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D E P A R T M E N T S 4 EDITOR’S NOTE 12 BOOK REVEWS Featuring reviews by Mary Meriam, Peter Covino, Devi K. Lockwood, Aram Saroyan 20 POETS WITH PHATI’TUDE 111 THE FINAL WORD Richard Kostelanetz 114 CONTRIBUTORS 120 COVER ART Ruben Acosta

A R T I C L E S E S S A Y S 22 TIMOTHY LIU Introduction to THE LAVENDER ISSUE: LGBT LITERATURE TODAY 38 DAVID BERGMAN The Gay & Lesbian Presence inAmerican Literature

48 N S Self-)translation : an expropriation of intimacies

52 ANALOUISE KEATING Gloria Anzaldúa: Queer Theory’s Other Mother, and Lover

F E A T U R E S 25 ART SCENE TODAY Competition Winners & Finalists 56 PHATI’TUDE LAUNCH PARTY @ THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB

P R O S E S H O R T S T O R I E S 81 TOM CAREY From Small Crimes

V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E A T W W W . P H A T I T U D E . O R G T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY P O E T R Y BRANE MOZETIC   JOHN BARTON EILEEN MYLES     NATASHA CARTHEW ANGELO NIKOLOPOULOS     PETER COVINO     SUZANNE PARKER     CHRISTOPHER DAVIS            JEFFREY PERKINS EDWARD FIELD         DAVID GROFF   ROBIN REAGLER   FABIAN O. IRIARTE       JOHN KEENE         JANE LEVIN   BRAD RICHARD   DEVI K. LOCKWOOD       PHILLIP MATTHEWS BOYER RICKEL         ROBERTO TEJADA   MARY MERIAM   MICHAEL TYRELL   

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 3 P H A T I ’ T U D E L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E S U M M E R 2 0 1 0  G A B R I E L L E D A V I D

“In a historical sense, literature as we understand it is a fairly new innovation, and the current concept of homosexuality is even fresher from the cultural oven. It’s no great surprise, then, that gay literature — or even gay characters in literature — are so relatively new as to still be shiny.” — Kilian Meloy, “Influential Gay Characters in Literature” (AfterElton.com)

         Gabrielle David, founder  and editor of phati’tude  Literary Magazine, is a  writer and multimedia artist  who has worked as a desktop publisher,   photographer, visual artist,  video editor and musician.   

V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E A T W W W . P H A T I T U D E . O R G T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

                                                                                                                                                                        

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 5                                                                                                                                                  

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                                                                                                                           ARTWORK BY: Carl Gopalkrishnan

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 7

ARTWORK BY: Carl Gopalkrishnan

P H A T I ’ T U D E L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E S U M M E R 2 0 1 0            E X P L O R I N G L I T E R A T U R E

   

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          

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time Edited by Carl Morse and Joan Larkin St. Martin’s Griffin, 1989 (us.macmillan.com/smp) $15.95; 432 pp.; ISBN: 0312038364

           

V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E A T W W W . P H A T I T U D E . O R G T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave Edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou St. Martin’s Press; 2001; (us.macmillan.com/smp) $17.95; 420 pp.; ISBN: 0312273339

           

Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read Edited by Richard Canning Alyson Books; 2009 (www.alyson.com) $16.95; 288 pp.; ISBN: 1593501196

             

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 13 Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from  the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman Alyson Books, 3rd Ed.; 2010 (www.alyson.com) $17.95; 496 pp.; ISBN-10: 1593501927 Reviewed by Mary Meriam

         

Talk Poetry by Mairead Byrne Miami Univ. Press, OH 2007 (www.orgs.muohio.edu) $10; 83 pp., ISBN 1-881163-49-0 Reviewed by Peter Covino

           

P H A T I’T U D E 14 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

Orlando by Virginia Woolf Mariner Books, 1st Edition; 1973 (www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/mariner) $14.00; ISBN: 015670160X Reviewed by Devi K. Lockwood

          

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The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence Penguin Group (USA); 2007 (us.penguingroup.com) $11; 528 pp.; ISBN: 0141441380 Revied by Aram Saroyan

            

