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Contributor's Notes These Contributors Notes have been provided by the poets of Driftwood No. 9 themselves, and are offered here completely unedited (they were warned). Terry Blackhawk Terry Blackhawk is the author of two chapbooks and 3
full-length poetry collections, most recently The Dropped Hand from Marick
Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Marlboro
Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Borderlands, Florida Review and Nimrod,
and online at Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Calyx, Poet Lore, ForeWord
and others have reviewed her work. A proud alumna of Antioch College,
Terry is the founder of InsideOut Literary Arts Project (www.insideoutdetroit.org).
She was named Michigan's 2008 Creative Writing Educator of the Year and is
the only person to have received that honor twice. Her nicknames have
included Dragon Baby, The Gayle Boss Gayle Boss is a freelance writer living in Grand Rapids. Her poems and essays have been published in a variety of places, including in Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes, a 2007 Michigan Notable Book. Her poem in Driftwood 9, "Out of the Blue," comes from a manuscript of poems and prose that she's just finished and is shopping around, titled, Domestic Monastery. Patricia Clark Patricia Clark is the author of North of Wondering (1999) and My Father on a Bicycle (2005); she teaches at Grand Valley State University and her work has appeared in Poetry, Stand, New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, Zone 3, Slate, The New Criterion, Crazyhorse, Mississippi Review, Seattle Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of prizes from Nimrod, Mississippi Review, the Poetry Society of America, a scholarship from the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in County Monaghan, Ireland. Lonnie Hull DuPont Lonnie Hull DuPontąs poetry is widely published, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear most recently in Dunes Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and The Sun, and her work has been anthologized in Boomer Girls, Beat Poetry and Art, Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, and Writers Reading at Sweetwaters. She is the author of The Haiku Box, a how-to book with kit published by Tuttle Press, and five chapbooks from small San Francisco presses. More recently she is the author of the chapbook Still Life, published with Leadfoot Press of Detroit. After living on the coasts for many years, she has settled in her hometown of Jackson, Michigan. Nina Feirer My name is pronounced Neena
Fire. I am a mother of four nearly grown-up children. When I asked them
how I should describe myself they said “old” “ a hippie” “braless”and
“unfamiliar with razors and depilatories”.
Linda Nemec Foster
Linda Nemec Foster is the author of seven collections of poetry
including Living in the Fire Nest (finalist for the Poet's Prize)
and Amber Necklace from Gdansk (finalist for the Ohio Book Award
in Poetry). Her most recent book, Listen to the Landscape, was
short-listed for the 2007 Michigan Notable Book Award. Over 250 of her
poems have been published in such journals as The Georgia Review,
Nimrod, Salamander, North American Review, and
New American Writing. Foster's work has also been translated in
Europe, exhibited in museums and galleries, anthologized, and produced
for the stage. Her chapbook, Contemplating the Heavens, inspired
jazz musician Steve Talaga to compose an original score and CD that was
nominated for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Her honors include
awards from the National Writer's Voice, ArtServe Michigan, the Arts
Foundation of Michigan, and the Academy of American Poets. In the past
several months, Foster was honored as a finalist for the 2007 Michigan
Governor's Creative Artist Award and also received the 2008 Creative
Arts Award from the Polish American Historical Association. A new
chapbook, Ten Songs from Bulgaria, will be published by Cervena
Barva Press in 2008. She founded the Contemporary Writers Series at
Aquinas College and is currently a member of the Series' programming
committee.
