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My name is yrdog4now. Admittedly it is not
what my father calls. Nor for that matter
what my sons call me. Not only that, but
what my sons call me is not what my father
calls me. This may explain why I do not have
a statue of dad on my lawn.

I attended Bard college where upon entry
I submitted my poems to an incredibly huge
poet who the school was bust out proud to
have on the faculty. He was a big poet and
he was a huge person. The chair he sat on
could not be seen when he sat on it. It
struck me as a compelling form of tenure.
In any case, he handed me back my poems
and said "you can't be serious". I was
crushed by that 450 lb opinion and didn't
write a poem for quite some time.

I've recovered of course. I now have children,
a mandolin, and a few friends. Oh, and a lawn
of all things. It is, of course, anyone's guess
if what I now scribble ought be considered
poetry. To quote Sam, "I can't go on, I'll go on."

So I do. And you can call me Otis if that helps.

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Leave it to Beaver - a lost episode

The Beaver is picking over a plate of watery mashed potatoes. They are lumpy, some of the lumps are dark w/rot. His stomach hurts. Ward is raving about Work. He's a nuclear engineer. He makes weapons. The politics, the back biting, his evil co-workers. "Bastards! ... SOBs!" he mutters between mouthfuls of rubbery meat loaf. He raves on & on heating the kitchen w/his thick breathe. He stomps out - to the living room to sit in his Chair - plops down. Ward is 6'5" tipping 325 lbs. As he gets larger, Chair - grey corduroy, high arms - sinks lower. Ward watches TV, reads detective novel after detective novel stacked on the floor or sometimes does Work. There are piles of Work all through the house. Piles June is forbidden to touch or clean, as if she would.

June Cleaver leaves next, leaves the table - congealed food, dirty dishes. She goes to her room upstairs. There she takes eleven Seconals, eleven the magic number for sleep, washes them down w/six or seven glasses of sweet wine. She waits an hour for maximum effect, then takes position at the top of the stairs. It is her turn to rave. She does. Ward ignores her. She turns her attention to the Beaver. " ... stay away from that Eddie Haskell ... that ... that ... little faggot! ... & stay away from those Catholic girls ... they'll just give you babies ... want nothing else ... like those damn Kennedys ... some President ... I WISH HE WAS DEAD!" "HE IS DEAD YOU FUCKING IDIOT!" screams Ward. As if on cue June swan dives down the stairs, lands in a heap at the bottom, not even hurt. The Beaver goes to his room. He finds it profoundly disturbing the sight of his mother on the floor - dress hiked-up, legs akimbo. She watches him go up. "The boy is growing" she thinks w/a leer.

The Beaver passes Ward's room, a vast unmade bed, sheets yellowed, shit stained. He grabs a book from a huge pile or from various boxes. The Beaver likes to skim read Ward's books, look for the dirty parts, masturbate. Since June moved to the guest room Ward's books have contained more & more dirty parts. Sometimes just the cover is enough for the Beaver. One of his favorites a woman tied to a chair. In bra, panties, stockings w/garters. Her legs are tied apart. She's looking up in terror, fascination at - in close foreground - the hairy hand of a man holding a huge syringe - drop of liquid oozing from it's needle tip. Does the trick every time. Now he has picked "Ulysses" by James Joyce. A strange book, yet he is actually reading it. Outside - sky black, Metzger's Field white crusted ice blown free of loose snow, chill knife of wind howling, rattling the frosted storm windows. The Beaver thinks of death as this - a wind through endless winter night. He looks up at the bed next to his. Wally isn't there. Never was - never will be. The Beaver doesn't know a Wally, never fought a pillow fight. The storm windows rattle, he reads on ... it is close to morning ... he is reading Molly Bloom's soliloquy ...bill

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Michael Basinski is the Assistant Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo.

His poems, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including: Proliferation, Terrible Work, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, Boxkite, The Mill Hunk Herald, Yellow Silk, The Village Voice, Object, Oblek, Score, Generator, Juxta, Poetic Briefs, Another Chicago Magazine, Sure: A Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Newsletter, Kiosk, Earth's Daughters, Atticus Review, Mallife, Taproot, Transmog, B-City, House Organ, First Intensity, Mirage No.4/Period(ical), Lower Limit Speech, Texture, R/IFT, Chain, Antenym, Bullhead, Poetry New York, First Offence, and many others.

For more than twenty years he has performed his choral voice collages and sound texts with his intermedia performance ensemble: The Ebma, which has released two Lps: SEA and Enjambment.

