Writers

William Allegrezza teaches and writes from his base in Chicago. His poems, articles and reviews have been published in several countries including the U.S., Holland, the Czech Republic and Australia, as well as in several online journals. His chapbooks, e-books, and books include Lingo, The Vicious Bunny Translations, Covering Over, Temporal Nomads, Ladders in July, Ishmael Among the Bushes, and In The Weaver’s Valley. He is the editor of Moria Poetry, a journal dedicated to experimental poetry and poetics, and the editor-in-chief of Cracked Slab Books, which just released the The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. His latest book is Fragile Replacements (Meritage Press, 2007).

Becca Klaver attended the University of Southern California, where she entered as a screenwriter and left as a poet. Currently she is an MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago, where she is co-editor for Columbia Poetry Review. Becca is also a poet-in-residence for the Poetry Center’s Hands on Stanzas program.

Chris Glomski was born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1965. Raised in Illinois, he has also made his home in Iowa and Italy. His first collection of poems, Transparencies Lifted From Noon, was published last fall by MEB / Spuyten Duyvil Press in New York. His poems and critical writings have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Chicago Review, The Octopus, Pom2, and ACM. Recently, he has been translating poems by the Italian Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale.

Chuck Stebelton works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. He is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press). His work currently appears at Seven Corners and in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. Newer writing appears in recent issues of Kadar Koli and The Cultural Society.

Davis Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and author of Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan Reader (Spuyten Duyvil 2006), as well as co-author of the novel Abecedarium (Chiasmus Press, forthcoming) and co-editor of the collections Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto 2004) and The Exquisite Corpse: Creativity, Collaboration, and the World’s Most Popular Parlor Game (Nebraska, forthcoming). His creative work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and accepted by numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review Web, Exquisite Corpse, 3rd Bed, Other Voices, The Little Magazine, Gargoyle, and Happy. Dr. Schneiderman is Chair of American Studies and an Assistant Professor of English at Lake Forest College, a board member for &NOW: A Festival of Innovative Writing and Art, and a contributor to NOW WHAT: a collective blog of alternative prose writers and publishers (http://nowwhatblog.blogspot.com/).

Poet, translator, and new media artist Francesco Levato is the author of three books of poetry: Elegy for Dead Languages; War Rug, a book length documentary poem; and Marginal State. He has translated into English the books of Italian poets Tiziano Fratus, Creaturing, and Fabiano Alborghetti, The Opposite Shore. His work has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including Drunken Boat, The Progressive, Versal, and many others. His cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere.

Jennifer Scappettone’s current book projects include From Dame Quickly (poems), Locomotrix: Selected Poetry of Amelia Rosselli (translations from the Italian), Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern (a study of the obsolescent topos as crucible for modernism), and Exit 43 (an archaeology of the landfill and prosaic opera of pop-ups in progress, commissioned by Atelos). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), War and Peace, Volume II (O Books, 2005), Bombay Gin, Chicago Review, Drunken Boat, FourSquare, Jacket, PMLA, P-Queue, and Zoland Annual. She just moved to Chicago from Berkeley, Middletown, Brooklyn, and Sunnyside.

The Jimmy Wynn Ensemble is composed of Chicago writers Dale Barrigar, Michael Antonucci, and Garin Cycholl. The Ensemble’s previous work has appeared with Exquisite Corpse, Admit 2, and the Guild Complex Series.

Kerri Sonnenberg lives in Chicago where she directs the Discrete Reading Series at the Elastic Arts Space in Logan Square. Her books include The Mudra (Litmus, 2004) and Practical Art Criticism (Bronze Skull, 2004). Other writings can be found in recent issues of MiPoesias, Factorial, Magazine Cypress and Unpleasant Event Schedule.

Krista Franklin is a poet, visual artist and educator who hails from Dayton, OH, and currently works and resides in Chicago, IL. Her poems and art have appeared in/on several literary journals and websites, including Nexus Literary and Art Journal, Warpland, Obsidian III, nocturnes 2: (re)view of the literary arts, semantikon.com, milkmag.org, ambulant.org, and errataandcontradiction.org.She has also been published in the anthologies The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order and Bum Rush The Page, and is a Cave Canem alum.

Raymond L Bianchi lived for most of the 1990′s in Latin America in Brazil and Bolivia. A native of suburban Chicago and the child of Italian Immigrants, he worked in international publishing since 1996. His poetry has appeared or is upcoming in Antennae, Near South, Tin Lustre Mobile, 26, Moria, Red River Review, Sentence, Bird Dog, Literatura e Cultura and his essays have appeared in the Economist and the Financial Times. He is the section editor of the fall 2006 issue of Aufgabe, which includes a translation section of contemporary Brazilian poetry that he translated. His book book Circular Descent was published by Blaze Vox Press in 2004, and a chapbook, The American Master, was published by Moria Books in 2006. He is the publisher of Cracked Slab Books in Chicago and edits the website chicagopostmodernpoetry.com.

Ricardo Cortez Cruz teaches English at Illinois State University and is the author of the novels Straight Outta Compton and Five Days of Bleeding, compositions short and funky and with grooves as their only guide. He recently stitched together a third def(t) body of (s)language, Premature Autopsies: Tales of Darkest America, remixing and reconstituting himself as if his very lively ‘hood depended upon it.

Thea Goodman is a fiction writer. She has just completed a collection of stories, A Wife By Any Other Name. Her work has appeared in New England Review (Pushcart prize Special Mention, 2002,) Confrontation, and Columbia (Columbia Fiction Prize, 2005) among other journals and is forthcoming in Other Voices this fall. She is at work on a novel and teaches in the Writing Program at The Schol of the Art Institute of Chicago.