Guests of Poetry Victims

Ian R. Dougherty

2011-01-07T13:17:00.000-07:00

My poems have appeared in the Denver Word Affiliate Anthology Louder Than Clouds, Metropolitan State College of Denver’s annual arts & literary magazine Metrosphere (2005-2006 Academic Year). I live in Denver, CO and am a co-founder of the Denver Mercury Café Poetry Slam. I have one collection of poetry No Known Style: Poems From The Asyulm (Sketch Publications, 2003) and two CDs of spoken word poetry Suicide Mechanic and like wet cement.

Elizabeth Ketrick

2011-01-07T13:11:00.000-07:00

I have a BFA in painting from the University of Tulsa, an M. Ed. in Secondary Art Education. I've been teaching Art 21 years in public education. I spent 10 years in theatre designing costumes in both Tulsa and NYC. I worked on Broadway on Cats and with the New York Shakespeare Festival along with several movies including Places in the Heart and Purple Rose of Cairo. I also worked on Eliah Kazan's play "The Chain" that was showcased in Stamford Conn. and ABC's production of Hamlet. the Philbrook shot was a digital picture that was color edited by me done on a small digital camera by Cannon. When I was playing with the color my intention was to get a fantasy like effect.

Amy Kohut

2009-07-30T01:46:00.001-06:00

visual flave

whackular

Christian Drake

2009-07-30T01:43:00.001-06:00

Famecast

Sheng Wen Lo

2009-07-04T04:21:00.002-06:00

Sheng Wen Lo on flickr

Sheng Wen Lo on JPG

Edward Wells II

2009-07-04T04:16:00.003-06:00

Edward Wells II is a writer displaced. Senior Editor at The Houston Literary Review. Registered to attend courses in Guadalajara, Mexico next summer to become certified to teach English as a foreign language. He plans to move to Mexico to co Author a book sometime after that.

Linda Kent

2009-06-12T05:02:00.002-06:00

New incarnation each lustrum. Untrained/unframed/intuitive/primitive/brute
artist...can't control the outcomes, I just follow the accidents. Sometimes
the magic works -- once in a thousand pictures.  I remember practicing
drawing with my eyes closed when I was little. Still do, the whole drawing
in 1 or 2 lines. Almost all I do is ink line drawings directly onto the page.  
Now trying color using my B&W drawings like coloring books.

(Very) High school in late 1960's-ʼ71: my amour was an art major at the
state uni so I hung out with artists, contributed to the local underground
comix (Girl Cartoonist !!) and art mag -- .. later modeled at art colleges,
listened to strolling profs critique student work as I stood immobile in
stress positions  (yes-- it is very painful, like burning lava amassed in
your knees) -- occasionally a prof'd come up, indicate a spot on, for
instance, my shoulder blade and cry "Look what's happening here!" --
as if a riot were breaking out on my clavicle.

Tarot cards :  Drew my own , now pho'shopping them; this 4 of Cups ,
ex..  I've learned tricks from pho'shop  filters. etc. that Iʼm  trying out in
originals so I can skip the computer.   ssA?  Computer art FX
supposed to imitate "real" art, not vice versa?

I travel/work globally. Hard-earned MA in Forensic Linguistics, teach
English my way -- just got back from a university post  in Beijing...
what a great incarnation that was! Rarely have sold art but for
puppets w/ Uncle Scam. Some painted puppet faces are on AMP
(http://pluginamp.com/network/image/tid/142);all look somehow 
traumatized.

I  write absurd/surreal short stories; speak and read Spanish: dream
of translating Javier Marias novels...next incarnation...

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

2009-06-12T05:00:00.000-06:00

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Dorien Grey

2009-05-01T04:56:00.001-06:00

If it is possible to have a split personality without being schizophrenic, Dorien Grey qualifies. When long-time book and magazine editor Roger Margason chose the pseudonym "Dorien Grey" for his first book, it set off a chain of circumstances which has led to the comfortable division of labor and responsibility. Roger has charge of day-to-day existence, freeing Dorien—with the help of Roger's fingers—to write. It has reached the point where Roger merely sits back and reads the stories Dorien brings forth on the computer screen.

