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AIPF 2OO7 Program

1Sth Annual Austin International Poetry Festival --2007

Welcome poets, writers, artists, and guests. This year's festival has adifferent face, starting with the buffet supper and opening ceremony thatdedicates the festival to the First Lady of Austin Poetry, Peggy ZuleikaLynch. Immediately after the opening ceremony, w€ will present theanthology launch with a dramatic reading of the poems by the poetsthemselves.

Inside this program are schedules of readings, workshops, open mikesand special events. Be sure to note activities for children as well as theChildren's Anthology reading at Barnes and Noble on Sunday afternoon.There's a list of volunteers and sponsors who support AIPF. Support thebusinesses that purchased the many adveftisements. Enjoy the festivalheadquarters at Ruta Maya. Thanks to all for your suppoft.

Remember to sign-in at registration for workshops and Sunday's Dutchtreat Brunch. Participate in this year's fund-raiser by exercising your rightto vote. Select the 2007 People's Choice Poet from the list of registeredpoets. Vote as many times as you please, even for yourself. Each vote willcost one dollar. The winner receives a gift certificate. The two poetryslams offer cash awards.

The finale is the Sunday morning Brunch at Ruta Maya where theanthology winners will be revealed and awards presented. There will be aspecial surprise for Peggy, Invited Poets read one last time, and thePeople's Choice Poet will be announced.

Thanks to all for participating in this year's poetry celebration.

Carolyn Luke Reding and Shlomi HarifCo-chairs of Austin Poets International, fnc.

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Carolyn Luke Reding

Shlomi Harif

Deb Akers

Barbara Youngblood Carr

2007 AIPF Board of Directors

AIPF 2OO7 Program

Susan Stockton

Natasha Marin

Ralph Hausser

Chip Ross

We need your help! AIPF is run by an

all-volunteer board, lf you would liketo give input on future AlPFs,pfease email us at [email protected].

Mission Statement

Austin Poets Internationalpromotes literary excellence byconnecting poets from Austin andaround the world. We provide adynamic, inclusive environmentthat celebrates a passion forlanguage, cultural diversity, andself-expression. Our organizationunites writers with the broadestaudience in a sharing of ideasthat affirms our humanity.

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VOLUNTEERS:Deb AkersLynn BrandstetterSusan BrightBarry BrummetDel CainBarbara Youngblood CarrNancy Kenney ConnollyRobin CraveyChristine GilbertShlomi HarifRalph HausserDavid S. HendlerGlynn M. lrbyBarbara and Charles JohansonRon JorgensonAshley S. KimBecky LiestmanMelissa LumpkinMelanie MarceeNatasha MarinAnne McCradyKatherine Durham OldmixonJoy PalmerJudith PittmanVince QuinlanCarolyn Luke RedingJohn RedingTheresa RedingKathleen RomanaChip RossSusan StocktonRod StrykerThom the World PoetDavid ThornberryPJ TolasUnder 21 Youth Slam Team(Ron Horne & Sheila Lewis)Jennifer Van BurenSteve VeraScott WiggermanJillWigginsRobert WynneJohnni Zanni

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Shannon RigbyJackson Slater

JillWigginsLynn Williams

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AIPF 2OO7 Program

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TnunsDAY - APRrt L2

2:OO-5:OO

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Registration

Deb Akers & volunteers

Open Mic

HOST: Barbara Youngblood Carr

5:O0--:OO

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Reception and Buffet

5:3O

City Hall - 3O1 W. Second St.Proclamation Honoring Peggy Zuleika Lynch

Susan Stockton

5:3O

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Dedication to Peggy Zuleika Lynch

Carolyn Luke Reding, Barbara Youngblood Car[ Susan Bright, Glynn MonroeIrby, Ric Williams

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Thursday I FrldaV '2OO7 Schedule

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Ruta Maya - 360l S' Congress Ave.Introduction of Featured Poets

Susan Stockton

-:15-1O:15

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Anthology Launch

Robert Wynne, Carolyn Luke Reding, Ralph Hausser

Group 1 - "5 a.m." through "Fluttering Focus"

Group 2 - "Losing my Grip" through "Last Night"

Group 3 - "Waking Up Slowly" through "Sunday News"

Group 4 - "Somewhere in lraq" through "Aunt Louisiana"

Group 5 - "wake up call" through "Mourning Utopia"

Group 6 - "She Made Me Think of Battlefields" through "A River Named Anne"

Group 7 - "Emilio Colon Plays Faure's Elegy" through "Ripened"

Group 8 - "Interpretation" through "Disclaimers on Reading"

1O:3O-1:OO

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Open Mic

HOST: Rod Stryker

Fnronv - ApnrL 13

1O:OO-5:OO


Deb Akers and volunteers

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Friday Morning Workshops

1O:OO - 11:OO

$uta Maya - 360l S. CongressAve.

"Graphics in Poetry"

Glynn Monroe Irby

fhe Hideout - 617 N. CongressAve.

"Trance Poetry: Finding thePoetic Voice in Trance"

According to psychologist ErikErikson, we are already in atrance. It is only up to us torecognize it & follow it into morelife-affirming states. Using innerguide meditations, fairy tales,mythology, and an intenseattuning to the moment, RicWilliams offers a method thatshatters the illusion of writer'sblock. Images are everywhere.Inside, outside, around & thru.Pick one & follow, entranced.

Ric Williams

1 1:15-1 2:15

$,uta Maya - 3601 S. CongressAve.

"Musical Improvisation andPoetry"

Bring instruments and/or poetryyou would like illustrated withmusic and sounds. The session isopen to poets without instrumentstoo - we need you for themusicians to accompany yourwords and rhythm of speech. Infact it should be regarded as areading session with reruns somusicians can experiment. This isnot a science exactly, it is'improvisation with capital IMP.including sound effects and,

2OO7 Schedule - Friday

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perhaps, homemade or improvised instruments.

Bob Mud

The Hideout - 617 N. Congress Ave."don't say it ain't so: reimagining the boundaries of confessional

poetry"

so you think you're a basketcase and you'd rather be dead? bad news,sweetheart: the fifties are calling and they want their ideology back. thisworkshop will begin by exploring the roots of confessionalism, from berrymanto plath. we will end with a new interpretation of the genre--humorous,hopeful, helpful, half-truthed, somewhere in the middle, we will deliberatelyconstruct ourselves as superheroes rather than basketcases, and we will writepoetry.

madelyn hatter

Friday Readings

1:OO-3:OO

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave,

HOST: Natasha Marin

Ekiwah Adler-Belendez, Usha Akella, Raquel P. Hernandez, Tony Zurlo, DelCain, Eileen F. Hugo, Shannon Rigby, Barbara Ann Watson

1:3O-3:3O

Austin Java North Lamar -1206 Parkway (Lamar at Enfield, just north of 12th St.)

HOST: Lyman Grant

Larry D. Thomas, Barry Brummett, Michael Gullickson, Joyce Gullickson, RobinCravey, Anne Schneider, Melissa Lumpkin

2:OO-4:OO

Austin Java Balton Springs Road - 1508 Barton Springs Rd.

HOST: madelyn hatter

LaQuinta Washington, Terry McCarty, Alison Wofth Foster, Tiff Holland,Herman M. Nelson, Peggy Chaney, John W. Berry, Valerie K. Scott

Vinny's Ten-Oh-Three Cafe - 1OO3 Barton Springs Rd.

HOST: Joe Hoppe

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2OO7 Schedule - Friday

william T. Dawson, Marie Brown, Michael D. Eaton, Jack c. Ritteq sue sun,Deborah Glast, Diana Weber

Threadgill's - 3Ol W. Riverside Dr.HOST: D. Antwan Stewart

Neil Meili, Julian stuart Haber, Marian Haber, Dr. Byron Kocen, Mark Ford,Ramona Reeves, Joanne M. Uppendahl

The Hideout - 617 N. Congress Ave.HOST: Shia Shabazz

Lorenzo Herrera, Kebriana Nash, Danny Strack, Samika Swift, Evan Hilliard,Jazz One, Tony Degges, Steve Vera

El Sol y La Luna - 1224 S. Congress Ave.HOST: Agnes Meadows

Jill Alexander Essbaum, Juan Manuel Perez, C. Dawson Worley, Brian KennethSwain, Patricia Fiske, Christine Gilbert, Kaye Warren

Garden District Coffeehouse - 2810 S. Congress Ave.HOST: Ric Williams

Xue Di, Solana Delamant, Ron L. Wallace, Michelle P. Pina, Tracy Townsend, JoReyes-Boitel, Jazz Jaeschke, Rosemarie Horvath Iwasa

3:OO-5:0O

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.HOST: Thom the World Poet

Bob Mud, Vince Quinlan, Ashley s. Kim, Kenneth Gurney, Mary Beth Gradziel,Kristiana Colegrove, Sally Alter, Mitchell L. Allen

5:O0--:OO

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Happy Hour

5:3O-7:3O

Forum at Follet's - 4O2 Guadalupe St."Poetry and Revolution"

MODEMTOR: Robin Cravey

PANEL: Xue Di, Valzhyna Mort, Lorenzo Herrera

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Qt. Edwar{'s University - 3OOl S.Congress Ave.

