The One Three Eight
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Contributors: Autumn Aught-Six
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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 is a poet, singer, songwriter, activist and teacher.
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 is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was
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.
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 can be reached by carrier pigeon or by email at sofishy@gmail.com. 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 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 has an MFA from Brooklyn College and has published
seven books of
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 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 is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current topic of research is Sylvia Plath.
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 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). 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, 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 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.
An
international man of mystery, sometimes known as Archie Dupree. He has a camera
and he's not afraid to use it.
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