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M^{elancholia’s} T^remulous D^readlocks
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cover art: untitled by michal macku

	Jenna Cardinale is the author of Journals (Whole Coconut, 2006). Her poems appear in recent or forthcoming issues of nthposition, Kulture Vulture, Cannibal and Court Green, among others. She lives in New York, where she teaches poetry writing to children and adults. [Poems]
	Caleb Puckett lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He currently has work in Tryst, The Shore Magazine, The Onion Union, Otoliths, and a number of other publications. [Poems]
	Scott Keeney lives and works in Connecticut. His poems have appeared online at Can We Have Our Ball Back, Eratio, Milk, Shampoo, and elsewhere. [Poems]
	Glenn Bach’s work has appeared in such journals as Aught, The Argotist Online, foam:e, hutt, and Jubilat, and in future issues of Dusie and mprsnd. In addition to his work as a poet, he’s active as a visual/sound artist and curator. [Poems]
	Mary Kasimor has been published in numerous literary journals and has a book out entitled A Pure Bowl of Nothing, published by BlazeVox Books. She is a hardworking college instructor at a community/technical college. She’s offering a new class about American war literature, mostly because she’s so anti-war--and has always been. [Poems]
	Christine Hamm is working towards her PhD in English Literature at Drew University with a full scholarship. Her poetry has been published in many journals, including The Adirondack Review, Horseless Press, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry Midwest, MiPoesias, Rattle, Snow Monkey and Exquisite Corpse. In 2004, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader and The Murdering of Our Years: Artists and Activists on Making Ends Meet, both by Soft Skull Press. Her full-length book of poems, The Transparent Dinner, is due out from Mayapple Press in September '06. Christine is on the editorial board of several literary journals, including Vernacular. She teaches English at Rutgers University and poetry writing at Women's Studio Center in Queens, NY. Her chapbook, The Animal Husband, is available at www.dancinggirlpress.com, and her other chapbook, The Salt Daughter, can be purchased at www.littlepoempress.com. [Poem]
	Donald Illich has published poems in The Iowa Review, Fourteen Hills, and New Zoo Poetry Review. He has poems forthcoming in several journals, including Passages North, Nimrod, LIT, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Plainsongs, CrossConnect Magazine, Xavier Review, and Cold Mountain Review. He works as a writer in Rockville, Maryland. [Poems]
	Kudra Delaney lives and works in the hills of Upstate New York. [Poem]
	Pierre Joris is a poet, translator & essayist. Rain Taxi praised his  2001 collection Poasis for “its physical, philosophical delight in  words and their reverberations.” Since then he has published two  chapbooks of poetry (Permanent Diaspora and The Rothenberg  Variations) & A Nomad Poetics, a collection of essays. Recent  translations include volumes by Paul Celan & Pablo Picasso. With  Jerome Rothenberg he edited the award-winning anthologies Poems for  the Millennium. He received the 2005 Pen Award for Translation for Lightduress by Paul Celan (Green Integer). [Poems]
	Reb Livingston is the editor/publisher of No Tell Motel and No Tell Books.  She is the author of two  chapbooks, Pterodactyls Soar Again (Whole Coconut) and Wanton  Textiles (No Tell Books), a collaboration with Ravi Shankar. Her  poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2006,  Coconut, MiPOesias, Tool a Magazine and other publications. [Poems]
	Louise Landes Levi was born in NYC and is currently living in a stone tower in Bagnore, Northern Italy. Her books include Extinction (Woodbine Press, 1991),Guru Punk (Cool Grove, 1999) and Don't Fuck w. the Airlines (Il Bagatto, 2005), and translations of Henri Michaux, René Daumal and Mirabai. Recent work has appeared online in MiPOesias, Otoliths, and Big Bridge, and some of her Michaux translations can be found online at Long House Poetry. [Poems]
	Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College. Her poems have appeared in Antietam Review, Explosive Magazine, Mudfish, and Painted Bride Quarterly. They have also been hung from trees, used in library advertisements, made into rock songs,and sold in gumball machines. Her first full-length book, A Day in Boyland, is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press in 2007. Her website is http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall. [Poem]
	François Luong is a freelance translator currently living in Houston, Texas. His reviews and poems can be found in miPOesias, Spell, Syntax and Pebble Lake Review. He is also currently working on a translation of the Persian poet Esmail Kho'i. with help from Mehregan Oskooi. [Poems]
	Tomaž Šalamun is widely recognized as one of the leading Central European poets. He lives in Ljubljana and occasionally teaches in the US. His recent books in English are Feast (Harcourt, 2000), A Ballad for Metka Krašovec (Twisted Spoon, 2001), Poker (Ugly Dukling, 2004), Blackboards (Saturnalia, 2004), and The Book For My Brother (Harcourt, 2006). [Poems]
	Originally from Seattle, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, completed her MFA in poetics at New College of California in 2003 and recently moved to Brooklyn after teaching English in Japan for two years.  Her work has appeared in small press journals based in Canada, Ireland, England, and the U.S.  She blogs at http://qassandra.livejournal.com/ [Poems]
	Brian Boutwell doesn't get out much. But recently he has visited OCHO and has been featured on miPOradio's The Goodnight Show, twice. He also runs a boarding house, where he stays shut in making sure his tenants don't run off with any of the furniture or trinkets. [Poem]
	Lena Dunham is a student at Oberlin College, an intern at Soft Skull Press, and the editor of the online journal The Dead Horse Review. Her poetry is forthcoming in Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle and Saint Ann's Review. [Poem]

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