Dead Poets'Slam

HOST: Carolyn Luke Reding

Barbara Youngblood Carr (RainerMaria Rilke), Anna Purdy (EverettMaddox), Paula Small (GwendolynBrooks), Gg Re (Stevie Smith),Glynn Monroe Irby (Dylan Thomas),LaQuinta Washington (Sylvia Plath),Gayle Bell (Audre Lorde), AgnesMeadows (Somhairirle MacGill-Eain/ Sorley Maclean)

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Westminster - 41OO Jackson Ave.


Bob Mud, Earl Anderson, ElizabethKropf, Chip Ross, Herman M. Nelson

BookPeople - 603 N. Lamar(corner df 6th & Lamar)

HOST: Anne McCrady

Lyman Grant, Larry D. Thomas,Mary-Agnes Taylor, David Meischen,Nancy Kenney Connolly, JillWiggins, Chuck Taylor, PeggyZuleika Lynch, Katherine DurhamOldmixon

LaTazza Fresca - 519 W. 37th St.

HOST: Kathleen Romana / JohnniZanni

D. Antwan Stewart, Ric Williams,Robin Brown, Rebecca Raphael,Anna Purdy, Strange Fruit, HeatherC. Levy, Josue Gabriel deMontemayor

Book Woman - 918 W. 12th St.HOST: Jill Alexander Essbaum

Usha Akella, Cindy Childress,Maggie Jochild, Shlomi Harif, CindyHuyser, Deb Akers, T. Keyser, SusanBright, Donna Marie Miller

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Featured readings, workshops, panels and interviews,poetry-in-music concerts, participant readings

and published anthology

Accommodations and gourmet meals on abeautiful 200-acre campus of woods, meadows,

herb gardens, ponds, Roman follies

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2OO7 Schedule - Friday / Saturday

8:OO-Midnight

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Slam

HOST: Mike Henry

madelyn hatter, Michael Guinn, Tiff Holland, Margo Davis, Tracy Townsend, GgRe, Donna Miller, Ricardo Garza, David Garcia Ordaz, Susan Stockton,Whatamelon

Midnight-2:OO

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Open Mic

HOST: Thom the World Poet

Midnight-7:OO

Magnolia Cafe - 1920 S. Congress Ave.All Nighter Open Mic

HOST: Bob Mud & Thom the World Poet

SarunDAY - APRrL L4

1O:OO-5:0O


Deb Akers and volunteers

Saturday Workshops

1O:OO-11:3O (Adult)The Hideout - 617 N. Congress Ave,

"Thinking Outside the Box"

Writing poetry isn't always a question of stating the obvious or of providingthe listener/reader with comfoftable creative options. In this workshop Agneswill guide participants towards alternatives to the self-evident, exploring how

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to get the best out of your writing and performing by literally 'thinking out ofthe box'.

Agnes Meadows

1O:3O-12:30 (Youth and Adult)Twin Oaks Library Conference Room - 2301 S. Congress' Ste. #7

"The Poetry of Motion: The Art of Performance Poetry"

This is an intense and in-depth course that covers Writing for pedormance,Memorization and Performance techniques,Stage Presence, Working anaudience, Developing Your Own style.This workshop has been taught all overthe country and is guaranteed to help you make words leap off the pages.

Remember That Life Is An Anthology. Bring it to life with a performance thatcelebrates it. If you want to be a better performer, you can not miss thisevent.Free handouts and materials, free snacks and freedom of speech.Workshop for teens and adults, all levels of writing and experiences accepted.

Michael Guinn

11:3O-12:30 (Adult)Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.

"Prose Poems"

My workshop will offer a brief definition and overview of the prose poem formalong with published examples of prose poems and allow time for duscussionand composition.

Ken Jones

Saturday Readings

12:3O-2:30

City Hall - 30l W. Second St.


Ekiwah Adler-Belendez, Felix Cheong, Xue Di, Valzhyna Mort, Agnes Meadows,Usha Akella

Resistencia - 18O1-A S. First St. (at West Annie)HOST: Steve Vera

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Lorenzo Herrera, Brenda Rioias, Ricardo Garza, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, Oni theHaitian Sensatioh, Rod Strykler,'Glynn Monroe lrby, Carolyn Luke Reding

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Cafe Mundi - l7O4 E. sth #1OO (between Comal & Chicon)

HOST: Thom the World Poet

Bob Mud, Jackson Slater, Mary L. King, Dawn Runner, Claire Dixon, LynnWilliams, Sandy R. Monaco

1:OO-4:OO

H_uston-Tillotson Auditorium (Agard-Lovinggood-200) - 9OO Chiconst.

Sponsored by Dalton Publishing

HOST: Ken Jones

Joe Hoppe, Lyman Grant, Larry D. Thomas, Ric Williams, D. Antwan Stewaft,Jill Alexander Essbaum, Susan Stockton, Shia Shabazz

St. Edward's University Maloney Room - 3 OO1 S. Congress Ave.

HOST: Jill Wiggins

Michael Guinn, Joe Blanda, Ron Lasseter, Margo Davis, Paula Small, AnneMcCrady, Nancy Fierstien, Angela Patterson

(Reading ends at 3:00 PM)

The Hideout - 617 N. Congress Ave,

HOST: madelyn hatter

Gg Re, John Milkereit, Joe Barnes, Jerome Davis, Christa Pandey, Terri LynneHudson, Gayle Bell, Whatamelon. Jessica Lindberg


BookPeople - 603 N. Lamar (corner of 6th & Lamar)HOST: Nancy Kenney Connolly

Khadijah Queen, Natasha Marin, Robert Wynne, Scott Wiggerman, TommieOrtega, J. Todd Hawkins, Marcelle Kasprowicz, Wendi White


2:OO-4:30

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Texas Youth Word Collective Under 21 Slam Team

HOSTS: Ron Horne & Sheila Lewis

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3:OO-5:OO

St. Edward's University Maloney Room - 3OOl S. Congress Ave.HOST: Ralph Hausser

Usha Akella, Ken Jones, George Klawitter, Robert Elzy Cogswell, NicholasDorosheff, Lacey Roop, Mary Riley, Stephan Baley

fl.u-stonlfillotson university choir Room (Jackson Moody 2oo) - 9ooChicon St.

HOST: Katherine Durham Oldmixon

madelyn hatter, Khadijah Queen, Michael Guinn, Bernard Mann, Lewis Garvin,Sandy Christian Reyes, Yvonne Armstrong

BookPeople - 603 N. Lamar (corner of 6th & Lamar)HOST: Scoff Wiggerman

Agnes Meadows, Valzhyna Mort, Frank Pool, Dr. Charles A. Stone, BeckyLiestman, Joy Palmer, Judith Austin Mills, Dorothy Turner, Barbara YoungbloodCarr

6:OO-8: OO

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave.Happy Hour

8:OO-1O:OO

Ruta Maya - 360l S. Congress Ave.Featured Poets

HOSTS: Shlomi Harif & Natasha Marin

Ekiwah Adler-Belendez, Felix Cheong, Xue Di, Valzhyna Mort, Larry D.Thomas, Usha Akella

11:OO- 1:3O

Ruta Maya - 3601 S. Congress Ave,'Till They Shut it Down Open Mic

HOST: Ken Jones

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SUnDAY - APRIL 15

1O:3O-11:3O

Ruta Maya - 360l S. Congress Ave."Kids and Poetry"

Carolyn Luke Reding & Theresa Reding

11:3O-1:30

Ruta Maya - 36(11 S. Congress Ave.Closing Brunch

HOSTS: Shlomi Harif & Carolyn Luke Reding

1:OO-2:3O

Barnes & Noble Westlake - 7Ol S. Capitol of Texas HighwayDiverse Youth 2OO7 Anthology Reading

HOST: Deb Akers

Ralph Hausser, Christine Gilbert, Joy Palmer

2:3O-4:OO

Barnes & Noble Westlake - 7Ot S. Capitol of Texas HighwayYouth Open Mic


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Ekiwah Adler-Belendez - Amatlan, MexicoA poetic prodigy whose powerful verses have mesmerized Mexico's literaryscene. Born with cerebral palsy, he began composing poem fragments at theage of three and published his first volume of poetry Soy (I Am) at the age of12. His second collection Palabras Inagotables (Never-ending Words), andwhen he was 14; and Weaver, his first book in English at 16. His latest, TheCoyotes Trace, features an introduction by poet Mary Oliver, one of Ekiwah'sbiggest fans. With his extraordinary ability to relate to his audience, heaft toheaft, it is no surprise he is making an impact on the American scene, aswell.

Usha Akella - Austin, TXUsha Akella is the founder of the Poetry Caravan, a unique organization inwestchester county, New York that has so far offered 29o readings tomarginalized audiences in nursing homes, women's shelters, healthcarefacilities etc. She presented a panel on it at AWP 2007.

Her poems have appeared in Borderlands and Crab Orchard Review amongmany others. She was the winner of Maryland Poetry Review's Egan Memorialcontest a few years ago. She has been a finalist for contests such as theWisconsin contest. She edited Borderlands Spring/Summer issue, 2OO7, andher first book ...Kali Dances. So Do.L.. was released in 2O00 by Authors andWriters India Ltd. She has read at various festivals world over in Macedonia,Slovenia, Houston, Austin and more,

Felix Cheong - Laguna Green, SingaporeFelix Cheong was the recipient of the National Afts Council's Young Artist ofthe Year for Literature Award in 2000. He has published three books of poetryof which his third, Broken by the Rain (20O3) was short-listed for the 2004Singapore Literature Prize.

