Contributors
February 1997
Writers
Antler follows Walt Whitman’s invocation of the poet as “itinerant gladness scatterer.” He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is the author of Factory (City Lights) and Last Words (Ballantine).
morePoe Ballantine in search of a publisher for his novel Beauty Is in the Eyes of William Holden. He lives in Encinitas, California.
moreMary Cross lives in Chicago and teaches memoir writing at DePaul and Northwestern Universities. She is the author of a collection of poems titled Rooms, Which Were People (Ohio State University Press).
moreJohn Taylor Gatto is a former schoolteacher and the author of Dumbing Us Down (New Society) and The Exhausted School (Oxford Village Press). He lives in New York City.
moreAlison Luterman lives in Oakland, California, where she writes, sings in a chorus, and teaches as part of the “poets in the schools” program.
moreHelena Norberg-Hodge is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (Sierra Club Books). She is currently working on a book about the spread of global monoculture.
moreAndrew Ramer lives in Menlo Park, California. His book Revelations for a New Millenium will be published in March by Harper San Francisco.
morePat Schneider is founder and director of Amherst Writers and Artists, and the author of five books, including Wake Up Laughing: A Spiritual Autobiography (Negative Capability Press). She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
moreSparrow was recently kissed by Allen Ginsberg.
moreSue Versenyi’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Seneca Review. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.
moreJane Webster is a writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She works as a cook in a health-food store, where she is surrounded by hypochondriacs.
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Gary Oliveira’s photographs have appeared in culturefront, Public Culture, and the Seattle Times. He lives in Seattle, Washington, where he teaches at Green River College.
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