2007 Festival Program - Austin International Poetry Festival

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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 a
different face, starting with the buffet supper and opening ceremony that
dedicates the festival to the First Lady of Austin Poetry, Peggy Zuleika
Lynch. Immediately after the opening ceremony, w€ will present the
anthology launch with a dramatic reading of the poems by the poets
themselves.
Inside this program are schedules of readings, workshops, open mikes
and special events. Be sure to note activities for children as well as the
Children's Anthology reading at Barnes and Noble on Sunday afternoon.
There's a list of volunteers and sponsors who support AIPF. Support the
businesses that purchased the many adveftisements. Enjoy the festival
headquarters at Ruta Maya. Thanks to all for your suppoft.
Remember to sign-in at registration for workshops and Sunday's Dutch
treat Brunch. Participate in this year's fund-raiser by exercising your right
to vote. Select the 2007 People's Choice Poet from the list of registered
poets. Vote as many times as you please, even for yourself. Each vote will
cost one dollar. The winner receives a gift certificate. The two poetry
slams offer cash awards.
at Ruta Maya where the
anthology winners will be revealed and awards presented. There will be a
special surprise for Peggy, Invited Poets read one last time, and the
People's Choice Poet will be announced.
The finale is the Sunday morning Brunch
Thanks to all for participating in this year's poetry celebration.
Carolyn Luke Reding and Shlomi Harif
Co-chairs of Austin Poets International, fnc.
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2007 AIPF Board of Directors
Carolyn Luke Reding
Susan Stockton
Shlomi Harif
Natasha Marin
Deb Akers
Ralph Hausser
Barbara Youngblood Carr
Chip Ross
We need your help! AIPF is run by an
all-volunteer board, lf you would like
to give input on future AlPFs,
pfease email us at aiptinfo@aipf.org.
Mission Statement
Austin Poets International
promotes literary excellence by
connecting poets from Austin and
around the world. We provide a
dynamic, inclusive environment
that celebrates a passion for
language, cultural diversity, and
self-expression. Our organization
unites writers with the broadest
audience in a sharing of ideas
that affirms our humanity.
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Thank you Thank you Thank you!
DONORS:
Patricia Fiske
Byron Kocen, MD
Randy Lusk
Anne McCrady
Carolyn Reding
Dr. Charles A. Stone
SUPPORTERS
Gayle Bell
Barry Brummet
Jerome Davis
Nicholas Dorosheff
Gg Re
Eileen F. Hugo
Glynn M. lrby
Jazz Jaeschke
Marcelle Kasprowicz
Becky Liestman
Terry McCarty
Sandy R. Monaco
Joy Palmer
Christa Pandey
Mary-Agnes Taylor
Tony Zurlo
FRIENDS:
James J. Barnes
Del Cain
Margo Davis
William T. Dawson
Solana D'Lamant
Alison Worth Foster
Lewis Garvin
Christine Gilbert
Marybeth Gradziel
Kenneth P. Gurney
Julian Haber
Cindy Huyser
George Klawitter
Ron Lasseter
Heather Levy
John R. Milkereit
Judith Austin Mills
Shannon Rigby
Jackson Slater
JillWiggins
Lynn Williams
VOLUNTEERS:
Deb Akers
Lynn Brandstetter
Susan Bright
Barry Brummet
Del Cain
Barbara Youngblood Carr
Nancy Kenney Connolly
Robin Cravey
Christine Gilbert
Shlomi Harif
Ralph Hausser
David S. Hendler
Glynn M. lrby
Barbara and Charles Johanson
Ron Jorgenson
Ashley S. Kim
Becky Liestman
Melissa Lumpkin
Melanie Marcee
Natasha Marin
Anne McCrady
Katherine Durham Oldmixon
Joy Palmer
Judith Pittman
Vince Quinlan
Carolyn Luke Reding
John Reding
Theresa Reding
Kathleen Romana
Chip Ross
Susan Stockton
Rod Stryker
Thom the World Poet
David Thornberry
PJ Tolas
Under 21 Youth Slam Team
(Ron Horne & Sheila Lewis)
Jennifer Van Buren
Steve Vera
Scott Wiggerman
JillWiggins
Robert Wynne
Johnni Zanni
AIPF program and website designed & created by David S. Hendler.
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Venues
Special thanks to our venues who have graciously opened their
doors so that we have a space to share our art. We are guests in
their place of business. Treat them well.
Austin Java Barton Springs Road
Austin Java North Lamar
Barnes & Noble Westlake
BookPeople
Book Woman
Cafe Mundi
City Hall
El Sol y La Luna
Forum at Follet's
Garden District Coffeehouse
The Hideout
H
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U
niversity
LaTazza Fresca
Magnolia Cafe
Resistencia
Ruta Maya
St. Edward's University
Threadgill's
Twin Oaks Library Conf. Room
Vinny's 1003 Cafe
Westminster
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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
Reception and Buffet
5:3O
City Hall - 3O1 W. Second St.
Proclamation Honoring Peggy Zuleika Lynch
Susan Stockton
5:3O
Dedication to Peggy Zuleika Lynch
Carolyn Luke Reding, Barbara Youngblood Car[ Susan Bright, Glynn Monroe
Irby, Ric Williams
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Thursday
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Ruta Maya -
360l S' Congress
Ave.
Introduction of Featured Poets
Susan Stockton
-:15-1O:15
Anthology Launch
Robert Wynne, Carolyn Luke Reding, Ralph Hausser
- "5 a.m." through "Fluttering Focus"
2 - "Losing my Grip" through "Last Night"
Group 1
Group
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
Open Mic
HOST: Rod Stryker
Fnronv - ApnrL 13
1O:OO-5:OO
Registration
Deb Akers and volunteers
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2OO7 Schedule
- Friday
Friday Morning Workshops
- 11:OO
$uta Maya - 360l
1O:OO
S. Congress
Ave.
"Graphics in Poetry"
Glynn Monroe Irby
fhe
Ave.
Hideout - 617 N. Congress
Program
& website
"Trance Poetry: Finding the
Poetic Voice in Trance"
According to psychologist Erik
Erikson, we are already in a
trance. It is only up to us to
recognize it & follow it into more
life-affirming states. Using inner
guide meditations, fairy tales,
mythology, and an intense
attuning to the moment, Ric
Williams offers a method that
shatters the illusion of writer's
block. Images are everywhere.
Inside, outside, around & thru.
Pick one & follow, entranced.
Ric Williams
1:15-1 2:15
$,uta Maya - 3601 S. Congress
Ave.
"Musical Improvisation and
Poetry"
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Bring instruments and/or poetry
you would like illustrated with
music and sounds. The session is
open to poets without instruments
too - we need you for the
musicians to accompany your
words and rhythm of speech. In
fact it should be regarded as a
reading session with reruns so
musicians can experiment. This is
not a science exactly, it is
'improvisation with capital IMP.
including sound effects and,
Websites &
documents
of the highest
quality at
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Recent work:
AIPF site and program
2 National Poetry Slam sites
A local poetry venue site
A poet's personal site
A visual artist's personal site
What can I do for you?
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Friday - 2OO7 Schedule
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. this
workshop will begin by exploring the roots of confessionalism, from berryman
to plath. we will end with a new interpretation of the genre--humorous,
hopeful, helpful, half-truthed, somewhere in the middle, we will deliberately
construct ourselves as superheroes rather than basketcases, and we will write
poetry.
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, Del
Cain, 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, Robin
Cravey, 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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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 Kenneth
Swain, 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, Jo
Reyes-Boitel, Jazz Jaeschke, Rosemarie Horvath Iwasa
3:OO-5:0O
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
Happy Hour
5:3O-7:3O
Forum at Follet's
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4O2 Guadalupe St.
"Poetry and Revolution"
MODEMTOR: Robin Cravey
PANEL: Xue Di, Valzhyna Mort, Lorenzo Herrera
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Friday
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6:OO-9:
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Qt. Edwar{'s University - 3OOl S.
Congress Ave.
