A CLOSER LOOK: Eric Pankey
Franz Baskett
A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Franz Baskett's poems have appeared in the Southern Review, The New Orleans Review, Poem, and The Pacific Review among others. He resides in Fayetteville, AR.
Kate Bernadette Benedict
Kate Bernadette Benedict lives in New York City where she edits the online journal Umbrella. Her poetry collection Here from Away (CustomWords 2003) was an Editor's Pick in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett is the author of seven books of poetry and more than twenty poetry chapbooks. His most recent chapbooks are Coyote's Interlude With Little Miss Darling (FootHills Publishing, 2006) and Examined Life (Scienter, 2006). These rhymed fables are part of a full-length, unpublished manuscript of such poems entitled Ephemerae. Bruce Bennett teaches literature and creative writing at Wells College, where he is Professor and Chair of English and Director of Creative Writing.
Ben Berman
Ben Berman won the 2002 Erika Mumford Prize from the New England Poetry Club, has been a finalist in a few chapbook competitions and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has poems published in Natural Bridge, The Cimarron Review, Cream City Review, Cutthroat Journal, The Connecticut Review, Inkwell, and others. He currently teaches in Boston.
George Bishop
Born in Philadelphia, George Bishop was raised on the Jersey Shore and attended Rutgers University. He relocated to Florida in 1985. Recent poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, White Pelican Review and will be forthcoming in Boston Literary Magazine.
Sheila Black
Sheila Black received her MFA in Poetry in 1998 from the University of Montana. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and on-line journals, including Diode, Copper Nickel, LitPot Review, DMQ Review, Willow Springs, Poet Lore, Ellipsis, Blackbird, the Pedestal and Puerto Del Sol. In 2000 she was the U.S. co-winner of the Frost-Pellicer Frontera Prize, given to one U.S. and one Mexican poet living along the U.S. Mexico Border. Her first book, House of Bone, was published by CustomWords Press in March 2007. A chapbook How to be a Maquiladora appeared from Main Street Rag in January 2007. A second book, Love/Iraq is forthcoming from CustomWords Press in late 2008. She is currently the Visiting Poet at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Ronda Broatch
Ronda Broatch is the author of Shedding Our Skins, (Finishing Line Press, 2008), and Some Other Eden, (2005). Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web, Ronda is the recipient of a 2007 Artist Trust GAP Grant. One of her poems appeared recently on Verse Daily.
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