His books include: Idyll (Juxta Press, 1996), Heebee-jeebies (Meow Press, 1996), SleVep (Tailspin Press, 1995), Vessels (Texture Press, 1993), Cnyttan (Meow Press, 1993), Mooon Bok (Leave Books, 1992) and Red Rain Too (1992) and Flight to the Moon (1993) from Run Away Spoon Press.

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Jim Chandler's work has appeared in numerous literary and college magazines and newspapers during the last 35 years.

His latest chapbook, The Word Is All There is from Mt. Aukum Press.

Chandler's poetry appears in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, a 685-page anthology published by Thunder's Mouth Press in October, 1999.

Chandler lives in Mckenzie, Tennessee and works in journalism and web development

He was editor and publisher of  Thunder Sandwich magazine  in the eighties and currently operates an online version of that magazine.

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I have vague memories about the 49 years that led me to this spot in time, and I can only paint bits of whatever it was from time to time in the poetry that appears here. I remember that when asked what I wanted to be as a child, I would retort, "a cartoon character". I thinks that I have quickly approached that status while spending time in VP's Excite community.(yes, at Ninians Poetry Cafe). I bounce off the walls there as "climbmax".

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YO! I live almost anywhere from Philadelphia to L.A. and I keep up with the rest in between. also, I maintain the royal titles of editor/publisher/poet/columist/webmistress of the HOLD e-zine, plus I design web sites and I pretend to be a poet.
unlike others, my poetry and other stuff I write is unlike others. you swim inside my mind and see what it's like...my stuff has appeared in  the HOLD, Thunder Sandwich,  PoetikLicense and Poetry Central and in places no one would dare crawl into or out of. I have not banned catholic organizations or the frail of explicit language from my website. chapbooks available: "in the midst of erected poems" and "Smell ME-1."
don't ask, I'm just  "here"  for some odd reason!

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Dancing Bear lives in the San Francisco bay area. His poems, art interviews, reviews and photographs have been published in many journals, including New York Quarterly, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Slipstream, Rio Grande Review, Pearl, Poetry Motel and Nerve Cowboy. He is Editor-In-Chief of the on-line magazine Disquieting Muses (disquietingmuses.com) and the 1999 winner of the Mindfire Chapbook Contest for his manuscript Blue Hand, later this year a chapbook Atlas (Red Fruit Press) will be released. Dancing Bear is the host of a weekly poetry show "Out of Our Minds" for public supported KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA.

Mitakuye oyasin (All my relations),

-Dancing Bear
• Editor-in-Chief, Disquieting Muses
http://www.disquietingmuses.com

• Host of FM91.5, KKUP's "Out of Our Minds"
http://www.kkup.com
• Dancing Bear's Lair:
http://www.hooked.net/~bear

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founder, editor, poet, columnist for the ho!d...
dAev grew up in the slums of Calcutta selling handmade gourd rattles to tourists for pinto beans. Later he migrated to America on the back of a giant sea turtle. Then, one day, he decided to start The HOLD, and the rest is pretty much history.

the pipe is calling...

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Dickens. Born illegitimate when it was shameful, son of a WWII marine who, missing in action, turned back up--for one night, at least. Thanx, Dad. Mom was Rosie the Riveter at aircraft plant in Wichita, KS, then became Lois the Dominatrix long before any of us heard of the word. Enormous physical abuse, but at least she didn't charge. Reform school at 16 (bank robbery, car theft, assault, B&E), 17th birthday in solitary confinement. Successful escape, meaning the bastards never caught me. Higher education at various colleges and universities, including Kansas University as well as studying Hawaiian and Japanese languages in Honolulu. English Major. 26 or so years in Honolulu, 3 in Vancouver. Taught English in Japan. 3 great kids, 1 of whom still loves me. Hopeless drunk, currently sober. Homeless. Dharma Bum. Damn good poet. Kinky, too.

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• Subject:  Dolomite
• Name:  Unknown at present
• E-mail:  BKDolo10@aol.com
• Age:  CXXVI in dog years
• Turn-Ons:
  • Porn, Humor and good food
• Turn-Offs:
  • Bad Taste, Religious fanatics that go door-to-door, Idiots, Jerks, Prejudice (except against Catholics and the French)
• Plans for Future:
  • Become President, breed either flying cat or walking bat (bat + cat somehow), play golf drunk, masturbation

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• Born:  Wichita Falls, Texas - 1952
• Raised:  Denver, California, Kansas
• Home:  New Orleans
• Occupation:  Immigration Lawyer
• Edu:  Troy State U., Univ. of Alabama Law School

Writing - 6 plays:

• "The Pollster" (Semi-finalist, Southern Playwright's Competition 1993).
• "The Ghost of Jean Paul Sartre Visits an Alabama Convenience Store" (1994);
• "The Focus Group" (Performed 1994 Dramarama Festival New Orleans).
• "A Man of His Times" (Performed, 1995 Dramarama Festival, New Orleans)
• "The Hat", performed 1998 Freeport McMoran Theatre, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center;
• "Double Espresso"; Staged Reading scheduled for October 1999 at C.A.C.