Dead Poets'Slam
HOST: Carolyn Luke Reding
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Barbara Youngblood Carr (Rainer
Maria Rilke), Anna Purdy (Everett
Maddox), Paula Small (Gwendolyn
Brooks), Gg Re (Stevie Smith),
Glynn Monroe Irby (Dylan Thomas),
LaQuinta Washington (Sylvia Plath),
Gayle Bell (Audre Lorde), Agnes
Meadows (Somhairirle MacGill-Eain
/ Sorley Maclean)
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Westminster - 41OO Jackson Ave.
www. borderla nds. org
Bob Mud, Earl Anderson, Elizabeth
Kropf, Chip Ross, Herman M. Nelson
BookPeople - 603 N. Lamar
(corner df 6th & Lamar)
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Li-Young Lee . ChaseTwichell
Cyrus Cassells . Rosemary Catacalos
Scott Hightowar, Olga Samples Davis, William Wonthe
Featured readings, workshops, panels and interviews,
poetry-in-music concerts, participant readings
and published anthology
Accommodations and gourmet meals on a
beautiful 200-acre campus of woods, meadows,
herb gardens, ponds, Roman follies
HOST: Anne McCrady
Lyman Grant, Larry D. Thomas,
Mary-Agnes Taylor, David Meischen,
Nancy Kenney Connolly, Jill
Wiggins, Chuck Taylor, Peggy
Zuleika Lynch, Katherine Durham
Oldmixon
LaTazza Fresca - 519 W. 37th St.
HOST: Kathleen Romana
Zanni
/ Johnni
D. Antwan Stewart, Ric Williams,
Robin Brown, Rebecca Raphael,
Anna Purdy, Strange Fruit, Heather
C. Levy, Josue Gabriel de
Montemayor
Book Woman - 918 W. 12th St.
HOST: Jill Alexander Essbaum
Usha Akella, Cindy Childress,
Maggie Jochild, Shlomi Harif, Cindy
Huyser, Deb Akers, T. Keyser, Susan
Bright, Donna Marie Miller
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- Friday
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Saturday
8:OO-Midnight
Slam
HOST: Mike Henry
madelyn hatter, Michael Guinn, Tiff Holland, Margo Davis, Tracy Townsend, Gg
Re, Donna Miller, Ricardo Garza, David Garcia Ordaz, Susan Stockton,
Whatamelon
Midnight-2:OO
Open Mic
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
Registration
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 providing
the listener/reader with comfoftable creative options. In this workshop Agnes
will 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 of
the 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 an
audience, Developing Your Own style.This workshop has been taught all over
the 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 that
celebrates it. If you want to be a better performer, you can not miss this
event.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)
"Prose Poems"
My workshop will offer a brief definition and overview of the prose poem form
along with published examples of prose poems and allow time for duscussion
and 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
Lorenzo Herrera, Brenda Rioias, Ricardo Garza, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, Oni the
Haitian Sensatioh, Rod Strykler,'Glynn Monroe lrby, Carolyn Luke Reding
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2OO7
Cafe Mundi
Schedule
- l7O4
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sth #1OO (between Comal & Chicon)
Bob Mud, Jackson Slater, Mary L. King, Dawn Runner, Claire Dixon, Lynn
Williams, Sandy R. Monaco
1:OO-4:OO
H_uston-Tillotson Auditorium (Agard-Lovinggood-200) - 9OO Chicon
st.
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, Anne
McCrady, 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 Lynne
Hudson, 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, Tommie
Ortega, J. Todd Hawkins, Marcelle Kasprowicz, Wendi White
2:OO-4:30
Texas Youth Word Collective Under 21 Slam Team
HOSTS: Ron Horne & Sheila Lewis
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2OO7 Schedule
- Saturday
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, Nicholas
Dorosheff, Lacey Roop, Mary Riley, Stephan Baley
fl.u-stonlfillotson university choir Room (Jackson Moody 2oo) - 9oo
Chicon 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, Becky
Liestman, Joy Palmer, Judith Austin Mills, Dorothy Turner, Barbara Youngblood
Carr
6:OO-8:
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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 - 2OO7 Schedule
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 Highway
Diverse Youth 2OO7 Anthology Reading
HOST: Deb Akers
Ralph Hausser, Christine Gilbert, Joy Palmer
2:3O-4:OO
Barnes & Noble Westlake
Youth Open Mic
- 7Ot S. Capitol of Texas Highway
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15th Annual
ALlStir-l
International
Poetrv
FestivdI
Ekiwah Adler-Belendez - Amatlan, Mexico
A poetic prodigy whose powerful verses have mesmerized Mexico's literary
scene. Born with cerebral palsy, he began composing poem fragments at the
age of three and published his first volume of poetry Soy (I Am) at the age of
12. His second collection Palabras Inagotables (Never-ending Words), and
when he was 14; and Weaver, his first book in English at 16. His latest, The
Coyotes Trace, features an introduction by poet Mary Oliver, one of Ekiwah's
biggest fans. With his extraordinary ability to relate to his audience, heaft to
heaft, it is no surprise he is making an impact on the American scene, as
well.
Usha Akella - Austin, TX
Usha Akella is the founder of the Poetry Caravan, a unique organization in
westchester county, New York that has so far offered 29o readings to
marginalized audiences in nursing homes, women's shelters, healthcare
facilities etc. She presented a panel on it at AWP 2007.
Her poems have appeared in Borderlands and Crab Orchard Review among
many others. She was the winner of Maryland Poetry Review's Egan Memorial
contest a few years ago. She has been a finalist for contests such as the
Wisconsin contest. She edited Borderlands Spring/Summer issue, 2OO7, and
her first book ...Kali Dances. So Do.L.. was released in 2O00 by Authors and
Writers India Ltd. She has read at various festivals world over in Macedonia,
Slovenia, Houston, Austin and more,
Felix Cheong - Laguna Green, Singapore
Felix Cheong was the recipient of the National Afts Council's Young Artist of
the Year for Literature Award in 2000. He has published three books of poetry
of which his third, Broken by the Rain (20O3) was short-listed for the 2004
Singapore 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. He
completed his Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of
Queensland in 2OO2. He is currently an adjunct lecturer and a freelance film
critic.
Xue Di - Brown University, Rhode Island
Xue Di was born in Beijing in 1957. He is the author of three volumes of
collected works and one book of criticism on contemporary Chinese poetry in
Chinese. In English translation, he has published fourfull length books, Zone,
Another Kind of Tenderness, An Ordinary Day and Heart into Soil, and four
chapbooks, Forgive, Cat's Eye in a Splintered Mirror, Circumstances, and
Flames. A new book, Across Borders, is fotthcoming in 2007 from Green
Integer Press.
His work has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies and
has been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Japanese. After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, he was a fellow in
Brown University's Freedom to Write Program, and is now a visiting scholar in
Brown's English Department. Xue Di is a two-time recipient of the Hellman/
Hammett Award, sponsored by Human Rights Watch, and a recent recipient
of a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship.
Jill Alexander Essbaum - Austin, TX
Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of the 1999 Bakeless Prize winner in
poetry, Heaven, and the 2005 gathering of sonnets, Oh Forbidden. Her
newest collection, Harlot, is forthcoming from No Tell Books. Her poetry has
appeared in journals both religious and secula4 both domestic and foreign,
both well-known and rabidly obscure. Her literary influences and obsessions
include the following: Simon Armitage, Nick Cave, St. Augustine, John
Bunyan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Simone Weil, and Dorothy Parker. Seriously.
If asked, she would tell you she imagines
hers to be the sly, naughty poems
that congregate in the alleyways between the houses of traditional formalism
and experimental poetics. Backlane poems with bad attitudes but clean,
clever rhymes. Poems that slink through the streets like stray cats all the
while kneading your lap like love-hungry kittens. Poems that want you to
need them and need you to want them. Poems that will kiss you. Poems that
will kick you.
Jill lives in Austin, Texas and Zurich, Switzerland.
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Lyman Grant - Austin, TX
Lyman Grant has worked at Austin Community College for nearly thirty years.
He has taught developmental writing, creative writing, composition, and
literature; served as chair of the developmental writing department and of
the creative writing department; and as chair of the developmental education
division. Currently, h€ is Dean of Arts and Humanities.