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 15  E D I T O R ‘ S P I C K S                      MICHAEL LASSELL is the author of several books as well as  the editor of four volumes of prose and verse. A professional  editor and journalist, he is the winner of the Lambda Literary  Award for poetry.  ELENA GEORGIOU, author of the poetry collection Mercy,  Mercy Me, has won numerous writing awards and teaches  poetry at Hunter College and City College of the City Univer-  sity of New York.   E D I T O R ‘ S P I C K S           CARL MORSE was a poet, translator and playwright. The au- thor of three books of poetry, including The Curse of the Future  Fairy, Morse is the translator of a biography of Paul Verlaine,  and the essays of André Maurois. An editor with several major  publishers, he died in 2008 at age 73.  JOAN LARKIN is a poet and playwright. She was active in the  small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s,  co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out  Books, and received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay and  Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, in 1988.     E D I T O R ‘ S P I C K S              RICHARD CANNING is the editor of the Between Men series  and author of Gay Fiction Speaks and Hear Us Out, which won  the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Editor’s Choice. He is a lec-  turer in English and American literature at the University of Sheffield.

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Her work is featured in this issue of  phati’tude Literary Magazine. 

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 17                                                                  PETER COVINO is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island, and the author of Cut Off  the Ears of Winter, New Issues (2005), winner of the 2007 PEN/  Osterweil Award for emerging poets. He is also an editor at the literary journal, Barrow Street, and his work is featured in this DEVI K. LOCKWOOD is an avid unicyclist, poet, and rower; she issue of phati’tude Literary Magazine. is a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy and her work is featured in this issue of phati’tude Literary Magazine.

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                                            

Aram Saroyan is an internationally known poet, novelist, biogra- pher, memoirist and playwright. His poetry has been widely an- thologized and appears in many textbooks.The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts poetry awards, Saroyan is a faculty member of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at USC. www.aramsaroyan.com His work has appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of phati’tude Literary Magazine.

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 19 My philosophy of poetry is simple — Say something that Because I find my meaningful needs to be said, and say it in experience to be complex, the exact words, in the because what I come to understand often requires me clearest possible way. Hope- to accept shifting layers of fully it will be something that irony, paradox, and emotional has never been said before, contradiction as the way of and even if it has, make it your the world, I aim in my own poems to convey those lay- own — as Pound said, “Make ers. Of late I've worked with it new.” If it’s something real, juxtaposition, placing ele- it’s likely to be surprising, and ments alongside one another funny.  that tell no story, make no argument, but that invite a reader to hear/see/create unique relationships and resonances among the parts, conceivably producing a different poem or poem experience with each reading. 

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My creative interests revolve around three keys: the body, visual art, and the built and natural environments. I bring to these a sensibility that sees language as a diagnostic. I consider the written text to be the median between the reader and the writer; each brings his or her own experience to it and changes it subtly. Therefore, while fixed in language, the I consider myself a dissatisfied lyric poet. I poem itself is unstable and treat the poem as an act responding to an mutable, open to multiplying and occasion—an imaginative impulse, a need to perhaps contradictory interpreta- respond or witness, a desire—and that act tions. It is also a time capsule may perform itself in any form. But the lyric that carries forward signs of has its limits: it can only accommodate, is what is (and was) like to be alive only sufficient to, so much. Thus, I’m often in one place and time. Because I dissatisfied. And that dissatisfaction is, on foreground gay sensibility in my occasion, a poem. Brad Richard work, I also see words as charged politically, necessary tools of enlightenment and disruption. We read (and write) for two reasons: to see our- selves and to dialogue with the unknown. Art is about pleasure and engagement; validation and interrogation. 

 

                                   

T I M O T H Y L I U P H A T I’T U D E 24 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E

A R T S C E N E T O D A Y L G B T

1st Place: Ruben Acosta THINKER

  The Thinker represents man’s ability to reclaim itself. As a gay man, who is dedicated to promoting wellness in the gay community, this piece embodies the uniqueness, strength and integrity of men who love men.

http://salvageconcepts.com

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2nd Place: Alyssa Jones BEST FRIENDS

  If I had to use one word to describe my work, I would choose “raw.” I find beauty in the factual, realistic, flawed, unsubtle, and unrestrained. I am constantly motivated and inspired by the individuals in my life, and I feel, as an artist and member of the LGBT community it is my duty to create powerful imagery that shows the unrefined and sometimes painful beauty of the LGBT world, and the individuals that reside there. www.iknowalyssajones.com

3rd Place: Kurt Kain THINKER

  My entry relates to the LGBT theme through an exploration of the beauty of the human body, in this case a male body.