It's not as though Roger has not had an uninteresting life of his own. Two years into college, he left to join the Naval Aviation Cadet program. Washing out after a year, he spent the rest of his brief military career on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean at the height of the cold war. The journal he kept of his time in the military, in the form of letters home, honed his writing skills and provided him with a wealth of experiences to draw from in his future writing. These letters can be seen as "A World Ago" at http://www.doriengrey.blogspot.com and will be appearing in book form in 2009.

Returning to Northern Illinois University after service, he graduated with a B.A. in English, and embarked on a series of jobs which worked him into the editing field. While working for a Los Angeles publishing house, he was instrumental in establishing a division exclusively for the publication of gay paperbacks and magazines, of which he became editor. He moved on to edit a leading L.A. based international gay men's magazine.

Tiring of earthquakes, brush fires, mud slides, and riots, he returned to the Midwest, where Dorien emerged, full-blown, like Venus from the sea. They've been inseparable (and interchangeable) ever since.

He . . . and Dorien of course…recently moved to Chicago, where they now devote full time to writing. After having published twelve books in the popular Dick Hardesty Mystery series, the western/romance/adventure novel, Calico, and awaiting the publication of the second book in his new Elliott Smith Mystery series, he is busily at work on yet another Dick Hardesty mystery.

But for a greater insight into the "real person" behind Dorien Grey, the curious are invited to check out his various blogs (Dorien Grey and Me at http://www.doriengreyandme.com , A Life in Photos at http://www.doriengreyphotolife.blogspot.com ) and The Poems of Dorien Grey, from which the accompanying poem is taken, and which is available as a download from GLB Publishers (http://www.glbpubs.com)

Michael A. Crowley

2009-04-10T00:56:00.000-06:00

The first picture I ever took was in the Navy Photo school, and while the rest of my naval trainings have been long forgotten, the photography has stayed.

I was born in the midwest and after much movement, have ended up here in Iowa, not far from Iowa City. I make my living working in Early Childhood, currently in an infant room- I get paid to crawl around on the floor with babies.

Except for those four years in the navy, I have never really used my camera to support myself. It felt like

I’d lose the love I had with light and dark to work commercially. My earliest work was all black and white, home processed, fine-art photography. I went digital about twelve years ago and started doing more color work, though my latest work is back to black and white. I like the lack of chemicals in producing images.

For me, taking pictures is a form of meditation, an enforced act of being present. To see the beauty, you must be there, you cannot be thinking of other times or places- you will miss the only life you have, going on around you. And beauty is everywhere . . . sometimes in the big picture (and most folks catch those moments,) but more often it’s in the fine details that are too easily missed if you are not living in that moment.

Check out Michael's work on AMP...

http://pluginamp.com/network/image/tid/472

Cindy Stell

2009-04-10T00:54:00.000-06:00

http://archive.cynicmag.com/archive.asp?articleid=563&cat=Cafe

Ed Baker

2009-03-14T04:01:00.001-06:00

Rob Geisen

2009-03-14T03:59:00.001-06:00

http://www.illiteratemagazine.com/

rob_geisen@illiteratemagazine.com

Robert King

2009-02-25T12:04:00.001-07:00

Robert King's poetry has recently appeared in Rattle and Louisiana Review. His first book, Old Man Laughing (Ghost Road Press), was a finalist for the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. He lives in Greeley, Colorado, where he directs the Colorado Poets Center (http://colopoets.unco.edu).His website is http://robertkingpoet.com

Amy Kohut

2009-02-25T12:01:00.001-07:00

http://visualflave.blogspot.com/

Pierre Francillon

2008-12-21T07:20:00.001-07:00

http://pluginamp.com/network/user/1473

Jan Oscar Hansen

2008-12-21T07:16:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Oskar_Hansen

Karen Douglass

2008-11-29T05:02:00.006-07:00

After many years living in Maine, I moved in 2007 to Colorado. I had hoped to move to Ireland, but circumstances and the falling US dollar changed that plan. I've settled in on the Front Range, and I love living here.

Check out Karen's blog...

kdsbookblog.blogspot.com

Michael A. Crowley

2008-11-29T05:02:00.005-07:00

The first picture I ever took was in the Navy Photo school, and while the rest of my naval trainings have been long forgotten, the photography has stayed.