He has authored and/or edited six books. His previous volume of poetry is
titled Text & Commentary. Lyman's essays, reviews, and poetry have
appeared in a variety of periodicals and anthologies, including The Texas
Observer, Dallas Morning News, Texas Humanist, Langdon Review, Creative
Pulse, Teaching English in the Two Year College, Sulphur River Literary
Review,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,
TX
Michael Guinn is the nation's top spoken word performer, fusing poetry and
theatrics to bring life to a message that hits home. He is a charismatic native
Texan who holds an MSW in social work and minor in literature. What he
witnessed as a caseworker for Child Protective Services "is what inspired him
to begin writing poetry."
Michael is host of the weekly Foft Worth National Poetry slams and
consistently ranks among the top national and international poets since he
humbly began sharing his soul atthe national level in 2001. He is a member
and co-founder of the Emmy nominated Performance Poetry Troupe "Spoken
Images" as well as Founder of the Foft Worth National Poetry Slam Team
which annually competes at the National Poetry Slam Championships. Michael
performs throughout the United States and in Canada. He has won countless
awards at events all over the country including the New Word series in
Berkeley, the Austin International Poetry Festival (3), and the Bluebonnet
Poetry Festival.
madelyn hatter - Atlanta, GA
Megan A. Volpert is a performance poet from Chicago who has settled in
Atlanta. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana
State University, and currently teaches High School English. She performs
largely under the pseudonym dr. madelyn hatter, and since 2002, has
featured at over 50 venues in 14 states in support of her first spoken word
CD, no morning after.
This love child of Joan Jett and Tina Fey has been sharing her witty left-wing
banter and moderately obnoxious shenanigans on stage with a wide range of
2L
poets since 2OA2: from Bitch, Buddy Wakefield and Collin Kelley, to Laura
len, Christian Bok and Andrei Codrescu. The second CD, seven lives left, is
forthcoming in winter 2008, as well as the chapbook, domestic transmission:
poems for the next generation of housewives, from MetroMania Press in April
t'a tome for hip
2OO7. Denise Duhamel says that domestic transmission is
housewives everywhere," and Ragan Fox adds that these poems "sizzle with
want and pop with insight. A postmodern Rumpelstiltskin, Megan has a talent
for spinning mundane events into poetic gold." Her other publications include
pieces in the columbia poetry review, nth position and Defenestration
Magazine.
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Rooted in confessionalism and surrealism, her written work is also very
influenced by second generation New York School poets and elements of the
performative. Volpert's first collection of poems was released by BlazeVOX
Books in January 2OO7. Amy King says of face blindness, "When you're ready
to venture off the daily grid of life-as-planned [...] you'll find no prescriptions
of an average or calming sort here." Dara Weir adds, "Megan A. Volpeft has in
common with other high-rolling ornery genius pistols a lot of nerve, a lot of
heart, and an inability to leave anything said alone."
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strangely addictive Ladies Home Journal. Her tongue-in-cheek tongue twisters
will make you want to dig out your feather duster, tie on vour apron, or plug in
your Remington Heated Curlers."
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AIPF 2007 Featured Poets
Lorenzo Herrera - Austin, TX
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano is a Queer Xicano Poet, Dreamer and Activist, born
in San Jos6, California, raised in Estaci6n Adela, Chihuahua, and now living in
Austin, Tejas. Lorenzo's work has been called "uncompromising and hopeful,
cinico y cariffoso," "inspiring... provocative," "landing so deep/you bleed
without feeling the cut."
He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-Nominated Santo de la Pata
Alzada: Poems from the Queer/Xicano/Positive Pen. He is in the final stages
of publishing his second book, Promesas y Amenazas, an all-Spanish
collection of poetry inspired on the Bolero aesthetic; and is finalizing his third
collection, God DonT Live Here Anymore, scheduled to be released in 2008.
Lorenzo is the Director of Arts & Community Building for allgo, a Statewide
Queer People of Color Organization in Tejas, and serves on the Board of
Unid@s, the National Latina/o LGBT Human Rights Organization. Lorenzo is
the founder of a small publishing effort, Xorizote Press, focused on
addressing the limited number of published work available by Queer Xicano
men, publishing new and emerging voices.
Joe Hoppe - Austin, TX
W. Joe Hoppe was born December 24, t961, one day before Ed Roth picked
up a magic marker and drew the first Rat Fink on a refrigerator door. He grew
up in Jackson, Michigan where he worked as a janitor in a tool & die shop and
a gas station attendant, jobs that have inspired him to this very day. He
received a degree in communications from the University of Michigan in 1984
then headed to Minneapolis to pay off his debt to society by working in
shelters.
In Minneapolis he also got into the international Xerox 'zine scene, wrote a lot
of what got called gritty prose, rode motorcycles, started getting tattoos,
hung out with artists and creative folks, and upped his coolness level enough
to be noticed by the lovely and hip P.S. Monear. He convinced her to run off to
Texas, a place neither had ever been, and they left in mid-Octoberl989. Joe
hit the ground running in Austin, making contact with like-minded folks
through the legendary open mikes held at the late lamented Chicago House.
He counts himself very fortunate to have been a student of Alfred Huffstickler
and 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 continues
to love and care for Max and Polly Sue.
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Ken Jones - Houston, TX
over 20 years in academic and
journals.
magazines, websites, anthologies and other forums.
underground
Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters, a compilation of some previously
published poems, was released in 2006 on PlainView Press.
Ken Jones has been a published poet for
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 and
recorded as both a poet and lead singer of the underground band Peace
Corps. After a move to Los Angeles in the 1990's he earned a J.D. from the
Univerisity of Southern California and continued to record, perform and
publish as both poet and musician. He has spent the 00's in Houston, as a
full-time faculty member at the Art Institute of Houston, teaching Creative
Writing, English and Law.
He hosts the monthly Art Institute Poetry Reading Series at Borders-River
Oaks, which recently celebrated its 5th Anniversary. His professional
memberships include: The Academy of American Poets, Writer Member of
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the
State Bar of Texas.
Agnes Meadows - London, UK
Agnes continues to write poetry wherever and whenever she can. She finds
her inspiration in the pendulum of human emotion and writes about good,
bad, ugly, laughter, pain, whiskey and wild nights. Her slow burning novel is
still gestating, her several books and CDs are still selling, her stage show with
two other English poets will be ready sometime soon. Watch out world!
Valzhyna Mort - Alexandria, VA
Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus where her first book of poetry was
published in 2005. She was a recipient of Gaude Polonia scholarship in
Poland. In May 2006 she was a writer in residence at Literarisches Colloquium
in 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 Copper
Canyon Press, USA.
Bob Mud - Brisbane, Australia
Bob Mud (McMahon), sometimes Bob McMud, is an Australian artist, musician
and poet strongly oriented towards environmental arts. His name is Mud
because he paints in mud and is in Austin for 3 months working with
communities to produce the world's longest painting - mud on newpaper.
Published author, and exhibition sculptor, his 'Environmental Dreamtime
music was distributed world wide by Larrikin Records.
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Khadijah Queen - Atlanta, GA
Khadijah Queen holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los
Angeles. Her first full-length manuscript, January Stranger, will be available
from Black Goat, an imprint of Akashic Books, in fall 2OO7. A chapbook, rVo
Isla Encanfa, will be available from dancing girl press
(www.dancinggirlpress.com) in May 2007 .
Individual poems have appeared in numerous journals, including new ohio
review, The Adirondack Review and Aughf. Her work has twice been
nominated for the Pushcaft Prize. Currently, she studies installation,
performance and sound art at Georgia State University.
Shia Shabazz - Austin, TX
Cave Canem Fellow, Austin Project Member, VONA Voices Master's Suite and
Hurston/Wright Writers' Week Pafticipant Shia Shabazz, is a mother,
daughter, sister, friend, lover, activist, believer breathing-in-the-moments,
ho pe-fi I ed a uth orlpoet/scree nw rite r/sto ryte I e r. WO RD !
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TX
will
D. Antwan Stewaft
receive his M.F.A. this spring from the Michener
Center for Writers, where he is a James A. Michener Fellow in poetry. He is
the 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 Out
For, Bloom, New Millennium Writings, Lambda Book Report, DIAGR AM, can
we have our ball back?, storySouth: The Best of the South 2005, and others.
