Contributors: Autumn Aught-Six

 

A.K. Allin

A. K. Allin is producing a year-long performance, Nostalgia: The Poetess at Green Lake, on Sundays from 9 – 5, communicating poetry to the public. Allin in interested in exploring and expanding the places in which poetry and the public intersect. Her project journals reside at The Poetess at Green Lake. Allin earned her M.A. in Writing from City College of New York. She produces the publication Matchbook Poems and curates a monthly poetry & performance art series called Untitled [Intersection], 2007 at the Phinney Center Gallery. Allin works in a boatyard in historic Ballard.


Fred Arcoleo

Fred Arcoleo is a poet, singer, songwriter, activist and teacher. 


Elise Buchman

Elise Buchman graduated from Doane College in Nebraska and followed a career in Children's Theatre. She went to Paris and studied for three years with Marcel Marceau. While there, she also earned a degree in Theatrical Fencing. She lived in Barcelona for six years, teaching theatrical fencing and performing. She also performed at the Emmy Gifford Children's Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska as a guest artist. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing, focusing on writing poetry for children. She lives with her two dogs, Eureka and Kirby (named after vacuum cleaners).


Aliza Einhorn

Aliza Einhorn is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was
a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn and dreams of escape.


j. fagen

J. Fagen received a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania before embarking on a decade-long psychotropic odyssey that saw him morph from Hollywood Film Producer into Billyburg Alt-Rocker and finally into Aussie Pedicab Driver/Drug-Runner—touching three continents (and one transexual) in the process.  His clichéd "riches to rags" tales have absolutely nothing to do with completing an MFA in poetry at CCNY in 2007.


Zeke Finkelstein

Born in Brooklyn, grew up in Rockaway Beach. Studied philosophy and English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. Returned to NYC to practice disaffection, strange arts, write, drive a cab. MFA in Creative Writing from CCNY. He continues to live (so to speak) in Manhattan (so to speak), where he teaches in the English Department of City College. He is working on his Death, a tragi-comic opera with tirades and asides.


Sharon Fishfeld

Sharon Fishfeld can be reached by carrier pigeon or by email at sofishy@gmail.com.

Nancy Haiduck

Nancy Haiduck is pleased to be included in The One Three Eight.  Haiduck lives and works in the Bronx where she teaches remedial writing at Monroe College and conducts poetry workshops for 6th graders at the Forward School of Creative Writing.  Her poetry can be found online and has been published in a variety of print journals.   


Patricia Brody

Patricia Brody practices family counseling in NYC,  is still raising children, and teaches English and American Lit at Boricua College. She is grateful to have to opportunity to publish this translation of the great Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou, whose work has appeared in internationally in such journal as Poet Lore, Room of One's Own, The Paris Review and the anthology, Chance of a Ghost. Juana's awards include two Pushcart Nominations and the Academy of American Poets prize. 

Bruce Isaacson

Bruce Isaacson has an MFA from Brooklyn College and has published seven books of
poems, including his latest, Ghosts Among the Neon. He also is the publisher of Zeitgeist Press.


Jacklyn Janeksela

From somewhere in the good ole midwest of the United States.  Moved to New York to pursue a career in writing and teaching.  Hobbies include writing, writing, writing, and shopping at thrift stores.  Loves the Bronx and very salty soybeans. 

Pam Laskin

Pam Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at The City College.She is the author of five picture books; two young adult novels; a full-length volume of poetry and four poetry chapbooks. She resides in Brooklyn, NY, with her wonderful family.

Reagan Lothes

Reagan Lothes is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current topic of research is Sylvia Plath.


Cathy McArthur

Cathy McArthur’s poetry has appeared in Lumina, XConnect, The Memphis State Review, Promethean, Shampoo, The Melic Review, and Jacket. Her work was selected for CUNYArtsGala, 2004 and 2005. She received The Malanche Prize for Literary Translation at The City College of New York (2005) where she is a candidate for an MFA in Poetry and where she teaches English Composition and Literature. 


Kosuke Miyata

Kosuke Miyata was born in Japan and lived for 22 years in Kugayama, Tokyo, his hometown from which he often escaped to regions of different landscapes and dialects since he got a motorcycle license. He has lived in New York as a student at the City College of New York since 2003, and visits Japan once evey year. His poem 'The Fishes' took third place in the English-Speaking Union New York Branch's city-wide poetry competition in 2004, and 'Dusk Walk' earned him honorable mention in the Lumina National Poetry Contest in spring 2006 (judge Mark Doty). He published his first poetry chapbook, Current, in September 2006 (available on amazon.com).

Ruben Rangel

A Chicano farmworker, union organizer, and now a teacher at City College in Harlem, Rubén Rangel won the 2005 Marie Ponsot Poetry Prize at City College of New York for an unpublished manuscript: Undesirable and Some Farm-Worker Poems. Rubén’s poems have appeared in various publications, including: [Sic] Journal (New York), Promethean (City College of New York), Metamorfosis (University of Washington, Seattle), Bajo la sombra de la maquinaria (Ce Atl Press, Seattle) Revista Chicano-Riqueña (Indiana), The People’s Daily World (New York), La Opinión (Los Angeles) and Chicanos: antología histórica y literaría (Fondo de Cultura Económica, México). He received a Master of Arts degree in Language and Literacy from CCNY in June, 2005.


Tyson Ward

Tyson Ward, who earned an MA in Renaissance literature from UNC Chapel Hill, is currently an adjunct lecturer and sometime MFA student at The City College of New York. Though he has scarcely published, he was honored at City College in 2004 with the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award in creative writing, and again in 2005 with the Marie Ponsot Poetry Prize.


Alyssa Yankwitt

Alyssa Yankwitt is a poet whose work has most recently been seen in "Poetry in Performance," "Promethean," and previous issues of "The One Three Eight." She has read her work at various venues in New York City, including The Cornelia Street Cafe, ABC No Rio, and the Agni Gallery. Alyssa is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at CCNY. She lives in Brooklyn and hates writing bios about herself in the third person.


Ari Zeiger

An international man of mystery, sometimes known as Archie Dupree. He has a camera and he's not afraid to use it.