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Maya Just Maya Maya Just Maya WISH UPON A STAR SPRING QUEEN Zarembski HEAVY METAL

Kirk Kain Ruben Acosta EARLY MORNING QUEERSCAPE1

Eric Killen Ruben Acosta Ruben Acosta SOUL MATES TIN MAN GREEN TUBE

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Maya Just Maya RAINBOW BIRTH

Kirk Kain DANCER Kirk Kain Zarembski RAINBOW HANDS BLUE1

Alyssa Jones Alyssa Jones KyleTaylor BECK EYES LIKE A TEACHER HOPE

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    

   

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 

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  

   

P H A T I’T U D E 30 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY



   

   

   

   

   

   

   

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 31  

         

         

       

P H A T I’T U D E 32 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY   

  

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 

  

  

 

   



  



  

  

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 33   

  

  

P H A T I’T U D E 34 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY 



             



                

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 35 

       

     

         

P H A T I’T U D E 36 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY  

  

  

  

 

  

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                   

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D A V I D B E R G M A N  THE GAY & LESBIAN PRESENCE                                                 Sexual desire can’t be merely a topic     that arises in lesbian and gay  literature; we must make it a topic   relevant to heterosexual material  as well.                                          

P H A T I’T U D E 40 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

                                                                                                            

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 41                                                                                     DAVID BERGMAN is the author, editor, and translator of over a  dozen books, including the award-winning Cracking the Code,  Gaiety Transfigured, and Men on Men 2000. A teacher at Towson  University for over 30 years, Dr. Bergman helped found their  program in Cultural Studies, one of the first such undergraduate programs in the country. He also served as the first director of  the Program in Lesbian and Gay Studies.           

P H A T I’T U D E 42 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 43 

 

 

 

 

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 

 

 

 

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 

 

 

 

P H A T I’T U D E 44 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY



 

 

 

 

 

 

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V O L 2 I S S U E 2 49  (SELF-)TRANSLATION                                                                                                      

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This talk was given in room 107 of the Denver 2010 edition of AWP, in the context of a panel entitled “Translating LGBTQ Writ- ers and Writing” hosted by John Keene and in dialogue with Timothy Liu. (Chicago, April 2010) für Brian Teare.

N S (NATHALIE STEPHENS) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. Her books include We Press Ourselves Plainly (2010), Carnet de désaccords (2009), The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (2007), Je Nathanaël (2003/2006). Other work exists in Basque and Slovene with book-length translations in Bulgarian. There is an essay of correspondence (2009) : Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book), first published (2007) as L'absence au lieu. Also, a collection of talks, At Alberta (2008). Stephens has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, John Keene, Édouard Glissant. She lives in Chicago.

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A N A L O U I S E K E A T I N G  G L O R I A A N Z A L D Ú A                                           Interconnectivity is key and serves   as Anzaldúa’s theoretical framework   for social change. We are  interdependent and interrelated with   all existence. Anzaldúa draws on  this radical interconnectivity as she  develops new strategies for survival,   resistance, and transformation.                                             

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                             References                                                               Footnotes              ANALOUISE KEATING is the author of Teaching Transforma-   tion: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan,  2007); and Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde (Temple  UP, 1996). She has been Professor of Women’s Studies, Texas  Woman’s University since 2006.

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    

    

    

    

    

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       

        

 

  

         

 

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 59        

        

         

            

   

P H A T I’T U D E 60 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

  

      

           

          

       

 

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 61                    

 

  

            

     

P H A T I’T U D E 62 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

        



         

           

         

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        

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 65               

Translated by Tamara M. Soban

P H A T I’T U D E 66 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 67   

  

  

  

  

 

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  

  

  

  

  

P H A T I’T U D E 68 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

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  

  

  



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 

 

 

 

 



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  

  

  

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 69   

  

  



P H A T I’T U D E 70 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY 







   

   







  

  

  

  

  

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 71   



 

 





 

 

 

 

P H A T I’T U D E 72 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY 

 

       

       

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  

   

  

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 

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    

     

     

  

 

    

    

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    

    

    

    

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   

  

     

   

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 75         

    

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    

     



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  



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  

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  

   



  

   



  



 

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 

  



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 

 

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  

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P H A T I’T U D E 80 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E 16 noviembre, 1941 ’m accused of stealing a group of prints so prosaic they are hardly worth the effort it takes to look at them. There are four — two by Albrecht Durer, two by Guido Reni. They’re valuable — how could they not be, given who made them? But as works of art they’re nothing, so unremarkable that I have to strain to remember what they were. One of the Durer’s is a woodcut of

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T O M C A R E Y  FROM SMALL CRIMES, A NOVEL                                                                                                                       

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                                                                                          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                                                                                                

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 85 

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    

  

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JANE LEVIN: “Odd Girl Out” Copyright © 2008 by Jane Levin. Reprinted from LEGACY by Jane Levin, Moonflower Press, with permission from the author.