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He has also published two works of teen fiction, The Call from Crying House(2006), and its sequel, The Woman in the Last Carriage (2007).

Felix has been invited to read at international writers'festivals in Edinburgh,Brisbane, Christchurch, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Ubud and Singapore. Hecompleted his Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University ofQueensland in 2OO2. He is currently an adjunct lecturer and a freelance filmcritic.

Xue Di - Brown University, Rhode IslandXue Di was born in Beijing in 1957. He is the author of three volumes ofcollected works and one book of criticism on contemporary Chinese poetry inChinese. In English translation, he has published fourfull length books, Zone,Another Kind of Tenderness, An Ordinary Day and Heart into Soil, and fourchapbooks, Forgive, Cat's Eye in a Splintered Mirror, Circumstances, andFlames. A new book, Across Borders, is fotthcoming in 2007 from GreenInteger Press.

His work has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies andhas been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, andJapanese. After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, he was a fellow inBrown University's Freedom to Write Program, and is now a visiting scholar inBrown's English Department. Xue Di is a two-time recipient of the Hellman/Hammett Award, sponsored by Human Rights Watch, and a recent recipientof a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship.

Jill Alexander Essbaum - Austin, TXJill Alexander Essbaum is the author of the 1999 Bakeless Prize winner inpoetry, Heaven, and the 2005 gathering of sonnets, Oh Forbidden. Hernewest collection, Harlot, is forthcoming from No Tell Books. Her poetry hasappeared in journals both religious and secula4 both domestic and foreign,both well-known and rabidly obscure. Her literary influences and obsessionsinclude the following: Simon Armitage, Nick Cave, St. Augustine, JohnBunyan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Simone Weil, and Dorothy Parker. Seriously.

If asked, she would tell you she imagines hers to be the sly, naughty poemsthat congregate in the alleyways between the houses of traditional formalismand experimental poetics. Backlane poems with bad attitudes but clean,clever rhymes. Poems that slink through the streets like stray cats all thewhile kneading your lap like love-hungry kittens. Poems that want you toneed them and need you to want them. Poems that will kiss you. Poems thatwill kick you.

Jill lives in Austin, Texas and Zurich, Switzerland.

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Lyman Grant - Austin, TXLyman Grant has worked at Austin Community College for nearly thirty years.He has taught developmental writing, creative writing, composition, andliterature; served as chair of the developmental writing department and ofthe creative writing department; and as chair of the developmental educationdivision. Currently, h€ is Dean of Arts and Humanities.

He has authored and/or edited six books. His previous volume of poetry istitled Text & Commentary. Lyman's essays, reviews, and poetry haveappeared in a variety of periodicals and anthologies, including The TexasObserver, Dallas Morning News, Texas Humanist, Langdon Review, CreativePulse, Teaching English in the Two Year College, Sulphur River LiteraryReview,Cortland Review, Pikeville Review, Timber Creek Review, Windhover,Best Texas Writing I, The Best Man, Is this Forever or What?, Literary Austin,Houston Poetry Festiva I a ntho I og ies, nu merous Di -Verse-City a nthologies,and Feeding the Crow.

Michael Guinn - Fort Worth, TXMichael Guinn is the nation's top spoken word performer, fusing poetry andtheatrics to bring life to a message that hits home. He is a charismatic nativeTexan who holds an MSW in social work and minor in literature. What hewitnessed as a caseworker for Child Protective Services "is what inspired himto begin writing poetry."

Michael is host of the weekly Foft Worth National Poetry slams andconsistently ranks among the top national and international poets since hehumbly began sharing his soul atthe national level in 2001. He is a memberand co-founder of the Emmy nominated Performance Poetry Troupe "SpokenImages" as well as Founder of the Foft Worth National Poetry Slam Teamwhich annually competes at the National Poetry Slam Championships. Michaelperforms throughout the United States and in Canada. He has won countlessawards at events all over the country including the New Word series inBerkeley, the Austin International Poetry Festival (3), and the BluebonnetPoetry Festival.

madelyn hatter - Atlanta, GAMegan A. Volpert is a performance poet from Chicago who has settled inAtlanta. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from LouisianaState University, and currently teaches High School English. She performslargely under the pseudonym dr. madelyn hatter, and since 2002, hasfeatured at over 50 venues in 14 states in support of her first spoken wordCD, no morning after.

This love child of Joan Jett and Tina Fey has been sharing her witty left-wingbanter and moderately obnoxious shenanigans on stage with a wide range of

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Rooted in confessionalism and surrealism, her written work is also veryinfluenced by second generation New York School poets and elements of theperformative. Volpert's first collection of poems was released by BlazeVOXBooks in January 2OO7. Amy King says of face blindness, "When you're readyto venture off the daily grid of life-as-planned [...] you'll find no prescriptionsof an average or calming sort here." Dara Weir adds, "Megan A. Volpeft has incommon with other high-rolling ornery genius pistols a lot of nerve, a lot ofheart, and an inability to leave anything said alone."

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AIPF 2007 Featured Poets

Lorenzo Herrera - Austin, TXLorenzo Herrera y Lozano is a Queer Xicano Poet, Dreamer and Activist, bornin San Jos6, California, raised in Estaci6n Adela, Chihuahua, and now living inAustin, Tejas. Lorenzo's work has been called "uncompromising and hopeful,cinico y cariffoso," "inspiring... provocative," "landing so deep/you bleedwithout feeling the cut."

He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-Nominated Santo de la PataAlzada: Poems from the Queer/Xicano/Positive Pen. He is in the final stagesof publishing his second book, Promesas y Amenazas, an all-Spanishcollection of poetry inspired on the Bolero aesthetic; and is finalizing his thirdcollection, God DonT Live Here Anymore, scheduled to be released in 2008.

Lorenzo is the Director of Arts & Community Building for allgo, a StatewideQueer People of Color Organization in Tejas, and serves on the Board ofUnid@s, the National Latina/o LGBT Human Rights Organization. Lorenzo isthe founder of a small publishing effort, Xorizote Press, focused onaddressing the limited number of published work available by Queer Xicanomen, publishing new and emerging voices.

Joe Hoppe - Austin, TXW. Joe Hoppe was born December 24, t961, one day before Ed Roth pickedup a magic marker and drew the first Rat Fink on a refrigerator door. He grewup in Jackson, Michigan where he worked as a janitor in a tool & die shop anda gas station attendant, jobs that have inspired him to this very day. Hereceived a degree in communications from the University of Michigan in 1984then headed to Minneapolis to pay off his debt to society by working inshelters.

In Minneapolis he also got into the international Xerox 'zine scene, wrote a lotof what got called gritty prose, rode motorcycles, started getting tattoos,hung out with artists and creative folks, and upped his coolness level enoughto be noticed by the lovely and hip P.S. Monear. He convinced her to run off toTexas, a place neither had ever been, and they left in mid-Octoberl989. Joehit the ground running in Austin, making contact with like-minded folksthrough the legendary open mikes held at the late lamented Chicago House.He counts himself very fortunate to have been a student of Alfred Huffsticklerand a member of Austin's premier poetry gang, The Blue Plate Poets.

Joe teaches English and Creative Writing at Austin Community College,writes, studies and practices Buddhism, works on old Mopars, and continuesto love and care for Max and Polly Sue.

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Ken Jones - Houston, TXKen Jones has been a published poet for over 20 years in academic andunderground journals. magazines, websites, anthologies and other forums.Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters, a compilation of some previouslypublished poems, was released in 2006 on PlainView Press.

As a resident of Austin in the 1980's he earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from the Univeristy of Texas at Austin and performed andrecorded as both a poet and lead singer of the underground band PeaceCorps. After a move to Los Angeles in the 1990's he earned a J.D. from theUniverisity of Southern California and continued to record, perform andpublish as both poet and musician. He has spent the 00's in Houston, as afull-time faculty member at the Art Institute of Houston, teaching CreativeWriting, English and Law.

He hosts the monthly Art Institute Poetry Reading Series at Borders-RiverOaks, which recently celebrated its 5th Anniversary. His professionalmemberships include: The Academy of American Poets, Writer Member ofThe American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and theState Bar of Texas.

Agnes Meadows - London, UKAgnes continues to write poetry wherever and whenever she can. She findsher inspiration in the pendulum of human emotion and writes about good,bad, ugly, laughter, pain, whiskey and wild nights. Her slow burning novel isstill gestating, her several books and CDs are still selling, her stage show withtwo other English poets will be ready sometime soon. Watch out world!

Valzhyna Mort - Alexandria, VAValzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus where her first book of poetry waspublished in 2005. She was a recipient of Gaude Polonia scholarship inPoland. In May 2006 she was a writer in residence at Literarisches Colloquiumin Berf in, Germany. She's the author of a chapbook Favorites for Accordion.Her next book of poetry Factory of Tears is coming out in 2007 from CopperCanyon Press, USA.