Music:

• Numerous Musical Compositions, including "The Fantomas Waltz" and "HOY!", composed for film: "F",
• Clementine Productions, Hollywood California, Howard A. Rodman Writer/Director, starring
• Terrence Stamp, Produced by Laurie Parker.

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steven is an ohio native who has moved south to athens, ga where he writes poetry, plays guitar, and swings a hammer for a living. now that the dust has settled from a life of emotional bloodloss he has started over at the ripe age of 29 and can be seen from miles away as a single flower growing atop mountainous pile of shit...

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Born in Buffalo NY. Educated at S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo with a degree in oil painting. Grew up between two steel plants and a toxic waste dump. The only polak in an all Irish neighborhood. Home sweet home. Expected to make steel. Not to think. Never made steel. Still waiting to think. Too much lead in the drinking water. Will wait some more... Currently living happily in Melbourne Florida with a wife and two children...

Pitching Twisted Coins
In the Corners of Twisted Smiles
a new chapbook by jeff
orders: non compos mentis press
240 thompson avenue
east liverpool, OH
43920

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maryville mo.

J.N. Foster is the author of four chapbooks of poetry. His most current is titled EVE, and is about looking at the ancient and modern world thru the eyes of the first woman. He is heavily influenced by Joni Mitchell and Theodore Roethke. Sexuality and spirituality play a big part in his writings. He has a selection of the EVE poems coming out in Wordwrights Magazine and has selections coming out in Grasslands Review and The university of Wyoming's Owen Wister Review. He lives in Missouri with his wife and daughter.
I hope soon to have a website of my own.. In the meantime my work can be seen at: Club Photo and enter jpk@asde.net under Member Albums

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psgates' poetry  is  her bio

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Goo has the gaul to advertise his whereabouts. he is a troubled individual who brags about Iowa as if he lived there. he has dabbled in various drugs for years which has most likely effected his brain. he is going through a divorce and looking to get laid. goo's family has read his online body of work and most of them will no longer talk to him anymore. for this, he is most grateful. his life-long dream is to destroy the earth, which makes him highly qualified as submissions editor of the ho!d.

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Michael Hathaway founded  Chiron Review  literary magazine in 1982 at the age of 19. Michael Hathaway is 38 and lives in St. John, KS with at least 12 cats (maybe more) and works part-time as a librarian at the Goodman Library. He has published seven chapbooks and has had more than 300 poems published in small press literary journals. He has edited and published Chiron Review since 1982. He has worked as a typesetter, personal care assistant for the mentally disabled, society editor for daily newspaper and many other odd jobs. This is his first e-zine publication, as far as he knows. He's been published in Atom Mind, Pearl, Gypsy, Blank Gun Silencer, Nerve Cowboy, Medicinal Purposes, Waterways, Cat Fancy and most recently in the anthologies: A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry (Barricade); Obsessions: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Memoirs (Penguin), using the pseudonym Jeremy Michaels; and Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse.

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Haze McElhenny
524 S Bergen Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone 610-868-5097
Poetry On Black Vinyl
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     Mentored since the age of 14, by reknowned artist Randolf Rabenold, Haze McElhenny is a professional artist and practicing poet for more than 18 years. She lists her muses as nature, love and the avant-garde addiction and has been influenced heavily by VanGogh, Cezanne, and Matisse. Her art history education continues under a self-study program. Haze's artwork is part of the permanent collection at legends TRADITIONS & friends, a gift gallery in Bethlehem Pennsylvania and featured in a solo exhibition at the Impecunious Gallery in Kent, Ohio through January 31st, 2000.

     "Summer Dreams" ( a digital rendering by Haze) is currently on display in Malaga Spain at MAC21(1999 and 2000). In April of 1999 She was invited to show at Bennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporania in Florence Italy. Financial restrictions prohibitted the artist from showing, but she has been invited back for 2002. Haze plans to attend and display her work at this prestigious international event.