 

  

  

  

  

  

P H A T I’T U D E 86 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY  

   

         

              

       

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 87      



                                   

P H A T I’T U D E 88 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY 

    







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











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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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P H A T I’T U D E 92 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

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

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

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

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

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

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V O L 2 I S S U E 2 93 

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

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

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



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

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



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

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





P H A T I’T U D E 94 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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V O L 2 I S S U E 2 95 













































P H A T I’T U D E 96 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY





















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























V O L 2 I S S U E 2 97 













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

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





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

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P H A T I’T U D E 100 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

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

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

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



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



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







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



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





V O L 2 I S S U E 2 101 



















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     

     

      

      

        

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               

                     

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 105               

       

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              

   

P H A T I’T U D E 106 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E:: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

              

               

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           

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       Richard Kostelanetz is a  writer-artist who has  published extensively since 1961, contributing  poems, stories, articles,  reviews, and  experimental prose to  hundreds of magazines both here and abroad.      R I C H A R D K O S T E L A N E T Z

V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E A T W W W . P H A T I T U D E . O R G     THE FINAL WORD                               “Remembering that a few years ago,  I characterized Sephardic Jewish  writers as a minority within a   minority that is lamentably invisible  to the majority of the minority, I    regret that this anthology of Jewish  American Literature perpetuates  unnecessary misfortune.”                                                                

P H A T I’T U D E 112 L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E T H E L A V E N D E R I S S U E: LGBT L I T E R ATURE T ODAY

                                                           

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Jennifer Bacon is Associate Editor of phati’tude Literary Magazine. The founder of Black Women Writing, she received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Maryland. Bacon is a recipient of the 2010 Book In A Day writing fellowship in Florence, Italy, the 2009 recipient of Poetry Alive and the 2008 recipient of the Pursue the Dream: Chris Mazza Award for Poetry Therapy. Her writing and research interests include social justice, poetry, culturally responsive pedagogy, global education, African American culture, gender studies and adolescent identity and development; and has published literary works in phati’tude Literary Magazine and Returning Woman. John Barton is a Canadian poet that has published nine books of poetry and five chapbooks, including, Hymn (Brick Books, 2009), Hypothesis (House of Anansi Pr., 2001), Designs from the Interior (House Of Anansi,1998)) and Sweet Ellipsis (Ecw Pr., 1998). As co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay-Male Poets, he has won three Archibald Lampman Awards, an Ottawa Book Award, a CBC Literary Award, and a National Magazine Award. His poems, essays and book reviews have been published in more than 80 magazines and anthologies in Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. He was co-editor of the Canadian publication Arc Poetry Magazine from 1990 to 2003, and now lives in Victoria, BC, where he edits The Malahat Review, and is poetry editor for Winnipeg’s Signature Editions. David Bergman received his B.A. from Kenyon College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, and specializes in Victorian literature, modern American poetry and gay literature. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including poetry, literary and cultural criticism, children’s books, textbooks and collections of essays, short fiction and autobiography. Bergman’s recent works include Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Represen- tation and American Literature (Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 2009) chosen as an Outstanding Book of the Year by Choice magazine; and The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Columbia Univ. Pr., 2004). The recipient of the Lambda Book Award and the George Elliston Prize, Bergman’s poems and articles have appeared in such journals as The American Scholar and American Literary History. He is an English professor at Towson Univer- sity in Maryland and serves as coordinator of the Cultural Studies Program. Tom Carey, born in Los Angeles, studied acting with Jack Garfein and Stella Adler, and moved to New York in 1977. He has appeared in several feature films and TV shows, among them Plaza Suite, The Day of the Locust, and The Blue Knight. During the 1970s and 1980s, he fronted for the punk rock band, “The Beeks,” and was literary assistant to poets James Schuyler and John Ashbery. He earned a degree in Spanish at Columbia University and in 1988, became a Franciscan brother of the Society of St. Francis, an Anglican religious order. He served for thirteen years at St. Elizabeth’s Friary in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2003. While living in Brooklyn, he ran a theater program for inner city kids for six years, taught poetry in New York City’s public schools for a decade, and worked with youth and young adults at Episcopal parishes in Queens. His book of poems Desire (Painted Leaf Pr., 1997) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is currently moving to Los Angeles, where he will be a priest at Epiphany Episcopal Church in Lincoln Height, CA. Natasha Carthew was born and raised in Cornwall, UK. Her work has appeared in numerous publications in- cluding Diva, Velvet, Gertrude, Read These Lips and Sinister Wisdom. She has published three books of poetry, the latest being Flash Reckless, published by the internationally acclaimed Lesbian/Feminist publisher Onlywomen Press, in 2002. Carthew is currently working on her first work of fiction, and her poetry collection, Cabin Fever, is forthcom- ing. http://natashacarthew.tripod.com Peter Covino is an Italian immigrant and former social worker who is the author of the poetry collection, Cut Off the Ears of Winter (Western Michigan Univ./New Issues Pr., 2005), a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn

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Award. His chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001), won the Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize; and his poems, translations, and reviews have been published widely both in America and Italy in such places as American Book Review, Colo- rado Review, Columbia, Interim, The Paris Review, Talisman, tutteStorie, Verse, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing, among others. Covino is a founding editor of the literary press, Barrow Street Inc. and Barrow Street Books, where he helps supervise fundraising, development and editorial efforts. He is currently Assis- tant Professor of Literature with Creative Writing at University of Rhode Island. Gabrielle David, Editor-in-Chief of phati’tude Literary Magazine, is a multimedia artist that has worked as a desktop publisher, photographer, artist, video editor and musician. David has published several essays on multicultural literature and published the poetry collections: this is me, a collection of poems & things (CCI Books, 1994); and spring has returned & i am renewed (CCI Books, 1995). Her work has published in Paterson Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets and AIM Magazine. She is the Executive Director of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Schol- ars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-based nonprofit organization that promotes multicultural literature and literacy, which pubishes phati’tude Literary Magazine. Christopher Davis received a B.A. in English from Syracuse University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow in 1985. He has published A History of the Only War, (Four Way Books, 2005); The Patriot (Univ. of Georgia Pr., 1998); and The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future (Texas Tech Univ. Pr., 1990), winner of the 1988 Associated Writing Programs award. His poems have appeared in numer- ous periodicals such as American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Massachusetts Review,Volt; and in anthologies such as Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, The Best American Poetry 1990 and Red, White and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America. Since 1989, he has taught creative writing and contemporary poetry in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Edward Field received a Lambda Award for Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992 (Black Sparrow Pr., 1992). His most recent books are a memoir, The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era (Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 2007); a new collection of poems, After the Fall, Poems Old and New (Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr., 2007); and a travel diary, Kabuli Days, Travels in Old Afghanistan (World Parade Books, 2010). He lives in New York City with his partner Neil Derrick, with whom he collaborated on a four-generation historical novel of Greenwich Village, The Villagers, which will soon appear in a third edition. www.edwardfield.com Carl Gopalkrishnan (a/k/a Gopal) is a self-taught painter. Born in the UK, he is currently based in Perth, Western Australia, where he works in acrylic, mixed media and photography. Combining research, reflection and intuitive practice, his paintings are often inspired by history, literature and mythology. Since 2006, he has integrated digital processes such as photographs and hand stencils, screen printing and aerosol spray with more traditional painting methods. In his recent works he has been inspired by street art, old subway film posters and 1960s airport paperback covers. His work appears in international magazines and journals of poetry, politics and culture; and he has exhibited at galleries around the world, including, Keith+Lottie Gallery, Perth, WA; Breadbox Gallery, Perth, WA; Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery (TRAF), Pitts- burgh, PA; CUNY Graduate Center, New York City; and Bridge Gallery at the Maltings, Northbridge, WA. www.carlgopal.com David Groff is a poet, writer and independent editor. He graduated from the University of Iowa, with an M.F.A. and M.A., and has taught at University of Iowa, Rutgers University, NYU, and at William Paterson University. For the past eleven years, he has worked with literary and popular novelists, memorists, journalists and scientists whose books have been published by Atria, Bantam, HarperCollins, and other publishers; and served as an editor at Crown Publishing for twelve years. Groff has published in American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Christopher Street, Confrontation, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Men on Men 2000, Missouri Review, New York, North Ameri- can Review, Northwest Review, Out, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, QW, Self, and Wigwag. Fabian O. Iriarte teaches English and American literature and Comparative literature at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. He has published several books of poetry: con sutiles artimañas (With Subtle Tricks) (2005); doble sentido (Two-Way) (2002); la intemperie sin fin (The Open Without End (2001); and guaridas de huir el mundo (Dens to Escape the World) (2000). AnaLouise Keating is the author of Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); and Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde (Temple UP, 1996), selected by Choice as a 1996 Outstanding Academic Book. She also edited The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (Duke Univ. Pr., 2009); Entre Mundos/Among Worlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation, Gloria Anzaldúa (Routledge, 2002); and Interviews/Entrevistas Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Routledge, 2000). Her essays have appeared in numerous