Bob Mud - Brisbane, AustraliaBob Mud (McMahon), sometimes Bob McMud, is an Australian artist, musicianand poet strongly oriented towards environmental arts. His name is Mudbecause he paints in mud and is in Austin for 3 months working withcommunities to produce the world's longest painting - mud on newpaper.

Published author, and exhibition sculptor, his 'Environmental Dreamtimemusic was distributed world wide by Larrikin Records.

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Khadijah Queen - Atlanta, GAKhadijah Queen holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University LosAngeles. Her first full-length manuscript, January Stranger, will be availablefrom Black Goat, an imprint of Akashic Books, in fall 2OO7. A chapbook, rVoIsla Encanfa, will be available from dancing girl press(www.dancinggirlpress.com) in May 2007 .

Individual poems have appeared in numerous journals, including new ohioreview, The Adirondack Review and Aughf. Her work has twice beennominated for the Pushcaft Prize. Currently, she studies installation,performance and sound art at Georgia State University.

Shia Shabazz - Austin, TXCave Canem Fellow, Austin Project Member, VONA Voices Master's Suite andHurston/Wright Writers' Week Pafticipant Shia Shabazz, is a mother,daughter, sister, friend, lover, activist, believer breathing-in-the-moments,ho pe-fi I I ed a uth orlpoet/scree nw rite r/sto ryte I I e r. WO RD !

D. Antwan Stewart - Austin, TXD. Antwan Stewaft will receive his M.F.A. this spring from the MichenerCenter for Writers, where he is a James A. Michener Fellow in poetry. He isthe author of a chapbook, The Terribly Beautiful (Main Street Rag Press,2006).

His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Meridian,42opus, The Seattle Review, CutBank Poetry, Poet Lore, Books to Watch OutFor, Bloom, New Millennium Writings, Lambda Book Report, DIAGR AM, canwe have our ball back?, storySouth: The Best of the South 2005, and others.

Larry D. Thomas - Houston, TXLarry D. Thomas has published six collections of poems: The LighthouseKeeper (Timberline Press, 2001), Amazing Grace (Texas Review Press, 2001),The Woodlanders (Pecan Grove Press, 2002), Where Skulls Speak Wind(Texas Review Press, 2OO4), Stark Beauty (Timberline Press, 2005), and Withthe Light of Apricots, an online chapbook (Lily Press, 2OO7). His seventhpoetry collection, The Fraternity of Oblivion, is forthcoming from TimberlinePress (Fulton, Mo.) in 2007.

Among the prizes and awards he has received for his poetry are the VioletCrown Award, Western Heritage Award (Western Heritage Museum,Oklahoma), two Texas Review Poetry Prizes, and three Spur Award Finalistcitations. His poetry has also received nominations for the 2007 Poet's Prize(Nicholas Roerich Museum) and two Pushcart Prizes. In September, 2006, Mr.Thomas was short-listed for Texas State Poet Laureate.

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Ric Williams - Austin, TXRic Williams was born in Arkansas in 1952. He began acting and writing earlyand has been interested in the slippery nature of consciousness ever since.He received his master's degree in mythology with an emphasis in depthpsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 1998. Ric has edited the"Litera" listings of The Austin Chronicle since 1988. He wrote the "Poet'sBeat" column (interviews with local poets) for The Austin Light from t9B7-199 1.

He edited for Ed Buffalo's poetry anthologies Aileron and Vowel Movement inthe late 80's and early 90's and was the associate editor from L997-1999 forAlchemy on Sunday, the literary journal of Pacifica Graduate Institute, He haswritten and/or edited for the Austin Chronicle, Man! Magazine, and the SalfJournal. His interview with Larry McMurtry is included in Conversations withTexas Writers, published in March 2005 by UT Press. Ric's first solo collectionof poems, the secret book of god, can be found atwww.dalton publ ishi ng. com.

"I don't know" is often the wisest thing he has ever said. Yet, he believes theuniverse is, ultimately, a comedy and wants you to know that, despite anything you may have heard to the contrary, "You matter. you will alwaysmatter."

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Deborah Akers - Austin, TXDeborah Akers earned her Master's degree from the University of Texas. A long timeAIPF voluntee6 Deb has been published in a variety of journals, newspapers andmagazines. She now promotes poetry in all its incarnations as an AIPF boardmember serving as volunteer coordinator, registrar and DIVERSE YOIJTH editor. Sheis a board member for BORDERLANDS: Texas Poetry Review where she works asmail manager and editorial assistant.

Mitchell L. Allen - Austin, TXSometimes a simple distraction provides a perspective that completely changes amind.

Sally Alter - Kerrville, TXSaf ly Alter, former poetry editor of llluminations International e-journal, haspublished in llluminations, Musings, di-vdrs6-city 2006, Houston Poetry Fest 2005,2006, and the Texas Poetry Calendar 2006. Originally from London, she is a memberof the Kerruille Writers Association, and is presently working on a poetry collectionand a mainstream novel.

Earl Anderson - Tahlequah, OKEarl lives with his beautiful wife, two dogs and a cat in the western Ozarks andwrites. He is a Korean War veteran and retired geologist/ teacher. He hopes somedayto decide what to do when he grows up.

Yvonne Armstrong - San Antonio, TXYvonne M. Armstrong received the International Poet of Merit Award from theInternational Society of Poets for her contributions in the field of Inspirational Poetry.The Famous Poets Society selected her as "Poet of the Year" for 2000, 2001 and2002, she also received Honorable Mention in the 2OO2 - 2003 San Antonio TexasCitywide Poetry Fair Poetry Contest. She has 5 published books and her poetry hasappeared in several monthly magazines and is included in ten anthologies.

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2OO7 Registered Poets

Stephan Baley - Austin, TXI am a new fathe4 so no matter how hard I try not to, my daughter inevitably windsup in my poetry.

Joe Barnes - Houston, TXJoe Barnes is a three-time juried poet at the Houston Poetry Fest. His work hasappeared in Time Slice: Houston Poetry 2005, an anthology of Houston poets,Measure, Spiky Palm, and lllya's Honey. He is a past finalist in the Howard Nemerovnational sonnet competition. Barnes is also a playwright.

Gayle Bell - Mesquite, TXGayle Bell has featured in open mics in the Dallas area.

John W. Berry - Austin, TXBerry regards "academic poet" as an oxymoron, and writes what he calls "muse-centered poetry". Foftunately, there are nine muses, so he gets a little variety. He isa professional poet, with poetry his religion and his worship. Poetry determineswhere he lives, who he loves, what he does for money, where he goes to church,what he wears, what he eats, and when he goes to bed. One of his books is still inprint.

Joe Blanda - Austin, TXJoe Blanda is a musician, songwriter, editor, poet and long-time resident of Austin.

Susan Bright - Austin, TXSusan Bright is a poet and the publisher of Plain View Press which for 31 years haspublished poets from all overthe country and the world. She is the author of 18books of poetry an environmental and peace activist, and a year-round lap swimmerat Barton Springs. plainviewpress.net

Marie Brown - Houston, TXMarie Brown is a native of San Antonio and lives in Houston, TX. Author of poetryspoken word, and songs. Marie began writing at age 10. Poetry for her is no hobby;it is her lifestyle.

Robin Brown - San Antonio, TXRobin Brown is currently enrolled at Northwest Vista Community College, pursuingan Associate of Arts. In July she received the poetry prize from Gemini Ink duringthe Celebrate San Antonio Festival which included the

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Note to AIPF Poets:1. AIPF poets will get 1007o of the income from selling their books.2. Books should be brought to the studio in a.daance of the firstexhibit on Friday moming.3. Email [email protected] with questions. Email inquiries willget faster answers than phone calls. (512-626.4037)4. Books must be picked up by dark on Sunday, 4lI5.Leftover titles will bedonated to AIPF. Payment for books sold will be made on sire. Funds notcollected will be donated to AIPF.5. Each poet will fill out a card indicating * of copies, name, phone/email,and willingness to trade or sell or both.6. Poets will be able to purchase or trade books by/with other poets.

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Barry Brummett - Austin, TXBarry Brummett is Professor and Chair inthe Department of Communication Studiesat the University of Texas. He haspublished poetry in di-vdrs6-city, in a fewsmall journals, and online in magazinessuch as The Pedestal and Wazee.

Del Cain - Saginaw, TXDel Cain is a poet and writer of prose wholives and works in Saginaw, Tx. He is theauthor of 2 nonfiction books and has hadpoetry appear in di-v1rs6-city, Blood andThunder, WestView, New Winds, andothers. He presents workshops on creativewriting, including poetry when he is notsitting at home staring at blank computerscreen trying to convince his wife that heis really working.

Nancy Kenney Connolly - Aus-tin, TXWidely published in many literaries andthree books, Nancy was an active AIPFBoard member 2003-2006, and wasFeatured Poet at the 2006 Houston PoetryFest. Her work won the 2002 Main StreetRag Chapbook Contest (for I Take ThisWorld), first place in the 2002 di-vdrs6-city, and many other prizes.

