2nd Avenue Poetry, Vol. 3 guest edited by ALAN RAMON CLINTON CONTRIBUTORS DODIE BELLAMY Dodie Bellamy's chapbook Barf Manifesto was named best book of 2009 under 30 pages by Time Out New York. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. CHARLES BERNSTEIN Charles Bernstein is the author of 40 books, ranging from large-scale collections of poetry and essays to pamphlets, libretti, translations, and collaborations. Recent works include: All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010); Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006); With Strings (University of Chicago Press, 2001); and Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000). He has published two books of essays: A Poetics (Harvard University Press, 1992); Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon Press, 1986, 1994; reprinted by Northwestern University Press, 2001); and one essay/poem collection: My Way: Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1999). In spring 2011 Bernstein will publish The Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays & Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011). CHARLES BORKHUIS Charles Borkhuis is a playwright, poet, screenwriter, and essayist. His books of poems include: Afterimage, Savoir-fear, Alpha Ruins, Proximity (Stolen Arrows), Dinner with Franz, and Hypnogogic Sonnets. Alpha Ruins was selected by Fanny Howe as a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award. Disappearing Acts is his latest manuscript of poems. His essays on contemporary poetics have appeared in Telling it Slant and We Who Love to Be Astonished (University of Alabama Press). His stage and radio plays have been produced widely, and he is the recipient of a Dramalogue Award. His plays are published in four collections: Mouth of Shadows, The Sound of Fear Clapping, Stage This: 3, and Poets' Theater. His CD, Black Light, contains two radio plays produced for NPR. His one-act play "Barely There" was produced in Sept. 09 as part of Boog's Poet's Theater festival. He curated poetry readings for the Segue Foundation for 15 years, most recently at Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan. LAYNIE BROWNE Laynie Browne is the author of eight collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent publications include The Desires of Letters (Counterpath, 2010), and The Scented Fox, recipient of the 2007 National Poetry Series Award. She is currently editing for the journals Tarpaulin Sky, Trickhouse, and co-editng the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She teaches and runs a writers-in-the-schools program for University of Arizona's Poetry Center. HECTOR CANONGE Hector Canonge's work incorporates the use of various media and commercial technologies, physical environments, cinematic, and performance narratives. His works have been exhibited at the Jersey City Museum, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Queens Museum of Art, and in various galleries and art spaces. He participated as an associate artist in the Digital Media Residency Program at Atlantic Center for The Arts, obtained a fellowship at Harvestworks, and has worked with organizations such as Queens Council on the Arts, Association of Hispanic Arts, and NYC Parks and Recreations. He started the monthly Queens’ LGBT film program CINEMAROSA and the co-founder of QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, a non-for profit arts organization that serves various communities of Queens. His films have been shown nationally: and internationally. www.hectorcanonge.net EMMY CATEDRAL Emmy Catedral is an artist working in sculpture, photography, & video. Emmy built this site with notepad, Filezilla, and Funky Chickens HTML Help. ALAN CLINTON Alan Clinton currently lectures at Santa Clara University. He is the author of a scholarly monograph, Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics (Peter Lang: 2004), a volume of poems, Horatio Alger's Keys (BlazeVOX: 2008) and, most recently, Curtain Call: A Metaphorical Memoir (Open Books, 2010). ERNEST CONCEPCION Ernest Concepcion was born in Manila, Philippines where he received his BFA then moved to the US in 2002. It was in the lonely town of Englewood, New Jersey where he began The Line Wars, a series of black and white drawings depicting opposing forces engaged in ridiculous battle based on the entertainments of childhood a nd adolescence. He has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Asian American Arts Centre, The Contemporary Museum in Hawaii, Exit Art and numerous galleries in the Philippines among others. Concepcion has participated in the LMCC/Workspace 120 Broadway Artist Residency, the Bronx Museum of Art Artists-in-the-Marketplace (AIM) program, the Artists Alliance Inc. Rotating Studio Program and the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency. Eventually he broke away from the formulaic style of the drawings and explored different approaches to conflict creating an entirely new body of work. He just had three solo shows in New York in the last 2 years: at the Kentler International Drawing Space, at NY Studio Gallery and at Saint Joseph's College. Ernest is also the other half of The Shining Mantis with fellow artist, Mike Estabrook, and, with poet Paolo Javier, make up SDF-2, a language arts collective. The Shining Mantis just finished a art residency in Beijing, China and at LMCC's Swing Space in Governor's Island. They are now forming a dork metal band as resident artists at NY Studio Gallery. Currently, Ernest Concepcion is a full-time artist working on new paintings and drawings to be exhibited soon. You can view an extensive catalogue of his works at www.ernestconcepcion.com CA CONRAD CAConrad is the recipient of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock, The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a co-founder of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online at CAConrad.blogspot.com or with his friends at PhillySound.blogspot.com BRENDA COULTAS Brenda Coultas is the author of The Marvelous Bones of Time (2008) and A Handmade Museum (2003) from Coffee House Press, which won the Norma Farber Award from The Poetry Society of America, and a Greenwall Fund publishing grant from the Academy of American Poets. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship (NYFA) and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency (LMCC). YAGO CURA Yago is an Argentine-American poet, fútbol cretin, librarian, and freelance simultaneous interpreter. He co-edits Hinchas de Poesia (www.hinchasdepoesia.com),, an online literary journal, and helms Hinchas de Poesia Press. (http://ycura.magcloud.com). His poetry has appeared in Lungfull!, Borderlands, COMBO, LIT, U.S. Latino Review, Exquisite Corpse, Field, Slope, and The New Orleans Review. He moderates the Spanglish blog, http://spicaresque.blogspot.com, and the Harlem Y Indoor Soccer League. TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was raised in India and Nepal. Tsering received her MA from University of Massachussetts and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her first book of poems, Rules of the House, published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include In the Absent Everyday (Apogee Press) and two chapbooks, In Writing the Names (A.bacus, Potes & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). My Rice Tastes like the Lake, a book of poems is forthcoming from Apogee Press. Tsering lives in San Francisco. THOM DONOVAN Thom Donovan lives in New York City where he edits Wild Horses of Fire weblog (whof.blogspot.com) and coedits ON Contemporary Practice. He is a participant in the Nonsite Collective and a curator for the SEGUE reading series. His criticism and poetry have been published widely in BOMB, PAJ: performance + art, Modern Painters, The Brooklyn Rail, and at the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog. Currently he is working on a book of essay, reviews, and statements, Sovereignty and US: Critical Objects 2005-2010, and on the Project for an Archive of the Future Anterior (with Sreshta Rit Premnath). His seventh book of poetry, The Hole, is forthcoming with Displaced Press this autumn. Donovan teaches at School of Visual Arts and Bard College and holds a PH.D. in English literature from SUNY-Buffalo. DENISE DUHAMEL Denise Duhamel's most recent poetry titles are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); and The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, was released with Bartleby Editores (Madrid) in 2008. She co-edited, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull, 2007). Her collaborative projects include three volumes with Maureen Seaton and 237 More Reasons to Have Sex (with Sandy McIntosh) and ABBA: The Poems with Amy Lemmon. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is a professor at Florida International University in Miami. R.M. ENGELHARDT R.M. Engelhardt, A poet & writer through his ideas & visions has helped to create a large amount of the Upstate, Albany, NY spoken word scene and is the host of "VoX", Albany, NY's Open Mic For Poets, Poetry & The Word @ The Fuze Box. Currently, R.M. lives in Albany, NY where he is a ordained minister in spiritual humanism & has recently released his new book entitled "Versus". CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Clayton Eshleman's most recent publications include a translation of The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo (University of California Press, 2007), Archaic Design (Black Widow Press, 2007) and The Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader (Black Widow, 2008). "Consternation II" will appear in Anticline, a new collection of poems to be published by Black Widow in April 2010. Eshleman is currently co-translating Bei Dao with Lucas Klein, and Aime Cesaire with A. James Arnold. He continues to live in Ypsilanti Michigan with his wife Caryl. www.claytoneshleman.com JONNY FARROW Jonny Farrow is a Brooklyn-based composer of sound and video works for performance and installation. His audio work makes use of instruments, field recordings and other prepared sounds-these compositions are often inspired by his soundwalking practice. His current video work explores local/personal narratives through lo-fi video capture and manipulation using the software Jitter. His work has been seen and heard at Diapason Gallery (Brooklyn); Devoted Gallery (Brooklyn); Mina Dresden Gallery (San Francisco); PPOW Gallery (Chelsea, NYC); and the Cabinet Magazine Gallery (Brooklyn). He has also performed at various festivals Move>>Sound (San Francisco); Ear to the Earth (NYC); Art in Odd Places (NYC); Conflux (NYC); and has lead various soundwalks and given lectures at cultural and educational institutions such as The Guggenheim Museum (NYC); Parsons School of Design (NYC); School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA); Issue Project Room (Brooklyn). Jonny is a member