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 115 journals and books, including Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Native and African Ameri- can Women’s Writings (SUNY Pr., 2007); and Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews (Univ. of Iowa, 2006). Keating received her M.A. and Ph.D from Literature at University of Illinois, Chicago, and has been Professor of Women’s Studies, Texas Woman’s University since 2006. John Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions, 1995), and of the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Pr., 2006), with artwork by Christopher Stackhouse. He has published fiction, poetry, essays and translations in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, and Gay and Lesbian Review. His honors include a 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Fiction and Poetry, and a 2008 Fellow- ship for Distinguished First Collection from the inaugural Pan-African Literary Forum. A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge and Boston, and a Graduate Fellow of Cave Canem, he was Northwestern’s inaugural Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor in 2001. In 2006, he received the Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ E. Leroy Hall Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and has served as Director and Honors Director of the Writing Major Program. Richard Kostelanetz is a writer-artist who has published poetry, stories, articles, reviews, and experimental prose in hundreds of magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He has written more than fifty books of criticism, cultural history, and creative work, in addition to editing over three dozen anthologies of art and exposition. Among his recent books are, SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artist’s Colony (Routledge), 3 Canadian Geniuses (Colombo), More Wordworks (Talisman), and second editions of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Schirmer/Routledge) and Convers- ing with Cage (Routledge). The recipient of numerous scholarships and grants, he has been a Visiting Professor of American Studies and English at the University of Texas and a Visiting Professor of graduate theater at Hunter College, CUNY. www.richardkostelanetz.com Jane Levin is a retired psychologist, community worker and a survivor of ovarian cancer. Her poetry has ap- peared in over two dozen publications, including Coping with Cancer, Cosmopsis Quarterly, Flutter Poetry Journal, Talking Stick 16 and Dust & Fire; and the anthologies Trail Guide, Drash: Northwest Mosaic, County Lines, Illness & Grace/Terror & Transformation and The Talking Stick. Levin is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Intermedia Arts Poetry Mentorship and a Howard B. Brin Jewish Arts Endowment grant; and her chapbook, Legacy (Moonflower Pr., 2008) was a finalist in the Writer’s Circle of Durham Region Chapbook Contest. Timothy Liu, Guest Editor of THE LAVENDER ISSUE, was born in San Jose, California to parents from the Chinese mainland. He studied at Brigham Young University, the University of Houston, and the University of Massa- chusetts at Amherst. He is the author of For Dust Thou Art (Southern Ill. Univ. Pr., 2005); Of Thee I Sing (2004), selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Hard Evidence (2001); Say Goodnight (1998); Burnt Offerings (1995); and Vox Angelica (1992), which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. He also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (Talisman House, 2000). His poems have appeared in numerous magazies, journals and anthologies and he is currently an Associate Professor at Will- iam Paterson University and on the Core Faculty at Bennington College’s Writing Seminars. www.timliu.org Devi K. Lockwood is an avid unicyclist, poet, and rower. A senior at Phillips Exeter Academy, she plans to attend Harvard University as a member of the lightweight rowing team. Her passions include languages, human rights, minty tea, and West African drumming. This summer she hopes to compete in her first triathlon and keep on writing. Philip Matthews is a poet from eastern North Carolina and is currently in the Writing Program at Washington University in St Louis. His work has appeared in Tulane Review and Apple Valley Review. He currently serves as the poetry co-editor of Arch. Mary Meriam is a poet from rural New Jersey with an M.F.A. from Columbia University and B.A. from Bennington College. Her poems and essays are published or forthcoming in Literary Imagination, American Life in Poetry, Sen- tence, Alimentum, Praxilla, Mezzo Cammin, Rattle, The Raintown Review, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Journal of Lesbian Studies and Sixty-Six: The Journal of Sonnet Studies. Her chapbook, The Countess of Flatbroke (afterword by Lillian Faderman), was published by Modern Metrics/Exot Books and re- ceived an award from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Another chapbook, The Poet’s Zodiac, was a finalist in the 2009 Robin Becker contest at Seven Kitchens Press. She is currently editing an anthology of sonnets for Exot Books and working as Poetry Editor for Soundzine. home.earthlink.net/~marymeriam/index.html Brane Mozetic is a poet, writer, translator and editor who graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana. 