Barbara Youngblood Carr -Austin, TXNative-born Texan Barbara YoungbloodCarr; author of eleven books about NativeAmerican Cherokee heritage & Texas/Southern upbringing (five funded by Cityof Austin Arts Commission); host ofBorders-On-The-Word poetry venue andBoard member of Austin PoetsInternational, Inc. for over fourteen years;Editor for A Galaxy of Verse &

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DreamersThree Press; published on three continents; appointed National PoetLaureate for The Military order of the Purple Heart for 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Peggy Chaney - Fort Wofth, TXI have written poetry since the second grade. The words are music in my head. Mywork has appeared in Positive Parenting, Thuy Saliba's Connection chapbook,national anthologies, and has been recognized by Writer's Digest.

Cindy Childress - Lafayette, LACindy Childress is proud to be at AIPF for the seventh yearl She placed third in theChristina Sergeyevna contest in 2006 and was awarded the Marcella Siegel MemorialPrize for Poetry in 2005. Her poetry has recently been published in Touchstone,Rock and Sling, Temenos, Dispatch Litareview, among others. She teaches writingand literature courses at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she'scompleting a creative disseftation for a Ph. D. in English.

Robert Elzy Cogswell - Austin, TXRobert Elzy Cogswell, an Austin poet retired from librarianship, has poems publishedor fofthcoming in Lucidity, Lilliput Review, di-v6rs6-city (2006), Farfelu, Pecan Press,and Ratherview. Earlier in life, he was a panhandler in Manhattan.

Kristiana Colegrove - San Antonio, TXKristiana has been doing poetry for 16 years now. In that time, she has stafted herown publishing company, Eismyne Press, Inc. Published 4 books and2 CD's as wellas be a Literacy Advocate for schools in San Antonio.

Robin Cravey - Austin, TXRobin Cravey learned to think about the universe as a boy, camping out with hisfamily in the Piney Woods, falling asleep under the stars. He loved the music andmeaning of words and wanted to own every word he met. He moved from Houstonto Austin aiming to learn about life and the world, which seemed to involve going toUT off and on, driving a taxi a lot, publishing an environmental news magazine, andhitchhiking around the country. Then he married Jane, and they had Emma andMolly. He worked on small town newspapers, started a literary publishing outfit, rana desktop publishing business, and started thinking about how to make a living. Hewent to law school, worked at city hall, and then started his own law practice. Todayhe's still practicing law, still married to Jane, still going camping, and still learningthe music and meaning of words.

Jerome Davis - Colorado Springs, COJerome Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1955. As of this writing, he still lives.He has been employed as a paper cutter, assembler of wooden display products,garage porter, firefighter, radio announcer, newspaper columnist and telephonesolicitor. He is, at this moment, pursuing what he believes is his true calling,professional lottery winner.

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Margo Davis - Houston, TXMargo Davis earned an MFA in creative writing (emphasis in poetry) from UNO. Sheloves poetry not only for the limitless pleasure language brings her but theunpredictable, rich voices, and friends, she discovers.

William T. Dawson - Belen, NMI will allow the gods to write my intro.

Tony Degges - Austin, TXTony Degges poet, writer published in Pudding Magazine, The Walking Rain Review,other zines and The Austin Advocate (voices from the street.) Studied under RichardShelton of the Univ. of Az. in creative writing workshop for 15 yrs. while incarceratedin the Az. Dept. of Corrections.

Solana D'Lamant - Dallas, TXA 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee, Solana is currently a PhD. student at the Universityof Texas at Dallas, specializing in translation studies. She holds her MFA fromVermont College. With two chapbooks published, she has two manuscripts out forpublication. She will teach at the Frontiers of Writing in Amarillo, TX in June, 2007.

Claire Dixon - Baton Rouge, LAClaire Dixon was born in England, raised in Canada, and currently resides in BatonRouge, Louisiana, where she is completing her MFA thesis.

Nicholas Dorosheff - Herndon, VAI live in a prosaic world inhabited by the most exciting people I ever hope to find. I'mpleased to meet you.

Michael D. Eaton - Austin, TXBorn in Burkburnett and grew up in the Panhandle of Texas. The vast open vistasallowed me to have an open mind which I filled as rapidly as possible with everythingfrom pulp fiction to Shakespeare. The paperback and magazine rack at the localdrugstore was my university, since most great writers were banned from the schoollibrary. Censorship is the eighth deadly sin.

Nancy Fierstien - Dripping Springs, TXNancy Fierstien adopted the great state of Texas in the spring of 1985, after startingout as a child up in Michigan. Her poetry appears in two AIPF anthologies, the 2006Texas Poetry Calendar, the Map of Austin Poetry online newsletters, and in a newchapbook titled Never What It Seems. Still more work is posted at fierstien.net. Shelives to write in the Hill Country town of Dripping Springs, TX.

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Patricia Fiske - Austin, TXPatricia recently celebrated her 80th birthday on stage at Hyde Park Theatre. Shebegan writing poetry when she was 68. Before that, she was motheq wife, teacher;puppeteer, stage and film actress, and tired.

Mark Ford - Jacksonville, TXYesterday I was something else. Something else tomorrow. But today I'm a poet.

Alison Worth Foster - Austin, TXI was born and raised in Austin but moved away for several years to attend graduateschool in the Boston area. While I was there I joined a group called Grub StreetWriters & also workshopped at Poets House in NYC. I moved back to Austin about 2years ago & work at a residential treatment center for abused/neglected children.

Josue Gabriel de Montemayor - Dallas, TXNo bio submitted.

Lewis Garvin - Houston, TXLewis Garuin has taught at William and Mary, Univ. of New Orleans, Country Day inMetairie, and Clements High in Sugar Land. He has published in the New OrleansReview and Spiky Palm and read in the Houston Poetry Festival.

Ricardo A. Garza - Dallas , TXOriginally from South Texas, Ricardo has writing and peforming his poetry fromSouth Texas to the Bay Area. A prolific writer and performer he has been featured inColleges and High Schools where he also conducts poetry workshops as part ofWriters in the schools program funded by the Writer's Garret and the City of Dallas.Also appearing on print, college radio and public television. Ricardo's contemplativewrttings on the common and disenfrachised minority appear in his chapbook, BloodBrothers y otros Poemas, and spoken word CD, Fiebre del Sol.

Christine Gilbert - Austin, TXChristine is production coordinator for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and afreelance book editor. She doesn't send her poems out much but has been innumerous AIPF anthologies. Being a Gemini, her other side is artist, and she has astudio where she works in watercolors and acrylics. She's also experimenting withdigital photography. Her aft was on the cover of the AIPF anthology last year.

Deborah Glast - Arlington, TXI am originally from Odessa, Texas where my family has always been active in thesecular and Jewish communities. My family taught me to be responsible for myselfand the world around me. Currently I am a second year PhD candidate at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington where I have the privilege to teach others and toshare that responsibility. I understand the power of language and how it has beenand is being used to communicate ideas that have and will change the world.

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Mary Beth Gradziel - Red Rock, TXMary Beth Gradziel nurtures and is nuftured by her little piece of paradise in the lushHill Country southeast of Austin, protected by words, mirrors and friends, both twolegged and four legged. Life is Art. The Universe Dances. Good triumphs over Evil.All Ways.

Joyce Gullickson - Burnet, TXJoyce Gullickson is a Texas native, currently residing in Burnet. She is a nurse, and isinterested in the healing magic of poetry. She is married to a fellow poet, Mike, whoencourages her to keep writing.

Michael Gullickson - Burnet, TXI am dedicated to the idea that poetry can and does change the world--one reader ata time. My poetry attempts to address this philosophy by sharing the experience ofliving and breathing and singing. I have published and read across the UnitedStates. Each new day--each new poem is a joy I offerto you!

Kenneth Gurney - Shorewood, WIKenneth Gurney has had many poems published, is the former editor of TamafyhrMountain Poetry, tends not to stay in one place too long.

Julian Stuart Haber - Fort Worth, TXJulian Haber is a Fort Wofth physician, poet and author. His most recent publicationsare They Were Soldiers in Peace and War in which he interviewed more than fiftyveterans from wwII through Iraq, and a mystery Blood Avenger, much of whichtakes place in Austin. He has written poetry since fifteen and his poems have beenpublished in a variety of media. In 2006 one was published in Critique and another inBlood and Thunder (University of Ok.).

Marian Haber - Fort Worth, TXI teach college journalism part-time and do freelance writing. In recent years I haveconcentrated on poetry after spending most of my life writing non-fiction.

Shlomi Harif - Austin, TXShlomi lives, works and writes in Austin. He focuses his energy on partnering,parenting, writing poetry and fiction, and mentoring people in the high tech field.

Ralph Hausser - Austin, TXRalph Hausser lives in Austin, Texas. He is a native of Bergen County, New Jersey.After serving in the US Army he moved to California where he received a BA inEnglish from California State University, Northridge in 1969. He moved to Austin in1971 and became a journalist for the Texas Economic Development Commission.

He was a graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin during L976 and'77.Ralph has written for Human Relations and the Valley News of Van Nuys, California

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I. Todd Hawkins - Austin, TXJ. Todd Hawkins graduated from theUniversity of Texas and works as a writerand editor for an educational publishingcompany. He has had poetry published inAntietam Review, Wisconsin Review, andseveral other journals and has workforthcoming in Borderlands. He has alsoauthored two poetry chapbooks. Todd hasworked as a co-editor for the AIPFanthology, di-v€rs6-city, and currentlylives in Austin, Texas, with his wife,Shannon.