Larry D. Thomas - Houston, TX
Larry D. Thomas has published six collections of poems: The Lighthouse
Keeper (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 With
the Light of Apricots, an online chapbook (Lily Press, 2OO7). His seventh
poetry collection, The Fraternity of Oblivion, is forthcoming from Timberline
Press (Fulton, Mo.) in 2007.
Among the prizes and awards he has received for his poetry are the Violet
Crown Award, Western Heritage Award (Western Heritage Museum,
Oklahoma), two Texas Review Poetry Prizes, and three Spur Award Finalist
citations. 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, TX
Ric Williams was born in Arkansas in 1952. He began acting and writing early
and has been interested in the slippery nature of consciousness ever since.
He received his master's degree in mythology with an emphasis in depth
psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 1998. Ric has edited the
"Litera" listings of The Austin Chronicle since 1988. He wrote the "Poet's
Beat" column (interviews with local poets) for The Austin Light from t9B7199 1.
He edited for Ed Buffalo's poetry anthologies Aileron and Vowel Movement in
the late 80's and early 90's and was the associate editor from L997-1999 for
Alchemy on Sunday, the literary journal of Pacifica Graduate Institute, He has
written and/or edited for the Austin Chronicle, Man! Magazine, and the Salf
Journal. His interview with Larry McMurtry is included in Conversations with
Texas Writers, published in March 2005 by UT Press. Ric's first solo collection
of poems, the secret book of god, can be found at
www.dalton publ ishi ng. com.
"I don't know" is often the wisest thing he has ever said. Yet, he believes the
universe is, ultimately, a comedy and wants you to know that, despite any
thing you may have heard to the contrary, "You matter. you will always
matter."
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Deborah Akers - Austin, TX
Deborah Akers earned her Master's degree from the University of Texas. A long time
AIPF voluntee6 Deb has been published in a variety of journals, newspapers and
magazines. She now promotes poetry in all its incarnations as an AIPF board
member serving as volunteer coordinator, registrar and DIVERSE YOIJTH editor. She
is a board member for BORDERLANDS: Texas Poetry Review where she works as
mail manager and editorial assistant.
Mitchell L. Allen - Austin, TX
Sometimes a simple distraction provides a perspective that completely changes a
mind.
Sally Alter - Kerrville, TX
ly Alter, former poetry editor of llluminations International e-journal, has
published in llluminations, Musings, di-vdrs6-city 2006, Houston Poetry Fest 2005,
2006, and the Texas Poetry Calendar 2006. Originally from London, she is a member
of the Kerruille Writers Association, and is presently working on a poetry collection
and a mainstream novel.
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Earl Anderson - Tahlequah, OK
Earl lives with his beautiful wife, two dogs and a cat in the western Ozarks and
writes. He is a Korean War veteran and retired geologist/ teacher. He hopes someday
to decide what to do when he grows up.
Yvonne Armstrong - San Antonio, TX
Yvonne M. Armstrong received the International Poet of Merit Award from the
International 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 and
2002, she also received Honorable Mention in the 2OO2 - 2003 San Antonio Texas
Citywide Poetry Fair Poetry Contest. She has 5 published books and her poetry has
appeared in several monthly magazines and is included in ten anthologies.
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Registered Poets
Stephan Baley - Austin, TX
I am a new fathe4 so no matter how hard I try not to, my daughter inevitably winds
up in my poetry.
Joe Barnes - Houston, TX
Joe Barnes is a three-time juried poet at the Houston Poetry Fest. His work has
appeared 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 Nemerov
national sonnet competition. Barnes is also a playwright.
Gayle Bell - Mesquite, TX
Gayle Bell has featured in open mics in the Dallas area.
John W. Berry - Austin, TX
Berry regards "academic poet" as an oxymoron, and writes what he calls "musecentered poetry". Foftunately, there are nine muses, so he gets a little variety. He is
a professional poet, with poetry his religion and his worship. Poetry determines
where 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 in
print.
Joe Blanda - Austin, TX
Joe Blanda is a musician, songwriter, editor, poet and long-time resident of Austin.
Susan Bright - Austin, TX
Susan Bright is a poet and the publisher of Plain View Press which for 31 years has
published poets from all overthe country and the world. She is the author of 18
books of poetry an environmental and peace activist, and a year-round lap swimmer
at Barton Springs. plainviewpress.net
Marie Brown - Houston, TX
Marie Brown is a native of San Antonio and lives in Houston, TX. Author of poetry
spoken word, and songs. Marie began writing at age 10. Poetry for her is no hobby;
it is her lifestyle.
Robin Brown - San Antonio, TX
Robin Brown is currently enrolled at Northwest Vista Community College, pursuing
an Associate of Arts. In July she received the poetry prize from Gemini Ink during
the Celebrate San Antonio Festival which included the
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The PVP studio will be open 10 AM - Dark,
April 12-15. AIPF poets and guests welcome
any time to browse and purchase PVP icons,
books, jewlery and to trade or swap books
by/with other AIPF poets.
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 first
exhibit on Friday moming.
3. Email sb@plainviewpress.net
with questions. Email inquiries will
get faster answers than phone calls. (512-626.4037)
4. Books must be picked up by dark on Sunday, 4lI5.Leftover titles will be
donated to AIPF. Payment for books sold will be made on sire. Funds not
collected 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.
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is Tieadwell. Turn left on Kinney and again tum left on Dexter. Or cut thru the Alamo Daft House parking lot
behind Heart of Texas Music. Dexter dead ends into the back parking lot of the Alamo Draft House. If you're
coming North on South Lamar rurn left on Treadwell which is two lights after Olforf, then proceed as above.
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opportunity to read at the event. She also
has forthcoming publications with the Coe
Review and Slab Literary Magazine.
Barry Brummett - Austin,
TX
Barry Brummett is Professor and Chair in
the Department of Communication Studies
at the University of Texas. He has
published poetry in di-vdrs6-city, in a few
small journals, and online in magazines
such as The Pedestal and Wazee.
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Del Cain - Saginaw, TX
Del Cain is a poet and writer of prose who
lives and works in Saginaw, Tx. He is the
author of 2 nonfiction books and has had
poetry appear in di-v1rs6-city, Blood and
Thunder, WestView, New Winds, and
others. He presents workshops on creative
writing, including poetry when he is not
sitting at home staring at blank computer
screen trying to convince his wife that he
is really working.
Nancy Kenney Connolly - Aus-
tin, TX
Widely published in many literaries and
three books, Nancy was an active AIPF
Board member 2003-2006, and was
Featured Poet at the 2006 Houston Poetry
Fest. Her work won the 2002 Main Street
Rag Chapbook Contest (for I Take This
World), first place in the 2002 di-vdrs6city, and many other prizes.
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Barbara Youngblood Carr Austin, TX
Native-born Texan Barbara Youngblood
Carr; author of eleven books about Native
American Cherokee heritage & Texas/
Southern upbringing (five funded by City
of Austin Arts Commission); host of
Borders-On-The-Word poetry venue and
Board member of Austin Poets
International, Inc. for over fourteen years;
Editor for A Galaxy of Verse &
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DreamersThree Press; published on three continents; appointed National Poet
Laureate for The Military order of the Purple Heart for 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Peggy Chaney - Fort Wofth, TX
I
have written poetry since the second grade. The words are music in my head. My
work has appeared in Positive Parenting, Thuy Saliba's Connection chapbook,
national anthologies, and has been recognized by Writer's Digest.
Cindy Childress
- Lafayette,
LA
Cindy Childress is proud to be at AIPF for the seventh yearl She placed third in the
Christina Sergeyevna contest in 2006 and was awarded the Marcella Siegel Memorial
Prize for Poetry in 2005. Her poetry has recently been published in Touchstone,
Rock and Sling, Temenos, Dispatch Litareview, among others. She teaches writing
and literature courses at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she's
completing a creative disseftation for a Ph. D. in English.
Robert Elzy Cogswell - Austin, TX
Robert Elzy Cogswell, an Austin poet retired from librarianship, has poems published
or 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, TX
Kristiana has been doing poetry for 16 years now. In that time, she has stafted her
own publishing company, Eismyne Press, Inc. Published 4 books and2 CD's as well
as be a Literacy Advocate for schools in San Antonio.