of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, has an M.A. in musicology, and currently teaches music, culture and sound art classes at several CUNY schools. www.jonnyfarrow.net THOMAS FINK Thomas Fink is the author of Clarity and Other Poems (Marsh Hawk P, 2008), four previous books of poetry, and two books of criticism, and is the co-editor of two anthologies. With Maya Diablo Mason, he published Autopsy Turvy (Meritage, 2010), a book of collaborative poems. Fink's paintings hang in various collections. LYN GOERINGER Lyn Goeringer is a composer/sound artist/performer who currently lives in Rhodes Island. Her works focus on in depth explorations of space, place and the hidden ideologies of Public. www.lyngoeringer.com vimeo.com/user1827200 chrysalisvoidmind.blogspot.com STEPHANIE GRAY Stephanie Gray is the author of Heart Stoner Bingo (Straw Gate Books) and her work has recently appeared in EOAGH, Boog City, Press 1, The Recluse, and Downtown Brooklyn. Also a filmmaker, her super 8 films have screened internationally at fests such as Viennale, Madcat, Frameline, and Chicago Underground. Don't get her started on when Metallica truly went downhill, though if you really want to know look her up to start the debate. JOHN HARKEY John Harkey is a poet from Georgia living in Sunnyside, Queens. He recently started Creature Press, which publishes page-driven writing in the form of small, handmade chapbooks. creaturepress.blogspot.com MITCH HIGHFILL Mitch Highfill is the author of Moth Light (Abraham Lincoln), REBIS (Open Mouth) and Koenig’s Sphere (Situations). He has coordinated readings at the Poetry Project, Segue and many other venues. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. MATT JONES "I was born and raised in a suburb of Rochester, New York. I received my BFA in art from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2002. I have had a half dozen solo shows and participated in numerous group shows over the last eight years. I live and work in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I've read every book on UFOs, the paranormal, ancient astronaut theory, the Knights Templar, and quantum mechanics I can get ahold of. Ghostbusters is my favorite movie." www.mattjonesrules.com VINCENT KATZ Vincent Katz has had poems published in Aufgabe, Bomb, The Portable Boog Reader, Brooklyn Rail, Court Green, EOAGH, Jacket, Letterbox, Lungfull, and Shampoo. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Cabal of Zealots, Pearl, Understanding Objects, Judge, and Alcuni Telefonini, a collaboration with painter Francesco Clemente, published by Granary Books. Katz has translated the poems of Sextus Propertius, and he organized an exhibition about Black Mountain College. He is the publisher and editor of the poetry and arts journal VANITAS and of Libellum books. KEVIN KILLIAN Kevin Killian ives and works in San Francisco where he has written forty plays for the Poets Theater there. In addition, he has written many books of prose and poetry including Selected Amazon Reviews (2006); Action Kylie (2008); Impossible Princess (2009); and Spreadeagle (2010). David Brazil is the author of A Book Called Spring (2008) and Spy Wednesday (2010). He coedits the xerox periodical TRY! with Sara Larsen. DOROTHEA LASKY Dorothea Lasky is the author of Black Life and AWE, both out from Wave Books. She currently lives in New York City. MARK LAMOUREAUX Mark Lamoureaux lives in Astoria, NY. His first full-length collection, Astrometry Orgonon was published by BlazeVOX books in 2008. He is the author of 5 chapbooks: Poem Stripped of Artifice (winner of the New School 2007 Chapbooks Contest), Traceland, 29 Cheeseburgers, Film Poems and City/Temple. His work has been published in print and online in Fourteen Hills, Fence, Mustachioed, miPoesias, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Lungfull!, Carve Poems, Coconut, GutCult and many others. In 2006 he started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry. GERRIT LANSING R. ZAMORA LINMARK R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Rolling The R's (Kaya Press) and two collections of poetry, Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh, both from Hanging Loose Press. Rolling The R's, which he also adapted for the stage, had its premiere in Honolulu in 2008. A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including two from the Fulbright Foundation, he has published in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and the Philippines. He divides his time between Manila, Honolulu, and San Francisco, and is at work on another novel, a poetry collection, and a play entitled But, Beautiful. JILL MAGI Jill Magi works in text and image and is the author of the books SLOT (forthcoming, Ugly Duckling Presse), Threads (Futurepoem), Torchwood (Shearsman), and the chapbooks Furlough/Die for Love (Ed. Press), Confidence & Autonomy (Ink), Poetry Barn Barn! (That let it roll where you want it.) (2nd Avenue Press), Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and numerous small, handmade chapbooks. With Jonny Farrow, Soft Soft Cat Cat, a collaboration featuring Jackie the Cat will be included in Conflux/Psychogeography Festival in 2010. Her visual work has also been exhibited with the AC Institute, Brooklyn Arts Council, Apex Art, the International Meeting of Visual Poetry, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, among others. Jill has received numerous fellowships and grants, including recognition from The Academy of American