Raquel P. Hernandez - DelRio, TXI spent the ten years immediately afterhigh school falling apart. I am now readyto face the world,-Raquel Hernandez,paranoid schizophrenic, poet, lesbian,wife, sister, aunt, cousin, and friend.

Evan Hilliard - Florissant, MOEvan aka Copasetic Soul, is new to thespoken word scene. He found a passionfor spoken word after attending the 2OO4National Poetry Slam held in St.Louis, MO.Since then, he has peformed at the 2005and 2006 Southern Fried Slam, Last PoetStanding Compition in Kansas City,St.Louis Slam and various cities.

Tiff Holland - Round Rock, TXTiff Holland recently moved to the Austinarea and finds it a great improvementover Blimp-City, Akron, Ohio. Tiff worksas a field insurance adjuster covering thearea from Waco to San Antonio. Herpoetry and fiction have recently appearedin Slipstream, elimae and Hobart's. Her


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chapbook Bone in a Tin Funnelwhich deals with her struggle with the vertigo anddizziness of Meniere's disease is due for publication this spring. Tiff has twice beennominated for the Pushcart Prize- once in fiction and once for poetry.

Terri Lynne Hudson - Austin, TXNo bio submitted.

Eileen F. Hugo - Stoneham, MANo bio submitted.

Cindy Huyser - Austin, TXCindy Huyser is a poet, computer programmer, and former power plant operator. Along-time resident of Austin who grew up in the Detroit area, Cindy's subjects rangefrom nature to the industrial, in forms from sonnets to free verse. Her work hasappeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, wild plum, the Texas poetryCalendar, and a number of anthologies.

Glynn Monroe Irby - Clute, TXGlynn Monroe Irby has been published in AIPF anthologies, Houston Poetry Festanthologies, The spiky Palm, sol Magazine, Galaxy Journal, poetz e-zine, andothers; is the designer and co-author of the book, 3 savanna Blue; the coverdesigner for sixteen other books; an invited poet at many venues throughout Texas;is a member of the Galveston Poets' Roundtable; The Poets' Society of Texas;selected as one of the "Bards of the Bayou"; and has marketed and displayedphotographic art in galleries, homes, and offices. Irby is a member of the AmericanSociety of Interior Designers.

Rosemarie Horvath fwasa - Garfield Heights, OHPlaced #70 out of 2,000 in upper division creative writing final exam, spring of 1982.Copyrights for poetry and computer art L997, 1998, and 2004. To date unpublished.I live in Garfield Heights, OH, which is a suburb of Cleveland, and am employed inthe Development Office of the Cleveland Play House as a secretary. I am the motherof two grown children both currently residing in porland, OR.

Jazz Jaeschke - Austin, TXA native Texan and naturalized poet, Jazz interprets life's fragments and threads inverse with hints of humor and spirit. Actively retired, Jazz facilitates writing circlesand communes with nature. Her work is published in numerous journals andanthologies, as well as her 2002 memoir.

Jazz One - Austin, TXIf MC means move the crowd or mic controller, then Jazz One is an MC. In addition torockin'turntables around the ATX, he rocks microphones as a spoken word poet.Recently he has branched out transitioning performance poetry to acting in films.

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Maggie Jochild - Austin, TXMaggie Jochild has twice won an Astraea Lesbian Writer's award for her poetry. Sheis sixth generation Texas, third generation lesbian, raised white trash to become ananti-racist activist, in love with language and women, and is currently working on anovel.

Marcelle Kasprowicz - Austin, TXMarcelle Kasprowicz was born in Niort, France. She writes in English and French. Shegot first prize in the 2001 AIPF Anthology for her poem "House of Bones". In 2005she published her first book of poems Organza Skies. It is available on Amazon, andat Book People, Borders South, Book Woman and Monkeywrench Books.

T. Keyser - San Antonio, TXT. Keyser has been writing since she could put pen to paper. To date she has self-published five chapbooks. She is currently at work on herself and her next collectionof poetry. Her most recent chapbook, This Noose Hangs Empty (2004), is availablenow. She is the owne[ founder, brains, mistress and all-purpose slave of MetroManiaPress, which publishes small editions of poetry. (Really, it's a labor of love,) Foradd itional i nformation, visit www.metroma niapress.com.

Ashley S. Kim - Austin, TX"There is poetry in the cradle of my soul, rocking me"--Alice Walker. I am a nanny byday, poet by night. "Maya Poppins", you might say. A lover of passion flowers,dictionaries, elephants, owls and oceans, I spend spare seconds attending toimportant research like the anatomy of kindness or the physiology of the strangle-figtree. I crave yoga and avocados in the morning and mangoes and swimming atmidnight. I am my Korean husband's loving Catholic wife and my 6th-generation-Texan father's loving Baptist daughter, which leaves me delightfully Captist.

George Klawitter - Austin, TXGeorge Klawitter teaches literature at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. Hisfirst book of poetry, Country Matters, appeared in 2001. His book Let Orpheus TakeYour Hand won the Gival Press Poetry Award in 2002. His latest book of poetry lheAgony of Words appeared in 2004.

Byron Kocen, MD - Austin, TXByron Kocen has served on the board of AIPF from 1997 to 2006. He was chairmanfrom 2002-2005 and is now serving as board member emeritus. He is a practicingdevelopmental pediatrician and still finds time to write and share his poetry with theworld.

Elizabeth Kropf - Austin, TXElizabeth Kropf has been writing for sixteen years. Her poems have appeared inWindhover: A Journal of Christian Literature, The Penwood Review, and AncientPaths. She lives in Austin and earns narrative gold as a nanny. She is completing herthesis for a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Perelandra College.

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Ron Lasseter - Arlington, TXMy biological life began in Waco, Texas in 1951. I was born as a poet the day I metKay Cohen's, (the Yoga Goddess) creative energy and encouragement (Januarysomething 2006). Ms. Cohen asked me to take charge of a "poetry component" ofthe "Flair of the Aft" Yoga Retreat she was hosting at Kevin Leech's WhisperingWaters Retreat in July 2006. The poetry has been flowing like the springs at WizardWells, Texas ever since.

Heather C. Levy - Austin, TXHeather C. Levy began writing poetry at seventeen after hearing a Richie Haven'slyric: "Let your hands tie a knot across the table." She experiments with language,twisting its meaning to discover and expose truths. She aims to allegorize smallmoments in time that can be applied to "bigger", ethical, political, and/or personalsituations. New to Austin, she is active in local poetry readings, and has been afeatured poet at LaTazza Fresca.

Becky Liestman - Austin, TXBecky Liestman is a poet who is living two lives, one in Austin, and one in Minnesota.She thanks AIPF for this. As a former resident of The Writer's Room in NYC, apublished poet, and a Pushcart Prize nominee, she is very happy to be a member ofthe Austin poetry community.

Jessica Lindberg - Colorado Springs, COLadies and gentleman, Jessica Lindberg.

Melissa Lumpkin - Austin, TXMelissa is currently pursuing a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing atTexas State University in San Marcos. Although not a native Texan, she has lived inAustin for the past three years with her dog Jack and his dog Soda. Her latestadventures include a new mohawk, the beginnings of an artistic expression on thekitchen wall and her never-ending search for the pefect cup of coffee.

Peggy Zuleika Lynch - Austin, TXPeggy Zuleika Lynch continues as a Director of the Poetry Society of Texas and as anadvisor for the Austin Poetry Society. She currently serves as Chair for twointernational poetry contests, the Paris American Academy and the United StatesPoets Laureate International.

Terry McCarty - Canoga Park, CATerry McCarty was born in Electra, TX in 1959. He moved to Los Angeles, CA in1988. Terry has been writing poetry for 10 years now. His poems are wry, humorousnarratives about the American workplace, Hollywood, love and the business of living.

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Anne McCrady - Henderson,TXAnne McCrady is an award-winning poet,professional storyteller and inspirationalspeaker whose work appears in journals,anthologies, her own collection and mostrecently an international anthology, IheBook of Hopes and Dreams, whoseproceeds benefit medical aid toAfghanistan. She is the founder andprincipal of InSpiritry, an endeavor torekindle the creative spirit of individualsand organizations. Anne lives in the pineywoods of East Texas with her husband,Mike.

Bernard Mann - Austin' TXBernard Mann is a Poet, writer, anddesigner who lives in Austin, Texas'

Natasha Marin - Austin' TXNatasha Marin is a conceptual artist andpoet living in Austin, Texas, She is CaveCanem fellow, an Affrilachian Poet and co-founder of the Gibbous Moon Collective.In 2006, the City of Austin agreed to co-sponsor her interactive art installationproject entitled Graduate-Level Graffitiwith a cultural arts grant. Her work hasappeared in several publications includingthe Feminist Studies Journal and theSouth Carolina Review. Find her on theweb at: www.blackenese.com.

Neil Meili - Austin, TXZen Cowboy Poet - Alberta Canada andAustin Texas. Involved in AIPF as boardmember, supporter and reader since yeartwo of festival.

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John Milkereit - Houston, TXI have been writing and taking workshops for several years including two Inprintpoetry workshops last year while holding down my day job as a travelingsalesperson. I live at home with my regenerating ivy plant and some fake fish.