     Haze resides in Bethlehem, PA with her husband, photographer Don Cerrato. Her artwork, illustrations, and poetry have been published at WebStatic, Cherry Sucker, Rogue Scholars, Wilmington Blues, A Writers Choice, The Ho!d, MoonDance and Thunder Sandwich.
     Haze designs the ho!d's t-shirts, mugs and mousepads and are available at the The Ho!d's Arsenal Of Cool Stuff!

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John Heckman currently enjoys reading the poetry of Sharon Shahan, sculpting in metal arts, and playing in the Chesapeake Bay. He has been published and has pending work in these e-zines: Samsara, Supralurid, Poetry Magazine, La Petite Zine, Purr, Thunder Sandwich, and NYCPoetry.

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Donna Hill lives in British Columbia, Canada with her three sons. She has been seriously writing poetry for just over a year now, drawing much of her writing style for realism from life around her, her family, and her work as child educator. Donna's poems have appeared in print locally, One Dog Press out of Ca., Niederngrasse from Switzerland, and are published online by a number of web-zines, including Thunder Sandwich, Free Zone Quarterly, Writer's Choice, and Poetry Magazine.com. Her first chapbook entitled "Love & Other Mysteries" is available online at Thunder Sandwich Productions.

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Scotts' authored 9 poetry books. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines in 26 countries and 5 languages, including journals such as The Minnesota Review, Hawaii Review, Wisconsin Review, Kiosk, Chiron Review, Long Shot, Exquisite Corpse, Textual Studies in Canada, Pacific Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arkansas Review, Lullwater Review, and Southern Review.

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JOHN HULSE 723 • Longfellow Rd. • Anderson, IN • 46011
home: (765) 643-3606 • email: jhulse@iquest.net

     I am a published author of five books the latest being From the Beats to the B-Sides by (Allisone Press 1999). Teachable Movies for Elementary and Middle School Classrooms (Phi Delta Kappa International 1998). My short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in more than two hundred magazines including Cinemagazine (Japan), Global Tapestry, Crescent Moon (England), Beneath the Surface (Canada), The Sporting News, Rant, The New Press andTrue Love (NY), Japanophile (MI), Deep, Chaminade Literary Review (HI), Touchstone (WI), Libido (IL), Eidos (MA), Catharsis (CA), Catalyst (GA), Phase and Cycle (CO), and Notre Dame Press, (IN).

     My work has also appeared in 25 anthologies including, "Mythic America: An Anthology of New American Poetry" (Crescent Moon--England) and translated into three languages. My work has also appeared with Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Alan Ginsberg, William Safford, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I am also a featured poet in the 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 editions of The Poet¹s Market. I have also published two books of poetry Somewhere West of the Fields (The Plowman 1992) and Union Dreams (Plop lop Press 1996) and have received awards from The Bay Area Poets Association and The Southern Writer¹s Association.

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APB: Allison Inaba. Last seen alive and well in San Mateo, California. Considered heavily armed with poetry and dangerous.

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Shane Jones: Is from upstate New York and has had work published in numerous journals in print and online including(some of the following are forthcoming): Happy Hour, Pith . . ., Supralurid, Ygdrasil, The Blue Review, Thunder Sandwich, Unlikely Stories, Poems Niederngasse, Crimson Leer, Conspire, Threads, Mefisto, Poetry Super Highway, Quasar, The Step Ascending, Vis-a-Septic, ArtVoice, )ism(, Sniffy Linings Press, Comrades, The Caffeine Addict and The Mind's Eye. He finished 3rd in the Ground Zero Literary Project, is on the board of reviewers for The Blue Review, and has a first chapbook of poems 23 poems out by Phony Lid Publications(L.A California). He is also the assistant editor for a future print zine which is now accepting submissions. The 20 year old poet attends the Universtiy at Buffalo.

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Shannon Michele Johnston kicks it in Northern California (somewhere near Jim Carrey) with her husband Dale and her five children. She has no MAJOR police records and is currently working as a Domestic Diva, an Art Docent (look the word up, it means cheap labor-as in free) and pretends be a starving artist...please send donations..

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Lewis LaCook was born in Lorain Ohio on November 5, 1970, making him a Scorpio. At fifteen he joined the Black River Poets, and had his first published poems appear in their review. Leaving the group in his early twenties, he wrote features for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, and the Lorain Journal. He is currently an undergraduate English major at Kent State University.
      His poetry has appeared in  LOST AND FOUND TIMES, WORLD LETTER, POTEPOETTEXT, POTEPOETZINE, WHISKEY ISLAND, LUNA NEGRA, ARIEL, BLACK RIVER REVIEW, THE COVENTRY READER,  etc.
     Lewis is working on a long collaborative e-mail poem called OUTSIDE THE BOTHER OF SUNLIGHT with Sheila E. Murphy and a collective text called UTOPIA which features several authors, among whom are Murphy, Thomas Lowe Taylor, and John Cone.

