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ROSALIE CALABRESE, a native New Yorker and graduate of CCNY,  has a background in journalism, music administration, various aspects of theatre, and for the past several years has been a management consultant for the arts. In addition to promotional  materials, she writes poetry, short stories, and  books and lyrics for musicals. Her poems have appeared  in Cosmopolitan, Poetry New Zealand, Poetica, Jewish Currents, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, And Then, Möbius, Genie, Thema, Phoenix, The Mom Egg, The New York Times, Critical Sociology, Psychoanalytic Perspectives and several other publications, including anthologies and on the Web.

Michael K. Dorr is a playwright & short story writer; a veteran editor & former publisher; an educator who conducts poetry workshops in psychiatric hospitals and other venues; and the founder of the literary agency LitPub, Ink.  He is editing THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF BRAM STOKER and the co-editor of Miles On Miles: Interviews & Encounters with Miles Davis.  But he is first and always, a poet.

During his nearly fourteen-year publishing career Michael has published and worked with a wide array of writers and celebrities, including Debbie Harry, Richard Howard, Primo Levi, Arthur Miller, Willie Nelson, Barney Rossett, William L. Shirer, Nina Simone, Nick Tosches, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Mary Wilson of the Supremes.

In 1985 Diana Der-Hovanessian selected him to receive the Ruth Berrien Fox Young Poet’s Award from the New England Poetry Club (founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken).  In 1988 the Academy of American Poets awarded him its College Prize;


ANDREW SPANO is Academic Coordinator for the Master of Science in Professional Writing program and an assistant professor at NYU. He also teaches English, communication, and education at Northeastern University and The College of Westchester. He is a former New York City Teaching Fellow. His poetry, essays, fiction and journalism articles have been printed in dozens of magazines, newspapers and journals. He has an M.A. in literature from the University of Vermont, attended the M.F.A. program in writing at the University of Alaska, and earned a Ph.D. student in philosophy and media at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and New York City. He lives in BrooklyN.

His poetry and fiction has appeared in Death Panel, Roughwood Literary Journal, P2/Fort Point, The Endicott Review, The Pelham Parkway Times, The Emerson Review, Conifers, Heartland Magazine, Burlington Review, Milkweed Chronicle, and PKA’s Advocate, Bridge, Challenger International, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Down in the Dirt, Love’s Chance, Ceremony, Challenger International, Ceremony, Nut House, The Oak, Black Heart, and his work won Third Prize in the Artists Embassy International Sixteen Annual Dancing Poetry Contest in 2009.


ROBERT VISCUSI has published Astoria: A Novel (Guernica, 1995; American Book Award 1996), An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus (longpoem, VIA Folios, 1993), A New Geography of Time  (poems, Guernica , 2004), Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (critical history, SUNY Press, 2006; Premio Giuseppe Acerbi, 2008), and numerous essays on American literature and culture. His current project is an epic poem entitled Ellis Island,  currently appearing in parts. You can read random sonnets (skillions of them) based upon it at the website ellisislandpoem.com


Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990).  In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has read from his poems to a gathering of the Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City.

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