Robin Cravey - Austin, TX
Robin Cravey learned to think about the universe as a boy, camping out with his
family in the Piney Woods, falling asleep under the stars. He loved the music and
meaning of words and wanted to own every word he met. He moved from Houston
to Austin aiming to learn about life and the world, which seemed to involve going to
UT off and on, driving a taxi a lot, publishing an environmental news magazine, and
hitchhiking around the country. Then he married Jane, and they had Emma and
Molly. He worked on small town newspapers, started a literary publishing outfit, ran
a desktop publishing business, and started thinking about how to make a living. He
went to law school, worked at city hall, and then started his own law practice. Today
he's still practicing law, still married to Jane, still going camping, and still learning
the music and meaning of words.
Jerome Davis - Colorado Springs, CO
Jerome 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 telephone
solicitor. He is, at this moment, pursuing what he believes is his true calling,
professional lottery winner.
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Margo Davis - Houston, TX
Margo Davis earned an MFA in creative writing (emphasis in poetry) from UNO. She
loves poetry not only for the limitless pleasure language brings her but the
unpredictable, rich voices, and friends, she discovers.
William T. Dawson - Belen, NM
I will allow the gods to write my intro.
Tony Degges - Austin, TX
Tony Degges poet, writer published in Pudding Magazine, The Walking Rain Review,
other zines and The Austin Advocate (voices from the street.) Studied under Richard
Shelton of the Univ. of Az. in creative writing workshop for 15 yrs. while incarcerated
in the Az. Dept. of Corrections.
Solana D'Lamant - Dallas, TX
A 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee, Solana is currently a PhD. student at the University
of Texas at Dallas, specializing in translation studies. She holds her MFA from
Vermont College. With two chapbooks published, she has two manuscripts out for
publication. She will teach at the Frontiers of Writing in Amarillo, TX in June, 2007.
Claire Dixon - Baton Rouge, LA
Claire Dixon was born in England, raised in Canada, and currently resides in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, where she is completing her MFA thesis.
Nicholas Dorosheff - Herndon, VA
I live in a prosaic world inhabited by the most exciting people I ever
pleased to meet you.
hope to find. I'm
Michael D. Eaton - Austin, TX
Born in Burkburnett and grew up in the Panhandle of Texas. The vast open vistas
allowed me to have an open mind which I filled as rapidly as possible with everything
from pulp fiction to Shakespeare. The paperback and magazine rack at the local
drugstore was my university, since most great writers were banned from the school
library. Censorship is the eighth deadly sin.
Nancy Fierstien - Dripping Springs, TX
Nancy Fierstien adopted the great state of Texas in the spring of 1985, after starting
out as a child up in Michigan. Her poetry appears in two AIPF anthologies, the 2006
Texas Poetry Calendar, the Map of Austin Poetry online newsletters, and in a new
chapbook titled Never What It Seems. Still more work is posted at fierstien.net. She
lives to write in the Hill Country town of Dripping Springs, TX.
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Patricia Fiske - Austin, TX
Patricia recently celebrated her 80th birthday on stage at Hyde Park Theatre. She
began writing poetry when she was 68. Before that, she was motheq wife, teacher;
puppeteer, stage and film actress, and tired.
Mark Ford - Jacksonville, TX
Yesterday I was something else. Something else tomorrow. But today I'm a poet.
Alison Worth Foster - Austin, TX
I was born and raised in Austin but moved away for several years to attend graduate
school in the Boston area. While I was there I joined a group called Grub Street
Writers & also workshopped at Poets House in NYC. I moved back to Austin about 2
years ago & work at a residential treatment center for abused/neglected children.
Josue Gabriel de Montemayor
- Dallas,
TX
No bio submitted.
Lewis Garvin - Houston, TX
Lewis Garuin has taught at William and Mary, Univ. of New Orleans, Country Day in
Metairie, and Clements High in Sugar Land. He has published in the New Orleans
Review and Spiky Palm and read in the Houston Poetry Festival.
Ricardo A. Garza - Dallas , TX
Originally from South Texas, Ricardo has writing and peforming his poetry from
South Texas to the Bay Area. A prolific writer and performer he has been featured in
Colleges and High Schools where he also conducts poetry workshops as part of
Writers 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 contemplative
wrttings on the common and disenfrachised minority appear in his chapbook, Blood
Brothers y otros Poemas, and spoken word CD, Fiebre del Sol.
Christine Gilbert - Austin, TX
Christine is production coordinator for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and a
freelance book editor. She doesn't send her poems out much but has been in
numerous AIPF anthologies. Being a Gemini, her other side is artist, and she has a
studio where she works in watercolors and acrylics. She's also experimenting with
digital photography. Her aft was on the cover of the AIPF anthology last year.
Deborah Glast - Arlington, TX
I am originally from Odessa, Texas where my family has always been active in the
secular and Jewish communities. My family taught me to be responsible for myself
and the world around me. Currently I am a second year PhD candidate at the
University of Texas at Arlington where I have the privilege to teach others and to
share that responsibility. I understand the power of language and how it has been
and is being used to communicate ideas that have and will change the world.
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Mary Beth Gradziel - Red Rock, TX
Mary Beth Gradziel nurtures and is nuftured by her little piece of paradise in the lush
Hill Country southeast of Austin, protected by words, mirrors and friends, both two
legged and four legged. Life is Art. The Universe Dances. Good triumphs over Evil.
All Ways.
Joyce Gullickson - Burnet, TX
Joyce Gullickson is a Texas native, currently residing in Burnet. She is a nurse, and is
interested in the healing magic of poetry. She is married to a fellow poet, Mike, who
encourages her to keep writing.
Michael Gullickson - Burnet, TX
I am dedicated to the idea that poetry can and does change the world--one reader at
a time. My poetry attempts to address this philosophy by sharing the experience of
living and breathing and singing. I have published and read across the United
States. Each new day--each new poem is a joy I offerto you!
Kenneth Gurney - Shorewood, WI
Kenneth Gurney has had many poems published, is the former editor of Tamafyhr
Mountain Poetry, tends not to stay in one place too long.
Julian Stuart Haber - Fort Worth, TX
Julian Haber is a Fort Wofth physician, poet and author. His most recent publications
are They Were Soldiers in Peace and War in which he interviewed more than fifty
veterans from wwII through Iraq, and a mystery Blood Avenger, much of which
takes place in Austin. He has written poetry since fifteen and his poems have been
published in a variety of media. In 2006 one was published in Critique and another in
Blood and Thunder (University of Ok.).
Marian Haber - Fort Worth, TX
I teach college journalism part-time and do freelance writing. In recent years I have
concentrated on poetry after spending most of my life writing non-fiction.
Shlomi Harif - Austin, TX
Shlomi 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, TX
Ralph 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 in
English from California State University, Northridge in 1969. He moved to Austin in
1971 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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Environmental Quality Magazine. His work
has appeared in Ardent, di-v€rs6-city,
Eclipse, Pebble Lake Review,
Poetography, Rio Review, Southern
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I. Todd Hawkins - Austin, TX
J. Todd Hawkins graduated from the
University of Texas and works as a writer
and editor for an educational publishing
company. He has had poetry published in
Antietam Review, Wisconsin Review, and
several other journals and has work
forthcoming in Borderlands. He has also
authored two poetry chapbooks. Todd has
worked as a co-editor for the AIPF
anthology, di-v€rs6-city, and currently
lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife,
Shannon.
Raquel P. Hernandez - Del
Rio, TX
I spent the ten years immediately after
high school falling apart. I am now ready
to face the world,-Raquel Hernandez,
paranoid schizophrenic, poet, lesbian,
wife, sister, aunt, cousin, and friend.
Evan Hilliard - Florissant, MO
Evan aka Copasetic Soul, is new to the
spoken word scene. He found a passion
for spoken word after attending the 2OO4
National Poetry Slam held in St.Louis, MO.
Since then, he has peformed at the 2005
and 2006 Southern Fried Slam, Last Poet
Standing Compition in Kansas City,
St.Louis Slam and various cities.