      Editor of the e-zine IDIOLECT, Lewis lives in Kent, OH.

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Name: Bracelets_HELL....~JaMIE...t0 thoSE ..wh0..shaRE theyre Cigs...alalallalaaa)_+ Grew up in the TRenches 0f NeW~YorK CiTY....Where i,,,Developed ...a...senSE..FoR__(((( PaIN)))=(strongley advise anyone to stay away from cellars)~~__Started Writing At Age 4yrs=When singing newest peom in caR~mommy SAid!!==Shad up...I'll ..?~_. *I now livE in..Gutter oF miami=South=Beach+...And do_*Sing*...and..they still say...SHaD~UP..alallallalla* +my peotry is true crimes true things as are my songs+ +if youR in miami__finD,,mE...in,,,a muSic,,cellar....Bangin mY guitar+ ~~oh yea,,,,im,,a Chic...heeee...31 yrs old....~~~BuT!! 700yrs VAmpyRE..*...non-re-flective*__)_+(~_C-ya-Be-Well-_"anYone got a cig?...? Type 0f Poetry:____SLidin___

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Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, publisher of over 2,000 poems in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander, author of 14 books of poems, his latest being WATCHING WISTERIA (to order see www.vidapublishing.com or call Small Press Distribution-1-800-869-7553), cyber-poet, since Sept 1, 1999 has had 530 acceptances by online zines, photographer, listed in PSA's WHO'S WHO as one of the top twenty nature photographers, painter, currently having a one-man show of over 30 painting at the Pyramid gallery in Tampa, winner for poetry of the Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charles Agnoff, and Walt Whitman awards, now lives alone and isolated in the sunny Tampa slums.
     Duane lives estranged and as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language, some form of postmodern English, of his surroundings. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police who put up bright orange and yellow posters on each post to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs. His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy.

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BEFORE IT'S LIGHT which just won a Paterson Award Lyn Lifshin has written more than 100 books and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the U.S.A., and her work has been included in virtually every major anthology of recent writing by women. She has given more than 700 readings across the U.S.A. and has appeared at Dartmouth and Skidmore colleges, Cornell University, the Shakespeare Library, Whitney Museum, and Huntington Library. Lyn Lifshin has also taught poetry and prose writing for many years at universities, colleges and high schools, and has been Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. Winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off, Lyn is the subject of the documentary film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. For her absolute dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for managing to survive on her own apart from any major publishing house or academic institution, Lifshin has earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Presses." She has been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders has seen her as " a modern Emily Dickinson."

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     I am a software exec. and I do secret internet foo. I live near Boston, Massachusetts and spend a lot of time in San Francisco.
     I began writing poetry a few years ago in a brave but ultimately feckless attempt to stave off a canonical entrapment breakdown. I sometimes write with a pseudonym: Yorick_Nixon. I also write music and play musical instruments. I was a member of Boston noise band Inner Beauty and San Francisco improv combo Senator Buchanon. With the members of Inner Beauty I co-authored a pre-web internet published dystopic novel entitled "Skunk Angst".
     Any spare time I have I read Shakespeare or listen to Bach. Bach seems to be the one thing all nerds agree on. I've lost touch with my culture. Though my friend Janet has turned me onto Cat Power. My only firmly held cultural belief is that Chan Marshall of Cat Power is kind of a babe.

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Michael McNeilley co-edits Zero City, with JJ Webb; was Founding Director of the National Student News Service; worked as a reporter and correspondent in Washington, DC; and has published hundreds of poems and stories in magazines such as New York Quarterly, New Delta Review, Poet, Chicago Review, Oyster Boy Review, Cross-Connect, Sonoma Mandala, Hyphen, Minotaur, Slipstream, Cafe Review, Pink Cadillac, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, Plazm, DAM, Lilliput Review, Boulliabaisse, Writers' Forum, Green Fuse, Rockford Review, Mississippi Review, God's Bar Unplugged, Impetus, Tight, xib, Penny Dreadful, Exquisite Corpse, Atom Mind and elsewhere, including websites worldwide.