Poets, The Puffin Foundation, and was one of two writers in residence with the LMCC from 2006-2007. She teaches at Eugene Lang, City, and Goddard Colleges, and runs Sona Books, a chapbook press, from her apartment in Brooklyn, New York. For her efforts in publishing, Jill was named by Poets & Writers magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring writers in 2010. FILIP MARINOVICH Filip Marinovich is the author of ZERO READERSHIP (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008) and of the forthcoming AND IF YOU DON'T GO CRAZY I'LL MEET YOU HERE TOMORROW (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). He lives in New York City. DOUGLAS A. MARTIN Douglas A. Martin is author most recently of a novel, Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press). Other works include: Branwell, a novel of the Brontë brother; They Change the Subject, stories; In The Time of Assignments, poetry; and Your Body Figured, a lyric narrative. His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was named an International Book of the Year in the TLS and adapted by the Forsythe Company for the multimedia dance-theater-film piece "Kammer/Kammer." JOYELLE MCSWEENEY Joyelle McSweeney edits Action Books and teaches poetry and prose in the MFA program at Notre Dame. She's the author of the sci-fi novel _Flet_ (Fence) and the baroque noir _Nylund, the Sarcographer_(Tarpaulin Sky) as well as an unpublish(able?)ed collection of linked stories exploring the sleep terrors of gothic motherhood in a variety of flashy, slashy B-movie genres. A poetry book will be forthcoming from Fence in 2012. RUSTY MORRISON Rusty Morrison's After Urgency won the 2010 Tupelo Dorset Prize. the true keeps calm biding its story won Academy of American Poet's James Laughlin Award, the Northern California Book Award, and Ahsahta's Sawtooth Prize. Whethering won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her criticism and/or poems have appeared in APR, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. She is Omnidawn's co-publisher: www.omnidawn.com. CAITLIN PARKER TIM PETERSON Tim Peterson is a poet, critic, editor, curator, and octopus. The author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press), Peterson also has a new chapbook, VIOLET SPEECH, forthcoming from 2nd Avenue Poetry. Peterson edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and curates a number of events in the NYC area including the talk series Quips & Cranks (with Vincent Katz) at The School of Visual Arts, the Zinc Bar poetry series, and the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer theory and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center. mappemunde.typepad.com SRESHTA RIT PREMNATH Sreshta Rit Premnath lives in New York City. He is the founder and editor of the magazine Shifter.He received his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art, his MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Art at Bard College, was a 2008 studio fellow at The Whitney Independent Study Program and attended Skowhegan in 2009.His work has been shown is galleries including Gallery SKE, in Bangalore (India), Rotunda Gallery, Friedman Benda, Bose Pacia and Thomas Erben Gallery in New York City, Galerie Balice Hertling in Paris, 1A Space in Hong Kong and Art Statements at Art|41|Basel. By engaging with forms of interrogation and representation, his work explores how otherness is constituted through complex matrices of knowledge, power, subjugation, and mediation. LESLIE SCALAPINO FRANK SHERLOCK Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009), the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans, and a collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School 2010). He is working with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program on Journeys South, a public art project that documents immigrant/migrant experiences in South Philly. TONI SIMON Toni Simon has exhibited her work at The Drawing Center and the A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. Over 70 of her collages illustrating her husband Nick Piombino's book of aphorisms Contradicta will be published by Green Integer. They live in Brooklyn. KELLY SPIVEY Kelly Spivey has been making experimental films since 1998. Her work has screened nationally and international and has won awards. Several of her film projects have received support from the Queens Council on the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and she was a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellow in 2005. She works in New York City in post-production sound and picture editing and video preservation at MercerMedia. kellyspivey.wordpress.com PRISCILLA STADLER Priscilla Stadler's work explores belief, randomness, and connectedness through diverse media including sculpture, drawing, video projection and human interaction. Her work was part of Figment NY 2010 at Governor's Island, and was recently included in BABEL, an exhibition exploring the relationship of language and the visual arts, curated by Hector Canonge. Her ORQ[The Oracle of Random Quotes] project has received support from the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. JEREMY JF THOMPSON Jeremy JF Thompson works in the spirits (liquid, not souls) industry and lives in New Orleans. He runs Auto Types Press and blogs at Autotypist.blogspot.com. His book, Autographography, will be published through Cuneiform Press in 2011. Learn more at www.autotypograph.com.