Except for those four years in the navy, I have never really used my camera to support myself. It felt like

Check out Michael's work on AMP...
http://pluginamp.com/network/image/tid/472

Amy Kohut

2008-11-14T01:57:00.001-07:00

http://visualflave.blogspot.com/

Candace Byington

2008-10-22T04:49:00.001-06:00

The use of bright color is the thread that holds all of my art work together. The subjects and styles differ from the figure, Mexican folk art, flowers, sunsets and skeletons, from expressive, realistic and surreal. All of the pieces are united by vibrant colors. I have always been inspired by sunsets and sunrises and the effects of color under black light or UV. I have aspired to add the same glow to all of my artwork.

Candace’s art is heavily influenced by Mexican folk art, the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo, flower
paintings of Georgia O'Keefe, works of Edvard Munch and the woodblock cuts of the German
Expressionists. Her work explores the seven deadly sins, escapism, the solitude of the desert southwest, the glory and gore of ancient Mexico, the whimsical and macabre atmosphere of the day of the dead festival and the serenity of the sunset. Recentlty she has become obsessed with waterlillies. Candace has a BFA in Fine Art from Bowling Green State University. She is a graphic artist for Custom Deco LLC. Her work is drawing, painting printmaking and paper masks.

Michael Lira

2008-10-22T04:41:00.001-06:00

Thank you for this opportunity to submit 3 pieces of poetry. First I would like to say I have been writing for approximately 24 years, and I have always found it easier to write shorter pieces instead of novels. Time doesn't come packaged in brown bottles, and that is unfortunate...

I've been published, but mostly in the mid-90's and not so much since. Maybe you have heard of Twisted Nipples, Stretchmarks, Penny Dreadful Review, or Concrete Chaos. I wish I could say they were the platform for a life of debauchery, and writing poetry without interruption, but no.

I work at a detention facility that houses U.S. Marshal detainees. Though that job is very interesting at times, there is nothing like eating mushrooms from the garden of a muse and washing 'em down with red sangria...

Amy Kohut

2008-10-11T06:26:00.001-06:00

http://visualflave.blogspot.com/

Jared Smith

2008-10-10T06:56:00.001-06:00

http://www.jaredsmith.info/

Junanne Peck

2008-10-01T04:28:00.004-06:00

http://web.mac.com/junannepeck/Junanne_Peck/PECK_.html

Selected as a Texas Originals (TXO) Artist by the Texas Commission on the Arts

http://www.arts.state.tx.us/txoriginal/

Artist Statement:

My etchings explore the expressions of the various roles that women portray. The mystery, the glamour and the spirit of the female consciousness. Symbols of patience, nurturer and healer celebrating the mystical nature of the feminine spirit.

Most of my art career, I have spent painting. I was introduced to the printing process at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas. I was taken in by the simplicity of the lines and the clarity of the images. I fell in love with the process or what I call the ritual. The dance between the artist, the copper plate and the flatbed press.

Most of my Etchings are created on recycled copper. Some pieces have scratches and impurities before I start but this just adds a uniqueness of working with recycled materials.

Art is the vehicle I use to express the images that spring from my dreams and meditation, creating strength and health which can be drawn upon to bring greater happiness and contentment to our lives. Through my art, I am constantly trying to tap those hidden resources and communicate to the viewer of my work some of those feelings of joy and expansion.

Buddy Wakefield

2008-10-01T04:21:00.005-06:00

http://198.65.45.203/buddy/tour/index.php

http://www.junkyardghosts.com/

Janet Snell

2008-09-13T06:42:00.003-06:00

I studied painting with the late Ed Dugmore at the Maryland Institute
College of Art in the seventies, and make a living doing semi-realistic
portraits and expressionistic paintings. My most recent book,
co-authored with my sister Cheryl, is called Prisoner's Dilemma,and
will be out soon from Lopside Press. We blog at Scattered Light,

http://snellsisters.blogspot.com.

