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AUSTRALIA
Chris Mansell
Chris Mansell’s latest poetry publications have been The Fickle Brat (in audio+text on CD from Interactive Digital) and Stalking the Rainbow (PressPress, 2002). She has been published in journals in many countries and often works as an editor and mentor as well as publisher of PressPress. Last year she began taking workshop tours to interesting places: the first to Egypt in September 2002. She plans to go to India, Morocco, Egypt again and other locations.
BRISTOL/ENGLAND
Tim Gibbard
Tim produces a bi-monthly poetry show for BBC Radio (Bristol), writes & produces live literary events, has done a number of poetry+music+film projects & is currently combining his own works with audio/visual recording (DAT,
Super 8mm film, slides and video) to recreate the power of ‘live’ interaction through the use of recorded words and related, moving images. He has toured annually in the US and Europe since 1996.
CHICAGO/MIDWEST
Greg Gillam
Greg has been a Chicago poetry impresario since 1993. He’s produced spoken word events in rock clubs, coffee houses, galleries and bookstores and has performed in festivals and showcases all over the city and from coast to coast, from punk rock bowling alleys to high class bookstores. Greg edits the Webzine Fengi. His first book, Yespants (Kapow! Press), was published in 2002. He is the events planning assistant for the Bridge Magazine events space.
FLORIDA
Stazja McFadyen
Stazja was Museletter’s first Texas correspondent and she’s thrilled to be back on the Museletter team to bring you the poetic haps from around the Sunshine State. She is author of Garland (PoetWorks Press), and her solo CD, Business as Usual, will soon be available through mp3.com. Stazja is a member of Vital Signs, Tampa-based women’s spoken word collective whose first CD is Primal Sessions. She publishes the PoEmPath Where The Words Are e-newsletter for the Tampa Bay area, hosts the First Thursdays monthly slam at the Realm Coffeehouse in St. Petersburg, Florida, edits the Map of Austin Poetry e-newsletter, and is a coordinator for the Austin International Poetry Festival.
IRELAND
Jessie Lendennie
Jessie is a poet and a publisher, born in Arkansas, USA and educated at King's College, London, England. She moved to Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland in 1981 and was a founder member of the now-famous Galway Writing Workshop in October of that year. She was a founding editor of The Salmon International Literary Journal and co-founder of Salmon Publishing where, as editor and managing director since 1986, she has commissioned, edited and published over 200 books, many of them first collections from Irish women writers. She has also been instrumental in efforts to promote the work of local poets and bring international poets to the West of Ireland: the Poetry Co-Operative, Galway International Poetry Festival, and Cúirt, the International Literature Festival in Galway.
JAPAN
Taylor Mignon
Taylor Mignon was consulting editor for Prairie Schooner’s Contemporary Writing from Japan issue and wrote the column “Poetry Mignette” for The Japan Times from August 1999 to April 2001. He published a bilingual book of mostly poetry called Poesie Yaponesia in 2001, has been establishing his reputation as a translator, and as poet is serving under the tutelage of Japanese works.
MONTREAL/CANADA
Ian Ferrier
Ian is one of the core poet/performers in the Montreal spoken word and performance poetry scene. His most recent works appear on Exploding Head Man, a CD/book in which Ian’s poetry is backed up by the Exploding Head Band.
NEW ENGLAND
Victor Infante
Victor D. Infante is a poet and freelance writer covering everything from poetry to politics, appearing in dozens of periodicals nationwide. When he lived in Southern California he wrote for Museletter as our Orange County correspondent, he ran poetry readings including “The Near Infamous” Poetry-On-Thursdays at the Java Garden in Huntington Beach and “The Big Damn Poetry Slam” at the Blue Cafe in Long Beach, and he was one of the founding members of the Five Penny Poets/Tebot Bach Poetry Series. He has just released his seventh chapbook of poetry, Invisible Ghetto, and lives now in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, with his wife and three ferrets.
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST
Gary Mex Glazner
Former San Francisco Slammaster Gary Glazner was the poetical dynamo behind e-zine Headless Buddha & po-distributor Words on Wheels, then in 1998 he took his poetry around the world (reporting to us from China & the Stockholm Poetry Olympics). Since 1999 his lightning has flashed onto the Net from Santa Fe, New Mexico & in 2000 he organized the grand SlamAmerica national poetry tour.
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST
Jackie Sheeler
Jackie is the founder of Poetz.com and publisher of the Poetz Monthly Update newsletter. She curates a weekly reading series at The Cornelia Street Cafe and teaches at The Writer’s Voice. She’s got one book out and another on the way, in addition to lots of litzine pubs. Her current pet project is creating a nationwide network of poetry calendars -- stay tuned for details!
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Martha Cinader
Martha is a poet-author-playwright-performance artist who produces Listen & Be Heard in Vallejo, California. Leader of Po’azz Yo’azz, she has performed in international arts festivals in the US, UK and Europe. Her poetry and stories are published by Harlem River Press in a volume entitled When the Body Calls. Her recordings have been released by Universal Music France, CleanUp Records in London, and K-tel and Liquid Sound Lounge Recordings in the US. Martha is the editor and publisher of PlanetAUTHORity.com and SenatorSin.com.
PRAGUE/CZECH REPUBLIC
Laura Conway
Laura spent many years in San Francisco as poet, editor and publisher in its thriving poetry scene before moving to Prague in 1994. She is the author of four books of poetry including My Mama Pinned A Rose On Me (Red Flower Ink, 1987), and The Cities of Madame Curie (Zeitgeist Press, 1990), co-editor of a forthcoming Czech translation of 20 of San Francisco’s underground poets, editor of Optimism, a monthly Prague literary magazine, & consultant and literary editor for San Francisco-based Watchword Press. You can read her work online in the 3:15 Experiment.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Larry Jaffe
Larry is a mainstay on the Los Angeles poetry scene & has travelled the world giving readings of his work. He is cofounder & host of the PoeticLicense reading series in LA, instigator & moderator of the Poetry Hosts email discussion group.
TEXAS
Phil West
Phil is currently the slammaster for San Antonio’s puro ¡SLAM!, one of the best-attended and most notorious slams in the entire circuit. He’s a former Austin slam organizer who co-directed the 1998 National Poetry Slam and remains the only four-time team member in the history of the Austin Poetry Slam. In 2000, he received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers, and has been playing Lit Mag Roulette ever since. He also teaches part-time at San Antonio College, works full-time as a publicist, and is co-editing an oral history of poetry slam (with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz), to be published by Soft Skull Press in 2004 or 2005.
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Shann Palmer
Shann is a poet, musician & teacher who is published in print & on the Web. She has been editor of La Petite Zine at webdelsol & served as board monitor at The Melic Review RoundTable.
