a Seattle poet and singer-songwriter. He was chaotically chosen as editor of Tufts Literary Magazine in a previous century, and was guest co-editor for Chrysanthemum in this one. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in journals such as Fugue, Poetica, Drash, SnowMonkey, and StringTown, and on websites including Satya Center and Arabesques. He hosts NorthEndForum every Monday night in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood.

 

 

Poet, teacher and Chicago native Paul Nelson founded Global Voices Radio and co-founded the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPLAB!) in Auburn,Washington. He holds a B.A. in Communications from Columbia College and an M.A. from Lesley University in Organic Poetry. His poetry and essays have been published around the world in Dirt, The Argotist, The Raven Chronicles, Unlikely Stories, The Time Garden, Fulcrum, the OlsonNow blog and other publications, on and off-line and he has performed his work at a number of venues. A radio professional for 26 years, he has interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Robin Blaser, Wanda Coleman, Jerome Rothenberg, Joanne Kyger, Eileen Myles, George Bowering and other North American poets and uses sound from those interviews in poetry workshops, having facilitated more than 300. He is working on an epic poem re-enacting Auburn history titled A Time Before Slaughter. 

 

Lance Olsen is the author of nine novels, one hypertext, four critical 

studies, four short-story collections, and a textbook about fiction writing, as
well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. He is an N.E.A. Fellowship and Pushcart Prize  recipient, a Fulbright Scholar, and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist  for the Philip K. Dick Award. He serves as Chair of the Board of  Directors at Fiction Collective Two and as Associate Editor at The  American Book Review.  He teaches innovative fiction, fiction writing, and theory at the University of Utah.

 

 

Toby Olson is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, including Seaview, winner of the 1983 PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as more than twenty books of poetry. He has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and NEA fellowships.

 

Randy Polumbo: Artist, builder, and musician lives and works in NYC and Joshua Tree CA. He has work in the public collection of and an upcoming retrospective at the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento. Polumbo came to NYC in 1982 to study art at The Cooper Union and started making strange electronic assemblages out of found objects from the trash and home made parts.  Today much work is made of cast glass and metal elements fabricated in his downtown studio, electronics, solar panels, and sex toys of various sorts.  This saucy and environmental work has led to the first year ever of multiple police actions towards his product, and corporate sponsorship by both a high end vibrator company, and a rubber toy manufacturer.  Polumbo is working on a monumental installation to be permanently installed in downtown Joshua Tree, and bringing “Buttercup” on a world tour.  (She is now in Florida, and is scheduled to hit the shores of Manhattan this spring.) 

 

 

Joe Ashby Porter is the author of three novels and four collections of shorter fiction, including All Aboard: Stories (Turtle Point Press, 2008). His fiction has appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, and his awards include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with the commendation, “No writer of his gifted generation has shown greater daring or has earned higher praise.”  James Tierney’s magisterial “Against Despair: A set of approaches toward an initial critical appreciation of the fictions of Joe Ashby Porter” appears in Golden Handcuffs Review #6.

 

 

 

Meredith Quartermainís last book Vancouver Walking won the BC Book Award for poetry in 2006.  Two new books are coming out in 2008: Nightmarker from NeWest and Matter from Bookthug. With husband Peter Quartermain, she runs Nomados Literary Publishers in Vancouver.  

 

 

Peter Quartermain taught contemporary poetry and poetics at UBC for over thirty years and has written or edited numerous articles and several books, including Basil Bunting: Poet of the North and Disjunctive Poetics. With the English poet Richard Caddel he edited Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970, and, with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics.  He is currently writing his autobiography Where I Lived and What I Learned There: Part I: Growing Dumb the first chapter of which appears here.

 

 

Rob Stephenson’s most recent published project is dog, composed with Mikael Karlsson, released on Please MusicWorks.  Rob lives in Queens, NY.

 

 

Michael Thorp’s is an artist and writer, who in 1987 founded the journal and small press CLOUD. He was born in Malvern, England, in 1961, and now lives in Berwick upon Tweed. His other writings about David Miller’s work are: Breaking at the Fountain: A Meditation on the work of David Miller (Stride, Exeter, 1998) and A Shared Inherence: The Spiritual Letters of David Miller (Desert Garden Samizdat, Berwick upon Tweed, 2005).

 

 

Norman Weinstein’s latest book is No Wrong Notes, prose poetry. He writes about architecture, jazz, and poetry for a number of national publications.

 

Mark Weiss–art dealer, quondam filmmaker, psychotherapist and social worker, occasional teacher of writing, literature, history and psychology–has published five books of poetry, most recently Fieldnotes (1995), from his own imprint, Junction Press, and Figures: 32 Poems (Chax Press, 2001). “Different Birds” appeared as an ebook in 2004 (ShearsmanBooks, http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_home.html). He edited, with Harry Polkinhorn, the bilingual anthology Across the Line / Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California (Junction Press, 2002) and, with Marc Kaminsky,  Stories as Equipment for Living: Late Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (University of Michigan Press, 2007). He translated and edited Stet: Selected Poems of José Kozer (Junction Press, 2006) and Cuaderno de San Antonio / The San Antonio Notebook, by Javier Manríquez (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico: Editorial Praxis, 2004). His anthology The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry is forthcoming in 2009 from University of California Press.  He lives at the edge of Manhattan’s only forest.

 

 

 

 

 

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