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Myles recently published the poetry collec- tions, Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007), Skies (Black Sparrow Pr., 2001); On My Way (Faux Pr., 2001); School of Fish (Black Sparrow Books, 1997); Maxfield Parrish: Early and New Poems (Black Sparrow Pr., 1995); and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991). In 1995, she edited with Liz Kotz, The New Fuck You/Adventures in Lesbian Reading, pub- lished by Semiotext(e), and also published the autobiographically inspired, Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Books, 1994). Her novel Cool for You, was republished by Soft Skull Press in 2008. She contributes to a wide number of publications including Parkett, aNother Magazine, the Believer, H.O.W journal and this year’s Provincetown Arts. Myles recently published a collection of travel essays, The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotext(e), 2009). She is a Professor Emeritus of Writing and Literature at UCSD where she taught from 2002- 2007; and teaches in the summer at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. She recently served as the Hugo Writer at University of Montana for Spring 2010. Angelo Nikolopoulos is a former high school teacher who recently completed his Master’s degree in Literature and Creative Writing at New York University. His work has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, Ganymede, Gay & Lesbian Review and Los Angeles Review. He currently lives in New York City, where he hosts “The White Swallow,” a queer reading series in Manhattan. Lorraine Miller Nuzzo has been Curator, Art Director of phati’tude Literary Magazine and phati’tude-related projects since 1997. While pursuing her professional career, Nuzzo studied painting with Mary Nagin and Carole Jay in New York; and with Tim Holden in Italy. She has held exhibitions at MIB and BJ Spoke Gallery; and is also a former partner of “hotshots unlimited photography,” which held an exhibit at the Langston Hughes Library. She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Hofstra University and a Bachelors Degree in Psychol- ogy with a minor in Art from SUNY, Empire State. Suzanne Parker co-directs the creative writing program at Brookdale Community College where she is an assis- tant professor and teaches creative writing and literature. She is a winner of the Alice M. Sellars Award from the Academy of American Poets, was a Poetry Fellow at the Prague Summer Seminars and has received fellowships and scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writers Seminar and Prairie Schooner. Her poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in Connotations: An Online Artifact, Serving House, Poetry Daily, MacGuffin, Rattapallax, Cider Press Review, Poetry Motel, NYC BigCityLit, and A Gathering of the Tribes, and her creative non-fiction appears in the travel anthology Something to Declare (Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 2009). Jeffrey Perkins is an M.F.A. candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. This is his first published poem. Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City, she has lived in New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, Managua, Peru and North Vietnam and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During the 1960s she co-founded and co-edited El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn, a bilingual literary journal, which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities, and currently travels widely to read and lecture. She has published more than 80 books, and her recent titles include First Laugh: Essays, 2000-2009 (Bison Books, 2011); the memoir (with photographs) To Change The World: My Years In Cuba (Rutgers Univ. Pr., 2009); the poetry collection (with photographs) Stones Witness, Their Backs To The Sea, (Univ. of Arizona Pr., 2007), and the poetry collection My Town (poetry, with photographs). Her latest poetry collection, The Empty Chair / Como si la silla vaciaon, is a limited edition, hand-sewn collection of poetry to be released by WingsPress, with Spanish translations by Leandro Katz and Diego Guerra. Robin Reagler is Executive Director of Writers in the Schools (WITS), Houston, TX, and also heads the WITS Alliance, a national consortium of literary arts education groups. She earned an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Work- shop and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her poems have been published in Ploughshares, American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, and many other journals. Brad Richard is Chair of the Creative Writing program at Lusher Charter High School in New Orleans. Recipient of fellowships from the Surdna Foundation and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, he is the 2002 poetry winner in the Poets & Writers, Inc., Writers Exchange competition. Richard has published the poetry collection, Habita-