McNeilley's new book, Situational Reality, is available from Dream Horse Press, San Jose, CA; write bear@hooked.net

zines:

• Zero City
• Earth Sucks

Other Websites:

• Situational Reality
• 10 by mcn
• 12 Poems
• We're All Dead and This is Hell

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born/raised buffalo, new york and one of our highly qualified submissions editors of the ho!d

Publisher/Editor Credits

• Rebel's Advocate #1-6 (1995-1997)
• Co-Editor of "The Ho!d" (e-zine)

Press List/Bibliography Zines

• Rebel's Advocate #1-6 (1995-1997)

  Titles by Jay Miner.

• The Dirty Soul Diary Project - 1996 (chapbook and audio cassette)
• Fading Distant Car Sounds - 1997
• Scatalogical Humor - 1998
• The Exploding Season - 1998
• Nightmares, Daydreams, and Delusions of Grandeur - 1999

All titles by Jay Miner and Rebel's Advocate housed at SUNY Buffalo Library

"The Internet Email Web Page Conversations" (1999)
    (Collaberative Writing Experiments Series)

"Sex, Religion, Politics, and a pair of crusty Tweezers." by Jeff
    Filipski and Jay Miner

"Trainspotting: The Musical" by Dianne Gilleece and Jay
     Miner

"The losers and the insane" by Jeff Filipski and Jay Miner

"Mike Basinski on Foodservice" by Mike Basinski and Jay
     Miner

Web Site

• High Speed Humor at a Temperature Not So Tender (4/2000 - 2nd Installment)

Reviews

• Rebel's Advocate: Nightlife, Basinski A Zine of the Arths
  
• Rebel's Advocate: Nightlife, Basinski A Zine of the Arths
  
• Dirty Soul Diary Project Chapbook: Basinski A Zine of the Arths
  
  
• Dirty Soul Diary Project (Audio): Basinski A Zine of the Arths, Flavir, Buffalo News Local record Pick of the Week, Boxhead Catalogs 1-2, Small Press Collective
  
  
• Showplace Theatre Gig: Buffalo News, Nightlife
• 3b's gig: (Buffalo Farewell): Buffalo News
• Nightmares, Daydreams, And Delusions of Grandeur: Lucid Moon, Fall 1999

Gigs

• 3b's
• Mohawk Place
• Showplace Theatre
• Stimulance
• SUNY College @ Bflo
• Topic Café
• Marquee

Art Shows
     (Collabertions w/ Buffalo Visual Artist Erinn McElhaney)

• 3b's
• Topic Café

Commissioned Readings

• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, March, 1999

Publications

• Boxhead Records Compilation CD (1997), Boxhead Records, Lancaster, NY
• Wooden Head Review, Mark Hartenbach, Ed., E. Liverpool, OH, Issue #7 (1998)
• Fuck!, Lee Thorn, Ed., Tuscon, AZ, 10/99, 1/00, 2/00, 5/00
• Electronic Publications/E-zines
• The Ho!d

  Pending Pubs
  
  

• Lucid Moon
• Earspank
• Lime Green Bulldozer
• Mindfire Journal (e-zine)

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"My name is Nicholas Morgan. I live in Texas, but have lived all over. I like to smoke, drink, and write..."

published credits:

Driver's Side Airbag | Budget Press | Exquisite corpse | the Adirondack Review
Anti Hero Art | Progress | Bardo Burner | Fiction and Poetry society | the ho!d
Unlikely Stories | Saga | Tales from the Vault | Carved in Sand | Physikgarden
3 A.M.Publishing | MindKites | The Blue Review | | Beehive | The Sidewalks End
San Francisco Salvo | Mind Haven | Creative Voice | 7th Circle

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     Hey kiddies! I live in Canada. I love to write, and I have been published at stilettomag and bornmagazine, as well as my dear the-hold. My sister is Australian writer Tara Moss, at http://www.taramoss.com.au
     I hope to have my own site up soon. Please do not email me asking where I get my ideas from, as I will just laugh and delete you. Hee heehee.

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Biography:

Growing up by the shores of the Atlantic Ocean just eighteen miles from New York City the author, Sally Mour began seriously writing at the ripe old age of ten years old. While her first love was journalism, the difficulty of breaking into that field opened other opportunities. In a short period of time, Poetry surfaced as her one true love. Now older then dirt, she resides bi-coastally between California and Michigan. While playing part time computer consultant, she never leaves the love of the written word.

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Sheila E. Murphy's book manuscript Letters to Unfinished J. was selected in this year's open poetry competition sponsored by Sun & Moon Press, and will be published by Sun & Moon. Dennis Phillips was the judge. Falling in Love Falling in Love With You Syntax: Selected and New Poems has just been released by Potes & Poets Press. Recent works include A Clove of Gender (Stride Press, 1995). Murphy's work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Fever Dreams: Contemp orary Arizona Poetry (The University of Arizona Press, 1997) and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Contemporary Poetry (Sun & Moon Press, 1994, 1995). The Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series recently brought out an autobiography of Sheila E. Murphy, including photographs of Murphy with family and friends.