Cal Freeman Cal Freeman was born and raised in Detroit. He has an MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently teaches creative writing at University of Detroit Mercy. Robert Haight Robert Haight has published two collections of poetry, Emergences and Spinner Falls (New Issues Poetry & Prose 2002) and Water Music (Ridgeway Press 1994) and written essays and articles on fly fishing, the environment, and education that have appeared in a variety of journals and magazines. He enjoys Higher Grounds coffee, roasted in northern Michigan and available at http://www.javaforjustice.com. John Hazard A native of southeastern Ohio, John Hazard lives in Birmingham, MI. His teaching career began at the University of Memphis, followed by three decades at the Cranbrook Schools in suburban Detroit. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines, including Jabberwock Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Pedestal, Slate, and South Dakota Review. Ed Haworth Hoeppner Ed Haworth Hoeppner’s newest book, Ancestral Radio, was published in January, 2008. His work has appeared recently in Crazyhorse, Indiana Review and The Seneca Review. He lives in Rockford, Michigan and teaches at Oakland University. David James
After 21 years as an administrator for
Siena Heights, University of Michigan-Flint, and Oakland Community
College, David James is basking in the light of faculty at OCC, teaching
writing and trying to save the world, one writer at a time. His latest
chapbook, Trembling in Someone's Palm, a book of prose poems,
is out from March Street Press. He's been fortunate to have had his
one-act plays produced in New York, Nantucket, and in Michigan. And
he's getting old: his first grandson, Cloud, entered the world in
September, 2008. Contact information: dljames@oaklandcc.edu
Zilka Joseph Zilka Joseph teaches English and Creative Writing. She was published in India, and in the U.S. in journals such as Rattle, Paterson Literary Review, Connecticut River Review, Gatronomica, Review Americana, and in Cheers To Muses : Contemporary Works by Asian American Women. She has won several awards, and her chapbook, Lands I Live In, published by Mayapple Press in March 2007 has been nominated for a PEN America Beyond Margins Award. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she has just won the Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship (2008-2009) from the Center for the Education of Women. Josie Kearns Josie Kearns has won four Creative Artist Awards from the
Michigan Council for the Arts, Artserve, three Hopwood Awards, NEA
Fellowship to Waghington, D.C., Cowden Fellowship, writer residencies to
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois where she will enjoy another one
in late April. Her first non-fiction book is Life After the Line based on
Tim Lane Tim Lane writes and paints and lives in Lansing, Michigan. He likes French Toast. He has appeared in a handful of journals and zines. You can view some of his artwork at www.theatticwhichisdesire.blogspot.com. Dawn McDuffie Dawn McDuffie moved to Detroit in 1963 and has drawn on the city for inspiration ever since. Her second book, Carmina Detroit, was published in 2006 by Adastra Press. She earned an MA in Humanities from Wayne State University in 1973, and an MFA in poetry from Vermont College in 2003. Since 2000 Dawn has taught creative writing at the Scarab Club in downtown Detroit. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, The MacGuffin, and Feminist Studies. Cheri Meyers Cherie Meyers lives with her husband in southern Michigan but spends much of the summers at their cabin and the rugged shores of Lake Superior. Her writing encompasses both forest and farm with a keen focus on botany. A member of the Paint Creek Writers, her poetry and quotes have been published in books and periodicals Judith Minty Judith Minty has been working on her "Mad Painter Poems" for some time now. She, hopefully, will be coming out with a new chapbook soon, which will be titled "The Compleate/The End--Mad Painter Poems" She presently lives in North Muskegon, Michigan, with her old dog named River, and travels back and forth to the Yellow Dog River in the UP, where she hermitizes at her shack in the woods (weather permitting). She is the author of 8 books of poetry and has published several fiction and non-fiction pieces. Right now, she's trying to win the lottery while picking up dog poop and sticks in her citified yard--and still dodging snow banks. Karen Mulvahill Karen Mulvahill is a Michigan native currently living in Melbourne, Australia. Her poems and non-fiction have also appeared in The Heartlands Today. Karen is currently writing a book about her journeys through Australia. Scheherazade Parrish Scheherazade Parrish is a domestic executive from Detroit. She is currently working on her latest project, Evan, with her husband, Theo. Fourteen months into this process, her interests now include the Backyardigans, Wonderpets, and Baby Einstein, the color of mucus, and if pulling at ones shirt really means they have to 'go potty'. Miriam Pederson Miriam Pederson lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she is an Associate Professor of English at Aquinas College. She earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her chapbook, This Brief Light, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has also been published in many anthologies, journals, and small press magazines including NEW POEMS FROM THE THIRD COAST: CONTEMPORARY MICHIGAN POETRY (2000 anthol), THE MCGUFFIN, PASSAGES NORTH. Pederson’s poems in collaboration with sculpture created by her husband, Ron Pederson, are exhibited in area and regional galleries. Rosalie Sanara Petrouske Rosalie Sanara Petrouske's poetry and essays have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Seattle Review, Passages North, Poets On, Plainsongs, Skylark, The MacGuffin, and other poetry journals as well as four anthologies. Her two chapbooks of poetry, The Geisha Box and A Postcard from My Mother were published by March Street Press, 1996 and Finishing Line Press, 2004. She lives in Grand Ledge, Michigan and teaches at Lansing Community College. Robert Ed Post Robert Ed Post teaches at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. His poems have appeared in Controlled Burn, Kansas Quarterly, and Passages North. He used to publish under "Robert Post" but recently found several other Robert Posts active in the arts: a performance artist, a painter, and a Norwegian folk singer. Christine Rhein
Christine Rhein's poems have appeared in
many literary journals and have been selected for Poetry Daily
and Best New Poets 2007. Her full-length collection, Wild
Flight, won the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry
(Texas Tech University Press, 2008). To contact her and learn more
about her book, please visit
www.ChristineRhein.com.