Tiff Holland - Round Rock, TX
Tiff Holland recently moved to the Austin
area and finds it a great improvement
over Blimp-City, Akron, Ohio. Tiff works
as a field insurance adjuster covering the
area from Waco to San Antonio. Her
poetry and fiction have recently appeared
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chapbook Bone in a Tin Funnelwhich deals with her struggle with the vertigo and
dizziness of Meniere's disease is due for publication this spring. Tiff has twice been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize- once in fiction and once for poetry.
Terri Lynne Hudson - Austin, TX
No bio submitted.
Eileen F. Hugo - Stoneham, MA
No bio submitted.
Cindy Huyser - Austin, TX
Cindy Huyser is a poet, computer programmer, and former power plant operator. A
long-time resident of Austin who grew up in the Detroit area, Cindy's subjects range
from nature to the industrial, in forms from sonnets to free verse. Her work has
appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, wild plum, the Texas poetry
Calendar, and a number of anthologies.
Glynn Monroe Irby - Clute, TX
Glynn Monroe Irby has been published in AIPF anthologies, Houston Poetry Fest
anthologies, The spiky Palm, sol Magazine, Galaxy Journal, poetz e-zine, and
others; is the designer and co-author of the book, 3 savanna Blue; the cover
designer 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 displayed
photographic art in galleries, homes, and offices. Irby is a member of the American
Society of Interior Designers.
Rosemarie Horvath fwasa - Garfield Heights, OH
Placed #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 in
the Development Office of the Cleveland Play House as a secretary. I am the mother
of two grown children both currently residing in porland, OR.
Jazz Jaeschke - Austin, TX
A native Texan and naturalized poet, Jazz interprets life's fragments and threads in
verse with hints of humor and spirit. Actively retired, Jazz facilitates writing circles
and communes with nature. Her work is published in numerous journals and
anthologies, as well as her 2002 memoir.
Jazz One - Austin, TX
If MC means move the crowd or mic controller, then Jazz One is an MC. In addition to
rockin'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, TX
Maggie Jochild has twice won an Astraea Lesbian Writer's award for her poetry. She
is sixth generation Texas, third generation lesbian, raised white trash to become an
anti-racist activist, in love with language and women, and is currently working on a
novel.
Marcelle Kasprowicz - Austin, TX
Marcelle Kasprowicz was born in Niort, France. She writes in English and French. She
got first prize in the 2001 AIPF Anthology for her poem "House of Bones". In 2005
she published her first book of poems Organza Skies. It is available on Amazon, and
at Book People, Borders South, Book Woman and Monkeywrench Books.
T. Keyser - San Antonio, TX
T. Keyser has been writing since she could put pen to paper. To date she has selfpublished five chapbooks. She is currently at work on herself and her next collection
of poetry. Her most recent chapbook, This Noose Hangs Empty (2004), is available
now. She is the owne[ founder, brains, mistress and all-purpose slave of MetroMania
Press, which publishes small editions of poetry. (Really, it's a labor of love,) For
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Ashley S. Kim - Austin, TX
"There is poetry in the cradle of my soul, rocking me"--Alice Walker. I am a nanny by
day, poet by night. "Maya Poppins", you might say. A lover of passion flowers,
dictionaries, elephants, owls and oceans, I spend spare seconds attending to
important research like the anatomy of kindness or the physiology of the strangle-fig
tree. I crave yoga and avocados in the morning and mangoes and swimming at
midnight. I am my Korean husband's loving Catholic wife and my 6th-generationTexan father's loving Baptist daughter, which leaves me delightfully Captist.
George Klawitter - Austin, TX
George Klawitter teaches literature at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. His
first book of poetry, Country Matters, appeared in 2001. His book Let Orpheus Take
Your Hand won the Gival Press Poetry Award in 2002. His latest book of poetry lhe
Agony of Words appeared in 2004.
Byron Kocen, MD - Austin, TX
Byron Kocen has served on the board of AIPF from 1997 to 2006. He was chairman
from 2002-2005 and is now serving as board member emeritus. He is a practicing
developmental pediatrician and still finds time to write and share his poetry with the
world.
Elizabeth Kropf - Austin, TX
Elizabeth Kropf has been writing for sixteen years. Her poems have appeared in
Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature, The Penwood Review, and Ancient
Paths. She lives in Austin and earns narrative gold as a nanny. She is completing her
thesis for a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Perelandra College.
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Ron Lasseter - Arlington, TX
My biological life began in Waco, Texas in 1951. I was born as a poet the day I met
Kay Cohen's, (the Yoga Goddess) creative energy and encouragement (January
something 2006). Ms. Cohen asked me to take charge of a "poetry component" of
the "Flair of the Aft" Yoga Retreat she was hosting at Kevin Leech's Whispering
Waters Retreat in July 2006. The poetry has been flowing like the springs at Wizard
Wells, Texas ever since.
Heather C. Levy - Austin, TX
Heather C. Levy began writing poetry at seventeen after hearing a Richie Haven's
lyric: "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 small
moments in time that can be applied to "bigger", ethical, political, and/or personal
situations. New to Austin, she is active in local poetry readings, and has been a
featured poet at LaTazza Fresca.
Becky Liestman - Austin, TX
Becky 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, a
published poet, and a Pushcart Prize nominee, she is very happy to be a member of
the Austin poetry community.
Jessica Lindberg - Colorado Springs,
CO
Ladies and gentleman, Jessica Lindberg.
Melissa Lumpkin - Austin, TX
Melissa is currently pursuing a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing at
Texas State University in San Marcos. Although not a native Texan, she has lived in
Austin for the past three years with her dog Jack and his dog Soda. Her latest
adventures include a new mohawk, the beginnings of an artistic expression on the
kitchen wall and her never-ending search for the pefect cup of coffee.
Peggy Zuleika Lynch - Austin, TX
Peggy Zuleika Lynch continues as a Director of the Poetry Society of Texas and as an
advisor for the Austin Poetry Society. She currently serves as Chair for two
international poetry contests, the Paris American Academy and the United States
Poets Laureate International.
Terry McCarty - Canoga Park, CA
Terry McCarty was born in Electra, TX in 1959. He moved to Los Angeles, CA in
1988. Terry has been writing poetry for 10 years now. His poems are wry, humorous
narratives about the American workplace, Hollywood, love and the business of living.
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Anne McCrady - Henderson,
TX
Anne McCrady is an award-winning poet,
professional storyteller and inspirational
speaker whose work appears in journals,
anthologies, her own collection and most
recently an international anthology, Ihe
Book of Hopes and Dreams, whose
proceeds benefit medical aid to
Afghanistan. She is the founder and
principal of InSpiritry, an endeavor to
rekindle the creative spirit of individuals
and organizations. Anne lives in the piney
woods of East Texas with her husband,
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Natasha Marin is a conceptual artist and
poet living in Austin, Texas, She is Cave
Canem fellow, an Affrilachian Poet and cofounder of the Gibbous Moon Collective.
In 2006, the City of Austin agreed to cosponsor her interactive art installation
project entitled Graduate-Level Graffiti
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appeared in several publications including
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South Carolina Review. Find her on the
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Neil Meili - Austin, TX
Zen Cowboy Poet - Alberta Canada and
Austin Texas. Involved in AIPF as board
member, supporter and reader since year
two of festival.
David Meischen - Austin' TX
No bio submitted.
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John Milkereit - Houston, TX
I have been writing and taking workshops for several years including two Inprint
poetry workshops last year while holding down my day job as a traveling
salesperson. I live at home with my regenerating ivy plant and some fake fish.
Donna Marie Miller - Austin, TX
Donna Marie Miller is a l7-year veteran teacher and former newspaper reporter for:
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.
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Judith Austin Mills - Pflugerville, TX
Judith 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 stories
from 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 Place
mainstream manuscript.
Sandy R. Monaco - San Antonio, TX
Sandy is a poet/actress/, and a regular in open mics. She has received several
certificates for a talent show & The Renaissance Guild, She is currently a Junior at
Texas 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 late
poets AnaRose Marsden & Trinidad Sanchez Jr.
Kebriana Nash - Austin, TX
No bio submitted.
