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Ikleftiko poetry
May 2014
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Ali Znaidi
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Bennett Durkan
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Changming Yuan
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Clinton Inman
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Duane Locke
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Felino A. Seriano
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Michael Crowley
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Patricia Farrell
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Thomas Walton
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Tim Suermondt
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Valerie Westmark
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Ace Boggess is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press,
2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). His
writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Atlanta Review, RATTLE,
River Styx, Southern Humanities Review and many other journals. He currently resides in
Charleston, West Virginia.
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia where he teaches English. His work has
appeared in Mad Swirl, Stride Magazine, Red Fez, BlazeVox, Otoliths, streetcake, &
elsewhere. His debut poetry chapbook Experimental Ruminations was published in September
2012 by Fowlpox Press (Canada) which also published his haiku chapbook titled Bye, Donna
Summer! in March 2014 . From time to time he blogs at – aliznaidi.blogspot.com and tweets at
@AliZnaidi.
Bennett Durkan is a graduate Stephen F. Austin, where he earned a MA in English. He has
poetry published in Psaltery & Lyre, The Red River Review, and FIVE2ONE Magazine. He
also won The Piney Scare fiction contest for 2013.
Changming Yuan, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009)
and Landscaping (2013), grew up in rural China, holds a PhD in English and currently tutors
in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press.
Since mid-2005, Changming's poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry
(2009;12), BestNewPoemsOnline, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and 839 other
publications across 28 countries.
Clinton Inman graduated from San Diego State University in 1977 with a BA in Philosophy.
He has been an educator for most of his life. He has been published in BlazeVox, Mouse Tales,
Journal, Warwick Unbound, and the Beatnik. He hopes to gather his poetry together and
publish a collection called ‘One Last Beat’.
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Duane Locke, PH. D, lives hermetically in Tampa, Florida near anhinga, gallinules, raccoons,
alligators. Has had published 6,859 different poems, none self-published or paid to be
published. This includes 32 books of poems.
Felino A. Soriano is a member of The Southern Collective Experience. He is the founding
editor of the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Differentia Press; in addition, he
is a contributing editor for the online journal, Sugar Mule. His writing finds foundation in
created coöccurrences, predicated on his strong connection to various idioms of jazz music.
His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology, and
appears in various online and print publications, with recent poetry collections including
Mathematics (Nostrovia! Poetry, 2014), Espials (Fowlpox Press, 2014), and watching what
invents perception (WISH Publications, 2013). He lives in California with his wife and family
and is the director of supported living and independent living programs providing supports to
adults with developmental disabilities. Links to his published and forthcoming poems, books,
interviews, images, etc. can be found at www.felinoasoriano.info.
Michael Crowley is a poet and playwright who has been writer in residence at HM YOI
Lancaster Farms for the last six years. His first pamphlet of poetry Close to Home, published
by Prolebooks in May of 2012, is in the words of Sarah Hymas, “an invitation to experience
life elsewhere, in another skin.” As a playwright he has written for stage and radio, most
recently The Cell, which was developed with staff and prisoners at Lancaster Farms for
Manchester’s 24:7 Theatre Festival and went on to Bolton Octagon, the Unity Liverpool as
well as a production in Australia.
Patricia Farrell is a poet and visual artist. She co-organised the SubVoicive reading series in
London and was a member of the arts group New River Project. She has collaborated with
other writers, artists and musicians on a range of projects and publications. Her work is
published in magazines and collections, as well as individual pamphlets. She completed a PhD
thesis in 2011 on poetic artifice in philosophical writing. Her collection, The Zechstein Sea,
was published by Shearsman Books in 2013.
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Thomas Walton’s work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Bombay Gin, and Delmar. He lives in
Seattle and works in construction.
Tim Suermondt is the author of two full-length collections: TRYING TO HELP THE
ELEPHANT MAN DANCE ( The Backwaters Press, 2007 ) and JUST BEAUTIFUL from
New York Quarterly Books, 2010. He has published poems in Poetry, The Georgia Review,
Blackbird, Able Muse, Prairie Schooner, PANK, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine
(U.K.), and has poems forthcoming in Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, Plume Poetry Journal
and North Dakota Quarterly, among others. After many years in Queens and Brooklyn,
he has moved to Cambridge with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
Valerie Westmark graduated from Samford University with a Bachelor's in English and a
concentration in creative writing. She has been published in Samford
University’s Sojourn and Wide Angle, the Wilderness House Literary Review, The Southern
Voice, The Wayfarer and Sleet Magazine. She currently resides in Pensacola, FL.
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