Sheila Murphy co-founded with Beverly Carver and continues to coordinate the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series, now in its eleventh season. Murphy is President of the management consulting firm Sheila Murphy Associates. Since 1976, she has made Phoenix, Arizona, her home. Murphy can be reached by e-mail at Shemurph@aol.com.

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     It's been said Hawke is a Poet Sprite caught in the corporate cracks by his most eloquent and respected friend. Others have merely said he's fucked up and unhappy.
     Having grown up in the soybean fields of West Tennessee he's now a nearly 40ish biker poet living around Chicagoland somewhere.
     Hawke finally admited he qualifies as a poet due to his bi-polaresque mood swings but refuses to take medication for it. After all, why fuck up the one thing he has going for him?
     As a musician, photographer, digital artist, writer, and fitness nut he maintains his humility is what makes him great. His creative endeavors are aimed at overthrowing the western culture he has proclaimed dead and injecting passion back into the universe.
     Though many find it odd that a counterculture rebel is dedicated to helping people get fit he points out, "In a culture where over 50% of the adult population is obese (that's 97million Amerikans) getting away from the TV remote is radical!. And if people get fit they might actually have some real sex sometime--what a concept."
     On the subject of his identity he says;
     "-- Now what's the point of being underground if you're not going incognito??? Sheesh people give me a break. And no -- I'm not in the witness protection program. I'm not even in Amway"
     The real story of how he earned his moniker can be found at his site in the poem titled "Hank Killed the Devil in the Harland Bottom Bog / Tennessee collection.

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Sara T. Punk was born and raised in a vile little church town in northeastern Oklahoma. ...about 5,000 very oppressive people and 32 churches... 'nuff said.

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Rachel 's favorite writing style is actually prose poetry, of which she has a number of her poems published both in hard copy and over the web. However she has also been known to dabble with a few fiction pieces {said with a coy smile} Feel free to drop a her a friendly hello, at  writeme_99@hotmail.com

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Hi...I'm Redd_k, a 20 year-old girly as of this writing, in no way normal, so I remain partially anonymous. Who cares? I live in Redding, CA where I was born, had 12 years of parochial schooling and lack only two classes to earn my AA in business. I do intend to go on for the BA, but no hurry because I am already "positioned" as a partner in my best friend's on-going business as a consultant to cosmetics companies' marketing departments. My writing had always been private until I met MSallthat who encouraged me to put some of it in the internet. I'm not really a poet, but have tried that too. Mostly I write opinionated pieces because I need the outlet, but how much of that deserves to be in the Hold I leave to MS's good judgment.
     One of my quirks is a total fascination with Faerie, so I will submit pieces of that nature as well. I am half Irish and not only believe in the Faeries; I depend on them. My other half is Japanese, and they as a people are pretty weird too, believing in a netherword of their own, so I am a complete and willing victim of the Little People. If you read my stuff, go ahead and put your tongue in your cheek, but I at least am serious about what I write. If you want to get back at me, try  reddcalm@hotmail.com

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Asked to submit a bio for this bit a' madness I aint got much to own to: Born with Mom in the room anyway. Had some pretensions early then had to find a job. Now I'm sittin' here and your reading this. Ain't much else, is there? Booze, pharmacueticals, pschyedelics; ya, it all figgers in...but I SWEAR TO YOUR FUCKIN GOD if anybody else fucks my mother for money owed me...nonono...no more O' Dippin' Da Puss...s'like this...GODDAMMIT...you know who you motherfuckers are...

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Dan Symonds is 27 and lives in London, England. He writes poetry, and wastes the rest of his time on various other crap, including maintaining a website. Most of the artwork and a bit of the poetry on the website is by his partner in crime, Ju.

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C. J. Sage is a native of Northern California where she is Managing Editor for the poetry zine Disquieting Muses. CJ received a Phelan Literary Award for poetry in 2000; new poems appear or are forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, The Mandrake Poetry Review, Nerve Cowboy, Rattle, and Smartish Pace, among others.

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Julie is a wage slave holed up in Ohio, and writes poems on company time. Some of which can be found on the web and in small inconsequential print zines. She is working on a chapbook to be sold at Border's, in the parking lot, out of the trunk of her car.