Herman M. Nelson - Austin, TX
John Berry, Thom the World Poet, and Sue Littleton and I founded AIPF, thus I have
been granted lifetime membership. Before poetry, I wrote about 150 songs that
were published by Sonosong Publishing Co. I am authorof Elkinsinger's Perfected
Tarot and many of my poems have been published or won awards. Austin Poetry
Society and Ken Hanson's Austin Poetry Guild are organizations to which I belong.
Daniel Garcia Ordaz - Donna, TX
Daniel 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 and
raised in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He teaches high school English and is a
former newspaper reporter. He is also a word-maker-upper.
Tommie Ortega - Austin, TX
Tommie Ortega has been part of the Austin Poetry Community since 1990 when she
first 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 had
several displays at Ruta Maya and several Austin cafes. She is a resident of Austin
and lives with her paftner of 21 years, a poodle and her 2 year old Dachshund.
Katherine Durham Oldmixon - Austin, TX
artist Katherine Durham Oldmixon directs the Writers' Studio and
teaches writing and literature at Huston-Tillotson University in east Austin. A
member of Austin Poetry Society and Austin Poetry Guild, Katherine's work has
appeared in the last three di-v€rs6-city anthologies. She is currently working on a
book of collected poems tentatively titled Generation After Compromise.
Poet, traveler, and
Oni the Haitian Sensation - Ottawa, ON
Internationally recognized Queen of spoken word, Oni the Haitian Sensation
launches her book of poetry Ghettostocracy. oni peformed across canada,
Australia, the United States and Europe, Ghettostocracy burns with lyrical brilliance
and political integrity. Whether she's taking down popular cultural icons, taking on
womanhood or taking a fist to racism, Oni's poetry delivers mind-blowing, poetic
voyages from Ottawa to Haiti to South Central l-A, debunking nationalistic clich6s
and "cultural wannabees" and firmly asserting her Canadianness.
Joy Palmer - Austin, TX
Joy Palmer divides her life between Austin and Washington, DC. In addition to
publishing poetry, as a management consultant, she has published books, articles,
and columns on leadership and business,
Christa Pandey - Austin, TX
Christa Pandey has lived and traveled in many parts of the world, She recently
settled in Austin, where she hopes to lend her voice to politically aware and
culturally rich poetry venues. Her poems have appeared in several magazines and
anthologies and have won a few prizes as well.
Angela Patterson - Austin, TX
Angela Patterson is a poet, musician, and songwritel but her day job involves
computers, databases, and spreadsheets. Last year she became a mother and a
cancer sunrivor. She missed last year's festival because chemotherapy plus a fiveweek-old baby left no energy for poetry. This year, however, she stole a few
moments while the baby slept to register for AIPF at the last possible minute. Hooray
for poetry! Hooray for sleeping babies!
Juan Manuel Perez - La Pryor, TX
Juan Manuel Perez, also known as the Maroon Knight of Tavala County, is the author
of four chapbooks: Beneath The Tights, Within The Funny Colored Pages, Spirit of
Motecuhzoma II (2nd Ed), and Dial H for Horror. A History Teacher in the La Pryor
School 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 Fiction
Poetry Association.
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Michelle P. Pina - San Antonio, TX
Michelle 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 in
several anthologies, most recently in last year's AIPF anthology. She lives with her
husband, stepdaughter, two cats, and dog.
Frank Pool - Austin, TX
Frank Pool was the chairman of the board of AIPF for five years. He has published
poetry and literary criticism in a number of venues.
Anna Purdy - Lafayette, LA
Anna 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 and
funny creative non-fiction which is featured in herfirst chapbook, Dark Horses Die
Faster published in 2007. Check her out at www.annapurdy.com.
Vince Quinlan - Austin, TX
Local 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, TX
Rebecca Raphael is a New Orleanian who lived in Chicago for a long time and
somehow ended up teaching religious studies in Central Texas.
Gg Re - Austin, TX
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Carolyn Luke Reding - Austin, TX
Carolyn Luke Reding, poet-publisher of Old River Productions, lives in Austin. A
graduate of UT and the University of Houston Clear Lake, she taught social studies
and English in the Brazosport ISD for 20 years. Her poetry credits are Freeport
Bottle Works, Windhover 2006, 2007, Antonelli's River Inn, Texas Quotable Women,
Texas Poetry Calendars, di-v1rs6-city, New Texas, Suddenly V, Red Boots and
Attitude, 3 Savanna Blue, and Houston Poetry Fest 99.
Ramona Reeves - Austin, TX
Ramona Reeves writes fiction, poetry and essays. She recently received a Kimmel
Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency in Nebraska. Her poetry has appeared
in such publications as lhe Ledge, South Coast Poetry Journal, the Manhattan Poetry
Review and di-v€rs6-city. She lives in Austin, Texas.
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Sandy Christian Reyes - Austin, TX
A Native of the Dominican Republic, he was born in Harlem, NYC in 1980 and began
writing at age 10. He has been influenced by many writing styles and considers
poetry to be not just part of his life but part of him.
Jo Reyes-Boitel - San Antonio, TX
Queer, lover of oya, mother of a child with a mind like a country, working class third
world woman, formerly confined to a kitchen, not without love.
Shannon Rigby - Wimberley, TX
Shannon Rigby lives in the lovely town of Wimberley, Texas, and has enjoyed writing
as a creative outlet for years. Scribbling poetry is her favorite form of therapy. This
is the first time she has mustered up the courage to submit and share her musings
with an audience. She only hopes she can manage to coax her shaking knees to
match the rhythm of the poems.
Mary Riley - Austin, TX
No bio submitted.
Brenda Nettles Riojas - Harlingen, TX
Brenda Nettles Riojas, a mother, poet, writer, and creative spirit, grew up on the
border of South Texas and Mexico. She authored a book about the history of the
Catholic Church in the Rio Grande Valley, and has presented nationally on the subject of creativity. She is currently pursuing a M.F.A. in creative writing.
Jack C. Ritter - Plano, TX
I'm 58, I'm Married, and I'm white. (So you best not be messing with me.) I'm a
programmer by trade. I wrote video games for many years, and other 3D graphics
stuff. I've published some original algorithms. Now I tutor in Math and Physics. And
although I'm a hard-drinking, two-fisted Son of a gun, I'm also a fiscal conservative.
Lacey Roop - San Marcos, TX
Lacey is a fresh face who just moved here from Mississippi and is enjoying every
moment of it!
Chip Ross - Austin, TX
Ross is an active poet living in Austin. He routinely reads his work at weekly poetry
venues and backs up other poets by playing the bongos or congas.
Dawn Runner - Austin, TX
A local poet who frequents open mics and slam. I opened the 2006 20x2 Interactive
Show, 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, TX
Anne Schneider is a poet and artist from Kerrville, Texas. She presents mask and
doll workshops in her studio, Ventana al Cielo. There she also teaches Tai Chi and is
a Reiki practioner. Her book, Breath Found Along the Way, is a combination of her
poetry face cast mask art, and Tai Chi interests.
Valerie Kaye Scott - Austin, TX
Known to some as the EbonyloveQueen, Austin writer Valerie Kaye Scott has
enjoyed writing and publishing for six years.
Jackson Slater - Austin, TX
Seventh generation Texan and poet. I describe my work as: socially driven,
circumstantially motivated !
Paula Small - Sherman Oaks, CA
This is Paula's 2nd year at the AIPF and she's glad to return! She continued to
explore her storytelling skills, which included publication of her short story in The
Story Salon Big Book of Stories. However, Paula increased her focus on her poetic
prowess, thanks to the poets she heard, read & met at the AIPF. Check out her
words at : www.myspace.com/ brickstin or www.xanga.com/Sankofa 212. At
the end of the month, Paula will embark on an adventure that she is sure will
improve& influence her poetry. Feel free to stop her & say hil
Susan Stockton - Austin, TX
Susan Stockton is a current AIPF board member. Since making her debut at the
festival in 2005, Susan's work has been featured in local publications including AIpF
di-v€rs6-city 2006. A creative writing student at Austin Community College, she was
president 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 she
enjoys teaching preschool, designing websites and raising their children Saxon,
Victoria and Phyllis.