V O L 2 I S S U E 2 117 tions (Portals Pr., 2000) and a limited edition chapbook, The Men in the Dark (Lowlands Pr., 2004). His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Bayou, Hunger Mountain Review, The Iowa Review, The Laurel Review, Literary Imagination, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review, Passages North, and other journals. Boyer Rickel is the author of remanence (Parlor Pr., 2008), Taboo, essays (Wisconsin, 1999), arreboles (Wesleyan, 1991), and a poetry chapbook, reliquary (Seven Kitchens Pr., 2009). His poems have been published recently or are forthcoming in Antennae, CUE, Free Verse, The Laurel Review and Seneca Review. Recipient of poetry fellowships from the NEA and Arizona Commission on the Arts, Rickel has taught in the University of Arizona Creative Program since 1991. www.boyerrickel.com Jon Sands, an Editor of phati’tude Literary Magazine, has been a full-time teaching and performing artist since 2007. He is a recipient of the 2009 New York City-LouderARTS fellowship grant, and has represented New York City multiple times at the National Poetry Slam, subsequently becoming an NPS finalist. He is currently the Director of Poetry and Arts Education Programming at the Positive Health Project, a syringe exchange center located in Midtown Manhattan, as well as a Youth Mentor with Urban Word-NYC. Sands’ poems have appeared in decomP, Suss, The Literary Bohemian, Spindle Magazine, The November 3rd Club, and others. He is also one-fourth of the nationally acclaimed electricity-fest, “The SpillJoy Ensemble.” Aram Saroyan is an internationally known poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. His poetry has been widely anthologized and appears in many textbooks. Among the collections of his poetry are Aram Saroyan and Pages (both Random House); and Day And Night: Bolinas Poems (Black Sparrow Pr., 1999). Saroyan’s prose books include Genesis Angels: The Saga Of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation; Last Rites, a book about the death of his father, the playwright and short story writer William Saroyan; Trio: Portrait Of An Intimate Friendship; The Romantic, a novel that was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Critics’ Choice selection; a memoir, Friends In The World: The Education Of A Writer; and the true crime Literary Guild selection Rancho Mirage: An American Tragedy Of Manners, Madness And Murder. Selected essays, Starting Out In The Sixties, appeared in 2001, and Artists In Trouble: New Stories in early 2002. The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts poetry awards, Saroyan is a past president of PEN USA West and a current faculty member of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at USC. www.aramsaroyan.com N S (Nathalie Stephens) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. Her books include We Press Ourselves Plainly (2010), Carnet de désaccords (2009), The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (2007), Je Nathanaël (2003/2006). Other work exists in Basque and Slovene with book-length translations in Bulgarian. There is an essay of correspon- dence (2009) : Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book), first published (2007) as L'absence au lieu. Also, a collection of talks, At Alberta (2008). She has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, John Keene, Édouard Glissant. N S is the recipient of a 2002 Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a 2003 British Centre for Literary Translation Residential Bursary. Some of her work has been translated into Basque, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Slovene and Spanish, and on occasion, translates herself. N S lives in Chicago. Roberto Tejada is the author of several poetry collections, including Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006), and Exposition Park (Wesleyan Univ. Pr., 2010). He founded and continues to co-edit the journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. Tejada is also the author of art histories that include National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (Univ. of Minnesota Pr., 2009); and Celia Alvarez Muñoz (UCLA/CSRC; Univ. of Minnesota Pr., 2009). He has published critical writings on contemporary U.S., Latino, and Latin American artists in Afterimage, Aperture, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, SF Camerawork, and Third Text. Tamara M. Soban received her B.A. in English from the University of Ljubljana. Since 2002 she has worked as a translator and editor for the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. While she primarily translates literary works published in anthologies of contemporary Slovenian prose.she has also translated the following books: Andrej Blatnik’s collection of short stories, Skinswaps (Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998); Feri Lainšcek’s novel, For Whom Does the Flower Bloom (Ljubljana: Društvo slovenskih pisateljev/Slovenian Writers’ Association, 2002; Litterae Slovenicae); and Brane Mozetic’s collection of short stories, Passion (Talisman Hse., 2005). Michael Tyrell has published over 50 poems in print and electronic journals, including Agni, Barrow Street, The Canary, Columbia, Fogged Clarity, The New England Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review. His fiction has appeared in Ego, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and the anthology Cool Thing (Running Pr., 2007). Tyrell co-edited with Julia Spicher Kasdorf, the anthology Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Pr., 2007), which was named a favorite New York Book by the Gotham Gazette. He teaches writing at New York University. His poems in this issue are from a book-in-progress, Phantom Laundry.

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