Jack Ridl Jack Ridl is looking forward to his retirement at the close of this school year. He announced he was retired two years ago, but his chair made him keep teaching. His collection Losing Season will be published in 2009 by CavanKerry Press. He and colleague Peter Schakel are co-authors of Approaching Literature (Beford/St. Martin’s Press). If you teach or know anyone who teaches, this is THE book to use! Jack thinks George Dila is the coolest! Marc Sheehan Marc Sheehan is the author of Greatest Hits, a collection of poems from New Issues Poetry Press. He has published individual poems, essays, articles, fiction and book reviews in such journals as Apalachee Quarterly, Fine Madness, High Plains Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner and many others. He is Communications Officer at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich. Phillip Sterling
Phillip Sterling's most recent poetry collection is Abeyance, winner of the Frank Cat Press Chapbook Award 2007. Other books include Quatrains (Pudding House 2006), Significant Others (Main Street Rag 2005), and Mutual Shores (New Issues 2000). He is the editor of Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange (Mammoth 2003) and founding coordinator of the Literature In Person (LIP) Reading Series at Ferris State University, where he has taught for many years. Keith Taylor
Keith Taylor's next book, If the World Becomes So Bright, will be published in 2009 by Wayne State University Press. Laurence Thomas Laurence W. Thomas is on the lookout for good poetry, short fiction, and b/w artwork for inclusion in Third Wednesday, a literary arts journal. (see: thirdwednesday.org) When not editing, Larry writes — he’s published 10 books of poetry, fiction, humor, and creative nonfiction – and lectures on poetry at Lucidity Poets’ Retreat in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Some of his books are available by going to: larrywlarry.com. Rodney Torreson
Rodney Torreson, the poet laureate of Grand Rapids, has three
collections of poetry, his most recent being A Breathable Light,
published by New Issues Press in 2002.
Bob Vance
Bob Vance studied with the
poet Alberta Turner in Ohio and while completing his undergraduate work
at Thomas Jefferson College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1970s.
Though he no longer actively seeks to publish in the usual forums that
feature poetry, he has published widely and internationally. A high
point of his experience in writing and finding an audience for his poems
came during his association with the Twilight Tribe, a dynamic
association of poets who wrote, read and played together in the 1980s in
Grand Rapids. He has written for the stage, published essays and won a
number of prizes and awards and was nominated for a Pushcart award. A
series of chapbooks that feature his poems and photographs can be viewed
and/or purchased through Northern Michigan Artist Market in Petoskey,
Michigan. . Included in this collection of booklets, published by
pearlfire press, are a collection of antiwar "Poems Against It",
and a pocket-sized collection of love haikus, "Twenty Little Winter
Poems, With Love". Cards that feature a variety of his photographs are
also available through NMAM. Bob has worked in the mental health
field for almost twenty-five years, eleven that were spent as a family
counselor in a hospice organization. He is currently being accredited as
a Life, Family and Vocation Coach. To find out more about his work as a
Life, Family and Vocation Coach go to his blog at http://sightlinecoach.blogspot.com/
To view and/or purchase his work on the Northern Michigan Artist Market
Web site, click here ...
Robert VanderMolen
Robert VanderMolen lives and works in Grand Rapids. His new collection
will be published by Michigan State Jessica Walsh Jessica L. Walsh was born and raised in Ludington, Michgan, although she now finds herself trapped in the Chicago suburbs. Her poetry has recently appeared in several online and print journals including The Listening Eye and The Furnace Review, and is forthcoming in artisan: a journal of craft and Literary Mama. She and her husband Robert welcomed their first child, Stella Simone, in March 2007. A budding critic, Stella enjoys tearing her mother's work into tiny pieces. Jessica teaches English at Harper College. Angela Williams Angela Williams works in the cherry industry in northern Michigan and studied creative writing and theatre at Western Michigan University. Her work has been in Mississippi Review, GSU Review, Driftwood Review, Writer’s Voice, and other journals. Her first book, an industrial memoir, “With a Cherry on Top” featuring the work of Michigan and Michigan affiliated writers was released in 2006 by Mayapple Press, from which “Live from the Tiki Lounge” collected poems, is forthcoming.Gary Winans I was brought up vacationing on the dunes of Lake Michigan only to end up living on the west coast (studying salmon and blues/jazz harmonica) and vacationing on the dunes of Lake Michigan.
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