Dr. Charles A. Stone - Austin, TX
Dr. Charles A. Stone is the nom de plume of Ronald J. Jorgenson, a widely published
medical geneticist. The poetry of Dr. Stone has appeared in several medical and
poetry journals, on the Internet, and in three chapbooks. He resides with his wife in
Austin, Texas and Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
Danny Strack - Austin, TX
Danny Strack is a regular performer and feature at poetry slams and open mics
throughout central Texas. He has been on various stages over 250 times in the past
three 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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2007 Registered Poets
Rod C, Stryker - San Antonio,
TX
Founder of the Sun Poet's Society, cofounder of the Sun Arts Foundation,
author of the award-winning book,
Exploits of a Sun Poet, international
performance poet of epic proportions (in
my own mind), rumored to be close
friends with saints and sinners alike. If
you see me wandering the streets of
Austin, buy me a cup of coffee. It helps
me with my demons.
ls
I/iLtoile 's qLfts atrt Co{hcti6{a
'13450 Research Bhrd #11
Auslin, TX 78750
known as emo-lyric-postpunk-K poplesbenischen modernism. I do have a day
job. I believe in the province of the
imagination.
Brian Kenneth Swain - Pearland, Tx
Brian Kenneth Swain is author of the
novels World Hunger and Directed
Energy. He also writes short stories and
poetry, and has been a featured poet at
the Poetry Society of Texas, Houston
Poetry Fest, InPrint, and Barnes & Noble,
as well as on Pacifica and NPR radio. He is
author of the poetry collection Secret
Places, and his work has appeared in
numerous journals. He is a two-time
Pushcart Prize nominee.
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FINE GIFTS AND
UNIQT'E GREE1ING CARDS
Moonlight Dust
Sue Sun - Houston, TX
I'm part of that overused and tired genre
Phone (512) 25S5855
Fax (s12) 25G1598
Sparks
fly auoss dry dirt
lrom ancestral ccruncil fires.
Memories Iighr midnight sky's secrets,
awakcn rrnd fced spirits.
Bufhln bone
rvhisrles
chill rhr air.
Ghost danccs stir up nroonlighr dust
rvhcn they suur by.
When rvc hear disranr wolf horvls
sing ro us, we
drift back, and sdll
further back, inro ourseh.cs, inro
dre lives
of our ancestofi ro osr
beginnings.
When our dal.s on carth arc done
and
our lives
far{c,
thsir remembcred sparks
Samika Swift - Denton, TX
Newly Texan, Samika Swift lives in
Denton, where she emcees Denton Poets'
Assembly's open poetry mic at Recycled
Books and hangs out with the Denton
Writers League. Before abandoning the
harsh Indiana winters to devote her life to
wordslinging, she served her wage-slave
sentence as an alternative high school
teacher, teen librarian, bartender, event
coordinatoq coyote uglier pefformer,
office assistant, grill cook, housekeeper/
babysitte4 and dishwasher. Visit Samika
online at www,myspace.com/
and whispcrs on rhe rvind
will call us to
be
wirh rhem
in thc land of rhe Grcar Spirir
to dancc around ancestral
on tlre
council fires
full moon, stirring up
moonlighr dust.
by
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2OO7 Registered
Poets
Chuck Taylor - College Station, TX
Chuck 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 he
was one of the founder-operators of Paperbacks Plus Bookstore at 4th and Lavaca in
downtown Austin, where many poetry readings were held. He has been a CETA poet
and worked in Poets-in-the-Schools. In 1988 his book, What do you want, Blood?
won the Austin Book Award.
Mary-Agnes Taylor - Austin, TX
Mary-Agnes Taylor is a published poet and an Emerita Professor of English from TSUSan Marcos.
Kimberleigh Thompson aka "strange Fruit" - Austin, TX
"Strange Fruit"
Tracy Townsend - Oklahoma City, OK
No bio submitted.
Dorothy Turner - Austin, TX
Retired translator and world-be artist/poet who spent her first 21 years in North
Carolina, then 2 years a WAC, 15 years in Mexico and almost half a century in Texas.
Joanne M. Uppendahl - Spanawdy, WA
Joanne M. Uppendahl, MA, retired after 25 years as a mental health therapist to
pursue 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's
Edge 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, TX
Steve Vera served on the AIPF board as its website developer from 1998 - 2000, He
also served in 2004. His poetry has been published in the AIPF anthology and the
Mesquite Review and in his chapbook Axtlanadu. He is the primary developer of the
poetry and aft website www.poeticah.com.
Ron L. Wallace
- Austin, TX
I endeavor to enjoy every blessing that this life has offered. I spend my creative
thoughts following the voice that seeks harmony among such elements as the
beauty of nature, the eloquence of music in its many forms and the search for the
serenity of knowing one's place of spirit amongst all things.
Kaye Warren - Austin, TX
Kaye Warren, a native born Texan has been rocking worlds since she was born in
L962. She began writing poetry and short stories in first grade and has been hard at
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Registered Poets
work ever since. Ms. Warren has had the privilege to study under such notables as
Stanley 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, FL
LaQuinta Washington is the zealous poet that hails from New Orleans, LA. She
currently 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 and
short stories titiled The Intersection Between Love & Heartbreak due out in Mar
2007.
Barbara Ann Watson - Port Richey, FL
In Marquis Who's Who, NSAI, PASAWOR, The Amherst Society; took vocal and piano
in college, plays electric guitar and songwrites. Her favorite theme is her "Soda Pop
Poems" because poets and Oldies are underrated.
Diana Weber - West Babylon, NY
I am currently completing my Masters in Creative Writing at Hofstra University in
New York. I am a bohemian at heart looking for an outlet. I have been nominated for
a Pushcart Prize but, as goes with the territory of being a writer, was rejected.
Whatamelon - Cedar Park, TX
Totally Worth It!
Wendi White - Austin, TX
Wendi is a transplanted Yankee with 12 years in Texas under her belt. Since her
arival in Austin, she has learned to grow tomatoes in the heat, drive to the salt lick
BBQ blind, and two step if need be. The only remnant of her Northern past that she
can't seem to shake is calling groups of friends, "You Guys". Something the "Gals" in
her life fail to appreciate for the friendly gesture it is.
Scott Wiggerman - Austin, TX
Scott Wiggerman is author of Vegetables and Other Relationshrps (Plain View Press,
2000) and editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press), now entering its
tenth year. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Borderlands:
Texas Poetry Review, Bay Windows, Gertrude, Midwest Poetry Review, Spillway, and
the 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 of
Them A// (Daniel& Daniel, 2003), and most recently, This New Breed: Gents, Bad
Boys 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, TX
Jilf Wiggins, originally from England, has lived in Austin for 25 years. In addition to
being a poet, Jill is an artist, wife, mother, grandmother, state employee, musician
and outdoor-lover. Her poems have appeared in several di-vdrs6-cify books, a
chapbook called Lemon Curd, and the anthology, Feeding the Crow. She led the
Writers' League poetry study group for many years and has emceed several festival
venues and hosted visiting international poets.
Lynn Williams
- Martindale,
TX
Lynn Williams lives and does volunteer work in Martindale, Texas.
C. Dawson
Worley - Fort Worth, TX
Ms. Worley was awarded lst & 2nd Place in the 2OO4 Trinity Writer's Annual Poetry
Competition. She made the top 10 in the 2006 Star Telegram's Serial Writer's
Competition. She lives in Fort Worth.
Robert Wynne
- Fort Worth, TX
Robert Wynne earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is the
co-editor and publisher of Cider Press Review, and the author of 6 chapbooks. As the
winner of the Poetry Society of Texas' 2006 Eakin Book Award, his first full-length
collection, Remembering How to Sleep, will be published in 2007. He has won
numerous prizes, and his poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies
throughout North America, He lives in Fort Worth.
He is the editor of this year's di-v€rs6-city.
Tony Zurlo - Arlington, TX
Tony taught for two years in Nigeria with the Peace Corps in his careless youth. His
quest to repel middle age routed Tony through China. There his students convinced
him he'd accumulated too much negative karma in his previous life as a corrupt Qing
Dynasty official. So his punishment was reincarnation as an American trapped in
Texas. Tony is now working on Alice in Cyberland, his anxiously-awaited history
about 2lst century American foreign policy.
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