Wendy Howe: Formally trained as a high school English teacher, I now manage and operate a small, home-based computer/consulting service in The Hudson Valley Region of New York State. I have always felt that writing poetry is as much a part of my soul as breathing in air. Inspiration comes from encounters with everyday life; and a creative imagination allows me to refine those experiences with vivid imagery and insight. I hope that in honing my craft as writer and poet, my voice will inspire people to see life as a perpetual journey that branches out into divergent paths of knowledge, challenge and discovery.

Mia Jones:

Once in A While: A Brief Bio

Mia was born in North Korea,
sadly lost her entire family,
including her beloved grandmother
was adopted by a family from Texas/Ohio
where she would be fed and clothed properly

though kindness is subjective to interpretation
how can one small child lose a country, an entire family,
a whole history, even her name to become Americanized
and not feel a little lonely once and a while for her home?

It’s all one can do not to cry
once in a while for lost things
like a child for a favorite doll
that her grandmother once gave her.

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. Has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander. Is author of 14 print books of poems, the latest is Watching Wisteria (to order write Vida Publishing, P.O. Box 12665, Lake, Park, FL. 33405-0665, or Amazon or Barnes and Noble). Since September 1999, he became a cyber poet and started submitting on-line, and since September 1999 he has added to his over 2,000 print acceptances with 1,401 acceptances by e zines.

He is also a painter. Now has exhibitions at Thomas Center Galleries (Gainesville, FL) and Tyson Trading Company (Micanopy, FL) Recently a one-man show at Pyramid Galleries (Tampa, FL)

Also, a photographer, has had 116 of his photos selected for appearance on e zines. He photographs trash in alleys. Moves in close to find beauty in what people have thrown away.

He now lives alone in a two-story decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives isolated and estranged as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language (some form of postmodern English) of his neighbors. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has recently been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police force who put bright orange and yellow posters on the posts to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs. His alley is the dumping ground for stolen cars. One advantage of living in this neighborhood, if your car is stolen, you can step out in the back and pick it up. Also, the burglars are afraid to come in on account of the muggers.

His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy.

Teresa White has been widely published on the Net with over 150 poems accepted in the past two years. She has one book published of 300 of her early poems (In What Furance? -available at Amazon.com) and will have a second collection out later this year.