Jonathan Penton

2008-09-13T06:41:00.000-06:00

http://www.unlikelystories.org/biopenton.shtml

Debra Bretton Robinson

2008-09-06T06:53:00.000-06:00

Debra Bretton Robinson has been a resident of Chelmsford , Massachusetts for 8 years. She grew up in Plaistow, NH and received a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She also attended the New England School of Art & Design, now a part of Suffolk University in Boston. Debra works in acrylic on canvas and collage on wood. She has always been intrigued with architecture and how it can be manipulated in her paintings. Debra is a true colorist. She is unafraid to try new and bold color combinations in her work. Her main influences are Matisse, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel and of course, Noredin Morgan. She keeps these masters in mind when using color and light to overwhelm her canvases. Debra feels drawn to the past architecturally but uses the fresh colors of the Fauve’s for buoyancy into the future and present. Debra is participating in a group show entitled Mask at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA from 9/2/08 to 9/30/08 with a reception on 9/13/08. Please contact the 119 Gallery at www.119gallery.org for more info. Or contact her through her website at:

http://tinyurl.com/381htn

Donna Pecore

2008-09-06T06:52:00.000-06:00

Recent graduate Columbia College Chicago: on a whim and a wish to workshop initiated student organization “Poetry in the Round.” Accomplishments: First Place: 2006 Alma Stuckey Award. Publications: “Reservoir,” “Demo Four,” “Best of Chicago Poetry,” “Best of Chicago’s Open Mike, Volume II,” “Journal of Ordinary Thought,” “NCC Review,” “Poetry Victims” “Word 2 Word” installation. Homework tutor and teaches poetry: AIC Positive Paths afterschool program.

Michael A. Crowley

2008-08-29T05:42:00.004-06:00

The first picture I ever took was in the Navy Photo school, and while the rest of my naval trainings have been long forgotten, the photography has stayed.

Except for those four years in the navy, I have never really used my camera to support myself. It felt like

Melanie Simms

2008-08-29T05:41:00.003-06:00

I've been publishing routinely, and my first book, Waking the Muse, which was delayed, was released in late January. I have a readingset up this summer at Waldenbooks, and more thereafter.

My website is at www.poetmelaniesimms.net

Dafne Ann Wills

2008-08-20T03:23:00.001-06:00

http://pluginamp.com/network/image/tid/352

Edward Wells II

2008-08-20T03:21:00.002-06:00

Edward Wells II is currently living in Mexico.

http://pleasemagazine.awardspace.com/

Anna Maly

2008-08-09T06:24:00.002-06:00

I was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, where the regime insisted we all be alike, sing the same songs, wear the same school uniform, and buy the same furniture….We were not allowed to be unique, stand out, and express ourselves. Being different (read a bit more talented than others) could even get you in trouble. Suppressing one's artistic abilities was common. Talented artists were often reduced to painting portraits of the Leaders and various Communist party or war heroism scenes. By the mid 1980s it became okay to be an abstract artist but I already lost all the interest I had….That till I moved to the US seven years ago. I am very happy to finally be able to spread my wings and share my art.

http://www.anna-maly.com/

Michael Pacholski

2008-08-09T06:17:00.002-06:00

Michael Pacholski was born in 1968 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. He currently resides in Decatur,
Illinois.  In 2000 he received a masters degree in Creative Writing from Illinois State University. His
work has been featured in Comstock Review, PW review and other magazines.

http://gallery.poetshaven.com/singlepage.php?html=bookcontents.php&footer=1&section=21&page=94

Stephen Mead

2008-08-03T01:51:00.003-06:00

http://www.lulu.com/stephenmead

Ramdas Pawar

2008-08-03T01:50:00.000-06:00

Ramdas Pawar lives in Aurangabad, India.

Amy Kohut

2008-07-26T07:11:00.002-06:00

Amy Lives and works in Colorado.

http://visualflave.blogspot.com/

Bob Craig

2008-07-26T07:05:00.004-06:00

Bob Craig is a Philosophy professor at San Jacinto College, near Houston. He has written four chapbooks and has published poetry both in on-line and hard copy journals.

Peter Schwartz

2008-07-19T06:20:00.006-06:00

Peter Schwartz is an abstract painter with aspirations of taking over the entire Internet. In addition to having his artwork featured on over 80 websites, his paintings have appeared in such print journals as Existere, Orange Coast Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed, and International Poetry Review. His most recent exhibition was at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in NYC. He is an art editor for both Mad Hatters' Review and Dogzplot. His work can be seen directly at:

http://www.sitrahahra.com/