Magnolia
A Florida Journal of Literary & Fine Arts
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Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His brand new chapbook, From Which Place the Morning Rises is now available at http://www.lulu.com/ and can be purchased at http://www.lulu.com/content or http://stores.lulu.com/store. He also has 2 previous chapbooks available at: http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy. He is also the author of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore. He has been published in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fiji, Nigeria, Algeria, Africa, India, United Kingdom, Republic of Sierra Leone, Israel, Nepal, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Finland, and Poland internet radio. Michael Lee Johnson has been published in more than 280 different publications worldwide. Audio MP3 of poems are available on request.
He is also publisher and editor of four poetry flash fiction sites--all presently open for submission:
http://birdsbywindow.blogspot.com/
http://www.poetriclegacy.mysite.com/
http://atendertouch.blogspot.com/
http://wizardsofthewind.blogspot.com/
Author website: http://poetryman.mysite.com/
Donal Mahoney has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, Revival (Ireland), The South Carolina Review, Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Mid-America Poetry Review, The Davidson Miscellany, U.S. Catholic, The Goddard Journal, The Pembroke Magazine, The Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, The Common Ground Review, The Centrifugal Eye, The Road Apple Review and other publications.
Morris Kennedy "I'm a Florida native, and grew up in Leesburg. A lifelong journalist, I'm night city editor in Tampa for the St. Petersburg Times. My work has appeared in The Tampa Review, Blue Collar Review, Avatar Review, Muscadine Lines, Hidden Oak, Ruminate and elsewhere. Two poems were recently published in an anthology entitled Cadence of Hooves."
Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Mangrove, Maryland Poetry Review, Ohio Journal, Poem, Carolina Quarterly, and many other journals. He has authored two books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse, 2004), and The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006). His third collection, The Story of My Lives, is now at press. He has taught university English in the US, China, and the Palestinian West Bank.
Born in New York City in 1939, Lynn Strongin's name comes up
regularly in college classes as one of the most unique voices in
American poetry. Strongin has lived in British Columbia for more than
a quarter century, but considers herself a profoundly American writer.
During the 1960s, she worked with Denise Levertov amidst the lively
political environment of Berkeley, California. One of the great
imagist poets of the 20th century, Strongin's poetry and prose have
been published worldwide in over 70 print and online journals; she has
been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry five times.
Her book Albino Peacock: Tales of a Jewish Girl in the South will be
published in late 2008 alongside her latest book of poems, Cape
Seventy, nominated for the Griffin Award for Excellence in poetry.
Anthologized in 30 different volumes, her work is included in the
award-winning Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of
Emily Dickinson. She is the author of many books of prose and poetry,
including three recent books of poetry: Rembrandt’s Smock (Plain View
Press), The Girl with Copper Colored Hair (Conflux Press), and Wyves
of the Fire Dye (Last Heron Press.) She is also the editor of the
anthology The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy
(University of Iowa Press), and its companion volume, Crazed by the
Sun: Poems of Ecstasy. In her four-decade career Strongin has
received two PEN grants and an NEA award in creative writing.
Daniel Ames is originally from Wisconsin, where he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated with a degree in journalism. He is currently a creative director at a large advertising agency in Michigan. Daniel’s poetry has recently appeared in The Centrifugal Eye and Isle of Myst Review. His short fiction has been featured in Hand Held Crime and Orchard Press Mysteries. Daniel is currently seeking a publisher for his book of poems entitled “Feasting at the Table of the Damned.” You can
learn more about Daniel and contact him at www.poetdanielames.com
Chad Prevost is author of the collections A Walking Cliché Coins a Phrase: Prose Poems, Letters and Microfictions (Plain View 2008), and Snapshots of the Perishing World (Cherry Grove 2006), and the chapbook Chasing the Gods (Pudding House 2007). Chad’s work has been included in the recent anthologies Bear Flag Republic: California Prose Poems and Poetics, Come Together: Poems of Peace and Protest, and Family Matters: Poems of our Families. Chad has co-edited two anthologies, most recently, Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, and has served in various editorial capacities for The Chattahoochee Review, Five Points, New South, The Pedestal Magazine and Terminus Magazine. Chad has taught creative writing, composition and literature at Georgia State University, Georgia Perimeter College, Lee University and Dalton State College. He is Editor of C&R Press: www.crpress.org.
Africa Fine has published three novels, Looking for Lily (2008), Becoming Maren (2003) and Katrina (2001), along with short stories and essays in several print and online journals, including The Connecticut Review and Anthology. Her fourth novel, Save Me, will be published in July 2009. Africa is working on her fifth novel as well as a book of short stories. She graduated from Duke University with degrees in Public Policy Studies and African American Studies, and she earned an MA in English Literature from Florida Atlantic University. Africa currently is an Associate Professor of English at Palm Beach Community College.
