Cover Art by Bud Jacobs
Featured in this issue:
DONNA WYSZOMIERSKI’s stories have been published in Top Stories, Hallwalls’ Angle of Repose and Blatant Artifice, and Buffalo Press Anthology I.
GEOFFREY GATZA is the editor and publisher of BlazeVOX [books] and the author of five books of poetry. Not So Fast Robespierre is now available from Menendez Publishing. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY (1993) and Daemen College, Amherst, NY (2002), and served as a U.S. Marine in the first gulf war. He lives in Kenmore, NY with his girlfriend and two cats.
LISA FORREST is a Senior Assistant Librarian for SUNY College at Buffalo and the founding member of the school’s Rooftop Poetry Club. Lisa’s first collection of poems, To The Eaves, is available now from BlazeVOX [books].
AARON LOWINGER is a Buffalo House Press poet making a living as a social worker. Hobbies include poetry, sports, and the misidentification of mushrooms, birds, and trees. His most recent chapbook, Open Night, was published by Transmission Press.
BUD JACOBS is a retired Professor of Art whose background in graphic design informs his current work. At present, his interests center around drawing, calligraphy, and painting. He is also coming up in the world of tennis.
MARTEN CLIBBENS is a British poet living in Buffalo. His most recent collection, Sequence, was published in 2006 by Lost Pages Press.
KRISTIANNE MEAL is a girl in a dirt-scuffed dress with messy hair named Kaliss who runs wildly through empty neighborhood lots. You can find her in trees or triangles while Kristi pages the membrane of Buffalo’s Rust Belt Books.
STEVE MCCAFFERY has said that “Hurley Hackeys” is an ongoing oulipean-inspired group of list poems (most of the early ones are are all taken from the Buffalo Telephone Directory). “A Concept of Gomer” is an ongoing philological excavation of Rowland Jones’ crazy book The Circles of Gomer. His numerous books include the recently released Slightly Left of Thinking from Chax Press.
CREDITS
Edric Mesmer—Collator
Judy Vasseur—Production
John Carocci—Image Consultant
Bud Jacobs—Cover Design & Drawings
This issue is made possible through the generosity of Michael Morgulis, Judith Mesmer, and John & Dana Rigney.
As always, many thanks to the YEF team, and especially Brian Klemp.