Donna Marie Miller - Austin, TXDonna Marie Miller is a l7-year veteran teacher and former newspaper reporter for:The Amarillo Globe-News, The El Paso Timet and The Austin American Statesman.This is her second time to have one of her poems published in an AFF anthology.

Judith Austin Mills - Pflugerville, TXJudith Austin Mills is an Adjunct Professor of English at ACC and a freelance writer.Her poems have appeared several times in the AIPF anthology, and short storiesfrom her collection Lost Autumn Blues have been published in literary journals,including UT's Analecfa. In 2001 her novel Tripping Home was WLT's First Placemainstream manuscript.

Sandy R. Monaco - San Antonio, TXSandy is a poet/actress/, and a regular in open mics. She has received severalcertificates for a talent show & The Renaissance Guild, She is currently a Junior atTexas State University & working on her next chapbook, Between Silence & Tears.Her poetry has appeared in the SA Poetry Fair Anthologies & Sun Arts Foundation.Currently a member of the San Antonio Poets Association. She is inspired by the latepoets AnaRose Marsden & Trinidad Sanchez Jr.

Kebriana Nash - Austin, TXNo bio submitted.

Herman M. Nelson - Austin, TXJohn Berry, Thom the World Poet, and Sue Littleton and I founded AIPF, thus I havebeen granted lifetime membership. Before poetry, I wrote about 150 songs thatwere published by Sonosong Publishing Co. I am authorof Elkinsinger's PerfectedTarot and many of my poems have been published or won awards. Austin PoetrySociety and Ken Hanson's Austin Poetry Guild are organizations to which I belong.

Daniel Garcia Ordaz - Donna, TXDaniel Garcia Ordaz, The Poet Mariachi, is the author of You Know What I'm Sayin',a collection of poetry and drama from El Zarape Press. He was born in Houston andraised in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He teaches high school English and is aformer newspaper reporter. He is also a word-maker-upper.

Tommie Ortega - Austin, TXTommie Ortega has been part of the Austin Poetry Community since 1990 when shefirst arrived here. She has read extensively at various venues throughout Austin,and has over 50 publications including most of the AIPF Anthologies throughout the

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years. Her concentration has shifted to photography in the last year and has hadseveral displays at Ruta Maya and several Austin cafes. She is a resident of Austinand lives with her paftner of 21 years, a poodle and her 2 year old Dachshund.

Katherine Durham Oldmixon - Austin, TXPoet, traveler, and artist Katherine Durham Oldmixon directs the Writers' Studio andteaches writing and literature at Huston-Tillotson University in east Austin. Amember of Austin Poetry Society and Austin Poetry Guild, Katherine's work hasappeared in the last three di-v€rs6-city anthologies. She is currently working on abook of collected poems tentatively titled Generation After Compromise.

Oni the Haitian Sensation - Ottawa, ONInternationally recognized Queen of spoken word, Oni the Haitian Sensationlaunches her book of poetry Ghettostocracy. oni peformed across canada,Australia, the United States and Europe, Ghettostocracy burns with lyrical brillianceand political integrity. Whether she's taking down popular cultural icons, taking onwomanhood or taking a fist to racism, Oni's poetry delivers mind-blowing, poeticvoyages from Ottawa to Haiti to South Central l-A, debunking nationalistic clich6sand "cultural wannabees" and firmly asserting her Canadianness.

Joy Palmer - Austin, TXJoy Palmer divides her life between Austin and Washington, DC. In addition topublishing poetry, as a management consultant, she has published books, articles,and columns on leadership and business,

Christa Pandey - Austin, TXChrista Pandey has lived and traveled in many parts of the world, She recentlysettled in Austin, where she hopes to lend her voice to politically aware andculturally rich poetry venues. Her poems have appeared in several magazines andanthologies and have won a few prizes as well.

Angela Patterson - Austin, TXAngela Patterson is a poet, musician, and songwritel but her day job involvescomputers, databases, and spreadsheets. Last year she became a mother and acancer sunrivor. She missed last year's festival because chemotherapy plus a five-week-old baby left no energy for poetry. This year, however, she stole a fewmoments while the baby slept to register for AIPF at the last possible minute. Hoorayfor poetry! Hooray for sleeping babies!

Juan Manuel Perez - La Pryor, TXJuan Manuel Perez, also known as the Maroon Knight of Tavala County, is the authorof four chapbooks: Beneath The Tights, Within The Funny Colored Pages, Spirit ofMotecuhzoma II (2nd Ed), and Dial H for Horror. A History Teacher in the La PryorSchool District, he is also the Open Mike Host at the Java Junction in Uvalde, Texas.Juan also belongs to the San Antonio Poets Association and the Science FictionPoetry Association.

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Michelle P. Pina - San Antonio, TXMichelle Palacios Pina is a poet and high school English teacher in San Antonio, TX.She has performed throughout San Antonio and Austin, She has been published inseveral anthologies, most recently in last year's AIPF anthology. She lives with herhusband, stepdaughter, two cats, and dog.

Frank Pool - Austin, TXFrank Pool was the chairman of the board of AIPF for five years. He has publishedpoetry and literary criticism in a number of venues.

Anna Purdy - Lafayette, LAAnna lives in Lafayette, Louisiana with her cat and dog. She is founder of "Blood &Ink Reading Series" and its companion literary journal, Her focus is on poetry andfunny creative non-fiction which is featured in herfirst chapbook, Dark Horses DieFaster published in 2007. Check her out at www.annapurdy.com.

Vince Quinlan - Austin, TXLocal Austin curmudgeon, bikes everywhere, has art degree, does handyman work,7th AIPF, hangs out in coffee shops and takes himself too seriously.

Rebecca Raphael - Austin, TXRebecca Raphael is a New Orleanian who lived in Chicago for a long time andsomehow ended up teaching religious studies in Central Texas.

Gg Re - Austin, TXPO'S POETREEFREE - www.Gg-Re.orG.

Carolyn Luke Reding - Austin, TXCarolyn Luke Reding, poet-publisher of Old River Productions, lives in Austin. Agraduate of UT and the University of Houston Clear Lake, she taught social studiesand English in the Brazosport ISD for 20 years. Her poetry credits are FreeportBottle Works, Windhover 2006, 2007, Antonelli's River Inn, Texas Quotable Women,Texas Poetry Calendars, di-v1rs6-city, New Texas, Suddenly V, Red Boots andAttitude, 3 Savanna Blue, and Houston Poetry Fest 99.

Ramona Reeves - Austin, TXRamona Reeves writes fiction, poetry and essays. She recently received a KimmelHarding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency in Nebraska. Her poetry has appearedin such publications as lhe Ledge, South Coast Poetry Journal, the Manhattan PoetryReview and di-v€rs6-city. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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Sandy Christian Reyes - Austin, TXA Native of the Dominican Republic, he was born in Harlem, NYC in 1980 and beganwriting at age 10. He has been influenced by many writing styles and considerspoetry to be not just part of his life but part of him.

Jo Reyes-Boitel - San Antonio, TXQueer, lover of oya, mother of a child with a mind like a country, working class thirdworld woman, formerly confined to a kitchen, not without love.

Shannon Rigby - Wimberley, TXShannon Rigby lives in the lovely town of Wimberley, Texas, and has enjoyed writingas a creative outlet for years. Scribbling poetry is her favorite form of therapy. Thisis the first time she has mustered up the courage to submit and share her musingswith an audience. She only hopes she can manage to coax her shaking knees tomatch the rhythm of the poems.

Mary Riley - Austin, TXNo bio submitted.

Brenda Nettles Riojas - Harlingen, TX

Brenda Nettles Riojas, a mother, poet, writer, and creative spirit, grew up on theborder of South Texas and Mexico. She authored a book about the history of theCatholic Church in the Rio Grande Valley, and has presented nationally on the sub-ject of creativity. She is currently pursuing a M.F.A. in creative writing.

Jack C. Ritter - Plano, TXI'm 58, I'm Married, and I'm white. (So you best not be messing with me.) I'm aprogrammer by trade. I wrote video games for many years, and other 3D graphicsstuff. I've published some original algorithms. Now I tutor in Math and Physics. Andalthough I'm a hard-drinking, two-fisted Son of a gun, I'm also a fiscal conservative.

Lacey Roop - San Marcos, TXLacey is a fresh face who just moved here from Mississippi and is enjoying everymoment of it!

Chip Ross - Austin, TXRoss is an active poet living in Austin. He routinely reads his work at weekly poetryvenues and backs up other poets by playing the bongos or congas.

Dawn Runner - Austin, TXA local poet who frequents open mics and slam. I opened the 2006 20x2 InteractiveShow, have been on the PACT Poetry Showcase and regularly place in the local slam.My inspiration comes from friends and family, and I enjoy comedic poetry.

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Anne Schneider - Kerrville, TXAnne Schneider is a poet and artist from Kerrville, Texas. She presents mask anddoll workshops in her studio, Ventana al Cielo. There she also teaches Tai Chi and isa Reiki practioner. Her book, Breath Found Along the Way, is a combination of herpoetry face cast mask art, and Tai Chi interests.

Valerie Kaye Scott - Austin, TXKnown to some as the EbonyloveQueen, Austin writer Valerie Kaye Scott hasenjoyed writing and publishing for six years.

Jackson Slater - Austin, TXSeventh generation Texan and poet. I describe my work as: socially driven,circumstantially motivated !