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Craig Sernotti lives in the overly-populated state of NJ in the overly-populated country of America in the overly-populated 3rd plant from the sun called Earth.
In May 1999 he completed his freshman year of college. (If yr interested he's working for an English major.) He enjoys readin, writin, sleepin, dreamin, eatin, watchin Stanley Kubrick movies, listenin to Howard Stern's radio show, & just plain doin nothin. He wants to become a full-time writer so he can do what he wants & not have to bother with the bullshit of the real world. Questions, comments, hatred, & love can be sent to  quietpoet@hotmail.com.

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R. L. Stephenson has been livin' with the cactus and horny toads for many years. It certainly has affected his views, not to mention the few dances with peyote doin' the same. Slingin' hash, or grub to most folks, being an accomplished Executive Chef has put the groceries in the fridge and a roof over his head. His work appears on various websites, and he is currently publishing a chapbook, entitled   "NoLa in the Streets"   a N'awlins groove.

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Lincoln Sward: born 10/08/74 in Escondido, CA

I really don’t know what this is all about. I was just writing these poems for therapy...and to give me an idea where I was at in life. All of it seemed as if it were the way things are and that I could relate more to my reality then I could others. So I let it live and gave it a home on page.
Now alive..and better off than I was I started to share this life with others..it’s better than nothing and I already have enough of that.

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Dan Symonds is 27 and lives in London, England. He writes poetry, and wastes the rest of his time on various other crap, including maintaining a website. Most of the artwork and a bit of the poetry on the website is by his partner in crime, Ju.

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• birthplace: MIAMI, FLA 1957
• MUSICIAN / ENTREPRENEUR
• BUFF ST- PSYCHOLOGY
• arts - ?
• bands: HIGH YIELD, ARGYLE PARK, SMALL WORLD, BLUE WHALE, MELLO MELLO GREEN, JERKBAIT, PETER GREY, HEART SHAPED BOX....
• other projects: PRODUCED JAY MINER'S DSDP...PROMOTER...RESTAURANTEER.....
• residence: WEST PALM BEACH, FLA

Franco da F.A.T.man
Peace, Love and Loud Guitars...

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Elaine co-hosts the "Room 11"  message board with poet  Michael McNeilley. Her work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications including (but not limited to) Thunder Sandwich,   Peshekee River Poetry,  Snakeskin Poetry Webzine,  Poetry Super Highway, idiolect,  and, yes, the hold.  She currently lives in Indiana, though happily this is about to change.

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Cheryl Townsend is the Editor of Impetus magazine & head of Implosion Press. She created the Impecunious Poetry Project and hosts readings where ever she can. She recently formed W.A.R.M. (The Womens Art Recognition Movement) and has been setting up art shows throughout Ohio promoting the art of women. She is the head cat at cat's Impetuous Books & stuff in Kent, Ohio... (get the feeling there's a little imp in her?) She has been published in hundreds of journals, anthologies and collections and has been working on a collective to shop around. An avid photographer and abstract painter...cat's work can be viewd at:

photography:

• A Sampling of Townsend
• Images of Cheryl Townsend
  
• Disquieting Muses: February 1999 Issue
• Disquieting Muses: May 1999 Issue
• The photography of Cheryl A.Townsend

poetry:

• cat
• Cheryl A. Townsend - Sex Is Poetry
• Cheryl Townsend
• Cheryl Townsend/Impetus
• Journal: Townsend first page

In the e-zines:

• (50)GOD'S WORK: killer writings
• Disquieting Muses: February 1999 Issue, Table o…
• Disquieting Muses: May 1999 Issue
• Perihelion

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hello i am trellis and i am a gay robot on acid.

group sez: 'Hi Trellis!'

oh what joy to permabulate gayly through the corn waving our limp wrists at the silly cawing crows and weaving dragonflies into tiaras and crowns.

oh my how happy we will be when we come crashing together in one great collision of carbon alloys and receptor devices like SaraPunk's hermaphrodite slugs all in a heap thrashing then still. ok... that's all.

i'm done.

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     i'm just some guy whose been around the sun approximately twenty-three times...no literary credentials as of yet...my url is http://www.angelfire.com/in2/waiting

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     Gosh, you know how us poets love to talk about they-selves! zen sutherland tromps the mountains of western North Carolina where he's decided he'll someday die. here he writes poetry, does computer graphics, hikes and photographs wildflowers for his nature site (http://www.main.nc.us/naturenotebook). He eats meals on his graphic tablet and dreams in photoshop filters. He also works in more traditional medium such as marshmallow and lawn sod.
or something like that...
zen

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