Nanette Rayman Rivera, two-time Pushcart Nominee for non-fiction and poetry, is the author of the poetry collection, Project: Butterflies by Foothills Publishing and the chapbook, alegrias, by Lopside Press. She is the first winner of the Glass Woman Prize for non-fiction and has poetry on Best of the Net 2007. Her story, Puhi Paka, was best of issue in Greensilk Journal. She is the current featured writer in Up the Staircase. Other publications include The Worcester Review, Oranges and Sardines, MiPOesias, Carousel, Carve Magazine, The Berkeley Fiction Review, ditch, Prick of the Spindle, blossombones, The Wilderness Review, Pebble Lake Review, Mannequin Envy, Dirty Napkin, Pedestal, Lily, Wheelhouse, Stirring, Snow Monkey, Wicked Alice, Tipton Poetry Journal, Dragonfire, Arsenic Lobster, Three Candles, Offcourse, O Sweet Flowery Roses, The Smoking Poet, Velvet Avalanche Anthology, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Red River Review, Flashquake, A Little Poetry, DMQ Review, Her Circle, grasslimb, Barnwood, and Chantarelle’s Notebook. She’s written a memoir she’s shopping around to agents. Upcoming publications: Santa Fe Writer’s Project, Contemporary American Voices, Whistling Shade, Gold Wake Press and Motel 58.
Michael Hettich was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1953 and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. He has lived in upstate New York, Colorado, Northern Florida, Vermont and Miami, where he now lives with his family. He has published twelve books and chapbooks of poetry, and his work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies.
Michael Hettich is the winner of two Florida Individual Artists Fellowships. His book Flock and Shadow was selected as a national Book Sense Spring 2006 Top Ten Poetry Book and he received the Tales Prize for Swimmer Dreams in 2005. He is married to Colleen and has two children, Matthew and Caitlin. Michael's new chapbook, Many Loves, won the 2007 Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Contest. The book can be ordered at YellowJacketPress.org
Peter Schmitt is the author of four collections of poems, most recently Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books, 2007). He has received The "Discovery" Prize, The Academy of American Poets Lavan Award, and his work has been published in many leading literary journals and been widely anthologized. A native Miamian, he served in 2008 as a judge for The Florida Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in Literature.
A 6-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jéanpaul Ferro’s work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices, Columbia Review, Connecticut Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Long Island Quarterly, Bryant Literary Review, Portland Monthly, The Providence Journal, Arts & Understanding Magazine, Barrelhouse Magazine, Oregon Literary Review, Cortland Review, Hawaii Review, and others. His work has been featured on NPR’s This I Believe series, WBAR radio in NYC, and The Plaza’s Masterpiece series. He is the author of All The Good Promises (1994, Plowman Press), The Driver (1994, Thunder Mountain Press), Becoming X (2008, BlazeVox Books) and the forthcoming Hemispheres (2009, Maverick Duck Press). He is also a 2-time Best of the Net nominee. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island. E-mail at: jeanpaulferro@netzero.net
John Martino: “Believing that photography is a means to transform the world, not reproduce it, I aim to create images that function as works of fiction that suggest and entertain rather than document or confirm. My photos have appeared in Photographer's Forum, The Advocate, New Orleans Review, and can be found at www.johnmartinophoto.com.
Stephanie Colaianni is a graduate of Palm Beach Community College, where she contributed photography and prose for their newspaper, The Beachcomber She currently attends Florida Atlantic University and works as photo editor of the University Press.
Christopher Woods: “I have published a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. Other photographs of mine can be seen in my online gallery, Moonbird Hill Arts, which I share with my wife, Linda. I live in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas.”
Sandy Scott is the assistant editor of Magnolia, continuing her fine work after several years at Artistry of Life. A recent graduate of St. Leo University, Sandy intends to pursue a graduate degree in creative writing. For several years, her humorous prose was a regular feature in the glossy periodical, Ocala Style Magazine. Sandy is the Coordinator of the Office of Professional Development at Central Florida Community College. She serves as line editor for the magazine as well as the graphics arts/artwork editor.
Steven Joyce is an Associate Professor of German and comparative studies at the Ohio State University, Mansfield campus. He is a Fulbright scholar, has published a book on G. B. Shaw entitled Transformations and Texts as well as a number of poems in journals including Kimera, Hudson Review, Red River Review and Minimus. He has also published a number of articles on literary criticism.
Michele Wirt
has been a part of the visual arts faculty at CFCC since 1990. Her Master in Fine Arts is from the University of Florida with a dual emphasis in Studio and Art History. She is a figure and portrait painter with influences from jazz, Asian art and American realists and is exploring the field of digital media. Her class approach is grounded in traditional and classical but with an eye toward creative experimentation and students' individual growth. She has exhibited locally as well as in Harlem, N.Y., and Florence, Italy.
Jack Ledbetter is Professor Emeritus at California Lutheran University, and holds a B.A. from California State University, and an M.A. / PhD from University of Nebraska. His poetry has been published in The Sewanee Review, Poetry, The Prairie Schooner, Laurel Review, New York Quarterly, Salamander, Tar River Poetry, Atlanta Review, Cimarron Review, Measure, The Formalist, and others. Fiction publications include Rosebud, Inertia, The Mendocino Review, Bateau, Steam Ticket, Carriage House Review, Read This, and his nonfiction works have appeared in Under The Sun, River Teeth, Big Muddy, Lake Effect, Crosscurrents, Walt Whitman Review, and The Merton Seasonal.
Ramona RW Kirsch is a first generation American who, as a Bohemian, has lived all over the United States, in Europe and now travels the world for both business and pleasure. She is a Fulbright Fellow and has published poetry, prose, and academic articles, the most recent being “Text, Context and Sex: Gender Construction and Religious Identity in Robert Musil’s Unions,” spacesofidentity.net, The Canadian Center for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto. She has also had several photographs accepted in juried shows and is always looking for the candid ‘unstaged’ shot.
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