Paula Small - Sherman Oaks, CAThis is Paula's 2nd year at the AIPF and she's glad to return! She continued toexplore her storytelling skills, which included publication of her short story in TheStory Salon Big Book of Stories. However, Paula increased her focus on her poeticprowess, thanks to the poets she heard, read & met at the AIPF. Check out herwords at : www.myspace.com/ brickstin or www.xanga.com/Sankofa 212. Atthe end of the month, Paula will embark on an adventure that she is sure willimprove& influence her poetry. Feel free to stop her & say hil

Susan Stockton - Austin, TXSusan Stockton is a current AIPF board member. Since making her debut at thefestival in 2005, Susan's work has been featured in local publications including AIpFdi-v€rs6-city 2006. A creative writing student at Austin Community College, she waspresident of the creative writing club and student editor for ACC's literary journal,The Rio Review. Susan is married to Eric Stockton and lives in Austin where sheenjoys teaching preschool, designing websites and raising their children Saxon,Victoria and Phyllis.

Dr. Charles A. Stone - Austin, TXDr. Charles A. Stone is the nom de plume of Ronald J. Jorgenson, a widely publishedmedical geneticist. The poetry of Dr. Stone has appeared in several medical andpoetry journals, on the Internet, and in three chapbooks. He resides with his wife inAustin, Texas and Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

Danny Strack - Austin, TXDanny Strack is a regular performer and feature at poetry slams and open micsthroughout central Texas. He has been on various stages over 250 times in the pastthree years. Danny is the author of three chapbooks of original poetry and artwork,and creator and designer of www.dannystrack.com.

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Rod C, Stryker - San Antonio,TXFounder of the Sun Poet's Society, co-founder of the Sun Arts Foundation,author of the award-winning book,Exploits of a Sun Poet, internationalperformance poet of epic proportions (inmy own mind), rumored to be closefriends with saints and sinners alike. Ifyou see me wandering the streets ofAustin, buy me a cup of coffee. It helpsme with my demons.

Sue Sun - Houston, TXI'm part of that overused and tired genreknown as emo-lyric-postpunk-K pop-lesbenischen modernism. I do have a dayjob. I believe in the province of theimagination.

Brian Kenneth Swain - Pearl-and, TxBrian Kenneth Swain is author of thenovels World Hunger and DirectedEnergy. He also writes short stories andpoetry, and has been a featured poet atthe Poetry Society of Texas, HoustonPoetry Fest, InPrint, and Barnes & Noble,as well as on Pacifica and NPR radio. He isauthor of the poetry collection SecretPlaces, and his work has appeared innumerous journals. He is a two-timePushcart Prize nominee.

Samika Swift - Denton, TXNewly Texan, Samika Swift lives inDenton, where she emcees Denton Poets'Assembly's open poetry mic at RecycledBooks and hangs out with the DentonWriters League. Before abandoning theharsh Indiana winters to devote her life towordslinging, she served her wage-slavesentence as an alternative high schoolteacher, teen librarian, bartender, eventcoordinatoq coyote uglier pefformer,office assistant, grill cook, housekeeper/babysitte4 and dishwasher. Visit Samikaonline at www,myspace.com/samikaswift.

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Chuck Taylor - College Station, TXChuck Taylor teaches creative writing at Texas A&M University. His most recent book,from Panther Creek Press, is called Heterosexual: A Love Song. From 1980-1988 hewas one of the founder-operators of Paperbacks Plus Bookstore at 4th and Lavaca indowntown Austin, where many poetry readings were held. He has been a CETA poetand worked in Poets-in-the-Schools. In 1988 his book, What do you want, Blood?won the Austin Book Award.

Mary-Agnes Taylor - Austin, TXMary-Agnes Taylor is a published poet and an Emerita Professor of English from TSU-San Marcos.

Kimberleigh Thompson aka "strange Fruit" - Austin, TX"Strange Fruit"

Tracy Townsend - Oklahoma City, OKNo bio submitted.

Dorothy Turner - Austin, TXRetired translator and world-be artist/poet who spent her first 21 years in NorthCarolina, then 2 years a WAC, 15 years in Mexico and almost half a century in Texas.

Joanne M. Uppendahl - Spanawdy, WAJoanne M. Uppendahl, MA, retired after 25 years as a mental health therapist topursue her passion for poetry in 2000. She has since published many poems online,appearing in Hubble's Art Page, Poetic Voices,Critical Poet, Retrozine, Rainbow'sEdge E-zine, The Critical Poet, Poetic Link, Poetically Speaking, gattery 3, and others.she has presented readings of her work in oceanside, cA and in Tacoma, wA.

Steve Vera - Austin, TXSteve Vera served on the AIPF board as its website developer from 1998 - 2000, Healso served in 2004. His poetry has been published in the AIPF anthology and theMesquite Review and in his chapbook Axtlanadu. He is the primary developer of thepoetry and aft website www.poeticah.com.

Ron L. Wallace - Austin, TXI endeavor to enjoy every blessing that this life has offered. I spend my creativethoughts following the voice that seeks harmony among such elements as thebeauty of nature, the eloquence of music in its many forms and the search for theserenity of knowing one's place of spirit amongst all things.

Kaye Warren - Austin, TXKaye Warren, a native born Texan has been rocking worlds since she was born inL962. She began writing poetry and short stories in first grade and has been hard at

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work ever since. Ms. Warren has had the privilege to study under such notables asStanley Plumly, Ntozake Shange and Ed Hirsch. Influences include Russell Edson, J.Frank Dobie, Eudora Welty and Guy de Maupassant, to name but a few.

LaQuinta Washington - Eglin AFB, FLLaQuinta Washington is the zealous poet that hails from New Orleans, LA. Shecurrently lives in Florida with her two kids. She is the author of one novel titled A//The Wrong Reasons and is currently working on publishing a book of poems andshort stories titiled The Intersection Between Love & Heartbreak due out in Mar2007.

Barbara Ann Watson - Port Richey, FLIn Marquis Who's Who, NSAI, PASAWOR, The Amherst Society; took vocal and pianoin college, plays electric guitar and songwrites. Her favorite theme is her "Soda PopPoems" because poets and Oldies are underrated.

Diana Weber - West Babylon, NYI am currently completing my Masters in Creative Writing at Hofstra University inNew York. I am a bohemian at heart looking for an outlet. I have been nominated fora Pushcart Prize but, as goes with the territory of being a writer, was rejected.

Whatamelon - Cedar Park, TXTotally Worth It!

Wendi White - Austin, TXWendi is a transplanted Yankee with 12 years in Texas under her belt. Since herarival in Austin, she has learned to grow tomatoes in the heat, drive to the salt lickBBQ blind, and two step if need be. The only remnant of her Northern past that shecan't seem to shake is calling groups of friends, "You Guys". Something the "Gals" inher life fail to appreciate for the friendly gesture it is.

Scott Wiggerman - Austin, TXScott Wiggerman is author of Vegetables and Other Relationshrps (Plain View Press,2000) and editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press), now entering itstenth year. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Borderlands:Texas Poetry Review, Bay Windows, Gertrude, Midwest Poetry Review, Spillway, andthe Paterson Literary Review.In addition, his poems appear in several anthologies,including Will Work for Peace (Zeropanik Press, 1999), The Cancer Poetry Project(Fairview Press, 2001), Affirming Flame (Evelyn Street Press, 2002), The Fairest ofThem A// (Daniel& Daniel, 2003), and most recently, This New Breed: Gents, BadBoys and Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative, 2004) and In the Arms of Words:Poems for Disaster Relief (Sherman Asher, 2006).

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Jill Wiggins - Austin, TXJilf Wiggins, originally from England, has lived in Austin for 25 years. In addition tobeing a poet, Jill is an artist, wife, mother, grandmother, state employee, musicianand outdoor-lover. Her poems have appeared in several di-vdrs6-cify books, achapbook called Lemon Curd, and the anthology, Feeding the Crow. She led theWriters' League poetry study group for many years and has emceed several festivalvenues and hosted visiting international poets.

Lynn Williams - Martindale, TXLynn Williams lives and does volunteer work in Martindale, Texas.

C. Dawson Worley - Fort Worth, TXMs. Worley was awarded lst & 2nd Place in the 2OO4 Trinity Writer's Annual PoetryCompetition. She made the top 10 in the 2006 Star Telegram's Serial Writer'sCompetition. She lives in Fort Worth.

Robert Wynne - Fort Worth, TXRobert Wynne earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is theco-editor and publisher of Cider Press Review, and the author of 6 chapbooks. As thewinner of the Poetry Society of Texas' 2006 Eakin Book Award, his first full-lengthcollection, Remembering How to Sleep, will be published in 2007. He has wonnumerous prizes, and his poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologiesthroughout North America, He lives in Fort Worth.

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Tony Zurlo - Arlington, TXTony taught for two years in Nigeria with the Peace Corps in his careless youth. Hisquest to repel middle age routed Tony through China. There his students convincedhim he'd accumulated too much negative karma in his previous life as a corrupt QingDynasty official. So his punishment was reincarnation as an American trapped inTexas. Tony is now working on Alice in Cyberland, his anxiously-awaited historyabout 2lst century American foreign policy.

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